Thursday, November 15, 2012

Satin Doll - Beegie Adair

singers have been pairing up, how about a pairing with great musicians?  Its an idea!

Denis Solee with Beegie Adair Trio - You Make Me Feel So Young - Sinatra...

talking about sax players this week, how about this one?  He is a wow player, and plays with Beegie Adair

What's New - Beegie Adair

something about her playing, the notes all blend in beautiful sound

Beegie Adair - I Remember You

If you are a fan of the piano, you must know this pianist, she is wonderful!  How come I just found her?  Her playing is so effortless, so moving!

Rod Stewart-Da ya think i'm sexy?

what genius!  Rod always has great arrangements, and I love the sax...Katja Riechermann is superb!

Miracles Happen: The Transformational Healing Power of Past-Life Memories: Brian L. Weiss, Amy E. Weiss: 9780062201225: Amazon.com: Books

Miracles Happen: The Transformational Healing Power of Past-Life Memories: Brian L. Weiss, Amy E. Weiss: 9780062201225: Amazon.com: Books

Somewhere , somehow, a number of us realize that there is more to life, than meets the eye.  It comes in a sudden burst of awareness, or it might be at the death of a loved one.  When you meet this realization, you want to know more about it, because down deep you realize  we are all on a repeating journey to learn love.  We go in different directions with different twists and turns, but the ultimate goal is to learn that love is all there is.  Some of us figure it out and want to continue on the journey with Love foremost in our minds as we navigate, we stumble, we fall   There is always the hope if you hold it close that you will be able to end your life with that one goal, that one crumb of understanding,  LOVE is all there is.
A book like this will open your senses to the place of Love in the world.  I have enjoyed his past books and intend to enjoy this one.

Monday, November 12, 2012

Katja Rieckermann with Rod Stewart in Hamburg 2007

this girl is fabulous with Rod Stewart, she can play the sax, and has style!  I have been trying to find out who she is and my former secretary of many years, Mary Munger, (Super Secretary was her name!)  found information...for me

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Beegie Adair Playlist (playlist)

Here is the difference between singing and telling a story, as heard in the notes of the piano.  This piano tells a story with her talented playing

Rod Stewart - These Foolish Things

I love the sound of the Sax on these albums

Rod Stewart (playlist)

What music these guys made for us!  It is wonderful to call them back if only for a few moments in time.  

Rod Stewart XMAS Album Promo w TigerDirect

Don't forget to stuff a stocking with Rod Stewart album and or book!  Support Ron Stewart, he deserves it!

Amazon.com: the last lion winston churchill -- william manchester: Books

Amazon.com: the last lion winston churchill -- william manchester: Books: The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 by William Manchester and Paul Reid (Nov 6, 2012)

A HERO  who fired up the spirit of the English people!  How the power of words helped to win the war!

Small Town America Framingham Thru My Eyes: The War Years and Beyond: Madlyn A Fafard: 9781466201026: Amazon.com: Books

Small Town America Framingham Thru My Eyes: The War Years and Beyond: Madlyn A Fafard: 9781466201026: Amazon.com: Books

My plan in writing this book, was to paint a broad stroke picture of the time.  Heavy immigration brought thousands to our shores at the turn of the Century, just before the 1st World War.  We were influenced by the times that came before us and by the desire of immigrants to make a better life for their children.  When the 2nd World War came bearing down, we became a land of heroes.  I don't know about you, but I thought we lived in a land of HEROES!  
I believe that those of us who lived the period of time that enveloped the world in war, always have tears inside when the war is recalled.  Yes, look carefully at the faces , at the eyes of those remaining people of the time , you will see, when the war is recalled, the pain hidden just under the surface.
Virtual reality was our constant companion as we shouted terms we heard on the radio..."Yamamoto!
Axis Sally! Hari Kari!   We played make believe war games on our side streets and fields off Hollis Street in Framingham, Mass., a small town at the time, maybe like the small town you grew up in.
At night tears followed us to bed, in our roller shade bedrooms with flowered wallpaper and lace curtains, as the songs of the time drifted down the hall and under our bedroom doors, while air raid practice caused all the lights to go out.   A song of tears for me, When the Lights Go On Again All Over the World, was like a prayer!

Amazon.com: Smokey and the Bandit: Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, Sally Field, Jerry Reed: Movies & TV

Amazon.com: Smokey and the Bandit: Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, Sally Field, Jerry Reed: Movies & TV    This was a great fun movie and Totch could be such a movie between Little Eddie and Totch playing hide and seek in the Everglades Park.  The movie is a great idea for a Christmas treat for the kids.

Totch: A Life in the Everglades: Loren G. Brown: 9780813012285: Amazon.com: Books

Totch: A Life in the Everglades: Loren G. Brown: 9780813012285: Amazon.com: Books

A book that  I received on a Florida antique car tour.  It sat unread for a few years.   I decided to put it in the car, and read it whenever I was waiting for my husband to do his many errands and talk fests. Surprise!  I even took to telling my husband the escapades of Totch, the fisherman and alligator poacher!  He loved the storytelling.  Here is a flavor of the book.

The family so poor that they had no way to survive the depression moved into the Everglades and lived off the land, first in a lean- to shelter. Here is a man who could survive in primitive conditions who raised a family through tough times,and became a HERO in the second world war,  This was the America I knew as a child, at least I thought our country was a land of HERO'S, but then I was a child during the most terrible war our  world had known.  Surviving hardship was what I thought we could do. We were created by  the survivors of the old world who came here for a better life and they knew how to do it.    If you like to read about how people survived in tough times.  Totch's episodes with Little Eddie the game warden remind me of Jackie Gleason the Sheriff chasing Burth Reynolds, in the famous movie about the speeding driver ...what was that movie, do you remember the name , Sally Fiedls was in it too!  I will try and find it..and post it here.  Maybe Totch would make a good movie, because it is adventurous.  Totch has a heart attach while poaching alligators in the swamp, his baby daughter is trapped in a fire sitting on the engine of his fishing boat.  His love for his wife, his Queen, the mother of his children, is evident as he risks his life to support his family.