My mum initially trained as a nurse after the war. Via several career developments she ended up doing a diploma in adult education and Manchester university in the early 60s. I can remember her doing her best to put meaning and interpretation into the lyrics of Eleanor Rigby. Takes the spirit out of the song I reckon.
That said, when I listen to Ed Sheeran "singing" about his Galway girl and unable to fix his very banal lyrics to match the metre I do long for the class of Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael, Diana Krall (Night and Day), Count Basie and the like.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
People don't take much notice of the lyrics these days. There is a song called "You're Beautiful", by James Blunt, which many people have at their weddings. This despite the lines
"But it's time to face the truth I will never be with you"
#You can smile for the man who held your hand neath the pelmo light.# I always wondered what a pelmo light was.😕 #An iddleboms you're gonna be so darling save the last dance for me# #Miss Miller .No. We will not let you go!#
People don't take much notice of the lyrics these days. There is a song called "You're Beautiful", by James Blunt, which many people have at their weddings. This despite the lines
"But it's time to face the truth I will never be with you"
I know - it always makes me laugh when you hear people using that song.
I know a couple who had ol' Engelbert's #Please Release Me as their first song. I couldn't stop laughing. If you were a fan of any artist, part of the whole experience of buying their music 'back then', was wanting to know about how the writer got to that point in their career, and the lyrics were a massive part of that. You became a fan of the person, not just their music. Doesn't mean you can't just enjoy a song or whatever, but when you loved a particular performer, you wanted to know more about them. It's a relatively recent phenomenon, because before the 60s [pretty much] people didn't write and perform their own material. You had writers, and you had singers. Carole King was one of the first to turn that round.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
A French woman was listening to a song with the words #For I still love you# ( I don't know what the song was) She asked her husband why they were singing about Forest Hill.
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Gotta love a good Mondegreen
"Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard"
"She has an invisible todger"
Just two to be going on with ....🎶
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That said, when I listen to Ed Sheeran "singing" about his Galway girl and unable to fix his very banal lyrics to match the metre I do long for the class of Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael, Diana Krall (Night and Day), Count Basie and the like.
"But it's time to face the truth
I will never be with you"
I always wondered what a pelmo light was.😕
#An iddleboms you're gonna be so darling save the last dance for me#
#Miss Miller .No. We will not let you go!#
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=7my5baoCVv8
🎶 Whenever you go away, you take a piece of meat with you.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I know a couple who had ol' Engelbert's #Please Release Me as their first song. I couldn't stop laughing.
If you were a fan of any artist, part of the whole experience of buying their music 'back then', was wanting to know about how the writer got to that point in their career, and the lyrics were a massive part of that. You became a fan of the person, not just their music. Doesn't mean you can't just enjoy a song or whatever, but when you loved a particular performer, you wanted to know more about them.
It's a relatively recent phenomenon, because before the 60s [pretty much] people didn't write and perform their own material. You had writers, and you had singers. Carole King was one of the first to turn that round.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
She asked her husband why they were singing about Forest Hill.