Music That Speaks to Me #2

Mar 23, 2015 13:46


Dolly Parton is just a bit over a year older than I am, so it isn't odd that some of the same music would be meaningful to both of us. This past Christmas, I received this CD:

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autobiography, music that speaks to me, antiwar

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carbonel March 23 2015, 20:55:19 UTC
I'm familiar with all of these songs, and know all the words to about half of them. None are particular favorites, possibly because I've heard them so many times that they've become boring to me. But it's so rare that someone mentions a group of songs I've actually heard of that I thought it was worth a mention.

(If I ever get on Jeopardy!, the music categories will probably be my "avoid at all cost" ones, unless they have something geared to folkies who grew up in the 1960s.)

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sartorias March 23 2015, 20:58:54 UTC
Oh, talk about blasts from the past!

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pameladean March 24 2015, 02:55:23 UTC
I'm familiar with almost all of these -- I think many from various Peter, Paul, and Mary albums. None is a profound favorite or ever was, except for "Turn Turn Turn," which I took very much to heart and which still makes me take pause; and "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," partly because when I ran into the ballad "The Flowers of the Forest" ten years later on, I felt that I saw a chain of influence, and saw how far back (as with "The Cruel War") the contemporary horrors that frightened me really go.

P.

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skylarker March 24 2015, 15:33:29 UTC
We still sing many of those songs on a regular basis in the Rise Up Singing circles I attend locally.

"Where do the children play?" connects in my mind to 'Tea for the Tillerman' (while the sinners sin, the children play) and also to the movie 'Green Card,' in which Gerard Depardeau(?)'s character improvises something on the same theme.

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