Goodbye 2023 Hello 2024 #MusicMovesMe

It's the first day of 2024 and it's time for music!

Let's introduce the Music Moves me bloggers:  We blog about music each Sunday or Monday and if you have music to share with us, you are most welcome to join! (Music Posts Only-meaning at least one music video, please!)   Our head host is Xmas Dolly, and our co-hosts are Cathy from Curious as a Cathy, joined by the knowledgeable Stacy of Stacy Uncorked and, last but not least, ME.

Sometimes we have themes (not mandatory!) and sometimes we can choose whatever music we want to feature - as long as you have at least music video posted, it's all good. 

Today, our theme is songs about hellos & goodbyes or old & new or anything that makes comes to mind regarding the passing of one year to another.

Although New Years Eve has passed, there is one video I've come to love so much that I play it every year.  Here's Rod Stewart and Auld Lang Syne.  Originally a poem later set to music, this song title can mean "Days gone by" or "Long, long ago".  It always makes me feel a little nostalgic.

Another song I am reminded of - Semisonic's hit song Closing Time.  As the song says, "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end."

So, Hello to 2024 as 2023 ends.  Let's celebrate with Adele and her 2015 hit Hello. Adele co-wrote the song and also played drums on the recording. It debuted at #1 in multiple countries.

This is a skit called A Thanksgiving Miracle that is partially a spoof of Adele's iconic video above.  I hope you find it as funny as I did.

One of my favorite songs from childhood was Louis Armstrong and Hello, Dolly.  This is a 1965 performance that was recently found after having been lost for years.

A song about goodbyes - Goodbye Stranger, from Supertramp.

And one more goodbye.

Today to end my New Years Day post, I wanted to pay tribute to comedian and musician Tom Smothers of the Smothers Brothers, who passed away December 26 from cancer at the age of 86.  The Smothers Brothers were loved by many of my generation (including me) - here is one of their skits from 1963 called "Talk to the Trees".  I hope you have some time to listen to this. 

And that's a first Music Moves Me of 2024 wrap.

Join me again next week for another episode of Music Moves Me.