Are you off the floor now? 🤣 Greetings y’all! We’re in the 11th month of this not-so-new year. Welcome to Monday’s Music Moves Me. This week we’re boogieing with special honorary co-hostess Sandee from Comedy Plus to whatever music moves you! Are you ready to get this party started?
I’m pulling content stuck in drafts for months. Tom from SPMM shared a song by an English all girl band from the 60s known as The Paper Dolls covering “My Boyfriend’s Back“. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, musicians from yesterday are a million times better than artists today. I wanted to sample more tunes by TPD on YouTube. Not paying too much attention, I clicked the first video. It turned out to not be the band I wanted but I’ll get back to that in a moment. I found The Paper Dolls’ UK Top 20 hit (peak position #11) debut song, “Something Here In My Heart (Keeps a-Tellin’ Me No)”.
As previously mention, I clicked on a video thinking I was listening to the 60s UK girl band but it wasn’t. In fact, the band discovery is a current upcoming group with a very similar name, known as the Paper Dolls Band. Notice “The” is not apart of this bands name and the video I clicked is an original bluegrass song that I’m sharing below. The song is about a love that’s gone wrong with no hope insight leaving the author to pray for rain. The lyrics version of this song is here, if you’d care to read along while you listen or just click below to play the non-lyrical recording.
The new bluegrass sound really appeals to me the more I listen to it. It’s not at all like old school bluegrass. Now curious with this discovery, I see there is another similar band name, a 90s pop British girls’ band which falls into the Forgotten Pop Band category called Paperdolls. “Gonna Make You Blush” released in the last quarter of 1998. The song spent 2-weeks on the charts peaking at position 65.
In my search I discovered another band, maybe two with similar spellings but the music didn’t catch my ears right and then I found a few song titles using any form of these spellings. The Mills Brothers recorded the original, Paper Doll, in 1942 and it has been covered about four dozen times by various artists/genres. Fleetwood Mac released a song with the same name, Paper Doll, in 1992 which I do not remember. It achieved some success here in the states and in Canada. John Mayer wrote Paper Doll in 2010 about ex-girlfriend, Taylor Swift and in 2015 Bea Miller recorded her original song with a not so original song title, Paper Doll. Based on the lyrics, I suspect it’s a song to empower girls with little self-esteem, perhaps those constantly torn or push down by others. It has a catchy melody while encouraging young women that enough is enough. Believing in oneself starts with you, don’t be subjected to unfair criticism.
This is a music linky party. Your co-hostess are Stacy, Alana, and myself. Every other week we have a suggested music theme 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.
I’m taking a mini-hiatus but I’ll be back mid-week with another edition in my Maine Vacation 2022 photo memory series. I hope you enjoyed today’s song picks. Thanks for joining the party. This is CAAC signing off, have a boogietastic week! X💋X💋, Cathy
