And relax...

As it's Friday, here's three mellow tunes circa 1970 to help you relax.

Note use of countryside in first two, and women in long flowing dresses in all three. And will you look at those pants in the Marmalade one!

I'm afraid I don't know how to do those YouTube embed things, so click the links.

Smile A Little Smile For Me/Flying Machine

Rainbow/Marmalade

Both Sides Now/Judy Collins, as danced by Pan's People

**Lovely pic of Mrs F-C and I relaxing at home

Random strangers

I had a very long and convoluted journey into work this morning, due to one thing or another, which gave me more time than usual to sample the delights of my ipod.

When you've got it on random, it's amazing how often the same things come up, day after day. Probably the last few times I've randomized I've got Norma Waterson's version of God Loves A Drunk, Cousin Norman by Marmalade and always something from the soundtrack to Requiem For A Dream on consecutive days. Why does this happen?

Anyhoo, apart from Norma, today spewed forth a lot of Foreigner. I'd forgotten what a fanatastic number Urgent is. Then came Hot Blooded, which I only recently realised was sampled by Ton Loc in Funky Cold Medina. You can keep you're I Want To Know What Love Is, but the rest simply rock. There's no xenophobia on my ipod.

Where are they now?