here is a b♥x, a ♫♪ musical ♪♫ b♥x

I have no idea where Reet Petite came from. . . but the bathing beauties are rather wonderful, aren't they. . .

I think it was something to do with a post-apocalyptic game that the boys are playing - in the game they're tuned into a radio station whose DJ plays songs that appear to me to be lifted from the soundtrack of The Singing Detective, which, you might know, is close to my heart

Peg O' My Heart
Max Harris & His Novelty Trio

Limehouse Blues
Ambrose & His Orchestra

Blues In The Night
Anne Shelton

Dry Bones
Fred Waring & The Pennsylvanians

Rockin' In Rhythm
The Jungle Band (Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra)

Cruising Down The River
Lou Preager & His Orchestra, vocalist Paul Rich

Don't Fence Me In
Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters

It Might As Well Be Spring
Dick Haymes

Paper Doll
The Mills Brothers

Lili Marlene
Lale Anderson

I Get Along Without You Very Well
Lew Stone & His Band, Vocals Sam Browne

Do I Worry?
The Ink Spots

Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive
Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters

You Always Hurt The One You Love
The Mills Brothers

After You've Gone
Al Jolson with Matty Malneck's Orchestra
& The Four Hits and a Miss

It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow
Jack Payne & His Orchestra

Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots

The Very Thought Of You
Al Bowlly with The Ray Noble Orchestra

The Teddy Bears' Picnic
Henry Hall & His Orchestra

We'll Meet Again
Vera Lynn with Arthur Young at the Novachord

I used to sing The Teddy Bears' Picnic to my children when they were little. . . my parents had the song on a 78 and I'd known all the lyrics since I was very small myself. . . recently I've been humming Into Each Life. . . and Accentuate the Positive. . . I found my copy of The Singing Detective soundtrack when I was sorting out one of the still-unpacked-from-The-Big-House-in-The-Village boxes - it's on a tape, like my Wilson Phillips album, which I also found. . . there are other songs on that list which I might be humming now, The Singing Detective being the soundtrack of life
.

but for some reason now I'm humming this. . . (well, not "some reason", I know why). . . California dreaming on such a winter's day indeed. . .

love after love

The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

DEREK WALCOTT

feeling kinky?

Thank you for the days, those endless days, those sacred days you gave me. I’m thinking of the days - I won’t forget a single day, believe me. I bless the light, I bless the light that lights on you, believe me. And though you’re gone, you’re with me every single day, believe me. Days. I remember all my life. Days when you can’t see wrong from right. You took my life but then I knew that very soon you’d leave me. But it’s alright. Now I’m not frightened of this world believe me. I wish today could be tomorrow, the night is long it just brings sorrow, let it wait. And though you’re gone, you’re with me every single day - believe me.

Every single day. Believe me.

Henry W Longfellow

The rocky ledge runs far into the sea, and on its outer point, some miles away, the lighthouse lifts its massive masonry, A pillar of fire by night, of cloud by day. Even at this distance I can see the tides, Upheaving, break unheard along its base, A speechless wrath, that rises and subsides in the white tip and tremour of the face. And as the evening darkens, lo! how bright, through the deep purple of the twilight air, Beams forth the sudden radiance of its light, with strange, unearhly splendour in the glare! No one alone: from each projecting cape And perilous reef along the ocean's verge, Starts into life a dim, gigantic shape, Holding its lantern o'er the restless surge... The sea-bird wheeling round it, with the din of wings and winds and solitary cries, Blinded and maddened by the light within, Dashes himself against the glare, and dies. A new Prometheus, chained upon the rock, Still grasping in his hand the fire of love, it does not hear the cry, nor heed the shock, but hails the mariner with words of love. "Sail on!" it says: "Sail on, ye stately ships! And with your floating bridge the ocean span; Be mine to guard this light from all eclipse. Be yours to bring man neared unto man."

it's all right

Here comes the sun,
here comes the sun,
and I say it's all right.
Little darling, it's been
a long cold lonely winter.
Little darling, it feels like
years since it's been here.
Here comes the sun,
here comes the sun
and I say it's all right.
Little darling, the smiles
returning to the faces.
Little darling, it seems like
years since it's been here.
Here comes the sun,
here comes the sun
and I say it's all right.
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...

Little darling, I feel that
ice is slowly melting.
Little darling, it seems like
years since it's been clear.
Here comes the sun,
here comes the sun,
and I say it's all right.
It's all right.

THE BEATLES

true minds

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove:

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken; it is the star to every wandering bark, whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come: love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

what would YOU do?

What would do think
if I sang out of tune,
Would you stand up
and walk out on me.
Lend me your ears
and I'll sing you a song,
And I'll try not to sing out of key.

I get by with a little help from my friends, I get high with a little help from my friends, I'm gonna try with a little help from my friends.

What do I do when my love is away? (Does it worry you to be alone?) How do I feel by the end of the day? (Are you sad because you're on your own?)

No, I get by with a little help from my friends, Mmm, I get high with a little help from my friends, Mmm, I'm gonna to try with a little help from my friends

Do you need anybody?
I need somebody to love.
Could it be anybody?
I want somebody to love.

Would you believe in a love at first sight? Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time. What do you see when you turn out the light? I can't tell you, but I know it's mine.

Oh... I get by
with a little help from my friends,
I'm gonna try
with a little help from my friends
I get high
with a little help from my friends
Yes, I get by
with a little help from my friends,
with a little help from my friends...

5 comments:

Mel said...: Oh, that was a wonderful song to have this morning....; 12:51
I, Like The View said...: which one! California Dreaming, or Reet Petite. . .

. . .thinking it was the dreaming

hugs for Thursday

XX; 14:15
Gordie said...: Perfect Virgo was a big fan of The Singing Detective. Dem bones, dem bones gonna, walk around...; 00:33
katherine. said...: while I wouldn't recommend "L.A." it is fairly warm in northern California as well...; 02:08
Mel said...: Oh, definitely the Dreamin' one....

Think I'll listen to it once more before heading nite nite.

((((((((((( ILTV ))))))))))); 05:35

here is a b♥x, a ♫♪ musical ♪♫ b♥x

5 comments:

THE WISEST WORDS

while you're here, please feel free to feed my fish!

oh, what a day!

happy blogging with iltv

girls and boys come out to play, go on - you know you want to. . .

circle of clues camper

what a to do. . .

festivities on a friday:

get the feeling!

a fruitful friday

. . .and for mel

(I'm growing vegetables!)

frets but no regrets

guiseppe ungaretti

word?

does santa need a helper?

join in the festive fun @

jingle shells

so who's up for an advent calendar. . .

forgetfulness. . .

if you could travel within you own life time and that of a loved one, as a casual observer, nothing more or less, on the unerstanding this would mean that you could not change the course of your life or theirs in anyway, would you wish to experience that?

how old are you?

THE RICHES OF A RAINBOW?

HEY! I have a glass. . .

YOU CALLED?

some sauce. . .

a true friend gave me this

like a clock whose hands are spinning

the love hearts never lie, but did they tell the truth?

"hitched to everything else"

need to borrow this?

rock paper scissors?

can you keep a secret. . .

with love from france

there has been a request for "it all"

when push comes to shove, courtesy of Rascal Flatts

j is for jack-o-lantern

guess what the tide washed up? ME!!

a bientot cheri(e)s

ILTV is shortly to go on her hols. . . should she:

holes

the time has come. . .

love after love

I could have danced

feeling kinky?

god only knows

ILTV wonders whether (or not) to 'av' a change of avatar

is it better or worse to be

tied up?

tied together?

tied down?

if u know who they r. . .

thank you, mig

I'm knackered & in need of a break - where shall I go

busy busy busy

Koyaanisqatsi

this Thursday: you are cordially invited to a fancy dress party - rsvp!

language. . .

i like the view!

and I love typography

my best ever read

blind date

blind date - update: anything you want to know?

you have unpicked the stitches I so carefully placed around my heart

it's my blog but. . .

a life in only six words

paper scissors stone

fancy a game. . .

Henry W Longfellow

having saved myself ££££s on the curtains, what should I now spend the money on:

fancy a new poll/quiz?

something random. . .

with thanks to mig :)

it's all right

the cat's mother

money, money, money

true minds

what would YOU do?