It started when a college dormmate started posting on Facebook the videos of Peter Cetera and Chicago. Being a fan of these two, I clicked on the videos and watched/listened. It was on Peter Cetera's related videos that I chanced upon Peter Cetera and Amy Grant's duet, "Next Time I Fall."
The video brought me to other videos of Amy Grant and of course Michael W. Smith. And guess what? I listened to their songs the whole day yesterday! I listened again and again to "Somewhere, Somehow," "Friends," and "Thy Word."
I liked especially the version "Thy Word" sang by Amy and accompanied by Michael during the 2008 Dove Awards, where Michael was cited for his achievement during his 25 years in the business. These two, both happily married to their respective partners) have remained the best of friends for years! For such a friendship to exist is just awesome. Their song "Friends" (though composed by Michael and his wife for a friend) says it's all. It's amazing!
I listened most of the time, and would pause and view the video, and remembered. ~LOL~
At one point in my life, I had a Michael W. Smith. We shared a beautiful friendship for years. We had special feelings for each other but we remained friends. And we had lots of music! We sang together "Next Time I Fall," "Somewhere, Somehow," and "Friends," plus other songs. We had a special affinity to the song "Chances Are." This song in a way described us: we met, we parted, we met again.
The last time we met again, we were both adults, professionals. We thought it was time and we were ready to take our friendship to the next level. We thought wrong. The relationship that started beautifully, fizzled. Though the relationship was not meant to be, I have the memories to affirm my being, my person.
This is the wonder of the gift of songs. A song transcends time and place. You hear a song and it brings you back in time, makes you latch onto a memory, and get inspired from an experience.
Wizheart and I love music. Gabo and Rago love music, too. We have music every day in or home. We share a lot of music. I hope one day, the music that we share today, will remind Gabo and Rago of this time, and so wherever life takes or brings them, they will get strength and inspiration from it.
So, I say thank you for the music, for giving it to me. ;)
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Wow you got an interesting collection. Way back in the 1990s towards early 2000s, I do buy case tapes regularly, and now we have CDs and DVDs... until we can download directly from the internet! I love music and recently I just watched Spandau Ballet concert - it was really cool comeback of this 90s boy band... i was humming "through the barricades"...
Yeah you're right, music is easier to get these days. But for my favorites, I still buy the CDs ~lol~ Oh, "through the barricades" is one of my faves!
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