11 responses to “The Air That I Breathe”

1. I’ve always loved the Hollies. My favorite is “Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress”.

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   • That’s a good song too, but I preferred ‘Bus Stop’… don’t really know why… I was entranced by their music when they hit the US scene in ’65 (I think) with ‘Look Through Any Window’, I’d started my senior year in high school at the time. Once Graham Nash left and joined Crosby and Stills to form CSN, I was more interested in that new group than much of what the Hollies were doing at the time… Then, I started getting into what we called ‘underground music’ at the time, Iron Butterfly, Steppenwolf, Uriah Heep, Jethro Tull, Spirit, Canned Heat, Deep Purple, Blue Oyster Cult, to name a few… and seldom looked back … Oh well…; -)

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     • I don’t think I’ve heard a Hollies’ song I didn’t like.
       When I married my first husband, he was a country music fan, so I left rock and roll behind for the duration of that marriage. When I was a kid, my mom listened to what was called country and western back then, and my oldest sisters were heavily into Elvis Presley and the like. Then when I married my second husband in 2000, he was into rock music. So, I was reintroduced to the genre I left behind at 16. He had an extensive music collection, and I dove in a found a lot I liked. I also like big band music from the 40’s. I was never into heavy metal, so though I’ve heard of the groups you mentioned, I’m not familiar with their music. Though I do recall loving Blue Cheer’s cover of “Summertime Blues”. I think some consider them to be early heavy metal. I could go on and on about discovering bands and singers a bit different on YouTube, but I’ll stop here.

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     • My dad’s youngest sister was head over heels for elvis, and I liked the Everly Brothers when one of their songs played on the radio in the late 50s, Bye Bye Love, Wake Up Little Susie, and Dream Dream Dream… But my mother loved opera and classical music, and my dad liked Bing Crosby and the big band greats. They started me on violin (not fiddle) lessons when I was in the third grade. Hard core rock and folk and folk-rock were my rebellions against that conditioning… though I must admit, I often listen to soft orchestral music to help me go to sleep. Though it’s not ‘soft’ throughout, one of my favorites is still Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov. Like you, I also liked Blue Cheer’s ‘Summertime Blues’…; -)

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     • I sometimes listen to orchestra music when I write…any other genre is a distraction. For sleeping, I have an app on my phone that has various nature sounds, rain, ocean, wind, bubbling streams, and the like. With tinnitus, it’s hard to fall asleep in a completely quiet space.

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     • Like you, I also suffer from a degree of tinnitus, so need something to distract me… My mother started me listening to classical music to fall asleep when I was very young. My parents put a radio in our bedroom, which I shared with Guy and Ted (numbers 2 and 3 in birth order). She always put on a classical music station, turned down low to lull us to sleep. The radio was always off in the morning, so either she or my dad turned it off once we were asleep … that habit has remained…; -)

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     • A good habit to keep. And your mother did a good thing introducing you to classical music early in your life.
       I have only known one person in my entire life who listened exclusivity to classical music, a neighbor when I was married to my first husband. He was a rancher who also worked in the construction business, not the type you’d associate with classical music.

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     • Just goes to show that you can’t always predict a person’s tastes by their appearance or means of livelihood. I used to be even more into it than I am now, though. Much of what my mother used to like seems too stiff and formal to me now… But, there are still loads of the classics that I still like, for example: Paganini sonatas for guitar and violin. I love classical guitar and flamenco as well… These are not things my mother introduced me to…; -)

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     • On YouTube, give a listen to The Danish National Symphony’s rendition of “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, and give me your opinion.
       When a teenager, I bought the record album of the same name but by Hugo Montenegro, who did the music for Clint Eastwood’s Spaghetti Westerns…loved it.

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     • Loved it! As soon as you mentioned it, the tune was in my mind. Their rendition of ‘Fist Full of Dollars’ was equally magnificent…; -)

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     • I agree.

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