Music to lighten the mood - please add your own choices

I enjoyed that too, but a little more of Welsh accent and cadence would have pleased me more. Still a bloody good tale though. Made me laugh, boy.

Can’t say I share the sentiment, but your video reminded me of these two British gentlemen – Flanders and Swann from long ago. Singing not about Spring and pigeons, but the Ostrich and the Gnu! The one about the ostrich seems pertinent to us today, and unfortunately isn’t amusing!

This one’s amusing, and lightens the mood!

Here’s some Tuareg electric desert blues from the Sahara:-

And here’s some Mongolian country blues with Mongolian thoat singing

Richard Burton would have been perfect but is no longer available. I couldn’t afford Michael Sheen so this was the best I could do at the time.

Not a criticism, more a comment from one who loves the Welsh and their speech. But I really enjoyed the content. :joy:

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Arooj Aftab.

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Heaven only knows why this popped into my head - not thought of it in years. It will, of course, now become an earworm. Listen at your peril!

No way!

I’m currently suffering from several days of The Streets of Laredo, which I don’t think I’ve actually heard for over half a century.

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A strange phenomenon - I found myself singing “Praise my soul the King of Heaven” the other day. Heaven knows why! I was a choirboy and many of these hymns are ingrained in my brain but why that one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFoT6UUNLZc

Vivaldi and Andreas Scholl, magical in the evening to help you fall asleep !

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Weird Dylan playlist from today’s NY Times, beginning with:-

Magokoro Brothers. You’ve never truly heard “My Back Pages” until you’ve heard it in Japanese.

Consider today’s playlist the soundtrack to My Bob Dylan Summer — or perhaps my own personal episode of Theme Time Radio Hour. It features some of the aforementioned “Masked and Anonymous” covers, a few of the tracks he played at Forest Hills (along with some thoughts about that show), and other assorted oddities, like a Dylan song that I recently added to my karaoke repertoire. If you make it all the way to the Bonus Tracks, you’ll also learn why there is only one degree of separation between Bob Dylan and Tinashe, the pop star responsible for the slinky 2024 viral hit “Nasty.”Spotify – Web Player

Warning - ear worm from the 70s. :slight_smile:

Doing Squaredle from yesterday (easier the following morning) one of these words came up (only a bonus).

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Haven’t got rid of the last earworm that you posted (Paul Simon) so I’ll leave this one :slight_smile:

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I wonder just how many songs we have in our heads after a lifetime?

There must be thousands - but there’ s one song that gets on my nerves and my local radio station (Alouette) plays it quite often. It’s called What’s Up by 4 Non Blondes. It just grates and I absolutely HATE it! :enraged_face:

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When I do my regular swim, to relieve the boredom I sing in my head. I try a whole album and also the Beatles’ number one hits. The albums never last very long. I think you are right about “thousands”.

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I think Queen ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’ would be my choice. It’s always been a favourite of mine but I have some wonderful memories of going to a Christmas Dance just after I’d had an achilles tendon operation and was wearing one of these

I sat out most of the dancing but had to get up and have a jig to DSMN - boot and walking stick included. It was a miracle I didn’t fall over but to this day, I remember the evening with the fondest of memories :pink_heart:

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When I was doing my 33 trips to Poitiers, the VSL drivers were invariably on Alouettes and there is a number of songs that I’d be quite happy to never hear again.

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