Some Musical Notes

So, anyway, my last few days have featured the same basic CDs/songs on my playlist:

1. Devils & Dust by Bruce Springsteen (favorite songs, so far, are “Reno” and “Leah”)

2. A classical music CD with “Canon in D Major” (I also listen to “The Four Seasons” by Vivaldi and whatever Song 2 is titled; I believe I might have played that one, also, at one time or another, in band or on the bells or something)

I have not been writing down my first song of the day lately, but I have a couple of doozies (sp?) from earlier this week: “I Can’t Fight This Feeling” by REO Speedwagon (not that I’m saying this is a bad song ... though I still crack up at the thought of the video, with that little guy running around in the guy’s head) and “The Adverb Song” from Schoolhouse Rock — yes, the “Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, get your adverbs here!” song.

Yesterday I landed on a decent station whilst driving to The Ville; however, it was a station that played a bunch of songs in a row and then never said who the singers were, which I find highly annoying. Peter, Paul and Mary’s “Puff, the Magic Dragon” was playing as I cruised toward the Route 16 turnoff — and durrrrrrrrrn that Patti for previously having mentioned the “A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys” line because, yes, it made me well up, too. Shortly after I turned toward home, though, I heard the familiar saxophone intro of one of my favorite songs of all time: “Diana” by Paul Anka! Needless to say, I cranked the volume and sang as loud as I could, all the way into The Ville.

: )

The weirdest musical moment of the trip occurred somewhere near Cowden when I heard some woman whose voice I didn’t recognize singing “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” ... only every time she said “hands,” she sounded like she was saying “Hans” — as in:

Hans: I am Hans.
Franz: And I am Franz.
Unison: And we are here to pump *clap* you up!

Needless to say, it made me smile. And wonder.