![]() I have never heard this song anywhere else and I wonder if any of you are familiar with it? My grandmother was from Lancashire and her family worked in the cotton mills and we have often wondered whether, with its talk of ‘moon am shining’ and ‘picaninnies’ it might have come across from the West Indies. Time for little picaninnies to go to sleep I remember my grandmother singing this one: The Band, "The Weight" and a Bit of a Puzzler.Why is that lullabies have such enormous power to soothe? I have sung lullabies to my children since they were tiny babies and it is such a special time, just before sleep, all warm and quiet and cuddled up.The Proclaimers, Hibs and "Sunshine On Leith".September, Jerry Orbach and "Try to Remember".Kaycarroll on Long Hot Summers, Advertising… Michael livelyml on The Band, “The Weight… Khayem on Worrywart Behaviour, Book Sugg… Songs from Quentin Tarantino Movies (4)īenjamin Gates on Conspiracy Theories, R.E.M. ![]() Songs from Buffy The Vampire Slayer (4).An Open Letter to George Michael RIP (4).Lost Mail and Trashed Houses: A Mini Rant (and A Couple of Great Songs).Months Of The Year In Song: April, Time for Things to “Open Up”.More Great Telly – Guilt, Daisy Jones & The Six and “Dancing Barefoot” by Patti Smith.The Holy Trinity of Topics Best Avoided – Clearing the Backlog and Starting Afresh, Hopefully….Months Of The Year In Song: May, the Start of Celtic Summer and RIP Anna “Mae” Bullock.Birthdays, Heatwaves and Yet More from Guardians of the Galaxy.Months Of The Year In Song: June, Time for the Summer Solstice.Worrywart Behaviour, Book Suggestions and British Invasions (Two of Them).Next Next post: Clifford T Ward, Long-distance Relationships and “Home Thoughts From Abroad” So why pretend you’ve somewhere else to go? Good-bye means nothing when it’s all for show ’cause it hurts when your ego is deflated Take off your coat, my love, and close the door ’cause to reason is not what you care for Getting too maudlin now so will leave it there for today but realising as I revisit the tracks of my years, that those seemingly happy, up-tempo songs often told a very different tale, and one which I am only now appreciating. ![]() They also worked together on Downtown, I Couldn’t Live Without Your Loveand The Other Man’s Grass Is Always Greener. The song was written by Tony Hatch (along with his wife Jackie Trent) and the relationship he had with Petula was likened to the one between Burt Bacharach and Dionne Warwick. The whole hippy thing was happening on the West Coast of America but flower power and psychedelia definitely didn’t come to my Scottish village so the kind of music listened to by families like mine, who watched mainstream television, came from people like Pet Clark, Cilla, Dusty, Lulu and The Seekers. One of these songs was Don’t Sleep In The Subway by Petula Clark simply because it summed up the sound of my 1960s. Turns out many hits from that era were recorded by a whole host of other artists and Petula Clarkoften released songs previously recorded by Mr Williams.Ī good few years ago after discovering iTunes, we went a bit mad revisiting the “tracks of our years” and probably down to the nostalgia element of remembering happy times as a child with my family, I ended up purchasing quite a few songs from 1967, which was probably the first year I really started to take heed of anything from the world of grown-up music. Yesterday’s foray into the musical output of Andy Williams, has reminded me of some of those other great songs from the 1960s. ![]()
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