I can’t seem to connect with the other comments.[?] Oh, well. Just wanted to thank you (a little late) for both of these songs, old favorites which I haven’t thought of for quite a while. The second is an especial favorite.
Not relevant to this post - but a question. Has "Integrity" ever been your word of the week, and if so, when? Cannot figure out how to search your posts!
Hi, Richard. And no, we have not done "integrity." That's a great word for a future post. As for searching, we have headers at the top of the web page where we have all of our posts organized by category, such as Word of the Week. If you click on a header, you can pan down through the choices. Also, when you are on the web page, you can pan to the right of the main heading, Word & Song by Anthony Esolen and look for the circle with a little tail on it. That's a search tab. If you click on it, you can search for a specific word and you will be directed to anything that we've posted featuring that word in any way. Thanks for asking. There's a learning curve to using Substack!
Debra, After reading your post, I was led to revist Ella Fitgerald singing "You Won't Be Satisfied Till You Break My Heart," with Louis Armstrong. There's something about her voice on the low notes of that song that stirs my own heart. I also revisited Glenn Miller's vocalist Marion Hutton singing "Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead." I always thought it was an odd song to include in Glenn Miller's repertoire. It didn't seem to fit with his other music, but after reading your post about Arlen's popularity, I think I understand.
Mark, when I was searching the chart history for the original release of "Come Rain or Come Shine," I discovered how hugely popular Ethel Waters was as well. She was a chart-topper every year from the earliest charts from 1921 through the 1930's. You have given me two numbers to listen to today which I have never heard! (And I thought I had heard all of Glenn Miller.). There is always more. Thanks!
Just now I am watching a webcam from the Saturday Farmers’ Market in Jackson Wyoming. Someone is singing Angel from Montgomery. Sometimes a song gets ahold of a person for reasons that are tough to elucidate.
Now singing a Jim Croce song. Happy Saturday, everyone!
Hang onto that poster. I bought that album back in 1974 right after I had heard a Jim Croce tribute band perform. He was a good storyteller. My friend who knows pop music called him a balladeer. I loved songs from a couple other balladeers of the 70s: Gordon Lightfoot, Harry Chapin, and Cat Stevens.
These were all good story tellers. Add to that a favorite song of mine, "Starry, Starry Night" by Don McLean. And for balladeers of the 70's, James Taylor, too..
This morning at the grocery store, I had a chat with one of my favorite cashiers, a young gentleman who could be my grandson. He said he was sorry to have never heard Chuck Berry perform, and is a fan of all the old singers, Sinatra and so on. He was jolly about just having found a CD of Roger Miller’s greatest hits. I told him that he had made my day. So in addition to the EXCELLENT Ethel Waters, I listened to Sinatra’s Come Rain or Come Shine. As Shirley Temple would have said, Oh my GOODNESS! So much to like there.
Humans were made to be singing persons. Music does us good.
Real music, that is! By the fruits, music shall be judged, along with all else.
This is such a great song. I love Sinatra's version, but I have to restrain myself from turning my segment of W&W into Sometimes a Sinatra Song! If I had time I'd post the list of the rain songs I listened to this week. And I'm sure I didn't come close to remembering them ALL.
Hahaa! I had those songs on my list. I was really leaning to the Peter, Paul, and Mary version of Gordon Lightfoot's song. I've been playing it on my guitar here at home, too. SO MANY SONGS!
Ed! You got me there. But you know that the sun won't go down on me today until I do listen to that one more rain song! Just now I thought of one more rain tune I didn't listen to this week. Big hit, too!
I can’t seem to connect with the other comments.[?] Oh, well. Just wanted to thank you (a little late) for both of these songs, old favorites which I haven’t thought of for quite a while. The second is an especial favorite.
I love both tunes, too. And so many rain songs to choose from, too!
Not relevant to this post - but a question. Has "Integrity" ever been your word of the week, and if so, when? Cannot figure out how to search your posts!
Hi, Richard. And no, we have not done "integrity." That's a great word for a future post. As for searching, we have headers at the top of the web page where we have all of our posts organized by category, such as Word of the Week. If you click on a header, you can pan down through the choices. Also, when you are on the web page, you can pan to the right of the main heading, Word & Song by Anthony Esolen and look for the circle with a little tail on it. That's a search tab. If you click on it, you can search for a specific word and you will be directed to anything that we've posted featuring that word in any way. Thanks for asking. There's a learning curve to using Substack!
Thanks for your response & help. Keep up the good work! Blessings.
Debra, After reading your post, I was led to revist Ella Fitgerald singing "You Won't Be Satisfied Till You Break My Heart," with Louis Armstrong. There's something about her voice on the low notes of that song that stirs my own heart. I also revisited Glenn Miller's vocalist Marion Hutton singing "Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead." I always thought it was an odd song to include in Glenn Miller's repertoire. It didn't seem to fit with his other music, but after reading your post about Arlen's popularity, I think I understand.
Mark, when I was searching the chart history for the original release of "Come Rain or Come Shine," I discovered how hugely popular Ethel Waters was as well. She was a chart-topper every year from the earliest charts from 1921 through the 1930's. You have given me two numbers to listen to today which I have never heard! (And I thought I had heard all of Glenn Miller.). There is always more. Thanks!
Just now I am watching a webcam from the Saturday Farmers’ Market in Jackson Wyoming. Someone is singing Angel from Montgomery. Sometimes a song gets ahold of a person for reasons that are tough to elucidate.
Now singing a Jim Croce song. Happy Saturday, everyone!
I like Jim Croce too. I had an album of his a long time ago. I think it was called "Photographs and Memories."
Jim Croce was in that sad category "Gone too Soon." I liked his songs.
He had some great songs, and with his early death, so poignant. “If I could save time in a bottle……”
My husband has an old poster for a Croce performance in Casper Wyoming I think, a performance which never happened because of that early death.
But the songs live on.🥲
Hang onto that poster. I bought that album back in 1974 right after I had heard a Jim Croce tribute band perform. He was a good storyteller. My friend who knows pop music called him a balladeer. I loved songs from a couple other balladeers of the 70s: Gordon Lightfoot, Harry Chapin, and Cat Stevens.
These were all good story tellers. Add to that a favorite song of mine, "Starry, Starry Night" by Don McLean. And for balladeers of the 70's, James Taylor, too..
This morning at the grocery store, I had a chat with one of my favorite cashiers, a young gentleman who could be my grandson. He said he was sorry to have never heard Chuck Berry perform, and is a fan of all the old singers, Sinatra and so on. He was jolly about just having found a CD of Roger Miller’s greatest hits. I told him that he had made my day. So in addition to the EXCELLENT Ethel Waters, I listened to Sinatra’s Come Rain or Come Shine. As Shirley Temple would have said, Oh my GOODNESS! So much to like there.
Humans were made to be singing persons. Music does us good.
Real music, that is! By the fruits, music shall be judged, along with all else.
Come rain or come shine.🌦
This is such a great song. I love Sinatra's version, but I have to restrain myself from turning my segment of W&W into Sometimes a Sinatra Song! If I had time I'd post the list of the rain songs I listened to this week. And I'm sure I didn't come close to remembering them ALL.
The one that’s been in my heart, for DAYS, is Bruce Hornsby “Mandolin Rain.” Rain goes deep into the human soul!
It does, indeed. I see that there's a book to be written about "rain songs."
Rain drippin off the brim of my hat, sure is cold today….
In the early morning rain, with a dollar in my hand…
Blue eyes crying in the…..
Could it be that the human race carries memories of The Flood in our ancestral DNA?!😄
Hahaa! I had those songs on my list. I was really leaning to the Peter, Paul, and Mary version of Gordon Lightfoot's song. I've been playing it on my guitar here at home, too. SO MANY SONGS!
In eternity, there will be time to sing ALL the songs that should be sung!
Among those many rain songs you’ve listened to this week, Debra, I’ll bet was this lesser known one, “The Garden in the Rain,” by Perry Como.
Ed! You got me there. But you know that the sun won't go down on me today until I do listen to that one more rain song! Just now I thought of one more rain tune I didn't listen to this week. Big hit, too!