“The Perfect Margarita” – A Toast to Jimmy Buffett #WSJ
RichC | December 23, 2023
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Music Monday: “Chrstmas Tree Farm” by Taylor Swift in 2019, Time Magazine’s 2023 Person of the Year
RichC | December 18, 2023
I’m not really a Taylor Swift fan … nor do I spend much time listening to “Swifties” pop music, it is probably apropos to highlight this BILLIONAIRE entertainer again on MyDesultoryBlog (surprisingly, I also posted a clip in 2015 … who knew)? The most stream women on Spotify also happens to be Time’s 2023 Person […]
Music Monday: The Emotions – “Best Of My Love” from 1977
RichC | December 11, 2023
The song “Best Of My Love” by The Emotions was a song that I only listened on the radio to when it was released in 1977 (it was not in my music collection), but over the years I do enjoy how it reminds me of being “back in my younger days.” Hm, perhaps Don Williams […]
Music Monday: Daryl Hall and John Oates – “Private Eyes”
RichC | December 4, 2023
The music I listened to in the early 1980s was in my opinion still leftover from the 1970s. I was still finishing up college and grad school … but growing up since Brenda and I were married in 1982 (although “grown up” would be a stretch)! So for me, Hall and Oates and their hit […]
Music Monday: “Come Sail Away” by Styx (1977)
RichC | November 27, 2023
“Come Sail Away” is today’s Music Monday song by Styx. It took me back to hanging out in the dorm room with my roommate and listening to music. Was life less stressful back then … or is it just the rose color glasses perspective of time (probably the later)?
Music Monday: The Grass Roots and their hit “Sooner or Later”
RichC | November 20, 2023
The Grass Roots was an American rock band that achieved significant success between 1965 and 1975. The band’s origins trace back to the collaboration of songwriter duo P. F. Sloan and Steve Barri, along with the involvement of Lou Adler. For Music Monday, here is their 1971 hit “Sooner of Later” from “Their 16 Greatest […]
Music Monday: “The Best Day Of My Life” – American Authors
RichC | November 6, 2023
Although I’m sure I’m not the only one, but today’s Music Monday song (and YouTube served music video) is one of those songs that after hearing it, I can’t get out of my head … in other words, an earworm. The “Best Day of my Life” from 2013 is by pop band American Authors and […]
The Coral Reefer Band will try to “keep the party going”
RichC | November 1, 2023
It will not be easy for the Coral Reefer Band to keep traveling and performing without Jimmy Buffett, but all the bandmembers have talent and many of them have been together for years if not decades together … “as a family.” So, it is sounding as if they intent to give the concert tour a […]
Music Monday: “One Tin Soldier” – learning something new
RichC | October 30, 2023
For most of my life, hearing the 1971 counterculture era song “One Tin Soldier” automatically triggered the band Coven in my musical memory … until last week. It was only then that I realized that the song was recorded (not surprisingly) a couple years earlier by the Canadian folk group The Original Caste (below).
The things we discuss when looking up at clouds 🎶
RichC | October 26, 2023
Most people enjoy a day or week at the beach, but few who are younger get the opportunity to spend much more time than that enjoying the sand and surf. Thankfully Brenda and I have figured out how to do it … even if it is not on a sailboat as I had planned. While […]
Archive: A couple of Corn-Mazing granddaughters
RichC | October 25, 2023
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Music Monday: Neil Diamond – Jonathan Livingston Seagull
RichC | October 23, 2023
While laying on the beach and watching the clouds drift over last week, Brenda stuck a granola bar in my mouth and I laughed, commenting that I was like a seagull … a Jonathan Livingston Seagull. She rolled her eyes as I headed down memory lane remembering and played the Richard Bach story (fable) from […]
Music Monday: A Cover Band version of “Copperline”
RichC | October 9, 2023
It is hard for me not to enjoy almost any James Taylor music no matter who sings or plays the songs, but the music is especially enjoyable when it is the Lexington Lab Band (includes my schoolmate from high school, Rob Pottorf). For Music Monday this week, here’s the group’s YouTube video of “Copperline” that […]
Music Monday: “Island” – Jimmy Buffett lives in my head
RichC | October 2, 2023
It is still difficult to believe that Jimmy Buffett in gone and won’t be making new music or touring. I know I still hear his music in my head and wish there was a way to go back a few decades to enjoy a new albums and songs every year all over again. Jimmy […]
Music Monday: “Baby I Love Your Way” by Peter Frampton
RichC | September 18, 2023
When I hear Peter Frampton, I’m transported back to high school and riding with a photographer friend Chris Carr in Sidney, Ohio … and istening to “Frampton Comes Alive!” in his first generation Chevy II Nova with an 8-track player (previous post)! So for today’s Music Monday‘s “flashback memory,” here’s “Baby I Love Your […]
Music Monday: “Uncle John’s Band” – Grateful Dead
RichC | September 11, 2023
“Nope” … I’m not really a Deadhead, but I do enjoy listening to some of the devoted fan’s music. Last month I save the SiriusXM channel clip to my phone thinking to myself that I should add a Grateful Dead song to Music Monday. So here is Uncle John’s Band, a song written by Jerry […]
Music Monday: Jimmy Buffett passed away peacefully at age 76
RichC | September 4, 2023
Depressing for those of us who grew up in the Jimmy Buffett mindset and have enjoyed his music, concerts, ambitious lifestyle and attitude for our college and adult lives, but his passing on September 1, 2023 hit home. Unfortunately it is starting to feel like the norm (but 76 is way, WAY, too young)? I […]
Music Monday: Bertie Higgins and “Key Largo” 1981
RichC | August 28, 2023
While winding down the last of the lazy summer pool weekends (photo from 2016) this August 2023, there aren’t many better songs than those from the singer/songwriter Bertie Higgins. A few years back his “Just Another Day in Paradise” was a Music Monday selection and probably a favorite … but equally enjoyable is “Key Largo.” […]
Music Monday: “Lido Shuffle” – Boz Scaggs (Silk Degrees 1976)
RichC | August 21, 2023
William Royce “Boz” Scaggs “recalled: “Lido Shuffle” was a song that I’d been banging around. I … took the idea of the shuffle [from] a song that Fats Domino did called “The Fat Man” that had a kind of driving shuffle beat that I used to play on the piano, and I just started kind […]
A long time customer’s email always signals summer’s end
RichC | August 15, 2023
Having a customer for over 30 years is something that I should be super happy about (and for the most part, I am), but in August like clockwork it is a trigger for me that it is the end of summer and the beginning of a new printing year, at least with the Greater Akron […]
Music Monday: “I Melt With You” by the band Modern Engish
RichC | August 14, 2023
Although the “new wave” music genre isn’t something I generally listen to or know much about, hearing the 1982 song “I Melt With You” as aTV business news segment change did catch my ear. I think I said something like, “I like that. Perhaps a song from the band Modern English would make for a […]
Music Monday: A couple times a hit, “Hooked On A Feeling”
RichC | August 7, 2023
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Music Monday: Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl) by Looking Glass
RichC | July 31, 2023
Today’s Music Monday song by Looking Glass is one nearly every generation that enjoys pop music would find difficult not to like. Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl) is about as popular as a song can get in the early 1970s. It rose to #1 in the charts in 1972. Interesting tidbit: Following the song’s release […]
Music Monday: Jigsaw and one-hit wonder “Sky High” (1975)
RichC | July 24, 2023
When it comes to Music Monday, there is something about hearing a one-hit wonder that grabs my attention. Perhaps it is the memory of the song or days gone by … or maybe it is just the fact that we expected the singer or band to have another hit song? In any case, the English […]
Music Monday: Al Stewart and “The Year Of The Cat” (1976)
RichC | July 17, 2023
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Music Monday: “Key West Address” by James T. Slater
RichC | July 10, 2023
In July I’m usually looking for hot weather music mood, so for summer 2023 I’m tuning SiriusXM to the Florida Keys Xtra channel. James T. Slater‘s “Key West Address” popped on and it does a pretty good job of capturing my summertime state-of-mind, although it would probably be just fine in the middle of winter […]
Music Monday: Kenny Loggins and “Keep the Fire” (1980)
RichC | July 3, 2023
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Music Monday: “Kung Fu Fighting” (1974) and Carl Douglas
RichC | June 19, 2023
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Music Monday: “Imagine” by Music Travel Love and Friends
RichC | June 12, 2023
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A Music Monday Happy Anniversary with “Open Arms”
RichC | June 5, 2023
Once upon a time, I would have defaulted to “Happy Anniversary Baby” by The Little River Band … but as the idiom goes, “been there, done that“ in a 2014 post. So to wish Brenda a Happy Anniversary, this Music Monday I’ll zero in on the year we were married and opt for “Open Arms” by […]
Music Monday: The band America and the song “Here”
RichC | May 29, 2023
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Music Monday: “So Many Paths” by the Little River Band
RichC | May 22, 2023
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Music Monday: Pushing a Jimmy Buffett memory forward
RichC | May 15, 2023
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Music Monday: RIP Gordon Lightfoot, a folk singing legend
RichC | May 8, 2023
Canadian singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot passed away last week; he was 84. The respected entertainer has been a favorite of mine since high school and I enjoyed his music throughout the years … and still do. Music Monday has highlighted a few of his many songs and I felt obligated to reflect on his music this […]
Mellow Music for Sunday: “Duke’s On Sunday” – Jimmy Buffett
RichC | April 23, 2023
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Music Monday: Never knew I enjoyed Taylor Swift music
RichC | April 17, 2023
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Music Monday: “While He Still Knows Who I Am” – more music from Kenny Chesney
RichC | April 10, 2023
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Music Monday: Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band
RichC | April 3, 2023
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Music Monday: “Smoke From a Distant Fire” (1977)
RichC | March 27, 2023
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Music Monday: “Jackie Blue” – Ozark Mountain Daredevils
RichC | March 20, 2023
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Music Monday: “All Right Now” by the English band Free
RichC | March 13, 2023
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Music Monday: Semi-Forgotten Mary MacGregor 1976 song
RichC | March 6, 2023
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Music Monday: “Happy Does” and Happy Birthday Ellerie
RichC | February 20, 2023
My youngest granddaughter turns 3 years old today … WOW! Happy Birthday Ellerie. We wish we were spending it with you, but we will be calling you on your way home from Michigan (photo above on Sunday) and celebrating soon for your combined birthday with your sister. For Music Monday today, I was thinking about […]
Music Monday: Bonnie Raitt sings “Angel From Montgomery”
RichC | February 13, 2023
While driving and listening to a few of my usual music stations last week … one being SiriusXM The Bridge … hearing Bonnie Raitt singing “Angel From Montgomery” reminded me how I’ve always enjoy the solemn blues sounds she can offer in her southern rock. This make not have charted as a hit or even […]
Music Monday: Kenny Chesney singing “We Do” live
RichC | February 6, 2023
Since “No Shoes” was mentioned in last week’s Music Monday post, I’ll stick with the theme and include a Kenny Chesney and a “No Shoes Nation” video of his 2020 song “We Do” this week (included KC a few times here before). It is always great to see happy crowds enjoying some great entertainment and […]
Music Monday: A Little “Just Keep Livin” reggae by Mishka and Brenda’s hip replacement surgery and physical therapy update
RichC | January 30, 2023
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Music Monday: David Crosby of CSN and CSNY will be missed
RichC | January 23, 2023
Steven Stills, David Crosby and Graham Nash in concert in 2012 A depressing Music Monday today as music lovers remembered and reflected on the January 18, 2023 passing of the talented singer, guitarist and songwriter David Crosby. He impacted literally millions with is wonderful harmonies from the day he joined the Byrds in 1964 to […]
Music Monday: “Back In The High Life Again” – Steve Winwood
RichC | January 16, 2023
Perhaps it is that I feel younger “again” or that this song just the good memories from earlier times, but I do get a good feeling when listening to Steve Windood singing “Back In The High Life Again.” After a medically rough week … or several weeks with Brenda’s hip fracture and full hip replacement […]
Music Monday: Roger Miller singing “King of the Road”
RichC | January 9, 2023
Perhaps the first song that I can remember hearing on the radio and remembering I liked was Roger Miller‘s “King of the Road.” I was probably too young to remember it clearly, but my mom and dad commented that I definitely liked it when I was just 4 or 5. I do know that … […]
Music Monday: Same Old Lang Syne by the late Dan Fogelberg
RichC | January 2, 2023
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Music Monday: Henry Gross singing Shannon in 1976
RichC | December 26, 2022
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Music Monday: “White Christmas” by who else but Bing Crosby
RichC | December 19, 2022
On Saturday I mentioned a cold front arriving before next weekend and possibly having a white Christmas … and therefore couldn’t help but think of Bing Crosby singing Irving Berlin‘s “White Christmas.” It is not a song from my generation, but I definitely remember my parents playing it when I was a boy. It is […]
Music Monday: Remembering Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie
RichC | December 12, 2022
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Music Monday: “Georgia” – Boz Scaggs (Silk Degrees 1976)
RichC | December 5, 2022
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Music Monday: “Puff the Magic Dragon” – Peter, Paul and Mary
RichC | November 28, 2022
In keeping with the 1960’s Music Monday from a couple week’s ago, the song “Puff the Magic Dragon” by Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary flickered by in some way this past week when someone mentioned the old rumors speculating that “it contained veiled references to smoking marijuana.” But the authors, including the original […]
Music Monday: “Hey Jude” (or Julian) – The Beatles
RichC | November 21, 2022
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Music Monday: “Make Your Own Kind of Music” – Cass Elliot
RichC | November 14, 2022
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Music Monday: More from England Dan and John Ford Coley
RichC | November 7, 2022
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Music Monday: An aviation photo triggered a memory of a funky boombox McDonalds commercial from years ago
RichC | October 31, 2022
It doesn’t get any odder than seeing a “very low” fly-by photo from a fellow aviation enthusiast Ron Eisele on Twitter and having it trigger a “how low can you go” McDonalds commercial from way back when??? It’s probably not an appropriate Music Monday, but the music well is dry today … so I’m using […]
Music Monday: Fox Business on TV, Disco and the Bee Gees
RichC | October 24, 2022
Music Monday triggers can come from anywhere. Today’s was from segment music on a morning Fox Business program and triggered a“disco” flavored song from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack in 1977. “More Than a Woman” was a Bee Gees song and was paired with a serene Minnesota early morning lake photo (new TV on […]
Desultory - des-uhl-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee
- lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
- digressing from or unconnected with the main subject; random: a desultory remark.