- Songs beginning with N
- And lyric snippets that I hope are thought provoking!
1960s: Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues [Nights in white satin, never reaching the end, letters I've written, never meaning to send...]
1970s: Native New Yorker - Odyssey
1980s: Nikita - Elton John
1990s: Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor [It's been seven hours and fifteen days, since you took your love away...]
Native New Yorker
This Denny Randell and Sandy Linzer song has a real 'feal-good factor' to it but then you listen to the lyrics.
'...where did all those yesterdays go
When you still believed love could really be like a Broadway show...'
'...where did all those yesterdays go
When you still believed love could really be like a Broadway show...'
At what age do you think you stopped believing that love could really be like a Broadway show?
Or maybe for you it's true!
Or maybe for you it's true!
Nikita
This song is written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin about the Cold War and a fictitious female Soviet border guard.
'...And if there comes a time
Guns and gates no longer hold you in
And if you're free to make a choice
Just look towards the West and find a friend...'
It was written before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 'warming up' of relations between East and West. How sad that the families in Berlin were split apart by the Wall. How great that the wall no longer exists.
How many more families have to be affected by war, be it a hot or a cold war?
And I could have added:
'...And if there comes a time
Guns and gates no longer hold you in
And if you're free to make a choice
Just look towards the West and find a friend...'
It was written before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 'warming up' of relations between East and West. How sad that the families in Berlin were split apart by the Wall. How great that the wall no longer exists.
How many more families have to be affected by war, be it a hot or a cold war?
And I could have added:
Sinead's tear in the video of Nothing Compares 2 U was so moving. She says it was unplanned and I believe her.
Any more N songs that mean something to you?
Ooh, don't know these...can I cheat and do 'The Night they drove old Dixie down' which I think is Joan Baez - who was one of my idols in the 60's. Such a clear voice.
ReplyDeleteYou most certainly can. She was an amazing singer.
DeleteI am enjoying coming to your blog, so many great songs to remember,
ReplyDeleteYvonne.
Thanks Yvonne.
DeleteNothing Compares 2 U is just brilliant - and I don't think there's any way she could have faked that emotion - it makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
ReplyDeleteIt is pretty powerful, isn't it.
DeleteNothing Compares 2 U - someone told me she wrote it about giving up smoking, but it's sung with such passion I'm not sure I believe that!
ReplyDeleteI agree. She wouldn't have shed a tear over that... would she?
DeleteI love Nights in White Satin. The romance of the song always remended me of Knights. Because of this, our second post-apocolyptic novel in the Higher Ground series is named: Knights in Black Leather--a play on the words. The others are:
ReplyDeleteWind Over Troubled Waters (Bridge over...)
Golden Submarine (Yellow Sub ...)
Long Doom Calling. (London Calling)
Francene.
A - Z Challenge
http://francene-wordstitcher.blogspot.co.uk/
What a brilliant idea that is, almost naming novels after old songs. Love it!
DeleteI adore the Knights in White Satin song, as I grew up listening to Moody Blues. Dad is a big fan of them and, playing the flute myself, I always loved the flute solos.
ReplyDeleteReally enjoying your A to Z posts, Rosalind :)
Daughter used to play the flute (beautifully I might add) and yes there is a lovely flute solo in that song.
DeleteThis is the first time where i am unable to pick a favorite from the four. Another great blog.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ian
DeleteGreat tunes all around. I also always liked Never My Love as sung by the Fifth Dimension. Marilyn McCoo's voice was sublime.
ReplyDeleteYes, that was a lovely song too. I think there was an earlier version of it.
DeleteI hate to admit it, but I am not familiar with those songs. Natural Woman comes to mind, to my mind.
ReplyDeleteThat was a great Carol King song. There's always the lyric meanings even if you don't know the songs, I suppose.
DeleteOh, so it was Nikita! I was driving myself crazy ever since seeing your Cold War hint on Twitter LOL. I never would have thought of it.
ReplyDeleteLove Nothing Compares 2 U, such a great song and performance.
Sorry my tweet drove you crazy :-)
DeleteMy first husband was actually in Berlin when the wall came down. He said it was the most incredible experience. I'm afraid these songs don't ring any bells, but then that might be my useless memory!
ReplyDeleteIt certainly came across as amazing in the videos that I've seen of it. I'll bet you'd know some of the songs if you heard them.
DeleteNights in White Satin is a lovely song.My mind's gone blank I can't think of any. Never Can Say Goodbye by eh.. The three degrees or the Supremes can't remember.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was by Gloria Gaynor but it's a good song whatever.
DeleteI went with No One is to Blame for 80's, but had Never Surrender on the back burner with November Rain
ReplyDeleteHi Ros .. I love Nights in White Satin .. but I'd always have spelt it with a K .. funny remembrances - or lack of!! Cheers Hilary
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