Music Monday: The songwriting gift that is Brian Wilson

| August 30, 2021

Who doesn’t know who Brian Wilson is or love his many decades of music … especially with The Beach Boys (even my kids played them on our amplified Echo and dance around a week or so ago)? 😊 I stumbled across his timeline on the BrianWilson.com which highlights each decade with photos and highlights. A […]

Music Monday: Replacing our Driveway Blues, or close to it

| August 23, 2021

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Music Monday: The Coasters, “Yakety Yak” and an aviation tweet

| August 16, 2021

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Music Monday: Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?

| August 9, 2021

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Music Monday: The Guess Who and “No Time” #video

| August 2, 2021

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Music Monday: “Then Came You” recorded by Dionne Warwick and The Spinners in 1974

| July 26, 2021

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Music Monday: Neil Diamond and “Crackin’ Rosie” from 1970

| July 19, 2021

It has hard for me to imagine that there is anyone who doesn’t appreciate the music of Neil Diamond? He may not have been at the top of my 1970s music listening list, but when it comes to soft rock, there are few men who can match his vocal talent. A Twitter snippet of a […]

Music Monday: Summer music listening with Yacht Rock Radio

| July 12, 2021

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Music Monday: Don McLean performing “Crossroads” live

| July 5, 2021

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Music Monday: Supertramp – Breakfast in America LIVE (1979)

| June 28, 2021

Last week a friend of mine include an album cover photo and said “strike this pose.” I laughed to myself wondering just how many people seeing it would know and remember “Breakfast in America“ and the Engilsh rock band Supertramp? Interestingly, even though I clearly remembered the band and the album, I did not realized […]

Another Music Monday TV theme song from an in-my-opinion effective Applebee’s commercial with “Cheers” intro

| June 21, 2021

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Music Monday: B.T.O. – Roll On Down The Highway

| June 14, 2021

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Music Monday: a commercial for Applebees, John Sebastian, Television themes songs and Welcome Back Kotter (1975-1979)

| June 7, 2021

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Music Monday: Hard to believe Bob Dylan turned 80 last week?

| May 31, 2021

This should have been a post for last week’s Music Monday, but here’s a belated 80th Happy Birthday to the legendary singer-songwriter-poet Bob Dylan. What a unique and talented musician. So now they your 80 years old … Mr. Rolling Stone 🙂 … “how does it feel?” Bob Dylan with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band […]

Music Monday: “Signs” by Five Man Electric Band (1971)

| May 24, 2021

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Music Monday: Mercy Me and their “Say I Won’t” music video

| May 17, 2021

My Desultory Blog‘s Music Monday does not include enough music from the Christian music genre and after hearing the story of Gary Miracle last weekend, I had to include Mercy Me‘s “Say I Won’t.”  

Music Monday: The Who – “I Can See For Miles” triggered by an astronaut Alan Shepard memory

| May 10, 2021

The Who was never at the top of my music listening list, but like all who grew up in the 1960-70’s era, we all knew the music. This past Wednesday was the 60th anniversary of Alan Shepard‘s flight into space and as a boy who grew up mesmerized by our NASA space program (still am) […]

Music Monday: The Beach Boys, “Fun, Fun, Fun” and some R & R

| May 3, 2021

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Music Monday: The Foundations – “Build Me Up Buttercup”

| April 26, 2021

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Music Monday: Not my taste, but definitely Bluegrass talent

| April 19, 2021

This past weekend I saw what looked like an amateur musician in a college dorm or apartment video roll across my Twitter feed and thought, “this young man has talent.” It reminded me of a post from 2014 when Jacob Tolliver sat down at a piano in a Portsmouth, Ohio hardware store. This kind of […]

Music Monday: Sheryl Crow and NPR Music Tiny Desk Concerts

| April 12, 2021

Stumbled across a pre-COVID19 lockdown NPRMusic Tiny Desk Concert on YouTube when watching another video from an automotive friend of mine … and since I like Sheryl Crow “music” … I figured it would be an easy fill for Music Monday. Her “Soak Up The Sun” hit from 2002 was included a couple years ago, […]

Music Monday: Paul Simon (and Art Garfunkel) – Kodachrome

| April 5, 2021

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Music Monday: The Band and Kodachrome photography

| March 29, 2021

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Music Monday: More Than a Feeling – Boston 1976

| March 22, 2021

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Music Monday: North of the U.S. border with The Guess Who

| March 15, 2021

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Music Monday: Johnny Nash recorded “I Can See Clearly Now”

| March 8, 2021

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Music Monday: Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show video. Yikes!

| March 1, 2021

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Music Monday: The Marshall Tucker Band – “Can’t You See”

| February 22, 2021

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Music Monday: Steely Dan – “Peg” from their 1977 album Aja

| February 15, 2021

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Music Monday: The Cranberries – “Linger” (Irish Alt Rock)

| February 1, 2021

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Music Monday: Lexington Lab Band does 1971 Chicago song

| January 25, 2021

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Music Monday: Early Pure Prairie League and Vince Gill

| January 18, 2021

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New for me on Music Monday: Call It Dreaming by Iron & Wine

| January 11, 2021

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Music Monday: Like Kenny Chesney, I have a yearning to be free

| January 4, 2021

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Music Monday: The Coconut song always makes my wife smile

| December 28, 2020

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Music Monday: Holiday memories from the Carpenters

| December 21, 2020

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Music Monday: A snippet from a 1970 CSNY Jam Session

| December 14, 2020

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Music Monday: Led Zeppelin and “Stairway to Heaven”

| November 30, 2020

Today’s Music Monday song is due to the minor chastising from my friend Mark Jones last week. He’s been picking up a few old albums for his record collection and to play on his Crosley record player mentioned before … and because I wanted to wish him a Happy Birthday today. Happy Birthday, Mark!  One […]

Music Monday: A record 2020 Hurricane Season is almost over

| November 16, 2020

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Music Monday: Gerry Rafferty and working on cars memory

| November 9, 2020

The music of the late Gerry Rafferty hasn’t appeared on Music Monday and I’m disappointed not to have yet included him in my heavily 70’s mix of musicians. Having to pick one song out for today’s listening is a challenge, but “Days Gone Down” (Night Owl) is a good one since it triggers a memory […]

Music Monday: The passing of an old favorite – Jerry Jeff Walker

| November 2, 2020

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Music Monday: Edgar Winter Group – Free Ride

| October 26, 2020

If the Edgar Winter Group performing “Free Ride” doesn’t make you at minimum tap your toe or move some part of your body a little bit … then I suspect your life is near its end. The song and group are just another in the long Music Monday list from the 1970s. That’s not to […]

Music Monday: “Upside Down” and “Broken” with Jack Johnson

| October 19, 2020

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Music Monday: Are you ‘feeling groovy’ this morning?

| October 12, 2020

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Music Monday: Stories We Could Tell sung by Jimmy Buffett

| October 5, 2020

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Music Monday: Social unrest and the 1970s song Chevy Van

| September 28, 2020

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Music Monday: “Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly” co-written and sung by Aaron Dupree Tippin

| September 21, 2020

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Another Jimmy Buffett 2020 stay-at-home video memory

| September 14, 2020

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Music Monday: I Heard It Through The Grapevine – CCR (1970)

| September 7, 2020

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Music Monday: The Box Tops – The Letter (1967)

| August 31, 2020

Brenda started to sing along to a song that was on in the intro or background of a movie or TV show were were watching a couple weeks ago (don’t recall the show). I looked over and asked, “How do you remember this song … it was before our time?”  She replied that she thought […]

Music Monday: Under Pressure – Queen, plus some humor

| August 24, 2020

Oh how the simplest humor can trigger a music flashback, at least for me! I’m not sure everyone’s brain operates like this, but the song Under Pressure from 1981/82 by Queen, and the late great David Bowie, is the first thing that came to mind when seeing the above image. Feeling Under Pressure? Perhaps you […]

A weekend Brenda birthday photo and Jimmy Buffett video

| August 18, 2020

We are really enjoying the time we have to stay around home this summer amidst Coronavirus concerns … although Brenda has never stopped going to work … she works in an “essential business” – pharmacy. We certainly enjoyed having Katelyn, Drew, Annalyn and Ellerie to our house for a mini-vacation for several days earlier this […]

Music Monday: The Righteous Brothers – One For The Road

| August 17, 2020

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Music Monday: Walk With You – Ringo Starr with Paul McCartney (4: John Paul George Ringo)

| August 10, 2020

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Music Monday: “The Captain And The Kid” – Jimmy Buffett

| August 3, 2020

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Music Monday: Time Passages -Al Stewart (1978)

| July 27, 2020

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Music Monday: Remembering my Glen Campbell listening days

| July 20, 2020

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Music Monday: Mary Chapin Carpenter – Hometown Girl

| July 13, 2020

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Music Monday: “Superstar” made popular by the Carpenters, but ..

| July 6, 2020

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Music Monday: Bread – Baby I’m-a Want You plus concert video

| June 29, 2020

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