So now our musical journey brings to travel over water, so i thought i would start with some ‘Sea Shanties’. Sea shanty songs are traditionally belted out by sailors, hard at work on the open seas on ships and boats. Typically, a true sea shanty (or chanty, as it is sometimes called) is sung as a team. And […]
Trains – 3rd Stop
I thought at this point that I might be able to move forward in time to the 1980’s and beyond but researches have uncovered that Wikipedia lists more than 1000 train/railway related songs and at a quick glance I noticed that I have missed some classic songs from the past. So our third stop is […]
Trains – The Second Stop
Today we continue our exploration of songs related to trains and the railways. So far we have barely made it into the 1960’s and so beginning there, we move on to explore the 1970’s. “Rock Island Line” is an American folk song. Ostensibly about the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, it appeared as a […]
Train – Departure
A train is a form of rail transport consisting of a series of connected vehicles that generally run along a railway track to transport passengers or cargo (also known as “freight” or “goods”). The word train comes from the Old French trahiner, derived from the Latin trahere meaning ‘to pull, to draw’. “Freight Train” is […]
Bus
A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle designed to carry many passengers usually for a fare. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type is the singer decker, with larger loads carried by double decker and articulated buses, and smaller loads […]
Motorcycle (Sidecar)
As with the post on bicycles, I have decided to include a post on songs that are intimately connected to the motorcycle but without the name appearing in the title of the song. It is my contentionthat it is impossible to think about these songs without conjuring up an image of the motorbike. “Leader of […]
Bicycle (Adjacent)
Whilst researching the post for yesterday about bicycle songs I realised that there are a number of what one might term ‘bicycle adjacent’ songs whereby the words bicycle, cycle or bike, do not appear in the title, there is still a strong connection with this mode of transport. I though therefore that they ought to […]
West
West or Occident, is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from East, and is the direction in which the sun sets. The word “west” is a Germanic word passed into some Romance languages (ouest in French, oest in Catalan, ovest in Italian, oeste in Spanish […]
Rainbow
Our final saunter around the world of colourful songs ends approriately with the Rainbow. A rainbow is a meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky. It takes the form of a multicoloured circular arc. Rainbows caused by […]
Black
Black is a colour which results from the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic colour, without hue, like white and gray. It is often used symbolically or figuratively to represent darkness. Black and white have often been used to describe opposites. Since the Middle Ages, black has been the symbolic […]