When you're having trouble moving forward with anything, just start whistling.
Day 24: Hotel Yorba / The White Stripes
Day 23: The General / Dispatch
Day 22: Colonel Bogey / composer F.J. Ricketts
Day 21: A Boy Named Sue / Johnny Cash
Day 20: God Bless the USA / Lee Greenwood
The maturing effect of life experiences has changed the way I view this song. I planned to explain my choice here, but as I spent all day yesterday thinking and writing about it, I realized that it is going to take a lot longer than I expected. It’s Complicated.
Day 19: Piano Man / Billy Joel
Day 18: Try to Remember / Barry McGuire
I got lucky... it was a good year in music giving me lots of options, but I chose off the beaten path with a very personal, sparse, even haunting cover.
Day 17: I Got You Babe / Sonny & Cher
Perhaps not the best of songs, but I can handle Sonny's vocals.
Day 16: Capriccio Italien / Tchaikovsky
The prompt is not specific as "classical" favorites but so many other days catch classic rock, classic soul, etc. I fell in love with this piece -- and Tchaikovsky in general -- while learning it for the New Mexico High School All-State Orchestra in 1983 or 84.