April Fool's Day: Check Songs With 'Fool' Theme

New song by Elvis Presley called 'April Fool's Dinner'? Or is it a dinner for Elvis tonite?

Click 'Calendar Songs' under 'Labels' below and check out songs with similar themes.

Marty Robbin's 'April Fool's Day' >>>>>

First Of May - Puppy Inspired Song, Not Labour

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The most appropriate song to feature today is one of Bee Gees' greatest hits, First Of May (lead vocals Barry Gibb). No, it's not a protest song nor one about Labour Day but with its symbolic and poety like lyrics, Barry Gibb wrote it for his dog's birthday. Argghh!

This 1969 doggie inspired melody was a minor hit but was noticed after it featured in the soundtrack of a British film about puppy love called Melody (1971). It has a place in the annals of American pop and been covered by Matt Monroe, Jose Feliciano and Sarah Brightman. Strange, I always thought the song was more about growing up:

"When I was small and Christmas trees were tall... Don't ask me why but time has passed us by... Now we are tall and Christmas trees are small... But you and I, our love will never die... The day I kissed your cheek and you were mine."

Don't confuse the Bee Gees' version with another one that has the same title.

A video on You Tube features Maurice Gibb and Lulu (To Sir With Love, Scottish pop star, married to Gibb from '69 to '73, his first wife). Maurice Gibb has since passed away in January, 2003.

Check out Lulu: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 British Pop 60s Invasion - One Singer One Son
http://www.popularsong.org/forgotten-gem1.html

Information: Wikipedia

Image: gotoknow.org

Original article: Andy Lim

April Fool's Day Songs? - Fool For Thought

"Everybody plays the fool, sometime There's no exception to the rule Listen, baby, it may be factual, may be cruel I want to tell ya Everybody plays the fool..." (by J.R. Bailey, Rudy Clark, Ken Williams.) The internet is full of articles on April Fool's Day and its origin. It would be interesting to find out more. Yes, it's the big day to-day and below is a list of 60s and 70s songs with the word fool:

Fools Rush In ~ Elvis Presley A Fool Such As I - Elvis Presley or The Clovers Fool, Fool, Fool - Elvis Presley Fool - Elvis Presley Chain Of Fools ~ Aretha Franklin What A Fool Believes - Doobie Brothers Why Do Fools Fall In Love? ~ Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers What Kind Of Fool Am I? Sammy Davis Jr/Anthony Newley The Fool On The Hill - The Beatles Won't Get Fooled Again ~ The Who Poor Little Fool - Ricky Nelson April Fool's Day - Marty Robbins April Fools - Nina N Fredrick.

Everybody Plays The Fool - The Manhattans Fool For You - The Impressions A Fool In Love - Ike, Tina Turner Fool #1 - Brenda Lee Foolish Little Girl - Shirelles It Takes A Fool To Learn - The Spinners

Everybody's Somebody's Fool - Connie Francis She's A Fool - Lesley Gore I'm A Fool - Dino, Desi, Billy Love's Made A Fool Of You - Bobby Fuller Four

And then there are songs without the 4 letter word but with similar themes: Tears Of A Clown - Smokey Robinson Send In The Clowns - Judy Collins or Barbra Striesand Cathy's Clown - Everly Brothers I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone - The Monkees Cool Jerk - The Capitols In certain songs the themes of sadness, anger, depression, defiance, distraction and hopelessness reveal themselves in the lyrics. But then could these feelings be more an indication of realisation before wisdom strikes a chord?

"I've gotta stand tall,/You know a man can't crawl,/But when he knows you tell lies,/And he hears 'em passin' by,/He's not a man at all. (by: Don & Phil Everly)"

Not much of an April Fool's song posting? Make it funny then. If you remember other songs with a similar theme, please contribute. "Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain. "Looking foolish does the spirit good." - John Updike. Image: Google. Original article: Andy Lim Information: Many websites abound.

(3) Beautiful Sunday, Blue Monday, Ruby Tuesday, Wednesday Evening Blues, Thursday, Black Friday, Another Saturday Night.

The days of the weeks feature in many song titles too. Limiting them from the 50s to 70s compositions, there are already a few hundred songs.

Beginning from *The World Hits 'Beautiful Sunday' Album (1972 - image) by the October Cherries, a Singapore group, there are titles like, Blue Monday by Bob Seger, Sunday, Monday Or Always by Frank Sinatra.

Ruby Tuesday is by The Rolling Stones, Melanie, Twiggy, Bobby Goldsboro. Wednesday Evening Blues by John Lee Hooker, Thursday by Jim Croce, Black Friday by Steely Dan, Another Saturday Night by Cat Stevens, Sam Cooke, The Bay City Rollers, The Eagles and Earth Wind & Fire.

Sunday Best is by Bobbie Gentry, Sunday Morning Coming Down by Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, That Sunday, That Summer by Nat King Cole, A Monday Date by Louis Armstrong, Rainy Days and Mondays by The Carpenters. The list goes on...

*Beautiful Sunday, available by October Cherries on World Hits 1973 Single ES6-A, A Baal Production on Elastic Record. Composer/original recording is by Daniel Boone.

(2) January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, 50s - 70s.

Just wondering how many songs use the months of the year in their titles. Here goes. June In January (Bing Crosby), February Brings The Rain (Julie London), Melancholy March, (Julie London), April Love (Pat Boone), April In Portugal (Les Baxter) and First Of May (Bee Gees).

Then there's June Is Busting Out All Over, (Rodgers/Hammerstein), August, October (Robin Gibb), September In The Rain (Frank Sinatra, Carole King) September Morn (Neil Diamond), November Twilight (Julie London), I Can See The Sun In Late December (Stevie Wonder).

Most of the songs were played over the radio, Rediffusion and in cabarets and hotel nightspots during the 60s in Singapore. They were available on vinyl too.

CALENDAR GIRL (N.Sedaka/H.Greenfield)

I love, I love, I love my calender girl

Yeah, sweet calender girl

I love, I love, I love my calender girl

Each and every day of the year

(January) You start the year off fine

(February) You're my little valentine

(March) I'm gonna march you down the aisle

(April) You're the Easter Bunny when you smile

Yeah, yeah, my heart's in a whirl

I love, I love, I love my little calender girl

Every day (every day), every day (every day) of the year

(Every day of the year)

(May) Maybe if I ask your dad and mom

(June) They'll let me take you to the Junior Prom

(July) Like a firecracker all aglow

(August) When you're on the beach you steal the show

Yeah, yeah, my heart's in a whirl

I love, I love, I love my little calendar girl

Every day (every day), every day (every day) of the year

(Every day of the year)

(September) Light the candles at your Sweet Sixteen

(October) Romeo and Juliet on Halloween

(November) I'll give thanks that you belong to me

(December) You're the present 'neath my Christmas tree

Yeah, yeah, my heart's in a whirl

I love, I love, I love my little calender girl

Every day (every day), every day (every day) of the year.

Image: Julie London. http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/

Original article: Andy Lim.

(1) Come September: Bobby Darin, Chet Atkins

This month of September reminds me of a movie that attracted a lot of attention in the early 60s. It is called, Come September and starred four of the biggest stars in that generation. Rock Hudson and Gina Lollobridgida were sex symbols then and Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin the teenage idols.

Rushing to see a movie like this is like rushing to watch Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt today! It was a long bus ride for me to catch the movie as I had to take a bus from the East Coast to the Capitol Cinema in North Bridge Road on a weekday afternoon.

Come September is a commercialised fantasy where a womanizing tycoon ends up chaperoning a group of American girls who have rented his Italian villa. Bobby Darin, a very popular 60s singer, composed two songs for the movie, the title song and another one called Multiplication. Chet Atkins or Mr. Guitar, 14 times Grammy winner, popularised the instrumental Come September.

Image: http://www.movieposters.com/

Original article: Andy Lim