Wednesday, November 12, 2025

FIVE Favourite Songs I've Sung : they're on Stride

My contribution to Stride's feature FIVE was to write about the FIVE FAVOURITE SONGS I’VE SUNG, which is literally what the piece is, an illustrated list. 

It may be read HERE: Five Favourite Songs I've Sung | Stride magazine

To tempt you, here are the five songs, quite a mixed bag:

1. Robert Johnson’s ‘Travelling Riverside Blues’

2. Traditional: ‘The Gower Wassail’

3. Van Morrison’s ‘Sweet Thing’

4. Antonio Carlos Jobim’s ‘Corcovado/Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars’

5. Ern Malley’s ‘Egyptian Register’ (composed by David Whyte)

It's not my desert island discs, by the way, but a chance to reflect, within the allotted wordcount (which was extremely tight) on the different situations in which I have sung music. There is a video of me performing number 4, here, the second one on this post:  Pages: More returns of Little Albert - the music I play, the music I listen to, the music I write about


Tony Parsons and me, circa 1976.