Featured Unknown/Underrated Song: "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" by Crosby, Stills & Nash

We'll be featuring a lot by this group.  Since they only had two career Top 10 songs, there's plenty to pick from!

 

"Suite:  Judy Blue Eyes"

Crosby, Stills & Nash

 

 

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Stills

 

 

It's getting to the point where I'm no fun anymore
I am sorry
Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud
I am lonely

I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are
You make it hard

Remember what we've said and done and felt about each other
Oh, babe have mercy
Don't let the past remind us of what we are not now
I am not dreaming

I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are
You make it hard

[Instrumental (Acoustic Guitar)]

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Tearing yourself away from me now you are free
And I am crying
This does not mean I don't love you I do that's forever
Yes and for always

I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are
You make it hard

Something inside is telling me that I've got your secret
Are you still listening?
Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart
And I love you

I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are
You make it hard
And you make it hard
And you make it hard
And you make it hard

[Instrumental (Acoustic Guitar)]

Friday evening
Sunday in the afternoon
What have you got to lose?

Tuesday morning
Please be gone I'm tired of you
What have you got to lose?

Can I tell it like it is? (Help me I'm sufferin')
Listen to me baby
It's my heart that's a sufferin' it's a dyin' (Help me I'm dyin')
And that's what I have to lose (To lose)

I've got an answer
I'm going to fly away
What have I got to lose?

Will you come see me
Thursdays and Saturdays?
What have you got to lose?

[Instrumental (Acoustic Guitar)]

Chestnut brown canary
Ruby throated sparrow
Sing a song, don't be long
Thrill me to the marrow

[Instrumental (Acoustic Guitar)]

Voices of the angels
Ring around the moonlight
Asking me said she so free
How can you catch the sparrow?

[Instrumental (Acoustic Guitar)]

Lacy lilting lady
Losing love lamenting
Change my life, make it right
Be my lady

[Instrumental (Acoustic Guitar)]

Doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo

Doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo

Que linda me la traiga Cuba
La reina de la Mar Caribe
Cielo sol no tiene sangreahi
Y que triste que no puedo vaya oh va, oh va

Doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo

Doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo 

The Top 150 Christmas Songs of All-Time, Part Three

(Click on dates for links to each group of six songs):


December 9:


"The Christmas Song"
by the Carpenters


"The Chipmunk Song"
by the Chipmunks


"Carol of the Bells"
by David Foster


"Mary's Boy Child"
by Boney M


"I Saw Three Ships"
by Sting


"Joy to the World"
by Whitney Houston




December 10:


"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"
by Bing Crosby

"Let It Snow"
by Diana Krall

"Hark the Herald Angels Sing"
by Nat King Cole

"All I Want for Christmas"
by Spike Jones

"Jingle Bell Rock"
by Bobby Helms

"Silent Night"
by the Temptations




December 11:


"Jingle Bells"
by the Singing Dogs


"Oh Holy Night"
by John Denver


Jolly Old St. Nicholas"
by the Ray Conniff Singers


"(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays"
by the Carpenters


"Baby, It's Cold Outside"
by Margaret Whiting & Johnny Mercer


"Ave Maria"
by Barbra Streisand




December 12:


"Here We Come A-Caroling"
by the Ray Coniff Singers

"Silver Bells"
by Bing Crosby and Carol Richards

"Little Saint Nick"
by the Beach Boys

"Welcome Christmas"
by Boris Karloff

"It Came Upon a Midnight Clear"
by Josh Groban

"Sleigh Ride"
by the Ronettes

December 5-8 (Part Two):

December 1-4 (Part One):

The Top 150 Christmas Songs of All-Time*: Day Twelve

Here are six more songs selected to be The Best 150 Christmas Songs of All-Time*, meaning we are up to 72 so far:

 

"Here We Come A-Caroling"

by the Ray Coniff Singers

One of the great songs by one of the best Christmas acts--Ray Conniff & the Singers.  Difficult to not be happy listening to this.  This is from the 1965 album The Real Meaning of Christmas.

"Silver Bells"

by Bing Crosby and Carol Richards

The version above was the first-ever recorded version of "Silver Bells", released on Decca Records in October of 1950. Imagery is important in songs and Bing and Carol certainly convey that here.

"The Little Drummer Boy"

by Bob Seger

This favorite was written by American classical music teacher and composer Katherine K. Davis in 1941 and is also known as "Carol of the Drum".  

Bob Seger recorded his version in 1987 and it notably excludes all names and religious references.  

"Welcome Christmas"
by Boris Karloff

This is the well-known song from the animated television special How the Grinch Stole Christmas from 1966.  It was based on the children's book by the great Dr. Seuss and tells the story of The Grinch, in his mountain hideaway, trying to take away Christmas from the people in the village below, named Whoville.

"It Came Upon a Midnight Clear"

by Josh Groban

This holiday favorite comes from a poem written by Edmund Sears, pastor of the Unitarian Church in Lancaster, Massachusetts, in 1849.  Sears' lyrics are set to either "Carol", written by Richard Storrs Willis, or "Noel", which was adapted from an English melody written by Arthur Sullivan in 1874.

 I strived to find at least one version of  each Christmas carol and here is one of the best of this song.  Josh Groban's version adds a nice touch.

 

"Sleigh Ride"

 by the Ronettes

One of the best versions of this song comes from the 1963 release by the Ronettes heard here.  The clopping and neighing of horses, the Wall of Sound, it doesn't get much better.