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Letty
 
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Reply Sat 23 Mar, 2013 10:13 am
Thanks for your comment, edgar, and Jerry Lee's Mean Old Man I didn't know, but as usual, he is great.

hbg, Lale's original version of Lili Marleen was fantastic and thanks again for the info.

Just found out that Dame Vera Lynn died on March 20. Love that lady and her English version of Lili Marleen was wonderful.

How about Chicago for Saturday here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWxA3e9f6rY

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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sat 23 Mar, 2013 11:29 am
I was given a huge pile of Chicago's albums. I had not realized how much and how varied was their work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgjzlvvD_7s
Some picking and singing
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sat 23 Mar, 2013 12:01 pm
Rite of Spring
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3VqcTDf6l4
Letty
 
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Reply Sat 23 Mar, 2013 01:11 pm
@edgarblythe,
edgar, I remember Stringbean and Fantasia. Love 'em both.

Just found out that the last of the Andrew Sisters died. What a surprise to find out that they were born in America from Greek immigrants.

Here's Dean and the three gals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmY_CAydApw

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hamburgboy
 
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Reply Sat 23 Mar, 2013 01:38 pm
@edgarblythe,
thanks for Stringbean , edgar .
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here is Stringbean with the Hee-Haw gang .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S0wwkWj32o

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Tennessee Ernie Ford, Grandpa Jones, Stringbean and Roy Clark singing one of my gospel favorites on Hee Haw '73

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btw. " Gordie " Tapp - a good ole' canajun is the announcer - lounging on the bale of straw.

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Gordon Robert "Gordie" Tapp, CM, O.Ont (born June 4, 1923 in London, Ontario[1]) is a Canadian entertainer.[2]

Tapp studied at the Lorne Greene Academy of Radio Arts. He was the host for Main Street Jamboree, a radio program broadcast from Hamilton during the 1950s. Tapp later hosted the CBC television show Country Hoedown. He went on to perform and write for the CBS television show, Hee Haw. His famous roles were Cousin Clem, Samuel B. Sternwheeler, Mr. Gordon the storekeeper, and Lavern Nagger, the forever put-upon husband of Ida Lee Nagger
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hamburgboy
 
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Reply Sat 23 Mar, 2013 01:58 pm
Coal-Miners Band and Choir giving their last concert in Germany upon the closing of last coalmine in the Saar-Region ( the end of hundreds of years of coalmining came to an end ) .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4L3CyBI_O8
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sat 23 Mar, 2013 05:47 pm
Those are good ones, hbg and letty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=holBS44V5gU
The no Dwight Streets of Bakersfield
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sat 23 Mar, 2013 06:27 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ6T8RHIYSs
A Danny Kaye tribute
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eurocelticyankee
 
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Reply Sun 24 Mar, 2013 06:01 am
Morning All...

Great tribute to Danny, funky.
Enjoyed Dean & the Andrew Sisters, sad to hear of Patty.

Bitterly cold here today, North winds blowing.

Coldplay.... (natürlich) Razz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bJMxhvVf0o
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 24 Mar, 2013 08:16 am
Thanks to all for keeping us on the air.

hbg, Coal Miners Band was especially intriguing to me. Thanks, Ontario.

edgar, Thanks for your comment and I have always enjoyed Buck Owens music. Danny Kaye to me was an unsung hero and performer. Those visuals were great.

euro, Welcome back and thanks for your comment. Love Cold Plays' Viva La Vida. If I Could Rule the World is one of my favorites.

Two birthdays for today, y'all.

First Houdini.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dndP8GEd1c

His death is still a mystery, and he died on my birthday.

Now, Steve McQueen. Had no idea that he was so mistreated as a child. Sad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OBSIlS9COo
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 24 Mar, 2013 09:27 am
Tony Curtis playing Houdini made me interested in the man for many years, but the interest has waned over the stretch of time.
I recently bought a few collections of Steve McQueen's movie and TV work. Always liked the guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmEk6Ev_Q_8
Richie Havens
Letty
 
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Reply Sun 24 Mar, 2013 10:24 am
@edgarblythe,
The only thing that I remember about Tony doing his movie is the scene where Houdini was trapped under the ice while trying to remove a straight jacket and couldn't find the hole to exit. Suddenly, he heard his mother's voice calling and she led him to the hole and he surfaced. Later, he found out that his mother had died.

I still like history mysteries, edgar.

You sent me searching concerning Richie.

Havens branched out into acting during the 1970s. He was featured in the original 1972 stage presentation of The Who's Tommy and appeared as Othello in the 1974 film Catch My Soul. He also appeared in Greased Lightning alongside Richard Pryor in 1977. In 1987, he landed a role in the Bob Dylan vehicle Hearts of Fire.

Great cover of Dylan's song.

Another poem that tells a story, y'all. Longfellow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9EjBuCYTdY


The history of the Acadians was significantly influenced by the six colonial wars that took place in Acadia during the 17th and 18th century (see the four French and Indian Wars, Father Rale's War and Father Le Loutre's War). Eventually, the last of the colonial wars—the French and Indian War—resulted in the British Expulsion of the Acadians from the region. After the war, many Acadians came out of hiding or returned to Acadia from the British Colonies. Others remained in France and some migrated from there to Louisiana, where they became known as Cajuns. The nineteenth century saw the beginning of the Acadian Renaissance and the publication of Evangeline, which helped galvanize Acadian identity. In the last century Acadians has been marked by achievements in the areas of equal language and cultural rights as a minority group in the Maritime provinces of Canada.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 24 Mar, 2013 11:18 am
About the time I read Evangeline, I also saw a movie about it. The two became interwoven in my memory.

Richie Havens also writes songs. Here is his Adam sung by Buffy Sainte-Marie. The title refers to Eve's main squeeze.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vGcCzJjpvw
Letty
 
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Reply Sun 24 Mar, 2013 11:55 am
@edgarblythe,
Thanks again for your comment, edgar.

Adam and Eve and Buffy. Love that lady, Texas, and that rendition of Richie's creation was great.

Went to see this movie last evening, and I had no idea that The White House was referred to as Olympus. I suppose this was based on all the talk of Korea being a threat to the U.S. once again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI2gU8ReCrM
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 24 Mar, 2013 12:05 pm
I will eventually see that movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxiot2Q7Uso
Here is another movie theme.
Letty
 
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Reply Sun 24 Mar, 2013 12:21 pm
@edgarblythe,
I know Born on the Fourth of July, but didn't see the movie with Tom Cruise. The only movie that I enjoyed starring him was Rain Man.

Here's a tribute to John Williams.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFNN_ADpYJ0
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 24 Mar, 2013 12:34 pm
@Letty,
The theme is not the Born on the Fourth of July song.
John Williams has plenty of good ones to his name.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XSaKQlBZuE
Chuck Berry
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McTag
 
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Reply Sun 24 Mar, 2013 12:34 pm

Do you like my new avatar? It is a picture of my bass, and there is a bigger version in my Profile.

It is a Hungarian bass, in veneered plywood, made around 1955. It has a very nice tone, which has improved since I started playing it after its restoration. It had been derelict, lying in my brother's garden shed and various London flats for decades, yes for about 30 years probably, but he then gave it to me and paid for its restoration. It needed tailpiece, bridge and strings, and a new bow and carrying bag, but now it's in working order and going fine.

I enjoy using it.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 24 Mar, 2013 12:37 pm
I had to make the picture bigger to see it, but it is beautiful, McTag.
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 24 Mar, 2013 12:45 pm
Odd, edgar, that is what the video said. Did I misread something?

Love Chuck Berry doing Rock and Roll music.

McTag, welcome back. Love that acoustic bass and had no idea that it was Hungarian in nature. When you get a chance, tell us some of the songs that you played.

In the interim, love this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goeOUTRy2es

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