Renaissance 2.0
What a wonderful song and music video for “BRAVE” by the beautiful and talented Sara Bareilles. It shows a bunch of every day people just breaking out into dance in public places. It’s so funny to see the looks on the faces of people watching these characters enjoying themselves in an unusual way. Obviously dancing…
I’ve always loved “Lotta Love” by Nicolette Larson who died way too young in 1997 at the age of 45. The song reminds me so much of one of my favorite movies, “French Postcards” because it was used in a pivotal scene near the end of the film. It just makes me feel so good…
I’ve always loved the American songbook and my favorite songs were by George and Ira Gershwin. I love this special by Michael Feinstein who shares many stories about the brothers and their music. Feinstein was fortunate enough to spend six years with Ira Gershwin at the age of 20 when Ira was 80 when he…
“Born to Do It” (2000) by Craig David is one of my favorite albums of all-time. It’s 13 years later and I still love every track from it. That’s a great sign of a classic album… one that never ages. 1 Fill Me In 2 Can’t Be Messing Round 3 Rendezvous 4 7 Days 5…
I was watching American Idol and this song started playing at the beginning as they did their obligatory intro piece about the final four contestants. I was captivated immediately by the song and thought it was Five for Fighting at first but realized it wasn’t. I used the Shazzam app to discover that it was…
I can’t get this wonderful song out of my head lately. I love the meaning of the song and the chorus and harmonies. The whole sentiment of “What are we waiting for?” resonates so much for me. Things are really happening now in my life. I am not waiting for anything anymore and making things…
I just heard this tonight in a TV commercial. I used Shazzam as usual to find out who sang it and I was surprised because I thought it was Imagine Dragons. These guys are so good! I love this song. It’s so positive and uplifting.
I love Jeff Lynne and ELO. Here’s a wonderful documentary about him and his band. It’s such a good piece about his life and career. You can see the influence of the Beatles on his music. I especially loved when Paul McCartney (of all people!) is interviewed and describes his reaction to hearing ELO for…
Here were some of my favorite things of 2012 in movies, music, TV, etc. Movies I still haven’t seen most of the best movies released this year so they won’t make this list (i.e. Les Miserables, Silver Linings Playbook, Cloud Atlas, Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty, etc.). Here are my favorite movies that I did see…
I’m so excited to announce that my friend and favorite songwriter of all-time Holly Knight has been nominated for induction to the Songwriters Hall of Fame!!! You can help by joining the www.SongHall.org and voting for her in the songwriter non-performer category. Here is the announcement! I think once the voters see her amazing body…