Okay, I am truly late to my own party.
For a while now, I have been posting music diaries each Sunday.
I try to post them at around noon.
The time is now after 7:30 PM.
Oh well, better late than never!
One of my nice Daily Kos friends suggested I post some instrumental hit music.
In the process of searching for instrumental songs at YouTube, I found some collections.
This first collection has 8 songs in it.
I only listened to a few moments of a few of the songs, but I trust they are all worth listening to.
I do not like the opening scene, a man smoking a cigarette.
I lost my father and my oldest sister and my younger brother to cigarettes.
My younger brother also had covid, but 40 years of smoking weakened his lungs, seems to me.
This next video runs for nearly five hours.
If you go watch it on YouTube, it has the list of the songs below the video, if you click on “more.”
You can have that playing while you wash your dishes and sweep your floor.
Ha!
Now for some songs from 1968.
I went back to my music diary I posted in December of 2022:
In this diary today, I will post only a few selections from that diary.
First, I will post a quote from the Wikipedia article about big moments in history, from 1968:
December 24 – Apollo program: The crewed U.S. spacecraft Apollo 8 enters orbit around the Moon. Astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders become the first humans to see the far side of the Moon and planet Earth as a whole, as well as having traveled further away from Earth than any people in history. Anders photographs Earthrise. The crew also give a reading from the Book of Genesis.
Now, on to the music of 1968:
Easy listening, from my teenage years.
And more of that easy listening, from the olden days.
Dance music!
Nice.
If I ignore the suggestion of using drugs such as LSD, the song is innocent, lively, and fun!
Classic Beatles.
The main point of this video is the great dance moves my James Brown!
Ha!
I will now copy and paste my commentary on that song that I posted back in December of 2022:
Okay, this is another example, of why I am glad I am doing these diaries. That shrill guitar solo, at the beginning, and the middle, and the end, that is an old friend, I know it well. I can turn it up, loud, and savor it. But, I simply never heard of the Status Quo, and I never heard of, Pictures of Matchstick Men. Apparently, I heard the song on the radio, and never tried to find out the title, or the artist.
Ha!
Wow!
So smooth and nice.
Okay, when someone suggested I post instrumental music, this is one of the first songs that came to mind.
So, here it is!
Ha!
Okay, this song was important, back in the day.
It is the theme song from a movie.
Here is my commentary, that I wrote in December of 2022:
As I started watching this music video, which is clearly made of scenes from the movie, as I got to the part about the pills, I started crying, loud and hard. (I cry easily, since my wife died, in March of this year.) I was crying, at the truly sad plot, of addiction to pills. I have never had a chemical dependency, as they call it, myself, but I feel that in my grief journey, I feel a connection, to those in recovery. Seems this was an important movie, and a great song.
So relaxing, so nice.
If anyone wonders what the heck does “groovy” mean, you can have them listen to this song.
Ha!
Another great instrumental song!
Ha!
Ha!
Yet another great instrumental song!
Yes!
Such a great song.
Soul music, dance music, focus on the instruments.
Nice.
Back in 2022, a commentator asked about music of nowadays, not the olden days.
I posted this one:
Here is what I wrote about that video:
My second wife, Tonia, who died in March of this year, looked a lot like Lizzo, way back when she was young, like Lizzo. (around 1990)
Okay!
Feel free to post any song you like in the comments.
Hugs!