It’s time to share, people.
I’m going to start posting links to some of my all-time favorite songs. And, believe it or not, some of them are from artists whose first names aren’t “John”.
The Random Thoughts Random Collection starts with one of the essential Harry Chapin songs, “Taxi”.
As a bonus (since this IS the first post in the series), here’s an extra Harry Chapin song – one of my all-time favorites – “30,000 Pounds of Bananas”. The reason it’s not the primary selection is…well, this isn’t my favorite recording. Harry’s best performance of “…Bananas” was on the “Greatest Stories (Live)” album – it runs 11 minutes and 28 seconds, and features some great adlibs with his brothers and the band. It’s a fantastic story song.
Eventually I’d like to figure out how to do this in the sidebar. Eventually.
I LOVE Harry Chapin.
This is the message I get when I click on the iTunes link: Error : -Invalid Offer ,Please contact site owner about this!
That’s strange. I copied the link directly out of the link generator.
I just regenerated and copied the links…and they still don’t work. Damned if I know why. I have an e-mail into Apple about that.
OK, I think the links are fixed now. I don’t know WHY or HOW, but I think they’re fixed.
Barb – it amazes me how few people know who Harry Chapin is – or at least, know who he is beyond “Cat’s in the Cradle” (which Judy Collins butchered and made famous, in that order). Few songwriters bring the kind of emotion (“Dreams Go By”) and wit (“Dance Band on the Titanic”) to their songs like Harry did.
Oh, FYI, the links ARE working now. The problem was with the iTunes link generator.