Monday, July 29, 2013
Louis Armstrong - A Kiss to Build a Dream On
This is the most wonderful version in my book, maybe because I was a teenager in love when this song came along. I played it over and over...and how could I ever forget going to see Louis at Lake Whalom Park with my "teenage love". Memories that never die. So compare the three versions and see was I just a teenager in love as a song declares, or does Louis have it!
KD Lang - A Kiss To Build A Dream On
KD Lang has such a great voice for love songs ...this is one of my favorites.
A KISS TO BUILD A DREAM ON/MANHATTAN TRANSFER
Heard this on Siriusly Sinatra this morning for the first time. I love Manhatten Transfer, and this was a brave venture because Louis Armstrong and K. D. Lang have great versions. Their approach is different, the tinkling sound in the back ground and her lovely voice. Now I will go to the other versions for you to consider...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Friday, July 12, 2013
Do not forsake me, My Darling. (High Noon)
Frankie Laine sings the song that ruled our world when this movie came out. Another big movie of the past.
Play it, Sam
Oh, how we loved Ingrid Bergman, she was the idol of the women of the world, and this song, became a monster hit...the story of the French Resistance charmed the world with it 's bravery....they made it possible for the Allies to win the war...for their work...all highly dangerous...but then that is another story!
Deborah Kerr tells the funny story...
I can't imagine anyone else playing the part ....of Deborah, can you.....especially not Joan Crawford....Deborah was so much more suited for the roll, but again, I saw the movie and it was ingrained in me...so what can I say?
The Most Romantic Performance On Film: "From Here To Eternity"
Here is another scene to whet your appetite, I would like to see the film again, it would be a great gift for someone who love movies.
Just think how many young girls learned to express their love like this....she was great!
Just think how many young girls learned to express their love like this....she was great!
From Here to Eternity (1953) - Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra
What made this movie so fantastic....was it the characters, played by our great stars of the time, or ...the scene on the beach...that never leaves our minds...
(HD 720p) "If I Loved You" (Carousel - Reprise), Gordon MacRae
This knocks me down, it is so beautiful, I wondered when I heard Frank, if I was right that Gordon really clinched the role and the songs....I wondered if I had pre conceived notions ,and I did, but I think I was right....Gordon Mac Rae was wonderful in the movie and the songs suit his voice to a T...don't you think so?
If I loved You - Frank Sinatra
Shirley Jones on Siriusly Sinatra was telling the story about Frank Sinatra ...he was to play in Carousel with her, but when he found out he would have to shoot scenes twice, he walked off the set....and the producer asked Shirley to call Gordon MacRae, who took the part. So, I thought about how the movie would have sounded had Frank taken the part instead of Gordon Mac Rae.... here is Frank, , next is Gordon MacRae
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Distant Planets on MSN Photos
Distant Planets on MSN Photos these are wonderful, years ago, I knew someone whose eyes looked like this every morning....
Meet Juvenon, its great in my opinion
Juvenon, is something I believe in, and this notice about foods that are important, is something I believe in too. Now, with the garden season here, I make sure I stuff my husband with as many veggies as possible. In fact I gave him so many that his blood thinned out without the blood thinner...Oh Oh!
Green veggies help to thin your blood, lots of dark green is best. Celery is a miracle, it is fiber, and cleaning your blood while you eat it...anyway here is the news from the experts...
I fell hard, 4 feet off the dock into a boat last winter, serious bruises, but no broken bones....I think it was the Juvenon that kept my bones from breaking...The fall was a real duzy!
Juvenon is interesting....you can look up the products here .
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Fallen Angel by Daniel Silva
Just finished this, it kept my attention, though I have been busier than I have ever been. Now is the time to take stock....I love the Kindle because I can take a number of books with me when I travel, but I prefer to read on the I-pad, rather than the Kindle.....now for the important news that all readers like to hear.....My favorite way to read, is to hold a book and get away from the electronics we use all day to do our work. So I bought a hard cover copy of this, and carried it around with 4 other books I am reading in hard copy and 4 that are on my Kindle in sample form to consider for purchase. This book is interesting, in the style of the mystery novels so popular today, it kept my interest while reading the other books in between. The story line is to solve a murder and it ties in with the real ( in make believe) undercover art world of thieves and deception that has been going on for so long. The Vatican bank scandal is briefly part of the story, as are the mysterious chambers of the Vatican. The change of locations,the undercover agents, the unusual murder of a thief, all will keep your interest.The Fallen Angel by Daniel Silva (Jun 25, 2013)
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Friday, July 5, 2013
The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero - NYTimes.com
The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero - NYTimes.com this was an item that caught my eye, well worth reading.
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
MSN Entertainment -#/video/c40022f3-6322-97bc-d624-2ac0de998b4b
MSN Entertainment -#/video/c40022f3-6322-97bc-d624-2ac0de998b4b ideas from the past, entertaining for the long weekend.
Monday, July 1, 2013
Earl Bostic - On Green Dolphin Street
Get acquainted with Earl Bostic...one of the great sounds of the far away past.
Brazil - Django Reinhardt
Just being ....you know what, but is that guitar doing a yodel...at the start?
Django Reinhardt - How High The Moon - Rome, 01 or 02. 1949
Oh, those fingers......nothing like Les Paul, right?
Slim Whitman 'Cattle Call' Original 78 RPM
Something unusual, no one yodels today, so maybe many of you have not heard something like this.
SLIM WHITMAN---from a jack to a king
This was a big hit many years ago, I don't remember if it was at the time that Country was becoming popular in the whole country.
Thursday, June 27, 2013
"Disinformation", a new book
Ex-spy chief: Obama thrives on ‘Disinformation’#wi3cIEgYJirvZ64C.03
Has it ever occurred to you that a spy agency could operate other than the way we think....and why not? Did you wonder why the Pope who had done so much to help the Jews during the 2nd World War, would end up with a contrary reputation, as I wondered?
Just picture a novel, based on this.....the Government of the United States controlled by the Unions over whelms the citizenry, and the military to establish a dictatorship.....in the year 2030....
Will that be the next George Orwell novel...2030
I am thinking about it, how about you?
Has it ever occurred to you that a spy agency could operate other than the way we think....and why not? Did you wonder why the Pope who had done so much to help the Jews during the 2nd World War, would end up with a contrary reputation, as I wondered?
Just picture a novel, based on this.....the Government of the United States controlled by the Unions over whelms the citizenry, and the military to establish a dictatorship.....in the year 2030....
Will that be the next George Orwell novel...2030
I am thinking about it, how about you?
Here is the storyline of my new imaginary novel titled 2030...
shall we write it together?
shall we write it together?
Long term planning by the Soviet Union using disinformation to take over the news organizations, the colleges, and all forms of government of the United States to build power for the people, through the unions...
the unions, who run our government, get our leaders elected, etc are among the first visitors to the new white house
get the union balance sheet removed from having to become public by March of the new administration
eventually the unions are able to take over the country with their strength, because union employees are loyal to the union , not to the government
they overwhelm the military and the US becomes a dictatorship.
The results of the take over are bankruptcy of the cities and states, then eventually the Federal Government,
but before that happens the military is forced to shrink and then collapse from lack of funding, science projects are cut back, and all necessary infrastructure is de- funded, along with the ability to be independent for our supply of natural resources to power the grid, and commerce.
Any takers to write this novel with me?
Monday, June 24, 2013
Henry Mancini - Baby Elephant Walk
Comon now, if you don't recognize the music of Henry Mancini, you are missing it....I have a theory that we all have a rhythm of life and nothing demonstrates it more than a composer or a singer, like Carly Simon.
The Pink Panther Theme - Henry Mancini & His Orchestra
is this critter related? Peter Gunn we are listening...or is it just the style, the great style of Henry Mancini
NIGHT TRAIN by Jimmy Forrest 1951
here is when Night Train began to break into our consciousness....and then it took off with many other versions
Earl Bostic - Night Train
Wow, did he drag the notes out....so good to taste the music on both arrangements...
Louis Prima - Night Train
we have to listen to this then go back to Earl Bostic on this number...and I love , love this too!
Earl Bostic - Flamingo
this worn out record of mine, shows the style of Earl Bostic, can anyone capture it today?
Fats Domino - blueberry hill
Fats Domino had a certain style, that was totally different than Louis Armstrong, loved both arrangements
Chuck Berry and Ritchie Valens in GO, JOHNNY GO - 1958
a peek at the past....with the swinging of Go Johnny Go
Louis Prima------Jump,Jive an'Wail
ha ha, this is one of my favorite Louis Prima numbers and you have to laugh, when he starts doing the jitterbug with Keely Smith, and she just stands there, while he bops around on stage...You can see his personality , it drew the Rat Pack for years....Sammy, Peter, Frank Joey...and Dean...
The Lion Sleeps Tonight- The Lion King
For all ages ...music of Africa..we are the world...time to think of what to get the kids for Christmas, and this Disney film is wonderful for little ones especially.
Cabin in the Sky 1943 - pt 1 - credits
Lena Horne so beautiful, such a voice in a film I remember from childhood....
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Thursday, June 20, 2013
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Helen Forrest & Benny Goodman Orch. - When The Sun Comes Out
how did I ever forget this song. I was reminded of it on facebook. This is one of the great arrangements of the past.
Jo Stafford - Something To Remember You By
stuck with me since yesterday so I had to play it again...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Joe Bonamassa on Jools Holland
Eric Clapton speaks for this guitarist...so lets give him a listen....Wow!
John Pizzarelli - Route 66
Feel the time...in this song..we had cars and a longing to drive, to see the world, we were teens! The world was our oyster after the 2nd World War ended, we had so many things starting to happen, washing machines, refrigerators, cars, they all changed their clothes and got hip! So did we!
Route 66 - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
The mystery of Route 66, was our , or my dream to find....when I heard this song, way long ago....
Judy Garland & Jose Iturbi - The Joint Is Really Jumping Down at Carnegi...
Jose Iturbi learns to Jive, Boogie Woogie, with Judy Garland....
Friday, June 14, 2013
Svelte and a little etymology today
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Posted: 13 Jun 2013 01:09 AM PDT When I was young, I often used to play Scrabble with my grandmother Win on my way home from school. (By which I mean her maisonette was on my route home, not that we played Scrabble on the bus.) Which probably helps account for the deep-rooted enjoyment I still get from weird and wonderful words, many decades later. From way back then, my favourite English word has always been “svelte” (though “tergiversate” was nipping at its heels for a couple of weeks last year). The reason I particularly like svelte is that it’s (I’m struggling to describe) ‘productively onomatopoeic’, in that the slow ‘l’-sound in the middle makes it feels elegant (indeed svelte) on the tongue. Really, it’s a word with an unusual (but nicely matching) mouth feel, one that manages to stand out from a dictionary sized pack. With getting too synaesthetic on you, to me it’s a kind of David Gower four of a word, a left-handed ping that’s over the boundary before the fielders even notice it’s gone. Something can’t be half-svelte, it’s either got it or it hasn’t. Svelte also brings right to the fore the mad ragtag heterogeneity of English, the arbitrary coupling together of chance encounters over the millennia. To some it sounds (You might therefore suspect that it shares some kind of origin with “vellum” which is also stretched out, but the latter has its roots in “veal”, i.e. young calves: hence vellum is properly fine calfskin.) Languages are like that: for all their modern apologists, academies, and syntactic niceties, they’re at heart accidental rather than designed. Esperanto and all the other modern conlangs are all very well, but a good part of the charm of real-world languages is the way stray and mongrel words hop in to fill the semantic gaps that inevitably open up as culture mutates and evolves. English obviously needed a word that expressed presence of svelteness in an object, why else would svelte have succeeded and persisted otherwise? But (and isn’t there always a but in Cipher Mysteries)… where’s all that in the Voynich Manuscript’s language? Even if William Friedman was completely and utterly wrong about the Voynich’s being an artificial constructed language (which he was), I really can see exactly why he thought & believed that. For Voynichese words show such a strong family resemblance – a strongly interlinked productive grammar, if you will – that it almost precludes anything else. Whatever Voynichese is, there is definitely an artificiality to it, or at least an abundance of artifice. I suspect that anyone trying to map Voynichese onto a direct language base will almost inevitably find (to their eventual embarrassment) that it’s just too artificial to be workable: and that’s pretty much what Elizebeth Friedman concluded too. So here’s your Voynich paradox for the day. I’m sure that there can be no “svelte” in the Voynichese ‘language’ as we see it, because the overwhelming majority of its words arise from a compact productive grammar quite unlike that of a real, heterogeneous, messy, accidental, historic language: and yet the look of Voynichese so resembles a language that it’s hard not to feel as though you’re perpetually a mini-dictionary away from just reading it. Of course, for me the resolution of this paradox comes down to a well-chosen bunch of steganographic tricks (such as verbose cipher, shorthand, etc) that serve to conceal the plaintext in a misleading form… but you will no doubt have your own theories about how to slice through such a Gordian knot.  The post The Svelte Voynich… appeared first on Cipher Mysteries.      |
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Soft Summer Breeze - Eddie Heywood. 1956 played on a Bang & Olufsen tur...
this was a big hit with me...again a worn out record, I had a Bang and Olufsen..and that is a 45 record, note the table is set for a 78 size, and we would put a center clip in the middle of the 45, the arm would then come all the way to the 45, so the player could play both the 45 and the 78....I sat on a pile of 78's...whoa!
"Route 66" - The Manhattan Transfer (2008)
I love the Manhattan Transfer, and this is a song of the times...I have been entertaining with the last song, and Billy Eckstein....all before the war....when Rt 66 was the way across the United States....
"The Java Jive" (Ink Spots, 1940)
This was a hot hot song back in the late 40's when I became aware of it....
Billy Eckstine - Blue moon
there was a quality to his voice, that called you back to listen again and again.
Buddy Holly Peggy Sue with Lyrics
Another one of my favorites from long ago...and I loved the movie.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Swing Time - Rogers and Astaire
and now the Maestro of the movies.....Fred with Ginger! Note the spats with his tails...
1920's - Quickstep Vs Charleston
Happy Feet, you can see how stilted the dancers were versus the jitterbug, which was adapted from these dances...
Chick Webb's Orch. & Ella Fitzgerald! - My Heart Belongs To Daddy, 1939
the young Ella's voice...she was often singing with Chick Webb...
Cab Calloway - Minnie The Moocher 1930
The signature tune for Cab Calloway....you always knew when you heard this that Cab Calloway was coming on...
Cab Calloway and Nicholas Brothers performing 'Jumpin Jive'.
What dancers! What energy between Cab Calloway singing, the band playing and the two brothers dancing. Those splits had to be killers!
Chattanooga Choo Choo!
Lots of dancing in those days...see the spats on the feet of the men....Spats where originally to keep mud off socks and shoes, soldiers wore them, then they became part of the dress when a man was dressed to go someplace special...and dancers wore them, especially remember Fred Astair wearing them.
TEX BENEKE ~ GIVE ME FIVE MINUTES MORE ~ 1946
Now we are graduating to Jitter Bug....some people tried to Charleston to this, but the jitterbug was more fun, easier to dance and not as stilted...more free form...
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