Category: Music

Feliz Cumpleaños To All Who Turned 51 Today

Inspirational Music To Start Your Day

Courtesy of Fran Coppock

 

Ray Stevens Come to the USA

Star Sign From The Theorist

Today’s journey into the whackier side of the  world wide web concerns the internet film “The Theorist” which is an entry in “Operation Paul Revere” a film contest sponsored by Alex Jones’ infowars.com.

This bit of wonder manages to touch on numerous pieces of paranoia including genetically modified foods, artificial sweeteners, fluoride — yes, Mandrake fluoride — and government microphones embedded into compact fluorescent bulbs, which is frankly one we never heard of nor could we even begin to imagine it.

Some nice things to say about it concern the acting of the wife and daughters who actually are quite good.

The movie climaxes with the hero having a nightmare in which his daughters are groped by Nazi-garbed TSA highway-patrol agents after which he goes to his basement studio and lip-synchs a song after which he is shot by a government sniper apparently concerned about the impact the webcasts are having.

Pretty whacky.

So why are we embedding it? We like the song. It starts at 31.25.

Star Sign From The Theorist

Star Sign — aka Little Star –From The Theorist
Star Sign — aka Little Star –From The Theorist

Alvin Lee R.I.P.

Alvin Lee R.I.P. — Guitarist Alvin Lee died yesterday, March 6. He was 68.

R.I.P. Alvin

 

Alvin Lee R.I.P.

Van Cliburn — A Passing

Harvey Lavan Cliburn, an oilman from Shreveport, La. and his wife, Rildia Bee, had a son on July 12, 1934, whom they named for the father.

The son would grow to become one of history’s greatest classical pianist. He died today at his home in Fort Worth, Tx.

He, of course, made his fame as Van Cliburn.

 

Valerie West A Little Girl From Broomall, Pa

Ten-year-old Valerie West of Broomall, Pa preformed today, Nov. 10, for the pre-game crowd at the Temple-Cincinnati game at the Linc.

Remember that you heard her name here first.
Hopefully, all those attending got an Honor Flight military duck.

American Centennial March –Philadelphia Music Of The Day

Mario Lanza might pop into one ones head when one considers Philadelphia music or the Orlons, or the Delfonics, or Frankie Avalon or the Hooters but certainly not Richard Wagner, the European composer  famous for his contributions to Bugs Bunny cartoons and Apocalypse Now.

Well here is American Centennial March that the City of Philadelphia commissioned in 1876 for $5,000 which is about $102,000 in today’s money.


 

American Centennial March --Philadelphia Music Of The Day

American Centennial March –Philadelphia Music Of The Day

Mustaine Endorses Rick Santorum

Mustaine Endorses Rick Santorum  — Rick Santorum got a big boost in his battle to be the GOP presidential nominee when Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine gave him the thumbs up.

“You know, I think Santorum has some presidential qualities, and I’m
hoping that if it does come down to it, we’ll see a Republican in the
White House… and that it’s Rick Santorum,” Mustaine told MusicRadar.com.

Megadeth is known for such works as Rust in Peace, Symphony of Destruction, and, of course, Holy Wars.

Mustaine Endorses Rick Santorum

Mustaine Endorses Rick Santorum  -- Rick Santorum got a big boost in his battle to be the GOP presidential nominee when Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine gave him

 

To Believe

Reader Fran C. submitted this wonderful link to a performance of  the song “To Believe”

It’s hard to believe that the singer is such a young girl.

Gibson Guitar Raided By Feds

Gibson Guitar Raided By Feds — Heroic federal agents, Wednesday, Aug. 24, swooped down on the offices and factories of Gibson Guitar, an infamous maker of musical instruments based in Tennessee. They were looking for wood, the substance that is the cadavers of innocent trees and used by drug-addled “rock and roll” musicians to corrupt innocent minds.

Apparently, Gibson had imported some of this dead tree substance from India and failed to properly fill out the necessary paperwork.

The use of innocent dead trees to create paper for the federal government is acceptable.

Tennessee is what is known as a “red state” which means the people there don’t accept every word published in the New York Times as unassailable truth, nor do they vote properly. One can wonder at the fairness of the residents of such a place having jobs while those in right-thinking states such as New York and Massachusetts suffer from unemployment.

Our federal law enforcement deserves special praise for attempting to rectify this injustice.

Gibson Guitar Raided By Feds

 

Gibson Guitar Raided By Feds