Sting If On A Winter’s Night
Welcome to Monday’s Music Moves Me! I hope you had a lovely Christmas weekend. Ours was exceptionally cold for East Tennessee. I’m going to wind things up with another YouTube shortcut save. This collection of songs on this album seems more winter related than Christmas which actually makes it a perfect choice now Christmas is in our past. Here’s Sting, If On A Winter’s Night!
This is a music linky party. Your co-hostess are Stacy, Alana, and Me. Every other week we have a suggested music theme (see weekly prompts here) to build your song set around and all participants share YouTube or Vimeo videos for our music enthusiasts. Failure to meet this basic guideline puts your URL in danger of being removed or labeled – NO MUSIC.
There you go folks another Christmas music season wrapped up. Continue to take it slow. There’s no rush to put away the festive decorations just yet. That can wait until after the new year. That’s my plan. I have one last Vintage Christmases Past contribution set for Wednesday. I’m going to chillax a bit more. Have a boogietastic week. This is CAAC signing off! X💋X💋, Cathy
9 Comments
Alana Mautone (@RamblinGarden)
Definitely not the Sting of the Police days! Various musical styles and I am enjoying his voice. The music – some I liked, some not so much, but I appreciate the talent he showed in every selection. Certainly, music to mellow out to. Alana ramblinwitham
csuhpat1
Sting is always a classic. Thanks for hosting this great part and Happy New Year to you and your family.
messymimi's meanderings
Beautiful. I pray you have a blessed week.
15andmeowing
Nice music choices. Keep warm. XO
Brian
That was a very nice playlist for any old time.
John Holton
I listened to a vew tunes and will listen to more later. What I heard was really good! Happy New Year!
Sandee
I love this album. Beautiful music.
I love your Awww too. From a time long ago was my first thought. Beautiful.
Thank you for joining the Awww Mondays Blog Hop.
Have a fabulous Awww Monday and week. Love and hugs, Cathy. ♥
angelswhisper2011
We hope you had a wonderful Christmas, CK, we’re in the colds too…in the house and no hot water…Aargh…now we’re waiting for someone of a company to fix this problem. Anyway, that was very strange mewsic from Sting. We could relate a few songs to him and his voice, but we can’t believe that he has such a deep deep voice. Very different from what we know from him, but special for sure😸Double Pawkisses for a Happy Boxing Day🐾😽💞
Thomas Anderson
Hi, Cathy!
Happy Aww-some 4M Monday, dear friend! I hope you, DH and your entire family had a wonderful Christmas. I also hope you didn’t lose power as so many other people did across the country in the snowstorm and deadly cold snap of Christmas 2022. Awww… that animated house in the snow looks cozy. I wish I could go inside, sit at the bay window and watch the white stuff piling up outside. Hooray – no school tomorrow! “Let it snow. Let it snow. Let it snow.” 🙂
This is an excellent winter-themed album by Sting. I read that it was released in the fall of 2009 to coincide with the onset of winter and the Christmas season that year. Wiki says the album is a “collection of Christmas and winter-themed songs mostly written by others, including folk songs, madrigals and religious hymns from past centuries. Dozens of musicians appear on the album in various configurations, including jazz, folk and classical players.” Sting’s mellow voice and these little known, seldom heard winter songs are refreshing to the ears as well as nurturing. They restoreth my soul. This is a style of music I haven’t heard very often, and I am thoroughly enjoying it, especially the songs that include female backing vocalists. These include Scottish harpist and singer Mary Macmaster whose voice adds so much to “Christmas At Sea” and the English Webb Sisters duo – Charley and Hattie Webb.
I must say that you did it again, Cathy. You found another extraordinary set of songs for 4M. It was a delightful experience listening to these old, even ancient melodies as performed by Sting with the support of other talented musicians and vocalists. The songs on this album invite us to slow things down. They mellow us out after the frantic pace many of us kept in the weeks leading up to Christmas. Winter is a time for reflection, and these songs are ideal for that purpose.
Thank you for this splendid musical interlude, dear friend Cathy. I’ll be back to see you Wednesday. Meanwhile, I am currently celebrating New Year’s Rockin’ Eve in the Shady, and invite you over to my annual yearender party. Have a tunetastic week!