3. What song takes you back to your childhood?
“Darlin’ Nikki” by Prince. No joke. I seriously can remember listening to this tape in the car with my mom and trying to sing along, not understanding the song at all and thinking that “Nikki started to cry.” I was close.
I think my first record was “Thriller” and I bought it because of “Billie Jean.” I still think that’s one of the greatest pop songs ever, so I have good taste. 2. What song always gets you dancing?
The Scissor Sisters’s and “I Don’t Feel Like Dancing.” 3. What song takes you back to your childhood?
“Feed the Birds” from Mary Poppins was my first thought. But when it comes to something that was played on the radio, BJ Thomas’s “Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song.” The organist at Dodger Stadium was playing it the other day and boy, was I taken back to being a kid. 4. What is your perfect love song?
“Nothing Compares 2U” by Sinead O’Connor. I think it’s because the lyrics are understated and feel very real to me. Runner up is “Something in the Way She Moves” by James Taylor. 5. What song would you want at your funeral?
“Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms” by Flatt and Scruggs. I thought I’d pick something that reflects growing up hillbilly. Or maybe “Un Di Felice, Eterea” which reflects my passion for opera. Or, you know, any one of a thousand songs.
Oh, I know. “We Are All Connected” by Symphony of Science. It captures my world view perfectly.
1.What was the first song you ever bought? - It was an album. Ace of Base. The Sign.
What song always gets you dancing? - Toss-up between “Devil’s Dance Floor” by Flogging Molly and “Start Wearing Purple” by Gogol Bordello.
What song takes you back to your childhood? “Ride My Seesaw” by The Moody Blues. My mom listened to their best of album all the time.
What is your perfect love song? - “You Are the Everything,” R.E.M.
What song would you want at your funeral? - “Growing Old is Getting Old” by Silversun Pickups.
What song makes you, you? Depends on what you’re asking. Describes me? “Panic Switch,” also by Silversun Pickups. Influenced me the most? “American Jesus” by Bad Religion, which is the song that introduced me to punk.
1.What was the first song you ever bought? Having been born in the Internet Age I haven’t bought any CD or album and don’t use Itunes either-just YouTube.
What song always gets you dancing? Nothing makes me dance as noted above.
1.What was the first song you ever bought?
An album - Meet The Beatles (Dad took us to the record store with the stated goal that from then on we would go once a month and all pick an album to buy. Dad bought a Lefty Frizzell LP, Mom chose an Andy Williams LP, my brother got the soundtrack to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and I got Meet The Beatles. That actually was the first and last time we went to the record store.)
What song always gets you dancing?*
Not that I would ever dance in front of anyone else because I’d look like a demented fool, but if I’m alone, I dance around to lots of songs that aren’t considered “dance” songs, such as Hector Zazou (RIP) featuring Anneli Drecker (from Bel Canto) and Gerard Depardieu - “I’ll Strangle You”. It’s not a fast song but I simply can’t stay still when it’s playing.
What song would you want at your funeral?
Peter Gabriel w Kate Bush - “Don’t Give Up” (more because it’s two of my favorite singers together than to make any statement via the lyrics. There’s not as much Kate in “Games Without Frontiers,” but that would be alright too.)
1.What was the first song you ever bought?
See You In September, The Happenings, 1966
What song always gets you dancing?
In the Mood, Glenn Miller, 1941 version
What song takes you back to your childhood?
It’s My Party (and I’ll Cry if I Want To)–was 12 years old and heard it in an honest to goodness malt shop in OK on Rte 66 while driving cross country; real Dobie Gillis type stuff.
What is your perfect love song?
The Way You Look Tonight, Sinatra, Columbia Recording
What song would you want at your funeral?
Beethoven’s Ode To Joy (Vocal) From Symphony No. 9 In D Minor, Op. 125, finale presto.
What song makes you, you?
Begin the Beguine, from Broadway Melody of 1940 with Fred and Ellie dancing
First song ever bought - Oh, that would be an album, “Meet the Beatles”!
Song that gets me dancing - their name is legion, but today I might narrow it down to “Love Shack” by the B-52s.
Song that takes me back to childhood - early Elvis!..no, wait, I spent a summer on a relative’s farm in Quebec, there was a neighbor girl who came over to keep me company, and though we spoke different languages, we enjoyed sitting out in the truck in the evening listening to rock n’ roll on the radio - “My Boyfriend’s Back”, lol, forgot who that was, 'hey la, hey la, my boyfriend’s back".
Perfect love song - “Stand By Me” by Ben E. King. Moves me to tears even today.
Song to be played at my funeral - for no logical reason, I have a fantasy of a big weeping crowd parting as my coffin is carried down a path to the grave, accompanied by bagpipers, and the actual song they will play as they plant me is “Mull of Kintyre” by Paul McC.
1.What was the first song you ever bought? Queen’s "Another One Bites The Dust. on 45.
What song always gets you dancing? Van Halen’s “Jump”. Long story.
What song takes you back to your childhood? Jim McClean’s “American Pie”; used to sing it with my brothers; we must have been 4-5 years old, had NO idea what it was about. We just liked it a lot.
*What is your perfect love song? * No clue, hrm. “Hallelujah” probably, hehe.
What song would you want at your funeral? There’s a few I really like, but I can’t think of them now.