Monday, April 27, 2015

ATF: For Better or Worse

This series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way your musical tastes could be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.



The Wedding Song
Mary MacGregor
He is now to be among you
At the calling of your hearts
Rest assured this troubadour
Is acting on His part
The union of your spirits here
Has caused Him to remain
For whenever two or more of you
Are gathered in His name
There is Love
There is Love

Well a man shall leave his mother
And a woman leave her home
And they shall travel on to where
The two shall be as one
As it was in the beginning
Is now and 'til the end
Woman draws her life from man
And gives it back again
And there is Love
There is Love

Well then what's to be the reason
For becoming man and wife
Is it Love that brings you here
Or Love that brings you life
And if loving is the answer
Then who's the giving for
Do you believe in something
That you've never seen before
Oh there is Love
There is Love



The Breakup Song
Greg Kihn
We had broken up for good
Just an hour before
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
And now I'm starin’ at the bodies
As they're dancin’ across the floor
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
And then the band slowed the tempo
And the music took me down
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
It was the same old song
With a melancholy sound
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

They don't write 'em like that anymore
They just don't write 'em like that anymore

We'd been living together
For a million years
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
But now it feels so strange
Out in the atmospheres
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
And then the jukebox plays a song
I used to know
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
And now I'm starin’ at the bodies
As they're dancin’ so slow
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

They don't write 'em like that anymore
They don't write 'em like that anymore

Now I'm windin’ up
Starin’ at an empty glass
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
Cause it's so easy to say
That you'll forget your past
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

They don't write 'em like that anymore
No
They just don't write 'em like that anymore
Oh they don't write 'em like that anymore
They just don't write 'em like that anymore
They just don't
No they don't
No no
Uh-uh,
They just don't write 'em like that anymore
They just don't...

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8 comments:

  1. LOL this made me laugh the wedding song and the breakup song. Reminds me of a guy who came in the store one day and was looking to see what kind of soup we had for the day. (Italian wedding and chili) He said, oh it's wedding soup and divorce soup

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Ann!!! I had never thought of chili as being divorce soup before, but it makes sense. Every time I hear Greg Kihn's Breakup Song, I flash back to the first time I remember ever hearing it over the radio. For I started rocking out behind the wheel of my big truck while being deep into Pennsylvania's Lancaster County Amish country, which always strikes me as being very strange because of most of the people around there probably not having radios.

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  2. Ah, Mary McGregor. I remember "Torn between two Lovers". Great singer. :)

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Linda!!! The original Peter, Paul and Mary version of The Wedding Song is also great, but the purity to MacGregor's voice is extraordinarily awesome to me.

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  3. I think I've been to half a dozen weddings where they played The Wedding Song. Unfortunately, I got pretty tired of it.

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Stephen!!! Whoa, I wonder what would happen if Kihn's Breakup Song was played during a wedding reception?

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  4. I've not heard Mary McGregor for years...and only today there was a segment on one of the TV channels that showed a clip of her singing!!!

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Lee!!! She is probably best known for her Torn Between Two Lovers, which still tears me up even after all of these years.

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