Category: Prompts

Welcome once again to Flashback Track Friday. Each week, either KK or Mister Bump will present a song to you, and out of that song, will prompt you with a question.

7 Seconds is a duet from Neneh Cherry and Youssou N’Dour, released in my mid-twenties (1994), which stormed the charts in Europe. In French charts, it stayed on the top spot for 16 weeks, which was a record at the time. In the UK it reached #3, but it was very much a Euro-hit, because in the US, it only just broke into the Hot 100. So this song will be wonderfully fresh to US readers.

Welcome once again to Flashback Track Friday. Each week, either KK or Mister Bump will present a song to you, and out of that song, will prompt you with a question.

---

Could it really be time to say goodbye to summer again in the northern hemisphere? Is it just me, or is summer the shortest season of the year?

Amazing Mezzo-soprano, Janis Joplin revived the 1935 operatic song “Summertime” in 1968. The song retains a sadness of the things lost, of life passing more quickly than expected, and the brevity of youth found in the original score. Joplin died just two years after the release of this track of a heroin overdose. She was just 27 years old, her short summer of a career over too soon.

Now that live music resumed across the globe, I thought I’d mix things up a bit by presentingWhere Were You Tuesdays?Each Tuesday, I will present a memory, and song I associate with this memory then ask you to share your musical memory as well.

---

One of my happy places is in the tub. Whether I take a shower or bath, I always enjoy listening to great music while I refresh and unwind. Sometimes I read (if I have a book I can’t put down), and sometimes I write (if I have a story I can’t stop working on), but most times I have a playlist and I go to my happy place.

So this week, I’m asking you to share a song you enjoy listening to in the tub. A soaking song or a scrubbing tune, whichever you prefer.

This tune can get you going or mellow…

Welcome once again to Flashback Track Friday. Each week, either KK or Mister Bump will present a song to you, and out of that song, will prompt you with a question.

I heard The Carpenters a lot as a boy, they were very popular on the radio stations my parents listened to, but I was so young, it was just music. Insignificant. I was fourteen when Karen died, and I was meh – a singer 5,000 miles away in LA was a far cry from me in provincial Liverpool.

Welcome once again to Flashback Track Friday. Each week, either KK or Mister Bump will present a song to you, and out of that song, will prompt you with a question.

---

“Hot Blooded” is a platinum-selling single by the British-American rock band Foreigner released June 1978.  I don’t know about the summer of ’78 but this summer has been a real scorcher here in the U.S. So much so, that I thought I’d feature the burning guitar riffs of today’s flashback track and issue a scorching challenge to go with it. So, where did this hot single come from, anyways?

Lead Singer Lou Graham tells us that the song came from the band goofing off and experimenting with sound.

When Mick (Guitarist Michael Jones) started playing that riff, I remember saying, “Wait! Stop! What’s that?” Mick said it was just another riff. So, I started singing along to…