March 11th, 2026
1968 Top 10 Highest-Grossing & Award Winning Films
“Not a great film. Similar to The Brady Bunch. The only interesting thing was a ton of young actors were in the cast who later played in ‘Animal House’.”
Tag: 1968
My Musical Life 3-11-26
March 11th, 2026
#60 Lady Madonna (The Beatles) 👍🏼
Lady Madonna, children at your feet
Wonder how you manage to make ends meet
Who finds the money when you pay the rent?
Did you think that money was heaven sent?
Friday night arrives without a suitcase
Sunday morning creeping like a nun
Monday’s child has learned to tie his bootlace
See how they run
Lady Madonna, baby at your breast
Wonders how you manage to feed the rest
See how they run
Lady Madonna lying on the bed
Listen to the music playing in your head (head)
Tuesday afternoon is never ending
Wednesday morning papers didn’t come
Thursday night, your stockings needed mending
See how they run
Lady Madonna, children at your feet
Wonder how you manage to make ends meet
My Musical Life 3-10-26
March 10th, 2026
#58 I Got The Feelin’ (James Brown) 👍🏼
I got the feeling
Baby, baby
I got the feeling
You don’t know what you do to me
People are heavy, down in misery
Hey, yeah, alright
Hey, hey, good Lord
I got the feeling, alright
Baby, baby, baby
Baby, baby, baby
Baby, baby, baby
Baby, baby
I got the feeling, baby
Baby, sometimes I’m up
Sometimes I’m down
My heart, I’m around the town
I’m level with the ground, baby
I said level with the ground
Well, baby, you treat me bad
No, no, I know no, you don’t mean it now
Sometimes, I roam
But I’ll be coming back home
Sometimes, I seem to be fly
I just don’t know when to say bye bye
Hey baby, baby
I got that feeling, baby
I have it, alright
Baby, baby, baby
Baby, baby, baby
Baby, baby, baby
Baby, baby
Come on now
Come on now
Oh, oh, oh, oh
My Musical Life 3-9-26
March 9th, 2026
#57 Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing (Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell) 👍🏼
Ooh, baby
Ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby
Ain’t nothing like the real thing, no, no
Ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby
Ain’t nothing like the real thing (oh, honey)
I’ve got your picture hangin’ on the wall
But it can’t see or come to me when I call your name
I realize it’s just a picture in a frame
Ooh, I read your letters when you’re not near
But they don’t move me and they don’t groove me
Like when I hear your sweet voice whispering in my ear
Don’t you know?
Ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby
Ain’t nothing like the real thing
I play my game of fantasy
I pretend, but I know in reality
I need the shelter of your arms to comfort me
No other sound is quite the same as your name
No touch can do half as much
To make me feel better
So let’s stay together
I’ve got some memories to look back on
Though they help me when you’re gone
I’m well aware
Nothing can take the place of your being there, oh
So glad we’ve got the real thing, baby
So glad we’ve got the real thing
Oh, Marvin (I know, honey)
Ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby (so glad)
(So glad, oh, darling)
Ain’t nothing like the real thing, talk to me
Ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby (ooh, oh, I’m so glad)
Ain’t nothing like the real thing
My Storied Life 3-8-26
March 8th, 2026
1968 Top 10 Highest-Grossing & Award Winning Films
- The Producers 👍🏼
- 41st Academy Awards Best Screenplay, Original: Mel Brooks
“I don’t remember seeing this film. Gene Wilder & Zero Mostel are so funny and play off one another so well. Entertaining flick and such a ‘#uck you’ to the absurdity of the times.”
My Musical Life 3-8-26
March 8th, 2026
#56 Summertime Blues (Blue Cheer) 👍🏼
Lord, I gotta raise a fuss, Lord, I gotta raise a holler
About workin’ all summer just to try to earn a dollar
Well, Lord, I tried to call my baby, I tried to get a date
Sometimes I wonder what I’m a-gonna do
Lord, there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues
Well, my mom and papa told me, “Son, you got to make some money”
Well, if you wanna use the car to go a ridin’ next Sunday
Oh, Lord, I didn’t go to work, I told the boss I was sick, said
Sometimes I wonder what I’m a-gonna do
Lord, there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues
I’ve got to take three weeks, I’ve got to have a fine vacation
I got to take my problem to the United Nations
I done told my Congressman and he said quote, dig this boy
Sometimes I wonder what I’m a-gonna do
Lord, there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues
I’ve got to take three weeks, I’ve got to have a fine vacation
I got to take my problem to the United Nations
I done told my Congressman and he said quote, dig this boy
Sometimes I wonder what I’m a-gonna do
Lord, there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues
Whoa, there ain’t no cure
My Storied Life 3-7-26
March 7th, 2026
1968 Top 10 Highest-Grossing & Award Winning Films
- Rachel, Rachel 👍🏼👍🏼
- 26th Golden Globe Awards Best Film in a Drama, Comedy or Musical
- 26th Golden Globe Awards Best Director in a Drama, Comedy or Musical: Paul Newman
- 26th Golden Globe Awards Best Actress in a Drama: Joanne Woodward
“I had never seen this film. It was fascinating how they intertwined Rachel’s fantasies into her daily muddling. At 35 years old and a virgin in more ways than one, to be taken advantage of by several men and woman in the film…one for sex..one for companionship and a woman for love. I would consider watching again so I could glean more of the whole story. I think the acting was spot on.”
My Musical Life 3-7-26
March 7th, 2026
#55 Pictures Of Matchstick Men (Status Quo) 👍🏼
When I look up to the sky
I see your eyes, a funny kind of yellow
I rush home to bed, I sunk my head
I see your face underneath my pillow
I wake next morning, tired, still yawning
See your face come peeping through my window
Pictures of matchstick men and you
Images of matchstick men and you
All I ever see is them and you
Windows echo your reflection
When I look in their direction, gone
When will this haunting stop?
Your face, it just won’t leave me alone
Pictures of matchstick men and you
Images of matchstick men and you
All I ever see is them and you
You in the sky, you with this guy
You make me cry, you lie
You in the sky, you with this guy
You make me cry, you lie
Pictures of matchstick men
Pictures of matchstick men
Pictures of matchstick men
Pictures of matchstick men
My Musical Life 3-6-26
March 6th, 2026
#52 Light My Fire (José Feliciano) 👍🏼
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you, yeah
Girl, we couldn’t get much higher
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
The time for hesitation is through
There’s no time to wallow in the mire
Darling we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire, yeah
Yeah, you know that it would be untrue
And you know that I would be a liar
If I was to go and tell you
Momma we couldn’t get much higher
Well, come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire, yeah
Yeah, come on baby light, would you light my fire, yeah
Come on baby light my fire, would you, oh it’s alright
Light my fire, light my fire, light my fire
Light my fire, light my fire, light my fire, girl
You better light my fire
Come on baby, you better light, you better light my fire
My Musical Life 3-5-26
March 5th, 2026
#51 MacArthur Park (Richard Harris) 👍🏼
Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love’s hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants
MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don’t think that I can take it
‘Cause it took so long to bake it
And I’ll never have that recipe again
Oh no!
I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers by the trees
MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don’t think that I can take it
‘Cause it took so long to bake it
And I’ll never have that recipe again
Oh no!
There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You’ll still be the one
I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky
And after all the loves of my life
Oh, after all the loves of my life
I’ll be thinking of you
And wondering why
MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don’t think that I can take it
‘Cause it took so long to bake it
And I’ll never have that recipe again
Oh no!
Oh no
No
Oh no!
My Distilled Life 