A Middle of the Night Music Post: Shaker Song - Manhattan Transfer

I love this performance beyond all reason. A while back I posted the original instrumental version of "Shaker Song" by Spyro Gyra and said that I'd post the vocal version by Manhattan Transfer, but I never got around to it. Let's remedy that.

A Middle of the Night Music Post: Cast Your Fate to the Wind - Vince Guaraldi

So I'm sitting here sneezing and coughing from a cold and battling insomnia, and I decide to kill some time by going back through some of those Music I Like posts I ran a few years ago. For some reason Blogger has stripped the video clips from many of them, So I thought maybe I'd post some more, not every night, certainly, but on those nights when I'm not sleeping much anyway, which are becoming increasingly more common. And I suspect the selection will be as wide-ranging as ever. The great Vince Guaraldi gets us started.

Music I Like: Good Night - The Beatles

This series comes to an end, at least for now, with a pretty song that I've always liked ever since I first heard it in college. The radio station I listened to played it every night when they signed off the air.

I never really intended for this series of music posts to continue for this long. I started it to have something to do when I was up in the middle of the night with our old dog who's in poor health. The old boy's still hanging in there, still as contrary as ever, but I've decided that it's time to wind this up for a while. It's been fun, and it's confirmed something I already suspected, that my musical tastes are really wide-ranging. I hope some of you have been entertained by it as well. I'm sure I'll still post some music from time to time, just not on an every night basis. Now, as Ringo says in the song, good night . . . 

Music I Like: What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong

This was one of my father's favorite songs. My dad's been gone for quite a few years now, but I miss him every day and think of him whenever I hear this one. It's a classic for plenty of other reasons, too. 

Music I Like: Have I Told You Lately - Van Morrison

For Livia. Simple as that.

Music I Like: Carry On - Pat Green

"Everybody's gotta get away sometime" . . . I like the sentiment expressed in that lyric. This is a nice, bouncy song that I always turned up when it came on the radio in the car.

Music I Like: Nick of Time - Bonnie Raitt

Always liked it when this one came on the radio.

Music I Like: Gives You Hell - The All-American Rejects

I just like the way this one sounds.

Music I Like: The Shadow of Your Smile - Tony Bennett

It doesn't get much better than Tony Bennett, and this is a beautiful song. I've never seen the movie that it's from, THE SANDPIPER, but I sure like the song.

Music I Like: Summer Breeze - Seals and Crofts

This song is another one that really takes me back to some good times. I wish I could remember 'em a little better . . .

Music I Like: You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma - David Frizzell and Shelly West

Another good old country song.

Music I Like: To Glory - Two Steps From Hell

Need some background music for that big battle scene you're writing? This ought to do it.

Music I Like: Ohio (Come Back to Texas) - Bowling for Soup

My favorite song by the great Bowling for Soup, the pride of Denton, Texas.

Music I Like: Misirlou - Dick Dale and the Del Tones

Some more great instrumental music from the Sixties. As somebody commented on YouTube, listening to Dick Dale always makes me want to go to the beach.

Music I Like: Neon Moon - Brooks and Dunn

I like just about all of Brooks and Dunn's songs, but this is probably my favorite.

Music I Like: Viva la Vida - Coldplay

The person who posted this clip on YouTube says that "Viva la Vida" is their favorite Coldplay song. Well, I have to agree with that . . . because it's the only Coldplay song I know. I may have heard others, but I didn't know it was them. But I like the way this one sounds and the lyrics have a certain epic feel to them.

Music I Like: In a Big Country - Big Country

This is the only song I know by this Scottish band from the Eighties, but I like it a lot and always have.

Music I Like: Killin' Time - Clint Black

Excellent country song by Clint Black, who I always thought bears a certain resemblance to Roy Rogers. I was a big country music fan in the Eighties and Nineties and always liked Clint Black.

Music I Like: Someday - Sugar Ray

When my kids hit middle school in the Nineties, we started hearing a lot more pop music in the car on the way to school, Girl Scouts, dance class, etc. Some of it I liked and some of it I didn't. This is one I always liked.

Music I Like: Elusive Butterfly - Bob Lind

Yeah, the song's kind of sappy, and Bob Lind's not very good at lip-synching in this clip, but I've always liked this one anyway. Say, isn't that the Righteous Brothers doing the intro?