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Mixed CD – Greetings

HELLO!

I called this mixed CD Greetings because it generally contains some salutation. It’s often Hello; sometimes that word is in the title, but not always.

What’s That You’re Doing – Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. From Macca’s Tug of War album. “Good morning. Or good afternoon. Good night.” Written by McCartney/Wonder.

Good Morning Good Morning – Big Daddy. I love the group’s cover of the entire Sgt. Pepper, in various styles from the 1950s.

Good Day Sunshine – the Tremeloes. Besides this being a cover of a song from the Beatles’ Revolver album, there is another Fab connection.  They were the group whom Decca Records signed in January 1962 instead of The Beatles.

Good Morning Starshine – Hair Original Cast album. “The earth says hello”.

Hello – Oasis. Some critics in their heyday had sonically compared Oasis with The Beatles if they were still recording in the 1990s.

Hello Hello – Sopwith Camel.  “Would you like some of my tangerine?”

Hello Hello – Mono Puff.  This is a product from John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants. It’s on Hello Records.

Hitchcockian

Vertigo – U2. “Hello, hello (hola).”

Big Time – Peter Gabriel. “Hi, there.” From the So album.

Hello Hooray – Alice Cooper. “Hello! Hooray! Let the show begin. I’ve been ready.” I could have gone with the Judy Collins version, but it didn’t fit as well sonically.

Welcome – the Who. “Come to my house. Be one of the comfortable people.” The title is the last word sung on this track from the rock opera Tommy..

Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Pt. 2 – Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. From the Greatest Hits album. “Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends.”

Welcome To The Terrordome – Public Enemy. “Yo, who you trust, man? (Would you join me please in welcome-in-ing)”

Tommy’s Holiday Camp – the Who. Another Tommy track, ending with a sinister Welcome.

How will I do on World Hello Day?

Because people have these new devices, it’s become impossible even to ask them what time it is.

hello-my-name-isFriday, November 21 is World Hello Day. “Anyone can participate… simply by greeting ten people. This demonstrates the importance of personal communication for preserving peace.”

This, historically, would be an action that was right up my alley. Unfortunately, I find it increasingly difficult to say hello to people.

Most of the folks I see each day are on the bus. Invariably, they have devices stuck in their ears and/or in front of their faces. Even people I know in passing don’t know I’m speaking with them.

The change is fairly recent. I’ve been riding the bus to Corporate (frickin’) Woods for nine years, and this simply was not a problem then. I was involved with any number of conversations with people who were not particularly known to me, though you start developing “bus relationships.”

These days, the bus is full, yet I feel alone. I use my own devices, not just because I really need to use them, but almost in self-defense.

Because people have these new devices, it’s become impossible even to ask them what time it is. Not so long ago, the universal symbol for requesting the time is to point to your wrist, where your watch might have been. But because the watch is passe, the symbolism it represented is likewise diminished.

Still, I’ll make the effort to say hello, if only because the need is greater than ever.

Some time ago, I put together a CD of Hello songs. LISTEN to a few:
Judy Collins – Hello, Hooray
Todd Rundgren – Hello It’s Me
Sopwith Camel – Hello, Hello
Oasis – Hello
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Only peripherally related sidebar: one can’t use an LED bulb to visually represent an idea. It has to be an incandescent bulb, which is largely banned in the United States.

H is for Hello

There are a LOT of songs that start with the word “hello.”

Hello. How are you today?

I’ve been musing a lot about the word hello. The history of the word can be seen read in Wikipedia; basically, a 19th-century creation that Thomas Edison suggested be used in answering the telephone, rather than Alexander Graham Bell’s idea of “ahoy.”

I’m no linguist, but it seems that lots of languages have had a variation of hello for a long time, while others have not. I found this site Say Hello to the World. Some have very similar words: Chinese – ni hao; Hebrew – shalom; Spanish: hola. Others tend to have words more appropriately described as “good day.”

In any case, I was looking for an excuse to list a bunch of songs starting with the word Hello. There are a LOT of them; this is only a sampling, including several that I put on a mixed CD.

The Beatles – Hello Little Girl;
Ricky Nelson – Hello Mary Lou ;
Allan Sherman – Hello Muddah Hello Faddah;
Louis Armstrong – Hello, Dolly!;
Frank Sinatra – Hello, Young Lovers;
Sopwith Camel – Hello, Hello;
Judy Collins – Hello, Hooray;
The Doors – Hello, I Love You;
Todd Rundgren – Hello It’s Me;
Eric Clapton – Hello Old Friend;
Bette Midler – Hello In There;
Oasis – Hello;
Harry Potter Book of Mormon Parody – HELLO;
The Beatles – Hello Goodbye

Someone’s list of Top 10: Songs with lyrics that begin with ‘Hello’, only some of which I used, since I wanted songs with TITLES that begin that way.

ABC Wednesday – Round 12

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