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Blowin’ in the Wind: A Breezy Playlist
I will leave the debate over various renditions of Dylan’s 1962 song to others, assuming someone chooses to take it up or the days fill with other riffs on the theme. Kick back and enjoy a short playlist organized around the theme “blowin’ in the wind.”
The Association leads off with their 1967 joyous harmonizing in “Everyone Knows its Windy.”
I’ll take Gladys Knight & The Pips version of “Hero (Wind Beneath My Wings)” over Bette Midler’s:
In this difficult year, in the struggle for the survival of America as presently constituted, it is appropriate to reflect back to the fall of the Soviet empire. The German band Scorpions provide the soundtrack with some good harmonizing on “Wind of Change:”
If the wind is blowing, there might be some “Stormy Weather,” and Lena Horne has owned that song since she first sang it on screen in Stormy Weather, released by Twentieth Century-Fox in 1943.
And, if the wind is blowing, the “Windmills of Your Mind” will be circling. This song, first recorded by Noel Harrison in 1968 as the theme song on the 1968 Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway film The Thomas Crown Affair. The song, played in the movie during a sequence of a bright yellow glider flying, won the 1969 Oscar for best original song in a film.
We will close out with Peter, Paul and Mary’s sweet harmonies in their 1963 recording of “Blowin’ in the Wind.” It was recorded at the height of the Civil Rights movement and before the Vietnam War became part of America’s political landscape.
Enjoy, and add your own favorites in the comment section.
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Leave the “music” of Kiss out of it.
(This is a reference to a long ago article I read where a music critic said that the band Kiss wouldn’t grant him an interview because they were mad that he had written a review comparing their music to buffalo farts. The music critic defended himself by pointing out that he had compared their music favorably to buffalo farts.)
Was never much of a Kiss fan but not sure I would have made that connection or comparison. You gave me my chuckle for the day.
Pink Floyd – A Pillow of Winds
Bonus – Wind ain’t in the title, but One of These Days sure is a windy song:
Say what you will of Dylan, Blood On the Tracks was greatness:
Heheheh :D:
Thanks. I didn’t remember the opening.
Apparently ‘breaking wind’ was a ..er.. more sung about subject than I realized. Hmmm.
What is the matter with you people?
Just realized, I think this one got missed:
The song is mentioned in the original post.
But if we’re doing alternate versions, I’ve always preferred this one (Sheena Easton had major pipes. It’s too bad she met Prince and went down the porn rock path in her career).
Although I have Blue Kentucky Girl I don’t think I’d looked closely at that album art before.
Posting this because our Mom used to sing it to us when we were little.
Love the range of songs offered by members on any musical prompt.
It is fitting that I get comment #49. My favorites, Steeleye Span: Cold, Haily, Windy Night:
Excellent. Always listen to Mom.