Category: Movies

So we come to my personal favourite number – 5. Why it has always been my favourite I do not know except to say that there is something just so elegant about it and especially the way it it makes counting easy – 5,10,15 etc. So let’s see if others have the same affinity towards […]

As I begin to research the number three and the songs that have been inspired by it, I must admit that I have no idea where my searching may lead because I very few songs come readily to mind. So, I am prepared to be surprised as I so often am by this blog. “Three […]

A new series begins today. We are going explore numerical songs from 1-10 and then see where it goes from there. Which number is the favourite of song writers? Which unusual numbers will make it into the lists? This will be another voyage of discovery in which as usual forgetten gems are recalled and unexpected […]

“Glory” is a song by American rapper Common and American singer John Legend. It was written by John Legend, Common, and Rhymefest. The song was released in December 2014, by Columbia as the theme song from the 2014 film Selma, which portrays the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches. Common also co-starred in the film as […]

After suggesting that it was ironic to talk about sunny days now that we are deep into October, the greater irony was that out of nowhere, yesterday was the most glorious Autumn day with clear blue skies and warm enought for us to eat lunch outside. So today I turn my thoughts to the season […]

Earlier in the year we were promised a dramatic heatwave during August, this however like the benefits of Brexit proved to be illusory. For those of us who feel cheated out of our hot summer, I have selected some some songs about heatwaves and the like. “Too Darn Hot” is a song written by Cole […]

A slightly remote possibility considering the weather that we have been experiencing over the past few days but I thought it might brighten this Monday morning if we thought about those endless sunny days of childhood. To remind us of those days here are some songs with the theme of the sun and sunshine. “Sunrise, […]

Since we move to our new house there have not been many stormy days or nights, but I thought it might be interesting to investigate music and song prompted by storms in nature and the sturm and drang (storm and stress) of life. “Stormy Weather” is a 1933 torch song written by Arlen and Koehler. […]

It was slightly misty this morning as it so often is at this time of year, so I thought that our selection of music for today should be about mist and it’d bigger denser brother fog. “To Autumn” is a poem by English poet John Keats (1795 – 1821). The work was composed in September […]

So far all the modes of transport have been human or mechanical, but it would be remiss of me to exclude one of the oldest means that people have empolyed to move from place to another that of animal locomotion. Some animals are used due to sheer physical strength in tasks such as ploughing or […]