It's Monday and it's time for music!
Today I am joining up with other Music Moves Me bloggers (and you can join us at the linky above). We are a group of music loving bloggers who blog about music each Sunday or Monday (or even later in the week). 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 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.
Every other week we have a theme. This week's theme is "you pick" .
I had a (sort of) theme for this week, but first, I have to announce a new induction into Rock and Roll Heaven. Singer, songwriter and actress Marianne Faithfull passed away on January 30 at the age of 78. She had a hard life in some ways due to drug addiction and a spell of homelessness while she was addicted, but she also carved her own path.
She had a four year romantic relationship with Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, and this may be her best known song, written by Mick and Keith Richards. Here is "As Tears Go By".
There is also, years later, the song "Broken English" shows how much her hard life changed her voice.
What I was originally going to use as a theme was the Chinese New Year. This year is the Year of the Snake.
Here are two songs mentioning snakes.
Jim Stafford had a hit with the song "Spiders and Snakes" in 1974, where it spent over five months on the charts here in the United States. Here he sings the song to and with Dolly Parton.
The song The Snake was first written and recorded in 1963. A couple of its covers have become hits; this is one of them.
Here is Al Wilson's 1968 cover of The Snake.
Finally, just because, here is a song about celebration. Maybe I'm celebrating the fact that spring is coming closer and closer each day. So here is 3 Dog Night and their 1975 hit "Celebrate".
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