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A while back I posted a song called On Green Dolphin Street. That version wasn’t, how should I put this, very good? It had no right being out in the world. So I re-did it just for you. You know who you are. That reminds me of the time someone asked me if I was “lean and mean” when I was in the military. I said no, I was more like “starched and parched.” And here is song number 44 in our classical…
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Song Number 40 in our summer countdown of classical music is in the books. This is an excerpt from Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty Waltz. According to https://petipasociety.com/the-sleeping-beauty: The Sleeping Beauty Waltz was the first collaboration of Marius Petipa and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Although Tchaikovsky’s first ballet Swan Lake had not been the success he had hoped for, it did not end his composition of ballets. In 1886, during rehearsals for his opera The Enchantress, he was commissioned by the Director of the Imperial Theatres, Ivan Vsevolozhsky about a possible…
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Here is a song you’re sure to rememberIt came out 3 months before SeptemberWay back in Nineteen Sixty-SevenMy cousin Fred was just eleven The Beatles were hot and could do no wrongThey let us all grow our hair longThey changed the world, you know the restI think I like this song the best
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Some people say “I’m a dog person.” Others say “I’m a cat person.” Well I am an animal person. I love them all! But is there anything more beautiful than a cat? I think not.
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Hello my faithful readers. I hope you are all well.Here is a work in progress of a song we all know and love.
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Question: What do you call a moustache worn by someone with a runny nose? Answer: A Flu Manchu
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Everyone knows that 3 x 7 is 21, but how many people know what 333 x 777 is, without using a calculator? (It is 258,741 by the way.) If you double that number you get 517,482. Do you notice anything similar about those two numbers? They have the same digits. I have yet to find another number that, when doubled, gives you the exact same digits, just in a different order. They are also the same 6 digits you get as a remainder…
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Analysis of The Virgin Mary with Saints Thomas Aquinas and Paulby Bernardo Daddi, in Florence, Italy, 1335 It’s another painting with the Virgin MaryAnd she’s with two Saints, and one is hairyIt’s done very well, this fact is trueAnd the Virgin Mary is wearing blue Each of them have different posesI wonder how they feel when the panel closes?The Virgin Mary is looking downAnd everyone’s skin is very brown The atmosphere is very staticThe scaling is definitely hieraticThe saints appear to be litigiousThe…
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The response to last week’s Twilight Zone episode summary in poem form was astounding! With that, here is a poem about another episode called “Dead Man’s Shoes.” A homeless man who lives aloneAnd can’t afford to use a phoneIs changed one night, but not by boozeWhen he finds a pair of magic shoes The shoes were once owned by a crookWho never even read a bookAnd was in a gang who always backed himUntil the day they up and whacked him But the…
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Ludwig’s music is incredibleAnd Wolfgang’s never missedFranz’s music is almost edibleBoth of them, Schubert and Lizst Peter Ilyad’s music is capriciousAnd hardly ever arbitraryJohan Sebastian still can reach usJust ask my cousin Larry To tell the truth, I have three cousinsBut not one is named LarryThey spend the summer in the HamptonsAnd get to work by ferry Somehow I’ve gotten a bit off trackI do that from time to timeBut eventually I find my way backAnd continue with my rhyme Now I remember of…
