Samuel’s favorite songs

Just a few:

Acker Bilk, “Stranger on the Shore”:

Percy Faith, “Ebb Tide”:

Also, this version by the New Hawaiian Band, with ukulele by Ohta San:

Ralph Vaughan Williams, “March Past of the Kitchen Utensils,” from The Wasps:

And of course Vaughan Williams’s “Lark Ascending”:

The Bee Gees, “Stayin’ Alive”:

And “Jive Talkin’”:

Röyksopp’s remix of “I Don’t Know What I Can Save You From” by Kings of Convenience:

“Glen Coe” by the Orb:

The theme of the Australian crime show, Murder Call:

And for nap-time, pretty much any of Brian Eno’s Ambient 1: Music for Airports:

The Isle of Man

Today’s adventure with Google Earth took me to the Isle of Man, which I’d been reading about in Armadale. Its scenery resembles that of Ireland (it’s in the Irish Sea). With relative ease, one is able to use Google’s “street view” function to trace the entirety of the A18, which connects several of the important coastal towns. This route also approaches the Isle’s tallest mountain (of some 2000 feet). The change in scenery, therefore, is dramatic in a small way. Occasionally, sheep appear along the road; the little towns, also, are nice to look at, and one infers from billboards that the motor racing is distinguished.

In honor of the Isle of Man, tonight I listened to the Bee Gees, who lived there before moving to Manchester and Australia. Here is a video of their underrated song, “Fanny (Be Tender with My Love).”