Revision as of 18:15, 16 February 2012

For Grammar

Simple Past

• Beatles -- "Yesterday" (used to) / nostalgic past (Cf. Proust) (lyrics training)
• Lauryn Hill -- "I Used to Love Him"

Particles

• Armstrong, Louis -- Louis and the Good Book (1958)
• Fitzgerald, Ella -- "Call the Whole Thing Off"
• Jones, Norah -- "Turn Me On" dailymotion
• Marley, Bob -- "Get up, Stand up" Santana & Friends

-ing

• Black-Eyed Peas -- "Shut up"

Prepositions

• Leonard Cohen -- "Dance me to the end of love" live, Madeleine Peyroux cover, wikipedia on the origin of the song

Themes

Apology

• Elton John & Blue, "Sorry seems to be the hardest word", lyrics training

Equal Rights

• O'Connor, Sinead -- "War" a capella (Saturday Night Live)
• Black Eyed Peas + Sting -- "Union"

Friendship

• King, Carole -- "You've got a friend" | seasons, have to, got to, have got, wherever. from Tapestry u2b. James Taylor solo version u2b

Jealousy

• Gabriel, Peter -- "Shock the Monkey"
• Lennon, John -- "Jealous Guy"

Hard Times

• Blacc, Aloe -- "I Need a Dollar" [1]| modals, simple vocab

Holocaust / Shoah

• "Dance Me to the End of Love" Leonard Cohen

Love

• From The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
  • Lauryn Hill: I used to love him
  • Lauryn Hill (to her firstborn): [2]
  • Franki Valli / Lauryn Hill: [3]

Middle Passage / Slavery

• "Jonah and the Whale", traditional, Louis Armstrong, Louis and the Good Book, 1958. video
• "Sometimes, I Feel like a Motherless Child", traditional.
• "Let My People Go", traditional. (cf. Jubilee Singers, 1872) Paul Robeson 193?, Louis Armstrong 1958, Russian remix

Cheer up

• Peter Gabriel with Kate Bush -- "Don't Give up"
• John Lennon -- "Imagine"
• Bob Marley -- "Three Little Birds" lyrics training
• Queen -- "Spread Your Wings" (fly away)