We continue to ‘Monkey’ around with another collection of songs. “Monkey Man” is a song by the Rolling Stones, featured as the eighth track on their 1969 album ‘Let it Bleed’. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote “Monkey Man” as a tribute to Italian pop artist Mario Schifano, whom they met on the set of […]
Animal Songs – Monkey 1
From the ‘Ape’ to his cousin the ‘Monkey’, who it appears is more popular by far with the songwriting fraternity. “Brass Monkey” is a song by the American rap rock group Beastie Boys. It was a single released from their first album Licensed to Kill. It is also on the Beastie Boys’ compilation album Solid […]
Animal Songs – Monkey 2
A second visit to the ‘Monkey’ house for another collection of songs. “Monkey” is a track from ‘Recovering The Satellites’ Counting Crows’ second album. Adam Duritz dated some high-profile actresses – including Friends stars Courteney Cox and Jennifer Aniston – but generally remains on good terms with them after their breakups. He hasn’t said who […]
Animal Songs – Hares 3
A third visit to the wild world of the the ‘Hare’ for another collection of songs. “The Hi Ho Hare” John Kirkpatrick sang this song on his 2017 Fledg’ling CD ‘Coat-Tails Flying’, where he noted: I fell in love with a song called On Yonder Hill There Sits a Hare, recorded from the Irish singer […]
Animal Songs – Hares 2
Another visit to the long eared world of the ‘Hare’. “Hares on the Mountain” is an English folk song. Versions of this song have been collected from traditional singers in England, Canada and the USA, and have been recorded by modern folk artists. The English folk singer Shirley Collins (who probably learnt the song from […]
Animal Songs – Rabbit 4
A final visit to the burrow for another collection of songs featuring Rabbits. “The Rabbit Song” by Johyn Lydon the former Sex Pistol, appears as the only new song on the 2005 compilation album ‘Best of British £1 Notes’. “Rabbit Song”, was used as intro music for a 2009 Public Image Limited tour. John Lydon […]
Animal Songs – Rabbit 3
Today, a collection of songs celebrating that most iconic of bunnies the ‘White Rabbit’. “White Rabbit” is a song written by Grace Slick and recorded by the American band Jefferson Airplane for their 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow. It draws on imagery from Lewis Carroll’s 1865 book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel Through […]
Animal Songs – Ape 1
Today, we choose some songs reflecting upon our nearest neighbour in the animal kingdom ‘The Ape’. “I Go Ape” is the second single by Neil Sedaka, immediately following his success with the debut single “The Diary”, and was written by Sedaka himself and Howard Greenfield. It was released in 1958, and also appears on Sedaka’s […]
Animal Songs – Hares 1
Having spent some days with the ‘Rabbit’ we are now going to visit with his larger cousin ‘The Hare’. ‘Hare Spell’ is a song recorded by Faye Hield backed by Rob Harbron, Sam Sweeney, Ben Nicholls and Ewan MacPherson. The song and tune conjure an ancient spell to become a hare…it’s totally mesmerising and is […]
Animal Songs – Fox 2
Another visit to the world of the Fox. Did you know that one of the collective nouns for the group of foxes is a ‘Skulk’ or possibly an ‘Earth’. So perhaps we shall unearth some more foxy music. “The Fox” is the title track from the fifteenth studio album by English musician Elton John, released […]