Flashback Friday: The Songs that Stayed With Us

This week's Flashback Friday is on the Songs That Stayed With Us. Perhaps I Go Back by Kenny Chesney helps capture the power of a song to take us back to a place and time.

"Jack and Diane" painted a picture of my life and my dreams.
Suddenly this crazy world made more sense to me.
Well, I heard to today, and I couldn't help but sing along.
Cause every time I hear that song...

I go back to a two-toned short bed Chevy.
Drivin' my first love out to the levvy.
Livin' life with no sense of time.
And I go back to the feel of a fity yard line, a blanket, a girl, some rasberry wine.
Wishin' time would stop right in its tracks.
Everytime I hear that song, I go back.

And here's the Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdeSLxz5TTE

Just like songs can help inspire us when we're writing, books can also inspire songs. Here's a couple of songs that were inspired by books:

There's Greenday's Who Wrote Holden Caulfield, which is making an allusion to the famous MC in Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.

Or Taylor Swift's "Romeo and Juliet", which is on the soundtrack to the upcoming movie Letters to Juliet.

There's David Bowie's "1984", which was inspired by 1984, the George Orwell novel.

Bruce Springsteen's "The Ghost of Tom Joad" inspired by John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.

And how about Led Zepplin using the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings to inspire their songs Ramble On, The Battle of Evermore, Over the Hills and Far Away, and Misty Mountain Top.

Here's our own Flashback Fridays: Krista, Debra, Veronica,Kath

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Flashback Fridays, er, Technical Difficulties: We Haz Them! But Giving Away Stuff 4 Followers!

You might have heard a little rumor that this week's Flashback Friday involved singing. You may even have marked your calendar for the hilarity and humiliation that might ensue. I would have. And now you've stopped by only to find the sad realization that there's no singing.









Wait, don't get mad!











We really, really wanted to sing for you this week, but technical difficulties prevented it.















So we ask that you bear with us, and that we should have something kooky, crazy from us next week. We'll be live with The Songs that Stayed With Us post....and some singing. We've also got some really cool May Flashbacks to bring you, so stay tuned!!!















But until then, here's a Flashback of some literary happenings this week in history.


HAPPY 84TH BDAY to Harper Lee!!! April 28th marked the birthday of the woman who gave us To Kill a Mockingbird, my personal favorite book of all time. The reclusive Pulitzer Prize winner divides her time between New York City and her home place in Monroeville, Alabama. Although she hasn't published anything in over fifty years, Harper has continued writing and has numerous unpublished novels and short stories.















April 21st marked the 194th birthday of author Charlotte Bronte who gave us the masterpiece Jane Eyre. She published the novel under her pen name, Currer Bell, and her literary career was cut short when she died in childbirth at thirty-eight.














And of course, April 23 marked the Macdaddy of all literary birthdays. That's right. It was my main man Shakespeare's 445th bday. I don't know about the other gals on the blog, but I kind of have a crazy fetish, er, appreciation for Shakespeare. I love reading him, teaching him, watching movie adaptations of his works.






















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We love, love, love our readers like Shakespeare loved a major death toll in the last Act! :)