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| Santa Badenov sez, "Brrr! Shrinkage!" |
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Welcome to my last BOTB's Battle Of The Booze installment of 2024. I'm thinking about Winter and The End Of Another Year.
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I've always been a big fan of Simon & Garfunkel's music in general. However, their song 'Hazy Shade Of Winter' will always be intertwined with my memories of the late > Linda Haley (a.k.a. Anniee). In 2011, I wrote this about her:
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I’m rather jaded ... so it really requires something quite out of the ordinary for me to sit up and take notice. And then just when you feel that no one can much impress you anymore, you meet someone who, by the force of their personality, almost demands that you get to know them better, that you make the necessary effort to develop and maintain a friendship with that person. In other words: One day you’re surfing your little strip of Blogosphere Beach when Anniee enters.
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And, lucky for us, 'Hazy Shade Of Winter' includes a reference to booze:
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Funny how my memory skips
Looking over manuscripts
Of unpublished rhyme
Drinking my vodka and lime
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My Pa liked Frank Sinatra's singing, but my Ma greatly loved it; while I was very slow in recognizing any distinctly notable talent in his vocals. For many years, he just sounded like most of the other crooners to me.
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However, even before I came to appreciate Sinatra's singing, I always did really embrace his recordings of 'Winchester Cathedral' and 'It Was A Very Good Year'.
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Luckily for us, that second song includes these lyrics:
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But now the days are short
I'm in the autumn of the year
And now I think of my life as vintage wine from fine old kegs
From the brim to the dregs
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So, it's "vodka and lime" versus "vintage wine". Please vote in the comment section for the song you prefer, and then please visit all of the other BOTBers and drop your two cents in their Battles. I'll return here on or about Dec. 22nd with my own vote and the final final tally.
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HAZY SHADE OF WINTER
by Simon & Garfunkel
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IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR
by Frank Sinatra
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Bless & Be Blessed!!
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~ D-FensDogG
The Christmas Canine
Both epic tunes, but I have to go with Frank. Although not at the top of my favourite crooners list (I prefer Dino, Michael and Andy), that song always gets to me (in a good way). Probably because I'm as vintage as the wine. 😆
ReplyDeleteFrom their early days I've been a Simon and Garfunkel fan and this "Winter" song is a good one that I've always enjoyed. However, also being a longtime Sinatra fan, I must concede that his song is the more iconic, more poignant, and more meaningful to me especially as I linger in my own latter years of reflection.
ReplyDeleteFor me the hands down choice is the Sinatra song.
Lee
VOTE = SIMON & GARFUNKEL
ReplyDeleteMan. I love both of these songs and both of these artists, AND these songs are both iconic and classic. My vote this time around may just be driven by my current mood! 'Hazy Shade...' made me tap my feet and sing along. '...Good Year' kind of made me sad and melancholy and think too much about where I am in life at this moment. It's all good. I enjoy being vintage wine; I embrace it; and those lyrics are amazingly sweet and poetic.
But, yeah. S&G it is for me this time, Esty.
Dregs from the keg, indeed.
~Ed.