“How Deep is Your Love” and a Preserved Moment in Time
Author Archives: Larry Glickman
A Perfectly “Blue Sky”
A “Blue Sky” and a Perfect Guitar Solo
The Boxer. Perfect and Great.
The Boxer, by Simon and Garfunkel
Anchorage, by Michelle Shocked
Feeling Anchored Down in “Anchorage”
One Perfect Song: Up on The Roof
“Up on The Roof” Written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King Recorded by The Drifters Released 1962 Cities can be crowded places. They are busy, hot and loud. The buildings tower overhead, blocking out the sun and the stars. It’s easy to imagine what peace and happiness a little sky, and a little stillness, mayContinue reading “One Perfect Song: Up on The Roof”
Rock and Roll Easter Eggs
Wikipedia defines an Easter egg as a “hidden message, or a secret feature.” In software, it could be a simple game that appears when a certain keyboard combination is used, or on a DVD, hidden features are revealed when a menu image is selected. Rock and roll is filled with wonderful Easter eggs. An EasterContinue reading “Rock and Roll Easter Eggs”
“When I Fall in Love.” Three Stanzas and 97 Words
A perfect song is timeless. A perfect song is a song that spans years and generations, and will be free of style and instrumentation that identify it with a certain stylistic period. A perfect song may avoid the heavy synthesizers of the 1980’s, the lush orchestration behind a disco beat of the 1970’s, or theContinue reading ““When I Fall in Love.” Three Stanzas and 97 Words”
The Perfect Faith
It is said that the music you encounter in your late teens and early 20’s is imprinted on you for the rest of your life. This is the music you love, the music you always go back to, the music by which all other music you listen to will be judged. I first heard theContinue reading “The Perfect Faith”
Johnny Come Lately, by Steve Earle
“Johnny Come Lately” and a Difficult America
9 Great Rock, Jazz and Soul samples in Rap Music
“Said a hip hop,Hippie to the hippie, the hip, hip a hop,and you don’t stop, a rock it out.” Rapper’s Delight by The Sugarhill Gang was released in 1980, and was the first rap song I ever heard. I was 14 years old, and growing up a white, Jewish kid in the suburbs of Chicago,Continue reading “9 Great Rock, Jazz and Soul samples in Rap Music”
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