#SongLyricSunday May 16

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This week our host Jim Adams for Song Lyric Sunday has given us the prompt of Elevator Music.

Take some time to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this music challenge, and even better, read as many of them as you are able to as you will probably find many enjoyable songs and it is quite possibly that you will learn a thing or two. Also feel free to offer up your suggestion to this week’s prompt.

Here are the “rules”:
• Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it contains the prompt words or not.  If it does not meet the criteria, then please explain why you chose this song.
• Please try to include the songwriter(s) – it’s a good idea to give credit where credit is due.  Your post can be as long or as short as you want it to be.
• Make sure you also credit the singer/band and if you desire you can provide a link to where you found the lyrics.
• Link to the YouTube video, or pull it into your post so others can listen to the song.
• Ping back to this post or place your link in the comments section below.
• Read at least one other person’s blog, so we can all share new and fantastic music and create amazing new blogging friends in the process.
• Feel free to suggest future prompts.
• Have fun and enjoy the music.

Making a confession that I used Google to research top Elevator Music Songs. That took me to a top list on Allmusic. The list included some twenty plus songs and I choose #4 on the list Winchester Cathedral.

Extremely confident that only a few can claim that they have seen in person the British group called “The New Vaudeville Band”. Winchester Cathedral was released by them in 1966. The band didn’t really exist it was just a bunch of session musicians. It is one of the few songs to ever reach high on the charts that includes a bassoon.

The song was written by Geoff Stephens who died in December 2020. He wanted to replicate the sound of Rudy Vallee. Vallee was a singing bandleader in the 1920s and 1930s, he introduced many songs that would ultimately become pop standards, among them “Goodnight, Sweetheart”, “The Maine Stein Song”, “As Time Goes By”, “Would You Like to Take a Walk?”, “Betty Co-Ed” and his two theme songs, “Heigh-Ho, Everybody” and “I’m Just a Vagabond Lover”.

Here are the lyrics to Winchester Cathedral

Here is the song

Next week the prompt for Song Lyric Sunday is Comparisons where you take two songs and discuss an association between them.