If you had to make up a cd with 11 songs... one song from each decade from the last 100 years... beginning in 1910... What songs would you choose?
My ds literally had this for extra credit history homework (I think his teacher might be looking for some free tunes for her iPod!) He came running home at lunch on Friday, saying, "I need to burn a "songs of the century CD" for extra credit. Tell me songs that you know".
We/I came up with:
1910's I wonder who's kissing her now (we Googled WWI songs) 1920's The Charleston 1930's Button up your Overcoat 1940's Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy 1950's Hound Dog 1960's Ring of Fire (he had this Johnny Cash song in his iPod) 1970's Birdland (Weather Report in his iPod) 1980's Thriller 1990's Hit me Baby, one more time 2000's Who let the Dogs Out Today: Stronger (Kanye West also in his iPod)
I asked... can you really turn in "homework" with music with an explicit language warning? He said, "Yeah, it is ok... she swears".
What songs pop into your head for this homework?
Denise
Posts: 8205 | Location: Silicon Valley, CA | Registered: March 17, 2004
ackkk!!! Turn of the century ear worm... Beautiful Ohio has been stuck in my head for about 4 hours now. I've never lived in Ohio. Never even been to Ohio, but know enough snippits of the song to be humming/singing about it for half the day.
Denise
Posts: 8205 | Location: Silicon Valley, CA | Registered: March 17, 2004
I know you've already finished the assignment, but here's what I found that satisfies my musical tastes...
1910s: Danny Boy (lyrics written 1910) 1920s: High Society (rec. King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band [I never considered it was that old, and was written in 1901!]) 1930s: Mule Skinner Blues (Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys) 1940s: Move It On Over (Hank Williams) 1950s: Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash) 1960s: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (The Rolling Stones) 1970s: Me & Bobby McGee (Janis Joplin) 1980s: Welcome to the Jungle (Guns N Roses) 1990s: One (U2) 2000s: Since U Been Gone (Kelly Clarkson)
I'll always be grateful to my parents for letting me stay in choir for so many years...having that kind of broad exposure to music makes it so much easier to appreciate (though not always like) just about everything out there, and gave me the skills to articulate what I do and don't like about music.
iTunes is five years old today...Happy Birthday! I got my first iPod four years ago
Dd is getting me an iPod shuffle ($48) for Mother's Day and load it up for me so I will have something to listen to while I am working out at the Y.
We went to get it this weekend but the WalMart we were at was sold out. She went online to see what store had them and most of the stores are sold out. The sales person said they may have some more in a week but even their warehouse is out. Are they really that much in demand?
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Posts: 3697 | Location: NE Atlanta (Chamblee, Doraville, Norcross, Duluth) | Registered: March 15, 2004
Originally posted by Brie: I needed google help too for the early decades but what a cool school assignment!
It was kind of cool. It was expensive, though… he had some music in his iPod… but we had to download $6 worth of music. We’ve only been able to burn CD’s since March. If he had gotten this assignment sooner… he’d have to be more organized and figure out another way to burn a CD or get extra credit.
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Originally posted by Sheltieguy: I'm mostly a Classic Rock person, but am working on diversifying my music collection.
My kid has the most diverse music in his iPod. Music that he has played in band… Holst’s first and second suites; Birdland from jazz band; music from movies he’s seen - Johnny Cash, Chicago (the play, not the band), Star Wars, Little Miss Sunshine; YoYo Ma playing Bach… because he heard some kid at music camp playing cello… HATED band camp.. But played YoYo Ma every day for about 6 months.
I had “Button Up Your Overcoat” in MY iPod. It was on some CD of “Oldies Xmas Music” or “Classic Xmas” or something like that. It is in my “Ski” play list, that and 269 arrangements of Let it Snow and Winter Wonderland. (I really don’t have 269 arrangements of Let it Snow, but I do have a few which my sister thinks is so weird... I think that her iPod is filled with Grateful Dead-like bands that I've never heard of.)
My kid initially loaded my iPod for me with his music… and skiing to Holst is… interesting. And he put The Frey How to Save a Life, for me to listen to, should I ever get another ride in the ski patrol sled again...
Denise
Posts: 8205 | Location: Silicon Valley, CA | Registered: March 17, 2004
I needed google help too for the early decades but what a cool school assignment!
1910s Beautiful Ohio - Henry Burr 1920s Sweet Georgia Brown - Ben Bernie 1930s Stairway to the Stars - Glenn Miller 1940s Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como 1950s Rock Around the Clock - Billy Haley and the Comets 1960s Light My Fire - The Doors 1970s Message in Bottle - The Police 1980s In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel 1990s Can't Help Falling in Love - UB40 2000s If Everyone Cared - Nickelback
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I have some Billie Holiday CDs, but am missing her powerful 1939 song "Strange Fruit":
"Southern trees bear a strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees."
