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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!

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Sam Butera & The Witnesses - Night Train, Oh! Yes! Sax song

Sleep Walk ~ Boots Randolph 1964 comon ! great sax song

Sleepwalk is a classic and perfect for a sax solo....love the drag sound of the sax.....

Boots Randolph ~ So Rare perfectly suited for sax...great song...

Madlyn Fafard,: I CAN'T GET STARTED - Bunny Berigan 1937 and James Moody

Madlyn Fafard,: I CAN'T GET STARTED - Bunny Berigan 1937: So great, I just had to listen to this recording again tonight...
and now James Moody,
http://youtu.be/wuIM_KRjLGk

I CAN'T GET STARTED - Bunny Berigan 1937

So great, I just had to listen to this recording again tonight, it was a song for the alto sax, with John Park and Stan Kenton....to me, this is the best presentation of the song....

Jewish Influence on Broadway Music on WGBH Bostonright now...its great

what a wonderful program its on WGBH Boston right now....44 on my tv....if you love music...you should enjoy this show...

Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens

Civic League dances in the moonlight on the parking lot across from St. Stephens church, First National Store was on the other corner, across from the parking lot.  Bobby Sculos opened a men's clothing store, right there on the end of the strip center on the same side as the church.  Nancy Hoey, was his first employee?  Friends Jim,became a judge in Framingham Court, and Joe became a teacher(, he loved ragtime piano).  Bob became a teacher and coach in Framingham...anyone know who they were?

1947 HITS ARCHIVE: Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens - Louis Jordan

We called this Bee Bop! We had so much fun dancing to this.....can you see the girls swinging in the air....none of us did that in Framingham, but on TV....it started to happen...

"And the Angels Sing" Benny Goodman and his Orchestra

the times....war was looming in Europe, the folks who were part of the great immigration of the 1900's had entered the 2nd generation in the United States.  Life held promise as all races, and ethnic origins blended in the world of our culture, as expressed in the fabulous music of the 1930's which continued to blossom into the 1940's and early 1950's.  Then we went through the 2nd World War....with another blending of enthnicty and culture, that gave us heroes in all walks of life.



and this....is perhaps the best arrangement of the song of all time

http://youtu.be/8NjeiWtlkRM


Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Vaughn Monroe - Moon Over Miami

Just about now, the show at the Meadows would be starting with the owner singing one of his hits, Vaughn Monroe, was the hit of the area, with the wonderful Meadows on Rt 9....we had so much in those wonderful years... and this ....oh! this is my favorite arrangment...what a song...! Click on the link below if you love music, as I do...what style, what an arrangment!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGzll740_ik




Soft Summer Breeze By Eddie Heywood, for Beegie Adair to recreate

htts://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbviIb5JalY    touch the link here to see the tabletop version of the jukebox, we had at the Wellworth, back in the 1950's , this was a song I alway thought was Liberace, but  I do remember now, it was Eddie Hayward, who was so great ....I wish Beegie Adair would make a recording of this..

Sunday, June 8, 2014