tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16395059915191505432024-03-05T11:13:49.625-08:00The Vinyl CallFor and about vintage vinyl and classic Rock 'n' RollBrenda Witchger/Brynn Bonnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18001438328430286994noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639505991519150543.post-45882596593756921182012-06-15T12:49:00.001-07:002012-06-15T12:58:38.110-07:00Eva Cassidy. Wow, just WOW<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Eva Cassidy had a voice any angel would envy and a love of
music that embraced many genres.
What she didn’t have was a long life. Our loss.</div>
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Eva had a
career in music but she never achieved widespread fame, partly because she
couldn’t be pigeon-holed and she was too shy to engage in flagrant
self-promotion. She just made her
music, her way. Which is to say
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She died in 1996 at the age of 33. But her career wasn’t over. She was discovered by the Brits a few years later when her
rendition of “Over the Rainbow” was played on the BBC. The phones lines lit up and requests poured
in. Soon her albums, which
had to that point had only modest sales, were climbing the charts all over Europe
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I have a recording of “Golden Slumbers” featuring Eva with
Jackson Browne. It’s been on my “FAV”
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Give her rendition of "Over the Rainbow" a listen (link above). What a talent! </div>
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<br />Brenda Witchger/Brynn Bonnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18001438328430286994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639505991519150543.post-24009516731706623982012-05-29T20:18:00.005-07:002012-05-29T21:14:12.463-07:00Hail to the Chiefs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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have been delighted to hang something on Bob Dylan–and they tried, oh, HOW they tried! Back then it would have been hard to imagine that when a president finally got a chance to hang something on Dylan it would be the Medal of Freedom.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> The times they have-a changed. At least in some ways.</span></span><br />
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Obama said, "There is not a bigger giant in the history of American
music," and that the "unique gravel-y power" of Dylan’s voice
helped define "not just what music sounded like, but the message it
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one of the year’s recipients the White House issued a statement saying that the
rock 'n' roll icon had "considerable influence on the civil rights
movement of the 1960s and has had significant impact on American culture over
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">To which I say: You bet your boots!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>Brenda Witchger/Brynn Bonnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18001438328430286994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639505991519150543.post-6225492120371553702011-07-14T18:41:00.000-07:002011-08-17T22:06:58.933-07:00Right Out Loud!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My vinyl-themed short story, JANGLE is now available on Audio/MP3 at <a href="http://Sniplits.com/">Sniplits.com</a>!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I love the whole lore and history of vinyl records so much I've written several short stories featuring a vinyl record shop owner named Session Seabolt. The first story ran in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine a while back and now it's been reissued on audio at </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://SnipLits.com/">SnipLits.com</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. The story is called "Jangle" and it's published under my pseudonym Brynn Bonner. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">SnipLits is free to join and if you love short fiction as much as I do this is a good site for purchasing short stories. Great for listening in the car or while you're folding the laundry or mowing the yard. Well worth the buck and change. Check it out! </span></span></div>Brenda Witchger/Brynn Bonnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18001438328430286994noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639505991519150543.post-82391225860883574312011-07-06T21:54:00.000-07:002011-08-22T15:49:26.621-07:00Satchmo!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4MXKNuCVdOg2d1g9uLBHSB6X81GiJGclvcxeZ9Mja10z5hazbvRyffZJQakYWB0RIhWGkSTFn-lbEZTJThl5jnAEJETJ96PlpTij_LXOWhGNtOHHxizOj0h1wSO5suMTJYeGqZuGuYo70/s1600/Satchmo+serenades+.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If you happen to have a near-mint copy of S</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">atchmo Serenades </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">somewhere in your pile of old albums it could be worth $60-100. The catch, as always, is that near-mint caveat. </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Satchmo Serenades</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, DECCA (DL5401) 10-inch album, 1953</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Armstrong was a talented and relentless raconteur and for his biographers the task of separating truth from fiction has been a challenge. But what is clearly known is that Louis Armstrong, nicknamed Satchmo, had a stage presence and a talent that won over vast audiences at a time when that was an almost insurmountable challenge for an African-American man. Few could resist that all-over smile and the delight he seemed to take from performing.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Armstrong’s influence extended well beyond the jazz world. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his contribution as an early influence that filtered down through jazz to pop and ultimately to rock and roll. As Armstrong himself put it: “ </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If it hadn’t been for jazz, there wouldn’t be no rock and roll.”</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Like a country road, Armstrong’s gravelly voice can take you to some amazing places if you don’t mind a bit of a bumpy ride. And the recordings he left behind can still make you believe it is, indeed, a wonderful world.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzJY96m3lkg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzJY96m3lkg</span></span></a>Brenda Witchger/Brynn Bonnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18001438328430286994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639505991519150543.post-35699482009293305292011-06-20T11:59:00.000-07:002011-06-20T19:30:10.298-07:00Clarence "Big Man" Clemons-RIP<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4zeCHbBPPRUrHWh2OpwKfxxDPjERYtFI8JOHzNzdQ5MQOvsOq1aqnIw9bHZvX9Nk5Ws1rihoMnmdeqzsxoLtJVe2Y6yCPgxcPwiQbPF0_BjdBJkUoMl5Ad9hmF2kM0mnUMmMfkqJHwSjd/s1600/Springsteen+record+set.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4zeCHbBPPRUrHWh2OpwKfxxDPjERYtFI8JOHzNzdQ5MQOvsOq1aqnIw9bHZvX9Nk5Ws1rihoMnmdeqzsxoLtJVe2Y6yCPgxcPwiQbPF0_BjdBJkUoMl5Ad9hmF2kM0mnUMmMfkqJHwSjd/s320/Springsteen+record+set.jpg" width="317" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">This song, featuring Clemons, is especially poignant now that he’s gone: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1wg9jyvfN0&feature=share" style="color: #ddaa77;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1wg9jyvfN0&feature=share</a></div>Brenda Witchger/Brynn Bonnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18001438328430286994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639505991519150543.post-36238475689430403192011-04-27T08:53:00.000-07:002011-04-27T12:16:36.085-07:00How Sweet It Is...<div><span><span></span></span><br /></div><div><br /></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 304px; height: 315px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjke2x6S7hW-G-tXKAPuHPj5KXlLvqJ9V44RynZILDsV_20ijR3HuUDzSvRIBlJTWuCUet5GT7ucMwM5IGySd9YJsfG4kMli6njZBRL8Ft_JpK6zOm0Pg41TLrETWNWVTdUMTkAdhvTH5HL/s320/The+Archies-Everything%2527s+Archie.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600292260373180114" /><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Everything's Archie</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> (Box)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">KES-103 (DJ) Box with LP, photos buttons and a press kit (later Calendar/ KES became Kirshner)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">In near mint condition this 1969 release may be worth $100-150</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">It’s the week after Easter and I’m suffering from a decided lack of willpower when faced with all the leftover candy the bunny left at my house.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">I know it’s bad for me, but I can’t stop thinking about how much I like Jelly Bellies.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Just like I know some music is bad for me, which brings us to today’s subject: The Archies.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span></span>How can a band made up of cartoon characters be a good thing?</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">I don’t know, but I do know that I’ve had their song “Sugar, Sugar,” stuck in my head all morning as I’ve tried to resist the empty calories that are tempting me at every turn.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">It irritates me so much I just want to bite the ears off a chocolate bunny.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">This song was among the biggest hits in the sub-genre dubbed “bubblegum pop” of the late 60s and early 70s.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">The</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">infectious song</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">went to number one in the Billboard charts in 1969 and marks the only time a fictional band has made it to the top.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Listen at your peril–it will bore into your brain and get stuck there until ALL the Peeps and Cadbury eggs are gone.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(170, 187, 204); line-height: 17px; font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;"><u><span style="color: rgb(13, 55, 164); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:small;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JywK_5bT8z0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JywK_5bT8z0</a></span></span></span></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span><span></span></span><br /></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </span></span></div>Brenda Witchger/Brynn Bonnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18001438328430286994noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639505991519150543.post-66293722856792167552010-12-16T10:01:00.000-08:002010-12-16T10:13:05.204-08:00Message Received<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-hbuyP24NOV7Oi3CbzGZJp1d_vQ5oSg5Q2r7Qf5oY1pthMeILIm92bVRaTEvtPy1yC9IVOofILtflJD4xCe2D1wPBxzzfq_6BmRCGpEDUz654Kt6ouvyj_Qec_oGY6CBiOLnDhXpIMUny/s1600/Do+They+Know+it%2527s+Christmas+new.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 298px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-hbuyP24NOV7Oi3CbzGZJp1d_vQ5oSg5Q2r7Qf5oY1pthMeILIm92bVRaTEvtPy1yC9IVOofILtflJD4xCe2D1wPBxzzfq_6BmRCGpEDUz654Kt6ouvyj_Qec_oGY6CBiOLnDhXpIMUny/s320/Do+They+Know+it%2527s+Christmas+new.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551342131301283058" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Single, "Do They Know It's Christmas?" Band Aid, Columbia, 1984. </span>B-Side "Feed the World" Near mint--pristine--you might get up to $10 bucks for it.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">There are times when I really WANT to love a song, but just can’t manage it.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Intentions may be good, the message may be worthy and the musicianship may be top notch, still certain songs just fall flat.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">The number one single on this day in the UK in 1984 was “Do They Know It’s Christmas?,” a song written by Bob Geldorf and Midge Ure and performed by the many artists who contributed their time and talents to Band Aid, the proceeds going to bring relief to the famine-ravaged people of Ethiopia.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Everything good--except the song.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">It’s not a very good song. </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">I’m bothered by that lyric “Well, tonight thank God it’s them instead of you.” I’ve never found that kind of </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">schadenfreude or hubris--or whatever it is that makes us think it’s okay to wish this on someone else to spare ourselves—to be an attitude to be encouraged.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">This single isn't highly collectible since it sold 3.5 million in the UK alone.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">It remained the top-selling single there until Elton John’s tribute to Princess Diane “Candle in the Wind” displaced it in 1997.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"> </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">When I hear the song now, I just try not to cringe and remember the purity of the intention to help those in need.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">I hope it made a BIG difference.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"> </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Maybe soon a new generation of musicians will band together to raise money for a worthy cause and a new Christmas song will be written—I have hope!</span></span></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div>Brenda Witchger/Brynn Bonnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18001438328430286994noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639505991519150543.post-86565557575500927212010-12-02T07:24:00.000-08:002010-12-02T08:03:00.777-08:00In a Chord<div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJVg-9JE9_XlgUMsJhyphenhyphenIpSUOnK9hD2gd8KDD6QmXRDVurSD3NcdaD-qvBBRXBVyXQWzSAdsRfcsRdM7rbxaK6PsuCEF8i-ZkPfdpvSket4fukyIcBH1QgImBUJa9TbLckMRYNg2Z71wl6I/s1600/The+Temps+Wish+it+Would+Rain+pic.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJVg-9JE9_XlgUMsJhyphenhyphenIpSUOnK9hD2gd8KDD6QmXRDVurSD3NcdaD-qvBBRXBVyXQWzSAdsRfcsRdM7rbxaK6PsuCEF8i-ZkPfdpvSket4fukyIcBH1QgImBUJa9TbLckMRYNg2Z71wl6I/s320/The+Temps+Wish+it+Would+Rain+pic.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546111671648832882" /></a><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">"Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" was a single and added to later albums. The album above, on the Gordy label, 1968, could be worth around $40 for the mono white label promo, in near mint condition. One of the more collectible Temptations albums. Course, it's that near mint caveat that's important here. </span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">If you were like me you wore out your Temptations albums.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">One this date, December 2, in 1972, the number one song on the Billboard charts was: “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone,” by The Temptations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The album mix of this song runs to 11 minutes and 47 seconds, and the composition features </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">only ONE chord</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> throughout–B-flat minor. Throw in a whole bunch of instruments: an assortments of guitars with effects pedals, horns, drums, bass guitars, electric piano, maybe a Wurlitzer in there somewhere. Top it off with vocals and handclaps. Sounds like a recipe for disaster, but instead it became a soul classic.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The song, written by Motown songwriters, was originally composed for a group called The Undisputed Truth. They recorded their version in 1971 and it was a moderate success.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">But when the Temptations applied their particular vocal magic to the song in 1972 it shot to number one on the Billboard charts and won three Grammys.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Not too shabby for a song that’s a 12-minute downer, but definitely no Parent-of-the-Year award in the offing for Papa.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">---------------------------------------------------------------</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">As a side note, the group The Undisputed Truth is collectible as well. Most of their albums run in the $20-30 range for near mint. They definitely get points for campy psychedelic soul. And in a twist, their single U. S. hit was "Smiling Faces Sometimes," which rose to #3 on the charts and had previously been recorded, with only moderate success by--yes, The Temptations.</span></p></div></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpryjJr_FsTmdALHPRlD3n6cS6w9PpdLzs45OY49DRuT-oXz19PjybbzGQlu9vd6Kvxv5gheWumnWi74c30gVZWPWZH3zvAO3f8pHaHC2tiAQFd6S2sq1SQHY5upkb_pu0HJT7CiZbhO9k/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-12-02+at+10.42.23+AM.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 164px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpryjJr_FsTmdALHPRlD3n6cS6w9PpdLzs45OY49DRuT-oXz19PjybbzGQlu9vd6Kvxv5gheWumnWi74c30gVZWPWZH3zvAO3f8pHaHC2tiAQFd6S2sq1SQHY5upkb_pu0HJT7CiZbhO9k/s320/Screen+shot+2010-12-02+at+10.42.23+AM.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546111668478454258" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Brenda Witchger/Brynn Bonnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18001438328430286994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639505991519150543.post-13799788652864303432010-11-29T14:00:00.000-08:002010-11-29T17:24:55.897-08:00ABBA-DABBA DO<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEwWBzLj8YuXAF5g55Mhl90JjuYOdX55reZoCnhZQNBhyUKaBhNUduQ7VSuFOKqpjNwDFoySTPmM0uF1Ygk-PRWz_Ep9sU-gGVNc3zUjbP8T-eQHj7iX8UAQ7MYz-mvPgwkaJB1RqS3oyh/s1600/super+trouper+ABBA.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 318px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEwWBzLj8YuXAF5g55Mhl90JjuYOdX55reZoCnhZQNBhyUKaBhNUduQ7VSuFOKqpjNwDFoySTPmM0uF1Ygk-PRWz_Ep9sU-gGVNc3zUjbP8T-eQHj7iX8UAQ7MYz-mvPgwkaJB1RqS3oyh/s320/super+trouper+ABBA.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545095204917012706" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">ABBA, <i>Super Trouper</i> Atlantic, 1980. Worth about $10-15, near mint.</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">ABBA is not particularly collectible, but if you happen to have <i>The Abba Special</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> 2-record DJ edition, Atlantic, 1983, that's worth about $50-75, near mint</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">At the risk of being shuffled off to a home for the terminally dweeby I have to confess there was a time when I really loved putting ABBA on the turntable and dancing around the living room. Who knew the Swedes could rock out like this? But I guess in a cold climate it's advisable to play something you can move to. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">On this day in 1980 I was probably dancing around with my firstborn child in my arms when ABBA’s </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Super Trouper</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> hit #1 on the charts. It was a deliriously happy time.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">ABBA was huge in the 1970s, a colossal commercial success. The four musicians were each accomplished in their own right and their blend seemed a perfect storm of talent. And while I’m in a confessing mood, I thought it was cool that two married couples comprised the group and even found the cutesy name clever–then. Course, now it sounds like what a group of middle-schoolers forming a band would come up with “Hey, how about each of our first initials?” <b>A</b>nni-Frid Lyngstad, <b>B</b>enny Andersson, <b>B</b>jorn Ulvaeus and <b>A</b>gnetha Faltskog. <b>ABBA</b>. That'd be way kewl, right? </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Alas, just as disco was destined to fade quickly, so did the marriages–and ABBA. But their songs live on and I hope someday to dance around the living room with a grandchild in my arms and ABBA’s “Take a Chance On Me” blaring from the speakers.</span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </span></div>Brenda Witchger/Brynn Bonnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18001438328430286994noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639505991519150543.post-10614350357605932582010-11-24T15:50:00.000-08:002010-11-24T16:03:46.675-08:00You Can Get Anything You Want...<img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 161px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2ngg4e-l3pljPDNkDbXPfbubqinbuVtgDJp_e0FOwMCHO_uakyu4gK3NYcISAF4hGrugT7Hq4xDkKRaqTi2OHkU0ahbs6Dx4I4tzAWLzk_heQ1Ter-3DSB3LVafswHyjMOChDogkj6haV/s320/Arlo+side+by+side.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5543270547254280194" /><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Arlo, then and now.</p><p class="MsoNormal">All the guy wanted was a good Thanksgiving dinner with friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And look what goes and happens…</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Arlo Guthrie told the whole convoluted story of what transpired when he headed up to Stockbridge, Massachusetts to have Thanksgiving dinner with Alice and Ray Brock and a gaggle of friends in 1965.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It took up one entire side of his 1967 LP.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Can this really be the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u>55<sup>th</sup></u></b> Anniversary of the infamous “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree?” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Seems impossible that more than a half-century has passed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I watched a bit of the movie on Netflix last night and it now looks amateurish and dated in a sweet “hey, guys, let’s put on a show” kind of way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It was a treat to see Arlo Guthrie looking so baby-faced and cute. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I’m glad he’s kept on keeping on through the years.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone and remember to dispose of your holiday trash in a lawful manner or Officer Obie might come to haul you away.</p> <!--EndFragment--> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7RAlKcXwWUUcRTq609ZWxtNvLIEr28GI8JBXhMq9967MzTuIyesNIcmmM1jOedUaqxPknGCTCE9j07lgSZk-pfmKuDbKuV8GkXuQUuI-32DSN0CCFC1sU6onBS6sLb130WzYOSP0fzYxE/s1600/Thanksgiving+in+Stockbridge.jpg"></a><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7RAlKcXwWUUcRTq609ZWxtNvLIEr28GI8JBXhMq9967MzTuIyesNIcmmM1jOedUaqxPknGCTCE9j07lgSZk-pfmKuDbKuV8GkXuQUuI-32DSN0CCFC1sU6onBS6sLb130WzYOSP0fzYxE/s1600/Thanksgiving+in+Stockbridge.jpg"><img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 178px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7RAlKcXwWUUcRTq609ZWxtNvLIEr28GI8JBXhMq9967MzTuIyesNIcmmM1jOedUaqxPknGCTCE9j07lgSZk-pfmKuDbKuV8GkXuQUuI-32DSN0CCFC1sU6onBS6sLb130WzYOSP0fzYxE/s320/Thanksgiving+in+Stockbridge.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5543271000374932146" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div>Brenda Witchger/Brynn Bonnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18001438328430286994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639505991519150543.post-6273408691796995722010-11-21T14:13:00.001-08:002010-11-22T08:40:14.539-08:00The Little Song that Could<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQe7Sy0zs9NEtkcdiFR10ZuzxQKGRPXg1f8Fo-FhEGYgJZ0SJ4ITnWq9P0kAiOCESbrAxGaddpFksKZWQj-74Rd_tjZHvDBH4mRAWcxe2-pniTciNa-Yl2-UqHpfiOCKhSfAIDp1fvMxPQ/s1600/Stay-Maurice+Williams+%2526+the+Zodiacs+edited.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQe7Sy0zs9NEtkcdiFR10ZuzxQKGRPXg1f8Fo-FhEGYgJZ0SJ4ITnWq9P0kAiOCESbrAxGaddpFksKZWQj-74Rd_tjZHvDBH4mRAWcxe2-pniTciNa-Yl2-UqHpfiOCKhSfAIDp1fvMxPQ/s200/Stay-Maurice+Williams+%2526+the+Zodiacs+edited.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542129730088096210" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">If you're lucky enough to find a near mint copy of this </span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">1961 Herald release it could be worth up to $500. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> It's the "near mint" part that's the catch.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">It’s tiny, but mighty. The number one song in the U.S. on this day in 1960 clocked in at just one minute and 30-something seconds. But what a minute plus it is! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">It is reputed that Maurice Williams wrote the song when he was a teenaged boy trying to convince his date to forget about her curfew and---well, “stay, just a little bit longer.” Don’t know if it worked with the girl, but the song certainly has staying power. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I believe Maurice and the Zodiacs still hold the record for the shortest song ever to make the charts in the U.S. There are differing accounts about how long the actual recording is, but all tally up to a minute and 30-something seconds. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In any case this song proves that good things do, indeed, come in small packages. It’s hard to imagine that scene in Dirty Dancing–all the staffer kids from the wrong side of the tracks having their gyration-fest–without Maurice doing the begging.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Later the song would be recorded by the Hollies, by The Four Seasons and other bands. Jackson Browne had a nice crack at it, too. But, in the end, this is definitely a case of “ya gotta dance with the one what brung ya”. So today maybe you’ll let Maurice convince you to stay for a while and just close your eyes and listen. Or get up and dance around your living room. It’s a great way to spend a minute and 37 seconds. But I warn you, this song will get in your head and....STAY.</span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </span></div>Brenda Witchger/Brynn Bonnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18001438328430286994noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639505991519150543.post-60960559004203210012010-07-30T13:12:00.000-07:002010-07-31T10:44:14.149-07:00Dropping Names<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCNRAAcYcXsLV3iaPsNtTcXpFgp9aCPSEi3NO_yhpcptyhyphenhyphenHkiJsazXl2LOM-yj9_8hyphenhyphens8OiMbszXW3zLRjGH24G4AYn6Gw3PF-b1v23iRrbyejYvVQRnkek4ak7EGFc2LXIhOPZDbExEP/s1600/And+Now+My+Avalon.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 198px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCNRAAcYcXsLV3iaPsNtTcXpFgp9aCPSEi3NO_yhpcptyhyphenhyphenHkiJsazXl2LOM-yj9_8hyphenhyphens8OiMbszXW3zLRjGH24G4AYn6Gw3PF-b1v23iRrbyejYvVQRnkek4ak7EGFc2LXIhOPZDbExEP/s200/And+Now+My+Avalon.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499794759181771874" /></a><i><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">And Now About Mr. Avalon</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">, Frankie Avalon, 1961, Mono in near mint could be worth $30-50 and in stereo $40-75</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></p></span></div></i></span></div></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></p></span></div></i></span></div></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Any self-help guru will tell you that upon meeting a new contact there’s power in dropping that person’s name into the conversation occasionally. I think you’d have to increase that benefit exponentially to tally up the points the typical teenaged girl would award a guy who wrote a cool song about her.</span></p></span></div></i></span></div></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></p></span></div></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; display: inline !important; "></p></span></span></div></i></span></div></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Sometimes it’s a mating ritual, sometimes it’s a lament over lost love––and on across the emotional spectrum all the way to revenge songs, but whatever the motivation or inspiration, girls’ names make it into tunes in every era's music.</span></p></span></div></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></p></span></div></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; display: inline !important; "></p></span></span></div></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I decided to see if I could name an alphabet full just off the top of my head. Some I came up with aren’t classic rock and some I fudged a bit. Others I blanked on entirely. So after an hour or so of straining my brain I’m cryin’ uncle…help me out here folks. Or, better yet, try your own list and share in the comments box. It’s a good memory work-out.</span></p></span></div></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-size:16.2037px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <!--StartFragment--></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><i></i></span></p><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "></p><ol style="display: inline !important; "><li style="display: inline !important; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">A-Alison (Elvis Costello)</span></p></span></div></i></li></ol><p></p></span></div></i><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "></p></span><ol style="display: inline !important; "><li style="display: inline !important; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">B-</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Barbara Ann (The Beach Boys)</span></p></span></div></i></li></ol><p></p></span></div></i><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "></p></span><ol style="display: inline !important; "><li style="display: inline !important; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">C-</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Cathy’s Clown (The Everly Brothers)</span></p></span></div></i></li></ol><p></p></span></div></i><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "></p></span><ol style="display: inline !important; "><li style="display: inline !important; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">D-</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Delta Dawn (Bette Midler, Tanya Tucker, Helen Reddy & others)</span></p></span></div></i></li></ol><p></p></span></div></i><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "></p></span><ol style="display: inline !important; "><li style="display: inline !important; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">E-</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Emma (Hot Chocolate)</span></p></span></div></i></li></ol><p></p></span></div></i><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "></p></span><ol style="display: inline !important; "><li style="display: inline !important; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">F-</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">One Eyed Fiona (Lyle Lovett)</span></p></span></div></i></li></ol><p></p></span></div></i><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "></p></span><ol style="display: inline !important; "><li style="display: inline !important; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">G-</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Gloria (Van Morrison)</span></p></span></div></i></li></ol><p></p></span></div></i><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "></p></span><ol style="display: inline !important; "><li style="display: inline !important; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">H-</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">????</span></p></span></div></i></li></ol><p></p></span></div></i><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "></p></span><ol style="display: inline !important; "><li style="display: inline !important; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I-</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Iris (Goo Goo Dolls)</span></p></span></div></i></li></ol><p></p></span></div></i><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "></p></span><ol style="display: inline !important; "><li style="display: inline !important; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">J-</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Sweet Jane (The Velvet Underground)</span></p></span></div></i></li></ol><p></p></span></div></i><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "></p></span><ol style="display: inline !important; "><li style="display: inline !important; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">K-</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Kate (Ben Folds Five)</span></p></span></div></i></li></ol><p></p></span></div></i><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "></p></span><ol style="display: inline !important; "><li style="display: inline !important; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">L-</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Lola (The Kinks)</span></p></span></div></i></li></ol><p></p></span></div></i><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "></p></span><ol style="display: inline !important; "><li style="display: inline !important; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">M-</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Maggie May (Rod Stewart)</span></p></span></div></i></li></ol><p></p></span></div></i><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "></p></span><ol style="display: inline !important; "><li style="display: inline !important; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">N-</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Nadine (Chuck Berry)</span></p></span></div></i></li></ol><p></p></span></div></i><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "></p></span><ol style="display: inline !important; "><li style="display: inline !important; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">O-</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ophelia (The Band)</span></p></span></div></i></li></ol><p></p></span></div></i><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "></p></span><ol style="display: inline !important; "><li style="display: inline !important; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">P-</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Peggy Sue (Buddy Holly)</span></p></span></div></i></li></ol><p></p></span></div></i><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "></p></span><ol style="display: inline !important; "><li style="display: inline !important; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Q-</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Suzy Q (CCR)</span></p></span></div></i></li></ol><p></p></span></div></i><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "></p></span><ol style="display: inline !important; "><li style="display: inline !important; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">R-</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Roxanne-Sting</span></p></span></div></i></li></ol><p></p></span></div></i><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "></p></span><ol style="display: inline !important; "><li style="display: inline !important; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">S-</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">My Sharona (The Knack)</span></p></span></div></i></li></ol><p></p></span></div></i><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "></p></span><ol style="display: inline !important; "><li style="display: inline !important; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">T-?????</span></p></span></div></i></li></ol><p></p></span></div></i><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "></p></span><ol style="display: inline !important; "><li style="display: inline !important; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">U-</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">??????</span></p></span></div></i></li></ol><p></p></span></div></i><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "></p></span><ol style="display: inline !important; "><li style="display: inline !important; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">V-</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Venus (Frankie Avalon)</span></p></span></div></i></li></ol><p></p></span></div></i><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "></p></span><ol style="display: inline !important; "><li style="display: inline !important; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">W-</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Wendy (The Beach Boys)</span></p></span></div></i></li></ol><p></p></span></div></i><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "></p></span><ol style="display: inline !important; "><li style="display: inline !important; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">X-</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">????</span></p></span></div></i></li></ol><p></p></span></div></i><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "></p></span><ol style="display: inline !important; "><li style="display: inline !important; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Y-</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">????</span></p></span></div></i></li></ol><p></p></span></div></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:15.9722px;"><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-size:16.2037px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "></p></span><ol style="display: inline !important; "><li style="display: inline !important; "><i><div style="text-align: center; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -0.25in; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Z-</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">????</span></p></span></div></i></li></ol><p></p></span></span></div></i></span><p></p> <!--EndFragment--> </span><p></p> <!--EndFragment--> </span></div></i>Brenda Witchger/Brynn Bonnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18001438328430286994noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639505991519150543.post-66289081090632031362010-07-18T15:26:00.000-07:002010-07-19T07:37:23.934-07:00Brotherly Rock!<div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-0VV7nXauHtcWT4vdBUBmTI7znsWmjV9j7-hs3ZxcWOOyVK6CYAxu11AlUttBa-AWSYmF9RxNGGJ9fwKaHaknXWyeDt1PPShtVZSLJrKe_Mtch_VbjzSUIAbWJAsysdw0MHPqxb9a-HG2/s1600/Green+River++CCR.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 302px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-0VV7nXauHtcWT4vdBUBmTI7znsWmjV9j7-hs3ZxcWOOyVK6CYAxu11AlUttBa-AWSYmF9RxNGGJ9fwKaHaknXWyeDt1PPShtVZSLJrKe_Mtch_VbjzSUIAbWJAsysdw0MHPqxb9a-HG2/s320/Green+River++CCR.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495376664257054674" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Green River</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fantasy, white label promo, 1969</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Near mint could be worth $75-100</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I raised two sons-a set of brothers. They get on well. (We’ll save for another time what happens when we add their sister, the provacateur, into the mix). The boys have been playing music together for most of their lives. They play pretty much for their own amusement, with occasional public performances and paying gigs. And though I don’t claim one iota of impartiality, I think they’re really good. </span><u><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi- font-family:Helvetica;color:#0D37A4;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dnS-OaOXUc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dnS-OaOXUc </a></span></span></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">It’s interesting to watch the boys work out a song together. They seem to communicate via some AAA narrow band of telepathy. After a few grunts, a couple of nods and maybe a raised eyebrow or barefully perceptable flicker of a grin, the song just happens. It’s definitely a brother thing. (Their sister picked up the ukulele while she was living in London and now she’s joined in too, but more on the uke invasion later as well).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">As a mother it thrills me to see my adult children having fun together like they did when they were little kids. So it pains me to hear about brothers who don’t get along, especially when they’re making music together. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In the “don’t gee and haw” category four sets of brothers come to mind. The Kinks might have gone on for years had Ray and Dave Davies been able to get along. Creedence Clearwater Revival’s original lineup blew up when John and Tom Fogerty’s creative differences combined with family dysfunction and proved a volatile mix. The Everly Brothers made beautiful harmony together on stage, but off stage everything went flat. It’s been reported that Don and Phil went for long stretches without speaking to one another. The Gallagher brothers of Oasis are the front runners for the Cain and Abel award. They're given to public altercations which frequently escalate into brawls. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Course, there are plenty of examples of brothers who are in harmony on stage and off–for the most part anyway. I’m happy that list is longer: The Beach Boys, The Isley Brothers, The BeeGees, The Osmonds, Nelson, INXS, Lynyrd Skynard, The Proclaimers, The Neville Brothers, The Avett Brothers, Stone Temple Pilots, Pantera, AC/DC, Radiohead, The Allman Brothers Band, The Replacements, Van Halen, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Kings of Leon, The Black Crowes, Dire Straits, Blue Oyster Cult, Styx, Collective Soul, Nelson. Okay, okay---Hanson and The Jonas Brothers. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Who are your favorite brother rockers? In addition to my own boys, I'd have to spot Christian and Andy of Shae Laurel! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><a href="http://www.shaelaurel.com/ShaeLaurel/ShaeLaurel-Home.html">http://www.shaelaurel.com/ShaeLaurel/ShaeLaurel-Home.ht</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><a href="http://www.shaelaurel.com/ShaeLaurel/ShaeLaurel-Home.html">ml </a></span></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div><div><br /></div></div>Brenda Witchger/Brynn Bonnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18001438328430286994noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639505991519150543.post-30546043009582937632010-07-04T13:42:00.000-07:002010-07-19T08:13:15.644-07:00Independence Rocks!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyWj_C56Giz53-nhqHc_AUnLyLzuHB0ntuE_t5xUTtrbkCdYtFkvS6CTYLx4wRkaFQVshuJZVZw-jTMpo1yVUJTrX5RjvOzmb1-BBpGmnl5J_30f1-QkuNk5am4gwIaRJ6hNUAN38Wuh-g/s1600/silhouettes+get+a+job.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyWj_C56Giz53-nhqHc_AUnLyLzuHB0ntuE_t5xUTtrbkCdYtFkvS6CTYLx4wRkaFQVshuJZVZw-jTMpo1yVUJTrX5RjvOzmb1-BBpGmnl5J_30f1-QkuNk5am4gwIaRJ6hNUAN38Wuh-g/s320/silhouettes+get+a+job.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490155627613754306" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">The Silhouettes, Goodway (GLP-100) 1968, "The Silhouettes 1958-1968/Get a Job"</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">In near mint condition could bring in the range of $275-325.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">We’ve just returned from a car trip to see our daughter in Montreal. No family trip is ever complete until hubby decides to make a detour that allows us to see areas of a city that no casual tourist would ever get to see (and in many cases would ever WANT to see). This time we meandered into Philadelphia looking for a Target Store that he assured me was “just off the expressway.” This gave me pause as hubby uses the word “just” in a rather elastic way. But as it turned out this was a good detour.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Spwu3ot2oU79Cvw0o7N0jZgmBWVUEZIL0muSnRiUldkr_QlnW_1ke3C-wLZJiwQBnrR8uhGaKg60gM2eE1nSk7QKfLTejWhYpIsOp9IRECal3u9o_gD7xRzr3f0bKBjGMzdH7rQYWknR/s1600/row+houses.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Spwu3ot2oU79Cvw0o7N0jZgmBWVUEZIL0muSnRiUldkr_QlnW_1ke3C-wLZJiwQBnrR8uhGaKg60gM2eE1nSk7QKfLTejWhYpIsOp9IRECal3u9o_gD7xRzr3f0bKBjGMzdH7rQYWknR/s320/row+houses.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490155428537924642" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">As we passed through an older area of the city filled with old rowhouses–charming in a scruffy sort of way–I gazed out the window and could imagine groups of kids sitting on the stoops harmonizing. It struck me that in this city, the cradle of American democracy, there evolved a healthy strain of the most little-d democratic kind of music. Doo-Wop. No matter if you can’t afford a guitar or a keyboard, the only instrument needed is a voice. And the only prerequisites are a little talent, a love of music and a desire to be a part of something that’s more than the sum of its parts.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Doo-Wop was a type of Rhythm & Blues that arose during the 1940s with heavy influences from gospel, blues and rock and roll. It normally features a rather slow beat and very tight harmonies. Some musicians hate the tag and prefer Vocal Group Harmony, but I think Doo-Wop really SAYS it.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The Philadelphia Doo-Wop scene produced many great groups including:<br />The Turbans (“When you Dance”)<br /></span><u><span style="font-family: Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#0D37A4;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LoHX2K0bbs</span></span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br />Lee Andrews and the Hearts (“Long Lonely Nights”)<br /></span><u><span style="font-family: Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#0D37A4;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yPzcHu4TVI</span></span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br />The Bosstones (“Mopity Mope”)<br />The Capris (“God Only Knows”)<br /></span><u><span style="font-family: Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#0D37A4;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2xKwJ85lbA</span></span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br />The Hide-Aways (“Can’t Help Loving That Girl of Mine”)<br />Anthony and the Sophomores (“Play Those Oldies Mr. DJ)<br /></span><u><span style="font-family: Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#0D37A4;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAm9UROUNUM</span></span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br />The Dreamers (“Don’t Cry”)<br /></span><u><span style="font-family: Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#0D37A4;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5QNo41WoVY&feature=related</span></span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br />Little Jimmy Rivers and the Tops (“Puppy Love”)<br /></span><u><span style="font-family: Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#0D37A4;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzdpBl40mb8</span></span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br />Danny and the Juniors (“At the Hop”)<br /></span><u><span style="font-family: Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#0D37A4;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwCGW58DTE4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwCGW58DTE4</span></a></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">And lots, LOTS more, too many to list…The Swans…The Cherokees, The Sensations, The Fabulaires, Patty & the Emblems, The Buccaneers, The Superiors, and, of course, the Silhouettes (featured record), whose big hit was “Get a Job”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span>Do you have a favorite Doo-Wop tune? And a memory to go with it?</p> <!--EndFragment--> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>Brenda Witchger/Brynn Bonnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18001438328430286994noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639505991519150543.post-61223288987376668492010-06-05T17:12:00.000-07:002010-06-05T17:17:36.768-07:00Rock and Orwell's 1984<div>Today brings another guest blog from my brother-in-law, Matt, a writer from New York.</div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqAX_YY-wPm8n9jLy95tbY-OdQUuybDwbRzQt9ovx4MsDihuAThjxP9SXbIj70uYMcBbYR7wNuaJFobU7OlsTFo8Kqv8t48WAQk-gCnMksXjCTaX9HyHKbbQ7dDOiYqdZchFxPFWVvreOj/s1600/1984+image.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 108px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqAX_YY-wPm8n9jLy95tbY-OdQUuybDwbRzQt9ovx4MsDihuAThjxP9SXbIj70uYMcBbYR7wNuaJFobU7OlsTFo8Kqv8t48WAQk-gCnMksXjCTaX9HyHKbbQ7dDOiYqdZchFxPFWVvreOj/s320/1984+image.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479447221522022658" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">National Lampoon’s “That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick” (1977) has a track in which the comedian Bill Murray spoofs public radio fundraising banter. After hilariously describing his station’s outside-the-mainstream programming, and endlessly complaining that no one is paying to support this unique material, Murray appeals in frustration to fear: “Do you want to hear public radio again? 1984 is not that far away.”</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Growing up in the 1970s, the year 1984 loomed in the distant future as some mysterious milestone. What was going to happen that year? We didn’t know. But as menacing as the year was in the public imagination, no one claimed it would bring anything on the order of the magnetic poles of the earth reversing, causing apocalyptic destruction. Nevertheless, 1984 was my generation’s equivalent of 2012, today’s much anticipated moment.</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; "><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen…” So begins the memorable opening of George Orwell’s novel that was published in 1949. The story is as much about how the will to power breeds tyranny, as it is about how the will to obey breeds complicity in evil. Popular culture has adopted many phrases from the novel: Big Brother, Thought Police, Doublespeak, Room 101, Sex Crime. And classic rock has incorporated these phrases, and Orwell’s themes, into the canon.</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The most successful album entitled “1984” is by Van Halen, the band’s last album with lead singer David Lee Roth, and was released the first week of that year. The title track, an instrumental, is four seconds longer than a minute, which leads into what became the album’s only Number 1 hit: “Jump.” The album provided much fodder for the infant MTV network, which actually played videos back then, including the videos for “Hot for Teacher,” “Jump,” and “Panama.” As with the brief instrumental title song, the “1984” album cover quickly dispenses with the fear and trembling surrounding the much-anticipated year. The image depicts Baby New Year, reassuring everyone that the world has indeed gone on. But this is not your ordinary Baby New Year. He is sporting a pompadour, wearing wings, and holding a lit cigarette, taken from a pack with no government tax stamp. The image is a celebration of the mischievous yet angelic child inside every man, the irrepressible spirit that will not conform to the oppressive tyranny that triumphs in Orwell’s dystopian novel.</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Other classic rock artists have attempted more directly to adapt Orwell’s masterpiece to music. In the early 1970s, David Bowie had planned to turn the novel into a rock musical, and had recorded some of the songs: “1984,” “Rebel Rebel,” and “Big Brother.” When George Orwell’s widow, Sonia Brownwell, refused to endorse the project, Bowie appended the tracks to his album “Diamond Dogs,” a post-apocalyptic nightmare or dream, depending on your perspective. Bowie’s album cover depicts two half man-half dog creatures, as well as the androgynous Bowie himself with a glam hairdo only Adam Lambert could appreciate. Significantly, these creatures are far removed from the City in the background, showing their voluntary separation from mainstream culture, which is the heart of Bowie’s appeal, and something that Orwell’s Winston Smith could never permanently achieve.</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In the early 1980s, after much persuasion, Orwell’s widow allowed Chicago lawyer Marvin Rosenblum to purchase the film rights to the novel, provided that his movie not employ futuristic special effects. Director Michael Radford adapted the novel for screen, which starred the powerhouse British actors John Hurt and Richard Burton. Radford thought he had total artistic control over the movie, but billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Films had financed the project, and insisted that a pop band write the score. Virgin overrode Radford’s musical choice, and hired the Eurhythmics. Radford hated the music, and when accepting the Best Picture Award from the Evening Standard, he used the platform to denounce Virgin’s musical choice. Radford was on to something, as the music has not endured the test of time.</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Indeed, no music based on Orwell’s novel, which has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, has had the staying power of the novel itself. Perhaps the nearest thing in influence, staying within the 1984 vein, is the persistent myth that Van Halen introduced a novel element to touring contracts. After the near-death accident of one of their stage hands, Van Halen grew suspicious that their promoter was not reading their contracts, so the band added a clause requiring that the venue provide them with a big bowl of M&Ms with the brown ones removed. According to popular legend, this marked the birth of the whimsical “wish list rider.” (You can see the riders of touring musicians here at </span><a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstagetour/index.html"><span style="color:#0022ED;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Smoking Gun</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.)</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Regardless of who pioneered the backstage wish-list rider, classic rock musicians are as far from Orwell’s Winston Smith as can be. Whereas Smith fell prey to Room 101 and his worst fear, classic rock stars have a long and checkered history of raging against the machinery of oppression and conformity – ironically, creating orthodoxies of their own along the way. But in the marketplace of music and ideas, everyone retains the freedom to choose what he or she wants to listen to, and enjoy a quality of life that Winston Smith did not.</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Which songs that employ the language or themes of 1984 do you enjoy?</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 21px;"><br /></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </span> <!--EndFragment-->Brenda Witchger/Brynn Bonnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18001438328430286994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639505991519150543.post-73295903979025743872010-05-29T14:27:00.000-07:002010-05-29T21:08:31.012-07:00Won't You Be My Teddy Boy?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrgeP2mYhyphenhyphen1xTNpae7riRpOvYprIbFu5PRhFu9n4vhIxcDsfvaGVtwvjV-hpRibbpiPeeHI82Fr0NplEjhZiV5fySlxunIdWOl7sSV_3VSVNi4i4vSElO35eUvZBV-WamYrAytrWjHgSGL/s1600/The+Glass+Prism.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 319px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrgeP2mYhyphenhyphen1xTNpae7riRpOvYprIbFu5PRhFu9n4vhIxcDsfvaGVtwvjV-hpRibbpiPeeHI82Fr0NplEjhZiV5fySlxunIdWOl7sSV_3VSVNi4i4vSElO35eUvZBV-WamYrAytrWjHgSGL/s320/The+Glass+Prism.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476810859985122498" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Glass Prism, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Poe Through the Glass Prism</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">, RCA Victor, 1968. Near Mint $15</span></span></span><br /></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Don’t you love it when there’s that bizarre bit of coincidence when you’ve been talking to someone about some obscure subject and within a couple of days the same esoterica comes up again, out of the blue, from another source?</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">No?</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Okay, maybe it’s just me.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I don’t know exactly why, maybe it makes me feel there’s order in the universe, but it gives me a tiny wonder-jolt every time it happens.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">It happened to me this week as I was contemplating posting about the Teddy Boys.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A day later a young friend loaned me a couple of records (thanks, Thurston) and one of them happened to be a perfect illustration of what I’d been thinking about, which is that when a fashion trend starts, there seems to be a constant need to up the ante.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I knew nothing of Teddy Boys (or Teds) until I started to read Jonathan Gould’s </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Can’t Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America </span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(more on this when I finish the book).</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Apparently, John Lennon adopted the teddy boy style during his art-school years.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The Teddy Boys were part of a subculture which grew up in post-WWII London. The TEDS quickly became associated with the emerging music called rock 'n' roll. Teddy boys were young, often working class teenagers who wore clothing that evoked the Edwardian period (thus the name, Teddy, for Edward).</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Drape jackets with velvet trim, “drainpipe” or “stovepipe” slim pants, chunky brogue shoes with huge crepe soles (known as “brothel creepers") or boots with severe pointed toes call Winklepickers.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Hair was typically worn in what was known in the States as a duck-tail, or in a style called a “Boston” where it was combed straight back and cut blunt at the nape.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyZrb_Egru_-IxoEA-nGnboaOsPPpSXanMGU6Bq-Auu4LGQJXr-t_-YhboGoYb_1Cc2hEgamstv8YICXihonqmC22ZXdgh0ZxilDB3cTsoItU2lrq4MB0ce5uSEEWJFvDzq1l_z0PPr255/s1600/Teddy+Boy+Fashions+block.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 254px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyZrb_Egru_-IxoEA-nGnboaOsPPpSXanMGU6Bq-Auu4LGQJXr-t_-YhboGoYb_1Cc2hEgamstv8YICXihonqmC22ZXdgh0ZxilDB3cTsoItU2lrq4MB0ce5uSEEWJFvDzq1l_z0PPr255/s320/Teddy+Boy+Fashions+block.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476810849027950370" /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">But as the 50s came to a close, as with any trend there seemed to be a need to ramp it up and by the time the Beatles became THE Beatles, and forever altered the western cultural landscape, the duck tail had been replaced by the “mop top” and the sedate sartorial style of the Teds gave way to a peacock pseudo-Edwardian motif with colorful brocade jackets, ruffled shirts and ascots–for some bands, on some albums, at least--like the Glass Prism and the above album based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">It’s a given that any style distinctive enough to be cool will someday, in retrospect, look ridiculous.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Still, I’m holding on to my tie-dye, you never know when it might come around again.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Come on, let's all 'fess up, what's the most ridiculous fashion trend you've ever followed? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I'll start, anyone remember palazzo pants, otherwise known as bell bottoms on steroids? Let me just say that palazzos, 3-inch cork wedges and a flight of stairs that have to be navigated is a terrible combination when you're running late. Fortunately, nothing was broken.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment--> </span></div></span></div>Brenda Witchger/Brynn Bonnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18001438328430286994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639505991519150543.post-47290953904291936092010-05-21T15:35:00.000-07:002010-05-24T16:25:37.748-07:00Rock Garden<div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZKRX_e8wAG5Xr7YIpnQ70ryp8HH0Y2T2c0AMsHeAEO7HiLDqUPJqWqNVr1bOIkCQJHqZAmYN53BPiSfy2SeUMJXQOYMrU3WMr76so4FL_XjiDVoFKCGwz6Rjd5oWa3ynSeSKHH6cj6ImN/s1600/The+Rose+Garden+Album+cover.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="text-decoration: underline;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 320px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZKRX_e8wAG5Xr7YIpnQ70ryp8HH0Y2T2c0AMsHeAEO7HiLDqUPJqWqNVr1bOIkCQJHqZAmYN53BPiSfy2SeUMJXQOYMrU3WMr76so4FL_XjiDVoFKCGwz6Rjd5oWa3ynSeSKHH6cj6ImN/s320/The+Rose+Garden+Album+cover.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473855881166047138" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The Rose Garden</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Atco 1968 Mono in near-mint, $60, Stereo NM, $25</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">The Rose Garden was a short-lived southern California band in the "sunshine pop" folk rock tradition. Their lone hit was "Next Plane to London" which reached #17 on the charts.</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">__________________________</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">My oldest son has a phenomenal green thumb and cultivates a truly lavish garden. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(20, 79, 174); font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><a href="http://www.farmerbobcomics.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://www.farmerbobcomics.com/</span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Who knew?</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I guess this must be one of those things that skips a generation.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">My mother could make anything grow by sticking a brown twig of it into the dirt and my Dad was a farmer who always got good crops.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I, on the other hand, seem to kill everything, either by neglect or by trying to overcompensate for the last dead plant by watering the next one until the animals start to gather two-by-two looking for an ark.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">But this year I’m trying it again.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I have a pressing need to see things flourish and I’m doing my best not to kill off the flowers and herbs I’m growing on my deck garden.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Apparently, rockers get a hankering for a garden now and then, too. I’m on a quest for “garden” songs, lyrics, bands, etc.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Here’s a few from my itunes.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Can you help me add to the list?</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">“Amity Gardens”</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">from Utopia Parkway by Fountains of Wayne</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">“Evie’s Garden” from This Perfect World by Freedy Johnston</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">“Back to the Garden”</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">from Ordinary Seasons by Polecat Creek</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">“Eden was a Garden” from Oh Tall Tree in the Ear</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">by Roman Candle</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">“Everything in 2s” from How Does Your Garden Grow by Better Than Ezra</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">“The Garden”</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">from This Beautiful Mess by Sixpence None the Richer</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">“Gardening at Night” from The Attic by R.E.M.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">“Gates of the Garden” from No More Shall We Part by Nice Cave & the Bad Seeds</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">“Grey Gardens” from Poses by Rufus Wainwright</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">“The Hanging Garden” from Staring at the Sea-The Singles…”</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">by The Cure</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">“Octopus’s Garden” from Abbey Road by The Beatles</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">“Rose Garden” from Street Angle by Stevie Nicks</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">“Rose in My Garden” from Karla Bonoff by Karla Bonoff</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">“The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Sweet) from Back on the Block by Quincy Jones</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">“The Garden Party” Ricky Nelson</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">“Empty Garden” Elton John</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Band—Savage Garden</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Garden State Soundtrack</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> “Garden” by Pearl Jam: “…I will walk with my shadow flag into your garden, garden of stone…</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> “The Garden”</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">by Gun’s ‘n’ Roses</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">“…Your friends they aren't at home/Everybody's gone to the garden/As you look into the trees/You can look but you don't see…”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> “Wicked Garden” by Stone Temple Pilots</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">“…I wanna run through your wicked garden/Heard that's the place to find ya…”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> “The Severed Garden” by The Doors</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">“…I'm sick of dour faces/Staring at me from the tv/Tower, I want roses in/My garden bower; dig?”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment--> </span></div>Brenda Witchger/Brynn Bonnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18001438328430286994noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639505991519150543.post-18201636864957989182010-05-07T22:01:00.001-07:002010-05-07T22:04:46.988-07:00The House on Album 1700<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Today another guest blog by Matt, a writer from NY. Thanks, Matt!</span></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_YawSngkOAS5St1y7eKa31zGakTihaeDcYYi9OXMW-Y7TzuDvjmBpUfBjg4hY-Y53DwmngAZuFSfVcS1oam_z_St8TZ88f1LNvVPXXXbUg6PhNbnEnTmhpxS4K1HrK_XcqRQCGWUaSzkn/s1600/album+1700.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 129px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_YawSngkOAS5St1y7eKa31zGakTihaeDcYYi9OXMW-Y7TzuDvjmBpUfBjg4hY-Y53DwmngAZuFSfVcS1oam_z_St8TZ88f1LNvVPXXXbUg6PhNbnEnTmhpxS4K1HrK_XcqRQCGWUaSzkn/s320/album+1700.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468760035167714322" /></a> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Peter Paul and Mary’s “Album 1700” was released in 1967, the same year Warren Beatty produced and starred in “Bonnie and Clyde,” and the album cover was an obvious reference to the film. At first glance, it might seem odd for folk-poets of the anti-war movement to strike a pose similar to a film that glorifies violence and anti-social behavior. </span></span><span style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">But if you examine the photo more closely, the trio is telling a very different story.</span></span><span style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The most obvious difference is that Peter Paul and Mary are not holding guns, but instruments. Their weapons are words, poetry, music, and memorable harmonies, which they use to persuade people to work together to achieve a more just society. Unlike the itinerant outlaws Bonnie and Clyde, for whom the car is a potent symbol of escape and rootlessness, Peter Paul and Mary have chosen to give a house equal weight in the picture. And it’s not just any house, it’s 70 Bedford Street in New York City’s Greenwich Village. The Federal style townhouse was built in 1807. Notice the bronze plaque to the left of the front door. It says the house was built by John Roome, a sailmaker and court crier. So Peter Paul and Mary chose as their backdrop the home of an adventurer and representative of justice, two things to which they aspired. </span></span><span style=" "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What the trio is looking at is also appropriate for their musical and political ambitions. Across the street is the Isaacs-Hendricks House, the oldest surviving home in Greenwich Village. While Peter Paul and Mary might not look kindly on its first owner, Harmon Hendricks, who cornered the copper market with Paul Revere, the trio can appreciate that the house is connected to the birth of our nation and its promise of freedom and justice for all. Also across the street is the house of Edna St. Vincent Millay, the first female to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Millay’s home was later owned, at different times, by actors John Barrymore and Cary Grant, which adds a subtle touch and brings us full circle to the Hollywood-inspired cover.</span></span><span style=" "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">While the album is titled in accord with its Warner Brothers’ catalog number, it may well have been chosen to add a sense of historical depth to the group’s clarion call for social justice.</span></span><span style=" "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“Album 1700” marked the initial release of what later became Peter Paul and Mary’s biggest selling single, “Leaving on a Jet Plane,” which was written by the then-unknown Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., who rose to fame in the 1970s as “John Denver.” Denver was later named Poet Laureate of Colorado, which may not be as prestigious as the Pulitzer Prize, but his poetry earned him a fortune great enough to afford his own jet plane, in which he sadly met his tragic end.</span></span><span style=" "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What’s your favorite Peter Paul and Mary song?</span></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Brenda Witchger/Brynn Bonnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18001438328430286994noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639505991519150543.post-49945851659426530062010-05-03T13:13:00.000-07:002010-05-21T18:17:17.303-07:00A Mover and Shaker<div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLsS89vN5ooDGyUIXO37FTFuwtptvvKBr_2IX2hJE1fF30m1ZpS9mHmnWh5gyV2pe3khvAGcPw0P-X-9nkInRWhMYP3aZhvfqGtI9maQrfBHb0eQn1wm5C-v0694mYLcgnwqdbzZrhzfi0/s1600/James+Brown+Album+I+Got+You+(I+Feel+Good).png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLsS89vN5ooDGyUIXO37FTFuwtptvvKBr_2IX2hJE1fF30m1ZpS9mHmnWh5gyV2pe3khvAGcPw0P-X-9nkInRWhMYP3aZhvfqGtI9maQrfBHb0eQn1wm5C-v0694mYLcgnwqdbzZrhzfi0/s320/James+Brown+Album+I+Got+You+(I+Feel+Good).png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467139731322302226" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">There are four different versions of this King label release from 1966,</div><div style="text-align: center;"> ranging in value from $40 to $150 (in near mint condition)<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">On this day in 1933 a mover and shaker in the rock world was born.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And I mean that literally. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(37, 82, 164); font-family: Helvetica; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(20, 79, 174); font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdz88MBWomo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdz88MBWomo</a></span><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">James Joseph Brown, Jr.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">was born May 3, 1933 near Barnwell, South Carolina and grew up in poverty in Augusta, Georgia. He lived a checkered personal life and his professional life was colorful to put it mildly, but he was, indeed, “The Hardest Working Man in Show Business,”</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">“The Godfather of Soul” and “Soul Brother Number One.”</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div></span>Brenda Witchger/Brynn Bonnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18001438328430286994noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639505991519150543.post-91098155626998476982010-04-25T16:25:00.000-07:002010-04-27T11:47:21.226-07:00The Philosophy of Rock<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVFxRUUB5BdnDVI39i1J-hf9WPOA167lWY1xsG0qIAELSzRXRa3jspzZVos9sAWw5YaXJHE4g3zg5XLRgOSgNtqtBXJ9JQQtKgZAnSGKdgrGFHzVxz9gAGGZG4aiBcKkPSvhQM3ELmqUmb/s1600/Ricky+Nelson.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 196px; height: 188px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVFxRUUB5BdnDVI39i1J-hf9WPOA167lWY1xsG0qIAELSzRXRa3jspzZVos9sAWw5YaXJHE4g3zg5XLRgOSgNtqtBXJ9JQQtKgZAnSGKdgrGFHzVxz9gAGGZG4aiBcKkPSvhQM3ELmqUmb/s320/Ricky+Nelson.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464220558267008162" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Rick Nelson Sings "For You"<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">1963, Decca, Mono in NM might bring $25-40<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:16px;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Rock songs as instructions for life?</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">For posing the big questions?</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">As cautionary tales?</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Yeah, sometimes….</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I was discussing some pending life decision with a friend recently and she said “Well, you know what Ricky Nelson would say ‘fools rush in where angels fear to tread.’”</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Now I could have set her straight about Ricky Nelson not being the originator of this phrase (or the song either) but: 1) I enjoyed the stroll down memory lane.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I had a ginormous crush on Ricky Nelson when I was nine or ten, and 2) I couldn’t for the life of me remember the actual origin.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(I’ve looked it up since and it was Alexander Pope who first used it in his </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Essay on Criticism</span></span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">).</span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Today I decided to peruse my itunes library and see how many other songs I could find that might fit this category.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I hit 100 in a trice (as Alexander Pope might have put it)–perhaps due to my rather loose parameters for what fits the category.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Please help me enlarge the list.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">What songs can you think of that advise, warn or philosophize?</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Some of these are the original artist and some are covers. Here's my list:</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="1"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Keep on Chooglin’- CCR</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Don't Eat The Yellow Snow - Frank Zappa </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Tell It Like it Is-Aaron Neville</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Wake Up-Arcade Fire</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Tighten Up-Archie Bell & The Drells</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Love the One You’re With-CSN&Y</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Let the Mystery Be-Natalie Merchant & David Byrne</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Can I Get a Witness-Marvin Gaye</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Come Together-The Beatles</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Walk On-U2</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">People Get Ready-Curtis Mayfield</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">You Can't Hurry Love - the Supremes</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind? - the Lovin' Spoonful</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Carry that Weight-The Beatles</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Don’t Let it Bring You Down-Neil Young</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Light On Candle-Peter, Paul and Mary</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Be Kind of My Mistakes-Kate Bush</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Can’t Get There From Here-R.E.M.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Too Late To Turn Back Now - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Think of London-Tindersticks</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">How to Be Perfect Men-Songs:Ohia</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Don't Take Your Guns To Town - Johnny Cash</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">What a Fool Believes - Doobie Brothers</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">We Can Work it Out-The Beatles</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">You Can't Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd - Roger Miller</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">You Don't Mess Around With Jim - Jim Croce</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Hey That’s No Way to Say Goodbye-Leonard Cohen</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Make Your Own Kind of Music-The Mamas and the Papas</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">One Thing Leads To Another - the Fixx</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Bright Side of the Road-Van Morrison (cover) </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Let It Alone-Old Crow Medicine Show</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Gotta Serve Somebody-Bob Dylan</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">You Ain’t Going Nowhere-Bob Dylan</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright-Bob Dylan</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">The Time They Are A-changing-Bob Dylan</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Respect Yourself-Aaron Nevile w/ Mavis Staples</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Ain't No Way To Treat A Lady - Helen Reddy</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Walk Like A Man - Four Seasons</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">A Change is Gonna Come-Aaron Neville</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Please Remember Me-Aaron Neville & Linda Ronstadt</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Let’s Live-The Neville Brothers</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">The Gambler - Kenny Rogers</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Don't Sleep In The Subway - Petula Clark</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">All You Need Is Love - the Beatles</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Get a Grip-Aerosmith</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Mama Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys-Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Express Yourself - Madonna</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Shut Up and Dance-Aerosmith</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Whatever Gets You Through The Night - John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Try and Little Tenderness-Al Green</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Don’t Turn Around-Ace of Base</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Practice What You Preach-Alex Taylor</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">When You Say Nothing at All-Alison Krauss</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">What The World Needs Now Is Love - Jackie DeShannom</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Get On the Line-The Archies</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">If You Love Somebody Set Them Free - Sting</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">It Isn’t, It Wasn’t, It Ain’t Never Gonna Be-Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Sisters are Doin’ It For Themselves-Aretha Franklin w/ the Eurythmics</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Please Pardon Yourself-The Avett Brothers</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Walk Like an Egyptian-the Bangles</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">It’s All Been Done-Barenaked Ladies</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">With a Little Help From My Friends-The Beatles</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Don't Talk To Strangers - Rick Springfield</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Just Like You-Keb Mo, Bonie Raitt, Jackson Browne</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Stand Up (and be Strong) Keb Mo</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">You Can Love Yourself-Keb Mo</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">God Trying to Get Your Attention-Keb Mo</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Everybody’s Gonna Be Happy-The Kinks</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Good Times Bad Times Led Zepplin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Stay-Lisa Loeb</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Talk to Me, Talk to Me-Little Willie John</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">It’s a Hard Life-Nanci Griffith</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Smile-Lyle Lovett</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Don’t Give Up the Fight-The Magic Numbers</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Simple Man-Lynyrd Skynyrd</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Turn, Turn, Turn (To Everything There is a Season)-The Byrds</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Ain’t Nothin’ Like the Real thing-Marvin Gaye</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Change What You Can-Marvin Gaye</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Life is for Learning-Marvin Gaye</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">It Takes Two-Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">If You’d Learn From My Mistakes-Moby Grape</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">These Are Days-Natalie Merchant and 10,000 Maniacs</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">What a Wonderful World-James Taylor, Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Everybody Hurts-R.E.M.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Wake Up and Dream-Richie Havens</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Shouldn’t We All Be Having a Good Time-Richie Havens</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Fools Rush In-Ricky Nelson</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Love Radiates Around-The Roches</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Mama Said-The Shirelles</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Get a Job-The Silhouettes</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Don’t Let Nobody Turn you Around-Steve Miller Band</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Play That Funky Music White Boy-Wild Cherry</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Better World a-Coming-Woody Guthrie</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Don’t Fight It-Wilson Pickett</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Slap Leather-James Taylor</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Don’t Let the World Get in Your Way-The Jayhawks</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">You Can Leave Your Hat On-Joe Cocker</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">100. Have a Little Faith in Me-Joe Cocker<br /></span></li></ol> <!--EndFragment--> </span></div>Brenda Witchger/Brynn Bonnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18001438328430286994noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639505991519150543.post-56674692871710634812010-04-22T08:48:00.000-07:002010-04-27T11:48:41.994-07:00Green is the New Black<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt0j3K7sgNkpZt0Y_PyVitvHv5-7AUa8agtVXM6ho6ujv0-a7Xg27vY5lJlp5zhnhx07-5nlW-yAPUu8LdgNU7LyqCMdHtcWHbE7QPAjmPmUo0PbP-pG6EaYjUfl8NutR8M9AMvxHo2lx1/s1600/No+Nukes+Cover.jpg"><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 313px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt0j3K7sgNkpZt0Y_PyVitvHv5-7AUa8agtVXM6ho6ujv0-a7Xg27vY5lJlp5zhnhx07-5nlW-yAPUu8LdgNU7LyqCMdHtcWHbE7QPAjmPmUo0PbP-pG6EaYjUfl8NutR8M9AMvxHo2lx1/s320/No+Nukes+Cover.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462989642013838770" /></a> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">From the MUSE Concerts for a Non-Nuclear Future* Madison Square Garden *1979<br />Not a particularly collectible record, but great music.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">HAPPY 40th EARTH DAY!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">What’s the image that comes first to your mind when you hear the words rock star?</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A narcissist, maybe, with</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a little hedonism thrown in?</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A wild and wooly stoner?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">We exalt rock musicians for what is, in essence, a very narrow talent when you think about it in reasonable silence.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Then we almost expect bad behavior in return.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">But, in truth, there are many of the “other variety” of rock stars out there.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Those who use their celebrity and influence for the betterment of society–of the world.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A few come instantly to mind:</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Bono, Sting, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, all those legions of singers and players who lined up behind the We Are the World effort, Band Aid, Farm Aid.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">All those musicians who worked so tirelessly for MUSE (Musicians United for Safe Energy).</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And lots of other causes. The list is long.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">One of my favorite albums is the NO NUKES concert album recorded in Madison Square Garden in 1979.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">One of the featured players was John Hall, a former member of the 70s band ORLEANS.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">He sang a song he’d written called “Power” in which he extolls the beauty of natural energy sources.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I sincerely hope he still feels that way and that he’s still working toward that end because he is now serving his second term as a member of the U. S. Congress.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs1AQjJQOMNy1-dgWILUw10-LzQ9gryhMGtsZXW10qUWsc8Tnnw1dIgK5WfiXRkHhZczrH0W66bW9s7j7_0mbZunomut9_iEqCAlANNsJVkCQCtPXWhG4ks_y7hR4-nsOw1S87qz8seyAW/s1600/John+Hall+trio+for+blog.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><br /><img style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 96px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs1AQjJQOMNy1-dgWILUw10-LzQ9gryhMGtsZXW10qUWsc8Tnnw1dIgK5WfiXRkHhZczrH0W66bW9s7j7_0mbZunomut9_iEqCAlANNsJVkCQCtPXWhG4ks_y7hR4-nsOw1S87qz8seyAW/s320/John+Hall+trio+for+blog.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462989630804870370" /></a><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The band Orleans of the 70s, John Hall is top right, John Hall and Carly Simon at NO NUKES concert performing his song "Power" </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3T60RCo4yA"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3T60RCo4yA</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> and finally John Hall, second term Congressman from the 19th District of NY.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">As a footnote:</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I greatly admire the rockers who use their platform for good causes, but the ones who spout off without bothering to find out anything about the issue they’re trying to promote get on my last nerve. They hurt the effort. There are plenty of those out there too, but we’ll let them go unnamed.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Who are the rockers you admire?</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">What causes do they work for?</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></p>Brenda Witchger/Brynn Bonnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18001438328430286994noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639505991519150543.post-21243117854293676182010-04-16T18:05:00.000-07:002010-04-27T11:52:28.320-07:00Back Forty<div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4z9eslGJlcNNSRy-O3ad-9O_UfWynNZkpRPF8Bl8Or_O065DDKRru6-Cup2t8kjWEI11dOmd_mQ2benginfIovnikyqs7_PtgiD0XNBG1hb43wI0ZfaOMcalVjqabroHuQQA_YDT4ER82/s1600/Bridge+Over+Troubled+Water-Simon+and+Garfunkel.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4z9eslGJlcNNSRy-O3ad-9O_UfWynNZkpRPF8Bl8Or_O065DDKRru6-Cup2t8kjWEI11dOmd_mQ2benginfIovnikyqs7_PtgiD0XNBG1hb43wI0ZfaOMcalVjqabroHuQQA_YDT4ER82/s320/Bridge+Over+Troubled+Water-Simon+and+Garfunkel.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460907537262269378" /></a><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Bridge Over Troubled Water</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">, Simon and Garfunkel, 1970. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"> This Columbia release in near mint condition would bring $8-15. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">An audiophile vinyl version on Mobile Fidelity could bring as much as $50.</span></span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Forty years ago today (April 17) I sat glued to the TV set, as tense as most other Americans, waiting for the beleaguered Apollo 13 astronauts to splash down and emerge safe and sound from their capsule.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Too bad there wasn’t a way to capture the collective sigh of relief that rippled across the nation when it finally happened.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I’m sure it would make an interesting sampling clip.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">There was plenty dividing the nation in 1970, and like most young adults I was cynical about a lot of things.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">But during that long week when the astronauts' lives hung in the balance it didn’t matter what side of the political fence you were on, you just wanted to see a happy ending to it all.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">We’d all watched and waited together from the moment Jim Lovell had reported “Houston, we have a problem,”</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(okay, for you purists, what he actually did was repeat what Swigert said, which was “Houston we’ve had a problem,” but I like the pop culture version better myself).</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A lot of PR work went into turning the image of gonzo test pilots into squeaky clean heroes whose appeal jumped the vast chasm of the sixties’ generation gap and stretched from one end of the ideological spectrum to the other. It worked. We loved our astronauts.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">They were rock stars in their own way.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">By now you’re probably wondering what all this has to do with Simon and Garfunkel. There’s a connection.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Maybe it’s only in my mind, but there IS a connection.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Bridge Over Troubled Water</span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> was the number one album that year (according to Billboard).</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">It was the final studio album for the pair.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">They’d been an overnight sensation when “Sounds of Silence” made it to number one in 1966. That is if you don’t count the years 1957-1965 when they’d struggled, together and separately, to make a successful record–billed first as Tom and Jerry (and</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Simon as Jerry Landis or Tico and the Triumphs) and finally as themselves: Simon and Garfunkel.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The knock on Simon and Garfunkel was that with their choirboy harmonies, their polished production values and their precise musicality they were too whitebread for the rough and raw musical scene of that psychedelic era. In other words in some quarters they were looked down on for being too good.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">But, as with the astronauts, people from many age groups, personal philosophies and ideological stances seemed more than willing to check the cynicism at the door and embrace them.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> I think it happened because t</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">hey believed in their music and,</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">again like the astronauts, they stayed true to their mission.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Tell me your favorite Simon and Garfunkel song. And can you complete these lyrics and tell which S&G songs they’re from?</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> (Answers are now posted in comments section)</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span><!--StartFragment--></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><!--StartFragment--> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none">I have squandered my resistance<br />For a pocket full of ____________________________<br /> <br />*****************************************<br /><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“Kathy," I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh<br />"____________ seems like a dream to me now"<br />It took me four days to hitchhike from _______<br />I've gone to look for ________<br /> <br />*****************************************<br /> <br />Coo, coo, ca-choo, _______________<br />Jesus loves you more than you will know (Wo, wo, wo)…<br /> <br />*****************************************<br /> <br />Tell her to make me a _________________<br /><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(On the side of a hill in the deep forest green)<br /> <br />*****************************************<br /> <br />Hello ___________, my old friend<br />I've come to talk with you again<br /> <br />*****************************************<br /> <br />Away, I'd rather _______away<br />Like a ______ that's here and gone<br />A man gets tied up to the ground<br /> <br />*****************************************<br />I got a ________<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>_____________<br />I love to take a photograph<br />So mama don't take my ______________ away<br /><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p> <p 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/></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRaI9X9hClcfHzvGpzfePN9CcTK-ZiwuQQEQKiiAKKQem1iaEps3DQBea39qYPA1ab5YiBIbffgQHALOKLdzx5zlqGPYmUq8JboprTlkmqQQfLjGZ6cH5RrIXyWceLRpqq4h6Gkn3si_HR/s1600/Cereal+Box+Records.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span><img style="text-decoration: underline;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 149px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRaI9X9hClcfHzvGpzfePN9CcTK-ZiwuQQEQKiiAKKQem1iaEps3DQBea39qYPA1ab5YiBIbffgQHALOKLdzx5zlqGPYmUq8JboprTlkmqQQfLjGZ6cH5RrIXyWceLRpqq4h6Gkn3si_HR/s320/Cereal+Box+Records.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458581732947839746" /></a><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Every morning I thank God that I do not yet suffer like the famous actor George Clooney, who on reaching his mid forties lamented,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);"> “</span></span><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6917072.ece"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);">I am falling apart… [plagued by physical] aches and pains</span></span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);">.”</span> I speak my prayer silently, while my wife echoes Clooney as she peers in the mirror to paint a new face. My obsession with advancing age has taken the form of noticing such minutiae as the fact that classic rock music has recently become the preferred Super Bowl halftime entertainment. We had McCartney in 2005, The Rolling Stones in 2006, Tom Petty in 2008, Springsteen in 2009, and the Who in 2010.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Knowing that you have reached the age where you are considered a marketers’ prime target may be bad, but far worse is thinking about becoming the target of ads for Life Alert (“I’ve fallen and can’t get up”), the Scooter Store, and second-to-die life insurance, a trifecta of horror on the order of O.J. Simpson tossing the coin in the 1993 Super Bowl at which Michael Jackson performed as the Buffalo Bills lost their third straight championship game -- itself a trifecta cubed.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Most of us choose to remember pleasant dreams not nightmares, and so I blot out the Bills’ threepeat failure by recalling the 2003 Super Bowl, at which underdog Tampa Bay became the first expansion team to win the championship, Sting performed at halftime, and I began to realize that, but for a simple twist of genetic fate, I’d have had Sting’s hair and a different life.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">But we all play what we’re dealt, and live who we are.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And so in my news-obsessed life, I recently couldn’t avoid an advertisement from Quaker for an afterschool snack, which was being marketed by some bubble gum songstress who hasn’t yet achieved the ubiquity and widespread appeal of Miley Cyrus. I later learned the youth’s name is Miranda Cosgrove, and my ignorance of her the product was my quixotic attempt to prolong the innocence of my daughter. One small victory has been watching her voluntarily mute iCarly ads and change to Animal Planet once Ms. Cosgrove’s show is on. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">When I was her age, music marketers touched our lives in a very physical way: they commandeered our breakfast table. The first record I acquired as a child in the early 1970s was attached to a box of Alpha Bits, “I’ll Be There” by the Jackson Five. My brother and I ripped it off the back of the box to play it before we had breakfast, and as we listened, we used the cereal letters to spell words we shielded from our mother’s view.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">We played that first cereal box record to death, much to our parents’ and older siblings’ chagrin. Watching a square record circling on a turntable was endlessly fascinating. And the marketing had its intended effect. A few months later, my brother bought his first record with money he had earned delivering newspapers, the 45 of “ABC” by the Jackson Five. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Over time, humidity made the mixture of vinyl and cardboard warp, but the record always played, and was a refreshing break from the records that adults had otherwise placed within our reach -- Disney soundtracks, the multiplication tables, and Tubby the Tuba. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The next cereal box hit that entered our home was on the back of Honey Combs: “I’m a Believer” by the Monkees. It failed to command our attention with as much fervor as the first. The novelty of a square record had worn thin, and my obsession turned to the Miami Dolphins’ Perfect Season of 1972. They beat the Redskins in the Super Bowl that year, one of the lowest scoring championship games ever. Classic rock would have to wait to become the mainstay at halftime. That year, the University of Michigan Marching Band accompanied a couple of imitation Sinatra crooners, a nod to my parents’ generation. Perhaps iCarly will join the Reese’s Puff Rappers on stage at a Super Bowl halftime thirty years from now…</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> <div><br /></div>Brenda Witchger/Brynn Bonnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18001438328430286994noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639505991519150543.post-5302324368988107502010-04-02T12:38:00.000-07:002010-04-27T11:54:02.980-07:00You Had Me @ Hello<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">(Answers are now posted in the comments section, along with YouTube links--thanks for playing along).</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">There are some songs that just make you smile with the opening riff.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">It reminds me of the funeral scene in the movie THE BIG CHILL where an old college friend of the deceased goes up to the organ in the church to play one of the dead man's favorite songs, The Stones’</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">“You Can’t Always Get What You Want.”</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">As she plays the first few notes all the other friends start to smile to themselves and glance at one another.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">You can tell countless shared memories are coming instantly to each of them.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In that moment they all seem to reconnect even though they’ve been separated for years.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(As an aside, the corpse is played by a young Kevin Costner, though you never see his face--all his other scenes were cut from the movie.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I shall refrain from editorializing.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Some songs just grab you from the start.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I’ve posted six easy openers here.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Can you name the songs?</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Also, tell me what other songs’ opening riffs make you smile? 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Bonnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18001438328430286994noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639505991519150543.post-34825517823450645622010-03-27T13:57:00.000-07:002010-03-27T15:10:08.504-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdJXnPPYufEhZ1yfJ1oLS9sF6zNfwiieG2rxoSw4UppDr1-egMS6uQgUfmzONEDvqSq2oPM_1RdaXyOXcDfwF3dcy7C9KF1uAMTCGXawHXhhr2oD93qFAoUyqvF708VhinojOEDwr07Q8Y/s1600/Blues+Magoos.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdJXnPPYufEhZ1yfJ1oLS9sF6zNfwiieG2rxoSw4UppDr1-egMS6uQgUfmzONEDvqSq2oPM_1RdaXyOXcDfwF3dcy7C9KF1uAMTCGXawHXhhr2oD93qFAoUyqvF708VhinojOEDwr07Q8Y/s320/Blues+Magoos.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453420798320034898" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">BLUES MAGOOS</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Psychelic Lolllipop </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">“(We Ain’t Got) Nothin’ Yet”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOGRTLn2uKY"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOGRTLn2uKY</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Went to #5 in 1967<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">1966 Mono release on Mercury valued at approximately $40 in near mint condition <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Back in 2007 I wrote</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> a </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">story for ELLERY QUEEN MYSTERY MAGAZINE</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#2552A4;"><u style="text-underline:#2552A4"><a href="http://www.themysteryplace.com/order/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://www.themysteryplace.com/order/</span></a></u><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">featuring a young woman named Session Seabolt who owns a vintage vinyl record shop.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I’m now working on something new with Session.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">For this new story I’m having fun with one of the asides about the workings of the shop.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The clerks put up different trivia boards for the enjoyment of the customers (and to spark some spirited debates).</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">And naturally I have to research some of this trivia (also known as getting totally sidetracked for hours).</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">One is called the 40 Board where a theme or word is posted and customers contribute to a list of songs with that word or concept in the title or the lyrics.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> We used to play a made-up game like this when I was a teenager.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">One person would say a word and the others would shout out as many songs as they could think of in a minute flat.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">If a song was challenged the person who said it would have to sing a few bars.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">It usually devolved into laughing fits so I’m not sure anyone ever actually won the game.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> I thought we could give this a try right here. We’ll be slackers and only go for 25.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The only rule is that the song has to be classic rock, which for these purposes we’ll define as a rock song recorded between 1950-1990</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(when vinyl ruled).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> The above album by the Blues Magoos, a late 60s blues-rock band, inspired today’s theme, which is </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">BLUE</span></b><span style="font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">–any classic rock song with </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">BLUE</span></b><span style="font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> in the title or the lyrics.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> See if you can help me get the list up to 25.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I’ll supply the first five and you contribute as many as you can think of in your comments.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I’ll compile them and report back.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">No googling or Ituning!</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><!--StartFragment--> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><!--StartFragment--> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">1. BEHIND BLUE EYES, The Who, 1971 </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#2552A4;"><u style="text-underline:#2552A4"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_1RqyNdzbE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_1RqyNdzbE</span></a></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">2. JACKIE BLUE, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, 1975</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#2552A4;"><u style="text-underline:#2552A4"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v31wwyteRqo"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v31wwyteRqo</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">3. SUITE; JUDY BLUES EYES, Crosby, Stills & Nash, 1969</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#2552A4;"><u style="text-underline:#2552A4"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzF_MoXOU1E"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzF_MoXOU1E</span></a></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">4. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">BLUE SUEDE SHOES, Carl Perkins</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(and, of course, later Elvis)</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#2552A4;"><u style="text-underline:#2552A4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1Ond-OwgU8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1Ond-OwgU8</span></a></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">5. TINY DANCER, Elton John, Ah….a very young Elton John in this vid,</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(“BLUE jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band….”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#2552A4;"><u style="text-underline:#2552A4"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqiQcJ-d8r8&feature=PlayList&p=0118C56BFF1C736B&index=0&playnext=1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqiQcJ-d8r8&feature=PlayList&p=0118C56BFF1C736B&index=0&playnext=1</span></a></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">OKAY, YOU GO NOW!!!</span></p> <!--EndFragment--> <p></p> <!--EndFragment--> <p></p> <!--EndFragment--> <!--EndFragment--> <!--EndFragment-->Brenda Witchger/Brynn Bonnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18001438328430286994noreply@blogger.com13