When I was a very little girl, my Dad brought back from America (where he had been for postgrad work) a bunch of records by the singing stars of the time. WIthout going too much into detail, let me just say that I had a serious crush (hey, I wes SEVEN) on the young Pat Boone whose picture was on the front of his album, and his "Anastasia" was a ( Read more... )

...is now on video!

A lot of writers will compile soundtracks to go with their work - music which somehow connects with what they are creating, which helps them with the vision in their minds ( Read more... )

Just LISTEN. Whatever the voice you might have expected, just looking at that bookwormish cherubic young face, it can't have been what you then hear coming out of his mouth.

This song needs a special voice. And does this guy just HAVE it. In spades.

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Merry Christmas, with a smile!

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Do you ever have the instant take-you-back feeling, to very particular and specific time and place, when you hear a certain song ( Read more... )

...even just a few short years ago... would, I suspect, have been impossible.

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This concept - and the fact that it was possible to do it at all let alone this well - both exhilarates and frankly TERRIFIES me... [grin]

You know the tunes that won't leave your head? The persistent earworms? The ones that just SIT there, and the moment you think you've banished them and are thinking of something else, back they come, bigger and better than ever ( Read more... )

I'm not entirely sure why I thought about this right now - certainly not in the throes of romantic heartbreak right now, anyway. But someone started talking about the songs of your life, and this one just swam into focus, sharply.

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I can remember walking out of the house of the man I had thought I would probably spend the rest of my life with, ( Read more... )