March 16th – Its spring :-) – “Oh what a beautiful morning”

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Today’s forecast is great.  Dust off your #Oklahoma DVD and sing! #feelgood #singing

Oh, what a beautiful morning

16-1 Beautiful morning

There’s a bright golden haze on the meadow
There’s a bright golden haze on the meadow
The corn is as high as an elaphant’s eye
And it looks like it’s climbing clear up to the sky

Oh what a beautiful mornin’
Oh what a beautiful day
I’ve got a beautiful feelin’
Everything’s going my way

All the cattle are standing like statues
All the cattle are standing like statues
They don’t turn their heads as they see me ride by
But a little brown maverick is winkin’ her eye

Oh what a beautiful mornin’
Oh what a beautiful day
I’ve got a beautiful feeling
Everything’s going my way

All the sounds of the earth are like music
All the sounds of the earth are like music
The breeze is so busy it don’t miss a tree
And an old weepin’ willer is laughin’ at me!

Oh what a beautiful mornin’
Oh what a beautiful day
I’ve got a beautiful feeling
Everything’s going my way
Oh what a beautiful day

16-3 Oklahoma Oh what a beautiful morning

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March 15th – Ides of March – Julius Caesar stabbed – “Hail Caesar”

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In 44BC, Julius #Caesar was stabbed on the #IdesOfMarch. This is not a typical Today I’m Singing band, but the title was too good to ignore!

Hail Caesar

15-3 Caesar

He be the count of Monte Cristo
Could be a quake any day
Maybe somebody from siam
Begin the era of a new rage
Keeps lickin’ all the honey
Chewin’ up the fat he rakes
Instead of sending to the lions
They cover him with praise

All hail Caesar
Hail! hail!

Down at the epicenter
Things started heatin’ up
Rockin’ up the richter scale
Swingin’ in the chariot
Around and around we go
The senators rehearse the tale
Starring in the Coliseum
Tied upon the rack
Up comes the thumb of Caesar
To stab you in the back

All hail Caesar
Hail! hail!

Down at the epicenter
Things started heatin’ up
Rockin’ up the richter scale
Swingin’ in the chariot
Around and around we go
The senators rehearse the tale

Watch out Caesar

I said hail

Hail! hail!

All hail Caesar
Hail! hail!

You need eyes in the back of your head boy,
Or you’re dead.

15-3 ACDC Hail Caesar

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March 14th – Einstein born – “Quantum of Solace” theme song

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In 1879, Albert #Einstein was born.  An expert in quantum physics, here is the theme tune from the Bond film

Another way to die

14-3 Quantum of Solace

Another ringer with the slick trigger finger
For Her Majesty
Another one with the golden tongue
Poisoning your fantasy
Another bill from a killer turned a thriller
To a tragedy

[Chorus:]
Yeah
A door left open
A woman walking by
A drop in the water
A look in your eye
A phone on the table
A man on your side
Or someone that you think that you can trust
It’s just
Another way to die

Another tricky little gun giving solace to the one
That’ll never see the sun shine
Another inch of your life sacrificed for your brother
In the nick of time
Another dirty money heaven sent honey
Turning on a dime

[Chorus]

(It’s just another)
Hey!
(It’s just another)
You’re nothing to me die
(It’s just another)
Shoot ’em up bang bang

Another girl with her finger on the world
Singing to you what you wanna hear
Another gun thrown down in surrender
Took away your fear
Another man there he stands right behind you
Looking in the mirror

[Chorus]

It’s just another
It’s just another
It’s just another way
Shoot ’em up, bang bang
Hey Hey
It’s just another
Yeah Yeah

It’s just another
It’s just another
It’s just another
It’s just another day

Bang bang bang bang

14-3 Quantum of Solace Another way to die

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March 13th – Songs from the musicals – High Society – “Who wants to be a millionaire”

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Nothing inspirational in the anniversaries section today.  So here is a song from #HighSociety  #singing;#feelgood

Who wants to be a millionaire?

13-3 High Society

MIKE:
Who has an itch
To be filthy rich?

LIZ:
Who gives a hoot
For a lot of loot?

MIKE:
who longs to live
A life of perfect ease?

LIZ:
And be swamped by necessary luxuries?

MIKE:
Who wants to be a millionaire?

LIZ:
I don’t.

MIKE:
Have flashy flunkeys ev’rywhere?

LIZ:
I don’t.

MIKE:
Who wants the bother of a country estate?

LIZ:
A country estate is something I’d hate!

MIKE:
Who wants to wallow in champagne?

LIZ:
I don’t.

MIKE:
Who wants a supersonic plane?

LIZ:
I don’t.

MIKE:
Who wants a marble swimming pool too?

LIZ:
I don’t.

BOTH:
And I don’t
‘Cause all I want is you.

MIKE:
Who wants to be a millionaire?

LIZ:
I don’t.

MIKE:
And have uranium to spare?

LIZ:
I don’t.

MIKE:
Who wants to journey on a gigantic yacht?

LIZ:
Do I want a yacht?
Oh, how I do not!
Who wants a fancy foreign car?

MIKE:
I don’t.

LIZ:
Who wants to tire of caviar?

MIKE:
I don’t.

LIZ:
Who wants a private landing field too?

MIKE:
I don’t.

BOTH:
And I don’t.
‘Cause all I want is you.

MIKE:
Who wants to be a millionaire?

LIZ:
I don’t.

MIKE:
And go to every swell affair?

LIZ:
I don’t.

MIKE:
Who wants to ride behind a liv’ried chauffeur?

LIZ:
A liv’ried chauffeur
Do I want? No sir!

MIKE:
Who wants an opera box, I’ll bet?

LIZ:
I don’t.

MIKE:
And sleep through Wagner at the Met?

LIZ:
I don’t.

MIKE:
Who wants to corner Cartier’s too?

LIZ:
I don’t.

BOTH:
And I don’t,
‘Cause all I want is you.

 
13-3 High Society Who wants to be a millionaire

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March 12th – Its spring :-) – “It’s getting better every day”

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Let’s celebrate the wonderful longer days again, birds tweeting and bulbs sprouting that is #spring!  #feelgood #singing

It’s getting better every day

12-3 Spring crocuses

Once I believed that when love came to me
It would come with rockets, bells and poetry
But with me and you it just started quietly and grew
And believe it or not
Now there’s something groovy and good
Bout whatever we got
And it’s getting better
Growing stronger warm and wilder
Getting better everyday, better everyday
I don’t feel all turned on and starry eyed
I just feel a sweet contentment deep inside
Holding you at night just seems kind of natural and right
And it’s not hard to see
That it isn’t half of what it’s going to turn out to be
Cause it’s getting better
Growing stronger, warm and wilder
Getting better everyday, better everyday
And just like a flower that takes time to bloom
This love of ours is taking time to grow
Ba da da da da da da da da da da da
And I don’t mind waitin’, don’t mind waitin’
Cause no matter how long it takes
The two of us know
That it’s getting better
Growing stronger, warm and wilder
Getting better everyday, better everyday
12-3 Cass Elliot Its getting better every day

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March 11th – Paul McCartney knighted – “Eleanor Rigby”

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In 1997, #PaulMcCartney of the #Beatles was #knight ed.  Here is of my favourite songs #EleanorRigby from the album #Revolver

Eleanor Rigby

11-3 Paul McCartney

Ah, look at all the lonely people
Ah, look at all the lonely people

Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream
Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it for?

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

Father McKenzie writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear
No one comes near
Look at him working, darning his socks in the night when there’s nobody there
What does he care?

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

Ah, look at all the lonely people
Ah, look at all the lonely people

Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name
Nobody came
Father McKenzie wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave
No one was saved

All the lonely people (Ah, look at all the lonely people)
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people (Ah, look at all the lonely people)
Where do they all belong?

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March 10th – Songs from the musicals – Annie – “It’s a hard knock life”

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Hundreds of girls in #Nottingham, including my daughter will be auditioning for the #NottinghamOperaticSociety production of #Annie in a few weeks.  Get practising! #singing;#feelgood

It’s a hard knock life

10-3 Annie

It’s the hard knock life…
It’s the hard knock life..It’s the hard-knock life for us
It’s the hard-knock life for us

Steada treated,
We get tricked
Steada kisses,
We get kicked
It’s the hard-knock life!

Got no folks to speak of, so
It’s the hard knock row we hoe
Cotton blankets ..steada wool

Empty bellies ..steada full!
It’s the hard-knock life

Don’t if feel like the wind is always howlin?
Don’t it seem like there’s never any light??
Once a day, don’t you wanna throw the towel in?
It’s easier than puttin’ up a fight

No one’s there when your dreams at night get creepy
No one cares if you grow…or if you shrink
No one cries when your eyes get wet and weepy
From all the cryin’ you would think this place would sink
Ohhh.. ohhh

Empty belly life! ((empty belly life))
Rotten smelly life! ((No no no no no))
Full of sorrow life! ((full of sorrow life…))
No tomorrow life!

Santa Claus we never see…
Santa Claus what’s that? Who’s he?

No one cares for you a smidge
When you’re in an orphanage

It’s the hard-knock life for us
It’s the hard-knock life for us
No one cares for you a smidge
When your in an orphanage
It’s the hard-knock life
It’s the hard-knock life
It’s the hard-knock life!

10-3 Annie Hard knock life

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March 9th – Barbie makes her debut – “I’m a Barbie girl”

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In 1959, #Barbie was born.  #HappyBirthday.  #feelgood #singing

I’m a Barbie girl

9-3 Barbie

Hi Barbie
Hi Ken!
Do you wanna go for a ride?
Sure Ken!
Jump in…

I’m a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world
Life in plastic, it’s fantastic!
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation
Come on Barbie, let’s go party!

I’m a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world
Life in plastic, it’s fantastic!
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation

I’m a blond bimbo girl, in a fantasy world
Dress me up, make it tight, I’m your dolly
You’re my doll, rock’n’roll, feel the glamour in pink,
Kiss me here, touch me there, hanky panky…
You can touch, you can play, if you say: “I’m always yours”

(uu-oooh-u) [2x]

I’m a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world
Life in plastic, it’s fantastic!
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation

Come on Barbie, let’s go party!
(Ah-ah-ah-yeah)
Come on Barbie, let’s go party!
(uu-oooh-u) [2x]
Come on Barbie, let’s go party!
(Ah-ah-ah-yeah)
Come on Barbie, let’s go party!
(uu-oooh-u) [2x]

Make me walk, make me talk, do whatever you please
I can act like a star, I can beg on my knees
Come jump in, bimbo friend, let us do it again,
Hit the town, fool around, let’s go party
You can touch, you can play, if you say: “I’m always yours”
You can touch, you can play, if you say: “I’m always yours”

Come on Barbie, let’s go party!
(Ah-ah-ah-yeah)
Come on Barbie, let’s go party!
(uu-oooh-u) [2x]
Come on Barbie, let’s go party!
(Ah-ah-ah-yeah)
Come on Barbie, let’s go party!
(uu-oooh-u) [2x]

I’m a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world
Life in plastic, it’s fantastic!
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation

I’m a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world
Life in plastic, it’s fantastic!
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation

Come on Barbie, let’s go party!
(Ah-ah-ah-yeah)
Come on Barbie, let’s go party!
(uu-oooh-u) [2x]
Come on Barbie, let’s go party!
(Ah-ah-ah-yeah)
Come on Barbie, let’s go party!
(uu-oooh-u) [2x]

Oh, I’m having so much fun!
Well Barbie, we’re just getting started
Oh, I love you Ken!

9-3 Im a Barbie girl

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March 8th – Its spring :-) – “New Life”

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Let’s celebrate the wonderful longer days, birds tweeting and bulbs sprouting that is #spring!  #feelgood #singing

New Life

8-3 Spring

I stand still stepping on the shady streets
And I watched that man to a stranger
You think you only know me when you turn on the light
Now the room is lit, red danger

Complicating, circulating
New life, new life
Operating, generating
New life, new life

Transitions to another place
So the time will pass more slowly
Features fuse and your shadow’s red
Like a film I’ve seen now show me

Your face is hidden and were out of sight
And the road just leads to nowhere
The stranger in the door is the same as before
So the question answers nowhere

I stand still stepping on the shady streets
And I watched that man to a stranger
You think you only know me when you turn on the light
Now the room is lit, red danger

8-3 Depeche Mode New Life

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March 7th – Telephone is patented – “Hanging on the telephone”

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In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell patented the #telephone.  It transformed the world.  Here is #Blondie

Hanging on the telephone

7-3 Telephone

I’m in the phone booth, it’s the one across the hall
If you don’t answer, I’ll just ring it off the wall
I know he’s there, but I just had to call
Don’t leave me hanging on the telephone
Don’t leave me hanging on the telephone
I heard your mother now she’s going out the door
Did she go to work or just go to the store
All those things she said, I told you to ignore
Oh why can’t we talk again
Oh why can’t we talk again
Oh why can’t we talk again
Don’t leave me hanging on the telephone
Don’t leave me hanging on the telephone

It’s good to hear your voice, you know it’s been so long
If I don’t get your call then everything goes wrong
I want to tell you something you’ve known all along
Don’t leave me hanging on the telephone

I had to interrupt and stop this conversation
Your voice across the line gives me a strange sensation
I’d like to talk when I can show you my affection
Oh I can’t control myself
Oh I can’t control myself
Oh I can’t control myself
Don’t leave me hanging on the telephone

Hang up and run to me
Whoah, hang up and run to me
Whoah, hang up and run to me
Whoah, hang up and run to me
Whoah oh oh oh run to me

7-3 Blondie Hanging on the telephone

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