Tag: Music

Harry Connick Jr.’s take on When My Heart Finds Christmas.

Connick is one of the most underrated singers ever — by the public, not by other singers — with his matchless range, phrasing and timing.   As I’ve written before, he makes Sinatra look like a barroom busker.

I’m a former chorister, an alumnus of the Royal Schools of Church Music.  Back in the day, I could sing anything off the sheet music you put in front of me, whether I’d seen it before or not.

But there are times that I listen to Harry Connick Jr., and when he does one of his trademark vocal tricks, I find myself saying:  “How the hell did he do that?”

And his Christmas album, while a little too jazzy for some (even me, at times), is a true classic.

Baroque Concertos, four whole hours thereof, from some Dutch composers I’ve never heard before.

Delightful.

Not today, thank you.

Aaaaargh…

Stumbled into this little compilation of “Best One-Hit Songs of the 2000s“, and I’m happy to say I’d only ever heard two of them:  Are You Gonna Be My Girl by Jet (can’t help thinking that Prince would have murdered this one), and Wherever You Will Go by The Calling.

Now when I say I “heard” them, it’s not that I ever listened to either of them all the way through — no, it’s just that a few momentary notes happened to stick in my brain when the songs played in some store or other, or blasting out of some weenie’s souped-up Honda Civic at the traffic light.

Small wonder that all the above are one-hit wonders.  Completely unmemorable at best;  totally shit otherwise.

And now we return you to our regular programming.

Feeling like a free spirit today… despite the post below.

Tinaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…