Monday Music: Manamanah

Some days, I want something magnificent to start my day, like Beethoven's "Ode to Joy," or something majestic and immense like "Also Sprach Zarathustra," by Strauss. On other days, The Muppets doing Manamanah is just the ticket!

And here is a bit of history behind the song, for some of you who may remember it from other venues. From Wikipedia:

"Mah Nà Mah Nà" is a popular song written by Piero Umiliani. It originally appeared in the Italian film Sweden: Heaven and Hell (Svezia, inferno e paradiso). It was a minor radio hit in the U.S. and in Britain, but became better known in English-speaking countries from its use in a recurring blackout sketch for the 1969-70 season of The Red Skelton Show, the fourteenth episode of  Sesame Street, and the first episode of  The Muppet Show.



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Saturday Haiku: Autumn Palette

faint autumn colors

as from an artist’s palette

the woodland at rest

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Photo by Charles Kinnaird

Roupes Creek at Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park

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Top Ten Posts for the Week

Autumn view at Aldridge Gardens (photo by Charles Kinnaird)

  

If you look to the right-hand column of this blog page, under "Popular Posts," you can always see what the top ten views for the month are. Here are the top ten posts for the week:

• For the Day of the Dead: A Meditation on Mortality
• Saturday Haiku: Midnight Rises
• The Thing that Was Different
• Dylan Interview: 60 Minutes with Ed Bradley (2004)
• Monday Music: Dies Irae (Gregorian Chant)
• Broadcast History (Re-post)
• Celebrating the Examined Life
• Pray Like a Gourmet: Creative Ways to Feed Your Soul
• Psalm 23 ~ Bobby McFerrin
• A Jungian Appreciation of Mary

You can see there is a mixture of essay, poetry, music, and humor with some book reviews thrown in as well. Thank you to all who take the time to visit Not Dark Yet. I hope you continue to find this an interesting place in the blogosphere.



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