Give me some of that!

I was humming a song yesterday that I remember from the install disk of Windows 95 - yep 95. 'Give me some of that' was all I could remember, and then 'Good times, bad times, give me some of that'.

From there it was relatively easy to track it down. The artist was Edie Brickell - yes, never heard anything else from her either! But I loved that song, and the video that went with it.



Seems Edie is still being creative - here is something more recent. More in Wikipedia. Interestingly, she is married to singer/songwriter Paul Simon, and with her band The New Bohemians, wrote and recorded What I Am, that was later covered by Spice Girl Emma Bunton. Hope you are now as educated about connections to that song that was going round my head, yesterday.

Best gifts for Mark

Just spent the last of my birthday iTunes vouchers yesterday.

They are a super gift for music lovers. Like me. Latest purchases: Third Day and Casting Crowns. And a movie: Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Albert Hammond and Josh Groban

Albert Hammond in 2005

Think about Albert Hammond and my generation immediately starts humming "seems it never rains in Southern California" or "free electric band" but did you know that since those heady days of pop stardom, Hammond has been a prolific songwriter?

Quite by accident, I noticed a lovely song on Josh Groban's debut CD, Alejate, was co-penned by Albert Hammond & Marti Sharron (although his website also credits Claudia Brant). He has a newsletter you can get via his homepage, and a new album and shows coming in May 2005. Hey, Albert, thanks for the happy memories of 1972 and 1973.