They're Playing Our Song

Back in the late 1990's, I sang and danced in a production of the stage musical "They're Playing Our Song," but this blog isn't about that...

It's really about a song - do you have one?  Often ‘our song’ is the song playing on the radio when you had your first dance with someone, the song played at your wedding (which could be the same song as the first), or some other moment in your history with that ‘special someone.’ 

Our song happens to be from a movie – surprise!  During the first few weeks of our dating, my then boyfriend, and now husband, the movie The Jazz Singer starring Neil Diamond premiered (December 1980).  Since Jonathan was (and still is to some extent) a Neil Diamond ‘super fan,’ it was a must-see movie for us; and again, and again… The Jazz Singer was a contemporary remake of Al Jolson’s 1928 film of the same name with a similar basic frame plot.  With a not-so-fantastic script, and B-list actors (including Lucie Arnaz and Franklyn Ajaye, and Laurence Olivier, excluded – although his role in this film is no Hamlet!), the only saving grace was Neil Diamond’s music and that amazing blue sequined shirt - I know my heart rate went up several points with that!

So which song is our song? If you guessed “Hello, Again,” you are correct!  Every time we hear it (which is not often on the radio, anymore) we get goo-goo eyed with one another and reminisce of days gone by.  It brings us back to that place of our youth, young love, and fond memories of movie going and dating.  I guess that’s why they call it “your song.”

Enough from me today – but, hoping that today’s blog will remind you of your song or even movie songs that you love.  There will definitely be more from me on that front.

But for now…just more of that blue shirt!