Free Joe Kenney Concert In Broomall — Pianist Joe Kenney will be giving a concert at New Hope Christian Church, 551 Paxon Hollow Road, Broomall, PA 19008, on Sunday, April 24, at 4 p.m. He will be performing works by Bach, Schubert, Liszt, and Debussy. The performance is free and open to the public.
Category: Music
Trump Al Wilson And Snakes
Trump Al Wilson And Snakes — Donald Trump at a rally in Cedar Falls, Iowa read the lyrics from a song which few Millennials know by a singer which few Millennials have heard to illustrate the wisdom of allowing Muslim refugees from ISIS controlled territory.
He made it work.
The singer is Al Wilson and the song is The Snake which was released in 1968.
Here are the lyrics.
On her way to work one morning, down the path along the lake, a tender-hearted woman saw a poor, half-frozen snake. His pretty colored skin had been all frosted with the dew. ‘Oh, well,’ she cried, ‘I’ll take you in and I’ll take care of you.’ ‘Take me in, O tender woman, take me in, for heaven’s sake. Take me in, O tender woman,’ sighed the vicious snake. She wrapped him up all cozy in a curvature of silk and then laid him by the fireside with some honey and some milk. Now, she hurried home from work that night. As soon as she arrived, she found that pretty snake she’d taken in and revived. ‘Take me in, O tender woman. Take me in, for heaven’s sake. Take me in, O tender woman,’ sighed the vicious snake.
“Now she clutched him to her bosom. ‘You’re so beautiful,’ she cried, ‘but if I hadn’t brought you in, by now you would have died.’ She stroked his pretty skin, and then she kissed him and held him tight. But instead of saying ‘thank you,’ that snake gave her a vicious bite. ‘Take me in, O tender woman. Take me in, for heaven’s sake. Take me in, O tender woman,’ sighed the vicious snake. ‘I saved you,’ cried the woman, ‘and you bit me. Heavens, why? You know your bite is poisonous, and now I’m going to die.’ ‘Oh, shut up, silly woman,’ said the reptile with a grin. ‘You knew darn well I was a snake before you took me in.’
And here is the song.
Trump Al Wilson And Snakes
Russ Diamond Unplugged Playing Bright
God Bless America, The History
Frank Sinatra considered Kate Smith the best singer of her time, and said that when he and a million other guys first heard her sing “God Bless America” on the radio, they all pretended to have dust in their eyes as they wiped away a tear or two.
Here are the facts… The link at the bottom will take you to a video showing the very first public singing of “GOD BLESS AMERICA”. But before you watch it, you should also know the story behind the first public showing of the song.
The time was 1940. (Ed Note: Wikipedia has its first public singing occurring in 1938 on Kate Smith’s radio show.) America was still in a terrible economic depression. Hitler was taking over Europe and Americans were afraid we’d have to go to war. It was a time of hardship and worry for most Americans.
This was the era just before TV, when radio shows were HUGE, and American families sat around their radios in the evenings, listening to their favorite entertainers, and no entertainer of that era was bigger than Kate Smith.
Kate was also large; plus size, as we now say, and the popular phrase still used today is in deference to her, “It ain’t over till the fat lady sings”. Kate Smith might not have made it big in the age of TV, but with her voice coming over the radio, she was the biggest star of her time.
Kate was also patriotic. It hurt her to see Americans so depressed and afraid of what the next day would bring . She had hope for America , and faith in her fellow Americans. She wanted to do something to cheer them up, so she went to the famous American song-writer, Irving Berlin (who also wrote “White Christmas”) and asked him to write a song that would make Americans feel good again about their country. When she described what she was looking for, he said he had just the song for her.
He went to his files and found a song that he had written, but never published, 22 years before – way back in 1917. He gave it to her and she worked on it with her studio orchestra. She and Irving Berlin were not sure how the song would be received by the public, but both agreed they would not take any profits from God Bless America . Any profits would go to the Boy Scouts of America. Over the years, the Boy Scouts have received millions of dollars in royalties from this song.
This video starts out with Kate Smith coming into the radio studio with the orchestra and an audience. She introduces the new song for the very first time, and starts singing. After the first couple verses, with her voice in the background still singing, scenes are shown from the 1940 movie, “You’re In The Army Now.” At the 4:20 mark of the video you see a young actor in the movie, sitting in an office, reading a paper; it’s Ronald Reagan.
To this day, God Bless America stirs our patriotic feelings and pride in our country. Back in 1940, when Kate Smith went looking for a song to raise the spirits of her fellow Americans, I doubt whether she realized just how successful the results would be for her fellow Americans during those years of hardship and worry….. and for many generations of Americans to follow.
Now that you know the story of the song, I hope you’ll enjoy it and treasure it even more.
Many people don’t know there’s a lead in to the song since it usually starts with “God Bless America …..” So here’s the entire song as originally sung….. ENJOY!
Hat tip Bob Small
Blue Moon 2015
Tonight, July 31, there will be a blue moon. Many will go out and look at it. All will say it looks just like any other full moon. They will be right.
A “blue moon” is a full moon appearing a second time in a month. It’s a fairly rare occurrence happening once every 30 months or so.
The last blue moon was in August 2012. The next one will be in January 2018.
The moon has at times actually turned blue, it should be noted. This usually happens after a major volcanic eruption with the ash filtering the light reflected from the orb.
And the meaning of “blue moon” has changed slightly from when it came into use. It originally meant the third full moon in a season that had four, understanding that seasons are considered to be three months long and hence typically have but three full moons.
Anyway, here is some music for you:
Blue Moon 2015
LA noche QUE chicago SE murio
For those who didn’t particularly like Jhoni The Voice but who may be spending some time in Guatemala this is for you. Enjoy LA noche QUE chicago SE murio.
LA noche QUE chicago SE murio
La Invitación Unplugged
Jhoni The Voice will release his upcoming music video “La Invitación Unplugged” this 4th of July.
La Invitación Unplugged is an acoustic version of his latest single.
The much-anticipated release will be available on his official YouTube channel this 4th of July celebrating the independence of the United States.
“It fills me to know that I am delivering to my fans what they ask for, THEY asked for this version, so here it is, ” said Jhoni.
Here it is:
La Invitación Unplugged
Philadelphia Orchestra Kudos
Kudos to the Philadelphia Orchestra which appears to be taking Europe by storm. 
They are a first class orchestra for a first-class city.
Philadelphia Orchestra Kudos
Taylor Swift Greatest Female Leader
Fortune magazine has declared Berks County, Pa. native Taylor Swift the world’s greatest female leader — and fifth overall.
It kind of makes you want to cry on your guitar.
On the upside, Katie Perry is not on the list.
Nor is Hillary Clinton for that matter
Taylor Swift Greatest Female Leader
Je Suis Rush Limbaugh
Californian John Adams, who Ed Driscoll of PJMedia.com calls the most famous and important classical composer in the world, premiered his new work Scheherazade.2, March 26, at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in the heart of hip Manhattan. 
Adams introduced his work saying he was motivated by an exhibition he saw in Paris concerning the legendary Islamic queen Scheherazade. If you don’t know the story, it concerns an Islamic Persian king who upon marrying a new wife would behead the old one. He had gone through a thousand women by the time he got to Scheherazade.
Scheherazade, of course, had a plan. Before her beheading, she asked to bid farewell to her sister. The king consented and during her farewell she told the sister a story which the king overheard. She stopped in the middle as dawn was breaking and the king asked her to continue. She said should couldn’t as it was time for her beheading. The king postponed the execution for a day so she could finish it for him. She did the next night but started another which again stopped in the middle before dawn. So the king again postponed things and this went on for 1,001 nights and become the inspiration for Bugs Bunny cartoons and Walt Disney movies.
Anyway by the time the stories were finished, the king had fallen in love with Scheherazade and she lived happily ever after with a serial killer.
Adams said that after seeing the exhibit he read One Thousand and One Arabian Nights and was appalled by “casual brutality toward women” it depicted. During this time, he also began reading of the treatment of women in various third-world Islamic-influenced places such as Egypt and Afghanistan.
So he explained this to his audience at his work’s premier, and then for some bizarre reason felt obliged to add regarding the oppression of women: “find it on Rush Limbaugh.”
This sanctimonious twit compared Rush Limbaugh to people who kill girls because they had been raped and women because they had affairs.
There is nothing wrong with disagreeing with Limbaugh. There is nothing wrong with calling Rush a blowhard. But bearing false witness is a big wrong and that’s what Adams did.
We seriously doubt that the has every listened to Limbaugh live and in any sort of context but is merely parroting the conventional wisdom of the his insular crowd.
What’s even sicker is the reaction of his crowd which gave a long round of applause to the slander.
In 2009, Limbaugh was part of a group that was attempting to buy the St. Louis Rams football team. The old media reported that he said on his radio show that James Earl Ray deserved a medal for the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. and that slavery was beneficial. The quotes were fabricated but still placed in his Wikipedia biography as fact. Those who know of the scrutiny Limbaugh faces for every word he utters — which one would reasonably think is everyone in professional journalism — would reject the quotes out of hand. Yet they were reported as true and hence ended his chance at becoming a team owner.
All decent people have a responsibility to defend those being slandered not just if but especially if they disagree with them. Further, all intelligent people should be suspicious of those who use slander to further a political cause.
What Adams and his crowd did was shameful.
For what it’s worth, Wiki, in the latest editing of Rush’s bio, does not even mention the Rams incident.
For those interested in a first-hand take, Rush can be heard in the Philadelphia area from noon to 3 p.m. on WPHT 1210 AM or on the web here.
Below is Adams introduction to Scheherazade.2