Day Six: Favorite Song

Day Six: Favorite Song

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Like food yesterday, there are so many choices for a favorite song. Let's see...

Dolly Parton has written and performed many I like, Coat of Many Colors one of them.



I love the message that the song imparts, in such a beautiful and simple way.

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John Mellencamp also has his fair share of great music, Cherry Bomb being my favorite of his:



Just a great song, an ode to simpler times, I suppose.

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Cyndi Lauper's Time After Time is classic, and brings me back to the 80s every time I hear it.



Great song sung by an awesome talent.

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Don't You (Forget About Me) is, to me, the quintessential 80s song.



It might have a lot to do with be so closely associated with The Breakfast Club, but with or without the film, it is an 80s classic that never gets old.

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But I will have to go with Unforgettable, the version made into a duet by Nat King Cole and his daughter Natalie.



A beautiful song, without doubt. Two amazing voices spanning time to meld just perfectly on a classic.

My wife and I also chose this song to be "Our Song", and we couldn't have picked a better one. That's why Unforgettable is my Favorite Song.

John Hughes

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So, yeah ... John Hughes died.

For a blog like mine, with such an emphasis on pop culture, I have to mention his death. And also because so many of his films are things I truly enjoy.

Mr. Mom

National Lampoon's Vacation

The Breakfast Club

National Lampoon's European Vacation

Weird Science

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Home Alone

And those are just the films of his I really love! I didn't mention others I merely like. How many filmmakers can we say this about? That have had so many movies that a generation fell in love with?

And what makes them truly great, to me, is their rewatch-ability. We can watch them time and again and still laugh and enjoy them. That says it all.

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So many other bloggers are highlighting Hughes. Here are a few:

The Daily What - Movie Montage

ALPHAVILLE

...:::kindertrauma:::...

boingboing

The Kind of Face You Hate

Monkey Muck

Retrospace

Nostalgic G

That Blue Yak

Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness

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As a side note, as a teenager, I associated most with Allison Reynolds, Ally Sheedy's character from "The Breakfast Club". She was the outcast, loner weirdo, and that is how I felt for my entire high school experience.



Was definitely cool to relate to someone else, even if it was a girl, in a movie.

L.I.M Mr. Hughes. And thank you.

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