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Just my world of dreams, music and thoughts. Author of two books, one a novel of Love stories set in Framingham, Mass, Secrets of the Heart the 2nd book an autobiography of growing up in Framingham, Mass. Small Town America, Framingham My generation was the first teenage generation, that was when the word was coined. Ours was the generation that started cruising through town and to the drive in theater and drive in restaurant. In our area, Ernie Kampersal,from Holliston, drove his bucking car through town, picking up girls. It rose in the air, like a stallion! We went to the soda shops and played the juke boxes. It was a different town, a different time, and it belonged to us!

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Chuck, Johnny, Ricky; Ray & Stevie (playlist)

A great song from the past...worth bringing back, does your voice fit this?

Chuck, Johnny, Ricky; Ray & Stevie (playlist)

is this when we started calling our music rock and roll?

David Reinhardt - Rosenberg Trio - Minor Swing

http://youtu.be/HsKtJkHwhhg
Django;s grandson, is the magic here for you?  The chords are there, the wandering fingers are magic...
what do you think?

Jazz as it developed...a little lesson

http://youtu.be/_fc3hffDNr8   Oh, I love Django....the music lingers in my mind through the day.....

the development of harmonic chords, with the sweet sound of the violin,,,,,,,,,it is so lovely it hurts!

Friday, April 26, 2013

oh! oh!  I am not in any of these cities...!

The 20 ‘Most Well-Read Cities’ in America, According to Amazon.com

Amazon Holds News Conference
DAVID MCNEW / GETTY IMAGES
Where in the U.S. can you find the the biggest bibliophiles? Online e-tailer Amazon just reached into its mammoth pool of purchasing data to pull out its third annual list of cities in the U.S. where the “most well-read” among us apparently reside.
Here are the top 20, in order:
1. Alexandria, Va.
2. Knoxville, Tenn.
3. Miami, Fla.
4. Cambridge, Mass.
5. Orlando, Fla.
6. Ann Arbor, Mich.
7. Berkeley, Calif.
8. Cincinnati, Ohio
9. Columbia, S.C.
10. Pittsburgh, Penn.
11. St. Louis, Mo.
12. Salt Lake City, Utah
13. Seattle, Wash.
14. Vancouver, Wash.
15. Gainesville, Fla.
16. Atlanta, Ga.
17. Dayton, Ohio
18. Richmond, Va.
19. Clearwater, Fla.
20. Tallahassee, Fla.


Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/04/26/the-20-most-well-read-cities-in-america-according-to-amazon-com/#ixzz2Ra2l8RbE

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Sarah Vaughan - Last Night When We Were Young (1960)

 
This is great material...if you need something old/new to spice up your playing...it is just a fantastic song...Carly Simon does it just right too!  Her heartbeat is in her songs, have you ever noticed...???
http://youtu.be/9o3r608IZco

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Mysterious structure found at bottom of ancient lake

Mysterious structure found at bottom of ancient lake   Here is a little mystery for you tonight.

Eydie Gormé - Perfidia

http://youtu.be/7aahSMLoUcs http://youtu.be/pQy7HGUSYT0
http://youtu.be/GsUPd01a4KM
http://youtu.be/1e5J2pTev-g



Eydie Gorme sings "I'll Take Romance"

http://youtu.be/mTTsr9UsS68      This was a major hit song for a long time, I tried to find the ones that i remembered...but, gave up, Eydie probably had the hit.... then I have my favorite pianist....Beegie, and  Lennie with a great jazz version, below... http://youtu.be/9sC7APY1iYc
http://youtu.be/_vyLYivD6Qk


Sarah Vaughan - You're Mine, You (1949)

http://youtu.be/yMu8dHdThBQ    Looking for a song....this is a beauty from long ago.....there was another recording that was even better than Sarah....I think it was Billie Eckstine....
Like the sound of his accordion ..and of course jo Stafford
http://youtu.be/doHjItD_-nk
http://youtu.be/UY8e5ezMJSA     

I think Nat Cole did this number too...Natalie has a nice presentation....

Isn't it a great song?


I am sure it was a major hit by Billie Eckstine, I have to look in my record collection, think it was on a big seller album...

Monday, April 22, 2013

Davic Baldacci, The Hit new book

Wow is this apropos ..I have it on my order list...It can only be exciting if its by Badacci

Book Description

April 23, 2013
From David Baldacci--#1 bestselling author and one of the world's most popular, widely read storytellers--comes the most thrilling novel of the year.
THE HIT
Will Robie is a master of killing.
A highly skilled assassin, Robie is the man the U.S. government calls on to eliminate the worst of the worst-enemies of the state, monsters committed to harming untold numbers of innocent victims.
No one else can match Robie's talents as a hitman...no one, except Jessica Reel. A fellow assassin, equally professional and dangerous, Reel is every bit as lethal as Robie. And now, she's gone rogue, turning her gun sights on other members of their agency.
To stop one of their own, the government looks again to Will Robie. His mission: bring in Reel, dead or alive. Only a killer can catch another killer, they tell him.
But as Robie pursues Reel, he quickly finds that there is more to her betrayal than meets the eye. Her attacks on the agency conceal a larger threat, a threat that could send shockwaves through the U.S. government and around the world.
http://www.amazon.com/Hit-David-Baldacci/