Category: Tunes

Highlights from the soundtrack of my life.

Random Songs in My YouTube Feed #9

I saw this video clip in my YouTube feed late last night and I shared it on Facebook so I wouldn’t forget it I’m still digging this song and I dug this movie and cried when I read the book. I used to read books in between my classes as my students filed in. Before the second bell, as I read, I started to cry. When my students asked me if I was OK, I nodded and told them that, “You know you are reading good writing when it evokes emotion!”

ALMOST Forgotten Tune #62 + Random Songs in My YouTube Feed #7

Okay, I checked my YouTube feed and this song came on. This song is Barwis in 2015.It also is Fifty Shades of Grey.

Now, I read all 3 of the books and they’re so much more than just smut! I also have seen all three of the movies and I’m not sure what to say about them! They kind of are smut. But seeing this video clip montage of Pride & Prejudice set to this song put me over the edge! I sent the link to my Mom because I have gotten her to love that movie also!

This song reminds me of driving myself to Barwis three times a week in the winter. I haven’t thought about this song until I saw the montage on my YouTube feed so I will share both the montage and video here:

Tune #41 Inspired by GMFB

So, this morning, on GMFB Kale began talking about the #1 song in 2010. It was:

He was saying that because that was the last time Matthew Stafford did NOT start the game for the Detroit Lions. I begin receiving tweets and getting notifications from my NFL Network app that he may not play on Sunday. L That made me really nervous and he ultimately did NOT play:

Since Friday, I kept saying this because of Kyle’s statement in passing before they cut to a commercial.

I tweeted him on Friday and I said it 1 million times so my Mom called me a “Weirdo” and a “Goofball.” I thought my wish would be granted and the Lions would get a win. That didn’t happen. That really bummed me out on Sunday but hearing that Train was #1 in 2010 made me think of littlep Sean and constantly belting that song out in the car!

I was too tired to tweet Kyle this morning but I have been thinking of that song as well as Pee Wee’s Playhouse today as well!

ALMOST Forgotten Tune #61

I’ve written about this before but in the spring of my senior year, I was cast as Dorothy in The Wiz. I bought this CD and listened to it constantly in my car and I belted it out all of the time! Stephanie Mills has some serious pipes and I was up for the challenge to sing these songs. It didn’t work out with the director and he was eventually fired before the show went on. I was crushed because I had worked really hard.

The school play it was a review that year instead and the new director knew that I had worked on the songs from The Wiz a lot so she incorporated this so into the show so I could sing it.

I’m not sure why this song popped into my head last night but I can’t stop hearing it play in my head and I see myself standing on the stage in my high school gym. I am barely awake but I put it up on YouTube and rested my phone on my chin as I t played. I still know all of the words but there is no way that I could get any of them out. I listened to the song play and began to cry.

Random Songs in My YouTube Feed #6

Oh man! This song is COMPLETELY random and I’m not sure how it showed up in my feed but it brought back memories of being an undergraduate with an infant son. A short-lived television series that I watched but can’t remember the name had this song in their opening credits.

ALMOST Forgotten Tune #60

I loved my house today. My Mom had to take me to my credit union to handle some business. No, I did NOT win the lottery! I was able to hear this gem though. I know that I have shared it before somewhere on this blog, probably years ago, but I really appreciated hearing in even though it’s not summertime!

The Little Mermaid LIVE

I saw on Facebook yesterday that this would be an ABC. The Little Mermaid is iconic to me! I think I saw in for the first time at the movie theater for a friend of mine‘s birthday party. Either way, my friends and I watched it over 1 million times when we were in grade school! We all sang along with the entire movie!

It had been so long since I last saw in because I had a little boy so I only watched little boy movies. When he was small, he would not let me watch The Little Mermaid!

As soon as it was on, I changed the channel to watch it. I was amazed that I still knew all of the words to the movie and to all of the songs! However, I think I prefer the cartoon version to the live version only because I have heard it the way for all of my childhood. I still had to watch the whole thing though!

I can no longer sing along with the movie as if I am Ariel because I no longer have the strength in my vocal cords and can’t use my chest to push the sound out.

I did not realize how much I loved the ending of the movie. In fact, I think I only love it so much because my Dad is gone now. I always called him, “Daddy.”

This scene really got to me and I cried. I was by myself watching it so it really didn’t matter.

Random Songs in My YouTube Feed #5

So, I’m pretty sure that somehow my phone knows that I am posting the random songs that pop up in my YouTube feed. It’s like there’s a race of all of these random songs! This was the first song I saw that I really dug growing up so this became my #5:

This song reminds me of my brother, Dave.