Some singers have such beautiful voices that hearing them can move you to tears. Heather Headley has such a voice. Many may know her from her broadway roles in The Lion King and Aida. I first heard her in Aida…

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ABBA is a guilty pleasure for me. Yes, I have several of those, musically speaking. When I listen to them, I just can’t help tapping my foot, and if alone, busting out some ridiculous dance move.”Dancing Queen” in particular holds…

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I’m feeling a bit silly today. Instead of posting about a song that has some tremendous emotional value to me or holds precious memories, I’m posting a song that makes me smile and laugh whenever I hear it. Harry Nilsson…

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Les Miserables was the first musical I saw in person. It may be cliche to say the experience changed me forever, but it did. A new appreciation for music was born that day when I watched a group of amazing…

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Some songs pack a lot of emotion into few words. Queen’s “Who Wants to Live Forever” is one of those songs. I can’t help but cry every time I hear it. Perhaps it’s the knowledge that Mercury died five years…

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Don McLean’s American Pie was a hit several years before I was born. Somehow, though, I remember that song as being part of my childhood. As a child, it was the melody and the rhythm that had me hooked. It…

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There’s at least one other person out there who is secretly giddy that they have found someone else who loves Xanadu. I have been mocked for years for loving the music in this movie. I’ve even been mocked for liking…

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I remember turning on my radio every weekend to listen to the Top 40 countdown. Blank tape in the cassette player, I was ready to record my favorite songs from that week. I don’t remember at what age I started…

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I first discovered Julia Fordham when I saw the movie, “The Butcher’s Wife” back in the early 90s. Perhaps it was the hopeless romantic in me that was so drawn to this song. I waited through the credits to see…

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I’ve been listening to Queen for as long as I can remember. In fact, I was probably listening to them when I was still in the womb. They are a favorite in my family and many days of my childhood…

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