As some of the more musical among you may have noticed, I got the inspiration for the title of my blog from the Eva Cassidy song 'Songbird' (originally by Fleetwood Mac) and the line from this song that says:
"And the songbirds keep singing like they know the score, and I love you, I love you, I love you, like never before"
"And the songbirds keep singing like they know the score, and I love you, I love you, I love you, like never before"
This is one of my favourite song lyrics and this version of songbird is so mellow and chilled that when you listen to it you feel a lot better, and it is a great song to sit and watch the world go by to. I think it is a credit to Eva Cassidy's ability to take a song that someone else has created and do her own take on it to the extent that her version of the song is often more popular than the original. It is just so unfortunate that her talent was not truely appreciated until after she died.
Eva Cassidy died of Melanoma, a form of skin cancer, in 1996. At this time she was virtually unknown outside of her native Washington D.C. She didn't make it to the attention of British audiences until Terry Wogan played her version of "Over the Rainbow" on BBC Radio 2. Soon everybody was discussing this song and gradually more of the precious recordings of Eva Cassidy made it onto our radiowaves.
Click on the link to listen to 'Songbird' on youtube.
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