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Ain’t It Funny (How Time Just Slips Away)

April 29, 2021April 29, 2021 rightwingknitjob

Happy 88th birthday to one of my perennial favorites, the one-and-only (other) red-headed stranger in my life, Willie Nelson. https://youtu.be/iZaZqx9v3dU May your career last another 65+ years, and may you continue to compose instant classics for yourself and others to sing: https://youtu.be/MbnrdCS57d0 https://youtu.be/HMSWAUAKJn0 https://youtu.be/hw5yFbY9k7w https://youtu.be/juyiScREFzQ And the song that always has the same effect on… Continue reading Ain’t It Funny (How Time Just Slips Away)

Entertainment, Friendship, Music

It’s Only Words…

January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 rightwingknitjob

I've written several posts about my rather schizophrenic musical tastes, and how, even as a child of the 1960's, I never owned a Beatles album (or even a 45!) until after I got married and Mr. Right gave one to me as a gift. My early childhood (mid-to-late 1950s) was spent mostly in Nigeria, sometimes… Continue reading It’s Only Words…

Family, Friendship, Music, Plain Speaking, Rural Living

“Some Days are Diamonds, Some Days are Stone”

October 14, 2020October 15, 2020 rightwingknitjob

https://youtu.be/OKxTxEKvlmo "Little Dickie Feller," as my mother's favorite Pittsburgh disc jockey of the early 1970s used to call him. (No, it wasn't KQV's Jim Quinn. Or even Quinn's replacement, when Quinn moved to the bigger market of Buffalo NY in 1972 or 73 and was replaced by a young feller (see what I did there)… Continue reading “Some Days are Diamonds, Some Days are Stone”

Entertainment, Family, Movies and TV, Music

Occasional Quote of the Day: “I always think there’s a band, kid.”

August 3, 2020 rightwingknitjob

A little more than sixty years ago, after many unsuccessful attempts to sell his pet idea as a television special, a former piccolo player in John Philip Sousa’s band who had moved on to a career as a musical director for the NBC radio network and as a successful Hollywood composer, scoring such movies as… Continue reading Occasional Quote of the Day: “I always think there’s a band, kid.”

Family, Friendship, Music

Music To Bury My Mother By

June 24, 2020June 24, 2025 rightwingknitjob

June 24, 2020 would have been my mother’s 92nd birthday. She died in September 2014, at the age of 86 after a long struggle with the effects of fronto-temporal dementia. Her death was, in the eyes of her children and others who loved her, a release and a blessing. And for her, peace at last.… Continue reading Music To Bury My Mother By

Music

My First Beatles Album!

May 10, 2020May 11, 2020 rightwingknitjob

Somehow, even as a child of the sixties, I survived to adulthood without a single Beatles album to my name. My mother, whose musical tastes were quite eclectic, never cottoned to the Lads from Liverpool, and they didn’t “send” me much, either. We came to the United States in October of 1963 thinking that perhaps… Continue reading My First Beatles Album!

Music

A Big Old Goofy World

March 30, 2020May 15, 2020 rightwingknitjob

My stepdaughter sent me a text yesterday to let me know that 73-year old singer-songwriter John Prine, a favorite of ours for decades, has been hospitalized in critical condition with coronavirus symptoms. He’s been in poor health for some time, surviving a bout with cancer in the late 1990s, and has had several subsequent surgeries, so… Continue reading A Big Old Goofy World

Family, History, Music

The Ballad of Davy Crockett

March 6, 2020May 15, 2020 rightwingknitjob

Born on a mountain top in Tennessee Greenest state in the land of the free Raised in the woods so he knew ev’ry tree Kilt him a ba’ar when he was only three Davy, Davy Crockett, King of the wild frontier! My family first descended on the United States on October 29, 1963, when we… Continue reading The Ballad of Davy Crockett

Literature, Music

Do You Believe in “If” Anymore?

February 10, 2020August 10, 2020 rightwingknitjob

One of the reasons I like reading posts about music is that I’ve spent most of my life quite disconnected from whatever was going on in the contemporary entertainment world, and the posts give me a window into what I might have missed (and whether or not I’m glad I did). Although we moved to… Continue reading Do You Believe in “If” Anymore?

Music

Elderly Scottish Woman with Dementia Climbs UK Music Charts

January 25, 2020May 16, 2020 rightwingknitjob

OK, well, this made me cry. An 83-year-old Scottish woman who suffers from dementia is climbing the UK music download charts, singing a duet with her caregiver of Frank Sinatra’s 1969 hit, “My Way.” Margaret Mackie and Jamie Lee Morley first performed the song at her nursing home, during last year’s Christmas karaoke party, and… Continue reading Elderly Scottish Woman with Dementia Climbs UK Music Charts