Bill Bodden's Blog - Posts Tagged "music"
Earworms
I was thinking the other day about songs and jingles that crawl into your head and usually don't leave until forced out. There are so many it's overwhelming. It doesn't matter if the song is good or not - what matters is how catchy it is for your brain to remember. I've included a few links to video/sound clips - click them if you dare!
I was a big fan of the original Muppet Show; when I was a kid, I'd lunge for the TV at 6:30 on Saturday nights to tune it. Usually, in my excitement I'd be a little early, and catch...
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I was a big fan of the original Muppet Show; when I was a kid, I'd lunge for the TV at 6:30 on Saturday nights to tune it. Usually, in my excitement I'd be a little early, and catch...
To read the rest of this post, please visit: http://billbodden.com/2020/07/20/earw...
To Soothe the Savage Breast
I owe a lot of my musical taste to my family.
My brothers were both coming of age in the late 1960s, so I got to listen to a lot of music from that era. My dad was also musical; he could play the organ well enough that he volunteered at church from time to time, and could noodle around with a couple other instruments. His and mom's era was the Big Band sound of the 1940s, and dad had a fondness for classic music too.
So at a very young age I was listening to Tchaikovsky; Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young; the Beatles; Stravinsky; Cat Stevens; The Who; The Band; Three Dog Night; Duke Ellington; Count Basie; Santana, and a lot more. One day, I was watching Sesame Street, and they had Stevie Wonder on with his band, playing the most funktastic version of "Superstition" I've ever heard, and it was...
To read the rest of this post, please visit: http://billbodden.com/2021/02/24/to-s...
My brothers were both coming of age in the late 1960s, so I got to listen to a lot of music from that era. My dad was also musical; he could play the organ well enough that he volunteered at church from time to time, and could noodle around with a couple other instruments. His and mom's era was the Big Band sound of the 1940s, and dad had a fondness for classic music too.
So at a very young age I was listening to Tchaikovsky; Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young; the Beatles; Stravinsky; Cat Stevens; The Who; The Band; Three Dog Night; Duke Ellington; Count Basie; Santana, and a lot more. One day, I was watching Sesame Street, and they had Stevie Wonder on with his band, playing the most funktastic version of "Superstition" I've ever heard, and it was...
To read the rest of this post, please visit: http://billbodden.com/2021/02/24/to-s...
