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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Despite the fantastic nature of the subject, which might turn off many people, Buffy the Vampire Slayer was great television. The characters were complex, the stories were well written, and there was some great dialog. The musical episode, “Once More…

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