Category Archives: Music

Favorites, Music, Quad Cities

Matthew West Songs I Enjoy Most (In honor of the fact that he is in concert tonight in my town.)

  1. You Know Where to Find Me
  2. Only Grace
  3. History
  4. Save a Place For Me
  5. My Finest Hour
  6. Sellout
  7. More
  8. A Few More Days
  9. I Can’t Hear You
  10. The End
  11. Curtain

Humor, Music

Songs That Have Been Going Through My Head at One Time or Another Over the Last Few Days

  1. Amazing Grace… My chains are gone, I’ve been set free, my God, my Savior ransomed me…
  2. Catch a Falling Star…and put it in your pocket…
  3. Moon River… Two drifters off to see the world, there’s such a lot of world to see…
  4. Lay Me Down… Hand on my heart this much is true, There’s no life apart from You…
  5. Fish Heads, Fish Heads… roley-poley fish heads…
Monday, Music

Monday’s Mentionables

  1. Monday’s child is “fair of face”.
  2. Past medical studies found a 20% increase in heart attacks on Mondays.
  3. The 80’s-era Bangles’ hit song “Manic Monday” was written by Prince.
  4. There are 53 Mondays on the calendar this year.
  5. There were only 52 Mondays last year.
  6. The name “Monday” comes from Greek and/or Latin phrases, both meaning “Day of the Moon” or “Moon’s Day”.
  7. Jimmy Buffet’s song “Come Monday” was written for his wife, because he missed her while playing weekend shows.
  8. One study claims that 50% of employees are late to work on Monday mornings.
  9. Worker productivity studies showed that an average of only 3.5 hours of actual work are conducted on Mondays.
  10. The first Monday after Thanksgiving, deemed “Cyber Monday”, is not the busiest online shopping day of the year, despite claims otherwise.
  11. “I Don’t Like Mondays”, the title of a 1979 hit song, comes from a phrase quoted by Brenda Spencer, the perpetrator of a school shooting which killed 2 adults and wounded 8 children.
  12. The Carpenters recorded their hit song “Rainy Days and Mondays” in 1971 and then saw it climb to #2 on the charts.
  13. Monday Night Football is one of the longest running prime-time commercial network television series, starting in 1970 and currently contracted to go through 2021.
Humor, Music

Silly Songs From My Youth

  1. Elsie was a Mighty Fine Cow (she was a friend of mine)
  2. Alice the Camel (had five humps)
  3. Eddie Coochacatchacamatoceneratocenokasammacammawacky Brown (fell into a well)
  4. Cumalauda Vista (on and on and on a vista)
  5. Scab Sandwiches (with puss on top)
  6. Great Big Globs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts (little birdies’ dirty feet)
  7. Leprosy (all my skin is falling off of me)
  8. Put Your Hand in a Fan (and you’ll probably lose a finger)
  9. Cow-patty Love (is the way I feel)

 

Leprosy (to the tune of “Yesterday”)

Leprosy, all my skin is falling off of me
I’m not half the man I used to be
Since I contracted leprosy.

Kiss me quick, before I lose my upper lip,
I don’t even have a nose to pick
Since I contracted leprosy.