Sunday morning and I just finished my coffee/protein get-me-started drink and now am working on my first cup of tea for the day. Something soothing in the whole idea of tea. Maybe it’s the slowness of it, the steeping and sipping associated with it that attracts me. One of my favorite moments of the day is finishing my cup of tea after breakfast and holding the china cup, feeling the warmth radiate through its thin walls. There’s something meditative in that.
That brings me neatly to this week’s Sunday morning musical choice which features tea as its central theme. It’s a song called Everything Stops For Tea from the 1972 album of the same title from the late British blues/rocker Long John Baldry, who in the early 1960’s put into motion the careers of a number of what were to be large stars such as Elton John and Rod Stewart. I liked this album from the moment I first saw it– must have been the colorful cover that is at the top of the page here.
But I loved the music as well, especially the title track which is Baldry’s cover of a song made popular in Britain in the 1930’s by Jack Buchanan, a Scottish actor/singer known for his debonair man-about-town roles in the theatre and on film. Oddly enough for a song concerning one of the most British of things, the song was written three Americans– Maurice Sigler, Al Goodheart and Al Hoffman.
Regardless, it’s a fun song that I often find myself humming at odd times. Give a listen and maybe have a cuppa while you’re at it. Most of all, have a great Sunday.
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