My music duo Molly and Sunny boy recently recorded this song on a video.
The song became really popular after a film called, “Good morning Vietnam,” in 1988.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_a_Wonderful_World
Today was a beautiful day. After covering ourselves with bug spray because of the crazy gnats, we took a lovely walk up our street.
There are some wonderful houses on our street as well.
Last night my husband and I were treated to some beautiful music played by a friend of ours, Ben Marti.
He is a fantastic musician and the son of the owners of Morgan Creek vineyards. He performs each Friday night there.
https://www.morgancreekvineyards.com/staff
Sadly, while he played these glorious tones on the Steinway upright, people yacked loudly, eating, drinking, texting and all I could think was, “Pearls before swine.” Perhaps a bit harsh. Nice atmosphere, nevertheless. Ben says it’s a salon-style vibe.
Nevertheless, after what happened recently in Texas, the horrible elementary school massacre, and the shootings in Buffalo at the grocery store, the music came to me as a balm, and a healing. I so wished many others could be so comforted by it.
The Debussy pieces he played were especially touching and lyrical evoking a feeling of bliss and tranquility. It felt like you were out taking a walk in nature.
I have decided to dedicate each Friday blog post to songs that come my way.
Whenever I discover a new song or remember a good song to share, I will post it here on Fridays.
Today we are going to feature a song that I had not heard before, or did not know much about.
It was dedicated to me by a jazz trio because I was wearing my beret at a jazz night last Saturday night.
The band leader said, “Here is a Django Reinhardt song for you called, “Nuages,” a French word for clouds. ☁️
Here is the illustrious Monsieur Reinhardt on the guitar performing, “Nuages.”
To find out more about Django Reinhardt you can click here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Reinhardt
Watch Django Reinhardt play incredible music with just 2 fingers on the fretboard.
Yesterday was a very long day.
Nevertheless, it was time to get out of Dodge.
Hubby and I decided to let someone else entertain us with food and music for a change!
So we drove to Morgan Creek Vineyards on a chilly night.
https://www.morgancreekvineyards.com/
It was so pretty outside in the country, but we were able to sit indoors to enjoy the warmth of food, drinks & music!
We went to hear my former college guitar teacher, James McGuire play with his combo.
Longer daylight seems to provide more energy for the soul!
I am a big fan of German-French-American star Marlene Dietrich.
I like the song “Falling in love again,” so I did a video with hubby here.
One of the most popular motion picture stars of the thirties and forties, Marlene even has her own museum.
Today my post is about music and food, two of life’s greatest blessings!
Today my little music duo, Molly and Sonny Boy ( hubby Jim and I,) did a nice little number for you, “That’s Amore.” Just guitar, tambourine and 2 vocals.
It’s a song that mentions Pasta Fazool.
Hubby cooks it often from a recipe he got from his Italian ex-girlfriend’s mother. It contains ditalini pasta, Great Northern beans, tomato sauce, crushed tomatoes dried Romano cheese chunks, black pepper, red pepper, rosemary, garlic and olive oil.
My folk duo published this song.
It was inspired by a real-life experience.
I was introduced to a new coffee drink I never heard about until I moved to the USA.
It was called the Cappuccino.
I wrote the lyrics and hubby arranged the music and tweaked the lyrics to suit.
He put the African talking drum in there as well, to mimic the sounds of cappucinno-making.
I used video and photos from the time we were in Las Vegas.
Enjoy this song for free from Sonny Boy and me!
There are over a hundred daily videos that my eclectic folk duo, Molly and Sonny Boy, made 2 years ago, shortly before the Covid pandemic.
We posted them nightly on YouTube.
We called it our Daily Verse and Chorus Project.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM1Sv8w3nV6MJ_f8dZpN0nEAnwxc_–Se
I still view them now and then to catch a glimpse of our sweet dogs Cole and Pixie who sometimes appear in them.
I still feel so much sadness over their deaths.
Happily, they both each lived to be about 17! Pixie, the Pomeranian lived to be 16 years and 8 months and Cole the Poodle, lived to be 17 years and one month.
I wish they were still alive. Their lives were too short in my books, even though in dog years, they would each be over 100!
In 2013, we fulfilled a lifelong dream of my husband’s, to perform at Cafe Lena in Saratoga Springs, NY.
Now that hubby is retired, we continue to practice daily, dreaming of stardom, or at least steady gigs!
The most used app on my phone is the Voice app, so we can record inventive guitar riffs and pin down lyrics for new songs.
We like to write songs, and we have an album out already of all original songs you can check out on Apple music.
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/molly-and-sonny-boy/259940366
Last night my eclectic music duo, Molly and Sonny Boy performed at Morgan Creek Vineyards.
It was perfect weather.
When the sun finally set, there was a clear sky and a beautiful moon.
The food they provided after our gig was from an outdoor pizza oven.
All in all, it was a special time thanks to our generous George, Paula, Adam, Griffin, Dee and all the employees at Morgan Creek Vineyards!
https://www.morgancreekvineyards.com/
Tonight my music duo is going to perform here.
https://www.morgancreekvineyards.com/
We haven’t done this venue before.
They really want jazz music, but our repertoire is a mixture of jazz and blues and other kinds of songs including originals.
Hopefully we will be entertaining to the diners on jazz night!
Yesterday I went online to CD Baby regarding getting hooked up for payments from digital downloads.
I’m so glad we got that sorted because I found that our music was being hawked on so many different platforms throughout the Internet.
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/molly-and-sonny-boy/259940366
Anyways, we are very excited about performing together at Morgan Creek Vineyards this evening.
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Here is a sample of our music.
Zents Music Studio 