The Good Things
It is a gray day today and just a few days since the big ball dropped as the world’s eyes where fixated on Mariah Carey’s thighs. Oh my what did she sing? Who really cares, was it one of the last good things of the 2016? A year of good things.
Good things I did, good things you did, good things other have done or is it the good that happened, remembering good people that did good things. It’s the beginning of a new year 2017 and my wish to be better, to do good, and look for the good that happened brought me to this, today I must reflect on what was the good things of 2016 and wish that 2017 will bring more good than bad.
I don’t want to write about bad, bad news, bad things, bad people, enough was given to those bad things in 2016. I am very happy to think about the good things, such as good music and the people that made good music and remembering and honoring the good people we lost in 2016.
Let’s start with David Bowie and the good music he produced just prior to his death, “Blackstar”, then there was Prince, his real name Prince Rogers Nelson, what a American musical genius given the name from a good father’s love. Good Eagles do fly high and Glen Frey will be missed. The elements created by the earth, its winds and the fires created another good element Maurice White and some good funk. Good hearts provide the love within, so did Joe Dowell even wood hearts will forever pound. Denise Katrina Matthews known as Vanity. It looks like Prince had an angel waiting for him in a good place. Yolande Fox an American beauty and sweet voice how good is that, to be Miss America. Nothing like a good slick back haircut and voice of Lennie Baker with Sha Na Na and I remember when I first saw this good country singer, Joey Martin Feek, for the first time, many good things came from this wonderful women, her voice, her love. She didn’t really want to sing, but married a good man and wrote and sang and more than good music a beautiful child came from her love with her husband Rory.
Good keyboards and the music created by Keith Emerson and his partner Greg Lake, both doing what they loved.. good progressive rock.
Following in his father’s steps and keeping it really good Frank Sinatra Jr. belted it out with honor and respect. Bringing it home through the unique poetry music art form rapper Phife Dawg had a lot of good to say straight up.
Merle Haggard thought he was a outlaw, but he was a real good man and a country music icon. The guitar is an interesting instrument and the players that can play good solos such as guitarist Lonnie (Mack) McIntosh, left good ones.
Some singers have something really good in there voices setting them apart and so did Billy Paul, always to be remembered for “Me and Mrs. Jones”.
We also have to remember some good TV moments with singers and the lost of Julius La Rosa, an Italian-American traditional popular music singer, a regular on Arthur Godfrey TV show who was fired on air, but good things happen to good people and his career. He was later hired by Ed Sullivan. La Rosa said “Music makes me feel good”. So did the Letterman’s co-founder Mike Barnett, toured with Paul Whiteman and the “Newcomers of 1928” revue opened on 28 February 1958 at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas another good thing that was my date of birth.
Many a good gig I had the tune “Mustang Sally” was played, it was originally sung and written by Mack Rice and another good song “Respect Yourself”. Respect that is a good thing, that is what this is all about.
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Micky Rooney’s son Teddy Rooney, a bass player and a veteran truly a good American hero. There are so many good drummers and the ones that have good grooves that make a track rememberable like the Box Top’s Drummer Danny Smythe on the “Letter”.
Bonnie Brown signed by RCA 1956, The Brown’s trio scored their biggest hit when their folk-pop single “The Three Bells” reached №1 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop country charts. I bet many good angels got their wings while that tune played.
Gloria DeHaven, a singer and a child actress signed with MGM notably sings, ”So This Is Paris”, in the movie of the same name.
Good jazz means good jazz musicians and Pete Fountain, respectfully Pierre Dewey LaFontaine, Jr. New Orlean’s famous clarinetist noted for his sweet fluid tone. Pierre recorded over 100 LPs and CDs.
Just as good jazz has pioneers so does country music especially woman such as advocate Jean Shepard as country music’s singer/songwriter who penned “A Dear John Letter”
This sums up a good man, Pete Burns stated that “[People] always want to know — am I gay, bi, trans or what? I say, forget all that. There’s got to be a completely different terminology and I’m not aware if it’s been invented yet. I’m just Pete.
So goes a teen idol Bobby Vee, with so many good memories listening to “Take good care of my baby”.
Kay Starr, with much respect born Katherine Laverne Starks sang “Wheel of Fortune” which is used as the theme to the television TV Show, many may say a good TV game show.
More angels with many good words are singing Leonard Cohen, “Hallelujah” and many too are grooving to Leon Russell’s “A Song for you”.
Life is good, and many good things “You Really Had Me Going” sung by Holly Dunn.
Life has doors and Jim Lowe known for his biggest hit “The Green Door”.
Life wasn’t The Status Quo for guitarist Rick Parfitt or singer George Michael but good Faith was and is making a good nights rain something to listen to as we remember Debbie Reynolds in “Singing in the rain”.
Just as life has many good pleasures, the rain is truly a good thing, washing away all the bad, bringing life to future lives, soon leaving the sun to shine and the moon rising at the end of each day. Good things, remember we all can do them and look back on what we have done, good things will happen. Remember good people, and the good things they have done.
