Blog 3573 – 08.17.2025

I Need A Dose Of Music Everyday

It is hard to over estimate the role that music has played in my life. As a young boy crawling up an a kitchen chair to stand and sing along with Kitty Wells, How Far in Heaven, I have always known that Heaven is always in a singer’s heart. Jane Froman’s bio-movie staring the lovely actress Susan Hayward playing Jane, was a boyhood favorite, With A Song In My Heart.

Whether you are talking country-western, rhythm and blues, sweet rock-n-roll or a hundred other genres, music does indeed have the power to soothe the savage beast within. And if it has a good beat it is all but impossible not to want to dance to it.

A long time dear friend, former wife, and lover, posted today’s picture on Facebook yesterday. When I first met her fifty-two years this fall at college I knew right away that she was a kindred spirit with as song in her heart as well. Her favorite singer and actress, the one she wanted most to emulate, was Barbra Streisand. We went to the movies together several times to see Barbra and Robert Redford in The Way We Were. Barbra’s beautiful voice singing the words “Memories like the corners my mind, pretty water color memories of the way we were” still stir my heart and my memory to this day.

I am hard pressed when asked what is my favorite song for I have so many favorites and am still adding to the playlist in my heart and mind. As the caption to the photo says so well, “I need a dose of music everyday” and as it is true that one should dance oblivious to whether anyone is watching or not, I also believe that we should sing our hearts out equally obvious to what anyone else may think of our singing.

Another favorite song of mine (a link to my karaoke-style version attached below) always reminds me of the pretty and talented lady who posted today’s picture quote. There is a line in the song that says, “I figured out I can sing.” As a child I knew I could sing and dance, but like many of you as I grew up I got so shy and so self-conscience that I no longer wanted to sing or dance in front of others. I am so glad and grateful that I found my way back to that free-spirited child who sang and danced with all his heart not caring who heard or saw or what they thought, like King David, so full of joy that he danced before the LORD with a song in his heart.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David James White

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uIBN6KC4u0Ocj3IW1HqxvStytcMo90D4/view?usp=drivesdk