Quantcast
Channel: music – Peg-o-Leg's Ramblings
Browsing all 12 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Flower Duet

I just heard the most beautiful sound ever made by humans. I’m talking about The Flower Duet from the opera Lakme.  I don’t know much about opera, but it’s apparent the composer, Delibes, overheard two...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Songfluenza Outbreak Nearly An Epidemic

I’ve picked up a nasty virus.  It is just getting started, but already I am fuzzy headed and can’t think straight.    This is the worst case of Songfluenza I have ever had.  It’s an especially virulent...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

How I Did My Groove Thang With Earth, Wind & Fire On Cloud Nine – Almost

The local YMCA is being renovated.  I’m sure it will end up being a workout Mecca the likes of which we have never seen.  In the meantime, it’s a pain in the butt. They closed the main rooms and moved...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Day The Music Died

Last week saw the passing of music legends Donna Summer and Robin Gibb.   Robin and his fellow Brothers Gibb formed the wildly successful group the Bee Gees who, along with Donna,  defined the music...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The REAL Sounds of The Season

My favorite classic rock radio station switched to an all-Christmas-music-format the day after Thanksgiving.  They call it “The Sounds of The Season”.  This annoys me for two reasons. 1) Grandma Got...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Pavlov’s Wayne Newton

I’m a serial singer of songs. I’m not talking about great songs necessarily, and I don’t perform them well, either.   I’m no Wayne Newton.  It’s just that my brain is wired for song stimulus and I...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Wal-Mart Christmas Musical

Art lovers like to revisit their holiday favorites at this time of year.  Ballet enthusiasts flock to The Nutcracker and classical music lovers go to Handel’s Messiah. Me?  I’m a musical theater buff....

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Did You Get Your Songfluenza Vaccination?

I’ve been humming the theme song from “Gilligan’s Island” all day.  This brain worm reminded me of the time I got Songfluenza so bad, I barely escaped with my life…...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Song Lyrics I Got Horribly Wrong #387

Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road …back to the howling old owl in the woods, humpin’ the horny back toad.   Have you ever discovered you were totally messing up a song’s lyrics?

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Kanye Krashes Kompetition

The music industry’s elite were astonished to see history repeat itself yesterday at the Grammy’s when Kanye West rushed the stage to demand winner Beck forfeit his Album of the Year award in favor of...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Music Is A Time Machine

I have discovered the secret to time travel. I was in a store the other day when the radio played Build Me Up Buttercup by The Foundations.  I wasn’t the only person who started singing along.  I could...

View Article

Life Is But a Song…And Dance

Some people think they were born at the wrong time; adventurers wish they had lived in 900 AD when Vikings sailed the seas, and fleshy women yearn for the 1600s when their bodies would have been the...

View Article
Browsing all 12 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images