Music Diary, Vol. 10
For the rationale behind this mad effort, the initial post is here . The full series of Music Diary posts are here . The full playlist is above, and also here . Week of March 11-17, 2024 LYRICS: Louanne Hogan voicing for Jeanne Crain (Rodgers & Hammerstein), "It Might As Well Be Spring" SONG: Discovered this Bollywood gem on a recent happy dive into Lata Mangeshkar's oeuvre. While the lyric by Amit Khanna doesn't reference raindrops, the music by Bappi Lahiri clearly owes a debt to a certain Bacharach & David standard. ALBUM: Eastern European folk music played like jazz, classical music stripped for parts and rebuilt into a time-traveling vehicle—these are some of the ways you might describe the unique glories of Ljova & The Kontraband. Or you could just listen . LYRICS: World Party, "Ship of Fools" SONG: Grunge wasn’t really my thing but the stuff I love from that era, as this great Strong Songs episode about Soundgarden's classic hi