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(Disclaimer…I think because I have not posted for a while, I got carried away this morning. I mean, one song is all that was asked for. I seem to have turned this into a dissertation or something…)
OK, this was a serious challenge. First of all, I could not find a single legitimate artist with my name. I mean, there is Kathie Lee Gifford, but come on. I know how judgmental this is but I really cannot count her as an “artist”.
OK, so I tried my maiden name next and remembered not a specific song by an artist with that name, but rather a whole album by a longtime friend of mine, an amazing artist herself, singing my namesake’s songs.
CD REVIEW: Ginny Reilly’s tribute to blues legend Bessie Smith
(Shameless plug here….Go buy something by Ginny Reilly!!)
Then I tried my original, birth, last name, which later, sort of became my middle name (long story there) and found an artist I don’t usually like but she does have this one Power Song I like to play in my Women’s Groups.
Sleeping here alone
You know I dream in color
And do the things I want
Think you had the last laugh
Bet you think that everything good is gone
Think you left me broken down
Think that I’d come running back
Baby you don’t know me, ’cause you’re dead wrong
Stand a little taller
Doesn’t mean I’m lonely when I’m alone
What doesn’t kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even lighter
Doesn’t mean I’m over ’cause you’re gone
Just me, myself and I
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn’t mean I’m lonely when I’m alone
But told you I was moving on over you
I’d come back swinging
You try to break me but you see what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn’t mean I’m lonely when I’m alone
What doesn’t kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even lighter
Doesn’t mean I’m over ’cause you’re gone
Just me, myself and I
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn’t mean I’m lonely when I’m alone
Thanks to you I’m not the broken-hearted
Thanks to you I’m finally thinking ’bout me
You know in the end the day to left was just my beginning
In the end
Stand a little taller
Doesn’t mean I’m lonely when I’m alone
What doesn’t kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even lighter
Doesn’t mean I’m over ’cause you’re gone
Just me, myself and
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn’t mean I’m lonely when I’m alone
Just me, myself and I
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn’t mean I’m lonely when I’m alone
OK, so that’s good, right? A song by an artist with my name, sort of? But then I started thinking about songs with my name in them and remembered an old favorite…
Like a memory it falls
Soft and warm continuing
Tapping on my roof and walls
Through the window of my eyes
I gaze beyond the rain-drenched streets
To England where my heart lies
My thoughts are many miles away
They lie with you when you’re asleep
And kiss you when you start your day
I don’t know why I spend my time
Writing songs I can’t believe
With words that tear and strain to rhyme
All that I once held as true
I stand alone without beliefs
The only truth I know is you
Weave their weary paths and die
I know that I am like the rain
There but for the grace of you go I
But unfortunately…for you…that reminded me of an even earlier song with my name in it. Kind of a traumatic song really as one of my very first “boyfriends” played it over our junior high school’s loud speaker when we “broke up”. (Dating back then was innocent, short, and sweet, but the break ups were brutal!!
Don’t want your kisses, that’s for sure
I die each time I hear this sound
Here he comes, that’s Cathy’s clown
You know a man can’t crawl
When he knows you’re tellin’ lies and he hears ’em passing by
He’s not a man at all
Don’t want your kisses, that’s for sure
I die each time I hear this sound
Here he comes, that’s Cathy’s clown
And you know that it’s sincere
Don’t you think it’s kinda sad that you’re treating me so bad
Or don’t you even care?
Don’t want your kisses, that’s for sure
I die each time I hear this sound
Here he comes, that’s Cathy’s clown
That’s Cathy’s clown
I searched but could not find much by anyone with my current last name. It’s an unusual, shortened name, for immigration here from Italy back in the early 1900’s.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the variety in my response to the challenge today.
I do so love comments, of all kinds.
I love this post so much! I’m so happy you had fun with it. I love Kelly Clarkson and Simon & Garfunkel is always a sad, but lovely choice. I think the one that got me was Cathy’s Clown. He played it over the loud speakers at school? Sheesh! The lyrics could be traumatizing in that scenario! Anyway, I’m so happy you recovered from that awfulness. Great song picks! Thanks so much for playing along!
Always so much fun. Thanks!
Brilliant that you’ve managed to come up with so many songs in response to this prompt – all really good too!
Wow thanks. It was a great idea!
The other day they did a TV piece on Colbert … and you know? ALL the kids — and these were first graders — knew all the words to the Beatles songs and could argue whether Revolver was or wasn’t the best record. I would probably opt for Sergeant Pepper, but that has other personal reasons.
I’ve been trying to remember a Cathy, but I never remember names. There’s always Katherine Hepburn. Not much of a singer but one great person! Also, it seems there’s more if you spell it with a “C.”
Took me a while to figure out your response. I thought maybe at some point I told you we lived in Colbert, WA. But for a TV piece to be done on this tiny town of 8,000 would be a surprise.
Thanks for commenting. Very interesting!
Great choices! Simon &Garfunkel is a fav and Kelly’s ‘Stronger’ gets played here several times a week…just love her voice! Thanks! 😊
All good choices! I especially like the Kelly Clarkson one. The first one I hadn’t heard before, but I sure did like it! 🙂