Favorite Music

Childhood Ditties, that I still remember. Links are examples; these were common, like folk songs.

  • Molly Malone
    “Singing cockles and mussels, alive, alive-O.”
  • Mares Eat Oats (1948)
    “Mairzy dotes and dozey dotes and little lamsey divey. A kiddly divey too, wouldn’t you?”
  • Be Kind to Your Web-Footed Friends
    When I heard it, growing up, it was “for they live in the cold and the damp” with the last word as pronounced in this video

Sentimental songs, from the 1950s and 1960s.

I’m linking some YouTube videos for now, even though they seem to not have a long shelf-life…

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There will be two big segments of this page. The first, popular music, both singers and groups. The second, classical and contemporary composers, both of concert music and film music.

Popular music

  • Joan Baez
  • Paul Simon
  • Elton John
  • Springsteen
  • R.E.M.
  • U2
  • Crowded House/Neil Finn
  • Savage Garden/Darren Hayes
  • Radiohead

Classical and contemporary composers.

Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, sure sure, but especially:

  • Bruckner
  • Mahler
  • Shostakovich
  • Pettersson
  • Schnittke
  • Ligeti
  • Glass

Film composers:

  • Delerue
  • Zimmer
  • Preisner