Bert Kaempfert - A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square (1965)

another favorite, and I thought Bert kaempfert would be a treat....hardly anyone knows him today, but he was big...in the 50's, and this is typical of the 50's horn sound.  It reminds me of a night at the Totem Pole....which was our dream date in those days!

Manhattan Transfer - On a little street in Singapore 1978

just feel like some great music tonight, imagine way back to 1978,,,,and it is great!~

Marty Robbins Singing 'Room Full Of Roses.'

A time to sit and say thank you to the Rose's in our lives, whether their names were Rose, or Karen, or Angie, Maggie, Theresa, Anita, Grace, Mary and I could go on....

Boots Randolph ~ So Rare

Earl Bostic swept me off my feet with the saxophone and it always remains one of my favorite instruments.  Here is one of the great saxophone players of my day.

Blue Moon - Rod Stewart

Rod Stewart has some of the best arrangements, take this song for instance, it is just beautiful, and he is generous with his appreciation for those that accompany him, just love this guitar!  Gorgeous presentation, Rod, we thank you....

Frequency, by Penny Pierce, a wonderful book for people that are always looking to learn, improve and grow....

This review is from: Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration (Paperback)

My inner self spoke to me, each time i went back to pick up where I left off. Why I asked, aren't we teaching this in the lower grades, so that children growing up in good or especially bad circumstances can understand that life is welcoming and loving and no matter the present circumstances, you are empowered to make it better. What an injustice we do ourselves to deprive our children of the knowledge that we are vibrating, as is everything around us.

The facts of vibration , the levels , the types of things that vibrations can do, are still so poorly understood. Just this week, people on facebook were incredulous that grains of salt can move with the vibrations of music. How would our world change if we took the lessons of science and started to reach down to elementary school with the magic of our reality. If we continue to focus on matter and ignore our electrical, vibrational essence, we teach children that matter is all that counts.

I personally think that this book is a "bible" of how to react to good and bad circumstances, how to approach our desires and their fulfillment, and how to be a better marriage partner, parent, and "boss". You can not just jump in and practice what Penny Pierce preaches, because you are a creature of habit, but each day you take a step in the direction you want to reach, as you would as you learned to walk, and talk.

From the start I felt that this book would be helpful to people who deal with the demons of addiction, split personality and other problems, since it is giving hope that a personal mantra, an understanding of why we have to face trials, sadness, failure, and falls. It holds out hope that there is something to reach for, for all of us, no matter how the cards are dealt at our birth.

Understanding how the past affects the future, how a Mom or Dad, can color the future of their child and how that child is reacting to the lessons learned at home, are all easily recognized.

This book is like a counselor that you can see when you want to, just by choosing your chapter and sinking into the lessons , by examining your own life, how you got where you are, and do you want to change it, or understand and improve it?

Carolyn Myss is another teacher, Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing was one of my favorite books. I have to say that Penny Pierce has gone beyond, by focusing on what everyone avoids (the real world of vibrations)is making it easy for us to do self improvement.

George Harrison - "Got My Mind Set On You" Version 2 (From the album "Cl...

What can I say about this?

Just a great song , as so many songs from members of the Beatles!

Tony Bennett - Isn't It Romantic

Tony Bennett one of the best voices....listen then



listen to thisjphnny mathis



two great voices both doing a great job.....



now this.....Michael Feinstein



One of these arrangements sticks, comes back to me in his voice all the time....There are songs made for certain voices, and the great voices do a good job, but one voice stands out...either the voice or the arrangement.

In this case,



Michael Feinstein, is my favorite how about you?

"Unbroken",A new and fabulous book

Today is most appropriate to post this as it addresses the trail of fright, terror, and utter despair our fighting men endured in the 2nd World War ( and in any war). We face the loss today of a man ,Robin Williams,who made us laugh and now cry because he gave up!    How do these events intermingle? The wonderful Billy Graham saved our hero in "Unbroken" how many of us are that fortunate?

Words and ideas escape us ,we feel helpless with people in despair and depression, but they do laugh, and smile at times, so somewhere behind and deep below that sadness is the spark of their soul.  Maybe as a society we need to put forth more positive movies, music , etc, books that illustrate the magic and hope in the worlds specially for the young souls, teens and young adults so they know redemption is a given.

Watching " The Egyptian" yesterday ,a movie ( and book of the 50's ) the difference between our present culture and then was so apparent.  "Unbroken" and "The Egyptian",both show how we can redeem ourselves from the darkest days.    Children need to learn young that they can face life bravely even when they make big mistakes and that redemption is possible because it brings peace.

"Unbroken" just released has over 10,000 reviews on Amazon including mine.  It was and is a book of the year.  A book that illustrates what our culture of the late 40's and 50's produced, and how this "MAN " handled his life with incredible stamina, bravery, and forgiveness when it seemed no one could ever forgive such atrocious brutality

Our precious souls need more attention in the early growing stages ,don't you agree?

Nomination for the Nobel Prize, confirming inflationary model of the universe....

Astronomers have discovered traces of gravitational waves in the relict radiation, confirming the inflationary model of the universe. As stated by leading scientists around the world, this long-awaited finding will soon be nominated for the Nobel Prize.

The announcement of the discovery about of new evidence supporting the inflationary model of the universe caused an unprecedented excitement in the scientific world.

The central idea of this model states that our universe is only one “unit” in an infinite and ever-expanding set of unrelated parallel universes which form the so-called multiverse.

The existence of the multiverse is suggested by other theories such as string theory and by such fields of theoretical physics as quantum mechanics.

“If there is inflation, then there is multiverse. Any proof of inflation brings us closer to verifying the existence of the multiverse,” says Andrei Linde, author of the theory of cosmic inflation and Professor of Physics at Stanford University.

The researchers claim to have managed to detect a celestial signal arising from the ultra-fast expansion of the universe after a split second after the Big Bang.

Of course, the results should be double-checked by independent experts, but world-renowned scientists do not doubt their authenticity. Most likely, the authors of this work will soon be nominated for the Nobel Prize in physics.

The results were obtained by the American group of researchers working on the BICEP2 project. They processed the data of the radio telescope at the South Pole, which is continuously recording celestial signals.

The scientists were trying to find some traces of the inflation of the universe, i.e. the exponential expansion of space just after the Big Bang.

The inflationary universe model suggests the appearance of giant gravitational waves directly after the birth of the world, which should leave a trace in the relic microwave radiation, which has long been discovered by astronomers.

These were the traces, i.e. polarization of the magnetic mode (B- mode) of radiation, that were discovered by the researchers during the BICEP2 experiment. Only gravitational waves resulting from inflationary phase of expansion of the universe could leave such a mark in the CMB.

Gravitational waves were predicted by Albert Einstein 100 years ago in his famous general theory of relativity (GTR). Thus, in addition, the scientists managed to get one more convincing proof of general relativity.

“The discovery gives us unprecedented opportunities in a completely new field of physics, which will explore the phenomena that occurred immediately after the Big Bang,” said Professor John Kovac, head of the BICEP2 group.

The most amazing thing is that the traces discovered in the signal were much stronger than the scientists expected, which allows them to automatically exclude a number of theories in the inflationary universe model.

Credits: Anna, LearningMind

References:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1403.3985.pdf

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Salty Dog Gallery, and Acadia national Park...take a peek

Planning on an escape to Maine, our friends Joan and Phil Steel are parents of the Salty Dog Gallery
Say "Hello" for us....then visit this magnificent park, gifted by the Rockefeller's..

This is the season in Maine when most of the South heads to Maine for their vacation...as one Texan said, "its 75 degrees here and 110 degrees in Texas in the shade"., and .......Acadia National Park was voted the #1 Park in the Nation....The park is next door to the gallery.. About Us:  Please plan to excape the heat, and  visit us on Mount Desert Island. The Acadia National Park is within walking distance of The Salty Dog Gallery, and  the park has over 200 miles of hiking trails with exceptional views of the Gulf of Maine and surrounding Islands. Please see Phil's website:   www.philipssteel.com.  or call me for information about the work in the gallery.  772-465-8322                                                               Joan Steel

Artie Shaw - Nightmare

like me, you probably have heard this song, but never knew it's name....

Artie Shaw & his Orchestra with Helen Forrest - They Say (1938)

Artie Shaw, wonderful, wonderful, this is not a blow you away song, but it's Artie Shaw!

Eric Clapton - After Midnight (BEST VERSION EVER!)

Wow, just listen to this version of After Midnight....its a wow!

J J CALE After midnight 1971

I still love Eric Clapton's version the best....do you ?

Eric Clapton/JJ Cale-Call Me The Breeze

Eric Clapton has a new album, called Call Me The Breeze....here is the song of the title..

Dr. Weil's Anti-Inflammatory Food Pyramid

Dr. Weil's Anti-Inflammatory Food Pyramid  today I thought of how much food we eat without thought .  So I decided to investigate a little on some of the ideas I followed at a younger age.  Dr Pauling was touting 1000 mg of Vitamin C a day, and other doctors were saying nay!  But now, to reduce your CRP,  which could be an indicator of heart disease. ( we know it is an indicator of inflammation), doctors are now saying take 1000 mg of vitamin C a day.



Dr Weil goes further and recommends super foods and a pyramid to follow to keep your body balanced and not acidic.



It is hard to do in this day and age, when food values are changing, even our plants our changing.  What will happen if we have a war and the only seeds on earth are proprietary and we can no longer grow watermelons from their seeds, or carrots and apples from their seeds...

The Girls of Atomic City

4.0 out of 5 stars Second World War atmosphere, feelings, life, its all here., July 7, 2014

By 

madlyn fafard (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II (Paperback)

If you always wanted to learn about the Second World War, this is a good start. Told from a number of voices, it touches on segregation, the plight of women who had little exposure to opportunity even if they went to college, the struggle of the working families to put food on the table, whether black or white. How few women got the chance to go to college. How drudging work could be and how much fun dancing and bowling were to lighten the load of the working folks. All of the culture of the time, rises up as families and individuals face the opportunity for a new job in an unknown place , doing something they knew nothing about, working in secrecy , in difficult living conditions, and making the best of it. The whispering and meanness of people, who guessed at secrets, when they did not know what was going on, even in war time, the stand offish attitude toward others....people were less open, less able to comprehend what others might be doing, the struggle for survival was still too close to home.. Its not far from my mind, as I recall the dads and moms in my neighborhood, and I know that my dad made $25.00 a week, supporting a family of 4. Bread was around 5 cents a loaf then..

This story filled in the part about the Germans for me, as the scientists they confined in England, admitted they were no where near the development of the bomb in Germany. Maybe no other country could have done what we did, because the cost of building the bomb was STUPENDOUS, for that day and age....the size of the plants, and the product that was emitted, are all shocking, so little for such effort, who else but the United States, would be able to produce this feat, just as we did with the production of war goods and supplies for our men. The picture of the time is just a start, if you are interested in the 2nd World Was as I am , one of the books I really enjoyed was on how our country mobilized.Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II This book is perfect to follow The Girls of Atomic City.

The Midnight Special More 1978 - 15 - Peter Allen - I Go To Rio

there is something about this song, that has great potential, waiting for it to break out again?

Glenn Miller and the Army Air Force Band - Over There

Just look at the hits this plane had!  In the day when there was no air conditioning or heat in a plane, the pilots wore heavy leather jackets, lined with fleece...precision bombing?  What was that...just let the whole load go, we are over target...

the song is from the first world war, but popular in the second world war , too.  What purpose?  What gain?

How can we overcome those who want to wage war?  Can you truly subjugate the world?

Gomer Sings With Hippys

Gomer Pyle was before Forrest Gump....and he had a wonderful voice

THE EDDIE DUCHIN STORY

 a good movie to watch tonight, filled with piano music

K-Rations: "Food for Fighters" circa 1943 US Office of War Information W...

Once in a while I seem to remember, ( or maybe more than once in awhile, we got films like this at the Saturday matinee, during the war.    Now watching this, I think this must have given birth to the idea of fast food...as we know it today.....???

Claire Mahoney Lavin, (for my class mates)

Going back to high school days ...many of you will remember Claire Mahony Lavin,who died this past week.  She will be remembered for giving to the community as a Selectwoman, a successful real estate broker, mother of 5 children, a provider and dual parent, because she lost her husband Joe Lavin, at a young age.  Claire was a remarkable woman, she always did the best she could and that was what made her special..

The Girls of Atomic City, my newest read...quote about dictators

Laura, the wife of Enrico Fermi was Jewish, they joined the exodus and eventually wound up in the United States with the International team of scientists that were to work on the Atomic bomb.  From the book , page 79, "These scientists-Hungarians , Italians, Germans-knew the power and speed with which a dictatorial state could mobilize ,Universities, Military Research.  Back in their war-ravaged homelands, these entities, each with their own expertise and power, were under a single direction, guided and controlled by one hand."

"A dictator decrees,"  she later wrote, "a president asks Congress for permission to organize."

Forrest Gump (1/9) Movie CLIP - Peas and Carrots (1994) HD

the nicest treat for your children, is to show them this movie, it is so wonderful, even for the adults...How many times have you seen it....

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Guy Mitchell - Singing the blues (1956).mpg

here is a song for a lift...great rhythm, forget the blues, just bounch around with this...

Anita O'Day ~ Ten Cents A Dance

what a voice...one of the Queens of Jazz

Earl Bostic -- I'll String Along With You (VintageMusic.es)

Looking for some new material, here is an old song that was well loved...

Earl Bostic - "Moonglow" - sweetened version

Moonglow, was a great song...form the movie, Picnic...

Julio Iglesias - La Mer [Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ending]

this is the version that everyone fell in love with...most recently...

Beyond The Sea Kevin Spacey

Something to do on a hurrican night....this is available for Amazon rental...prime members look it up...a great movie with lots of music

Sarah Vaughan ft Fred Norman & His Orchestra - Last Night When We Were Y...

this song from the 1930's is so nice , it could be easily revived...for a great voice

Sarah Vaughan - 'Round Midnight (1963)

Sarah still shining!

Sarah Vaughan ft Count Basie Orchestra - Moonlight In Vermont (Mercury R...

This song show cases her voice...we  loved her...growing up in the 50's

MOCEDADES - TOUCH THE WIND (ERES TU) TARA VINYL SINGLE

 Such a beautiful song from the past.  I heard this song first in Spain, it was hard to find in English, but here it is....

Frankie Valli Greatest Hits Medley (22 All Time Great Hits Revised)

Would like to see the movie about the Jersey Boys.....they were great,

THE RASCALS - GROOVIN ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON.wmv

  Back to the 60's?

George Benson - Give Me The Night [1980]

This is better than thinking for the moment....love love jazz....great George Benson...keep him in your repertoire

Third World War? Could it be and we don't even know it?

Just thinking and wondering if anyone else has come to the conclusion that I have.   The war of the future does not have to be fought with bombs, super weapons and other hi tech equipment, because not all the radicals will be able to match the" power countries", who do have these weapons..

Thinking further, if the giant can not be tumbled with bows and arrows, or just grows angry like in the David and Goliath story, then what do you do?  After all he is liable to lose his cool and stamp you out or bomb you out...he is that big....

As Saul Alinsky preached keep them in turmoil, as soon as one situation calms down start another situation.
Think about the situations we have wasted money on, fighting wars  that have no end, and continue on, the minute we turn our back.  It seems that the enemy gains from all the equipment and expertise we leave behind.  Can we count that as a win for the Allies, or the Radicals.?  Turmoil and dissension

Suddenly in Israel young teens are captured and murdered, while in the United States we suddenly have an influx of children from foreign countries crossing our border.  While these diversions with children are going on and disturbing the civilized world, another bloody war is unfolding in the Middle East with threats against the U.S. on Twitter, another Saul Alinsky tactic... dissension, turmoil, spend money and weaken the enemy...

It appears to me, we are in a new type of warfare, one based on new tactics we are not prepared to deal with.  Our stage of civilization makes it difficult to deal with the new warfare we will face, so the little radical ants building their power centers, collecting their tools of the new warfare, may yet rise over the Goliath of our cultured civilization....Imagine being too civilized to be able to fight back?  Are we that gullible that we can not mobilize ever again to face a world wide threat, that will change it's face constantly, until it towers over us?

There may be a grain of intuition here....just think how unlikely it is that thousands of children would suddenly appear on our border?   It is hard to believe that this was not moblizied.... Is this about to happen from Africa to the Mediterranean countries, why not?  What stops it in the Med?    What would Spain, France and Italy do?

Maybe we need to have some conversations about this startling new method of warfare...destroy from within...didn't the Russians warn us during the cold war, that we would destroy ourselves?

Your turn....any thoughts on this?

The Manhattan Transfer-On A Little Street In Singapore #126-*T*O*T*Ps*70s*

I love to listen to Manhattan Transfer present this song....it sticks with me...

Della Reese - And that reminds me

 How about this ...

Della Reese - Don't You Know? ("Puccini")

One of my favorites by Della

Della Reese - A Hundred Years from Today

long before Amy Winehouse we had this grand sound from Della

100 Years From Today- The Spaniels

an example of that same beautiful song in Doo Wop

Perry Botkin Jr - A Hundred Years From Today

A great song is great no matter how you present it....

Top 40 Hits Of 1940 7 Jimmy Dorsey The Breeze and I

Just before the war, everything was quiet, and I thought normal, all over the world.  This was the sound of radio in our living room, when I lived on Hollis and Waushakum Blvd, and went to Memorial School..  The fabulous Dorsey brothers had their own radio show and through their music and  the sound of the sax, I dreamed of the world I saw in the movies.  In those days the fire department on Hollis Street blew its whistle to call for volunteer firemen, to announce the 5 pm quitting time, or for us kids to go home for dinner.... and to announce an important event...like the day the 2nd World War ended!

EARL BOSTIC - NIGHT & DAY

one more , just one more...

EARL BOSTIC - NIGHT & DAY

one more , just one more...

Earl Bostic - Blue Moon (from the album Alto-Tude, 1956)

The great Earl Bostic...again, can't get enough of his sound....even after all these years..

Patrizio Buanne - you don't have to say you love me.

http://thehowardtheatre.com/show/2014/07/16/patrizio-buanne/   click on the left for information July 16, in New York...

Earl Bostic / Flamingo

Tonight thinking how much I loved the music of Earl Bostic, have you ever heard anyone like this...?

http://youtu.be/9xy7aDGAdRc  this link is to Blue Moon....    I went to Storyville in Boston to enjoy his music

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

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..

Warsaw Concerto written for a movie! Imagine !

Stunning music written for this movie, The Warsaw Concerto

Peter MacDonald - Navajo Code Talker - Living History

What amazing people our native Americans!  Their heritage is so proudly displayed in the heroes of the Greatest Generation.. they produced.

FAFARD RE MetroWest, Mass., Residential/ Commercial Real Estate: Tribute to John Eliot...history abounds where Ashland, Holliston, Sherborn and Natick all come close#links#links#links

FAFARD RE MetroWest, Mass., Residential/ Commercial Real Estate: Tribute to John Eliot...history abounds where Ashland, Holliston, Sherborn and Natick all come close#links#links#links

The Navajo Code Talkers, Our Heroes.

lets not forget, and I hope their language never dies!  We should help them preserve it just as John Eliot once did for the Massachusetts "Praying Indians."..

Music of the 1940s at The National World War II Museum's Stage Door Canteen

Just a reminder if going to the area, of New Orleans

Black Book-A Hundred Years From Today

Die fesche Lola - Carice Van Houten (Black book)

I loved this movie, I was wondering what language I was watching it in, I never realized I could change the language on my tv until I had seen the whole movie....then I watched it again in English, and loved it again.

Hugh Masekela - "Night in Tunisia".wmv

Louis Armstrong - "Skokiaan" (original 78)

1954 HITS ARCHIVE: Skokiaan - Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band (instrumental)

Skokiaan was a major hit, I would not have remembered it, except it just got my eye and the name rang a bell., so here it is

1954 HITS ARCHIVE: Hold My Hand - Don Cornell (from "Susan Slept Here")

Yes, it was another record worn out from constant play

1952 HITS ARCHIVE: I'm Yours - Don Cornell

Don Cornell was so wonderful, I wore out his records on my 45 player...

1952 HITS ARCHIVE: Walkin' My Baby Back Home - Johnnie Ray

 ime to listen to Johnny Ray...he had the hit on this song...

WALKIN' MY BABY BACK HOME by Jo Stafford

Jo Stafford - "For You"

Jo Stafford - Make Love To Me

Adrian Rollini Orchestra, Chick Bullock vocal - A Hundred Years From Tod...

bass sax...a great song, to bring back...

STORMY WEATHER by Billy Butterfield Recorded from Radio Transcription

 A well known sound of the past..

Fly Girls of WWII Exhibit

What a movie this would make, it's something that many young women today do not know about.

Serge Chaloff 1954- All I Do Is Dream of you, Storyville, Boots Mazzulli

from Storyville in Boston, and the sound of the Boots Mazzulli saxophone....

Boots Muzzulli must have been the one to bring Stan Kenton to Eddie Curran's road house in Framingham

Boots Muzzulli (they spell his name as Mussulli)From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Henry "Boots" Muzzuli (November 18, 1915, Milford, Massachusetts – September 23, 1967, Norfolk, Massachusetts) was an Italian-American jazz saxophonist, based chiefly out of Boston.

According to the Social Security files, he was born in 1915, not in 1917 as previously stated.

Mussulli's first instrument was clarinet, which he first played at age 12. He played with Mal Hallett in Massachusetts around 1940, and joined Teddy Powell's group in 1943-44. He played with Stan Kenton from 1944 to 1947 and returned to play with Kenton again on tour in 1952 and 1954. He also played with Vido Musso, Gene Krupa (1948), Charlie Ventura (1949), Serge Chaloff, Toshiko Akiyoshi (1955), and Herb Pomeroy.

In 1949, Mussulli opened a jazz club in his hometown, called "The Crystal Room". From the mid-1950s, he concentrated more on music education, leading a local youth orchestra, the Milford Youth Band, at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1967. He died of cancer shortly thereafter.

Jazz in Framingham, Charlie Parker, Boots Mazzulli( from Milford), Byron Sculos and the Maridor...

This morning down at CJ's  in Nobscot we were discussing Framingham and I suddently recalled Eddie Curran's road house out on Rt 9 on the reservoir , there is a Chinese restaurant there now.  So, I thought I would look and see if there was anyone else that could recall this place.  Lo and behold, non other than Charlie Parker...!!  

After Eddie Curran closed Christy's, Byron Sculos started to take over with great jazz at the Maridor which lasted until I was a teen and longer. Byron also had all the muscicians to his house next door for jam sessions, after the Maridor closed.  Walgreens and Trader Joe, occupy the old Maridor site.  I was too young to attend any of these jazz sessions, but I did make it to Storyville.

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On April 12, 1951…

Posted on April 12, 2013 by rvacca

Charlie Parker and friends were caught on tape at a jam session at Christy’s.
Eddie Curran ran a supper club on Route 9 in Framingham called Christy’s. Big jazz fan that he was, he liked nothing better than to invite the musicians in after closing time for a party a late-night blowing session. These jam sessions were the stuff of legend, with up-and-coming local guys playing until dawn alongside the leading lights of modern jazz.
There was a house band of sorts, led by alto saxophonist Boots Mussulli; pianist Dick Twardzik, drummer Roy Haynes, trumpeter Howard McGhee, and multi-instrumentalist Dick Wetmore were often on the bandstand. Trumpeters as diverse as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bobby Hackett all took their turns. Oscar Pettiford was there, and Gigi Gryce, and one night the whole Stan Kenton Orchestra showed up.
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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...

Nat King Cole Night lights Complete album plus 38 bonus tracks with new ...

one of my long ago favorites, ready to be performed again.