A Month Of... Around The World...

Today we spend some time "Under African Skies" with Paul Simon & Miriam Makeba... although, and I'm sure Bri & Julie will tell me if I'm right or wrong, Linda Ronstadt sang the female vocal on the original recording on Paul's "Graceland" album...

And thank you for the suggestion of "All Around The World", Julie, but I can't find it on YouTube...

Wikipedia Links:

Paul Simon & Miriam Makeba
Africa

The Cheese Interlude...

Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville - "Don't Know Much"...

This scared me when I saw it on VH1 Classic last night (don't worry, Julie... I'm not running out of videos yet) - I would have been 16 when this was in the charts, and looking at it now, they look so OLD... I don't remember thinking how old Aaron looked in 1989! I mean, this was around the same time as fresh-faced Kylie & Jason did "Especially For You"... which was as sickeningly sweet and twee a song, but at least it didn't look like your middle-aged auntie and uncle singing it! Imagine if Aaron & Linda decided to re-release that now... it would be dangerously close to OAP-sex... Ewww...

I'm never going to be able to listen to this song again without needing mind-bleach...