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 […]
Pink
Pink is a colour that is a pale tint of red and is named after the flower of the same name. It was first used as a colour name in the late 17th century. In optics, the word “pink” can refer to any of the pale shades of colours between bluish red to red in […]
Gold
Gold, also called golden, is a colour. The web colour gold is sometimes referred to as golden to distinguish it from the colour metallic gold. The use of gold as a colour term in traditional usage is more often applied to the colour “metallic gold”. The first recorded use of golden as a colour name […]
Silver
Silver or metallic gray is a colour tone resembling gray that is a representation of the colour of polished silver. The visual sensation usually associated with the metal silver is its metallic shine. This cannot be reproduced by a simple solid colour, because the shiny effect is due to the material’s brightness varying with the […]
The Songs of Marie Lloyd
In today’s blog I want to celebrate Marie Lloyd the ‘Queen of the Music Hall, sadly there is no footage of her actually performing on the stage, although some recording of her singing do exist. Her daughter Marie Lloyd Jr. did give performances in which she impersonated her mother so I have included these as […]