Hi MaryPage
I don't complain or want to. As I said in my last post here, I offer advice if I can on areas that can assist people.

Enjoy your day.

Kelly

Hi everyone.  It is an overcast morning after an evening with some heavy rain.  I just checked my rain gauge and we had over 1/2 inch, which is much appreciated. We had a very nice Church service yesterday with everything but the sermon done by children pre-school age to the fifth grade.  While it was hard to understand some of them they all did a nice job.  There was music, prayers and explanations of our stain glass windows in our church as a part of the program.  This church has a lot of young children.  After church we went to Firehouse Subs for lunch and then I made a brief stop at the nearby Walmart for some copy paper.  Today my only plan is to attend a meeting at noon.  I may call later this morning to see about getting a haircut.  Pat may attend an end-of-meeting term luncheon with her Circle friends at church. 

Kelly, hope you will soon be feeling better with reduced pain.  I watch my wife so day-after-day dealing with pain and know it is very unpleasant.  To me your speaking of how you are feeling with regard to your situation is not complaining but is simply a part of your life for the day.  However, we are each entitled to our own opinions and way comment is not intended in any way as a criticism.  It is the sharing of our thoughts and day's journal with each other, even when redundant day after day, is what, to me, builds our community of friends here.  I, for one, am certainly interested in learning about the special equipment you use to help with your hands situation.

Sandy, glad to see you are well on your way to recovery and will soon be able to hold that new great grandchild.  I have fond memories of the first time I held my first great grandchild, who is now 13, and it was certainly special.

Hi Larry
Good to hear you look after Pat in regard to pain issues. 

As for me there will no more mention of pain issues.

How is your climate where you live, is your summer temperature high.
The Isle of Man summer temperature is about 64F or 18C.

Kelly

Thanks for looking up those songs, Patricia.  I was astonished to see so many sites referring to Mairzy Doats as a "children's song!"  It was NOT!  It was way up on the Hit Parade.  The best bands and singers performed it.

We girls used to get together and listen to the Hit Parade every Saturday night on the radio.  They would start with the one that was number ten for the week, and work up to the number One.  We used to swoon over Frank Sinatra singing All Or Nothing At All!

Wow!  Look at THIS list!!  Now this is My Music.  I know every song on here!

http://tsort.info/music/yr1943.htm

ANOTHER grey rainy day here.  I just can't Believe this!  The bay is so misty, I guess because it is getting warmer than it has been, that you cannot see Anything out there!  When, oh when, is this going to End and the Sun come out?  IS there still a sun?  Complaining here;  not that it'll do me a speck of good.

Hi MaryPage
I found for the song Mairzy Doats, it was recorded by;

The Piied Pipers in 1944
The Trade Winds in 1967
And The Merry Macs go to number on in March 1944
And Tommy Ridgely made a rock and roll version in 1958

There were other versions as well.

Kelly

Well, there ya go, Kelly!  Thanks!

I checked the Hit Parade for 1942 just now, and again, I knew every song on it.  Yes, those were My years, and that was My music!  There are a lot of songs on the 42, 43 and 44 lists that were inspired by the fact that we were in an all out war in those years.

Wow, what a trip down memory lane with that list of songs!  I'm with you, MaryPage.  That was music - the songs were sung, not screeched, and you could hear and learn all the words.

MaryPage, the UVerse service comes with a DVR that will record up to four shows at the same time.  We do have a CD player also but it is seldom used, just when the kids bring something over to watch.  As far as gadgets, well my job in my other life involved electronics so up until I got where I could up and down and under things, I did like new electronic gadgets.

You spoke of the hit parade, that goes back a ways, the conversation of Prince came up yesterday with my family and I made the statement this generation has no claim to fame on worship of celebrities.  I told them about the "Hit Parade" and Frank Sinatra and how you girls used to swoon and scream......heheheheheh  

Marzie most certainly was a main stream tune, not a kids song.  I still remember most of the words myself.  Even though I hadn't thought of it for ages. Strange isn't it, we had so many happy, silly things everyone liked in those days.  Fibber Mcgree and Molly, Abbott and Castello, Red Skelton, Husband and wife were not allowed in the same bed in movies, cursing and bad language wasn't heard, never.  Bob Hope used to get into trouble just using innuendo. Wonder how we survived.  Used to love the old comedy/variety shows.

My daughter, when she was in her 20's, attended a VFW barbecue with her father and me.  The entertainment was a band of "older" musicians playing song after song from the 40's.  Of course, Mairzey Doats was one.  My daughter's mouth dropped open, she looked at me in surprise and said "That really was a song!"  I guess for years when she heard me "singing" (?) it she thought it was my imagination. 

Then, there was the time I passed by my son's bedroom and heard Glen Miller's String of Pearls" coming from his stereo.  I popped my head in and my son said "Mom!  Listen to this!"  I explained to him that it sure wasn't something new.   

Hi MaryPage and JeanneP
Though I like all types of music, my era is the 1960's.

The sixties saw  a change in many ways and I think the sixties music reflected thsy.

Kelly

Hal, I will confess to swooning, but my bunch NEVER screamed.  We hated that, and I do to this very day and hour.  I cannot bear to watch morning and daytime TV shows, or any game shows, because of all that audience screaming.  A crowd of human beings screaming and screeching reminds me, with shivers up and down my spine, of our relationship to the Ape species.  Very uncivilized!

Fascinating that we remember all the words, isn't it?  I mean, can YOU remember what you had for breakfast today?  Okay, well, how about Yesterday?  Well, me too!  But I can sing along with all the words to popular music from the thirties and forties.  Funny how our brains work.  I think people with dementia can do that, too.

Color me old fashioned (wow:  my grandmother certainly would not have said so!) and prim and proper and very, very much a prude, but while I do not wish to go back to those days in any OTHER way, except to see my loved ones again,  I do like the innocence we had.  We were polite and used decent language (well, Grandma made me wash my mouth out with a humongous bar of Fels Naptha soap while she watched.  I was twelve, and had said "darn!") and our songs were decent.  Silly sometimes, but we rather desperately needed silly during the Great Depression which was immediately followed by all out war. 

"Mares eat oats and does eat oats,
And little lambs eat ivy.
A kid'll eat ivy, too....wouldn't you?"   la la la 

Nat King Cole and Johnny Mathis were the    singers for my teen years - but the songs of the 40's were still popular.  I still have all my 45 rpm records - and some 78's - from those days  AND a turntable that will play all of them.

Recently,  I have seen record players advertised for playing "vinyl", which seems to be a "new thing" again.     "What goes around comes around".

I think the 40s and 50s were my song eras.  I remember the words to many of the songs and it is nostalgic to read others memories.

Mary Ann

Callie,  my  daughter-in-law has old records from many years ago.  She collects them. There are several record stores down in Baltimore City that only sell the old records.  And, then, she is always so excited when she finds a special one at the Goodwill.

My son bought her a very nice record player that only plays the old 78's.   I think I remember having a record player that had an attachment that you added if you wanted to play the little 45's. 

Like you said,  "what goes around, comes around".  I agree with everyone else, that was the good music. 

I have a friend, whose daughter sings with a "big band" and they sing all the "old songs".  The male singer with this band sounds exactly like Frank Sinatra. If you weren't looking at him, you would think for sure, it was "Ole Blue eyes".   It is so much fun to go to some of their shows and watch the "oldtimers" dancing.  Most of their audiences are probably over 60, but you do see some younger ones once in a while.  Always a fun time.

Joy

I went to High School with Johnny Mathis.  Fantastic singer.

I have to grin a little when you see the "modern" folks do that they call dancing, they think bumping rear ends and holding their crouch is the thing.  When all we got to do is hold each other in our arms and sway gently to some very romantic music.   We wsere so square......    

Oh Joan,   my sister-in-law has been "madly in love" with Johnny Mathis for years and years and years, etc. 

She just went to see him in concert a month or so ago.  And, she  just  absolutely "out of control"   She said he sounded great, and I think he is either 80 or close to it.   

Did you ever get to meet up with him after he got famous ?

Joy

I did a Google search, and Johnny Mathis was born in 1935, so he will be 81 in September.  Fantastic singer still going !!

I have to agree with Kelly that the sixties were my era, the golden age of Rock and Roll! However, I liked the blues and jazz artists as much if not more, Thelonious Monk. Charles Mingus. Art Blakey. Dizzy Gillespie.Moms Mabley, Max Roach. Billie Holiday. John Coltrane. Billie Holiday was the first in an era of standard prejudge to sing a song, "Strange Fruit," publicly that was about the Southern habit of lynching Black men.

I also vividly remember how young girls swooned over the Beatles, so much so that promoters often had paramedics standing by. And what about my sister and her friends loving Elvis Presley? My little sister born in 1961 also had posters all over her walls of various singers in the early seventies. Music does have charms to soothe the savage beast in all of us....

I recognise many if not all of those songs from the forties as well. My mother, by ear, played piano, organ,  alto sax and accordion so while instrumental music was more common in my growing up years, she also sang many of the older, (to me);  tunes.

I loved Frank Sinatra, but I adored Dean Martin. Johnny Mathis was also one we listened to in the evening. My Dad preferred Perry Como, Tony Bennet, Nat King Cole, Theresa Brewer, Frankie Lane and Rosemary Cloony as well as many country singers I can't recall except Jim Reeves and Ferlin Husky. Lawerance Welk was a weekly staple after 1967 in our house after we bought a television.

We are having the usual, misty damp mornings, sunny afternoons and light raining evenings. Not much change there, but the trees and bushes are once again green.

PATRICIA, your music was my children's music!  You are of their generation.

One singer I adored was Andy Russell.  No one seems to remember him any more.  I can't imagine why not!

Joy, he was one year behind me and no never did meet up with him after.  Saw him in Vegas one year when my Mom and  wen tbut that was it.  He and his brothers lived in the same area as we did in S.F.

Hal, HEAR  HEAR

MaryPage, here are some uTube songs from Andy Russell;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQrRBWDTuik

Good afternoon, another rainy day, but still with no wind.  I put the heat on this morning.

Now, when I was little, my grandmother lived with us and she sang songs of the Gay Ninetys to me.  After the Ball is Over, Daisy,Dasiy etc. In 1941, I worked in a Frosted  Malt Shop, and the Junk Box was playing all day, I think I can still hear those songs. My mother was a Rudy Vallie fan.

Hal, I still have a FiberMagee's closet.

My Dad listened to the "old" Country music at home. I lived with my older sister part of the time and she was into the big bands, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin etc, so I developed an appreciation of that music also.  Then along came Elvis .  I was one of his drooling fans and in fact, snuck out of the house about 1957 and went to one of his concerts.  My mother would have had a fit if she knew (and no, she never did find out ).  By the time the Beatles came along, I was married, worked full time, had kids and never got into that era of music nor what my kids listened to.

I like some jazz and blues music but have really gone back to my roots and when I listen to music, it's country or what they now call "Classic Country".  I do not like what passes for country now. 

One of my favorites was Merle Haggard. Cathie, my friend Gena and I drove up to Ardmore, OK in November and saw him in person.  It turned out to be the next to last concert he did before he got sick.

Mary

After seeing the picture of Andy Russell , he does look vaguely familiar.  And, the name is vaguely farmiliar, also.  Sounded good, anyhow.

Thanks, Patricia for finding that.

Joy

From when she was 75.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1km-F2DVgjs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd2F8N_xf6Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCAONfekvnY

Moms Mabley, a great singer, and comedian!

I remember Andy Russell. 

My era was BB/BE  (Before Beatles/Before Elvis) and I never did care much for either one.   

My husband, who grew up in Tupelo MS, was in the same third grade class as Elvis.  Husband's aunt lived about a mile south of the Presleys and thought they were "white trash" because they lived north of the highway. 

We visited Elvis' birthplace long before it became a Mississippi Historic Site  https://www.elvispresleybirthplace.com/the-tour/mississippi-historic-site.  I have a picture of my husband and 3-year-old son sitting in the swing that's pictured on the web site page.

It's funny about humans and locations defining folks. Here in Fairbanks, it was always South Fairbanks that was looked down on as it was first the site of an old Athabaskan Indian village and then a Black part of town, until the developers started gentrifying the neighborhoods.

To the Athabaskans, it was who lived on which side of the Yukon river and in ancient, (to us); times the Indians and the Eskimos figuratively drew a geographical line horizontally across Alaska and made it a dividing line. So much so that you could be killed on the wrong side. Many, today, still have that old prejudge.

wjoan - did you happen to live in the West Portal district of SF?

I remember Andy Russell and I liked him.  Another singer I liked was Jerry Vale and there was one song in particular I liked that he sang, but I have n o idea now what it was. 

Mary Ann

MaryAnn and others, I will right-click on an item, highlight it and on the drop menu, select search Google for that item. Here is what I discovered for Jerry Vale.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT2CFZ12aF8P7ARMcoQOJog