Cover of If Only I Could Remember My Name
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The Dreamer
Would definitely make a great song to a dream sequence!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing :)
Cheers, Jenn
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Could easily dream to this one, but not all of his stuff or especially CSN&Y.some of that could easily be nightmares. Come to think of it and the times, some of it was.
ReplyDeleteWonderf post and wonderful music you shared with us,
ReplyDeleteYvonne.
Saw the boys many years ago back in my hippie youth. What voices! Thanks for the memories.
ReplyDeleteARLEE BOID ~
ReplyDeleteI liked this tune. Yes, it definitely does have a very “dreamy” feel to it. Also, I enjoy it when artists sometimes don’t actually sing any words but just sort of hum or softly “scat” a melody. Crosby does it very well here. The Fifth Dimension did it memorably too on their song ‘Dimension 5ive’.
And speaking of “dream songs”, I was a little surprised that you didn’t remark on my ‘Magic Journeys’ selection for the recent Sad Songs Blogfest. Maybe you just didn’t care for it, but I have always felt that the song ‘Magic Journeys’ is perhaps the “dreamiest” of the songs I’ve ever heard that seem like they’re fashioned from or for dreams.
The song was written by The Sherman Brothers for a short 3-D Disney movie that played in the amusement parks for years. The theme of the movie was “childhood imagination” and, really, what’s the difference between imagination and dreaming?
If you want, you can read about the movie HERE.
Also, I found where someone had filmed the film, between a lot of silhouetted heads of other viewers, and posted it at YouTube. The third part is missing because the battery of the photographer’s video camera died two-thirds into the movie. But Part 1 is HERE and Part 2 is HERE.
The quality is bad, of course, due to the circumstances (and the movie is out-of-focus because it’s 3-D minus the glasses) but those videos will give you an idea about how it played. ‘Magic Journeys’ was one of my very favorite Disneyland attractions, and I totally fell in love with the song, which is haunting, and practically made out of “dream-stuff”.
And it’s not just the sad, haunting melody that is dreamy, but the lyrics are just perfectly dream-like as well. My favorite line is, “You are splashing in the stream of an unremembered dream” (which ties right into my “We have fallen asleep in God’s embrace…” theory). Here’s all the words:
Magic Journeys.
Magic Journeys.
Just an ordinary day,
all at once you're on your way,
to a place that cannot be,
no one knows what turns the key.
You have found a thousand eyes,
whirling images arise,
for a moment they are clear,
in a flash, they disappear.
(In a flash they disappear.)
Magic Journeys, mystic flights,
on the wings of unexpected sounds and sights.
Magic Journeys, are they real?
Do they mirror what we think or sense or feel?
Neither dreaming.
Nor pretending.
No beginning.
Then no ending.
You are splashing in the stream,
of an unremembered dream,
you are searching through the eye,
of a seeker in the sky.
Magic Journeys.
Magic Journeys.
You are riding on the winds,
where the universe begins,
through the atoms that we pose,
in the heartbeat of a rose.
Magic Journeys, mystic flights,
on the wings of unexpected sounds and sights.
How we travel, why we go,
is a secret we will never, never know.
Neither dreaming.
Nor pretending.
No beginning.
Then no ending.
Boidman, I was sure you were gonna comment on that song when I posted it in the Sad Songs Blogfest because I thought the “dreamscape” moodiness of it would appeal to you. Shows ya what I know.
~ D-FensDogg
‘Loyal American Underground’
Crosby & Co werent heavy enough for me, so I kinda didnt get it. Never really listened to that syle much either which would help I gess ;-)
ReplyDeleteI never knew David Crosby was part of The Byrds...or if I did I had forgotten {which could easily be the case!}
ReplyDeleteMonica, Older Mommy Still Yummy
Love this artist and I agree, the song could definately be one in a dream. :)
ReplyDeletelove him---esp. love the song guinevere
ReplyDeleteHey there, Thanks for the music break. Great selections.
ReplyDelete-Debbie
Yes, Crosby never much a heavy rock artist, fits more into the folk or gentle rock vein--better to dream by.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comments.
Lee