Eddie Cantor
REM
Beatles
Merry and Mick – don’t shelter too quietly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9X0HCGNfyg
Lisa got old, they got old, we got old – but none of us are dead and we don’t propose to go too quietly, either
I looked up at the tallest building
Felt it falling down
I could feel my balance shifting
Everything was moving around
These streets so fixed and solid
Ah shimmering haze
And everything that I relied on disappeared
Downside up, upside down
Take my weight from the ground
Falling deep in the sky
Slipping into the unknown
All the strangers look like family
All the family looks so strange
The only constant I am sure of
Is this accelerating rate of change
Downside up, upside do
Hmmmm, seems to me what everyone needs is a “Spit in the world and fate’s eye!” roaring song of defiance, especially at this time.
Go get 'em Linda! Sing it girl!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpXNniqJml0
And then there’s these lads trapped in a seemingly hopeless situation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSEU5zHgcTc Worked for them.
Now these are excellent Covid tunes while SIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgw_RD_1_5I
“… Just before you draw your terminal breath…”
Be hard to pull off with ones terminal breath but it’s better than whispering “Rosebud”.
Dealing with a crisis in the 70’s. Carling gone, Toby gone, … sank-on was very popular . Canadian still .
Carling? What about Ballantine ale? I have yet to find anything from a craft brewery that can match its taste.
I’m not quite supposed to be old enough to remember that stuff from its heyday, when it was highly advertised with sports broadcasts, but… I do. And loved it.
Along with Budweiser… in those dark-brown heavy glass refillable long necked bottles. Would love to have one first sip again…
Looks like Ballentine’s still around:
http://www.beermenus.com/beers/937-ballentine-xxx-ale
And to make you even more thirsty:
Sixty or more years later I can still sing the Carling’s Black Label jingle…and visualize those bottles. Cleveland, like any respectable city, had lots of home town beers at one time, although Carling’s, strictly speaking, wasn’t one of them, though there was a bottling plant in the city.
PRESTO!
How about:
“The Self Preservation Society” from the latter parts of the original movie “The Italian Job” with Noel Coward and Michael Caine…
The song plays through the trailer, which gives a good summary of the whole movie…
Peter
“The Italian Job,” the original! Great movie!
You know, even though Michael Caine and the crew are thieves and you really shouldn’t be rooting for them, you just can’t help it.
In addition to which they just look like a fun bunch to hang out with!
That great last line: " 'ang on lads, I’ve got an idea!"
The current situation causes me to think of some of Leonard Cohen’s later work:
While not completely relevant Everybody Knows comes to mind as indicating a very controlled environment. A friend was a big fan of this when it was a current hit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRjVdu_cLwI
This will give you a greatest hits compilation.
Another from his later work is I’m Your Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuCpTi0EtbU
I often thought of these words as I struggled to cover a broad range of systems to be certified for service… again, not completely relevant but at least related to coping with change.
Peter