I Have my Top Twenty Songs at the Ready ... If Anyone is Interested | Eastern North Carolina Now

    The publication Politico recently asked the Republican and Democrat primary candidates as to just what were their 20 favorite songs, as if we, The People, might gain a greater insight into their political souls thereby gaining greater perspective as to who could lead our Republic out of the malaise within an deepening abyss that the Democratic Socialists, who later in tandem with Idiot President Biden, shoved us into, willing or not.

    I looked over some of these songs beloved by some of the presidential candidates, and thought: How different my choices would be? Without belaboring that point, I shall choose a random 20 of my favorite songs; remebering that this is an evolving process as usic is one of my most consistent choices of entertainment and inspiration.

    And NOW, I share those timeless melodies, at least in my mind (in no special order):

Caravan  •  Van Morrison

Why Does Love have to Be so Sad?  •  Derek and the Dominos

Moon River  •  Louis Armstrong, performer, melody by Henry Mancini /Johnny Mercer, lyrics

Crash Into Me  •  Dave Matthews Band

The Weight  •  The Band

Gabriel's Oboe  •  Ennio Morricone

I Will  •  The Beatles

Mr. Bojangles  •  Jerry Jeff Walker

Paper Airplane  •  Alison Krauss and Union Station, featuring Jerry Douglas performers, melody and lyrics by Robert Lee Castleman

Sitting  •  Cat Stevens

All in the Game  •  Van Morrison performer, melody by Charles G. Dawes /Carl Sigman, lyrics

America  •  Simon and Garfunkel

Free Bird  •  Lynyrd Skynyrd

Romeo and Juliet  •  Dire Straits

Now We Are Free  •  performed by Hans Zimmer /Lisa Gerrard , composed by Hans Zimmer, with co-arrangement by Klaus Badelt /Lisa Gerrard, lyrics

The Night They Drove Ole Dixie Down  •  The Band

Stairway to Heaven  •  Led Zeppelin

What a Wonderful World  •  Louis Armstrong, performer, melody by Bob Thiele and George David Weiss

Layla  •  Derek and the Dominos

Drunk on the Moon  •  Tom Waits

To Kill a Mockingbird Theme  •  Elmer Bernstein

American Pie  •  Don Mclean

Your Song  •  Elton John, lyrics by Bernie Taupin

River  •  Joni Mitchell

Fanfare for the Common Man  •  Aaron Copland

Gimme Shelter  •  Rolling Stones


    Remarkably, I could just keep going, and to restate a salient point, these songs are not my top 20 songs, uh 26 songs; actually, they are just my first stream of thought of the multitude of my favorites, of which I immediately just now thought of, so, do I qualify to run for president too?

    If anyone should want to form their own top 20 ... 26 songs, so they might also one day be a future qualifier for elected office, even president of the United States, please feel free to submit your own list of qualifying melodies to Eastern NC NOW. Should you have the success of submitting a respectable list of supreme melodious quality, you too may discover that you are made of the "right stuff" to serve the public as an elected leader of high office.

poll#159

Recently, I wrote a rather developed post about my "7 Top Musical Acts," which was difficult to put in a favored order, but I did it anyway. Of the 7 musical acts that I listed: Which would you list as your most favored of the 7?

  1. Van Morrison

  2. The Beatles

  3. Led Zeppelin

  4. Paul Simon /Simon and Garfunkel

  5. Dire Straits /Mark Knopfler

  6. Dave Matthews Band /Dave Mathews

  7. Alison Krauss and Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas

226 total vote(s)     What's your Opinion?