A World of Music

Keep thinking about your Baby and smile through the weekend. You don’t want to know what happened when I asked for songs with Baby in the title. Here are some of my picks and believe me there are hundreds more. Leaving you with a picture of my Baby Sid. “Sugar Baby Love” The Rubettes “Baby’s In Black” The Beatles “Be My Baby” The Ronettes “Baby I’m Yours” Cass Elliot “Baby the Rain Must Fall” Glen Yarbrough “(Your So Square) Baby I Don’t Care” Elvis “My Baby Left Me” Elvis “Baby Blue” Badfinger

The super talented lady with the awesome voice Bette Midler. Her first #I Adult Contemporary Hit – “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” “The Rose”   “Wind Beneath My Wings”   “Every Road Leads Back to You” “’In My Life” “I Think It’s Gonna Rain Today” “The Glory of Love” “From a Distance”

Let’s head into this last week of August dancing... ”I Want to Dance With Somebody” Whitney Houston “Dancing in the Dark” Bruce Springsteen “Dancing in the Street” Martha & The Vandellas “Dancing in the Moonlight” King Harvest “Could I Have This Dance” Anne Murray “Dance By the Light of the Moon” The Olympics “Dancing Queen” Abba “Dance Me to the End of Love” Leonard Cohen

Lovely roses still blossoming on the vine and summer is still here and that is fine. “Bed of Roses” Bon Jovi “Rose Colored Glasses” John Conlee “Days of Wine and Roses” Robin Gibbs “The Rose of Tralee” John McCormack “Ramblin’ Rose” Nat King Cole “Love is a Rose” Neil Young “Run for the Roses” Dan Fogelberg

I’d like to begin this week with the incredible music of this American rock group Blondie founded by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. In the mid to late 1970s they were pioneers in the Early American New Wave and Punk scenes. “Heart of Glass” “Dreaming” “Call Me” “One Way or Another” “The Tide is High” “Sunday Girl” “Maria”

One more heartfelt tribute to Cecil and it’s raining in my heart... “Africa” Toto “A Hard Rain’s a Gonna Fall” Bob Dylan “Fire and Rain” James Taylor “Raining in My Heart” Buddy Holly “Walkin’ in the Rain” The Ronettes “I Made it Through the Rain” Barry Manilow “Kentucky Rain” Elvis

He was given a very long name Lugee Alfredo Giovanni Sacco but professionally he is known as Lou Christie, an American singer-songwriter best known for his pop hits in the 60s. “The Gypsy Cried” “Two Faces Have I” “Stay” “Lightnin’ Strikes” “Rhapsody in the Rain” “Since I Don’t Have You” “I’m Gonna Make You Mine”

Hope the new week will be bright and sunny and find you feeling like you’re in paradise. “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” Meatloaf “Paradise City” Guns ‘n’ Roses “Just Like Paradise” David Lee Roth “Somewhere in Paradise” Baccara “Return to Paradise” Elton John “Paradise” The Ronettes “Almost Paradise” Mike Reno and Anne Wilson “Halfway to Paradise” Billy Fury

Songs from The Beatles very first album Please Please Me which came out on February 10, 1963. “Love Me Do” “Ask Me Why” “P.S. I Love You” “There’s a Place” “Do You Want to Know a Secret?” “Twist and Shout”

Let’s celebrate the beginning of August and the beginning of another week with smiles and laughter. “Laugh” The Monkees “Smile” Michael Jackson “I Started a Joke” The Bee Gees “I Love to Laugh” from Mary Poppins “Smile in Your Heart” Harana “Smile a Little Smile for Me, Rosemarie” The Flying Machine “Smile Jamaica” Chronixx