Only Police in the Building #MusicMovesMe

It's Monday and it's time to groove with the Music Moves Me bloggers.

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! Otherwise, your post may be removed, or may  be labeled "No Music".)   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 "You Pick the Music".

Now that the streaming show "Only Murders in the Building" is being shown on network TV, I have been finally able to watch it.  One episode I watched this past week (season 1) had the musician Sting, formerly of the band The Police.  In reading up on the show, Sting appears in several episodes of the first season playing himself.  He's a suspect in - what else?-a murder in the building.

So I decided to start this with the 1980 Police hit "Don't Stand So Close to Me".

I'm also going to discuss singer Selena Gomez, who stars in the show with Steve Martin and Martin Short, a little later.

In the meantime, how about some other songs related to Police?

Cheap Trick is one band I've had the honor of seeing live.  Here is a live performance of their song "Dream Police".

I had thought Eddie Money had been a New York City policeman before he quit for his musical career.  At the time of his death at age 70, the New York City Police Department clarified that, although Money had been a police trainee, he had never been appointed to the force as an officer.  His father, a brother, and grandfather were policemen, though.  Here's his duet with Ronnie Spector in "Take Me Home Tonight". (The song ends around four minutes into the video - the rest is interviews).

Singer Bobby Sherman became a reserve officer and medical training officer for several years with the Los Angeles, California police department.  Here is his hit from 1970, Easy Come Easy Go.

Country singer Jeff Carson left a country music career to become a police officer in Franklin, Tennessee. He returned to music in 2019, but his life was cut short at age 58 by a heart attack in 2022.  Here is one of his hits "The Car".

Finally, Selena Gomez is one of the co-stars in the Only Murders in the Building series and a talented actor, musician, and dancer.  She has also been struggling with an autoimmune disease, lupus, for some 10 years now.  Despite these struggles, Gomez has done a lot of collaboration with other singers.  I chose her 2019 hit "Lose You to Love Me".  Maybe not a real life police officer, but Gomez plays an artist and real life crime solver in the series.

And that's a TV inspired wrap!

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