{"id":14474,"date":"2022-04-08T17:01:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T00:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?page_id=14474"},"modified":"2026-03-25T17:18:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:18:03","slug":"favorite-music","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/about\/favorite-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Childhood Ditties, that I still remember. Links are examples; these were common, like folk songs.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ruNdU6bGE5E\">Molly Malone<\/a><br \/>\n\u201cSinging cockles and mussels, alive, alive-O.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gkGhg4Q77hk\">Mares Eat Oats<\/a> (1948)<br \/>\n\u201cMairzy dotes and dozey dotes and little lamsey divey. A kiddly divey too, wouldn\u2019t you?\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uedyba2UWv0\">Be Kind to Your Web-Footed Friends<\/a><br \/>\nWhen I heard it, growing up, it was \u201cfor they live in the cold and the damp\u201d with the last word as pronounced in this video<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sentimental songs, from the 1950s and 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m linking some YouTube videos for now, even though they seem to not have a long shelf-life&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=andy+williams+try+to+remember\">Try to Remember \u2013 Andy Williams<\/a>, with a focus on the nostalgia of a simpler past.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=It+was+a+very+good+year+%E2%80%93+Frank+Sinatra\">It was a very good year \u2013 Frank Sinatra<\/a>, about a sophisticate looking back on his romantic past<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=Sunrise%2C+Sunset\">Sunrise, Sunset<\/a> (from Fiddler on the Roof), with a focus on how fast children grow up<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=Those+Were+the+Days+%E2%80%93+Mary+Hopkins\">Those Were the Days \u2013 Mary Hopkins<\/a>, with a focus on the idealism of youth (\u201colder but no wiser, for in our hearts our dreams were still the same\u201d) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kXc5Oe_kj8k\">remastered<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=Turn+Around+%E2%80%93+Harry+Belafonte\">Turn Around \u2013 Harry Belafonte<\/a>, another song about how quickly children grow and depart<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=The+Green+Leaves+of+Summer!\">The Green Leaves of Summer!<\/a> (from the film The Alamo) &#8220;Was so good to be young then. To be close to the earth.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\\\\<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Popular music<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joan Baez<\/li>\n<li>Paul Simon<\/li>\n<li>Elton John<\/li>\n<li>Springsteen<\/li>\n<li>R.E.M.<\/li>\n<li>U2<\/li>\n<li>Crowded House\/Neil Finn<\/li>\n<li>Savage Garden\/Darren Hayes<\/li>\n<li>Radiohead<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Classical and contemporary composers.<\/p>\n<p>Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, sure sure, but especially:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bruckner<\/li>\n<li>Mahler<\/li>\n<li>Shostakovich<\/li>\n<li>Pettersson<\/li>\n<li>Schnittke<\/li>\n<li>Ligeti<\/li>\n<li>Glass<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Film composers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Delerue<\/li>\n<li>Zimmer<\/li>\n<li>Preisner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Notes.<\/p>\n<p>Radiohead:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pablo Honey. Meh. &#8220;Creep&#8221; was a hit, but I didn&#8217;t care.<\/li>\n<li>The Bends. Getting there. Three songs I like: &#8220;High and Dry,&#8221; &#8220;Fake Plastic Trees,&#8221; and &#8220;Street Spirit (Fade Out)&#8221;. With Radiohead, even when I read the lyrics, the songs don&#8217;t necessarily mean anything profound; they&#8217;re all about the sounds, the singing, the melodies&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Childhood Ditties, that I still remember. Links are examples; these were common, like folk songs. Molly Malone \u201cSinging cockles and mussels, alive, alive-O.\u201d Mares Eat Oats (1948) \u201cMairzy dotes and dozey dotes and little lamsey divey. 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