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Sunday Music – The Last Waltz
Today’s music video is The Last Waltz, sung here in this clip by Engelbert Humperdinck. Link to Video at You Tube This video was posted to You Tube by DiscoBar80 I began appreciating music during those heady days of the early and mid sixties as it changed so much. So, knowing that, some might think […]
Sunday Music – Journey Through The Past
May 5, 2013 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is Journey Through The Past, sung here in this clip by the Canadian singer songwriter Neil Young. Link to Video at You Tube This video was posted to You Tube by thesixtiesarchive Again I find I’m playing another video from my favourite artist, Neil Young. This song is taken from the special […]
Sunday Music – Suicide Is Painless
April 28, 2013 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is Suicide Is Painless, sung here in this clip by the a group of session singers, and this is the theme from the Movie. The same sound track was used for the TV series, but without the lyrics. Link to Video at You Tube This video was posted to You Tube by […]
Sunday Music – Whispering Grass
April 21, 2013 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is Whispering Grass, sung here in this clip by the English duo Don Estelle and Windsor Davies. Link to Video at You Tube This video was posted to You Tube by Kingoflimpets Wait till you hear that voice come in so unexpectedly. Just beautiful, isn’t it. This song was a huge Number […]
Sunday Music – Garden Party
April 14, 2013 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is Garden Party, sung here in this clip by Rick Nelson. Link to Video at You Tube This video was posted to You Tube by fritz5176 Sometimes, songs have a story behind them, and sometimes that story can be obscure, and sometimes even misinterpreted by listeners, and such is the case with […]
Sunday Music – Sledgehammer
April 7, 2013 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is Sledgehammer, sung here in this clip by the English artist Peter Gabriel. Link to Video at You Tube This video was posted to You Tube by Sonia Gignac For last week’s video clip, I featured a song by Phil Collins. I also mentioned that while I was not really a major […]
Music, Movies, And Me
By Edward Cline ~ I chanced upon an essay by Jeff Britting, “Romantic Music: Dead or Alive?” on the American Renaissance weblog and was slightly astounded to learn that it was written in the same year as my Social Critic essay, “Why the Music Died,” penned in the summer of 1997, and republished on Rule […]
Sunday Music – Another Day In Paradise
March 31, 2013 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is Another Day In Paradise, sung here in this clip by the English artist Phil Collins. Link to Video at You Tube This video was posted to You Tube by nik01a007 Music appreciation is an intensely personal thing, and people like music that others might not. Something similar is that you may […]
Sunday Music – Road To Nowhere
March 24, 2013 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is Road To Nowhere, sung here in this clip by the American band Talking Heads. Link to Video at You Tube This video was posted to You Tube by Sontax25 I came to appreciate music in the 60′s and 70′s and because of that I wasn’t all that keen on what came […]
Sunday Music Milestones – Samba Pa Ti
March 17, 2013 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is Samba Pa Ti, played here in this clip by the Carlos Santana and his band. This weekend marks five years I have been contributing Posts at this site. While I had posted three or four music videos prior to starting the regular Sunday Music Posts in January of 2009, this was […]
Sunday Music – Daydream
March 10, 2013 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is Daydream, sung here in this clip by the American band The Lovin’ Spoonful. Link to Video at You Tube This video was posted to You Tube by MusicClipsVideo This is such a wonderfully happy song. It’s from late in 1966, and was written by the leader of this band John Sebastian. […]
Sunday Music – It’s Raining Again
March 3, 2013 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is It’s Raining Again, sung here in this clip by the English band Supertramp. Link to Video at You Tube This video was posted to You Tube by SupertrampVEVO Funny thing, I thought of this song not long after I got out of bed this morning. It’s raining again here where I […]
Sunday Music – You’re No Good
February 24, 2013 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is You’re No Good, sung here in this clip by Linda Ronstadt. Link to Video at You Tube This video was posted to You Tube by sannasonja Any debate over beautiful singing voices can be a long and emotive one, but one name on that list would have to be the singer […]
Sunday Music – You’ll Never Walk Alone
February 17, 2013 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is You’ll Never Walk Alone from the Musical Carousel, and sung here in this clip by the English band Gerry And The Pacemakers. Link to Video at You Tube This video was posted to You Tube by nyrainbow4 Today’s featured song was written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein for their Musical […]
Sunday Music – Just A Song Before I Go
February 10, 2013 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is Just A Song Before I Go, sung here in this clip by Crosby, Stills and Nash. Link to Video at You Tube This video was posted to You Tube by deadhead1065 The late 60′s and early 70′s saw the rise of what was labelled The Supergroup. These bands were made up […]
Sunday Music – It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
February 3, 2013 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels, sung here in this clip by Kitty Wells. Link to Video at You Tube This video was posted to You Tube by manbehindthescreen1 Look at the Country Music charts these days and you’ll see that most of the songs are from female artists, […]
Sunday Music – Someday One Day
January 27, 2013 by TonyfromOz
On this weekend here in Australia, we are celebrating Australia Day, so today’s music video comes from Australia, and the song is Someday One Day, sung here in this clip by Australian band, The Seekers. Link to Video at You Tube This video was posted to You Tube by Proculledtwo The Seekers are a band […]
Sunday Music – I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City
January 20, 2013 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City, sung here in this clip by Harry Nilsson. Link to Video at You Tube This video was posted to You Tube by SuperStratega It’s hard to believe that this song is now 43 years old. It seems that good songs just […]
Sunday Music – One Night In Bangkok
January 13, 2013 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is One Night In Bangkok, sung here in this clip by Murray Head, and this song was the first of two big hits from the musical, Chess. Link to Video at You Tube This video was posted to You Tube by lineusan Sometimes, what seems like a pretty simple pop song has […]
Sunday Music – Silvery Moon
January 6, 2013 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is Silvery Moon, sung here in this clip by the Australian band Sherbet. Link to Video at You Tube This video was posted to You Tube by aussietv2 In the 1970′s Sherbet was the biggest band in Australia, and they shared that position with Skyhooks. They had a succession of pop music […]
Midweek Music – Old Cape Cod – Vale Patti Page
January 3, 2013 by TonyfromOz
It is with sadness that today we note the passing of Patti Page, who passed peacefully on New Years Day. While more famous probably for her Monster hit Tennessee Waltz, my favourite song of hers is the featured video clip for today, Old Cape Cod. Link to Video at You Tube This video was posted […]
New Year’s Day Music – The Great Gig In The Sky
January 1, 2013 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is The Great Gig In The Sky, played here in this clip by the English band, Pink Floyd, with vocals provided by Clare Torry. While there are a few versions of this song being performed live, I have selected the original from the original album, and why I have done that is […]
Sunday Music – Horror Movie
December 30, 2012 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is Horror Movie, sung here in this clip by the Australian band Skyhooks. Link to Video at You Tube This video was posted to You Tube by nzoz1975 In the mid 70′s this band, Skyhooks was without doubt, the biggest band in Australia. They started out as a local Melbourne based band, […]
Christmas Day Music – Merry Christmas
December 25, 2012 by TonyfromOz
For this Christmas Day, I’ve chosen a music clip from Ray Stevens, that good old Country rocker, and the song is Merry Christmas. Link to Video at You Tube This video was posted to You Tube by raystevensmusic In this day and age of political correctness, it has become common to hear the phrase happy […]
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