What Music Are You Listening to Now or Your Favourite Songs of All Time

I've been playing a few mp3s.

Here are a couple of favourites.

This was written by Tommy Wolf and Fran Landesman in 1955.

He was a pianist, composer, arranger, and musical director who met Fran Landesman while she was sitting in the bar of the Crystal Palace, a night club in St. Louis. Wolf was on the bandstand playing. This experience inspired her to begin writing song lyrics and in 1952 Wolf began setting her lyrics to music.

I've had this on a CD for the best part of twenty years, by Jane Monheit.
The style is really a throwback to the thirties and forties.



This is by Bea Wain, who lived to be 100. She made the most popular recording of Hoagy Carmichael's "Heart and Soul," in 1938 when she was 22.


She recorded this in the same year.

 

There's a story behind this one. It's a track from a double album I've had for twenty years by the jazz pianist Keith Jarrett's quartet. A romantic ballad again by Tommy Wolf and Fran Landesman written in the fifties..

I uploaded it to YouTube well over ten years ago. It was there for a year with a few thousand hits and a lot of complimentary messages (the only example of this particular recording) and then suddenly it got taken down and I had a "strike" against me. Yet a different version by the same artist was not deleted.

Anyway, to share it I had to put it on "Box."
It's from a different live concert from the one on YouTube.

I find it very emotive, though I guess some won't go a bundle on the bass solo in the middle.

https://app.box.com/s/vakbx36a8w6cmdswzs48pqgf557x6wb1

Sadly Keith Jarrett (born 1945) had a couple of strokes in 2018. He went to rehabilitation and can now walk with a cane, but suffers from paralysis on his left side and though he can play piano with his right hand, he's is not expected to ever play in public again.
This makes this recording even more poignant for me.

 

This is my all time favorite song. Sukiyaki by the late Kyu Sakamoto. It's really "I look up when I go walking"
Beautiful song, sad though.

 

Got a playlist on the Amazon Echo of him

 

This is George Harrison's last album that he did his son with the help of jeff Lynn put it together, the album is called Brainwashed

 

Dhani looks so much like his father

 

The music in my head.

 

And what would that be?

 

@Logan It was a tune that was in my head. I have forgotten it now. It was something that just came to me.

 

Oh ok then, I've always got music in my head and then I have to play it. Sometimes it's a album that I've just found and i have to keep playing it, probably to hubby's annoyance.