{M} Sunday Music Wishlist (Week 3) BIRTHDAY SPECIAL

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This blog post contains mixed English and Filipino languages.


Good day to all of you! This is my birthday special of the weekly Sunday Music Wishlist.


Regarding last Sunday (18th March), hindi po ako nakapag-post nito for I can't spend time for making and posting blogs.


I returned to Blogger this week for I have more time for this already, at tsaka, nalalapit na ang aking birthday.


This week's edition doesn't feature any featured words. However, ipapakita lang ng limang kantang ito kung paano sila naging o magiging parte ng maglalabinsiyam na taon ko dito sa mundo.


Let's start na!


Ang unang kanta ay ang napili kong "Theme Song of the Year" para sa aking ika-19 na kaarawan. If you can still remember, I chose "Defying Gravity" as my last year's theme song dahil I turned 18, meaning hindi na ako menor de edad, and it calls me to do what I haven't done before entering the age of majority, "defying gravity" 'ika nga.


I chose this song because I liked 'yung part na "I get knocked down, but I get up again" na paulit-ulit na binabanggit sa kantang ito. Sa dami ng pinagdaanan ko, ako po'y nadapa, pinadapa, at pilit idinadapa, but thanks be to my sandigang hindi natitibag, si God, in spite of those things, I'm still alive.


Here is "Tubthumping" by Chumbawamba, released in 1997.


Before you watch it, sabihin ko lang po that the video below is not it's official music video. For some reasons, it doesn't work here. So I just posted a different yet humorous video.





Next song is a thirty-five year old song, ito 'yung pinapatugtog ng Papa ko sa radyo nung bata pa ako (casette tape pa 'yun) para makatulog kami ng kapatid ko (si April).


A lot of years had passed, I hadn't heard of this, the song that used to be the "lullaby" for us to fall asleep. Yet, last 2010, my Indonesian roommate asked me if I know this song. At first, I said no, but when he played it on his laptop, woah, I knew this! I knew this! I was brought back to my childhood days then.


This is "Ballade pour Adeline" played by Richard Clayderman (1976).





Going back to that song, I'm sure your parents (if the reader is in the Philippines) know this, this song is the OST for "Lovingly Yours, Helen" broadcast on GMA-7 (a major national television station in the Philippines) which ran from the 80s to the early 90s. The said TV show is very popular at that time.


When I was a kid, I liked singing, well, now I still do. When we went on a vacation to my mother's hometown in Sorsogon more than a decade ago, I always go to the hut where the karaoke is located, and always sing there. Lagi nga 'kong pinagbabawalan kasi madalas lasing Tiyo Tony ko noon, natatakot silang pagbalingan ako, but I don't really care, siyempre bata, may pagka-willful, so I still sing, in spite nga na lasing nga si Tiyo. And the songs I used to sing back then were "Spanish Eyes", "Quando Quando", and other Frank Sinatra and Engelbert Humperdinck songs.


Itong ipi-feature ko dito ay isa rin sa mga iyon, at applicable siya sa current status ko. Here is "A Man Without Love" by Engelbert Humperdinck (1968).





For the record, Mr. Humperdinck is still living, he's now 75 years old. 'Nu kaya masasabi niya if he will compare the music of 40 years ago at 'yung music natin ngayon?


'Nung kabataan ko rin, nakahiligan ko ang mga masasayang awitin, 'yun din kasi ang panahong naglabasan ang mga songs under the "Bubblegum pop" genre. Bihira na lang ito ngayon. Examples po n'yan ay "Doctor Jones" at "Barbie Girl" at "Tarzan and Jane" ng grupong Aqua, gayundin ang "This Is How We Do It" ng Solid Base, puro 'yan between late 90s at early 2000s na awitin.


Ang susunod na video ay isa sa mga halimbawa ng bubblegum pop na kinahiligan ko rin, entitled "Superhero" ng Daze (1997). [HQ]





Lastly, we're jumping from me being a seven-year-old kid to being a person who is in my late teens.


Aside sa "Theme Song of the Year", ako rin po'y pumipili ng "Love Song of the Year", kaso ito'y pinipili bago pa magsimula ang isang bagong taon.


Ang mga napipili kong "Love Song of the Year" ay pawang naglalahad ng aking current status sa lovelife sa panahong piniipili ko ang awitin. I listen to the lyrics many many times just to choose a love song for the approaching new year.


Ang mga napili kong "Love Song of the Year" ay ang "Falling Away" ni Miguel Escueta (for 2008); "Crush" ni David Archuleta (for 2009); "Can't Keep On Loving You" ni Elliott Yamin (for 2010); at ang "Where Are You" nina Natalie at Justin Roman (for last year).


The last video of this week's edition of SMW is my 2012 Love Song of the Year. It's "Just So You Know" by Jesse McCartney (2006).


Note: 95% of the lyrics, in my lovelife's case, are true.





Hahay...hahaha....naibahagi ko na naman a bit details of my life.
Hanggang sa muli, salamat sa pagtangkilik sa aking blog!


>> rrj@chn_2012-03-25

{E} Sunday Music Wishlist (Week 2)

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This blog post is suitable for worldwide English-speaking readers.


Hi! This is the second week of "Sunday Music Wishlist".


The featured word for this week is "five".


1. "Five Days" - Patrick Nuo (2003)
This song is one of my favorite songs of all time. Though it was released in 2003, I just first heard of this song only last year. Aside from the music video itself, I bet, you will like the song also.





2. "5, 6, 7, 8" - Steps (1997)
This song was a big hit in the late 90s, I was in Nursery back then. Can you still remember this?





3. "Moves Like Jagger" - Maroon 5 (2011)
Maroon 5 zoomed its career in 2000s with "She Will Be Loved", "This Love" and others. A decade had passed but its songs still peak the charts.





4. "Mambo Number 5" - Lou Bega (1999)
Another dance hit of the 90s. I remembered "Eat Bulaga" (local noontime show in the Philippines for 33 years, also the longest running show in the country) playing this song very often, I think the show's Sexbomb Girls has performed with the tune of it.


(WARNING: Video may contain scenes not suitable for young viewers.)



5. "Flipside" - The Click Five (2008)
The Click Five is one of my favorite bands during my high school days because of their song "Jenny" and their single that I've featured here in SMW.





I'm open for suggestions for featured words by contacting me through Facebook, Twitter, or just by simply commenting on this blog post.


See you next week!


>> rrj@chn_2012-03-11

{E} Sunday Music Wish List (Week 1)

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This blog post is suitable for worldwide English-speaking readers.


Hi!


This is a new weekly special in my blog.
The Sunday Music Wish List!


Every Sunday, my blog will bring you five songs that have a connection or that have something to do with the featured word.


Anyways, the featured word for this week is SUGAR.


I know that there are thoughts running in your head on what the five songs will be. Let's see the first song.


The first song was released in 2001. It ranked 2nd in the US Billboard Adult Top 40 on the same year.


One of my friends introduced it to me and it became one of my favorite songs.


My friends, here is "When It's Over" by Sugar Ray.
(WARNING: Video may contain scenes not suitable for young viewers.)





The second song, i think everybody knows this. It was released in 2009. It peaked at #2 in New Zealand and at #5 in the U.S.


This is the popular song of Flo Rida featuring Wynter, entitled "Sugar."





The third song, a lot of you  don't know this. This was released in 1961 by The Drifters and was revived a few years later by The Searchers.


If your parents were alive in the 60s, they surely know this.


Here is "Sweets For My Sweet" by The Searchers.
BLACK AND WHITE VIDEO >> HQ





Hey, where's the "sugar" there?
It's in the lyrics!
"Sweets for my sweet, sugar for my honey..."


Archie Comics are not that "in" nowadays, but one of their animated music segments has an obvious connection with our fourth song.


The music video below is first shown in 1969 at CBS (Columbian Broadcasting Network, a leading television network in the U.S.) for the show "The Archie Comedy Hour".


I think this song somehow is familiar to you.


Let's watch "Sugar, Sugar" by The Archies





Lastly, the latest song among the five. It's from Trick Daddy with Cee-Lo, on their 2011 song, which is also entitled "Sugar".
(WARNING: Lyrics contain words not appropriate for children.)





Since this is a "wishlist", I'm open for suggestions of featured words; you can do any of the following:
1. comment on this blog,
2. send me a message thru Facebook, or 
3. tweet me on @Joe27Tweets

Your suggested word might be featured here next Sunday.
Hope you guys like it.
Thanks for viewing!


>> rrj@chn_2012-03-04