Tags
blogging101, Memories & Reflections, Monday Music Medicine Show, Music Videos, Quantum Hermit, Writing 101, Writing Prompts
I bet I’ve read Fimnora’s assignment for the Monday Music Medicine Show a half dozen times this week. She says:
“What serendipity has showed up from last week, and surfaced in this week? And what song would you choose to celebrate the continuing magic?”
I was just not connecting to anything. I hadn’t heard any music the week before that had captured my attention. So! I started all over again and began to pay attention to what I was hearing THIS week. Nothing! It’s as if music has just faded away for me. Till tonight. And then on a commercial I heard it.
en.wikipedia.org
I fell in love with the movie first, and then the theme song. The movie is The Bodyguard with Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. And as an interesting side light to this, there is now a Musical Theater version of The Bodyguard comprised of all Whitney Houston songs. It stars Heather Headley as Rachel Marron and Lloyd Owen as her “protector.”
The song? “I Will Always Love You.” It was interesting the way it grabbed me. It speaks to me deep inside somewhere, like I’m always leaving… Every time I hear it every nerve in my body perks up. What an amazing voice she had.
`
Oh! Great movie, and exquisite song!!! You’re right about good-byes being the sense of it, even if I’d never seen The Bodyguard. When I was watching Robin of Sherwood, at the end of the first Robin, there was a scene, to which I put this song over footage of the show, and made my own little ‘fan vid.’ I still have it on VHS. Trying to figure out how to get all of that onto DVD.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I think Houston’s death and her eulogy by Kevin Costner at the funeral made this movie even more poignant for me. They got so close during the filming of that movie. He really kept her buoyed up through it all.
‘I think Whitney would tell you, little girls wanting to become singers. Guard your bodies and guard the precious miracle you have. ‘Off you go Whitney, off you go. Escorted by an army of angels to your heavenly father,’ Costner said. ‘When you sing before him. Don’t you worry. You will be good enough.’
LikeLiked by 1 person
I remember coming across (later) some Youtubes of Kevin’s eulogy. Very poignant.
LikeLiked by 1 person