Broken Record

First let's give a quick sky-point to Peabo Bryson who just passed away recently. We were just talking about him recently here on the Celine Dion post with his songs like " A Whole New World " (with Regina Belle in 1992) and " Beauty and the Beast " (with Celine Dion in 1991). There's also his big hits " If Ever Your In My Arms Again " (1984) and " Tonight I Celebrate My Love " (with Roberta Flack in 1983) and this song I discovered recently and love, " Feel the Fire " (1978).

  I was gone for five minutes. Like five minutes. (Not really five minutes.) And so much happened from my musical favorites list. Unbelievable. Like I was gone for 10 days at most. And all this new stuff was both stressful (because I couldn't attend to it, tied up as I was with family arriving for my mother's interment, that being the end itself of a five-year long transitioning) and yet it was also very comforting, that I would have something to look forward to afterwards and that something would go on when all the realizations of my mother finally being gone were ready to set in.  Actual Funeral Music  This is not actually a post about music for funerals. But my mother did have requests for music, particularly Andy William's singing "Battle Hymn of the Republic" in 1968 (her final political sayonara)...  ...and a recording of a my Dad's cousin (no longer with us) singing "His Eye Is On the Sparrow" which she loved and which is played digitally and ...