William's Song a Day Blog - est. September 2007

From: Yesterday and Today ; Year: 1966; Genre: Pop/Rock Just had this one literally pop into my mind as I was making my coffee and took it as a gift from somewhere, so it is today's pick. And an excellent one from the legendary songwriting duo.   Hear We Can Work It Out on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: The Band - The Weight   My song pick 2 years ago today: The Four Tops - Reflections   My song pick 3 years ago today: Rare Earth - Hum Along and Dance   My song pick 4 years ago today: Rammstein - Radio   My song pick 5 years ago today: Matthews' Southern Comfort - Tell Me Why My song pick 6 years ago today: Sam & Dave - Hold On, I'm Coming My song pick 7 years ago today: Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman My song pick 8 years ago today: Meat Loaf - Life is a Lemon (and I Want My Money Back) My song pick 9 years ago today: Martin Barre - I Raise My Glass To You My song pick 10 years ago today: ABBA - Knowing Me, Knowin...

From: Revolver ; Year: 1966; Genre: Rock/Pop Just feels like a good day to choose a song from the pen of John Lennon and Paul McCartney; this one seemed to fit very well. This one is quite intricate in construction and moves along very well, I just wish it was a smidge longer that its just over 2:00 total.    Hear And Your Bird Can Sing on YouTube.         My song pick 1 year ago today: King Crimson - Industry   My song pick 2 years ago today: Parliament - (Gloryhallastoopid) Pin The Tail On The Funky My song pick 3 years ago today: Marillion - That Time of the Night (The Short Straw) My song pick 4 years ago today: The J. Geils Band - Love Stinks My song pick 5 years ago today: Savatage - Of Rage and War My song pick 6 years ago today: Frank Black - Headache My song pick 7 years ago today: Jethro Tull - Two Fingers My song pick 8 years ago today: Paul Simon - Hobo's Blues My song pick 9 years ago today: Megadeth - Sweating Bullets My...

From: The Beatles (The White Album) ; Year: 1968; Genre: Rock/Pop Just a song incessantly running through my mind today; not one of my favourites from the band, but it's got a lot of charm. Hear The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill on YouTube. My song pick 1 year ago today: Elvis Presley - You'll Never Walk Alone My song pick 2 years ago today: Carmen - Flamenco Fever My song pick 3 years ago today: Ian Anderson - A Change of Horses My song pick 4 years ago today: Wilson Pickett - Hey Joe My song pick 5 years ago today: The Cosmic Sound Orchestra - Listen to the Beat My song pick 6 years ago today: Jethro Tull - Overhang My song pick 7 years ago today: Hawkwind - Uncle Sam's on Mars My song pick 8 years ago today: Al Di Meola - Suite – Golden Dawn My song pick 9 years ago today: Béla Fleck & the Flecktones - Sex in a Pan My song pick 10 years ago today: David Bowie - Space Oddity My song pick 11 years ago today: The Guess Who - No Sugar...

From: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ; Year: 1967; Genre: Progressive Rock/Psychedelic Rock I don't believe I've picked a Beatles song in a bit, so I believe I will since they're on my mind. Almost everybody who is or has been into rock/pop in the last 45+ years knows The Beatles' A Day in the Life . It's one of their best and interestingly arranged songs, that's for sure. Hear A Day in the Life on YouTube. My song pick one year ago today: Paris - Blue Robin My song pick two years ago today: Dick Dale - Third Stone From the Sun My song pick three years ago today: Blue Öyster Cult - The Revenge of Vera Gemini My song pick four years ago today: Queen - Ride the Wild Wind My song pick five years ago today: The Steve Miller Band - Enter Maurice My song pick six years ago today: Mastodon - Capillarian Crest My song pick seven years ago today: Hot Chocolate - Brother Louie My song pick eight years ago today: Rammstein - Frühling i...

From: Happy X-Mas (War Is Over) (single); Year: 1971; Genre: Pop/Rock Well, Christmas Day has arrived, so here's another wish for a Merry Christmas. I had this track running through my mind this morning; thought I would do as I always do, especially with the day it is. As with a lot of Lennon's post-Beatles material this holiday favourite is rife with activism. Hear Happy X-Mas (War Is Over) on YouTube. My song pick a year ago today: Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Midnight Clear My song pick two years ago today: Jethro Tull - A Winter Snowscape My song pick three years ago today: Elvis Presley - Blue Christmas My song pick four years ago today: Steeleye Span - Gaudete My song pick five years ago today: Ian Anderson - A Birthday Card At Christmas My song pick six years ago today: Jethro Tull - Another Christmas Song My song pick seven years ago today: Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Wish Liszt (Toy Shop Madness)

From: Magical Mystery Tour ; Year: 1967; Genre: Pop/Rock Finally got my internet working (somewhat), so at least that's handled now, anyway, most of this morning I had this rather popular track from The Beatles earworming me, so as normal, I decided to pick it. Mostly it was their intro from the French National Anthem La Marseillaise that was stuck in my mind, but the rest of the song came along for the ride. Hear All You Need is Love on YouTube. My song pick a year ago today: The Offspring - Gotta Get Away My song pick two years ago today: Band of Horses - Knock, Knock My song pick three years ago today: Three Dog Night - Heaven is in Your Mind My song pick four years ago today: Queensrÿche - One & Only My song pick five years ago today: The Spiders - Back   My song pick six years ago today: Nena - Mach Die Augen Auf   My song pick seven years ago today: The Offspring - Feelings

From: Young Americans ; Year: 1975; Genre: Funk/Rock Making my 34th consecutive Funky Friday pick in a row today with this rather funky attitude song from David Bowie. This is one of Bowie's more noted hits and features John Lennon as well; quite an awesome track. Hear Fame on YouTube. My song pick a year ago today: Van Der Graaf Generator - Aquarian My song pick two years ago today: Elvenking - Your Heroes are Dead My song pick three years ago today: Mr. Big - Still Ain't Enough for Me My song pick four years ago today: Steve Vai - Celluloid Heroes My song pick five years ago today: Toto - Africa My song pick six years ago today: Santana - Stone Flower

From: Anthology 1 ; Year: 1995; Genre: Pop/Rock For those unaware, I am in the midst of picking songs whose release date coincides with my song pick number; of course today's pick number is 1995. This was amongst and probably the most notable among two of John Lennon's unreleased recordings that were reworked by the remaining members of the band and released on their Anthology discs. Ever since their release I had mixed feelings about these songs; while they were okay tracks, to me it stunk a bit of weaseling another miserable buck out of rabid fans who would probably pay top-dollar for recordings of something like Lennon burping into a microphone. At the time this was only exacerbated in my mind by them releasing the other track separately on Anthology 2 , so, to get the other song you had to buy another complete album. However, since those effected, with the obvious exception of John Lennon, had no problem with it in the end I guess it really doesn't matter tha...

From: Please Please Me ; Year: 1963; Genre: Pop/Rock 'n Roll In 1963, which is also today's song pick number The Beatles released their first full-length studio album: Please Please Me . Interestingly enough, other than the two already-released singles, (this song was one of them), the entire album was recorded in one day. While I'm more of a fan of their later work, it's still good to listen to their earlier work, when the band was blossoming; knowing where they phenomenal career would go. Hear Please Please Me on YouTube. My song pick a year ago today: John Denver - Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas) My song pick two years ago today: Mykola Leontovych - Shchedryk (The Carol of the Bells) My song pick three years ago today: Steeleye Span - Edwin My song pick four years ago today: Trans-Siberian Orchestra/Savatage - Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24 My song pick five years ago today: Jethro Tull - Ring Out Solstice Bells

From: Let it Be ; Year: 1970; Genre: Rock/Pop/Blues Rock I'm closing out a rather busy Sunday/weekend and am quite tired; I truly wasn't sure if I was going to get one in, but I am. Anyway, I've been having this classic Beatles song running through my mind for the last couple of days, and without any song in mind I figured I would go ahead and make it my choice for today. While Lennon and McCartney co-wrote a lot of songs, this one has a slight twist to it. It's actually two songs; the first part: " I've Got a Feeling " was written by and is rife with Paul McCartney's signature style of writing and, obversely, the second part, which is known as " Everybody Had a Hard Year " was written by John Lennon and features his distinct style. From what I understand both songs were incomplete and for what ever reason they decided to mash them up into one song. Hear I've Got a Feeling on YouTube. My song pick a year ago today: Joe Satri...

1042 John Lennon - Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) For the last few years I have gotten more and more into John Lennon's post-Beatles work; I listened to it with more of an open mind and came to like it quite a bit. I have actually come to prefer his post-Beatles work to much of his material with The Beatles. Hear Instant Karma! on YouTube. Watch a music video on YouTube. Watch a live performance on YouTube. My song pick a year ago today: Fuel - Million Miles My song pick two years ago today: Tom Petty - Runnin' Down A Dream +

890 ( John Lennon - How Do You Sleep? ) I have been listening to some of the music off of John Lennon's Imagine over the last couple or so days, I figured that I should add a track for my pick today. This bluesy track has been one of the main ones that has kept running through my mind. From what I have read John Lennon wrote this "poison pen" song in response to Paul McCartney writing a "poison pen" song supposedly about him: Too Many People , which can be found here on YouTube . Anyway, that minutia aside this is very nice track; if a couple of superstars what to air their dirty laundry so be it, at least we, the fans, get some music out of the deal. Here is the studio version on YouTube. Here is a clip from the "Imagine" film concerning this song on YouTube. There are many different versions and recordings of this song available on YouTube as well. My song pick a year ago today: The Who - Getting in Tune My song pick two years ago today: Jethro Tu...

A few weeks ago this song, as well as others from this album, were all over the place. Later, I found out that it was because of John Lennon's birthday that these songs had so much play. This album in my opinion is fantastic; it often gets unfairly maligned because it was one of the first offerings from John Lennon after the break-up of the Beatles. Plus Yoko Ono, who bore much of the brunt of the break-up from fans, was involved with this project as well. I love the dynamic that Klaus Voorman's bass playing brings to this song, as well as the rest on the album; he blends quite well into the group. I love the way the chords that he plays on the bass fit so well. Here is the studio version on YouTube. +