Country music superstar Dolly Parton (via Instagram)
Monday Music: Carly Simon ‘Let The River Run’
Pop music legend Carly Simon (photo: Heidi Wild Photography via Facebook)
Let the river run, Let all the dreamers wake the nation Come, the New Jerusalem Silver cities rise, The morning lights the streets that lead them And sirens call them on with a song
Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain” Featured In New Campaign Ad About Donald Trump
Carly Simon herself gave permission to use her 70s hit song, “You’re So Vain,” in a campaign spot that highlights the dangerous vanity and narcissism of Donald Trump.
She even rerecorded one line of the song, changing “your scarf, it was apricot,” to the new version of the song which now goes, “your face, it was apricot.”
Song of the day: “Coming Around Again”
This song, one of my favorites, came on this morning in my “getting ready for rehearsal” music shuffle.
Carly Simon wrote the song for her album of the same name that served as something of a comeback in 1987.
The lyrics felt especially appropriate as I revisit and stage A Chorus Line here at Sacramento Music Circus. This version of A Chorus Line, day by day, is becoming a new thing – deconstructed, as we keep referring to it. The original intent, but with a new shape, form and flavor.
Getting out of your head, getting away from what you’ve always done can lead to finding that an old friend still has a resonant message, years later.
“I know nothing stays the same, but if you’re willing to play the game, it’s coming around again.”