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To The Guy In The Green Dress

cooper — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 05:21:53 +0000

She did not attend Woodstock, but she did write it.

Enjoy.

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Woodstock, in case you can’t play the player.

It’s Coming On Christmas

cooper — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:35:17 +0000

I’ve been fascinated with these lyrics from first exposure, at age 13. River is more of a statement of life (anyone’s life, everyone’s life), than a holiday song, yet what are the holidays for if not for poetically pondering our misery, fortune, mistakes, and ourselves.

I’m offering multiple choice this evening. I don’t have Robert Downey Junior’s version, so I embedded his rendition at the top of the heap.

Enjoy.

River/Robert Downey Jr

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Sarah McLachlan/River
Sarah McLachlan/River
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Herbie Hancock/Corinne Bailey Rae/River
Herbie Hancock/Corinne Bailey Rae/ River
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Peter White featuring Kenny Lattimore/River
Peter White featuring Kenny Lattimore

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Joni Mitchell/River
River /Joni Mitchell

Peace

Young Man, Are You Listening To Me

cooper — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:32:00 +0000

I’m back in time for Old School Friday, a nice way to ease back into the blog, but I first want to wish Pia safety, as North Myrtle Bach is burning. She recently moved there from NYC, and is renovating a home there. Pia be safe my friend.

The theme today is “never should been”….

I’m going to start with this god-awful version of Both Sides now performed by Leonard Nimoy of Star Trek fame. The clip is kind of cute, the song horrible, but if you think that is a good version of that song you’ve never really heard Joni Mitchell, my preferred version.

The Wedding Song never should have been written. If I never hear it again I’ll be happy. I suggest replacing it with Tracy Chapman’s Wedding Song. That whole “a man will leave his mother” always stuck in my throat, and I wonder at the lack of originality of the million or so people who have used this at their wedding. If you’ve used it I don’t mean you, just those others, the ones who don’t read my blog.

My other choice — I’m leaving out thousands of the most hokey country songs because they are usually so bad as to be almost good — stems from the torture of seeing rows of people age 4 to 94 lined up to dance to this at any of a variety of group events from weddings, to conferences or bar nights.

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