Cecilia by Simon & Garfunkel with Lily & Bear

Enjoy an uplifting tune, Cecilia (Simon and Garfunkel) performed here by Lily and Bear (Bianca & Heinrich) from South Africa!

10/02/202017/10/2021

I’m Gonna Love Me Again, Elton John, Oscar Winner

I’m Gonna Love Me Again, Best Original Song from Rocketman, composed by Elton John and Bernie Taupin adds an Oscar to the long list of accolades – Golden Globe Award, Critics’ Choice Award, Satellite Award, Golden Derby Awards, and plenty more!

09/12/201910/12/2021

Post WWII, The Christmas Song, Music Monday

Next to Bing Crosby’s renowned White Christmas, and Judy Garland’s Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, Doris Day’s Christmas Song, Chestnuts roasting on an open fire is one of the popular songs that hit the radios post WW II.

02/12/201910/12/2021

WW1, Christmas 1914 Truce Song by Catherine Rushton, Music Monday

Christmas 1914 – Truce Song was composed by talented Catherine Rushton in 2004. Ten years later she published this soulful, folk song online at a friend’s request. It has almost 13 000 views now.

07/01/201918/10/2021

Movie Music Monday, Wartime Music, Sentimental Journey

This year, 2019, we celebrate 74 years since World War Two ended, its veteran survivors being in their 80s and 90s, so some wartime music and a sentimental journey is a must. Some of them were dog handlers, such as Marine Corps war dog handler Pvt. Homer J. Finley, Jr. who still remembers his dogs, one of them being Pvt. ‘Jan’, a Doberman Pinscher, a silent hero of war.