Today’s Theme Music

We started with a conversation. “Kenny Rogers can still sing,” my wife said.

Beginning with Kenny Rogers and the First Edition and ‘Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town’  (written by Mel Tellis) in 1969, Kenny Rogers had been a singing star our entire adult lives. He’d recently announced he was retiring from singing and touring but here he was singing A Capella with a group on a recent video.

You always wonder who can really sing and who has a sound manufactured in the studio. We discussed that a while, which turned me to one of my favorite recent live performances, live being a relative term, since it was recorded for a television show.

The television show is ‘The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon’. The Roots are the house band. Jimmy will sometimes sing with musical guests while The Roots provide the music, sometimes playing toy instruments, like in this video I’m sharing today. I love this exposure of humanity behind the music and how much fun they’re having.

Here is Idina Menzel and The Roots with Jimmy Fallon, singing and playing, ‘Let It Go’, a good remind that sometimes, we all need to let it go.