Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Song For a Winter Night - Gordon Lightfoot

"Song for a Winter's Night" is the title of a song written by Gordon Lightfoot, and first recorded for his 1967 album, The Way I Feel. Lightfoot actually recorded two versions of the song; the second appears on the 1975 album Gord's Gold, a greatest hits compilation on which other re-recordings also appeared.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

I do the rock - Tim Curry

This is a song from Tim Curry's second and most successful album, Fearless. I do the rock was one of Tim Curry's only US charting songs.

 The single "I Do the Rock" itself briefly dented the U.S. Billboard Top 100. The single references Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Einstein, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Babe Ruth, Colin Cowdrey, Leonid Brezhnev, California Governor Jerry Brown, US President Jimmy Carter, Egypt's soon-to-be-assassinated Anwar Sadat, Gertrude Stein, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, and the family of Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell.