September 24, 2005
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Surfin' around in a search for grist for my musical mill, it's astounding what one comes across.
It finally dawned on me that rather than rely on my (laughable) memory, I should visit radio station websites and scrutinze their play
lists. KLUV (98.7) has a Top 500 list which has proven to be
quite helpful. Most songs I don't save, content merely to listen
to it once, and one of these was "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" by
Jackie DeShannon (I've never claimed to have sophisticated tastes,
musical or otherwise).A search for it brought up myriad renderings of it, including one by - to quote Dave Barry, I am not making this up - Leonard Nimoy, taken from the album, Spaced Out - The Best of Leonard Nimoy.
I wasn't aware he had any songs out, never mind enough of them to compile a "best of" album.
Comments (6)
Then you really must go here, Anne. Time for a graduate education in Leonard Nimoy: http://www.alteringtime.com/features/misc/?p=baggins
Bill Shatner has one, too. From what I hear, they're both pretty scary.
Leonard Nimoy singing "This Guy's in Love with You" is just beyond belief.
BTW, I have some pretty wide-ranging tastes, but I'm a sucker for sentimental oldies like "Put a Little Love in Your Heart," too. I just got a Stevie Wonder best of CD out of the library yesterday, and am enjoying the old hits.
What's fun is how often an "oldie" will take me on a spontaneous trip back through time. "Red Rubber Ball" comes on and I'm immediately transported back to a summer in the late 60's, when my best friend, Marcia, and I spent hours laying out by her pool. There's another song with "I love you, Bill!" in it (something like that, anyway) that zooms me back to the Y hut at Gulf Park College.
There's a song that puts me on a city bus coming home from a trip downtown. Why it's always stuck in my memory, I can't imagine, but there it is.
I don't know if this is what you're interested in, but I get a lot of use out of it:
http://www.shoutcast.com/
It claims to be about 500+ internet streaming MP3 radio stations. It has a genre-sorter, and after I sorted for "classical" (about 72 hits), I bookmarked that so I can go to this sort directly. The sort categories include many musical genres, also comedy and talk, but no oldies.
Fr. B
Oh my, Bill, that's a staple 'round here, as it's how Dmitry gets his Russian radio fix.
If the rest of y'all are unfamiliar with it, you need to give it a try, fer sure.
I used to have the Leonard Nimoy albums! That was the first place I heard Desiderata! I love Red Rubber Ball. Bus Stop is another one from around the same time period.
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