Daniel Greene

Tag: music

  • Singing “You Make Me Feel So Young”

    Here are the lyrics to this 1946 popular song by Mack Gordon:

    You make me feel so young.
    You make me feel so “Spring has sprung”,
    And every time I see you grin
    I’m such a happy individual.

    The moment that you speak
    I want to go and play hide-and-seek.
    I want to go and bounce the moon
    Just like a toy balloon.

    You and I are just like a couple of tots
    Runnin’ across the meadow
    Pickin’ up lots of forget-me-nots.

    You make me feel so young.
    You make me feel there are songs to be sung,
    Bells to be rung, wonderful fling to be flung.
    And even when I’m old and gray
    I’m gonna feel the way I do today
    ‘Cause you – you make me feel so young.

    You make me feel so young.
    You make me feel so young.
    Ooo – you make me feel so young.

  • Singing “Our Love Is Here to Stay”

    On our Alaskan cruise in June, the ship held a talent show/contest. (more…)

  • Paul McCartney and The Police — do you have to be old to understand? ;-)

    Well, here I am in Starbucks at the age of 40, telling the 20-something cashier how excited I am that my partner and I are going to see The Police in concert next Monday night– when I find myself having to explain to the young lady who The Police were. ;-( Nevermind telling her that The Police was the band Sting was in before he went solo; that would be like telling her that Paul McCartney is the guy who used to be the lead singer of The Beatles! (Who’s Sting? Who were The Beatles? Oh dear!)

    Seriously, though, once I told her that The Police brought the world such indelible hits as Roxanne, Every Breath You Take, Message in a Bottle, and Wrapped Around Your Finger, she got it. And if you have the chance to discover — or rediscover — The Police, I highly recommend it! It may be the closest you’ll ever come to a reunion of The Beatles until you go to heaven, if there is such a place. And if there is, I count on attending live concerts of The Beatles and The Police on a regular basis. 😉

  • Singing & Signing “Pure Imagination”

    Here I am singing and signing the song “Pure Imagination” from the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (more…)

  • Meeting Toni Tennille

    I met Toni Tenille when I was working at J.W. Robinson in Beverly Hills. She was very gracious. I told her about how “Love Will Keep Us Together” was the first album I ever spent my allowance on (ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” was the first single). I told her about how, when I was 9, I was riding in the car with my paternal grandparents, sitting on the front bench seat between Granny and Grandpa, with my hand on grandpa’s leg. I was singing, “The Way That I Want to Touch You” without even thinking about it when my grandmother suddenly asked, “Danny! What is that song you’re singing? That’s an awfully strange lyric for a boy to be singing!” And imagine how my grandfather felt with my hand on his leg while I sang it! Well, Toni laughed and said, “Ah, kids!” (politely skipping over the embarrasing issues that could be read into that story) and told me that she was really proud of that song because she wrote it.

    I never realized it until just now, writing this, but I have had the supreme delight of meeting the artists who made the first music I ever bought! How many people can say that? Thank you, ABBA and Toni Tenille! 😀