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: Paul McCartney ; Year: 1970; Genre: Blues Rock Here's an appropriate, short-but-sweet, bluesy instrumental track for today; like I said, perfect for today.   Hear Valentine Day on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: The "5" Royales - Dedicated to the One I Love   My song pick 2 years ago today: Tesla - Love Song   My song pick 3 years ago today: Foreigner - I'll Get Even With You   My song pick 4 years ago today: The Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet - Delilah   My song pick 5 years ago today: Queen - My Fairy King My song pick 6 years ago today: Foo Fighters - Baker Street My song pick 7 years ago today: The Supremes (Diana Ross & the Supremes) - Back in My Arms Again My song pick 8 years ago today: Toto - Hydra My song pick 9 years ago today: Soundgarden - Hunted Down My song pick 10 years ago today: The (Detroit) Spinners - Working My Way Back to You/Forgive Me, Girl My song pick 11 years ago today: John ...

From: Back to the Egg ; Year: 1979; Genre: Rock/Pop Yesterday Denny Laine , who is most noted as a founding member of the Moody Blues, Wings, solo work amongst others has passed away at the age of 79. I thought it would be apropos to pick one of the songs that he wrote and lent lead vocals to, so here is one off of Wings' final studio album.   Hear Again and Again and Again on YouTube.         My song pick 1 year ago today: Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills   My song pick 2 years ago today: Paco De Lucía - De Madruga (Seguiriyas)   My song pick 3 years ago today: Reverend Horton Heat - Viva Las Vegas   My song pick 4 years ago today: Bootsy Collins - WinterFunkyLand (AKA Winter Wonderland)   My song pick 5 years ago today: Four Tops - It's All In The Game My song pick 6 years ago today: Hammerfall - Wildfire My song pick 7 years ago today: Heart - Magic Man My song pick 8 years ago today: Allan Sherman - I See Bones My song pick 9 year...

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: Venus and Mars ; Year: 1975; Genre: Rock/Pop Having Paul McCartney's band Wings on my mind today, so, as I always do, I'm picking one of their songs. Hear Venus and Mars on YouTube. My song pick 1 year ago today: Pearl Jam - I Got Id My song pick 2 years ago today: Crash Test Dummies - In the Days of the Cavemen My song pick 3 years ago today: Muse - City of Delusion My song pick 4 years ago today: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away My song pick 5 years ago today: Barenaked Ladies - If I Had $1000000 My song pick 6 years ago today: Rush - The Anarchist My song pick 7 years ago today: Audioslave - Cochise My song pick 8 years ago today: Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos - Media Vita in Morte Sumus My song pick 9 years ago today: Stahlhammer - Der Zerbrochene Traum My song pick 10 years ago today: Charles Gounod - Funeral March of a Marionette My song pick 11 years ago today: Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird My song pick 12 years ago ...

From: Revolver ; Year: 1966; Genre: Rock Ever since coming home last night when this beautiful track came on my playlist it's been on my mind. In my opinion this is one of The Beatles' best songs and one of my favourites from the band. Hear Eleanor Rigby on YouTube. My song pick 1 year ago today: The Who - The Song Is Over My song pick 2 years ago today: Gloryhammer - Questlords of Inverness, Ride to the Galactic Fortress! My song pick 3 years ago today: Bob Welch - Hot Love, Cold World My song pick 4 years ago today: Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears My song pick 5 years ago today: UFO - Too Hot To Handle My song pick 6 years ago today: Stratovarius - Chasing Shadows My song pick 7 years ago today: The Beatles - Back in the U.S.S.R. My song pick 8 years ago today: Tarot - Pilot of All Dreams My song pick 9 years ago today: Muse - Knights of Cydonia My song pick 10 years ago today: Nightwish - 10th Man Down My song pick 11 years ago today: Jaco Past...

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: Ram ; Year: 1971; Genre: Pop/Rock There is some frying pans in my kitchen that rattle when you walk that have been making a percussive sound exactly to a what is heard at a point in this song, and thus every time I'm cooking I've had this song on my mind; so I'm picking it. For a easily digestible pop/rock track it's really good and one that I do like. Hear Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey on YouTube. Or listen to Paul's metal version of Eleanor Rigby on YouTube. 😆 My song pick one year ago today: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Carry On My song pick two years ago today: Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion My song pick three years ago today: Larry Graham and Graham Central Station - Turn it Out My song pick four years ago today: "Weird Al" Yankovic - Smells Like Nirvana My song pick five years ago today: Rush - Closer to the Heart My song pick six years ago today: Johannes Brahms - Op. #45 - (A German Requiem, To Words of the Holy Scri...

From: Live and Let Die (soundtrack) ; Year: 1973; Genre: Symphonic Rock Last night while I was out and about another one of Wings' songs came on; it felt like a good one to pick, especially since I was otherwise drawing a blank. Of course this is the iconic song which is not only the theme song to the James Bond motion picture of the same name, but has really become a hit in and of itself. Hear Live and Let Die on YouTube. My song pick a year ago today: Larry Graham & Graham Central Station - Are You Happy? My song pick two years ago today: Stone Temple Pilots - Creep My song pick three years ago today: The Moog Cookbook - Come Out and Play My song pick four years ago today: Hurricane Smith - Oh Babe, What Would You Say? My song pick five years ago today: John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band - On The Dark Side My song pick six years ago today: Collective Soul - Pretty Donna My song pick seven years ago today: Nightwish - 7 Days to the Wolves

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: Wings at the Speed of Sound ; Year: 1976; Genre: Pop/Rock I'm having trouble with my internet again, so it's making thinking about music kind of tough. I figured I'd just pick another one Paul McCartney that I like; I have to say though, without that great bass line this song wouldn't be half as good as it is. Hear Silly Love Songs on YouTube. My song pick a year ago today: Aphrodite's Child - End of the World My song pick two years ago today: Triumph - I Can Survive My song pick three years ago today: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside My song pick four years ago today: Cruachan - The Gael My song pick five years ago today: Jim Croce - Alabama Rain My song pick six years ago today: Derek and the Dominos (Eric Clapton) - Bell Bottom Blues

From: Paul McCartney ; Year: 1970; Genre: Rock For some reason I felt like listening to some early solo McCartney material this morning; I thought this one would make a great pick, it's definitely a classic. Hear Maybe I'm Amazed on YouTube. My song pick a year ago today: Soundgarden - Live to Rise My song pick two years ago today: Shocking Blue - Venus My song pick three years ago today: Rush - Countdown My song pick four years ago today: Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime My song pick five years ago today: The Kinks - A Well Respected Man My song pick six years ago today: Eric Clapton - Bad Love

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...

From: Band on the Run ; Year: 1973; Genre: Pop/Rock I had this song running through my mind last night and, as I usually do, I thought I would add it. I would have to say that this is one of my, I dunno, let's say one of my top three songs that Paul McCartney penned. I love how they utilized the synthesizers as one of the main driving forces for the entire song. Hear Jet on YouTube. Watch a live performance circa '76 on YouTube. My song pick a year ago today: Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO) - Welcome Home My song pick two years ago today: Puhdys - Alt Wie Ein Baum My song pick three years ago today: Christian Pezold - Minuet in G Major (Anna Magdalena Notebook II), BWV Anh. 114 My song pick four years ago today: Berlin - The Metro +

730 ( Wings - Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five ) I should be trying to sleep right now because I have to be up early, but I know it would be futile at this moment, so while I am awake I will go ahead and pick a song. I was out and about a lot today and at one point during my travels this track popped in the radio during the radio programme: Flashback . This song is just way too catchy, this is mostly due to the monster hook that is played on the piano, especially in the intro to the verses; the bass line and overall rhythm also contribute to this song's catchiness as well. There is no mistaking where The Beatles got most of their "poppy" sound from. Here is the studio version on YouTube. +

On the way home tonight this one popped on my iPod and I realized that I had not chosen anything from Wings as of yet, so I will. I have always liked this song with its distinct sections; because of the sections the song keeps your attention and is more interesting. Here is the studio version on YouTube. Here is a music video on YouTube. Here is a live performance from '76 on YouTube. +

Today, I was searching for a song to pick and this one came to mind. This is a nice quiet song off of the Flaming Pie album; it is an acoustic track and is a bit emotional due to the lyrical content. I really liked this album when it first came out about ten years ago; I think that he outdone himself on this one. On this album, Steve Miller was a guest-musician and that really was what got me into Paul McCartney's music when I heard he was on this on it; I don't believe that Steve Miller plays on this song in particular. I know that Paul McCartney appeared on some Steve Miller albums as well under the pseudonym 'Paul Ramon,' so they have quite a history. Here is a music video on YouTube. +