Saturday, May 9, 2015

Caregiving Diversions

Caregiving Diversions

My caregiving often kept me housebound which meant a lot of listening to music, watching TV, and reading.

When asked about my ONE FAVORITE, book, movie, song; or even my top 10 books, movies, songs, I'm stuck. Do people have absolute favorites? How do you compare fiction with nonfiction, or comedy with drama?  So if I do answer the question, it is only true for that brief moment in time because my choices keep changing.

Here is my list of favorite, but maybe not-so-well known-rock-'n-roll-non-instrumental-and-including-some-other-genres songs, in no particular order. At least, they are my favorites at this moment….

 1 Rock Around the Clock, Bill Haley and His Comets [the one that started it all for me]

2 California Sun, the Riveras [especially important to listen to in Chicago during a February blizzard]

3 I've Got a Line on You, Spirit [not copyright infringed by Led Zeppelin]

4 Season of the Witch, Stills & Kooper, Super Session album [best album ever]

5 I'm Your Witch Doctor, John Mayall and the Blues Breakers (Clapton) [do I detect a witchy theme?]

6 (Don't Fear) The Reaper, Blue Oyster Cult [good advice]

7 The Voice,  Moody Blues [even more haunting than their ambitious concept album Days of Future Passed]

8 For What It's Worth, Buffalo Springfield, written by Stills [sums up my experiences during college]

9 Cocaine, Eric Clapton [If that's too offensive we'll go with his I Shot the Sheriff]

10 Battle of New Orleans, Johnny Horton [hey, I'm a history major]

11  House of the Rising Sun, the Animals [Eric, my man, you are still rockin' it!]

12  Quick Joey Small (Run Joey Run), Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus [even with a fair amount of airtime in '68 I was the only person I know who actually heard it.]