Gender: Female
Status: Single
Age: 63
Sign: Libra
City: BEAUMONT
State: TEXAS
Country: US
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
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Category: Music
An American Prayer (with captions)
with Candy Dulfer - Lilly Was Here
with the Spiritual Cowboys - Jack Talkin
Heart of Stone
I Know Your Name
Mick Jagger - Old Habits Die Hard (feat. Dave Stewart)
Don't Be Afraid
with Nelly Furtado - Instant Karma
Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again (live)
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (are Made of This)
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Dave Stewart and the Rock Fabulous Orchestra - www.TheDaveStewartSongbook.com
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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Category: Music
 Duke Label - 1961 My all-time favorite LP. I bought this LP in '62 when I was 15, and I still have it today. It brings back sooo many happy memories for me. I listened to it enough that I flat wore it out and had to buy it again. In fact, I still have it!! St. James Infirmary and Cry, Cry, Cry-- I'd just raise the arm on the phonograph and let it play over and over. My poor parents!!!
I've tried to recreate it with YouTubes, putting the songs in the sequence as they are on the LP; but there are a few that are sadly not yet available.
(Side I)
1. Two Steps from the Blues
2. Cry, Cry, Cry
3. I'm Not Ashamed
4. Don't Cry No More (no video found)
5. Lead Me On
6. I Pity the Fool
(video not found by Bland but substituted the song BB King & Buddy Guy)
(Side II)
7. I've Got to Forget You (no video found)
8. Little Boy Blue
9. St. James Infirmary (no video found)
10. I'll Take Care of You
11. Don't Want No Woman (no video found)
12. I've Been Wrong So Long (no video found)
A couple more from other albums just because I like 'em:
Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad)
The Way You Treated Me
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Monday, June 02, 2008
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Current mood:  good
Category: Music
Nadia
Lopsy Lu (North Sea Jazz 2006) (duet) Concert 1999 -Tokyo International Forum - What Mama Said (duet) Declan A Blast from the East Cause We've Ended as Lovers Resolution Angel (Footsteps) live at Blue Balls Festival Brush with the Blues A Day in the Life - Live at Montreaux Jazz
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Monday, June 02, 2008
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Category: Music
Hey Bo Diddley
Hey Mona
I'm a Man
Who Do You Love
Rock pioneer Bo Diddley dies at age 79
By RON WORD
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.. (AP) — Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll whose distinctive "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians, died Monday after months of ill health.. He was 79..
Diddley died of heart failure at his home in Archer, Fla.., spokeswoman Susan Clary said.. He had suffered a heart attack in August, three months after suffering a stroke while touring in Iowa.. Doctors said the stroke affected his ability to speak, and he had returned to Florida to continue rehabilitation..
The legendary singer and performer, known for his homemade square guitar, dark glasses and black hat, was an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, had a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, and received a lifetime achievement award in 1999 at the Grammy Awards.. In recent years he also played for the elder President Bush and President Clinton..
Diddley appreciated the honors he received, "but it didn't put no figures in my checkbook.."
"If you ain't got no money, ain't nobody calls you honey," he quipped..
The name Bo Diddley came from other youngsters when he was growing up in Chicago, he said in a 1999 interview..
"I don't know where the kids got it, but the kids in grammar school gave me that name," he said, adding that he liked it so it became his stage name.. Other times, he gave somewhat differing stories on where he got the name.. Some experts believe a possible source for the name is a one-string instrument used in traditional blues music called a diddley bow..
His first single, "Bo Diddley," introduced record buyers in 1955 to his signature rhythm: bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp, often summarized as "shave and a haircut, two bits.." The B side, "I'm a Man," with its slightly humorous take on macho pride, also became a rock standard..
The company that issued his early songs was Chess-Checkers records, the storied Chicago-based labels that also recorded Chuck Berry and other stars..
Howard Kramer, assistant curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, said in 2006 that Diddley's Chess recordings "stand among the best singular recordings of the 20th century.."
Diddley's other major songs included, "Say Man," "You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover," "Shave and a Haircut," "Uncle John," "Who Do You Love?" and "The Mule.."
Diddley's influence was felt on both sides of the Atlantic.. Buddy Holly borrowed the bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp rhythm for his song "Not Fade Away.."
The Rolling Stones' bluesy remake of that Holly song gave them their first chart single in the United States, in 1964.. The following year, another British band, the Yardbirds, had a Top 20 hit in the U..S.. with their version of "I'm a Man.."
Diddley was also one of the pioneers of the electric guitar, adding reverb and tremelo effects.. He even rigged some of his guitars himself..
"He treats it like it was a drum, very rhythmic," E.. Michael Harrington, professor of music theory and composition at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn.., said in 2006..
Many other artists, including the Who, Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello copied aspects of Diddley's style..
Growing up, Diddley said he had no musical idols, and he wasn't entirely pleased that others drew on his innovations..
"I don't like to copy anybody.. Everybody tries to do what I do, update it," he said.. "I don't have any idols I copied after.."
"They copied everything I did, upgraded it, messed it up.. It seems to me that nobody can come up with their own thing, they have to put a little bit of Bo Diddley there," he said..
Despite his success, Diddley claimed he only received a small portion of the money he made during his career.. Partly as a result, he continued to tour and record music until his stroke.. Between tours, he made his home near Gainesville in north Florida..
"Seventy ain't nothing but a damn number," he told The Associated Press in 1999.. "I'm writing and creating new stuff and putting together new different things.. Trying to stay out there and roll with the punches.. I ain't quit yet.."
Diddley, like other artists of his generations, was paid a flat fee for his recordings and said he received no royalty payments on record sales.. He also said he was never paid for many of his performances..
"I am owed.. I've never got paid," he said.. "A dude with a pencil is worse than a cat with a machine gun.."
In the early 1950s, Diddley said, disc jockeys called his type of music, "Jungle Music.." It was Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed who is credited with inventing the term "rock 'n' roll.."
Diddley said Freed was talking about him, when he introduced him, saying, "Here is a man with an original sound, who is going to rock and roll you right out of your seat.."
Diddley won attention from a new generation in 1989 when he took part in the "Bo Knows" ad campaign for Nike, built around football and baseball star Bo Jackson.. Commenting on Jackson's guitar skills, Diddley turned to the camera and said, "He don't know Diddley.."
"I never could figure out what it had to do with shoes, but it worked," Diddley said.. "I got into a lot of new front rooms on the tube.."
Born as Ellas Bates on Dec.. 30, 1928, in McComb, Miss.., Diddley was later adopted by his mother's cousin and took on the name Ellis McDaniel, which his wife always called him..
When he was 5, his family moved to Chicago, where he learned the violin at the Ebenezer Baptist Church.. He learned guitar at 10 and entertained passers-by on street corners..
By his early teens, Diddley was playing Chicago's Maxwell Street..
"I came out of school and made something out of myself.. I am known all over the globe, all over the world.. There are guys who have done a lot of things that don't have the same impact that I had," he said..
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Sunday, May 25, 2008
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Category: Music
If you aren't familiar with Sami Yusuf, allow me to introduce you...
Try Not to Cry Little One feat Outlandish
Supplication
My Ummah
Free
make a prayer
Who is the One (Live in Egypt)
Sami Yusuf Live - Instruments Being Played (Algeria)
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Friday, May 23, 2008
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Current mood: good
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
Trailer
Star Trek Voyager - Good-bye (music by Safri Duo )
Macarena
Seven of Nine and the Doctor (She's So Beautiful)
Troubled Waters
Alive
DEATHWISH HEARING
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Friday, May 23, 2008
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Category: Music
A Dozen Classic Soul Ballads Last night during my usual battle with insomnia and hoping the TV would put me to sleep, Time Life aired one of their info-mercials of a collection of Classic Soul Ballads, hosted by Peabo Bryson. What a soothing, beautiful collection of songs. So, I got the brilliant idea to find a few of them on YouTube and post them and share them at MySpace. I had to make a couple of substitutions, and there are literally dozens that I left out. But this is a pretty good cross-section, and enough to trigger many sweet, and even not so sweet memories. Hope you enjoy... Brook Benton -- Fools Rush In
Manhattans -- Shining Star
Delphonics -- La La La
Earth Wind and Fire -- After the Love is Gone
Roberta Flack & Peabo Bryson -- Tonight I Celebrate My Love for You
Heatwave -- Always and Forever
The Manhattans -- Kiss and Say Goodbye
The Chi-Lites -- Oh, Girl
Anita Baker -- Sweet Love
Barry White -- Can't Get Enough of Your Love
Peabo Bryson -- If Ever You're in My Arms Again
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Friday, May 23, 2008
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Category: Music
You are about to be transported to another age; swinging London in the late Sixties. The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus is a time capsule. Two days in December 1968 that in many ways capturee the spontaneity, aspirations and communal spirit of an entire era. ...for a brief moment it seemed that rock 'n' roll would inherit the earth. --- David Dalton (founding editor of Rolling Stone Magazine)
Invitation - December 11, 1986
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Rock and Roll Circus http://www.iorr.org/iorr27/circus.htm It is early morning Wednesday, December 11, 1968. Paul Lovell has catched the first train from Birmingham into London. Today he was supposed to have an exam at school, but nowit is more important business to take care of. Last month, he had received the monthly fan club letter, telling about a special concert to be held by the Rolling Stones on Dec. 11. Being fan club member number 10,435 since Oct. 1964, and knowing the fan club had grown to probably 20,000 by now, he realized he didn't have much chance of getting tickets to the special event. Much to his surprice, the tickets arrived, red print on a yellow card. He even got an extra ticket for Barbara! About 300 people has queued up outside the Intertel Studios, Wembley, in the morning. There seems to be one entrance only for the place. While queuing up each of the performing artists is arriving. John Lennon arrives in a Rolls with Yoko Ono, being one of the first times they show up publicly together. The Stones and all the others walk by the fans queuing up. This is really developing to something very special... When entering the studio, which is a TV recording building, he has to turn in his ticket, signing on it, stating his appearance on any film taken is not his property. All fans are given special red, orange and yellow ponchos, and large, strage hats. Inside the studio, the Stones have arranged for a Circus being built, like a half circle part of the circus, so that there is space for the cameras and crew. The fans are free to find a seat in the half circle around the center canvas, and Paul is selecting a central spot a couple of rows from the front. The show is soon starting up. Mick Jagger is saying welcome, dressed up as a ringmaster. and the first band is on. Jethro Tull is a new group. They do their song "Song For Jeffrey".
Then The Who is on with their set.
This is not a normal concert. The songs are done several times, and film shooting is not done all the time. There are plenty of breaks. During the breaks, the fans are free to walk wherever they like. Paul is finding himself standing next to Mick, then some time later next to Keith. Being a veteran Stones fan by now, since his first concert in 1964, he does not want to bother any of the Stones, asking for autographs. But when he bumps into John Lennon, he simply ask for his autograph. After all, John is a big star, but not in the same league as the Stones, at least not to Paul...
Taj Mahal is next.
Then the important appearance by Marianne Faithfull. This is the apperance when Mick wants everything to be right. Marianne is to be a major star, and Mick has been working hard on the set. Marianne is beautifully located in the center of the circus ring. She performs Something Better, and the camera is rotating 180 degrees around the circus ring, making a perfect panning.
This is really a strange event. There are circus artists performing in-between the sets. Nobody have planned this in detail. Things seems to take much longer time than originally planned for. People are getting tired and hungry. There is a break in the evening for food. Then there are more rehearsals and camera takes. During one of the breaks, Paul find himself next to Brian Jones on the men's room. Again, privacy first, no autographs...
It's about midnight, and still the Stones have not been on. this will probably take till tomorrow! John Lennon is showing up, leading a supergroup of himself, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Mitch Mitchell.
Then Yoko Ono is joining. It's now about 2 o'clock in the morning, and finally, it's time for the Rolling Stones! Mick has changed into causal wear, and they jump into their set of songs taken from Beggars Baquet, being released just before the week-end.
Jumping Jack Flash is on. The Stones are great! Then Parachute Woman and No Expectations.
Brian is great; great slide. They do several takes. Some people in the crowd is now really sleepy! You Can't Always Get What You Want. More takes. The Stones doesn't seem to be satisfied with what they are doing.
Then Sympathy For The Devil, which they have been rehearsing a while back for the One Plus One film. At 5 am in the morning Sympathy is perfect - may be not to the Stones - but it's perfect!
Then they all move into the crowd, all wearing ponchos, the chords of Salt Of The Earth is sounding, Keith and Mick is singing the closing song.
(Salt of the Earth)
Then it's over. Not a usual concert, but a memory for life time.The fans are saying goodbye. The Stones have rranged for transportation. Paul and Barbara is hanging around in London for the first train back to Birmingham. Well, doesn't bother about the exam, the concert, the rehearsals and the happening is still strong in the mind... 
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Friday, May 23, 2008
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Current mood: good
Category: Music
When I posted my Star Trek Voyager blog, I included this video "Good-Bye" which featured music by Safri Duo. Never hearing of them before and liking the music quite well, I decided to find out something about them. I find this song is my favorite of what seems to be available. But since this is the only video I can find of it, I'm reposting it. Star Trek Voyager: Good-bye Wikipedia has a write-up about them that you can read if you're interested. Safri Duo
from Denmark, Uffe Savery and Morten Friis. I really enjoyed this video - very energizing! This one features singer Cark Anderson, also a Dane. I'll be following up on him for sure. Great song!! Safri Duo feat. Clark Anderson - All The People In The World
Last but not least, this song is THE song that seemed to give these guys their moment in time. "The Bongo Song" was apparently one of the most popular in Europe in 2000. There are all sorts of videos of this song, but when I saw this one, that ended my search. Alexei Yagundin World Champion figure skater from Russia -- this guy is sooo darn cute!! I tried to follow his skating career and would watch as many of his competitions as I could. Alexei Yagudin - Salute to American Music "Racing"
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Friday, May 23, 2008
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Category: Music
James Brown --
died on Christmas Day at age 73
"Christmas in Heaven"
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What a performer he was! There will never be another! Here's a few of my favorites...Prisoner of Love
Please, Please, Please (don't miss this performance!)
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It's A Man's Man's Man's World
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Dec 25, 12:03 PM (ET)
By GREG BLUESTEIN
ATLANTA (AP) - James Brown, the dynamic, pompadoured "Godfather of Soul," whose revolutionary rhythms, rough voice and flashing footwork influenced generations of musicians from rock to rap, died early Christmas morning. He was 73.
Brown was hospitalized with pneumonia at Emory Crawford Long Hospital on Sunday and died of heart failure around 1:45 a.m. Monday, said his agent, Frank Copsidas of Intrigue Music.
He initially seemed fine at the hospital and even told people that he planned to be on stage in New York on New Year's Eve, Copsidas said.
Brown was one of the major musical influences of the past 50 years. From Mick Jagger to Michael Jackson, David Bowie to Public Enemy, Brown's rapid-footed dancing, hard-charging beats and heartfelt yet often unintelligible vocals changed the musical landscape. He was to rhythm and dance music what Bob Dylan was to lyrics.
"He was an innovator, he was an emancipator, he was an originator. Rap music, all that stuff came from James Brown," entertainer Little Richard, a longtime friend of Brown's, told MSNBC.
"James Brown changed music," said Rev. Al Sharpton, who toured with him in the 1970s and imitates his hairstyle to this day.
"He made soul music a world music," Sharpton said. "What James Brown was to music in terms of soul and hip-hop, rap, all of that, is what Bach was to classical music. This is a guy who literally changed the music industry. He put everybody on a different beat, a different style of music. He pioneered it."
Brown's classic singles include "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag,""(Get Up I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine,""I Got You (I Feel Good)" and "Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud," a landmark 1968 statement of racial pride.
"I clearly remember we were calling ourselves colored, and after the song, we were calling ourselves black," Brown told The Associated Press in 2003. "The song showed even people to that day that lyrics and music and a song can change society."
He won a Grammy for lifetime achievement in 1992, as well as Grammys in 1965 for "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" (best R&B recording) and for "Living In America" in 1987 (best R&B vocal performance, male.) He was one of the initial artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, along with Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and other founding fathers.
Brown, who lived in Beech Island, S.C., near the Georgia line, triumphed despite a turbulent personal life and charges of abusing drugs and alcohol. After a widely publicized, drug-fueled confrontation with police in 1988 that ended in an interstate car chase, Brown spent more than two years in prison for aggravated assault and failing to stop for a police officer.
From the 1950s, when Brown had his first R&B hit, "Please, Please, Please" in 1956, through the mid-1970s, Brown went on a frenzy of cross-country tours, concerts and new songs. He earned the nickname "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business" and often tried to prove it to his fans, said Jay Ross, his lawyer of 15 years.
Brown's stage act was as memorable, and as imitated, as his records, with his twirls and spins and flowing cape, his repeated faints to the floor at the end as band members tried in vain to get him to leave the stage.
His "Live at The Apollo" in 1962 is widely considered one of the greatest concert records ever. And he often talked of the 1964 concert in which organizers made the mistake of having the Rolling Stones, not him, close the bill. He would remember a terrified Mick Jagger waiting offstage, chain smoking, as Brown pulled off his matchless show.
"To this day, there has been no one near as funky. No one's coming even close," rapper Chuck D of Public Enemy once told the AP.
Brown routinely lost two or three pounds each time he performed and kept his furious concert schedule in his later years even as he fought prostate cancer, Ross said.
With his tight pants, shimmering feet, eye makeup and outrageous hair, Brown set the stage for younger stars such as Michael Jackson and Prince. And the early rap generation overwhelmingly sampled his music and voice as they laid the foundation of hip-hop culture.
"Disco is James Brown, hip-hop is James Brown, rap is James Brown; you know what I'm saying? You hear all the rappers, 90 percent of their music is me," Brown told The AP in 2003.
Born in poverty in Barnwell, S.C., in 1933, Brown was abandoned as a 4 year old to the care of relatives and friends. He grew up on the streets of Augusta, Ga., in an "ill-repute area," as he once called it, where he learned how to hustle to survive.
"I wanted to be somebody," Brown said.
By the eighth grade in 1949, Brown had served 3 1/2 years in Alto Reform School near Toccoa, Ga., for breaking into cars. While there, he met Bobby Byrd, whose family took Brown into their home. Byrd also took Brown into his group, the Gospel Starlighters. Soon they changed their name to the Famous Flames and their style to hard R&B.
In January 1956, King Records of Cincinnati signed the group, and four months later "Please, Please, Please" was in the R&B Top Ten.
Pete Allman, a radio personality in Las Vegas who had been friends with Brown for 15 years, credited Brown with jump-starting his career and motivating him personally and professionally.
"He was a very positive person. There was no question he was the hardest working man in show business," Allman said. "I remember Mr. Brown as someone who always motivated me, got me reading the Bible."
While most of Brown's life was glitz and glitter - he was the manic preacher in 1980's "The Blues Brothers" - he was plagued with charges of abusing drugs and alcohol and of hitting his third wife, Adrienne.
In September 1988, Brown, high on PCP and carrying a shotgun, entered an insurance seminar next to his Augusta office. Police said he asked seminar participants if they were using his private restroom. Police chased Brown for a half-hour from Augusta into South Carolina and back to Georgia. The chase ended when police shot out the tires of his truck.
Brown received a six-year prison sentence. He spent 15 months in a South Carolina prison and 10 months in a work release program before being paroled in February 1991. In 2003, the South Carolina parole board granted him a pardon for his crimes in that state.
Soon after his release, Brown was on stage again with an audience that included millions of cable television viewers nationwide who watched the three-hour, pay-per-view concert at Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles.
Adrienne Brown died in 1996 in Los Angeles at age 47. She took PCP and several prescription drugs while she had a bad heart and was weak from cosmetic surgery two days earlier, the coroner said.
More recently, he married his fourth wife, Tomi Raye Hynie, one of his backup singers. The couple had a son, James Jr.
Two years later, Brown spent a week in a private Columbia hospital, recovering from what his agent said was dependency on painkillers. Brown's attorney, Albert "Buddy" Dallas, said the singer was exhausted from six years of road shows.
Brown was performing to the end, and giving back to his community.
Three days before his death, he joined volunteers at his annual toy giveaway in Augusta, and he planned to perform on New Year's Eve at B.B. King Blues Club in New York.
"He was dramatic to the end - dying on Christmas Day," said the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a friend of Brown's since 1955. "Almost a dramatic, poetic moment. He'll be all over the news all over the world today. He would have it no other way."
Brown is survived by at least four children - two daughters and sons Daryl and James Brown III, Copsidas said. Friends were making flight arrangements Monday to come to Atlanta to determine how to memorialize Brown, Copsidas said.
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Associated Press writers Hillel Italie in New York and Harry R. Weber in Atlanta contributed to this report. ..tr>..table> ..tr>
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