songs about music

Subject: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: GUEST,CD Maker
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 06:35 PM

Can anyone think of any good songs about music and its relevance/importance in our lives? Here are a few examples:

Drift Away by Dobie Gray
Magic Power by Triumph
State of Mind by Clint Black
Listen to the Music by the Doobie Brothers

Know any more?

Thanks!

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: Leadfingers
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 07:46 PM

Alan Bell's I'm a Minstrel a Singer of Songs

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 07:57 PM

The Sound of Music
How Can I Keep From Singing?
The Sweetest Sound (Richard Rogers song)
Til There Was You (There were bells...)
There's a Song in the Air (Christmas song)
I Whistle a Happy Tune (from The King and I)
Singin' in the Rain

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: Genie
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 08:45 PM

Sweet Is The Melody - Iris Dement

Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond
Music, Music, Music (DK when originally published, but made popular by Teresa Brewer in 1950.)
The Birth Of The Blues
Sing! Sing! Sing! (Duke Ellington?)
Sing ( popular song from the 1970s, IIRC)
Play A Simple Melody (duet of Play A Simple Melody and I Want To Listen To Rag) - Irving Berlin
That Old Time Rock And Roll
Do-re-mi -- (from The Sound Of Music)

Cielito Lindo ("Ay, ay, ay, canto y no llores, Porque cantando se alegran, Cielito Lindo, los corazones..." meaning "...sing and don't cry because, Beautiful Heaven, singing lifts the heart.")

Ich Bin Ein Musikaner (German folk song)
E, Cumpari (Italian folk song on the same theme -- i.e., musicians playing various instruments

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: Genie
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 08:47 PM

forgot to mention "The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home" (Greg Brown). The song talks about how, though times were hard, "...when we heard that man sing, we knew somehow we'd make it through."

Genie

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: Genie
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 08:57 PM

CD maker, there are a couple of Jewish (Yiddish) songs that fit. If dancing counts, there is "Sha! Stil! [Der Rebbe Tanzt] -- the song says, "Hush, be quiet! The rabbi is going to dance ... and when the rabbi dances, the wind dances with him, so clap your hands, ... the table dances with him, so tap your feet, ... and when the rabbi sings the holy songs, the devil lies trembling on the floor."

The other one, in English, is called "I Had A Little Overcoat." This song is in Rise Up Singing. The singer tells of having an overcoat that wore out, so he made it into a jacket, which wore out, so he made it into a vest, which wore out, so he made it into a hat, which wore out, so he made it into a pocket, which wore out, so he made it into a song (which, presumably, won't wear out.) I can't recall the Yiddish title.



Speaking of foot-tapping, how about the CCR song "Down on the Corner?"

Also, there's Chris Williamson's "Song Of The Soul."

And another Neil Diamond one, "Play Me."

And the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 09:06 PM

De Boatmen Dance

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: masato sakurai
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 09:13 PM

Tennessee Waltz. But what tune was she waltzing with her darlin' to?

~Masato

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 09:31 PM

It's a well-known fact that she was walzing to the KENTUCKY WALTZ. ;-)

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 09:35 PM

His Eye is on the Sparrow (I sing because I'm happy...)
What Wondrous Love is This? (And through eternity I'll sing on...)

Is Sing, Sing, Sing the one with "it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing...)

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 09:36 PM

Put Another Nickel In (All I want is lovin' you and music, music, music)

Subject: Lyr Add: LISDOONVARNA (Christy Moore)
From: Amergin
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 09:40 PM

LISDOONVARNA

   
How's it goin' there everybody,
From Cork, New York, Dundalk, Gortahork and Glenamaddy.
Here we are in the County Clare
It's a long, long way from here to there.
There's the Burren and the Cliffs of Moher,
And the Tulla and the Kilfenora,
Miko Russell, Doctor Bill,
Willy Clancy and Noel Hill.
Flutes and fiddles everywhere.
If it's music you want,
You should go to Clare.
   
CHORUS
G          C
      Oh, Lisdoonvarna
      G                                 C
      Lisdoon, Lisdoon, Lisdoon, Lisdoonvarna!
Everybody needs a break,
Climb a mountain or jump in a lake.
Some head off to exotic places,
Others go to the Galway Races.
Mattie goes to the South of France,
Jim to the dogs, Peter to the dance.
A cousin of mine goes potholing,
A cousin of heres loves Joe Dolan.
Summer comes around each year,
We go there and they come here.
Some jet off to ... Frijiliana,
But I always go to Lisdoonvarna.
   
CHORUS
   
I always leave on a Thursday night,
With me tent and me groundsheet rolled up tight.
I like to hit Lisdoon,
In around Friday afternoon.
This gives me time to get me gear together,
I don't need to worry about the weather.
Ramble in for a pint of stout,
And you'd never know who'd be hangin' about!
There's a Dutchman playing a mandolin,
And a German looking for Liam Óg O'Floinn.
And there's Adam, Bono and Garrett Fitzgerald,
Gettin' their photos taken for the Sunday World.
Finbarr, Charlie and Jim Hand,
And they drinkin' pints to bate the band.
.. Ain't it grand?
   
CHORUS
   
The multitudes, they flocked and thronged,
To hear the music and the songs.
Motorbikes and Hi-ace vans,
With bottles - barrels - flagons - cans.
Mighty craic. Loads of frolics,
Pioneers and alcoholics,
PLAC, SPUC and the FCA,
Free Nicky Kelly and the IRA.
Hairy chests and milk-white thighs,
And mickey dodgers in disguise.
Mc Graths, O'Briens, Pippins, Coxs,
Massage parlours in horse boxes.
There's amhráns, bodhráns, amadáns,
Arab sheiks, Hindu Sikhs, Jesus freaks,
   RTE are makin' tapes, takin' breaks and throwin' shapes.
This is heaven, this is hell.
Who cares? Who can tell?
(Anyone for the last few Choc Ices, now?)
   
CHORUS
   
A 747 for Jackson Browne,
They had to build a special runway just to get him down.
Before the Chieftains could start to play,
Seven creamy pints came out on a tray.
Shergar was ridden by Lord Lucan,
Seán Cannon did the backstage cookin'.
Clannad were playin' "Harry's Game",
   Christy was singin' "Nancy Spain".
Mary O'Hara and Brush Shields,
Together singin' "The Four Green Fields".
Van the Man and Emmy Lou,
   Moving Hearts and Planxty too!
   
CHORUS
   
Everybody needs a break,
Climb a mountain or jump in a lake.
Sean Doherty goes to the Rose of Tralee,
Oliver J. Flanagan goes swimming in the Holy Sea.
But I like the music and the open air,
So every Summer I go to Clare.
Coz Woodstock, Knock nor the Feast of Cana,
Can hold a match to Lisdoonvarna.
   
CHORUS










I've Just Heard Willy Nelson / Encore



C                                                 F                C
   I just heard William Nelson - he was singin' of his hard life on the road
                                                     F                G
   And his lyrics set me thinkin' it's much the same no matter where you go,   
         F                                                                                             G
   Be it Tulsk or Bord Na Móna
       Dm          G                Dm             G
   I've received my education in the lounges of the nation;   
            Dm               G                  C
   After twenty years I'm still goin' fairly well.

I've played every lounge in Ireland from Dingle right up to Donegal,
I've done 'Nancy Spain' on stages where no other ballad singers go at all,
From the Rising Sun in Brownstown to the Unyoke Inn just outside Wexford Town,   
Ballymurphy and the Bogside, Ballinamore and even once in Ballinasloe.

   CHORUS
F                                           C
      If I get an encore I go home feelin' like a king;
               d          G         d            G               C
      It's a two way situation - I get a lot of pleasure when I sing.

When I first heard Tommy Makem and the Clancys my future it was sealed,   
I was bitten by the music bug and the wound it never healed.
When I got my first guitar my fingers bled until I learnt a chord or two;
I pulled on my Aran sweater, wrote me Ma a goodbye letter   
And started singin' in O'Donoghue's.

   CHORUS
   
I was playin' in the Meeting Place when half the Special Branch came through the door.   
They were lookin' for McGlinchey but they never found who they were lookin' for.   
They started listenin' to my gig and hung around till after the show,
So if I ever need a taxi-plate or a massage at the special rate   
The Special Branch they told me where to go.

   CHORUS
   
Christy Moore

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: masato sakurai
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 09:54 PM

The Man Who Wrote Home Sweet Home Never Was A Married Man [with Realaudio]

Subject: Lyr Add: HAPPINESS (from "You're a Good Man Charli
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 10:12 PM

How could I forget my favorite! "Happiness is singing together when day is through." (Sorry about the caps, cut & paste...)

HAPPINESS (from "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown")

HAPPINESS IS FINDING A PENCIL.
PIZZA WITH SAUSAGE
TELLING THE TIME.
HAPPINESS IS LEARNING TO WHISTLE.
TYING YOUR SHOE FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME.

HAPPINESS IS PLAYING THE DRUM IN YOUR OWN SCHOOL BAND.
AND HAPPINESS IS WALKING HAND IN HAND.
HAPPINESS IS TWO KINDS OF ICE CREAM.
KNOWING A SECRET.
CLIMBING A TREE.
HAPPINESS IS FIVE DIFFERENT CRAYONS.
CATCHING A FIREFLY.
SETTING HIM FREE.

HAPPINESS IS BEING ALONE EVERY NOW AND THEN.
AND HAPPINESS IS COMING HOME AGAIN.
HAPPINESS IS MORNING AND EVENING,
DAY TIME AND NIGHT TIME TOO.
FOR HAPPINESS IS ANYONE AND ANYTHING AT ALL
THAT'S LOVED BY YOU.

HAPPINESS IS HAVING A SISTER.
SHARING A SANDWICH.
GETTING ALONG.
HAPPINESS IS SINGING TOGETHER WHEN DAY IS THROUGH,
AND HAPPINESS IS THOSE WHO SING WITH YOU.
HAPPINESS IS MORNING AND EVENING,
DAYTIME AND NIGHTTIME TOO.
FOR HAPPINESS IS ANYONE AND ANYTHING AT ALL
THAT'S LOVED BY YOU.

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: Genie
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 10:14 PM

Mary, "Is Sing, Sing, Sing the one with "it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing...) " -- No, but that's a good song about music, too.

"Put Another Nickel In (All I want is lovin' you and music, music, music)" is the one titled "Music, Music, Music," which Teresa Brewer recorded in 1950.

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Another song about music:
"Please, Mister, Please (don't play B-17, it was his song, it was our song, but it's over. ... I don't ever want to hear that song again.")

How about "Singin' In The Bathtub?"


If you include songs about playing fiddles, dancing, etc., there are lots of Irish songs that fit (e.g., Finnegan's Wake; Phil, The Fluther's Ball, The Kerry Dance, etc.). Then there are country songs like "Bonaparte's Retreat," "If Ya Want To Play In Texas, You Gotta Have a Fiddle In The Band," "San Antonio Stroll," etc.

others:
"Rock Me To Sleep"
"Chanson D'Amour"
"The Hurdy Gurdy Man"
"Nashville Cats"
"Songs My Mother Taught Me"
"Play That Funky Music, White Boy"
"Your Mama Don't Dance And Your Daddy Don't Rock And Roll"
"Missouri Waltz"
"Killing Me Softly With His Songs"
"It's Like A Symphony"
"Melody Of Love"
"My Melody of Love" (Bobby Vinton)
"A Lovers' Concerto"
"Broken Hearted Melody"
"The Y'all Come Back Saloon" ("...She played tambourine with a silver jingle, and she must have known the words to about a million tunes...")
"All God's Critters Got a Place In The Choir"
"Daddy Sang Bass"

Genie

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: masato sakurai
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 10:23 PM

Love's Old Sweet Song [First Line of Chorus: Just a song at twilight, when the lights are low]

The Band Played On

Ring De Banjo by Foster

Subject: Lyr Add: CATTLE CALL (Eddy Arnold)
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 10:26 PM

Thanks Genie, I saw that after I posted. And Masato got Ring, Ring, de Banjo.

How about "Cattle Call?" I know it by Eddy Arnold, but it appears that LeAnn Rimes sang a duet with him also.

CATTLE CALL

The cattle are prowlin'
The coyotes are howlin'
Way out where the doggies roam
Where the spurs are a jinglin'
And the cowboy is singin'
His lonesome cattle call

[Yodels]

He rides in the sun
'Til his days work is done,
And he rounds up the cattle each fall

[Yodels]

Singing his cattle call

For hours he would ride
On the range far and wide
When the night winds blows up like smoke
His heart is a feather
In all kinds of weather
He sings his cattle call

[Yodels]

He's browned as a fairy
From riding the prairie
And he sings with an old western drawl

[Yodels]

Singin' his cattle call

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 10:33 PM

Angels We Have Heard on High (sweetly singing o'er the plains)

Subject: Lyr Add: SING ALONG WITH ME (Phil Ochs)
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 10:37 PM

SING ALONG WITH ME (Phil Ochs)

When times are bad and you're feeling sad
Got more troubles than you've ever had
There's one sure way to make you feel glad
the whole world will come to you
here's all you gotta do: just walk right through that door.
        Sing a song when things go wrong
        Of a tune you'll be smiling soon
        Find yourself a melody, sing along with me.

When troubles are out and you're feeling down
You can chase those troubles away
send your blues back to yesterday
It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor
Walk right through that door.
*chorus*

And when your own true love is giving you pain
makes you ride that lonesome train
feel like you're going in sane
whistle that true love from your mind
leave her far behind.
*chorus*

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: masato sakurai
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 10:41 PM

"With a Song in My Heart" (by Lorenz Hart & Richard Rogers). Do you remember Susan Hayward appearing in Jane Froman's biopic with this title?

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 10:43 PM

ON CHRISTMAS NIGHT ALL CHRISTIANS SING (Sussex Carol)

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 10:46 PM

Deck the Hall (Sing we joyous all together)

Subject: Lyr Add: TOO-RA-LOO-RA-LOO-RAL (THAT'S AN IRISH LU
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 10:53 PM

IRISH LULLABY
(Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral)

Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral,
Too-ra-loo-ra-li,
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral,
Hush, now don't you cry!

Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral,
Too-ra-loo-ra-li,
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral,
That's an Irish lullaby.

Over in Killarney,
Many years ago,
Me mither sang a song to me
In tones so sweet and low.

Just a simple little ditty,
In her good ould Irish way,
And I'd give the world if she could sing
That song to me this day.

Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral,
Too-ra-loo-ra-li,
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral,
Hush, now don't you cry!

Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral,
Too-ra-loo-ra-li,
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral,
That's an Irish lullaby.

******************************************

SUMMERTIME (One of these mornin's you goin' to rise un singin')

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: khandu
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 11:00 PM

Guitar Man-Bread

Listen to the Band- Michael Nesmith (I think)

Sultans of Swing- Dire Straits

k

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: masato sakurai
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 11:04 PM

ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN -- Chuck Berry

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: masato sakurai
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 11:12 PM

"Singing the Blues" originally by Marty Robbins ["Well, I never felt more like singing the blues"]

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 11:27 PM

MASATO!!!!!! I got back up out of bed to submit "Singing the Blues!"

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: masato sakurai
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 11:28 PM

"Danny Boy" ["Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling"]

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 11:32 PM

Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee (Ever singing march we onward...)

GOODNIGHT! See y'all tomorrow.

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: masato sakurai
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 11:33 PM

Good night, Mary.
~Masato

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: GUEST,Dale
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 11:39 PM

No doubt there are better known versions of some of these.   These are just the versions I am familiar with.

Music And Friends - Simani

I Give You Music - The McCarters

When I Hear The Music - Susan McCann

I Like To Sing The Old Songs - The Phipps Family

Hillbilly Pickin' Ramblin' Girl - Catherine Britt

Songs My Mother Taught Me - Charlotte Church

Singing The Blues - Marty Robbins

This Is My Song - Judith Durham

Whistle As You Go - Sara Storer

Old Songs - Hot Mud Family

Two Singers And One Song - Slim Dusty & Anne Kirkpatrick

I'm Gonna Sing, Sing, Sing - Hank Williams

Well, there's a few. I THINK I removed most of the ones I had on my list that have already been mentioned.

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: Genie
Date: 27 Oct 02 - 12:17 AM

I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing

"...and the doctor said, 'Give him JUG BAND MUSIC. It seems to make him feel just fine." (Lovin' Spoonful)

Jim Kweskin's "Jug Band Music," too.

"It's one of those songs that you hear now and then, ... one of those crazy old songs..."

OK, here's a really obscure one. There was a musical in the 1950s called "Adam and Athena" (Debbie Reynolds, Jane Powell, Vic Damone, etc.) that actually had a pretty good score. One song that Jane Powell sang was called "Vocalize" - in which she incorporated some vocal exercises. I think the composer may have been Harry Warren. (It was one of the well-established popular music and movie songwriters of the '30s, '40s, '50s.)

Then there was a '60s/'70s song called "Look What They've Done To My Song." And Janis Ian wrote one called "Would You Like To Sing My Sing," and there was one that both Maria Muldaur and Olivia Newton-John sang called "I Never Did Sing You A Love song."

Of course Mark Graham's "Zen Gospel Singing" is a treasure!

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: Genie
Date: 27 Oct 02 - 12:19 AM

There's also a neat Gospel-type song in the current U-U Hymnal (Singing The Living Tradition) called "Now, Let Us Sing!"

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: Genie
Date: 27 Oct 02 - 12:21 AM

76 Trombones

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Oct 02 - 12:43 AM

Genie's comments reminded me of ~~

That Song Is Driving Me Crazy - Tom T. Hall

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: Genie
Date: 27 Oct 02 - 01:14 AM

Guest, DK why, but your comment reminded me of that old song that goes:
"...The music goes round and round, oh, oh, oh, oh, and it comes out here."


Still free-associating, I'm reminded of Berlin's "A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody."

He also had some amusing observations on a bugler playing "Reveille" in "Oh, How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning."
And of course, there's his "Alexander's Ragtime Band."

Other songs from WWI or WWII include "Boogie-Woogie Bugle Boy Of Company B"
"Eight To The Bar"
"Beer Barrel Polka" ("...Sing "boom- tar-ra-rel, sing out a song of good cheer..." and "There's music and there's dancing ..." and "They want to throw their cares away, they all go 'la-de-da-de-ay.")

Can't recall all the words, but doesn't the Aerosmith song "Dream On" have a lot of lines about singing?

Then there's Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody."

For Christmas there's "The Little Drummer Boy" and "Do You Hear What I Hear" ("...a song, a song high above the trees with a voice as big as the sea...").

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: GUEST,open mike
Date: 27 Oct 02 - 01:17 AM

rag time cow boy joe--
he used to sing raggy music to the cattle
as he swings back and forth in the saddle
on a horse (pretty good horse)
that is sycopated gaited

listen to the rhythm of the roar of his repeater.

....deedle , deedle, deedle (i forgot)...

the western folks all know
he's a high falutin' rootin, tootin
son-of-a-gun from arizona

rag time cowboy (talk about your cowboy)
rag timie cowboy jo-oe-oe

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 27 Oct 02 - 07:17 AM

Good morning. ;-)

I've Got Rhythm
It's a Grand Night for Singing
American Pie (the day the music died)
Show Me (from My Fair Lady...Speak and the world is full of singing...Sing me no songs...)

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: Leadfingers
Date: 27 Oct 02 - 11:11 AM

They Dont Write 'em Like That Anymore

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Oct 02 - 11:19 AM

"Thank You For The Music" - ABBA

"Country Pie" - Bob Dylan

- LH

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: belfast
Date: 27 Oct 02 - 11:25 AM

There's another thread lamenting the decline of the Incredible String Band. But at the beginning they were so good. A lot of their stuff was about making music and they had some great lines. From memory ….

"They say it's only butterflies
Don't let your dreams get in your eyes
But Orpheus made the sun rise
'Cos he knew how to play."

And a great song, When The Music Starts To Play.

"When the music starts to play let me around."

Think I'll go find the CD and have a listen.

Subject: Lyr Add: WHO WILL SING FOR ME?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 27 Oct 02 - 11:31 AM

Sound, Sound Your Instruments of Joy (recorded by The Watersons)

Who Will Sing For Me? (DT)

Who Will Sing for Me
Carter Stanley third verse John McCutcheon?

1. Oft I sing for my friends,
   When this cold form I see
   When I reach my journey's end
   Tell me who will sing for me

Chorus:
I wonder who
(I wonder who)
Will sing for me (will sing for me)
When I come to the cross by the silent sea,
Tell me who will sing for me

2. When friends have gathered 'round
   And look down on me
   Will they turn and walk away
   Or will they sing one song for me

3. So I'll sing until the end
   And helpful try to be
   Ever knowing there'll be some
   Who will sing one song for me

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 27 Oct 02 - 01:11 PM

When music came from wooden boxes (Harry Chapin)
All the tunes in the world (Ewan McVicar)
Mistress music (Allan Taylor)

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: fat B****rd
Date: 27 Oct 02 - 03:34 PM

The Lovin' Spoonful..Do You Believe In Magic ?
Chuck Berry...Rock and Roll Music

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: Genie
Date: 27 Oct 02 - 03:58 PM

Fascinatin' Rhythm
Crazy Rhythm
Without A Song
With A Song In My Heart
Let The Music Play
I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends ("What would you do if I sang out of tune...?")
Love, This Is My Song
Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song
Of Thee I Sing, Baby
The Last Night Of The World (from Miss Saigon -- "A song played on a solo saxophone is telling me to hold you tight and dance like it's the last night of the world...")
The Man With The Banjo
Piccolo Pete
Hoop-de-Doo ("...I hear a polka and my troubles are through..." and other lines about the trombone, fiddle, concertina, etc.)
Let's All Sing Like The Birdies Sing
I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song (Jim Croce)
Bring Over Some Old Motown Records (DK title) -- Rod Stewart)
I Got The Music In Me
I Love A Piano
Le Vieux Piano (The Old Piano) sung by Edith Piaf ("A piano is dead. This is the lament ...")

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: GUEST,CD Maker
Date: 27 Oct 02 - 07:14 PM

WOW!! I never dreamed I'd get this many responses. Thank you all SO MUCH!

LOL at Mary for getting out of bed to post another one! ;)

Thanks again!

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: mmb
Date: 27 Oct 02 - 07:28 PM

Just having come off the Fox Hollow Memories thread, how about:

Richard Wilkies' Fox Hollow Song   and
Bill Steele's (or is it Bill Staines'?) A Thousand Songs

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: pattyClink
Date: 27 Oct 02 - 10:42 PM

good folk songs about singing:
Sing me the Old Songs
Teach Your Children to Sing

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: masato sakurai
Date: 28 Oct 02 - 06:49 AM

See this long thread too:

Metasongs, songs within songs

~Masato

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: MAG
Date: 28 Oct 02 - 03:25 PM

Has anybody mentioned "Those were the Days?"

On a lesser-known Gracie Slick & Friends album entitled *Manhole* is the song "It's Only Music." One I throw on and play over and over and over when I need it. In fact, I think I'll go throw it on now.

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: Amos
Date: 28 Oct 02 - 03:28 PM

Our Jeri has a really beautiful song called "Why We Sing" based on the threads of that name. If you're nice she might sing it to ya!! (Or you can wait just a tad longer to get it on the Mudcat Sampler CD Series!!) (Coming soon to a folk community near you!!!!)


A

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: gwonya
Date: 29 Oct 02 - 09:41 AM

"The Ballad of Carl Martin" by Steve Goodman.
(A must hear!)

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: Willie-O
Date: 29 Oct 02 - 09:54 AM

511 Highway my song about the Stewart Park Music Festival in Perth Ontario.

W-O

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: masato sakurai
Date: 29 Oct 02 - 09:56 AM

Tom he was a piper's son
He learnt to play when he was young
But all the tune that he could play
Was "Over the hills and far away"

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: belfast
Date: 29 Oct 02 - 10:35 AM

There's a fine song by mudcat member McGrath of Harlow "Keeping The Old Music Alive" I found it at his own website…click here

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: Genie
Date: 29 Oct 02 - 03:12 PM

The Band Played "Waltzing Matilda"
Folk Singer's Blues - Shel Silverstein
The Folksingers' Ball
The Folksong Army (Tom Lehrer)
Music, Sweet Music (in the DT)
Rock And Roll Heaven
Gaily The Troubadour
Dve Guitari (Russian folk song)
While My Guitar Softly Weeps
He Sang Real Good For Free

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: GUEST,Chicken Charlie
Date: 29 Oct 02 - 10:55 PM

"Banjo and the 'possum" is much like "Ring, Ring de Banjo," mentioned earlier.

Even "Marching thru Georgia" starts, "Bring the good old bugle, boys, we'll sing another song ...."

And "Tenting Tonight" -- "We are tenting tonight on the old camp ground; give us a song to cheer ...."

The British music hall piece, "He Played His Ukulele as the Ship Went Down."

"Wayfaring Stranger"--"I'm goin' there to see my Jesus, to sing His praise forever more ...."

"The Trading Song," sort of. "Johnny took his fiddle and he went on home."

A lot of Brit ballads have an optional switch verse for the beginning, so a singer of one gender can sing a song obviously specific to the other--involving pregnancy for example. "Katy Cruel" sung by a man could start, "When I was a-riding down to London City, a maid from her window sang this song so pretty ...." And that idea can transfer to "Jordie," "False William," etc., etc. and even etc.

What's the name of the James Taylor one ("It's All Right"?) "I don't known no love songs, I can't play the blues anymore, but I can sing this song ...."

There are undoubtedly many more, but I have to quit now. The mail man just came and I need to check my mailbox for millions from Nigeria.

CC

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: Robo
Date: 29 Oct 02 - 11:16 PM

"It's the Singer, Not the Song" -- early Stones.

Rob-o

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: MAG
Date: 30 Oct 02 - 10:09 AM

Another of my favorites: a small gem of an animated film entitled "The Devil and Daniel Mouse" -- yes, a takeoff on "The Devil and Daniel Webster" -- the hero saves himself and foolish girlfriend with the power of music and a little song called "Look where the music can take you."

Look where the music can tkae you, if you let it go, ...

composer: John Sebastian

Subject: RE: I'm looking for songs about music !
From: wlisk
Date: 30 Oct 02 - 10:31 AM

One of my favorites is Trumpet Vine, by Kate Wolf. ...If it weren't for kitchen songs, evenings (mornings) spent with friends, we all might lose those things we love the best....Bill