Posted on 03/15/2014 8:10:20 PM PDT by lee martell
It’s true, nighttime provides a wonderful setting for many things, such as horror movies (what self-respecting monster attacks in the daytime?) and dates. As regards the latter, it is hard to visualize a romantic setting in bright sunshine—yes, I know it’s possible for some people but darkness provides a certain something hard to beat for most, I would submit.
Music which invokes a setting of nighttime has always held a special appeal to me, your humble OldPossum. Hell, when do you think possums come out, certainly not in that sterile daylight!
Very nice post, and there should be more like it on FR, if for no other reason than to break the relentless onslaught of The Political.
There’s a great moody song Nina Simone recorded, probably in the 50s titled “Middle of the Night”,probably from the movie of the same name, with Fredric March. Glad you mentioned the Elvis ballad, because that was his finest and most sensitive vocal.Nice soft rock song from the 70s with the lyrics “there’s a warm wind blowin’ the stars around/and I really want to see you tonight.There are no shortage of average songs with “night “ in them, like The Night has a Thousand Eyes and You and the night and the Music.Maybe I’m partial, but the song “Summer Nights” from the musical Grease, is pretty good in an adolescent-yearning kind of way. I was in the original cast in Chicago, but that song was written for the movie. For now, though, the Simone song should suffice.
Oh, yes, we can always go much, much deeper. As a former disc jockey, I have a great love of popular music that goes back to the early 20th century.
Tonight - Bernstein/Sondheim - West Side Story
Xylophones!! Nobody leads with xylophones anymore. Perfect nightime driving music with the front windows down.
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow - Gerry Goffin/Carole King
Ferrante and Teicher are one of our favorite duos, too.
If you like Ferrante and Teicher, you my know that Michel Legrand rocks, as well. I know this one is not in keeping with the theme of this thread, but this is my favorite Michel Legrand composition, the theme from the Summer of '42
The Nina Simone song I mentioned , Middle of the Night, is on youtube -—it’s the Google result with her image on it. Could someone post the link.I forgot how to do it.Thanks.
Never heard a Phil Collins song in my life, so when I read your title I assumed that you meant this one “Tonight, Tonight,” by the Mellow Kings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyLQViMuE7I
“my also know” = “may also know”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48WGhAZEd0Q
Claire de Lune in ‘7 years in Tibet’ from a book depicting a real life experience.
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LOVE me some “Moonlighting”! :-)
Very nice. Makes me think of an infinite neighborhood of bright, sparking constellations. Mozart like with the trilling, or the light touches of a Harpsicord player.
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