Showing posts with label 1960s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1960s. Show all posts

Friday, November 22, 2024

Any other suggestions?



What should we name the band?
Retards?
Petards, like that old British band?
Or Leetards,
like leotards?
Raise your hands!

– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2024)

Notes
That came seemingly out of nowhere. I was reading poems by Kenward Elmslie which had nothing to do with music or bands, put the book down, and this minipoem arrived. As I found out slightly later, The Petards was not a British band but a German one, whose lyrics were all in English. The song Lazy Moon above is from 1967.



Sunday, October 22, 2017

The blue Spanish eyes haiku

Actually those
Spanish eyes were more likely
to be brown. Sí, sí.

– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2017)

Note
Woke up with this song coming into my head in a train of thought that started with Frank Sinatra and Nancy Sinatra singing something stupid like I love you, went on to Dean Martin and the Rat Pack (wondering if any of them were still alive), then Al Martino and that one and only song of his I remember.