Pistachio Music #MusicMovesMe

It's Monday.  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! 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.

We have a guest host this month-Mary Burris from "Jingle Jangle Jungle". 

For today, we have a choice of themes: either (since it is National Pistachio Day) spelling Pistachio using the first letter of song titles or artists/bands or, since this is a leap year, choosing songs with Leap or Jump in the song titles. 

Let's give Pistachio a try, since I love these nuts so much.  I have ever since I was a small child.  So, in honor of that, I will also try to include some songs that mention food or have a food in the title, even if the song itself isn't about food.

For my first song, I've had this on my blog before, but I thought of this right away.  

Popcorn, from 1972 - a cover by Hot Butter.

Next, from 1983, a song from "Weird Al" Yankovic.

I Love Rocky Road. (Not sure Rocky Road is only an American thing, but it is a flavor of chocolate ice cream with nuts and marshmallow).

For S, a song from 1967.

Strawberry Fields Forever from the Beatles.

For T, I am going to choose an artist's name:  Taco, who is an Indonesian-Dutch singer, actor, and more.

Taco with his 1983 hit Puttin' On the Ritz, which was a cover of a 1930 song written by Irving Berlin.  Super duper!

For A, let's choose an instrumental.  This is a 1960 song by Bobby Scott, who also co wrote the song.  On this particular video, the song appears three times during the total of eight or so minutes of music written for the Broadway version of the British play from 1958.  Later, this was famously covered by Herb Albert (and sped up).

A Taste of Honey - Bobby Scott.

For C there were many choices but only one song I could pick.

Cheeseburger in Paradise from Jimmy Buffet.

The next song, from 1972, has a double meaning, and one of them isn't about food.  

Hot Potatoes from The Kinks. 

Now we need some wake up music. How about another song with a double meaning?

Ice Cream Man a cover of a John Brim song by Van Halen.

Last but not least, for O, a duo by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. For this 1969 song, I Omitted the "The" in the title but I really want to end this post and go eat some pistachios.

Onion Song.

And that's a wrap!

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