Showing posts with label Chris Rea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chris Rea. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Bonding with my MIL over music...

While my husband and I were visiting Texas, we hung out with my mother in law.  She's a neat lady who loves smooth jazz and music from the late 70s.  It was funny.  We were sitting at her kitchen table and she had the radio going.  I heard Muzak and said, "Hey Parker, is that Muzak?"

She laughed and said, "I hadn't noticed."  My mother-in-law changed her name about ten years ago and goes by Parker now.

I happen to be very aware of music.  I hear it in stores and in cars... I pay attention to it in restaurants, even if it's just supposed to be background noise or set the ambiance.  I like a lot of it, except Muzak.  It's mainly because my control freak dad used to force me to listen to it on road trips.

Anyway, Parker changed the channel and it was playing all sorts of great hits.  The keys to my Dungeon of the Past mind jangled as the memories unlocked and I was loving it.  Here are a few songs we heard.




And I heard Anne Murray's version of "Killing Me Softly With His Song".  I had no idea she had recorded it.


I felt like I was six years old again and living in Virginia.  It was magical.

I am really blessed to have a great mother in law.  We get along and share a mutual hatred of my husband's ex wife.  I look forward to visiting with her often... and bonding over more music from the Dungeon of the Past.

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Chris Rea...

My mother-in-law loves this old song by Chris Rea...



Mother-in-law is a former competitive ballroom dancer and she likes this song because it has a perfect beat for her type of dancing.  I like it because it reminds me of being a kid.  The late 1970s was kind of a magical time for me.  I loved the music on the radio.  I mostly liked where we were living and was oblivious to reasons why I would hate it.  And I was too young for responsibilities.

Years later, I encountered Chris Rea again when I was in the Peace Corps.  For some reason, the Armenians liked his stuff and I ended up buying a bootleg cassette with a couple of hits on it...


"The Road To Hell"



"Texas"

and the ever popular...


"Just Wanna Be With You"... which if I recall correctly, was also used as montage music on an episode of Baywatch.

Chris Rea had sort of a sexy style and a voice that reminds me a little of Mark Knopfler's.  Still, I can't listen to his music and not think of my two years in Armenia in the mid 1990s, where people liked Chris Rea for being smooth, suave, and sensual.  And thanks to the Baywatch connection, I'm also reminded of David Hasselhof.  

I kind of miss him on America's Got Talent...


Leonid the Magnificent tells the Hof to go to hell...  Good for him!