My song today is ' I Want Someone Who Will Love Me'.
Love and peace
Bill x
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SONG FOR TODAY: JUNE 25th, 2021. My song today is ' I Want Someone Who Will Love Me'. Love and peace Bill x
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SONG FOR TODAY: JUNE 24th, 2021 My song today is "Ain't No Way To Treat a Lady" recorded by Helen Reddy. Love and peace Bill xxx SONG FOR TODAY: JUNE 23rd, 2021. My song today is 'Tobacco Road' which was recorded by The National Teens'. Love and peace Bill xxx SONG FOR TODAY: JUNE 22nd, 2021. My song today is, 'The Air That I Breathe' that 'The Hollys' recorded. Love and peace Bill xxx SONG FOR TODAY: JUNE 21st, 2121. My song today is, 'The Things We Do For Love'. Love and peace Bill xxx Song For Today: June 20th, 2021. My Song today is ' Stuck on You' that Lionelle Richie recorded. Love and Peace Bill and Sheila xxx Song For Today: June 19th, 2021. My song today is, " It Don't Matter to Me', which was recorded by the group 'Bread'. Love and peace Bill xxx SONG FOR TODAY: JUNE 18th, 2021. My song today is "Angels Don't Lie." Love and peace Bill xxx SONG FOR TODAY: JUNE 17th, 2021 My song today is 'Sweet Nothings' which was recorded by Brenda Lee. Love and peace Bill xxx JUNE 16th, 2021 My song today is, 'I Could Easily Fall in Love With You', which Cliff Richard recorded. Love and peace ill xxx SONG FOR TODAY: JUNE 15th, 2021 My song today is 'Help Yourself' which was initially recorded by Tom Jones, that beautiful Welsh voice from the valley. Love and peace Bill xxx SONG OR TODAY: JUNE 14th, 2021. My song today is 'Make The World Go Away' which was recorded by Elvis Presley. Love and peace Bill xxx SONG OR TODAY: JUNE 13th, 2021. My song today is 'Hello' which was sung by Lionel Richie, Love and peace Bill xxx SONG FOR TODAY: JUNE 12th, 2021 My song today is 'How Can I Tell her'. Love and peace Bill xxx SONG OR TODAY: JUNE 11th, 2021. My song today is 'I Want Love' that was originally recorded by a young Elton John. Love and peace Bill xxx SONG OR TODAY: JUNE 10th,2021. My song today is 'Someday', which was recorded by country-western singer, Alan Jackson. Love and peace Bill xxx June 9th, 2021: Song For Today. My song today is "For all the Girls I've Loved Before" . Love and peace Bill xxx June 8th, 2021: SONG FOR TODAY. Your song today is "I'll Be Seeing You". Have a nice day, everyone. Love and peace Bill xxx WILLIAM FORDE SONG FOR TODAY. From today, my song for today will comprise of the essential basics that my wife will carry on after my departure. When all the 1400 songs I have recorded over the years have been played once, she will merely repeat daily in alphabetical order. My song today is 'Rip it Up' Love and peace Bill xxx WALK WITH WILLIAM PROJECT
I am happy to announce we have now created a memorial trust in my name (William Forde), called the Walk with William Trust, which is now operational. The trust will administer donations to Guide Dogs UK, under the organisational direction of my daughter Rebecca and wife Sheila. The aim of the trust is to raise approximately £35,000. This money will be used to train a guide dog for a blind person. The dog will be called ‘William’. Not all dogs who are put through training reach the required standard to become fully supportive guide dogs. In the event that our first dog does not complete full training, it will be rehomed and another dog will be retrained for our original purpose. By donating £35,000, we will end up with a fully trained guide dog called William who will walk alongside their new blind owner. In this way, the concept of ‘Walking with William’ will continue after my life ends, and as all of you walked with William during my life.you will be able to walk with a William as you decide to follow your dog choice after my passing. This trust will enable me to be remembered as I would wish. There will be natural stages, such as every birthday of mine, on every anniversary, and at every Christmas time when it might be appropriate for those who have walked alongside me over the past eight years of my cancer journey, to make a donation. Alternatively, family, friends, and Facebook contacts may wish to organise a small fundraising event to remember me periodically to generate funds for this cause. It is only the love, prayers, and moral support of each of you (literally hundreds and thousands) during my last journey which has made the passage purposeful and more meaningful. I cannot adequately describe in words how much your support has been to me. Despite having had the many medical challenges, and the numerous life-saving operations and other medical treatments along the way, and the pain I have endured, ironically, the past ten years have been the happiest decade in my life since my beautiful wife Sheila and all you dear friends have entered my life. I have literally had thousands of prayers said on my behalf, along with masses across the world, and candles lit on my behalf. I have also had hundreds of supportive messages left to me daily. In short, there has never been a man I warrant that has felt as much loved as I have. You have humbled me with your outpouring and unashamed expression of love for life and for me. If any of you would like to contribute toward this trust, you will be responsible for enabling other people to have a ‘Walk with William’ experience. Watch this space for more information and updates about the Walk with William Memorial Trust. https://walkwithwilliam.muchloved.com/ (Link to donation site). Love and peace Bill xxx I dedicate my song today to four Facebook friends. We wish a happy birthday to Owen Harrigan, and Kathleen Cronin, and Liam Walsh who lives in Carrick-on-Suir, Tipperary, Ireland: Jean Dower who lives in Waterford, Ireland.. Enjoy your special day and thank you for being my Facebook friend. My song today is “It’s Like We Never Said Goodbye”.This song was written by Roger Greenaway and Geoff Stephens and was recorded by American country and western singer, Crystal Gale. It was released in February 1980 as the second single from the album ‘Miss the Mississippi’.The song was Number 1 for one week and spent a total of fourteen weeks on the charts. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX There are close friends in our lives who we may not hear from in a few years, and yet the relationship bond is never broken. I had a lifelong friend called Tony Walsh who died a year or so back. We had been friends since our childhood years, and if the phone rang after a two-year gap in our communication, as soon as we started talking again, it was as though we were carrying on our conversation of two years earlier as though there had been no break in our discussion in between. I also have an old Probation Officer pal called Keith from Huddersfield. He always phones me up at Christmas time for a catch-up natter. I suppose when I think about it, it is just as if we respond to these long-term friends as we would to family members. Near or far, they are a part of us who need no goodbyes. Love and peace Bill xxx I dedicate my song today to seven Facebook friends who celebrate their birthday. Happy birthdays go to the following with our wish that they enjoy their special day: John Hennebry who lives in the Bronx, New York, America: Robin Burns who lives in Helena, Montana America: Nadia Joy who lives in Paris, France: Pat Mitchell who lives in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England: Elizabeth Hall who lives in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England: Patrick Parle who lives in Waterford, Ireland. Thank you for being my Facebook friend. My song today is ‘Never Ending Song of Love’. This song was written by Delaney Bramlett, and according to some sources, it was also co-written by his wife, Bonnie Bramlett. It was originally recorded with his band, ‘Delaney & Bonnie & Friends’ on their 1971 album. Released as a single by ‘Atco Records’ the same year, ‘Never Ending Song of Love’ became Delaney & Bonnie's greatest hit on the pop charts, reaching a peak of Number 13 on the ‘Billboard Hot 100’ chart and it also reached Number 8 on the ‘ Easy Listening’ chart. It reached Number 16 in Australia. Never Ending Song of Love’ has been prominently covered several times. A cover version by ‘The New Seekers’ was a major hit in the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1971. It spent a few weeks at Number 2 in the UK charts and in South Africa, and it also reached Number 1 in the Irish charts. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Over our lives, our experiences will have been building up an extensive song library. This is the musical part of our life where our memory returns to at happy or sad times. Our song library contains those special songs that we pull out to listen to during happy and sad, soulful, or reflective moments. Our library of songs are highly personal to our prior experiences, former relationships, times that brought immense happiness and joy to our lives, and times also that are still raw to the flesh. We will have songs for every occasion experienced by us, and every mood, feeling and emotion we ever felt. The strangest thing of all, however, is that none of us will have been aware that we have been shelf-filling our musical and song shelves ever since we first sang a few lines of our first song, or had our mothers sing them to us. There will be many an individual who might temporarily switch off from present company whenever a song you once shared with a former partner is being played in the background. While all around you remain in ignorance as to the song’s previous significance in your past life and carry on in their moment, you are quietly reflecting on past moments of yours. I knew a lady whose first child called Mary died before she was five years old with an incurable illness. They had their special song that naturally included the name of Mary which they would constantly sing to their daughter. Imagine them being at any social gathering during the years ahead when Mary’s song comes on and realising what was being played, the poor hosts are beside themselves when they see Mary’s parents in tears? Even people who have dementia in their later lives, and can even forget the names of their nearest and dearest who visit them daily, can still be found singing one of these songs from their memory shelf of childhood years. Today’s song is a song that I associate with the caravan of a happy and hectic life. It represents a carousel of fun; a song that is instantly uplifting, a song that makes me put everything down and stop what I am doing as soon as I start to hear it. It is a song that instantly places the listener under a parasol of happiness for the remainder of the day, and reminds us all how precious all of life’s moments can be. Have a nice day. Love and peace Bill xxx I dedicate my song today to two Facebook friends who celebrate their birthday today. We wish a happy birthday to Fiona Robinson who lives in Keighley, West Yorkshire, England, and June Mcdermid who lives in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Enjoy your special day, and thank you for being my Facebook friend. My song today is ‘Song Sung Blue’ This was a 1972 hit song that was written and recorded by Neil Diamond. It was inspired by the second movement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto Number 21. It was released on Diamond's album ‘Moods’, and later appeared on many of Diamond's live and compilation albums. The song was a Number1 hit on the ‘Billboard Hot 100’ chart in the United States for one week, the week of July 1, and it spent twelve weeks in the Top 40. It also made the pop chart in the United Kingdom, reaching Number14 on the ‘UK Singles Chart’. "Song Sung Blue" was Diamond's second Number 1 hit in the U.S.A,, and to date his last solo Number 1 song. He had a number 1 duet with Barbra Streisand in 1978 with ‘You Don’t Bring Me Flowers’. In addition, "Song Sung Blue" spent seven weeks at Number 1 on the ‘Adult Contemporary Chart’. The song has become one of Diamond's standards, and he often performs it during concerts. Nominated for two Grammy Awards in 1973 for ‘Record of the Year’ and ‘Song of the Year’, Diamond was pipped to the post on each nomination. Diamond said that he never expected the song to be any more than ‘basic’ and added that is why he did not even write a bridge to it xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Neil Diamond admitted that this song was a basic ‘experimental’ song about everything in general and nothing in particular. When we allow the hot water to boil away from the cooking pot of life, or when the fortune teller looks at the remaining tea leaves in the bottom of their client’s cup, that is all any of us are left with to make sense out of life. Such are the all or nothing of our life’s experiences. Do any of you fancy a cuppa? Love and peace Bill xxx I dedicate my song today to three Facebook friends. We wish a happy birthday to Mary Forsey who lives in Port Lairge, Waterford, Ireland: Margo Crowe, And Stephany Hickie who live in Carrick-on-Suir, Tipperary, Ireland. We hope that you enjoy your special day. Thank you for being my Facebook friend. My song today is ‘The Woman in Me’. The only time I ever heard this song was in duet form between Shania Twain and Crystal Gale. I have taken the liberty of changing around a few of the lead words to retain their original meaning as I am singing it solo and as a male. Until the late 1980s when ‘women’s rights causes’ began to dominate the social scene of enlightened advancement, twentieth-century man still retained a masculine identity and role in society that held no ambivalence. Until then, the tradition of men and women roles within the marriage, the workplace, and society at large had remained largely unaltered ever since the post-Cromwellian period. Then, along came the enlightened 1980s where the attitudes of men toward women moved to a more visibly ‘progressive’ level. Some men still had one genetic foot in their caveman days, and some ‘new age’ men were proud to boast that they now ‘walked the political walk’. A few northern stalwarts of manhood fought to the bitter end, but year after year, the successive women’s campaigns forced the government onto the back foot and its collective conscience felt obliged to legally redress this obviously unjust situation. Over the next twenty years (1980-2000) the government of the day enacted every law imaginable that recognised the equal rights of men and women in all significant respects. Sexual equality in all things was its one aim! However, like a great many of the enlightened males of 1980, the government of the day was also ‘walking the political walk’ while continuing to do business like the government of the day had done since Post Cromwellian days. Like all the country’s enlightened males the government paid ‘lip service’ to its own legislation which it only legally reinforced whenever it had no alternative. Regarding the positions and roles, they could now legally play in wider society, women were still being denied taking their rightful place in the church hierarchy, the home, the workplace, etc. The politicians of the day might have used the ‘legislation of the day’ to legally correct past judicial wrongs and injustices, but still, the wrong remained. All the government of the day had done was to kick the can of female worms farther down the road. The Houses of Parliament had made some symbolic attempt at the most modest of composition reform, but whenever anyone looked inside that parliamentary chicken coops, the cockerels would be the poultry stutters with membership. The astute observer might see a token number of hens who had found their natural place at the back of the coop. Man has always made a big mistake whenever we underestimate the power of women to persuade us around to their way of thinking (whatever it is they are thinking). Even the traditional stalwart northern man, who has never been known to acknowledge equal rights between the sexes, was being defeated by the new rules of the nation’s bedrooms. Their wives may have wanted to wear men’s trousers (please note that there is no such thing as a pair of women’s trousers in the north of England), but the way that wives made most progress ‘up north’ was to exercise the degree of ‘down south’ rationing they were prepared to expose to their husbands in the matrimonial bed. Women knew better than any other that the way to get inside a man’s head (his northern region) was to allow him entry to their ‘southern region’, at an experience level that was lovely, but not quite enough. Once allowed access to their minds, the northern women took full advantage of the ground they held. The next step was to infiltrate the bastion of the poor man’s castle. The women struck from two flanks at the same time, so that the poor men didn’t know what was happening all the while it happened. It had always been common in the home of the northern working man, for the man of the house to be able to escape the presence of his wife and family responsibilities anytime he wanted. Whether they were aristocrats who went to their private club or artisans of the working class who attended the ‘Working Man’s Club’. Either establishment represented places where women could not go. After the post-war years, allotments were frequently established by northern men to grow fruit, vegetables, and flowers. They loved growing things but what they treasured most of all was peace and the absence of female chatter and the constant ‘pain-in-the-arse complaining that never ends. The pride of their allotments was the shed. This mancave held all the things that the husbands chose to conceal from their wives; a packet of cigarettes, a bottle of beer in a small fridge that your wife never knew that you had bought (just like the new clothes that magically appear from time to time in the wives wardrobe), that dirty old magazine, a cup, teaspoon, and kettle. This was a man’s treasure and while he might allow his wife to pop her head over the allotment hedge to pass him a message, either walking on his holy plot of ground or even daring to look inside his shed (which remained locked whether it was occupied or not) was taboo! Before the norther man realised what their wives had been doing while they talked to their cabbages or spurred on the carrot growth by the discharge of the northern human urine, it had been done. All the northern wives had collectively invaded every Working Men’s Club Committee across the country and managed to open it up to women on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings. Instead of going out for a pint with the lads on a weekend evening at the Working Men’s Club, women had now acquired full membership. For a long time, the allotment and shed remained the domain of the husband (who was allowed to go up there whenever the northern sun shone four days non-stop), the wife was now allowed inside the plot to sit and watch her husband sit and watch. In getting all their menfolk to give up their traditional Friday and Saturday nights to spend their new Friday and Saturday nights with them, the new custom of ‘being on a promise’ encouraged the men to take their women to the WMC every Friday and Saturday night. They had been gradually coaxed to change their cave-man-ways, by little more than a Friday-night promise of ‘good things to come’ that weekend. (PLEASE NOTE: THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN WRITTEN TOUNGE IN CHEEK, AND IS FROM THE NORTHERN MALE’S VIEWPOINT) I would urge every man to find the women in themselves and to express that vital part of their nature that will otherwise not be expressed. True freedom of male identity can only exist when men learn to express the woman in you, and vice versa. Love and peace Bill xxx I dedicate my song today to Evan Hogan and Catherine Blanchfield, and Graeme Holloway who live in Carrick-on-Suir, Tipperary, Ireland: Denis Power who originates from Carrick-on-Suir, Tipperary but who now lives in London, England. I hope that you all enjoy your special day. Thank you for being my Facebook friend. My song toy is ‘I Know Him So Well’. This is a duet from the concept album and subsequent musical ‘Chess; by Tim Rice, Benny Andersson, and Bjorn Ulvaeus. It was originally sung by Elaine Paige (as Florence) and Barbara Dickson (as Svetlana). In this duet, two women – Svetlana, the Russian chess champion's estranged wife, and Florence, his mistress – express their bittersweet feelings for him, and at seeing their relationships fall apart. The duet was first released worldwide in the autumn of 1984. Later it was released as a single by Paige and Dickson, the duet reaching Number 1 in the ‘UK Singles Chart’ for four weeks in 1985. They laid down their vocals separately and never met during the recording of the song, only for the video and subsequent performances on ‘Top of the Pops’ and the European tours. This recording remains in the Guinness Book of Records as the biggest selling UK Chart single ever by a female duo. Paige also appeared in the original London West End stage production of ‘Chess’. The song peaked at Number 21 in Australia.] In the United Kingdom on 18 September 2004, the BBC's ‘All-time Greatest Love Songs’ (hosted by Lionel Richie) saw the duet performed live by Paige and Dickson, together for the first time in 20 years, to a rapturous reception. In January 2011, the ‘Official Charts Company’ released a list of the top 10 ‘All-Time Best-Selling Duets’ in which ‘I Know Him So Well’ was placed seventh in the chart. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Generally, any partnership which appears to have happily existed half a lifetime will usually lead the female in that relationship to genuinely believe, ‘I know him so well’. Pull the other leg ladies, and while you’re at it, let me put you right on a few points. Just because men get used to saying nothing in their relationships with women does not mean that they anesthetize their brain and suspend their critical judgment when one’s good lady is telling them again that if they had listened to their clear instructions the first time around, there would never be a second occasion for repeating the original error. All good women know the Tolkien truth from the moment that the couple exchanges wedding rings at the sacred altar of male sacrifice, that there can only ever be one ‘Ruling Ring’. And, that ring is the wedding band of gold that the bride wears. The couple may stay married for eighty years, or the woman may elect to exchange her husband for a newer, faster, more energetic, and exciting model who can take her from nought to 60 before she has uttered the words ‘Yes, please!”. As far as significant individual personality shifts which become visible during early marriage years, the husband usually remains the same man that he was when he married his wife, while she has changed from angel to devil woman in a mere five years, and from his ‘dearest’ to ‘most expensive’. His wife begins to resemble her mother more with the passing of each wedding anniversary. Before the poor husband realises what has hit him in the name of love and future happiness, he quickly appreciates that he is but a mere part of a doomed experiment. Henceforth, his marriage is downhill all the way. His wife transmogrifies into Cruella De Ville or the Fat Controller. Whatever role the wife adopts within the marriage, by the time that the couple has come back from their honeymoon in Clapton by the Sea, the wife will have already mapped out her blueprint of their happy future together. She will have begun her new project; the shaping of her newly married husband into the man she always wanted to walk behind her. He will become and remain her lifelong project, and because she will always find room for improvement, he will never amount to anything more than ‘a work in progress’. The more we believe ourselves to know all there is to know about our partner at the commencement of our relationship, the more we deceive ourselves. No person ever comes to a new relationship in their life without carrying some emotional baggage. Such is the nature of life, that sometimes, it can take fifty years of marriage to gradually tell one’s partner. Love and Peace Bill xxx |
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