4-Day Music Challenge - SONGS ABOUT BOOKS (or a BOOK)

[ambercat16]

4-Day Music Challenge - SONGS ABOUT BOOKS

The challenge ends Thursday February 2nd

The poster of the song which has the most ‘helpfuls’ at the end of the challenge wins the round.

The winner then chooses the next theme, hosts it and declares the winner at the end of the challenge.

In the event of a tie, the OP will declare the winner.

Have fun 🤗

NOTE: Please post the artist and song title (or composer and title) and include the YouTube link without actually embedding the video.

[countessalmirena]

The Cure — Killing an Arab (based on Camus’ L’Ètranger

https://youtu.be/SdbLqOXmJ04

[countessalmirena]

The Cure — The Drowning Man (tribute to Gormenghast trilogy)

https://youtu.be/IJmE0C4Tq1U

[twyngwyn]

Librarian Rhapsody - Shoalhaven Library Staff - YouTube

[mtnlane]

Book of Love-The Monotones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xDwq8NM9G4&ab_channel=AK47bandit

[countessalmirena]

Nicolai Gedda — Kein Andres, das mir so im Herzen loht (from Strauss’s Capriccio)

https://youtu.be/RwIFoUAkDXw

… and the same aria appears in the final scene with the Gräfin singing: https://youtu.be/2WJA-7THxq4

(Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - about 6 minutes in)

This aria (and the whole opera) is all about the question: is the music or is the text more important?

[countessalmirena]

Harry Connick Jnr — I could write a book

https://youtu.be/-I7y5v8-ao8

[not_for_sale2024]

War Of The Worlds - Jeff Wayne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YwFvmnbj3E&list=PLFV_pTSMduaURY4rVeOeWDCIWcgdAW7PZ 

[ambercat16]

Diary - Bread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24IfD-0VUu4 

[gutterpunkz05]

It Aint Necessarily So   -  Normie ROWE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kWJu3rLsyw

[bidicus*maximus]

The B-I-B-L-E, That's the book for me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahHWtvOmt2E