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songs of the sun

28 Aug 08 - 08:25 PM (#2424998)
Subject: songs of the sun
From: topical tom

There are a great number of songs that are written about the moon (moonlight, moonshine,etc, etc.).I'm not sure that the star in our solar system is getting equal billing.Therefore, let's talk about the sun as mentioned in songs.To begin, I would choose as a first example a song by John Denver, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eivZd4j5MBs, "Sunshine on my Shoulder".


28 Aug 08 - 08:27 PM (#2425000)
Subject: RE: songs of the sun
From: topical tom

Sorry, my computer is out of whack and I cannot send a clicky.


28 Aug 08 - 08:42 PM (#2425015)
Subject: RE: songs of the sun
From: Chris C

Isn't "Hannah" a reference to the sun in "Ain't No more Cane", as in "Go down Hannah, don't you rise no more"?
Gordon Lightfoot has "Sundown", and JT has "Sunny Skies", and the Beatles have "Sun King".
I'm sure there are tons, but it seems there are lots more moon songs.
Keep On The Sunny Side!
~CC


28 Aug 08 - 08:58 PM (#2425034)
Subject: RE: songs of the sun
From: topical tom

Hope it works this time! "Sunshine on my Shoulder" by John Denver


28 Aug 08 - 09:01 PM (#2425037)
Subject: RE: songs of the sun
From: ClaireBear

Rolf Harris' "Sun Arise"


29 Aug 08 - 09:57 AM (#2425379)
Subject: RE: songs of the sun
From: Jim Carroll

The dark side of the sun maybe!

The Holiday Song
Ewan MacColl 1970 (Note by Peggy Seeger)

In April 1967, a group of colonels seized control of Greece, supported openly by the USA. and tacitly by Britain. Martial law was enforced, the constitution was suspended and "democracy" came to an end. The king fled and the elected socialist leader, Andreas Papandreou, was jailed for nine years. Political opponents were systematically imprisoned, assassinated or forced to flee and stories of torture and brutality filled the television screens and newspapers of Britain. The film Z portrays the period from 1964 until 1974 when the junta was ousted. In the 1970 Festival of Fools, we dealt with the conditions in Greece by alternating three dramatic methods. On stage 3, this gentle blues was sung by two tanned women in bikinis, lounging under warm lights. On stage 2, a harshly lit torture scene took place. At the back of the hall, behind the audience, the rest of the cast spoke poetry in unison and sang one of my songs, "We Are the Young ones." as a tribute to the Cambridge students who had held a violent demonstration that April outside a hotel where an official Greek gourmet banquet was taking place.

London is beastly in winter,
Weather all rainy and gray;
Money won't buy a blue northern sky,
It's time that we were away.

Spain's just a little too common,
It's so overcrowded in Nice;
It's much much too far to Madagascar,
It's chic-er, antique-er, in Greece.

I've cruised all around the Aegean,
Sunbathed on the deck by the rails;
I danced to the band with a drink in my hand,
I didn't see any jails.

Aegina and Poros and Hydra
Slide by like a basket of dreams;
They've all got hotels and they treat you so well,
I didn't hear any screams.

With my passport and chequebook in order,
I follow the sun and the sea;
When the island of Crete bows down at my feet
Everything looks fine to me.

I've heard that the Greeks got no freedom,
I've heard there's a war on the way;
That don't bother me 'cause
I'm always free, I can go home any day.


29 Aug 08 - 10:07 AM (#2425388)
Subject: RE: songs of the sun
From: pdq

"Here Comes The Sun" ~ Beatles


29 Aug 08 - 10:10 AM (#2425389)
Subject: RE: songs of the sun
From: katlaughing

House of the Rising Sun

Keep on the Sunny Side


29 Aug 08 - 10:22 AM (#2425397)
Subject: RE: songs of the sun
From: GUEST

You are the sunshine of my life

Bring me sunshine

Goodday sunshine

There are loads!


29 Aug 08 - 10:32 AM (#2425412)
Subject: RE: songs of the sun
From: Jay777

The Sun is Burning- Ian Campbell


29 Aug 08 - 10:45 AM (#2425428)
Subject: RE: songs of the sun
From: GUEST,Barnacle (at work)

You are my sunshine
Light up your face with sunshine
Bill Caddick's King Sun
The sun has got his hat on
Sunny Goodge Street
Keep the sunny side up

Come to mind straight away


29 Aug 08 - 10:49 AM (#2425433)
Subject: RE: songs of the sun
From: pdq

Golden Apples Of The Sun.


29 Aug 08 - 03:12 PM (#2425726)
Subject: RE: songs of the sun
From: topical tom

Thanks for all the good songs, everyone!Hope more come to mind.


29 Aug 08 - 05:27 PM (#2425840)
Subject: RE: songs of the sun
From: Little Robyn

For tomorrow may rain but I'll follow the sun.
Robyn


29 Aug 08 - 11:23 PM (#2426038)
Subject: RE: songs of the sun
From: topical tom

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