Friendship is tonight's theme. Now that could be straightforward songs about close pals and the value of friendship. It could be songs that remind you of good friends, or in Michael Jackson’s case, a song about forming a close relationship with a rat! Mind you, we’ve all come across people we thought were friends but turned out to have rat like tendencies. We’ve got a couple of those kind of tunes on tonight as well.
My suggestion was going to be Me and Paul, Willie Nelson’s ‘life on the road’ epic about him and his drummer Paul. Co-incidentally ‘my Paul’ is also a drummer. Which reminds me of a great old joke I saw reprinted in the paper this morning :
“ Mummy, mummy – when I’m a grown up I’m going to be a drummer…â€
“ Don’t be silly darling, you can’t be both…â€
Paul, incidentally, is very proud of the fact he has 139 Facebook friends ( which are not like real friends obviously!) but he’s not nearly as popular as Tom Morton who has 146.
I am not sure if anyone has written a song about these online relationships. I’m fairly certain that being poked, writing on your fun wall and being chomped by a zombie would not inspire Carole King to rewrite her famous anthem..