Song of the Day #4,743: ‘The Trolley Song’ – Judy Garland in Meet Me in St. Louis
Song of the Day #4,742: ‘In the Heights’ – Anthony Ramos and Cast in In the Heights
My 2020 summer family trip to Hawai was postponed due to the pandemic, but we were lucky enough to reschedule it for this month. So, fully vaccinated and the opposite of homesick, we’re setting off on a 2-week island getaway.
The last time I went to Hawaii, in 2016, I posted two weeks of music from the region, so I’m going a different direction this time. For the next two weeks I will present, without comment, scenes from some of my favorite movie musicals.
Enjoy!
Song of the Day #4,741: ‘House of Stone’ – Mudcrutch
Few things are more comforting on a lazy summer morning than the sound of Tom Petty delivering a lighthearted country ballad.
‘House of Stone’ is a deep cut from the self-titled 2008 debut album by Mudcrutch, a band Petty formed in 1970 as a teenager. They played live gigs in their hometown of Gainesville, Florida, up through southern Georgia, but disbanded a few years later without recording an album. Petty and some Mudcrutch members went on to form the Heartbreakers and the rest is history.
Song of the Day #4,740: ‘Brass Monkey’ – Beastie Boys
Shockingly, this is the first Beastie Boys song featured on this blog in the 13 years I’ve been posting daily. Not that I’m a big fan or anything, but it’s hard to believe they haven’t popped up on a Random Weekend before now, or that I didn’t find room for one of their hits.
The band’s 1986 debut, Licensed to Ill, was certainly a hit. It sold more than 10 million copies in the U.S. and became the first rap album in history to reach #1 on the Billboard 200. The first rap single to reach #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 was Vanilla Ice’s ‘Ice Ice Baby,’ meaning white dudes own both of those milestones. Go figure.
Meet Me In Montauk 