

In the Heat of the Night - Ray Charles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va1cNEBu7ZE Of the three films that Sidney Poitier is nowadays mostly remembered for, all released in...


To Sir with Love - Lulu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV1qmmMwc9M In January, I was slowly working through the annual queue of yuletide demises, when there...


The Universal Soldier - Buffy Saint-Marie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q09f1OE7R8s Three weeks on, and still the war in Ukraine continues. Over the past three weeks, the song...


Zombie - the Cranberries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejga4kJUts There are many, many great anti-war songs, but none conveys more feeling of grief,...


Stop the War Now - Edwin Starr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFv0gqIPAE4 It's been 5 weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, and my blog thread of the annual spate of...


(The Best Part of) Breaking Up - the Ronettes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K04WwAL-3eg "the best part of breaking up is when you're making up...." Generally true, especially in the...


Do I Love You? - the Ronettes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL7LaOVIyXU As I have mentioned elsewhere, my father was a corrosion engineer for an oil company in the...


Baby I Love You - the Ronettes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgOONhI3FnM So sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Spector who died yesterday, aged 78. Ronnie leapt to...


Christmas Wrapping - the Waitresses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAvYooh5jV4 "The Squirrel does not hibernate, as it is said by the older writers to do. In the winter it...


Christmas at the Zoo - the Flaming Lips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3mRC-foSZs Manger definition: "A box or trough in a stable or cow house, from which horses or cattle...

