For as long as I’ve been on the radio, and definitely for as long as I’ve been writing a blog, I will occasionally make a reference to a song being “One of the Greatest Songs Ever Recorded!” (GSER)
I would usually follow that by saying that I would eventually start a category for it, but then never get around to it.
Well, now I’m getting around to it!
It will pretty much follow the pattern of The Most Awesomest Song of the Day.
I’ll select a song to celebrate and then give my thoughts about it. Nothing really brand new here that hasn’t been done before. But since I have a website, I can collect them and lay out what my own greatest songs are.
My radio show, “Prime Time Theme Attic,” is on Monday nights 8PM-10PM ET but is on hiatus because of the pandemic.
Even though I always emphasize new music and artists, it’s always fun to take a short drive through the legendary artists, since they influenced those other artists!
But a song doesn’t have to be old or done by a legendary Theme Attic Hall of Fame member to be thus honored.
I can think of several songs that are only a few years old or less that I could identify as One of the Greatest Songs Ever Recorded.
This will be fun, and hopefully you will join me on my journey…at least sometimes!
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If my memory serves me well, I think I first saw Queen Ida [Hall of Fame] on Saturday Night Live in 1985.
I had videotaped the show, but I was fascinated with her performance!
I played that tape of Queen Ida over and over!
I played it for my family!
I played it for my friends!
I played it for everyone I could think of!
I’ve mentioned before that I came from a Polish family that for most of my pre adult years probably had more Polka records in the house than pop music.
But this…this….this was the way accordion music should sound!
And feel!
It set me off on a zydeco phase that lasted almost a decade, as well as a long suppressed joyful feelings for the accordion!
Queen Ida was The Beatles of zydeco music to me!
“Mardi Gras” is the title track of a wonderful collection of Queen Ida’s songs and worthy of its namesake holiday!
Whenever I hear her music, I always feel better!
Of course, I’m usually singing and dancing, too!
One of the Greatest Songs Ever Recorded is “Mardi Gras” by Queen Ida and Her Bon Temps Zydeco Band!!!
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