Category Archives: Songs and Scenes

Videos, audio files, and texts about original and recorded songs.

The Last Time

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This is not exactly a mirror image of the song made famous by Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson—“To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before.”  However, it is a song in which I reminisce about past loves.  Amidst all the sheltering in place, social distancing, avoiding crowds, etc., I have treated myself to a few “by myself” Happy Hours.  These events have not been as depressing as they may sound.  Actually they gave me an excuse to think back about people I have shared a drink and a romantic relationship with over the years—in particular some of the wonderful men I have loved and who have loved me in return.  All have moved on.  Sadly, some have died.  Some years ago I wrote a song about this melancholy experience of letting a relationship melt away from the intensity of a powerful, burning love to that instead of a treasured, remembered love.  Mementos keep them in my life, and now, in my more mature years, I do indeed hold their love in my heart like gold.

The Last Time, by Sandy Dolby

Last barrel down

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What does a 20-year old think about when she is socially isolated?  Here is a song I wrote when I was around 20 years old, still in college, unmarried, wondering what life held in store.  I thought of the song again as I pondered the many effects our current social and physical distancing has had on people.  I would guess it is especially hard on young people who would normally be out there socializing, dating, making new friends, and thinking about love in its many guises—but especially the non-platonic sort.  I find my view of possible love in this song amusing now, but who knows whether young people chafing under Covid-19 restrictions are feeling the way I did back then.

May Day 2020

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Flowers for the May

When I was little, May Day was the day I gathered various wild flowers or dandelions into a little basket and left them on my grandmother’s porch early in the morning.  She always acted dutifully surprised and wondered who could possibly have left them.  Much later I learned about Morris Dancers and maypoles and International Workers’ Day.  But for me, May Day is still about flowers.  So here, for your virtual enjoyment, are some flowers and a song I wrote some years ago about leaving (or not leaving) flowers on someone’s doorstep.