Good morning,
MUSIC
The suggestions regarding songs highlighting cities (and the occasional state or region) keep coming in! Paul Kanin notes that one can’t cite Frank Sinatra singing “Chicago” (my kind of town) without also noting the classic, “New York, New York,” sung by “old blue eyes.”
Andrew Kopkin adds “Los Angeles, I’m Yours,” by The Decemberists.
Ira Waldman asks, “How did you miss Jerry Jeff Walker’s “LA Freeway”?” The answer, of course, is that I have no excuse! Here it is; he starts at 1:30, after his introduction on the Dinah Shore Show!:
Then there are these favorites from The Blues Brothers, from Alberto Delgado, who hails from Florida:
Going Back to Miami (of course)
Sweet Home Chicago
But Albert really nails it with an homage to Jimmy Buffett, who died far too young earlier this month:
“Then, in honor of my recently departed hero, Jimmy Buffett, who I think might dominate this category:
Margaritaville (fictitious but infectious)
Havana Daydreaming
Pascagoula Run
Livingston Saturday Night
He Went to Paris
Last Mango in Paris
Tin Cup Chalice (all about Key West)
Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season (all about Key West)
Coast of Marseilles
Blame it on New Orleans
Everybody’s Got a Cousin in Miami
I Want to Go Back to Cartagena
Biloxi
And so many more about all the places he went and painted pictures of with his words and song, even if they are not in the title or mentioned by name…”
Jimmy sang of ordinary places that he conceived as little bits of paradise and so, in his honor, this video of the always entertaining “Cheeseburger in Paradise”:
POETRY
One of my favorites, of which I never tire:
No Man is An Island
By John Donne
No man is an island, entire of itself;
Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or thine own were;
Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind , and therefore never sent to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.
Have a great weekend,
Glenn
Hi Glenn - did someone mention the Monkees' Clarksville? Is that a real place?
and if nobody has said Lodi, CCR sang about Lodi. Stuck therein.