LISA DENTON: Barry, I hate to do it, but I’m pretty sure I’m going to be singing Cat Stevens’ “Moonshadow” all day.
It sounds like it was written for a total solar eclipse. One of the lines is “Leaping and hopping on a moonshadow, moonshadow, moonshadow.”
From what I’ve read, people who experience this astronomical phenomenon have been known to scream and cry, so I guess leaping and hopping isn’t much of a stretch.
And if it’s cloudy today, I can still turn to Stevens for “Sad Lisa.” One-stop shopping for Great American Eclipse songs.
BARRY COURTER: I may go with “That’s Amore,” partly ’cause, well, it’s Dean Martin. Who doesn’t love Dean Martin? But mostly I’m thinking that moon is going to look like a big pizza pie and maybe “bells will ring, ting-a-ling, ting-a-ling-a-ling, and you’ll sing ‘Vita bella.'” And if things get really crazy, “Hearts will play tippy-tippy-tay, tippy-tippy-tay like a gay tarantella, lucky fella.”