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So to end my week of songs I asked my youngest granddaughter Galatea (she is 10) what her favorite songs were and she named a couple and then said and of course my cousin's songs. I asked which of those and she said "Summer Girl". The cousin she was talking about is...
Last week there was a wonderful interview with Linda Ronstadt and at the end she says she wished she had recorded "Paloma Negra". I read this just the day after my husband Henry had sung the song to a friend of ours for her birthday so the song has been in my head for...
If you don't know the astounding Italian Jazz singer, composer, polylingual raconteur and oh by the way attorney, you should run not walk to the nearest YOUTUBE, Pandora, Spotify or other favorite purveyor of music and prepare to settle down for a few hours of...
This is a song about ecstasy and abandon. My favorite section of it is:Io vedo il cielo sopra noiChe restiamo quiAbbandonatiCome se non ci fosse piùNiente, più niente al mondoWhat an amazing feeling and what joy to sing about it!!! My husband Henry and I do a party...
I am looking forward to being part of the Lyrics by Shakespeare program in October and I realized that I share with William Shakespeare a deep and persistent case of Italophilia. I believe the seeds of my condition were planted when I was 13 and heard the original...