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06 September 2012

♫ Mailman - RTS - Postman - Pat

I can't remember the last time I sent or received a proper hand-written letter, 3 or 4 pages of news - probably in the 1990s.

Here is my selection of songs about postmen - and not one of them mentions dangerous dogs!

Mailman, bring me no more blues - Buddy Holly

Return to Sender - Elvis Presley
   youtube clip from the film: Girls! Girls! Girls!
   lyrics:
          Return to sender, return to sender
          I gave a letter to the post man, he put it his sack.
          Bright and early next morning, he brought my letter back.
          She wrote upon it:
               Return to sender, address unknown.
               No such number, no such zone.
               We had a quarrel, a lovers' spat,
               I'd write "I'm sorry" but my letter keeps coming back.
          So when I dropped it in the mailbox, I sent it 'Special D'
          Bright and early next morning, it came right back to me.
          She wrote upon it:
               Return to sender, address unknown.
               No such person, no such zone.
          This time I'm gonna take it myself
          And put it right in her hand
          And if it comes back the very next day
          Then I'll understand.
          The writing on it:
               Return to sender, address unknown.
               No such person, no such zone.
                   Return to sender, return to sender.
   written by Winfield Scott and Otis Blackwell
   guitar tabs

Mr Postman - The Beatles
'With the Beatles' album < youtube audio track with lyrics.

Originally written by William Garnet, apparently re-written by Georgia Dobbins of the Marvelettes, also recorded by The Carpenters.

And finally...
Postman Pat

sing along!
   Postman Pat. Postman Pat. Postman Pat and his black and white cat.
   Early in the morning, just as day is dawning, he picks up all the post bags in his van.
   Postman Pat. Postman Pat. Postman Pat and his black and white cat.
   All the birds are singing, and the day is just beginning. Pat feels he's a really happy man.
        Everybody knows his bright red van, all his friends will smile as he waves to greet them,
        Maybe, you can never be sure, there'll be knock, Ring, Letters through your door.
   Postman Pat. Postman Pat. Postman Pat and his black and white cat.
   All the birds are singing, and the day is just beginning. Pat feels he's a really happy man. 
        Pat feels he's a really happy man. Pat feels he's a really happy man.

19 July 2012

♫ Born to Run / Born to be Wild / Born Free / Born too late

Hard to believe that there is only a year between Born Free and Born to be Wild but this was the nineteen-sixties when there was a distinct line between middle-aged convention and an acceptance of youth culture, starting in the '50s with Teddy-boys and Rock-and-Roll and, by the mid-'60s, Mods, Rockers and Flower-Power!

Born to Run Bruce Springsteen 1975

Born to be Wild Steppenwolf 1967/68 (Easy Rider 1969)

Born Free (award winning soundtrack 1966) covers with lyrics

Born too late 1958

Personally, I can't decide whether my favourite is Born to Run or Born to be Wild. Both So Good!

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