http://www.zookinimusic.com The Official Philip Cody Website and Blog Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:08:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [youtube width="425" height="344"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bnKJjewcII[/youtube] One of my favorite singers doing one of my favorite songs. Susan Boyle may have conquered the world this past week, but my heart still belongs to Annie. As a songwriter, I couldn't imagine a more wonderful fate for a song than to be given life by an ... http://www.zookinimusic.com/2009/04/annie-lennox-evry-time-we-say-goodbye/ "And Solitaire's the only game in town And every road that takes him, takes him down." In setting out to chronicle the thirty-eight year history of the song, "Solitaire," I thought it best to keep the chatter down to a minimum and just let the cover recordings tell the story. Missing ... http://www.zookinimusic.com/2009/04/a-brief-history-of-solitaire/ rock n Roll Dreams By Philip Cody I made my bones At the wheel of a 58 Chevy With a lid of marijuana And a toxic blonde by my side I was a long haired hippie freak Looking for a stairway to heaven I was wasted I was strung out I ... http://www.zookinimusic.com/2009/04/rock-n-roll-dreams/ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgQw-jeItVs[/youtube] This jam is from a 1986 tribute to Fats Domino, recorded at the Storyville nightclub in N'awlins. Paul Shaffer assembled a cast of guest artists that include, Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis and Ron Wood. This video has been in circulation for quite some time, so you may have seen ... http://www.zookinimusic.com/2009/04/fats-domino-and-friends/ When my sometimes writing partner, Ted Perlman, presented me with this title and the track to go with it, I thought, "I don't want to write a song about a whore house." First of all, I've never been to a whore house and I didn't want to write about a subject ... http://www.zookinimusic.com/2009/04/house-of-love/ Starlee Kine is an American public radio producer and writer. Her work has been featured on This American Life and Marketplace. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine. She is the co-creator of the Post It Note Reading Series in Brooklyn. In this story, which originally aired on ... http://www.zookinimusic.com/2009/03/break-up-song/ "Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know"....Groucho Let's talk about ... http://www.zookinimusic.com/2009/03/welcome/