The Great Work Begins: December 2008

I was in a music mood and started in one place and ended in a completely different place tonight. I was listening dutifully to "The Color Purple", which I am really enjoying. After about the third time through, I decided to listen to some other stuff. I have been listening to a playlist I made when my dad died and one song just keeps popping out at me - Kenny Loggins' "Conviction of the Heart". It makes me cry almost every time I hear it.

Kenny Loggins – Live in the Redwoods – Conviction of the Heart

Then I was thinking about some of the songs I love but that also put me in this melancholy place...

One Sweet Day - Mariah Carey and Boys II Men
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzeMzo_4pxA

Puff Daddy “I’ll Be Missing You”

Missing – Everything But the Girl

Seal – Don’t Cry (audio only)

U2- Where the Streets Have No Name
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpVbLm4TN3g

the Eagles “Love Will Keep Us Alive”

Then something must have caught my attention and I looked up "Chess" and found out!!! that they did a concert in May 2008 with Idina Menzel and Adam Pascal and Raul Esparza and Josh Groban and it will be made into a CD and DVD...so of course, I had to listen to some of that..

embassy lament – audio only

Mountain Duet – Idina Menzel and Josh Groban

heaven help my heart – Idina Menzel

I know him so well- Idina Menzel and Kerry Ellis
I know him so well- idina menzel and kerry ellis

Anthem Josh Groban

Adam Pascal – Pity the child

Quartet concert

Then I got off track again...distracted back to my task..melancholy old music...
Melissa Etheridge – No Souveniers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbjOttMoaHw

John Secada – Just another day

Nobody Wants to be Lonely live

Gloria Estefan – 1-2-3

Then I thought of George Huff, for some reason...
George Huff – Lean On me

Then I remembered that I had been wanting to find a song that I have only one copy of...

The Dive – Steven Curtis Chapman

This song has a funny story to go with it...I am not a person who is interested in Christian music or musicians. A few years ago, a new Christian music radio station started advertising on television and they had their ads on A LOT. A clip from "The Dive" was on the commercial. I saw it so many times, that the tune just got stuck in my head. I thought "Oh. My. God. If I don't listen to the whole song, the clip will just wear a groove in my brain..." so I looked it up and got a copy of the single in hopes that it would just be done. The tune had already found a place in my brain. I like it. It is catchy. The words could really be about any spiritual belief and the search for self and truth - letting go and trusting. So, there you go.

Then I decided to look up some Christmas music. I posted that on my other blog, WildRumpusing, so I will only post one here. :)

Clay Aiken – Mary Did You Know?