If she wasn’t being played on vinyl she seemed to be always on the TV. Dusty Springfield, “I Only Want To be With You.” Reminds me so much of growing up in the sixties. “The Air That I Breathe.” The best harmonies I have ever heard on record.Ģ. So what you have here, submitted by fellow artists, musicians, teachers, students, scientists and humanitarians from every corner of our world, is a list not of five all-time, ultimate favorite songs, but five songs that are currently at play in the soundtrack of their lives, lives led across vast oceans and expanses of land, but connected by this miracle that is the Internet, and this force that forever flows through all of us, the power of song. They remain timeless in the timely context of our briskly passing lives. While so much information is daily disseminated on such a vast level every day, and so much of it is rapidly transformed into disposable trivia, great songs remain great, they exist beyond the perpetual gray static of everyday, and provide genuine inspiration that permeates even the most formidably grim fabric of existence. They remain consequential and significant in a world of increasing inconsequence and insignificance. They touch our hearts and our minds at the same time. They bring joy, revelation and a breadth of meaning to our lives. From Jakarta to Jamaica, from Indianapolis to Israel, from Beijing to Baltimore and beyond, songs connect our fragmented, disconnected lives. The following lists of songs have been submitted by friends around the world, a testament to the recognition that although our world is increasingly a Tower of Babel, teeming with so many disparate cultures and so many different languages that it’s often hard for people to understand each other and to be understood (hell, even here in Los Angeles, there are so many cultures forever clashing and such a deluge of languages spoken that meaningful communication frequently isn’t even attempted), that one of the few unifying forces forever at play is music. Our Friend’s Top Five Favorite Current Songs From Around The Globe.
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