George Harrison would have been 83 years old today. He was taken from us at far too young a age and it only feels appropriate that he should provide today’s song of the day.
When We Was Fab was the last track from Harrison’s 1987 album, Cloud Nine. The song is a reflection on his time with the Beatles and Ringo Starr, the one Beatle that never seemed to hold a grudge against anyone else in the band, plays on it.
It is true that almost every solo album from a former Beatle had to have one song that looked back on the days of Beatlemania but why shouldn’t they? If I had been a member of the Beatles, I would have bragged about it too.
I’m not even a hockey fan and I’m cheering right now! 3 Days ago, the U.S. women’s hockey team defeated Canada and won a gold medal at the Winter Olympics. Today, the men’s hockey team did the same thing.
I have tears in my eyes and you better believe I have a song of the day.
If I leave here tomorrow Would you still remember me? For I must be traveling on, now ‘Cause there’s too many places I’ve got to see
But, if I stayed here with you, girl Things just couldn’t be the same ‘Cause I’m as free as a bird now And this bird, you’ll can not change Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
And the bird you cannot change And this bird you cannot change Lord knows, I can’t change Bye, bye, baby it’s been a sweet love
Yeah, yeah Though this feeling I can’t change But please don’t take it so badly ‘Cause the Lord knows I’m to blame
But, if I stayed here with you girl Things just couldn’t be the same ‘Cause I’m as free as a bird now And this bird, you’ll can not change Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
And this bird you cannot change And this bird you cannot change Lord knows, I can’t change Lord help me, I can’t change Lord I can’t change
Since today would have been Robert Altman’s 101st birthday, it only seems right that today’s song of the day should come from his best film. In this scene from 1975’s Nashville, Keith Carradine sings I’m Easy as Altman’s camera finds each of his lovers in the audience, all convinced that Carradine is singing expressly to them.
This song won Nashville it’s only Oscar. It also made Keith, who wrote the song, the only Oscar winner amongst the fabled Carradine family.
Today’s song of the day is from Crystal Method. Though Keep Hope Alive was featured in the film The Replacement Killers, it was actually inspired by a 1992 speech from Jesse Jackson, which is heard throughout the song.
Given the fact that today is the birthday of both John Hughes and Molly Ringwald, it seems obvious what today’s song of the day should be.
Hey, hey, hey, hey Ooh, woah
Won’t you come see about me? I’ll be alone, dancing, you know it, baby
Tell me your troubles and doubts Giving everything inside and out and Love’s strange, so real in the dark Think of the tender things that we were working on
Slow change may pull us apart When the light gets into your heart, baby
Don’t you, forget about me Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t Don’t you, forget about me
Will you stand above me? Look my way, never love me Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling Down, down, down
Will you recognize me? Call my name or walk on by Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling Down, down, down, down
Hey, hey, hey, hey Ooh, woah
Don’t you try and pretend It’s my feeling we’ll win in the end I won’t harm you or touch your defenses Vanity and security, ah
Don’t you forget about me I’ll be alone, dancing, you know it, baby Going to take you apart I’ll put us back together at heart, baby
Don’t you, forget about me Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t Don’t you, forget about me
As you walk on by Will you call my name? As you walk on by Will you call my name? When you walk away
Or will you walk away? Will you walk on by? Come on, call my name Will you call my name?
I say La, la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la, la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la, la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la When you walk on by And you call my name When you walk on by
Robert Duvall missed out on his chance to play Haven Hamilton in Robert Altman’s Nashville but 8 years later, he gave a performance as a country musician that would him his only Oscar.
Through the Shattered Lens 