Time For Music

Veni, Veni, Emmanuel

A little something different a little more solemn and so, for the Second Sunday of Advent we offer to all:



I did some Christmas shopping yesterday. I find this helped me return to the reason for the season. Blessing from us here at OT to all of you.

One, Two, Awayback We Go

Mr. Peabody is providing a 1950's lecture to Sherman and it goes something like this:

1, Can't Help Fallin In Love Elvis
2, Tennessee Waltz Patti Page
3. Catch A Falling Star Perry Como
4, Ring of Fire Johnny Cash
5, Angel Eyes Four Freshmen
6, Mambo Italiano Rosemary Clooney
7, Little Darlin' The Diamonds
8, Blue Suede Shoes Carl Perkins
9. Set The world On Fire The Inkspots
10, I'm walkin' Fats Domino

We end with a better work from Fats Domino than Blueberry Hill. Ring of Fire slipped in but only because Johnny Cash was recording with Sam back in the 50's. Started with two great love songs from that era. Yes, for you young whipper-snappers, rosemary Clooney is George's mother, but you all knew that already, didn't you. A personal favorite is Little Darlin' and of course while I am old, I am not, technically, this old. However, the magic here is that my sister required a dance partner for those afternoons when homework was done and Bandstand was on. Yikes!

When Will We Make A Stand?

Here is a headline from a Los Angeles Daily News writer, Troy Anderson, by way of the San Francisco Chronicle, Bay Area Section:

Attacks based on religion, sexual orientation are up

Lest you have just drifted by and think to yourself, "Self, that just one of many crimes that are up this past year" think again. "Although the total number of hate crimes countywide dropped 4 percent from 2007 to 2008, the rise in homophobic and religious-based hate crimes worried advocate groups."

Yep, the purple-shirted gang, Akinola, Orombi, Duncan, Iker, Schofield, etc. has always spouted that no harm comes to LGBT folks just because we "take a stand". Really, then why are hate crimes based on sexual orientation up 21 percent and religious crimes increased by 14%? Furthermore, the article goes on to say that there is a definite correlation back to the Proposition 8 debates!

There is a bill pending right now, before the Ugandan legislature to make some behaviors punishable by death! How can our bishops, our clergy and our primates stand silently by and allow this to happen? (I am aware of Canada and the debate in England). Can you now see that even your silence condemns our brothers and sisters to the full panoply of hate and violence? Can you now see that there is sin in not saying anything? Can you now see that every day that we allow these issues to go unchecked is another day where some person will be physically harmed? Enough is enough!

Do you all know that in Los Angeles County the number of hate crimes rose significantly and 80% of those crimes were aimed at gay men? Are we all proud of ourselves for this namby-pamby kind of approach to personal freedom. You all know what I mean, the idea that sooner or later the LGBT community will get what they want, just be patient. How many more hate crimes will there be? How many more Matthew Shepherds will there be? And even if you are not for personal freedom, (I can't see how) but we must be against violence done to anyone for any reason.

Let's move forward, let's put as much pressure on Uganda and Bishop Orombi as we can until this terrible legislation is done away. The Episcopal Church needs to take positive, affirming and holistic approach to same sex marriage and to blessings.

Now, is a good time to start!

The Regular Wayback Machine

Here we are again and it is time for a little travel through the wayback machine to another time and another place. A journey of sights and sounds, (oh, wait, this is the wayback machine not the twilight zone, sorry).

1. Turn, Turn, Turn The Byrds (and by the way, it is from 3 years ago and David Crosby is still going strong in spite of his liver transplant.)
2. Cripple Creek The Band
3. Hells Bells AC/DC
4. Driftin' Blues Paul Butterfield blues Band (I saw them do this number)
5. Conquistador Procol Harum
6. Hair of The Dog Nazareth
7. Crying In The Rain Everly Brothers
8. Rock and Roll Heaven Righteous Brothers
9. Midnight Rider Allman Brothers
10. Black Water Doobie Brothers

The last four songs are by brothers of one sort or another. I have seen the Righteous Brothers and the Everly Brothers but not the other two. I like Rock and Roll Heaven going into Advent and of course I hope it counteracts Hells Bells by AC/DC.

A word in closing on liver transplants. A very good friend of mine received one and lived 11 years. David Crosby got his a year after Dick had his transplant. David Crosby is going strong. The science is great and the medicine is getting better all the time.

A Special Edition of the Wayback Machine

1. Do Wah Diddy Manfred Mann
2. The Supernatural John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers (Peter Green on guitar)
3. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow The Shirelles
4. What's going On Marvin Gaye
5. Crazy willie Nelson
6. Mack The Knife Louis Armstrong
7. Music of the Night Michael Crawford
8. Misirlou Dick Dale and The Deltones
9. I don't Want to Set The World on Fire The Inkspots
10. Panis Angelicus Pavarotti

Marvin Gaye's song is one of the finest you will hear anywhere. Crawford does a good job on Music of the Night (I really enjoyed and saw Robert Guillume) and John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers is without my all time favorite Eric Clapton but hey, one needs to expand one's mind. By the way, can anyone guess the relationship between Jack Bruce and Eric Clapton besides the obvious CREAM. where did they first play together?

Dick Dale was a surf guitarist of the finest caliber, hope you enjoy that one as well. Anyone ever body surf the Wedge? Yahoo!

Thanksgiving is special so, here we go!

The Wayback Machine

After many months of posting a "top ten" list at Padre Mickey's I have decided that I am far too narrow and considerably less erudite than PM and his broad and eclectic sense of music. As a result, I have decided to use Mr. Peabody's "wayback machine" to start my own Friday night or Saturday (depending on how I feel and how quickly I can get to) my good ole turntable. Here, you will find only the "genuine, original vinyl", none of that plastic stuff.

So for our inaugural entry we have the following:

1. Suzanne Lenoard Cohen
2. RESPECT Otis Redding
3. Help Me Rhonda Beach Boys
4. Our Last Kiss J. Frank Wilson
5. After Midnight Eric Clapton
6. Crystal Ship The Doors
7. Will You Love Me tomorrow Shirelles
8. Monday Monday Mamas and Papas
9. Highway 61 Bob Dylan
10. Slowdown Beatles

I ended with one of the great Beatles songs that hardly anyone remembers but listen to the guitar work in this song. Somebody knows how to use an axe.

Now you have it, the first ever wayback machine. don't forget to come back!