After a month of rest following our outstanding Summer Concert, we are now preparing to work towards our Winter Concert.
We have a lot to live up to and a short term to achieve it,
Time after time, we have managed to up our game, and this time will be no different. I know we can do it.
Time After Time is a song written by Cyndi Lauper and Rob Hyman, who also provided backing vocals.
The inspiration for the song came from the fact that both songwriters were going through similar challenges in their respective romantic relationships; Rob Hyman was coming out of a relationship, and Cyndi Lauper was having difficulties with her boyfriend/manager, David Wolff.
One of the early lines Rob wrote was "suitcase of memories," which, according to Cyndi, "struck her," claiming it was a "wonderful line. " Other lines came from Cyndi's life experiences.
The song's title was borrowed from a TV Guide listing for the 1979 movie Time After Time, which Cyndi had intended to use only as a temporary placeholder during the writing process. Although she later tried to change the song's name, she said that at some point, Time After Time had become so fundamental to the song that it would fall apart with a different title.
No doubt there will be a few trials on the way.
All My Trials is a folk song popular during the late 1950s and 1960s social protest movements.
In its first commercial release on the 1956 album Offbeat Folksongs, Gibson did not mention the song's history.
The following two artists to release it, Cynthia Gooding (as All My Trials in 1957) and Billy Faier (as Bahaman Lullaby in 1959), wrote in their album liner notes that they each learned the song from Erik Darling. Gooding explained it was "supposed to be a white spiritual that went to the British West Indies and returned with the lovely rhythm of the Islands," presumably as Darling told her.
Faier wrote that he heard Darling sing the song "four or five times in spring 1954," when Darling would have been performing with his folk group The Tarriers. However, bibliographic folk song indexes, such as the Traditional Ballad Index, do not mention the Bahamas as an origin, listing it as unknown.
The Joan Baez Songbook (published in 1964; Baez released the song All My Trials in 1960) suggests it began as a pre–Civil War era American Southern gospel song. It was introduced to the Bahamas, where it became a lullaby. It was forgotten in the US until it was brought back from the Bahamas and popularised during the roots revival.
We are also singing The Salley Gardens and Fields of Gold, and next week’s blog will discuss these songs in more detail.
The Steeple-fingered ladies have returned and will meet with everyone on September 3rd. Hopefully, we will all be in good voice, as it has been a long, hot summer, and we have required plenty of cold, refreshing beverages!
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