Mining Memory--Music

List as many pieces of music as you can from anywhere in your life.

Elaborate on one of those pieces.


Carol’s list:

1. “The Spinning Song” which I learned to play on the piano. I memorized it. Mrs. Rodewald was my piano teacher. I quite taking lessons when she asked me/told me that I had to cut my fingernails.
2. “Good Morning Mr. Zip-Zip- Zip.” My father used to sing this to us when we were very young children.
3. “Hush Little Baby.” I sang this to my children; my mother told me, after listening to me sing it, that mother-love would get me through, suggesting that my version of the song was not that good—I think it is my complete inability to carry a tune.
4. “Gooseberry Goose is out on the loose.”
5. So many lovely hymns.
6. “Morning Has Broken” by Cat Stevens and every congregation I’ve ever heard sing it.
7. All the songs on the sound track from “The Horse Whisperer”—Robert Redford called that album the “best American music.”