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A Thought for Today

Each of us should be alone at times - if only to confront ourselves.

 

Hi Ken,

I haven't seen this on any flight plan yet (even did a site search).
I'm not even sure what album it came from but the words and piano music strike a chord with me. 

The song title is "Time After Time". Anyone who has ever
been in love has certainly felt these emotions at some point in the relationship.

I'm "so lucky" to have a partner who makes me feel what this song portrays in words and music. 

Warmly,

Dave Calhoun

Hey Dave, it's so good to meet another out and out romantic and thanks for an interesting contribution.

"Time After Time" is, of course, one of the great standards of our time. Written by the legendary Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne it featured in MGM's "It Happened In Brooklyn" and was first recorded by Rod way back in 1960, would you believe!

It appears on a number of McKuen albums, most notably the CD version of his "Greatest Hits Vol. 1". The arrangement is by yet another legend of the music business, Arthur Greenslade. What a combination of talent!

I'll see you again next week with another in our series of favorite songs and poems. If you have something to contribute, the address is ken@mckuen.com .

                                - Ken, Johannesburg, October 4

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Rod's random thoughts I close my eyes to dreaming, only long enough to dream.

If you haven't heard the sunset, you haven't been listening.

Even age and time take on a sameness with age and time.

TIME AFTER TIME

Time after time
I tell myself that I'm
so lucky to be loving you.

Lucky to be
the one you run to see
in the evening
when the day is through.

I only know what I know
the passing years will show
you've kept my love so young
so new.

And time after time
you'll hear me say that I'm
so lucky to be loving you.

And time after time
you'll hear me say that I'm
so lucky to be loving you.

- © Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne - from "The Greatest Hits of Rod McKuen" Vol. 1 

© 1970, 1986, 2000 by Stanyan Music Group & Rod McKuen. All Rights Reserved
Birthday research by Wade Alexander o Poetry from the collection of Jay Hagan o Coordinated by Melinda Smith
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