Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry – January, by the Limbourg Brothers, tempera on vellum, c. 1412-1416. Condé Museum, Chantilly, France. [Wikimedia Commons,]
Almanac Music: ‘January’ – Songs Mentioning Months of the Year
Happy New Year, Almanackers! This piece in my long-running series about key popular song themes concerns songs mentioning months of the year (and including when the month’s name is used as a personal one).
So, dear readers, please put your relevant songs in the ‘Comments’ section. Below, as usual, are some examples from me to get the ball rolling.
‘Calendar Girl’, written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield, performed by Neil Sedaka (1960)
(mentions every month of the year)
‘I Am a Rock’, written by Paul Simon, performed by Simon & Garfunkel (1966)
‘deep and dark December’
‘April, Come She Will’, written by Paul Simon, performed by Simon & Garfunkel (1966)
(mentions April, May, June, July, August and September)
‘Armstrong’, written by John Stewart, performed by Reg Lindsay (1971)
‘July afternoon’
‘American Pie’, written and performed by Don McLean (1971)
‘February made me shiver’
‘January’, written by David Paton, performed by Pilot (1975)
‘January / Sick and tired, you’ve been hanging on me’
‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’, written and performed by Gordon Lightfoot (1976)
‘When the gales of November came early’
‘September’, written by Al McKay, Allee Willis and Maurice White, performed by Earth, Wind and Fire (1978)
‘Do you remember / The 21st night of September?’
‘Pride (In the name of Love)’, written by Bono and U2, performed by U2 (1984)
‘Early morning, April 4’
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Now, dear readers / listeners – it’s over to you. Your responses to this topic are warmly welcomed. In the ‘Comments’ section, please add your own choice of a song (or songs) mentioning months of the year, along with any other relevant material you wish to include.
[Note: as usual, Wikipedia has been a good general reference for this piece, particularly in terms of checking dates and other details.]
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One that comes to mind KD is:
‘Saturday in the Park’ – Chicago
Hello Kevin
One Day In September – Mike Brady
Wake Me Up When September End – Green Day
October – U2
Thanks, Col, for this upbeat, catchy song with which to open the batting.
Hi Rodney.
Thanks for being one of the co-openers with your trio of choices. Mike Brady really had to get a mention in relation to this theme, didn’t he, especially on the Footy Almanac site!
Santa Cruz (You’re Not That Far) by the Thrills-
But now and then, here once in a while
Those August cowboys stole your style
I’m pretty sure it’s August and not august! Thanks for this one, KD.
Happy New Year KD
September Gurls – Big Star
Thanks, Mickey, for the Triffids song. Happy to assume that the month is being referred to. Cheers.
How To Make Gravy – Paul Kelly
Leaps And Bounds – Paul Kelly
Happy New Year, Swish. Thanks for your contribution.
We’re off to a very good start with this theme.
A few more
Fourteenth of February – Billy Bragg
April Sun In Cuba – Dragon
April Skies – The Jesus and Mary Chain
Maggie May – Rod Stewart
June Bug – B52s
Facing The North Pole In August – Models
November Spawned A Monster – Morrissey
Silly Love – 10cc ‘moonin’ and Junin’
April Love – Pat Boon
It Might as Well Rain Until September – Carole King
June is Busting Out All Over – from Carousel
How About You (I Like New York in June) – Frank Sinatra
That’s Life (You’re riding high in April,shot down in May) – Frank Sinatra
June, July and August – Nancy Sinatra
Thanks again, Swish. Nice mix of songs in your latest bunch. Particularly pleased to see an iconic Australasian song like April Sun in Cuba get an early mention in our comments thread. I suppose I could/should say precisely the same thing about your two earlier Paul Kelly songs – Leaps and Bounds especially, as it’s always been a personal favourite.
Thank you, Fisho, for your opening selections. I’ll single out Sinatra’s version of That’s Life – what a fine vocal with some distinctive Frankie swagger in the delivery!
Happy New Year KD jnr!
Isis – Dylan
‘I married Isis on the 5th day of May
But I could not hold on to her very long’
‘April Love’ – Pat Boone. My folks loved this song, we had it on an old 78rpm.
Tim McGraw (September saw a month of tears) – Taylor Swift
September Song – Dean Martin
Just noticed Fisho beat me to ‘April Love’.
Thanks, KD the Elder, for Isis – these songlists don’t feel right without some Dylan in the mix.
Happy New Year to you, too!
Oops, Mickey – referring to your earlier post it should have been the Thrills, not Triffids. That’s what I get for looking at my phone screen without reading glasses on!
Thanks, Fisho, for your most recent pair of choices – two September songs.
When the Rain Tumbles Down in July, Slim
Sandy, Bruce
If We Make it Through December, Merle
Fine country start for you, Rick. Thanks, mate.
Not too many Dylan contributions this time around KD – but we do have his most recent Billboard no.1 ‘hit’ song:
Murder Most Foul (2020)
‘Twas a dark day in Dallas, November ’63
A day that will live on in infamy
President Kennedy was a-ridin’ high
Good day to be livin’ and a good day to die’
Thanks for Murder Most Foul, Karl.
Some Dylan is always better than no Dylan.
Kentucky, Feb 27, 1971, Tom T
October, U2
Out of the Woods, Taylor Swift
Cold December In Your Heart – Glen Campbell
The Twenty Second Day (Well, will it be January , No No) – The Diamonds
May – The Shins
September Morn – Neil Diamond
Song of Songs (Do you recall that night in June when first we met?) – Perry Como
February Stars – Foo Fighters
June is as Cold as December – Gene Pitney
I’ll Remember April – Doris Day
I Didn’t Know What Time It Was (You held my hand. Warm like the month of May it was) – Doris Day
December Will Be Magic Again – Kate Bush
Thanks for your latest three, Rick. To select just one of these for comment – the Tom T Hall one is certainly an example of a master songwriter and storyteller at work
Great selection of material in your latest lot, Fisho. Thank you. And judging by many of your song choices over the journey, you seem to be a major Kate Bush fan like me.
September Song – Frank Sinatra (written by Kurt Weill)
July You’re A Woman – is another great John Stewart song. The Phoenix Concerts live album has one of the great spoken intros that goes something like:
“Out on the highway about sunset. Turn on the car radio – “sunshine on my shoulder…….makes me sweaty”. Off to the side of the road I see a little figure – suitcase in her hand. Fishtailing across 3 lanes of desert highway I pull to a halt and give it my best Robert Redford. “Hey honey, where you going?”
“Seattle mister – where are you going?”
“Hell honey I was going to the store for cigarettes, but I’ll go to Seattle if you want to.”
Fabulous song with a rousing chorus but the intro and lyrics probably not Me Too acceptable these days.
Fourth of July – Mariah Carey
Cold day In July – The Chicks
July Morning – Uriah Heep
The January Man – Bert Jansch (I have always known this as a Bert Jansch song but apparently it was written and originally recorded by another British folk singer named Dave Goulder)
“The January Man
The January man he walks abroad
In woollen coat and boots of leather
The February man still shakes the snow
From off his hair and blows his hands
The man of March he sees the Spring and
Wonders what the year will bring
And hopes for better weather”
Pig – Harry Belafonte
“It was early last December
As near as I remember
Oh I staggered down the street
In tipsy pride
Soon I lay down in the gutter
Thinking thoughts I cannot utter
When a pig came up
And lay down by my side
Two old ladies passing by
Oh gave me the choiceness eye
And laying there I over heard one say
Stststst, uh,uh,uh,uh
You can tell a man who boozes
By the company he chooses
Then the pig got up and slowly walked away”
Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation – Tom Paxton
[Verse 5]
Well here I sit in this rice paddy
Wondering about Big Daddy
And I know that Lyndon loves me so
Yet how sadly I remember
Way back yonder in November
When he said I’d never have to go
[Chorus]
Lyndon Johnson told the nation
“Have no fear of escalation
I am trying everyone to please
Though it isn’t really war
We’re sending fifty thousand more
To help save Viet nam from Viet Namese.”
Thanks, Peter B, for your two fine songs. Didn’t know John Stewart also wrote ‘Daydream Believer’, until I just did a little research.
Thanks, Fsho, for your three July songs. I just had a listen to ‘Cold Day in July’, which I enjoyed, primarily for its lilting, Southern, country, bluegrassy feel.
Hi Dave N – thanks for your three choices. As usual, your quoted lyrics are informative and illuminating. I particularly enjoyed the ‘Pig’ lyrics, though all were quality material, of course.
Aba Daba Honeymoon (Then the big baboon, one night in June, he married them and very soon they went on their Aba Daba Honeymoon) – Debbie Reynolds
Bus Stop (And that umbrella, we enjoyed it. By August she was mine) – The Hollies
Hi Kev, I was singing both of these in my head last night as I was trying to get off to sleep.
Thanks for these latest two, Fisho. Both catchy numbers.
Pleasant dreams tonight!
A scan of Dylan’s anthology and here’s what I’ve found (slim pickings):
Clothes Line Saga (circa ’67-’68) – Basement Tapes album
‘It was January the 30th
And everybody was feeling fine’
Rita May (1976) – Desire album outtake; co-write with Levy
‘Rita May, Rita May
Laying in a stack of hay’
Tight Connection To My Heart (1985) – Empire Burlesque album
‘There’s just a hot-blooded singer/Singing “Memphis in June, ”
While they’re beatin’ the devil out of a guy/Who’s wearing a powder-blue wig’
Man In The Long Black Coat (1989) – Oh Mercy album
‘There’s smoke on the water it’s been there since June
Tree trunks uprooted beneath the high crescent moon’
Here’s 4 October songs
October – Alessia Cara
The October Man – Bill Nelson
October Sky – Javier Colon
Night in the Lonesome October – Calabrese.
Night Ride Home, Joni
Born on the Bayou, CCR
Fire in the Belly, Van the Man
A sergeant and three constables
Rode out from Mansfield town,
Near the end of last October,
for to hunt the Kelly’s down.
This verse is from the Ballad of Stringybark Creek, being sung from early 1879. Joe Byrne is the apparent author.
Welcome to 2025 CE Kevin, look forward to the dialogue.
Glen!
Mr November, The National
November Has Come, Gorillaz
Lake of Fire, Nirvana cover of Meat Puppets
Lanyards, The Hold Steady
January Rain- Hunters & Collectors
Great work nailing the Dylan references, Karl. A left-of-centre entry KD (which you may not accept), but some Dylan songs mentioning the word “months” literally. Am I the only one who has noticed how often Bob rhymes it with the word “once”? (I know, I need to get a life).
I rode with him in a taxi once,
Only for a mile and a half, seemed like it took a couple of months.
(Lenny Bruce)
You said you were goin’ to Frisco, stay a couple of months.
I always liked San Francisco, I was there for a party once.
(Maybe Someday)
Rock me pretty baby rock me all at once.
Rock me for a little while. Rock me for a couple of months.
(Million Miles)
Samantha Brown lived in my house for about four or five months.
Don’t know how it looked to other people, I never slept with her even once.
(Lonesome Day Blues)
April the 14th Part 1 – Gillian Welch
Sublime lyrics.
…
It was a five band bill
A two dollar show
I saw the van out in front
From Idaho
And the girl passed out
In the backseat trash
There was no way they’d make
Even a half a tank of gas
They looked sick and stoned
And strangely dressed
No one showed
From the local press
But I watched them walk
Through the bottom land
And I wished I played
In a rock and roll band
Hey
Hey
It was the fourteenth day of April
Thanks, Karl, for your latest Dylan offerings – while the pickings may not be plentiful, I nevertheless think you’ve done a fine effort uncovering what you have uncovered. Specialist choices in the best possible sense of the term!
Thanks, Rick, for your latest choices – splendid variety there, mate!
Thank you, Fisho, for your most recent material. Love the way you’re dealing with particular months.
Thanks, Glen – I love the (likely) Joe Byrne lyrics you’ve put forward. I do like to think that he was indeed the actual author.
Thanks, Luke, for the Hunters song.
Thank you, DB, for your highly interesting left-of-centre Dylan entry. Happy to accept it, as it does relate to months. I enjoyed how your sharp eye picked up the months/once connections, too.
Thanks so much, Pards. I’ll need to check out that Gillian Welch song – another that uses a specific date as its title.
I think DB is onto something…..with ‘months’ rhyming with ‘once’ as a theme candidate.
Here is one of my favourite Dylan lines, from ‘Up To Me’ (1974) – a Blood On The Tracks outtake that ended up on the 1985 compilation album titled ‘Biograph’.
‘In fourteen months I’ve only smiled once and I didn’t do it consciously’
February Song – Josh Groban
February Seven -Avett Brothers
February Air – Lights
Xmas in February – Lou Reed
Two songs by satirical singers from the 50s and early 60s followed by a country song from the 70s
When You are Old and Gray – Tom Lehrer
“Your teeth will start to go dear
Your waist will start to spread
In twenty years or so dear
I’ll wish that you were dead
I’ll never love you then at all
The way I do today
So please remember
When I leave in December
I told you so in May”
The Ballad of Harry Lewis – Allan Sherman
“I’m singing you the ballad
Of a great man of the cloth
His name was Harry Lewis
And he worked for Irving Roth
He died while cutting velvet
On a hot July the 4th
But his cloth goes shining on
Glory, glory Harry Lewis
Glory, glory Harry Lewis
Glory, glory Harry Lewis
His cloth goes shining on
Texas 1947 – Guy Clark
“Trains are big and black and smoking, louder than July Four
But everybody’s actin’ like this might be something more
Than just picking up the mail or the soldiers from the war
This is something that even old man Wileman never seen before”
Thanks, Karl, for ‘Up to Me’ – sometimes the Dylan presence in themed songlists like ours increases in unexpected ways.
Thank you for the quartet of February songs, Fisho.
Thanks, Dave, for your latest three choices and the accompanying lyric excerpts.
You’ve reminded me, for one thing, how a former partner of mine – decades ago – had Tom Lehrer as one of her ‘go to’ artists. I particularly remember songs like ‘Poisoning Pigeons in the Park’.
‘Twas early in the morning on the fifth of May
That the seven police surrounded him as fast asleep he lay.’
From the old ballad, The Streets of Forbes’ commemorating the police killing of ‘Bold’ Ben Hall.
Weddings, Parties, Anything recorded a wonderful, rollicking version of this in 1989.
Glen!
Thanks for ‘The Streets of Forbes’ and highlighting the excellent version of it, Glen!
Hey KD
Does ‘Six months in a leaky boat’ qualify?????
Oooh…why not? As well as names of months, mentions of ‘month’ or ‘months’ is relevant enough, I suppose – let’s keep the specific names of months as the priority, though.
Thanks, Karl.
Excellent thread, as usual, KD. Well done.
I’m surprised the monstrous, bloated and tremendous fun that is November Rain hasn’t been mentioned. Even better is that the song itself is referenced by the wonderful Regina Spector in ‘On The Radio.’
On the radio
We heard “November Rain”
That solo’s real long
But it’s a pretty song
We listened to it twice
‘Cause the DJ was asleep.
There’s your Sunday morning intertextuality sorted!
Thanks for your comments re this thread, Mickey, including the Gun ‘N’ Roses song and the Regina Spector referencing of it.
Now that this intertextuality is sorted, I am context to switch of the computer for a while and watch some Test cricket!
A little bit of country:
Roses in the Snow, Emmylou
Deeper than the Holler, Randy Travis
December Day, Willie Nelson
Oh, and Mickey, I did have November Rain ready to go in a themed post, but I do like how you wedged it in with RS. I was a bit concerned with you calling it bloated. What the what. Another topic we need to discuss when next we beer meet. Cheers
A little bit of country is always welcome in these themed songlists, Rick, as you know. Thanks for your latest songs. In fact, one of the most interesting aspects of our songlists, to my way of thinking, is how the theme involved can so often connect with so many different song genres.
West 4th Street and Jones – Ralph McTell
“February ‘sixty three’ the cold would chill your bones
There’s a couple walking down the road West 4th Street and Jones
Shoulders hunched against the cold
They walk through melting snow
She smiles for the camera
And he affected not to know
His hands deep in his pockets his head was slightly bowed
All the studied nonchalance that the weather would allow
Her arms wrapped round him like a shawl
To keep him from the cold
Love so warm can melt away
What once she had to hold”
(This song was inspired by the album cover of The Freewheeling Bob Dylan which shows Bob with his then girlfriend Suze Rotolo walking down Jones Street near the corner of West 4th Street.)
Speaking of Dylan, several contributors have found months in Bob’s song but so far you have all missed the obvious.
Subterranean Homesick Blues
“Maggie says that many say
They must bust in early May
Orders from the D.A.”
4 June 1989 – Mary Chapin Carpenter
Verse 1]
I told them we heard singing
First before we reached the Square
“Arise the wretched of the earth” filled the air
So many fists clenched to the sky
We couldn’t count them all
But then the sea of weeping
Washed over the Hall
I told them no one saw me
There was no one who would know
I was an army soldier
Dressed in students clothes
Between the smoking bonfires
We held our rifles high
As the ashes of the banners
Soared into the sky
[Chorus]
Ah, I was seventeen that spring
Ah, we were just obeying orders
Ah, I still see everything
Through the factory’s yellow windows
In the dirty stinking river
In the messages that find you
Then vanish in the ether
Then vanish in the ether
[Verse 2]
I told them not to fear me
But history tells the tale
The artists and the poets
Fill up every jail
Before I held a rifle
I held an artist’s brush
Before Tiananmen
I even dreamed of love
[Chorus]
Ah, I was seventeen that spring
Ah, we were just obeying orders
Ah, I still see everything
Through the factory’s yellow windows
In the dirty stinking river
In the messages that find you
Then vanish in the ether
Then vanish in the ether
[Verse 3]
I told them they’d see me
Walking in the rain
In Budapest, in Prague
In Soweto’s lanes
Between the burning oil drums
And the graffiti on the wall
I told them, yes I told them
I told them all
[Chorus]
Ah, I was seventeen that spring
Ah, we were just obeying orders
Ah, I still see everything
Through the factory’s yellow windows
In the dirty stinking river
In the messages that find you
Then vanish in the ether
Then vanish in the ether”
Mary Chapin wrote the song but it was inspired by an article she read about an artist who had been a soldier in the Chinese army when it crushed the demonstrators in Tienanmen Square.
Highly interesting, apt comments and quoted material as usual. Thanks so much, Dave.
As I’ve indicated before in relation to these themed pieces, Dylan is the gift that keeps on giving, isn’t he? In relation to some themes, he seems – at first look – to have not much to say, but then surprisingly in various ways comes up with the goods.
The Fountain in the Park (Whilst strolling in the park one day in the merry merry month of May) – Judy Garland
Whilst we’re on May, here’s another
I Didn’t Know What Time it Was (Warm like the month of May it was) – Peggy Lee
June Comes Around Every Year – Bing Crosby
Lou Reed – Xmas In February (from the 1989 ‘New York’ album)
Hi Karl, I already mentioned Lou Reed’s Xmas in February on the 4th of January
Sorry Fisho – so you did. Excellent song choice!
Thanks, Fisho, for the very recent May songs, and the June one. You’re working through the months of the year very nicely!
I’ll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time (One day in May, I’ll come and say) – The Andrews Sisters
Excellent – thanks for The Andrews Sisters number, Fisho! (I’ve always particularly liked that trio.)
Hi Kev, has anyone mentioned these 2 April Fools day songs
April Fool’s Day Song – Whitney Avalon
April Fools – Rufus Wainwright
Thanks, Fisho, for these latest two – they haven’t been included by anyone previously.
Not sure if the first two suggestions have already been mentioned and the third is a stretch.
1. Journey through the Past, the song not the weird soundtrack, by Neil Young (Now I’m going back to Canada/On a journey through the past/And I won’t be back ’til February comes)
2. Soft Parachutes, a song from another film soundtrack, this time by Paul Simon (Soft parachutes, fourth of July/Villages burnin’/Returnin’ the bodies all laid in a line)
3. Come Monday, Jimmy Buffett (Headin’ out to San Francisco/For the Labor Day weekend show/I got my Hush Puppies on/I guess I never was meant for glitter rock ‘n’ roll). So KD, this is my argument: I reckon the Labor Day reference cements this as the month of September, and as per your instruction “concerns songs mentioning months of the year”, Jimmy’s great song does just that. Extra points for getting hush puppies in there as well.
Cheers
I can’t believe I’ve forgotten a song from one of my favorites, namely DEL SHANNON – here it is.
Hey Little Girl (Do you remember last September? I met you at a dance.)
Hi Rick. I’ve been through all the songs in our ‘months’ songlist and none of your latest were previously there – thanks for these additions. Fair enough that ‘Come Monday’ is included, too – yes, it’s a bit of a stretch, but a month is implied, and our themes are, metaphorically, broad umbrellas under which songs can be placed.
And while I think of it, here’s an early Lennon-McCartney song (mainly by Paul), first recorded by Billy J Kramer with the Dakotas in 1963, then by the Beatles soon after that for one of their BBC radio shows. The song is ‘I’ll Be On My Way’ and has the lines: ‘As the June light turns to moonlight / I’ll be on my way…’
Thanks for Shannon’s ‘Hey Little Girl’, Fisho.
And a slight correction to what I just wrote about ‘I’ll Be On My Way’ – it’s seems pretty clear after a little more reading that the song was totally written by Paul McCartney, but, as was the norm in the era concerned, credited to Lennon-McCartney.
I can’t believe no one has mentioned the immortal Judy Garland:
When April showers may come your way
They bring the flowers that bloom in May
Then there’s always Sandy Denny.
‘Late November’, a weird amalgam of of surreal images;
‘Boxful of Treasures’:
A box full of treasure
And a golden comb
I will surely give to you
When the moon is done
And Christmas is in June
and ‘After Halloween’:
October has gone and left me with a song
That I will sing to you although the moment may be wrong.
Hey KD
Perhaps the ultimate song for this theme is Boney M’s – Calendar Song (1979).
The entire lyrics are:
January, February, March, April, May
June, July
January, February, March, April, May
June, July
August, September, October
November, December
August, September, October
November, December
Thanks, Andrew G, for your quartet of selections. Judy Garland has received a mention earlier, but with a different song, ‘The Fountain in the Park’.
Great stuff, Karl! I think you’ve put forward the quintessential ‘months’ song in Boney M’s ‘Calendar Song’, in that its lyrics are made up entirely of the months of the year, and no other words – and all months are included.
Laredo Tornado: Electric Light Orchestra
September song: Jeff Lynne (I’m familiar with his version).
Thanks, Liam, for your ELO / Lynne material. These songlists feel somewhat incomplete without your input in this context.
Thanks Kevin.
I forgot to include Remember September, by Belinda Carlisle.
Thanks, Liam, for the Belinda Carlisle ballad.
Some more not too shabby suggestions.
1. October Road, by James Taylor, a later effort, with Ry on guitar (Well I’m-a going back down maybe one more time/Deep down home, October road)
2. A Hayseed Like Me, by Pete Seeger, at his best in the mid 50s, pushing back against treatment of the working class, and before the media became political propaganda for the right, well, at least before they dropped the pretense of objectivity (But now I’ve roused up a little/Their greed and corruption I see/And the ticket we vote next November/Will be made up of hayseeds like me)
3. Vagrant Winter, by Bob Seger, this is early career Bob, wistful, sentimental, heartfelt, you know like he has been throughout his career (Born December’s children/Learned to live without a sky/That’s beneath the tallest buildings/Even our childhood was a lie/Vagrant winter’s at the door now)
Thanks, Rick, for this batch of highly apt songs, as well as interesting commentary and illuminating quoted material. In connection with Taylor’s ‘October Road’, there’s another fine song on the same album called ‘September Grass’, as you probably know.
Yep, KD, and a July song too. But Ry only plays on the title song!
No worries, Rick. Thanks.
There;s a beautiful Taylor Swift song called ‘August’ on her Folklore album of 2020. The song was written by Swift and Jack Antonoff.
The chorus of this fine song is as follows:
‘But I can see us lost in the memory
August slipped away into a moment in time
‘Cause it was never mine
And I can see us twisted in bedsheets
August sipped away like a bottle of wine
‘Cause you were never mine’
And as we head towards yet another century, the following song comes under the ‘I’m surprised nobody has mentioned this one yet’ banner – Springsteen’s ‘4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)’ (1973), from his album The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle.
Good morning KD – Rick mentioned Sandy way way back on 3 January. I know because I was going to add it to the list a few days later until I noted it was already listed. It’s a good song so nice that it gets recognised multiple times. Cheers, KD
Morning, Karl. Thanks for this – it was the very succinct ‘Sandy, Bruce’ entry on Jan 3, as opposed to the song’s complete title, that threw me – so brief was this reference that I didn’t register it when I slowly looked through the entire thread.
And to bring up our century, the very jazzy ‘October Song’ by Amy Winehouse (2003), from her debut studio album Frank.
Thanks to all who’ve contributed to this milestone.
Hi KD, thought I’d throw this one in as a v small acknowledgement of Garth Hudson, who sadly passed away today, the last remaining member of The Band. And what a band they were. Garth was so much to their sound and identity.
My latest submission is Talking to the Moon by Don Henley (When the hot September sun, down in Texas/Sucked the streams bone dry/Turned roads to dust/In the sleepy little towns down in Texas/The shades are all pulled down;/The streets are all rolled up)
This song is from Henley’s 1982 album. Garth plays synths behind Benmont on piano and keyboards, the melodious hum behind Henley’s singing, I presume is Garth. Henley, as usual, sings the hell out of this little hymn to lost love.
Thanks so much for this timely addition, Rick, as well as the interesting accompanying contextual information.
New song theme will be posted this Friday, 24 January.
Hi KD
This theme related song/lyric popped in – so here it is:
Van Morrison – Fire In The Belly (from the excellent 1997 ‘The Healing Game’ album)
And I’m crazy about you/You, you on your high flying cloud
You, you with the laugh in your eyes/You, you with your hidden surprise/You
Gotta get through January/Gotta get through February
Thanks, Karl, for the Van Morrison song. I’ll check it out.
Greetings KD
I was checking out a Dylan song to see if fitted the ‘science’ theme when I was surprised to find that the opening line fits the ‘month’ theme….so here it is:
My Own Version Of You – from the 2020 ‘Rough & Rowdy Ways’ album
‘All through the summers, into January
I’ve been visiting morgues and monasteries
Looking for the necessary body parts
Limbs and livers and brains and hearts’
Hi Karl. Great to receive another Dylan song for this theme. Particularly interesting lyrics, too – even for Bob. Thank you.