365 FRIDAY 26 JUNE 2015 (-1)
Some Other Time – Brian Stokes Mitchell
And then there was just one left. Here we are, the 365th song, the last song on the list.
You were not mistaken if you read last week’s entry and thought that was the end of the series. I’m just using this last song to bid adieu and thank the dozens of people who followed me for the previous few months.
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Seasons of Love – Rent Original Broadway Cast
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Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes; well, more like five hundred fifteen thousand five hundred and twenty minutes. That is the number of minutes that have gone by since I started this project almost a year ago. As I prepared for the last entries on the list, I wanted to start the last week with this song.
It’s been a fascinating year. Nothing overly exciting has happened, but it’s been quite eventful nonetheless. The fact that I was able to commit for a year and a half to not only creating the list but to doing write-ups about each song is a feat itself.
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It’s Showtime. folks!
360 I Am What I Am – George Hearn
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351 FRIDAY 12 JUNE 2015 (-15)
A Musical – Brad Oscar, Brian d’Arcy James, Ensemble
A Musical, a love letter to the genre, is full of references from popular musicals. When the song came out, I saw a headline on a website claiming something like: “You’ll never guess the references to other musicals this song has,” or something along those lines. I can’t remember the site, but it was probably the Huffington Post. They love those “dare-you”-attention-grabbing headlines. I took their dare. I listened to the song and had no trouble finding all the references. It wasn’t hard at all. In a way, I felt like those geeks who love “Star Wars/Trek” and know every single detail of the franchises; I realised that I may have more in common with them than I ever thought. Don’t get me wrong; that won’t stop me from still making fun of them.
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It’s Showtime. folks!
354 Vivaldi Concerto In G
344 FRIDAY 5 JUNE 2015 (-22)
Private Idaho – The B-52’s
Private Idaho belongs to a group of songs that I went ahead and fetched from iTunes because they represent an era. This time, the early 1980s.
As I became a young man, the mission was to be cool. To achieve that, some steps had to be taken. First, I had to lose weight. Chub and cool were never used in the same sentence in those days. Actually, neither it’s the case today. Anyway, I lost like 15 kilos, started to wear nice clothes designed for thin people, karate became my sport, and Marlboros 100 was the choice when it came to smoking. Talk about being cool, eh? I was the ‘cat’s meow’. Then again, I ask you, could a guy who still describes himself as the ‘cat’s meow’ in 2015 be cool at all? I’d say no. Neither in 2015 nor in 1981, for that matter.
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When skies are grey, when skies are blue. Morning, noon and night time too. All I do the whole day thru, is dream of you.
348 All I Do Is Dream Of You – Debbie Reynolds, Ensemble
337 FRIDAY 29 MAY 2015
Just Once – James Ingram
This entry seems to come out of the left field. I never thought I would include a track in this style. However, I was cyber shopping in iTunes one evening, trying to see if I could recognise any song from the past, when Just Once jumped at me. It just brought such good memories of a time when I was leaving my childhood and I was entering my young adult years.
Additionally, at 16, and I’m about to toot my own horn, I was able to hit the same notes that James Ingram did on the song. At this age, I was already showing signs of disregard for any form of pop music and Just Once was one of the few I knew. Whenever people talked about new music, I was clueless for the most part. So, I created a little routine for those instances.
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When there’s a shine on your shoes, there’s a melody in your heart. What a wonderful way to start the day!
340 A Shine On Your Shoes – Fred Astaire
330 FRIDAY 22 MAY 2015
Prologue: Ragtime – 1998 Ragtime Cast
E.L. Doctorow’s 1975 masterpiece, “Ragtime”, got its musical treatment in the late 1990s. It seemed appropriate to close the 20th century with an extraordinary story that flawlessly mixed historical figures with fictional characters.
I was blown away by Doctorow’s prose when I first read the novel. It fascinated me how easily he intertwined actual historical figures like Emma Goldman, Harry Houdini and Henry Ford with fictional characters. After finishing the book, I stayed in a haze. I just couldn’t shake off the stories; they stayed with me for a long time.
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