Comments on: My Ultimate Playlist of Sisterhood: What Songs Are on Yours?

By: marionroach

marionroach — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:54:57 +0000

Oh, DJ. We love this. We are busy dancing right now to your playlist, as well as thinking about those fortunate women you love enough to include on that list. And what a cool, diverse set of songs. That’s sisterhood, isn’t it? Thanks so much. And do come back soon.

By: DJ

DJ — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:00:23 +0000

Looking down my Ipod playlist, I found 10 songs for 10 sisters, in no particular order, that delayed sitting down to write something for at least 3 hours. I had them linked to youtube videos, not sure if the links came through:
1.Mary Beth—April Come She Will (Simon & Garfunkel)
2.Mother-in-law Sadie—I’ll Tell Me Ma, aka The Belle of Belfast city (Tommy Makem)
3.My sister Kathleen—Chicken Soup with Rice (Carol King)
4.Linzi—Dancing Queen (Abba)
5.Connie—Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin)
6.Sharon—It’s Raining Men (Weather Girls) BTW, the video is hilarious!
7.My sister Joanna—Never Die Young (James Taylor)
8.Irene—Sunshine on My Shoulders (John Denver)
9.Francesca Bella—Io Canto (Laura Pausini) And you thought concerts in English were huge….
10.Jocelyn—Ballady (Arabic version by Lelia Forouhar) The music is good, the video a bore.

By: marionroach

marionroach — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:50:00 +0000

Sharon, that we didn't meet during the disco years is probably the single reason why we're both here to tell about it. I nearly put Cream Always Rises to the Top for your song, except for the fact that times we've bopped to it is when we're singing it aloud; we never seem to have a copy to play. So I found us one. No matter: the Ricky Martin night still wins out. And I think I still have the bruises to prove why. Dance on, sister. We love that about you.

By: Shaya

Shaya — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:21:17 +0000

Thank you for including me in your sisterhood playlist. All I can say Marion, is that it was probably a good thing that we didn’t meet until the disco revolution was over.

As you, I have spent most of my adult life dancing. I’ve enjoyed engaging in total reckless abandon – alone in the privacy of my living room, out until the wee hours at dance clubs in the late 70′s (you’re the only person who remembers my favorite disco classic “Cream Always Rises to the Top” ), undulating to tribal music at my favorite art bar “Flaming Colossus” in LA in the 80′s, and for the last two decades doing the dance with my husband (usually I’m trying to lead). But undoubtedly, the most uninhibited and elevating dance moments have been those shared with my sister friends.

Marion, our daughters and husbands have witnessed things between us, however unfortunate for them, they’ve never tried to stop. Ricky Martin, She Bangs was one of those things.

By: marionroach

marionroach — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:13:56 +0000

Hi there, Jane Anne. Margaret and I loved that song, as well. In fact, in my first draft of that post, I had her in 2 spots--first, with Ricky Nelson, and later on with Band of Gold, but decided in the rewrite to give another sister a chance. What's most vivid for me about the song and the time in which we danced like wild maniacs to it, is how is how Margaret, older sister that she is, realizing that I did not understand the lyrics, sat me down and explained to me why it might be that "that night on our honeymoon/we stayed in separate rooms." I was shocked. SHOCKED! Ha ha ha ha ha. Thanks for bringing Freda to the sisters. Please come back soon for more.

By: Jane Ann

Jane Ann — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:59:06 +0000

The song I associate with my sisters is “Band of Gold” by Freda Payne. It came out the summer my little sisters and I spent every day at my grandfather’s store in an urban center. He’d had surgery that summer so my mom would drag the the three of us there every day as she was minding the shop for him. We spent most of our time with the girls who lived in the apartment building next door…going up to the roof of the building and playing the transistor radio for hours. We played games, sang to the tunes, and danced. “Band of Gold” was everyone’s favorite and being tuned into AM radio we must’ve heard it 100 times a day but it never failed to get us on our feet…dancing and pretending we had microphones and singing along with Freda.

By: marionroach

marionroach — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:12:21 +0000

Hi, Monica: Oh, I love the reminder of the McGarrigle sisters, particularly The Log Driver’s Waltz. That video is astonishingly fun. Thanks so much. The Canadians are not the only ones who mourn the loss; Margaret and I have been very sad, indeed.

Hi, Pat: Ooooh, Chris Williamson. How kind of you to turn us on to your turntable. And yes: Sisters. That’s perfect. Thanks so much. And please come back soon for more.

Hey, Priscilla: I was just telling the story of the battery-powered turntable to my family the other day! Everyone thought I was out of my mind, insisting there never was such a thing. I remember that drive up–and your father’s pipe smoke!–like it was yesterday. Yes: Five hours in the car with us. Oh my. Poor man, though the music was great. And still is. I love those videos you sent. And yes, of course I remmeber dancing and dancing and dancing with you in the room with your canopied bed. But my fondest memory is of James Taylor, and you giving me the gift of his music. I remember writing the lyrics to “Fire and Rain” on a sheet of loose leaf paper, and putting them in the front pouch of my overalls (of course), and carrying them with me when I had to go off to a sailing meeting. I probably still have them in a diary.
Too wonderful.
Thanks for the memories, sister. Let’s make some more.

By: Priscilla

Priscilla — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:50:23 +0000

This reminds me of you and my dad everytime! Remember driving somewhere (skiing? Lake George?) with my portable record player on the seat between us???? We played this over and over and over again–poor dad… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMj7UcjPZ0U

And the the night we stayed up to the wee hours of the morning dancing to this–I was (and still am) a terrible dancer; you, of course, were wonderful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bJI5QDfglk

By: Pat Steer (Gaelen)

Pat Steer (Gaelen) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:20:46 +0000

Not sure if i can link it here, but Cris Williamson’s whole album, ‘The Changer and the Changed’ is my sister-playlist, the album my friends and I *crank* whenever we’re together in the presence of a CD player or stereo system.
The title track, ‘Wild Things,’ ‘Waterfall,’ ‘Hurts like the Devil,’ and of course the perfect track for this thread: ‘Sister.’
http://www.criswilliamson.com/about/music/the_changer.html#

By: monika

monika — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:54:42 +0000

Sister music *must* include Kate and Anna McGarrigle!!

Sadly, Kate McGarrigle (mother of Rufus and Martha Wainwright) died last week… Canadians are still in mourning.

Here is one of their funniest, The Log Driver’s Waltz:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upsZZ2s3xv8