Tuesday, 1978

If there is such a thing as a perfect song, “Over The Rainbow” must be it. Introduced by a sixteen-year-old Judy Garland in MGM’s The Wizard of Oz, the song expresses a child’s yearning for safety and happiness, in a world filled with trouble. It won an Oscar for lyricist Yip Harburg and composer...

  Today’s blog is about Bruce Springsteen’s song, “Long Time Coming’,” from his 2005 album Dust & Devils. The song unfolds during a family camping trip, viewed through a father’s eyes. The album version is classic Springsteen, backbeat-driven with gorgeous background vocals on the chorus. But...

There’s a Beatles song on the White Album, “Cry Baby Cry,” that is a strange, almost dream-like portrait of someone’s long-ago childhood. The setting is the English countryside, a well-healed English family. Each verse is a little vignette of life, a shard of a memory that is neither good or bad ...