Julie Andrews, Carol Burnett, and the 60's...

Okay, so I'm officially avoiding grading right now... my husband thinks I'm working... I think I'm burned out... but I promise, I promise, after I blog this (and check icanhazcheeseburger.com, and get on facebook, and... etc.) I will do some work!


So anyway, this is not the Annie Lennox blog I want to write (I promise, it's coming) but it just as good because it features two of my favorite people: Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett and some of my favorite music (60s-70s)!

When I was a little girl, my favorite people were Julie and Carol. And one of my favorite things that featured them was their performance at Lincoln Center in the 70s (before my time, but then, I was a strange kid). Anyway, my favorite part of the Lincoln Center performance was the 60s and 70s medley they sang toward the end. I just really got into the songs--so much that I recorded just them singing from the TV using an old live recorder my grandmother had... I had so much background noise in that thing, LOL! Anyway, I played the tape over and over again and memorized the entire medley... and then grew up, went to college, got a job and a husband and promptly forgot about the whole thing except on early mornings when I felt like singing... and then just YESTERDAY, inspiration hit--why not make a CD (or two in this case) featuring the actual SONGS that inspired the medley, in the order that Julie and Carol sang them? So... that's exactly what I did. Thank goodness for itunes... :D

So my first CD, which is half of the playlist, features the following songs in this order:

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band--Beatles
With a Little Help from my Friends--Beatles
The Beat Goes On--Sonny and Cher
I Dig Rock and Roll Music--Peter, Paul and Mary
Everybody's Talkin'--Chuck Dallas
Gentle on my Mind--Glenn Campbell
Wichita Lineman--Glenn Campbell
Little Green Apples--Bobby Goldsboro
Honey--Bobby Goldsboro
Both Sides Now--Joni Mitchell
If--Bread
Up, Up and Away--The 5th Dimension
Do You Know the Way to San Jose?--Dionne Warwick
I'm Leaving on a Jet Plane--John Denver
By the Time I Get to Phoenix--Glen Campbell
Downtown--Petula Clark
59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)--Harpers Bizarre
Sunny--Boney M*
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head--Burt Bacharach & B.J. Thomas
You've Made Me So Very Happy--Brenda Holloway

Since I wasn't sure which artist orginally sang the songs, or which version they referenced, I picked songs recorded in that era with a melody that sounded similar to the way Julie and Carol sang the song--with one exception: For "Sunny," instead of picking the version I figured they used, I used a Boney M version (right decade, wrong continent) because it was a song I already owned (and why I own Boney M stuff is a story in itself--thank you, Judy...) and I figured it would be a nice personal tie...

Anyway, that playlist comprises about HALF of the songs from the medley. So next month, when I get paid again, I'm going to buy the other half... and make another CD... so I'll have the full medley. And it goes without saying that the whole thing will be an itunes playlist so I can listen to it in full anytime I want...

The bad thing--I owned a least three or four of these songs already, and was too lazy to dig them out of storage (we just moved) so I re-bought them. Oh well. :D

That's my musical nerdiness for the day. Gosh, I love these songs... they bring me back to my childhood... :D

And an added bonus--my mom used to sing some of these to me when I was a little girl, and I didn't realize it until I heard the whole song.

Loves!