Category Archives: Song of the Day

Song of the Day: Super Snooper by The Oceans

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

I watched the classic Terence Hill film Super Fuzz last night.  As anyone who has seen the movie can tell you, the movie features a theme song that just won’t quit.  It’s been stuck in my head since last night.  And now, it can be stuck in yours!

There’s a man, do you see?
And he looks just like you and me
Didn’t he know?
Everything he got don’t show

There’s a cop, do you see?
And he looks like every cop on the street
You will discover
You can’t judge this cop by his cover

He’s a super snooper
Really super trooper
A wonder cop, a one like you never saw

He’s a super snooper
Really super trooper
A wonder cop, who roll the side of the law

There’s a stir on the floor
Super snooper open the door
Didn’t he know?
Everything he got don’t show

He’s a super snooper
Really super trooper
A wonder cop, a one like you never saw
He’s a super snooper
Really super trooper

He’s a super snooper
Really super trooper
A wonder cop, a one like you never saw
He’s a super snooper
Really super trooper

He’s a super snooper
Really super trooper
A wonder cop, a one like you never saw

He’s a super snooper
Really super trooper
A wonder cop who roll the side of the law

Songwriters: Angelo La Bionda / Carmelo La Bionda / Timothy Touchton

Song of the Day: To Sir With Love, covered by Tina Arena

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

I’ve always liked this song.  It’s one of the few songs that I can kind of decently sing and it describes my feelings towards a lot of people who were important to me in years past.  It also describes the way I feel about certain people now.  This song was originally recorded and made famous by Lulu but my favorite version is this cover by Tina Arena.

Those schoolgirl days
Of telling tales and biting nails are gone
But in my mind
I know they will still live on and on

But how do you thank someone
Who has taken you from crayons to perfume?
It isn’t easy, but I’ll try

If you wanted the sky
I would write across the sky in letters
That would soar a thousand feet high
“To sir, with love”

The time has come
For closing books and long last looks must end
And as I leave
I know that I am leaving my best friend

A friend who taught me right from wrong
And weak from strong
That’s a lot to learn
What, what can I give you in return?

If you wanted the moon
I would try to make a start
But I would rather you let me give my heart
“To sir, with love”

Songwriters: Don Black / Mark London

Song of the Day: These Boots Are Made For Walkin’, covered by Jessica Simpson

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

The other night, I was watching Class of 1984 with a group of friends (including three TSL writers), and I we started discussing what our high schools were known for.  When I was a student there, my high school was probably best known for the fact that Jessica Simpson attended the school in the 90s.  She didn’t graduate because she left Texas for Hollywood but that was still our claim to fame.  It’s interesting because people didn’t care that was my school was also named one of the best high schools in America and that it had an acclaimed drama department.  But they definitely cared that Jessica Simpson dropped out before I was even old enough to attend.

(Is it a good thing when your school is best known for a student who dropped out and went on to become a success with G.E.D.?)

Today’s song of the day was inspired by that conversation.  Here’s Jessica Simpson, covering These Boots Are Made For Walkin’.

(Yes, I know that no cover can compare to Nancy Sinatra’s other but I didn’t go to Nancy Sinatra’s high school.  Plus, I’m a Southern girl with a closet full of boots.  I relate to this version.)

You keep sayin’ you’ve got somethin’ for me
Somethin’ you call love but confess
You’ve been a’messin’ where you shouldn’t ‘ve been a’messin’
And now someone else is getting all your best

These boots are made for walkin’
And that’s just what they’ll do
One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you
Ya

You keep lyin’ when you oughta be truthin’
And you keep losing when you oughta not bet
You keep samin’ when you oughta be a’changin’
Now what’s right is right but you ain’t been right yet

These boots are made for walkin’
And that’s just what they’ll do
One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you

You keep playin’ where you shouldn’t be playin’
And you keep thinkin’ that you’ll never get burnt (ha)
I just found me a brand new box of matches, yeah
And what he knows you ain’t had time to learn

These boots are made for walkin’
And that’s just what they’ll do
One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you

Are you ready, boots? Start walkin’

(Lyrics by Lee Hazlewood)

Song of the Day: Wolf Totem (by The HU)

Posted on by Arleigh

I woke up this morning and chose the beauty of combat.

Well, that would be the beauty and majesty of traditional Mongolian throat-singing and instrumentation combined with the modern styling of metal and you get The Hu.

The Hu is the popular, at least with metal and folk music fans, Mongolian folk metal band created in 2016 by members Gala, Jaya, Enkush and Temka. In addition to the requisite electric guitars and drums we find with rock and metal bands, The HU also incorporates traditional Mongolion instruments such as the Morin khuur (a two-stringed, horsehead fiddle with strings made from horsehair), Tovshuur (a three-stringed Mongolian guitar), Tsuur (Mongolian flute) and the Tumur khuur (a jaw harp) just to name a few.

Throat-singing is at the forefront of most of The HU’s songs. While The Hu is not the first Mongolian band to find success with music fans (I was first introdcued to Mongolian rock scene with the Mongolian folk rock band Altan Urag), they have been the most successful in crossing over to a somewhat mainstream success in the West.

There are other songs that are probably better musically structured, but I always go back to the song that introduced me to the band: Wolf Totem.

Song of the Day: The Happening by The Supremes

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Today is Faye Dunaway’s birthday and today’s song of the day is The Happening, which was the theme song of Dunaway’s first movie, 1966’s The Happening!  Faye played a hippie who, with George Maharis and Michael Parks, kidnapped Anthony Quinn.  The film wasn’t a hit but the song was.

Here are The Supremes with The Happening.

Hey, life, look at me
I can see the reality
‘Cause when you shook me, took me out of my world
I woke up
Suddenly I just woke up to the happening
When you find that you left the future behind
‘Cause when you got a tender love
You don’t take care of
Then you better beware of the happening

One day you’re up, then you turn around
You find your world is tumbling down
It happened to me, and it can happen to you

I was sure, I felt secure
Until love took a detour
Yeah, riding high on top of the world
It happened, suddenly it just happened
I saw my dreams fall apart
When love walked away from my heart
And when you lose that precious love you need
To guide you
Something happens inside you, the happening

Now I see life for what it is
It’s not all dreams, ooh, it’s not all bliss
It happened to me and it can happen to you

Once
Ooh, and then it happened
Ooh, and then it happened
Ooh, and then it happened
Ooh, and then it happened

Is it real, is it fake
Is this game of life a mistake?
‘Cause when I lost the love I thought was mine
For certain, suddenly I started hurting
I saw the light too late
When that fickle finger of fate
Yeah, came and broke my pretty balloon
I woke up
Suddenly I just woke up to the happening

So sure, I felt secure
Until love took a detour
‘Cause when you got a tender love you don’t
Take care of, then you better beware of

Songwriters: Alex Mungo / David Taylor / Jasper John Nielson Stainthorpe / Mark Robert Tiplady / Rob Downes / Stephen Wren

Song Of The Day: The Golden Path by The Chemical Brothers, feat. Wayne Coyne

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Today the Shattered Lens wishes a happy birthday to Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips.  Our song of the day is The Golden Path, a collaboration between Wayne and The Chemical Brothers.

 

As I walked along
The supposed golden path
I was confronted
By mysterious spectre
He pointed to the graveyard
Over on yonder hill
I paused in cosmic reflection
Confused on wondering
Of how I came to die

Hm!
I was confused
Coz if I was dead
How and why did I die
And I composed myself
And decided I should face it

Then I stood paralyzed
On the supposed golden path
And I was confronted
By powerful demon force
And there was the devil
And we spoke his words
Flowed like glowing lava from the mouth of a volcano
And I said:
Help me, Lord!!
I found myself in some kinda hell
But I did not believe in heaven and hell
World in opposites kind of reality

But I gained control of myself
And decided to press on

As I walked along
The supposed golden path
I was trembling with fear
All the lions and the wizards yet to come
I seen in the distance
Silver mountains rising high in the clouds
And a voice from above did whisper
Some shining answer from the moon

Please forgive me
I never meant to hurt you

Songwriters: Edmund John Simons / Steven Gregory Drozd / Thomas Owen Mostyn Rowlands / Wayne Michael Coyne

Song of the Day: Goldfinger (performed by Shirley Bassey)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Goldfinger (1964, dir by Guy Hamilton)

It’s Shirley Eaton’s birthday!

Shirley Eaton has since retired but she had a busy acting and singing career in the 1960s.  Her best-know role was playing the ill-fated Jill Masterson in the 1964 Bond film, Goldfinger.  She was the one who ended up getting suffocated in gold paint after helping Bond expose Goldfinger as a card cheat.

It seems appropriate, therefore, that today’s song of the day should be that film’s title tune.  Enjoy Goldfinger, performed by the great Shirley Bassey.

Goldfinger, he’s the man
The man with the midas touch
A spider’s touch
Such a cold finger
Beckons you to enter his web of sin
But don’t go in

Golden words he will pour in your ear
But his lies can’t disguise what you fear
For a golden girl knows when he’s kissed her
It’s the kiss of death from Mister Goldfinger
Pretty girl, beware of his heart of gold
This heart is cold

Golden words he will pour in your ear
But his lies can’t disguise what you fear
For a golden girl knows when he’s kissed her
It’s the kiss of death from Mister Goldfinger
Pretty girl, beware of his heart of gold
This heart is cold

He loves only gold
Only gold
He loves gold
He loves only gold
Only gold
He loves gold

Songwriters: Tim Wheeler

Song of the Day: Leave Home by The Chemical Brothers

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Today’s song of the day better get you dancing!

The footage in the video below comes from a 1983 film called Koyaanisqatsi.  That film featured a soundtrack by Philip Glass.  The song is from The Chemical Brother’s first single off of their debut album, Exit Planet Dust.