Obama Unites Israel, Egypt

Shaaban Abdel Rahim Obama Unites Israel, Egypt
Egyptian singer Shaaban Abdel Rahim, who is best known for his hit “I Hate Israel”, has a new song accusing Barack Obama of supporting Hamas and ISIS.

Maybe Barack Obama deserves his Nobel Peace Prize after all.  He seems to have done the impossible and unite the Israelis and Egyptians.

Below is popular Egyptian singer Shaaban Abdel Rahim — whose breakthrough hit was “I Hate Israel” — accusing our president of supporting ISIS and the Palestinian terror group Hamas.

The lyrics include: We don’t want anything from you Obama. Now the people of Egypt know that you are the man of ISIS and Hamas and Obama your trick is now clear. Go to Qatar and Turkey, your allies. God bless the Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. They stood by us in our bad time.

We think Rudy Giuliani would say the same thing  if he  could rhyme rhythmically.

Obama Unites Israel, Egypt

Hat tip Breitbart.com

Lois Skiles Found, Springfield Station Update

We have heard from Lois Skiles of the band Springfield Station who we wrote about on Feb. 10. She is a resident of the Strasburg area in Lancaster County. Lois Skiles Found, Springfield Station Update

“I am still singing and still writing songs, and believe it or not I am still selling that music on CD and cassette tape,” she says.

She says she will be making her CDs available for sale on her website http://strasburgtoys.com/

When she does check it out. It’s excellent country music.

She also described what inspired  her song Wrong Time that we referenced in the Feb. 10 article .

“The song was written about a man I had the pleasure of working with while I was (in Nashville),” she said. “He was not famous. He had been trying to make it for many years, traveling and playing where ever he could”

She said The Road We Walk On the first song on the album Last Chance was also written on the same trip.

Lois Skiles Found, Springfield Station Update

Springfield Station Thrift Shop Treasure

Springfield Station Thrift Shop TreasureWe found an old CD called Springfield Station Last Chance  at the Church of the Redeemer Thrift Shop in Springfield, Pa. and we bought it as a gag gift for the price of a $1.

Then we listened to it. It was country music as good you can get.

All the songs but one were copyrighted 1999 by Lois K.T. Skiles, the group’s singer. The third  in the lineup, Wrong Time, poignantly concerned a singer who had been living on the road for years playing to small crowds in small places and contained the lyrics:

People said I’d make it big, my name would be in lights

all I had to do was hit the time and place right

. . . but I guess it’s not meant to be.

So I’ll spend another year on the road

Where this story ends, nobody knows

How long must I wait?

Is it already too late

for the right time, right place?

The album inspired us to search the web and we could not find one mention of Springfield Station as it related to the group nor of the album Last Chance.

The only mention found of Lois K.T. Skiles concerned the 2011 supervisor race for Eden (Pa.) Township Supervisor which she lost to David G. Rineer, 58 votes to 49. Maybe that was her. The photo on the CD cover was of a steam locomotive from the Strasburg Railroad.

Anyway, Lois, where ever you are, you have at least one fan.

Springfield Station Thrift Shop Treasure

Marimba Coldplay Viva la Vida

Marimba Coldplay Viva la Vida — For your pleasure here is a marimba version  Coldplay’s Viva la Vida as performed by Maikel van den Boomen who was 15 when this was uploaded to YouTube on Nov. 2, 2010.

And how many of you even knew what a marimba was?

Marimba Coldplay Viva la VidaMarimba Coldplay Viva la Vida

Internet Killed The Radio Star

eMarketerDaily.com reports that an Edison Research study showed that those under 18 listen to internet music streaming platforms such as Pandora and Spotify  64 minutes per day vs. 53 minutes per day of broadcast radio and online streams of AM/FM stations.

AM/FM led by a “significant margin” among all other age groups.
It appears, though, the radio star is finally about to get killed but not by video.

Internet Killed The Radio Star

Internet Killed The Radio Star

 

 

Guns Make Music With Cup Song

Jim Huish of the Tennessee band Amber’s Drive has recorded a video of The Cup Song made with firearms as the musical instrument.

The Cup Song, also known as When I’m Gone, was made famous in the 2012 movie Pitch Perfect.

Below is the Huish version. It was made in Utah during a spell of global warming. It was placed on YouTube on Dec. 28 and already has 2.2 million views

 

Guns Make Music With Cup Song

Jim Huish of Amber’s Drive shows how Guns Make Music With Cup Song also known as When I’m Gone.

Hat tip Breitbart.com

Rob Duncan’s Gunfight Epiphany

Here’s another TV theme song that should have been a hit. It’s by Rob Duncan and called Gunfight Epiphany and was used as the theme to Terriers, an under-rated detective show that ran for 13 episodes in the Fall of 2010 of FX.

We were able to catch it on Netflix. It is worth watching.

Here’s the song:

Rob Duncan's Gunfight Epiphany

Rob Duncan’s Gunfight Epiphany

Better Call Saul By Junior Brown

It was once fairly common for TV show theme songs to become popular hits (Rockford Files, Hillstreet Blues) but is seems it has been awhile.

That might change.

Better Call Saul, the prequel to Breaking Bad that starts on AMC in February has one performed by Junior Bown that might be do it.

It already has  1.2 million views on YouTube.

Here it is:

Better Call Saul By Junior Brown

Better Call Saul By Junior Brown

Apollo-M Sells Music Lesson Via Subscription

Noted Australian musician Gary Turner tells us that we can now get music lessons online via a new Netflix-type subscription service called Apollo-M.Com, which is based just down I-95 in Wilmington, Del.

“Roughly 300 million people in the world play, teach or are learning to play a musical instrument,” Turner said.

Turner is the founder of Koala Music Publications which morphed into LearnToPlayMusic.com.

An Apollo-M subscription goes for $4.95 a month.

An excellent idea.

Apollo-M Sells Music Lesson Via Subscription

Apollo-M Sells Music Lesson Via Subscription

Harvest Moon Tonight

Harvest Moon Tonight

The harvest moon is the the full moon closest to the fall equinox. Tonight — well tomorrow morning, really as it isn’t scheduled to be full until 1:38 a.m. —  is the harvest moon.

Here’s some music for the event.

 

 

Harvest Moon Tonight