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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!

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Olivia Newton-John - Magic (Xanadu Soundtrack)

Wonder why this song did not live and get recorded by others...?  It has nice sounds...great potential

Wolfman Jack!!!! Howlin' On The Air part 1

  the howling was great because in the east, it was much later, and when the wolf howled....!!

The American Graffiti Wolfman Jack Show 1

Throw back Tuesday.....

The Guess Who Clap For The Wolfman 1974 Tribute to Wolfman Jack You...

is that Imus at 3:45 on front left?

Just a little fun...miss the wolfman

Antonio Carlos Jobim - Brazil

 Jobim has such a different sound, delicate almost

XAVIER CUGAT song BRASIL

Orchestral arrangement in a different approach...

Carmen Cavallaro - Brazil (+playlist)

Piano glory!

Liberace Bumble Boogie

So excited, I feel like this, my first great grandchild is on his way in to the world....

1941 Glenn Miller FIRST version of At Last (cut from Sun Valley Serenade...

This is probably what I remember most about Sun Valley...the music was so fabulous....I never forgot the movie...That is what movies and plays were about ...fabulous music, great song writers , arrangers.!

1946 HITS ARCHIVE: Bumble Boogie - Freddy Martin (Jack Fina, piano instr...

talk about piano playing!

1946 HITS ARCHIVE: Five Minutes More - Frank Sinatra (his original #1 ve...

This song makes me think about the end of the war and the men coming home in uniform,( a navy uniform comes to the picture in my mind, two uncles where in the Navy)......and getting back to the business of building a life...

Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You (Live)

Frank Sinatra....he is not disputed as the greatest American singer....of his time....I was listening to Dolly Parton on Fox, with Imus in the morning, I think it was, about a week ago...and the number of albums, the songs, she has produced!....Will she be the one who we remember as the greatest female American singer, of her time?

   It is hard to tag anyone as the greatest, because we are blessed with so many talented people...Just asking...what do you think... maybe to be fair to every outstanding artist, we need a list of the greatest!

Just imagine how many names come to you now, as we think about this...

USAAF B-17 Flying Fortresses engaged on mission, WWII, Above and Beyond

Watched this movie, Above and Beyond, on Turner Classic last night.  It opened my eyes, because I never thought about the strain that the pilot had, to determine the weight, the arming of the bomb, the delivery height in the air , all of the things a child would not think of...when we learned that this had happened.  A shock to the world! None of us could believe that Japan would not surrender , even when notified before we dropped the bombs!  It was interesting to hear...Brigadier General Tippet say years later, when confronted with the statement that innocent women and children died

  "No one is innocent when there is war!  Everyone is involved supporting one side or the other."  It was hard to defend when we saw the horror and destruction,but in the movie you can see the choice laid out before General Tippett....the choice we all had to realize was the only choice.   We could have kept on bombing and bombing and invade Japan....or we could  end the war quicker save more lives than we would lose, by doing this.  That was the conclusion we came too as war torn neighbors grieved for their wounded and dead sons and daughters,  years away from home, while this war kept on , for what seemed like forever.

CARMEN CAVALLARO - ADIOS

Gorgeous piano...and wonderful arranging...