Joan Ganz Cooney | 10/20/2009 12:00 am
Joan Ganz Cooney's Real and Dream Theme Songs
I’ve half-kiddingly said that my epitaph ought to be "I Did It Their Way." What I’ve meant is that my generation of women was brought up to worry about what others might think of anything they did. If I had it to do again I’d try to live so that my theme song would be "Born Free."
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Ms. Ganz Cooney,
I would have to say I’ve done my best to do it my way, and still have a long way to go.
And the two songs my life would be most defined by are both by Don Henley, however they are only the tip of the iceberg on songs that inspire my life and works.
Through Your Hands, Michael The Movie Soundtrack, and
My Thanksgiving, from Inside Job. …both albums are Legendary to me.
They both define very specific moments of awareness and actual moments of truth. Of course I was raised on The Eagles once I found music and follow each artist that comprised that band to the new works that inspire them.
I’m a word girl…so Rocking The Paradise, by Styx would be a close third, and I followed Tommy and Jack into Damn Yankees, and both bands are very relevant even today, when you listen to your music as artistic composition and include words in that equation.
…Heaven’s Already Here, by Collective Soul…would have to be in there somewhere.
There is a lot of Stevie Nicks, and Harry Connick Jr. in that list …
AC/DC, KISS, Alice Cooper, Sammy Hagar and even some country too…
Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Faith Hill, John Michael Montgomery…
I’m an All American Girl.
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