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Thanks for stumbling upon my retirement project and labour of love, Here Comes The Song. Here you'll find the latest blogs from music fanatics about their favourite songs and the artists who wrote them. It really is about the music that moves us...

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Songs Of The Week 2020

Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK Oh Miss Carolina: Robert Jon & The Wreck The curiously underrated Robert Jon & The Wreck’s new album Last Light On The ...

Feb 17

Oddball's Coming Home: 10 leftfield songs about sport

A 1968 single by Townshend, Daltrey, Entwhistle and Moon, and a relative flop which peaked at No25, the song is about greyhound racing, beer

Dec 29, 2019

Songs Of The Week 2019: Take 2

Neil Morton FEATURED SONGS OF THE WEEK Hold You Dear: The Secret Sisters We all need a harmonious new year after the dissonance of 2019, and who better to pr I am, making up who I am.  Like I’m just this throwback Aretha Franklin-like soul singer, which I can do, but there’s so much more to me than that. But I have to show it.' The racism endured by her black father, to whom Stay High is dedicated, and her white mother in the American south is explored in the moving Goat Head

Jul 31, 2019

Dolly, the Cameroon connection and the power of storytelling

Tim Woods Cameroon’s Bamenda Highlands is a vibrant, verdant region awash with life. Rust-red tracks cut through mountainous forests that brim with mischievo...

Jul 8, 2019

Songs Of The Week 2019: Take 1

Neil Morton FEATURED SONGS OF THE WEEK Western Stars: Bruce Springsteen Western Stars, the title track from Bruce Springsteen's 19th studio album, is Song Of...

Dec 27, 2018

Songs and gongs of 2018

Neil Morton FEATURED SONGS OF THE WEEK This Too Shall Last: Anderson East Our final Song Of The Week of 2018 at herecomesthesong.com is an encore from Anders...

Dec 30, 2017

Six of the best from our 2017 Songs Of The Week playlist

Neil Morton We at Here Comes The Song have bombarded contributors, subscribers, readers and listeners with our Songs Of The Week by Twitter, Facebook and ema...

Dec 16, 2017

'Tis the season to be different: an alternative festive playlist

Phil Shaw Presenting an alternative festive playlist… to show there's more to Christmas music than Noddy Holder, Roy Wood, Shakin’ Stevens and that saccharin...

Oct 9, 2017

Flipside of The Beatles: From The Liverbirds to Rory Storm

Jim Morton The so-called Swinging Sixties weren’t just about The Beatles. No, no, no. Here are some of the finest – and perhaps less obvious – among the 300-...

Aug 14, 2017

Indelible mark of Zevon: 10 more from the songwriter's songwriter

Phil Shaw ROLAND THE HEADLESS THOMPSON GUNNER Surreal, darkly comic tale of revenge from the 1978 album Excitable Boy and the last song Warren Zevon played l...

Jul 17, 2017

They say it's your birthday: 10 songs for a best wishes list

Jim Morton This playlist is dedicated to my elder brother Neil 'Here Comes The Song’ Morton, who was born on this day (July 18) 67 years ago 1 THE SUGARCUBES...

Apr 11, 2017

London Recalling: 10 songs with capital locations in their title

Phil Shaw PRIMROSE HILL – Loudon Wainwright III There are fine homages to the pretty hilltop spot in NW3 by Madness and John and Beverley Martyn, but the for...

Mar 22, 2017

The name-droppers: 10 songs that put the list into playlist

Phil Shaw A HOUSE: Endless Art This strange 1991 single by the Irish indie band A House starts with the ‘singer’ recalling a quote: ‘All art is quite useless...

Mar 15, 2017

Meet The Parentheses: 10 songs with brackets in the title

Phil Shaw THE FACES: You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything (Even Take The Dog For A Walk, Mend A Fuse, Fold Away The Ironing Board Or Any Other Domestic Sh...

Jan 19, 2017

Welcome Mr Trump: A Playlist For The New President

Neil Morton Jackson Browne: Walls And Doors ‘There are those who build walls,’ sings Browne on Standing On The Breach, ‘and those who open doors.’ Don’t know...

Jan 19, 2017

Wish They Were Still Here: Cherished Songs Of The Departed

Neil Morton Guy Clark: My Favourite Picture Of You One of the all-time great storytellers, the Texan elder statesman paints extraordinary pictures about ordi...

Jan 18, 2017

Got It Covered: My 10 Favourite Renditions

Ian Tasker Aretha Franklin: Respect (1967) One of the greatest pop songs of all time by one of the greatest singers covering yet another all-time great in Ot...