Stand By Me

Musicians across the world singing together via Playing for Peace


All-boys choir at Albert Hall via the BBC


John Lennon in New York

Today, I woke up and made a cup of coffee. I took a little stroll through the internet, and as per usual, I took a right at SuperForest. There I discovered a new blog and took a left at Gems Sty. A recent post featured an amazing video that really brightened my morning, as did the unexpected snow shower on this day, The First Day of Spring!

Well, I left my apartment and took many rights and left on an early errand thinking about the song... the Ben E. King classic Stand By Me. Beautiful rhythm, upliftng lyrics, excellent song right? How wonderful that it can endure and transform so many!

From "Playing For Change: Peace Through Music" featuring musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it travels the globe, to The BBC series The Choir's 100 strong, all boys choir at the Royal Albert Hall (I extra-love that they have incorporated Sean Kingston's excellent mash-up/remix Beautiful Girl). And, of course, John Lennon's version from his excellent 1975 album of covers Rock 'n' Roll which I had recently been listening to a lot.

Happy weekend!

Love and peace,

--christine


PS. For those of you who are as traumatized as I am from the use of Leonard Coehen's Hallelujah in WATCHMEN, may I offer an antidote... the song played to clips from the incredibly fine film STAND BY ME. Trust me, it helps.