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Music Notes

A simple music themed blog for Jeff’s "Invalid Item"

challenge, and also to dump my thoughts about the 48 Hour Media Challenges when I don’t feel like creating a story or poem from the provided material. I may also add random poetry in here if I feel like it doesn’t qualify for a separate item.

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NaNotatoGo!

Oct 15, 2024 at 12:09pm
In response to "500 Miles (I'm Gonna Be) (ID cover)"

That was an amazing performance. Dan certainly has a sense of showmanship..

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QPdoll is Grateful

Oct 12, 2024 at 8:00am
In response to "I Heard It Through the Grapevine (CCR)"

I've only known the Marvin Gaye version. I have to say that CCR did it justice. The drums and that bass. So cool.

Excellent choice!

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♥noVember tHiNg♥

Oct 12, 2024 at 7:45am
In response to "I Heard It Through the Grapevine (CCR)"

Great song choice! There is also a version with Gladys Knight and the Pips that may or may not have been the first one. It was the first one that I heard.

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Dave Ryan

Oct 11, 2024 at 8:19am
In response to "If I Had a Hammer"

Puff the Magic Dragon is a great song for traumatising the kids. There's nothing like a happy ending, and that one is definitely nothing like a happy ending.

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QPdoll is Grateful

Oct 10, 2024 at 7:57am
In response to "Fast Car (Jonas Blue cover)"

This is great! I love this song and have heard a couple of different versions, but I've never heard this one. Thank you for sharing.

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♥noVember tHiNg♥

Oct 9, 2024 at 9:07am
In response to "Fortunate Son"

Love Centerfield and Have You Ever Seen the Rain, also!

So many wonderful songs!

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♥noVember tHiNg♥

Oct 8, 2024 at 9:00am
In response to "I Won't Back Down"

Great song choice!

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QPdoll is Grateful

Oct 8, 2024 at 6:15am
In response to "I Won't Back Down"

I like Tom Petty, too. My favorite song is Mary Jane's Last Dance. However, I like the message of I Won't Back Down. It's a fine choice.

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tracker

Oct 7, 2024 at 12:23pm
In response to "Creeque Alley"

This is when I like AI. The song is a story about when the group was formed. It was released when I had first started college. Where? In California! Good choice of song.

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QPdoll is Grateful

Oct 6, 2024 at 7:58am
In response to "Three Little Birds"

It's been a long time since I've heard this song. I don't know if I've heard it from beginning to end. I think it's just been in pieces in different instances. Thank you for sharing. I don't have a playlist, but the song is fun.

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February 10, 2024 at 5:25am

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Nature's Praise, a Louisiana Hymn

I've known about this hymn ever since I was a small child. I found it printed inside a book I got out at the local library, Louisiana Indian Tales, and memorized it in the form of a poem for the sheer descriptive beauty of the words.

As I grew older I kept those words close. I never thought I'd be able to hear it sung, and often wondered how it sounds. I began looking for the hymn online to listen to and finally hear the melody. But it was impossible to find. I researched the book I had found it in, was able to view it digitally, and discovered the composer's name: Father Dominic Braud, OSB.

After making myself at home on the lyrics annotation site Genius, I had the idea of posting the words there and hoping that someone would find the page and upload a video of the hymn. You can see how that went here.

The weirdest thing kept happening after I posted Nature's Praise on Genius: several people contacted me through the site, sharing background knowledge of the Louisiana priest who composed the hymn and offering to send me videos of it being sung in a local choir... But each one of them disappeared. A couple of years went by as I waited, irritated that my much-desired audio was so close and yet so far!

Finally I went back to YouTube and looked up the hymn again... And found it almost immediately, perfectly recorded and complete with a beautiful album cover. It's available as one of those automated videos that somehow gets posted via the label that produced the album... Apparently the priests decided to put forth a collection of their hymns. I believe the late Father Dominic wrote many different ones over the years. According to personal accounts he played a major role in his small Louisiana community.

What a delight to finally hear the words I had treasured for so many years, sung and set to music as they should be. The hymn marvels at God's creative power and invites us to appreciate the diverse beauty, and join in the praises, of the natural world.

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