Category: Tunes

Because I have finally reviewed my blog posts and edited the first two pages of the Barwis Methods tab, I  saw blog posts that I posted in 2013 and 2014.   They were blog posts about walking and  both Jesse and Adam.   I remembered that I had written a post that had the links to songs that reminded me of both of them  early on as I started my blog.  That was when I started my Tunes tab.   I went back and reviewed this tab from 2013 and 2014. I made a playlist on Apple Music.

I won’t listen to it just now because I am into the Christmas spirit and I am only listening to the playlist I made of my Christmas Faves.   As I downloaded all of the songs from the beginning of my Tunes tab, I downloaded songs from November 2013 and all of 2014. It is comprised of 115 songs and it lasts for 7 hours and 25 minutes  and it is quite the eclectic mix!

There were three songs that I could not download as I made my playlist. I searched the songs on YouTube and here are the three songs that are NOT in my playlist;

August 2014 Faves

Unscrew you – Rachele Royale

I tried my best to find this song and just reading the title of the song, I could not remember it. I was able to finally find it in a roundabout way on vimeo.   I was unable to share this song though.

I did find a video of her hearing this song on the radio. She screams really loud a whole lot but I think that I would do the same thing if I heard myself singing on the radio (which I never will by the way!)

I posted that video because hearing the few bars of this song before her and her friends scream really loud refresh my memory a bit. It’s not a big deal that that’s not on my playlist though!

I was able to find the other two songs though. Here they are:

Posted September 2, 2014.

Throwback School Year Tunes

Medicate the kids

July 2014 Faves

The Madden Brothers

I put these songs on my blog so I still will be able to access them also because I cannot find them on Apple Music.

To make my morning routine go a little more smoothly, I  made an Apple Music Christmas playlist. I put Wham! on it four different times! Before we start, I put it on shuffle and my Mom laughs because every time I hear the beginning bars of Wham!; I smile and gasp!

I added four songs to the playlist last night:

Gloria Estefan reminds my Mom (and me) of my aunt Rita.  She died when I was eight.   This was a  Christmas album that I remembered listening to in my younger days.

One more song that  I added to my Christmas playlist was one that my Mom told me that she liked and reminded her of my Dad.   When she told me that, I told her that I didn’t want to hear it. As I was downloading the songs last night, I told Sean that this song reminds Abuela of Grandfather and he said, “That’s enough!”   I exclaimed that that was what I told her but it’s not like that.  At least that’s what my Mom told me.

The four songs that I added, played in this order today sprinkled between my favorite Christmas songs.   When we were finished and I was transferring back to my wheelchair,  my Mom told me that, “This makes me happy!”   It made me happy too!

You know what to do, Jimmy and Dave!

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

 

 

I recently thought about this and Wham! has been my FAVORITE Christmas song since about the second or third grade. I remember talking with my cousinT probably about 17 or 18 years ago about Christmas songs. One Christmas song that I heard often on the radio that kind of got on my nerves was that Bruce Springsteen song when he talks to the E St. band about Clarence wanting a new saxophone and practicing and rehearsing really hard so Santa would get him one. That conversation used to bug me! That’s when, my cousinT, Shannon, told me that’s one of her favorite songs.  I laughed and told her that, Last Christmas was my favorite song and that was a song that she didn’t like very much!

Now, I cannot hear this version of, Santa Claus is Coming to Town without thinking of her and smiling!  It seems that this year, I have a few addendum, songs that I will have to add to my Christmas Faves song list. So, Shannon, this one’s for you!  💜💜💜

I like receiving notices of my Facebook friends’ birthdays. I absolutely love birthdays and love to acknowledge people’s birthdays! Today, I got an alert of a newer Facebook friend’s birthday.   We have gone to the same school from first grade to 12th grade. We were in all of the same honors classes in high school. We were school friends and never hang out socially. but I remember that he made me a mixed tape before I was driving. I thought I was in middle school but Janet Jackson’s album, The Velvet Rope, didn’t come out until 1997. I was a sophomore.

It was the notification that it was his birthday that made me think of that mixed tape. The song was my favorite on the tape! I remember that I liked it a whole lot because she says, “Hey J”  in the beginning and I took it as me because my name is Jennifer. I wasn’t called, “J” until I began teaching but I remember thinking of this tape some eleven years ago and I thought of it today because it’s yhe guy who made me that mixed tape’s birthday!

I’ve listened to this song a number of times after I searched the video on YouTube and have been singing it ALL DAY LONG!   Even though I am not 26th like the song says, because I am 36 I’m going to let it fit anyway! 😂😂😂

I had a Neurology appointment a little while ago and that was the first day I realized that Mr. Mister sang this song:

I couldn’t hear a Mr. Mister song without thinking of this song which reminds me of Sean being young.

Just before my Mom was finished putting my wheelchair together and was going to get me out of the car, I heard this song which immediately reminded me of  riddle school and my friend Natalie:

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Yep, still NOT Christmas without these tunes! Even though I heard  this first song which is my ultimate, favorite Christmas song EVER a few days ago…

“Last Christmas” Wham!

“I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas”  Gayla Peevey

“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”  Judy Garland

“Merry Christmas, Darling”  Karen Carpenter

“All I Want for Christmas is You”  Mariah Carey

“Feliz Navidad”  Jose Feliciano – DUH!!!

“Christmas Shoes”  Alabama

“Shake up Christmas”  Train

“Please Come Home for Christmas” Bon Jovi

“O, Holy Night”  Jon Secada

“River”  Sarah McGlachlan –  ALWAYS makes me think of Parker and I smile!

“Baby, Please Come Home”  U2

“Mary, Did You Know?”  CeeLo Green

Songs added in 2014:

“Underneath the Tree”  Kelly Clarkson

“Do They Know It’s Christmas?”  Band Aid 1984

“God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/We Three Kings”  Barenaked Ladies Feat. Saran McLachlan

My Mom played this one for me just after Veteran’s Day in 2015:

I cried.

“A Soldier’s Christmas Poem”

I added the songs in 2016 because I was watching Ellen a lot when I first  was off work and even though I am not Jewish, I love Adam Sandler and Sean does too!

“It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”  Andy Williams

“The Original Hanukkah Song”  Adam Sandler

“The Hanukkah Song – Part 2”  Adam Sandler

“The Hanukkah Song – Part 3”  Adam Sandler

“The Hanukkah Song – Part 4”  Adam Sandler

Sleeping Babies?!  I LOVE it  and it’s just a Pampers commercial but can fit in with Christmas songs because, “Silent Night” is a Christmas song!

Added in 2017:

I dig this version too!

“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”  James Taylor

“Christmas Lights”  Coldplay

A friend of mine gave me these suggestions for 2018:

John Denver and the Muppets Christmas album.  I can dig these too!

”Christmas is Coming”  Miss Piggy

“A Christmas Wish”  Kermit the Frog

“We Wish You a Merry Christmas” The Muppets

The same friend suggested this one and I kind of dig it too!

“Yule Shoot Your Eye Out”  Fall Out Boy

Saturday night and last night after my Mom had left and I was tucked nicely into my bad, she called me.   She doesn’t usually call me after I am in bed unless there is something wrong. I mediately answered! She told me that, “My song” was on.

Granted, it was a little bit early because Thanksgiving is not until Thursday but it IS my ultimate, favorite Christmas song EVER!!! She turned it up and I HAD to sing along at the top of my lungs! Both times, it was at the verse, “Once bitten and twice shy…”

Having heard this song twice and given the fact that I have already started watching Hallmark Christmas movies this year, Christmas is being celebrated a little bit early!

I’M DOWN!!!

*As I dictated this blog post  into my phone , I pulled up the Wham! video on YouTube, Turned the volume on my phone all the way up and started singing  along with  the song at the top of my lungs!. Sean was in his room and began saying something so I stopped the music and he was singing along! He knew all of the words!

I have succeeded! I told him that his kids will know that this is my ultimate, favorite Christmas song EVER!

YAY!!!

I heard this song on Friday as they waited in my Mom‘s driveway after my Neurology appointment.  It was definitely a throwback.  Whatever happened to this guy?!

I saw this video show up in my YouTube queue today.

So this is what he’s been up to!