Fairy Tales Fantasy and Princesses #MusicMovesMe

It's Monday, and it is time for Music!

Who are the #MusicMovesMe bloggers? We are bloggers who blog about music each Monday and if you have music to share with us, you are most welcome to join! (Music Posts Only , please!)   First, there is XmasDolly, now settled in her new blogging home.  Her co-hosts are: Stacy of Stacy Uncorked, Cathy from Curious as a Cathy, and me. Each month we have a guest conductor. This month we are going to welcome Songbird from Songbird's Crazy World.

Why not join us?  The linky is at the bottom of this poast.  We'd love to have you.

Songbird's younger daughter is celebrating her 29th birthday and is a Disney Princess and Harry Potter fan.  So, the theme for today is:  "Songs of Fantasy, Magic and/or Fairy Tales".

The first two songs bring me back to my childhood.

Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs had a hit in 1966 with the song "Little Red Riding Hood".  Ahhowwwl! (The roots of the actual fairy tale may date from over 1,000 years ago, according to something I read online).

My spouse and I loved the Aqualung album by Jethro Tull and owned it (in vinyl, of course, back in those days).  I'm not sure how much this song had to do with its title but here it is:  Mother Goose, from 1971.

I am not a huge Disney fan, but one movie I loved was the 1992 movie "Aladdin".  It's a good thing I liked it, too, as my then toddler son also liked it..  About 2,000 views later, I still liked this song very much.  Let's go ahead and ride with Aladdin and Princess Jasmine in "A Whole New World".

The other Disney princess I am featuring is Snow White.  This song was released on a 78 record from the 1937 Disney movie of the same name. (How many of you remember 78's?) Here is Adriana Caselotti singing "Whistle While You Work."

OK, dear readers, don't desert me.  It's time for fantasy and it's going to get weird, but weird is all part of fantasy, right?   If you are eating or drinking, please finish your beverage or snack before you tackle this one.  This song is from 1967 and I swear it is real, not somebody's fever dream.  This is Leonard Nimoy singing "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" (from 1967) and, well, the song has elements of creatures from fairy tales, and is based on one of the all time best fantasy book series - well, sort of.  So I say it counts.

This is a live version of White Rabbit by the Jefferson Airplane, appearing on the Smothers Brothers .  I owned the 45 (what they called a "single" back then) and played it almost to death.  You could say, I guess, that it is based on the book Alice in Wonderland. Check out that 60's psychedelic background.

And last, but definitely not least, I will end this with a 1982 fav of mine.  I'm surprised I've never put this in any of my 1980's music posts.  It's about the fantasy life - sort of.  Rock out to Aldo Nova and "Fantasy".

That's all for this week! Tune in again next week, same place, maybe even the same time.