Song of the Day #3,825: ‘Panama’ – Van Halen
This week my extended family and I are embarking on a two-week cruise that will partially traverse the Panama Canal. Because I will be without internet access during that time, I will leave you with eight versions of the Van Halen classic song ‘Panama’ (plus a couple of Random Weekends and holiday offerings).
Enjoy, and see you in 2019!
Song of the Day #3,824: ‘Meaning Again’ – Brad Paisley
Brad Paisley has written some of the best love songs I’ve ever heard. ‘Then,’ ‘Little Moments,’ ‘She’s Everything,’ ‘The World,’ the list goes on and on.
So it’s a shame that today’s track, from Paisley’s 2017 album Love and War, doesn’t live up to its predecessors. It sounds to me like somebody trying to write a Brad Paisley love song but not quite hitting the mark.
Song of the Day #3,823: ‘Gold’ – Interference
I suppose it’s appropriate that, after so many recent posts about movies, the Random iTunes Fairy served up a song from another movie.
‘Gold’ appeared in the lovely 2007 film Once, and later in the successful Broadway adaptation of the film. I first assumed this was a performance by the film’s leads, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, but apparently it is actually by an Irish band called Interference.
Song of the Day #3,822: ‘I Put a Spell On You’ – Nina Simone
‘I Put a Spell On You’ was written and originally recorded by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins in 1956.
Nine years later, Nina Simone recorded her version and had a minor hit on the R&B charts with it. The song was the lead-off track on an album also titled I Put a Spell On You — an album notable for also including the classic ‘Feeling Good.’
This song inspired John Lennon’s contribution to the Beatles hit ‘Michelle’: “I had been listening to Nina Simone – I think it was ‘I Put A Spell On You’. There was a line in it that went: ‘I love you, I love you.’ That’s what made me think of the middle eight for ‘Michelle’: ‘I love you, I love you, I l-o-ove you.'”
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