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

From: Windsong ; Year: 1975; Genre: Folk Rock/Soft Rock/Country Just had some of his music pop into my mind as I started to make my blog post for today. My Mom is a huge fan of his and thus I grew up with his music and it holds a special place for me on a few levels. This one, which features Olivia Newton-John's vocals is among his most known recordings.    Hear Fly Away on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: Paice Ashton Lord - Ghost Story   My song pick 2 years ago today: Thompson Twins - Lies   My song pick 3 years ago today: ABBA - Eagle   My song pick 4 years ago today: George Harrison - Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)   My song pick 5 years ago today: Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) - The Bouncer My song pick 6 years ago today: Dick Dale - Summer Surf My song pick 7 years ago today: Neil Young - Computer Cowboy (aka Syscrusher) My song pick 8 years ago today: Jethro Tull - The Foot of Our Stairs My song pick...

From: Physical ; Year: 1981; Genre: Pop/Rock Yesterday I woke up to find that Olivia Newton-John passed away, which for me was kind of like a "wow" moment. While I've not been a huge fan of her music and don't normally seek her music, there are times her music and other art comes into my mind and I have to hear it again. It's most likely due to hearing her so much back in the day when I was quite young; she was very famous and could be seen/heard almost in all forms of media back throughout the 1970s-1980s. Anyway, I had a couple of her songs come to mind for today's pick, but I just happened to remember this rather risqué song of hers and absolutely had to choose it. Throughout the '80s Physical seemed to be among her most played songs, which was actually banned in certain parts of the country. Interestingly enough, it was apparently written for Rod Stewart to perform, but her turned it down. Eventually it came to Olivia Newton-John and the rest is histo...

From: Have You Never Been Mellow ; Year: 1975; Genre: Pop/Rock/Country I've been trying to identify this song for almost 20 years now; I swear I haven't heard it for well over 30 years, and then mostly when I was really young. I finally heard it at a restaurant yesterday and was able to piece enough together to do a search and found it. Anyway, I'm not normally a huge fan of her music, but a lot of it was playing when I was growing up, so there's some special connections to some of it and thus some I do like. Hear Have You Never Been Mellow on YouTube. My song pick one year ago today: America - Man's Road My song pick two years ago today: Bernard Wright – Haboglabotribin’ My song pick three years ago today: Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) My song pick four years ago today: The Beach Boys - I Get Around My song pick five years ago today: Dick Dale - Nitro My song pick six years ago today: Blue Öyster Cult - As...