Song on my mind... "Candle on the Water". Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn wrote it more than thirty years ago for Pete's Dragon, one of the last Disney movies to combine live-action footage with animation (if I'm not mistaken).

The tune has been playing in my head ever since I heard the brief a cappella version of it on Pushing Daisies.

Just in case the video disappears one day, Kristin Chenoweth sang it in a lighthouse with a barbershop quartet, dressed in rain slickers, backing her up. And the Chi McBride line that is cut off at the end of the video is, "Shut the a cappella up!"

Of course, I didn't make the Pete's Dragon connection right away. It only dawned on me after my second viewing. (With its recent cancellation, I'm now making a point of cherishing every episode.)

For fun, I dug around YouTube and found the original version of the song sung by Helen Reddy.

Also, for fun, I dug through my collection of sheet music to find a copy of the song to play on the piano. Normally, I would play the tune once and be done with it. But this time, for the first time in I don't know how long, I was inspired to sit at the piano for a half-hour and actually practice. It felt good. It didn't sound good, but it felt good. (And with a bit more practice, it may eventually sound good as well.)