LOVE Makes the World Go Around!!

Happy Valentine's Day....lovely music memories...for your listening enjoyment....

You're All I Know of Love

I Finally Found Someone

That Time Again

It was a different life
When we were boys and girls
Not just a different time
It was a different world...Bucky Covington

Oh yea baby!!...a little old time organ skating music....remember those day??

Why you pursue something is as important as what you pursue. Lou Bloom-Nightcrawler

Nostalgia

                           Woodstock Image

...and for your listening enjoyment....

Neil Young Now and Then

Whiter Shade of Pale...Procol Harum

We skipped the light fandango
turned cartwheels 'cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick
but the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
as the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
the waiter brought a tray

And so it was that later
as the miller told his tale
that her face, at first just ghostly,
turned a whiter shade of pale

She said, 'There is no reason
and the truth is plain to see.'
But I wandered through my playing cards
and would not let her be
one of sixteen vestal virgins
who were leaving for the coast
and although my eyes were open
they might have just as well've been closed

She said, 'I'm home on shore leave,'
though in truth we were at sea
so I took her by the looking glass
and forced her to agree
saying, 'You must be the mermaid
who took Neptune for a ride.'
But she smiled at me so sadly
that my anger straightway died

If music be the food of love
then laughter is its queen
and likewise if behind is in front
then dirt in truth is clean
My mouth by then like cardboard
seemed to slip straight through my head
So we crash-dived straightway quickly
and attacked the ocean bed

46 Years Ago Today!!

7-17-71 to 7-17-17!!...46 years ago REALLY!!??

Where have the years gone!!??

....Remembering the 17's....another chapter in a life....

...and for your listening enjoyment...memories from the Chicago concert in a small town rodeo arena--AMAZING!!

Color my World

...and more from 1971....now...I call that MUSIC!!!

How Can You Mend a Broken Heart

You've Got a Friend

Imagine

Heart of Gold

Riders on the Storm

Stairway to Heaven

...I diverge...I saw this one and JUST HAD to include it!!

Knockin' on Heaven's Door!!

Wander

For your listening enjoyment....Helen Jane Long

Sometimes there's just some nanu-nanu things going on out there!!

In one day....I had 3 separate references to the movie Dazed and Confused.

• Through a conversation about Ben Affleck, I realized he was in it.
• In researching Texan accents...of course, Matthew McConaughey's name came up.
• And in the episode of Rectify I was watching...the brothers were going to watch the movie!!

...and then two occurrences of "Life is a Gift"....

• A friend's email closed with..."and Life is a Gift."
• And in Rectify Season 2, Episode 1--Kerwin tells Daniel to wake up--Life is a Gift!!

Since that day...these nanu-nanu sorts of things are happening more and more!!  COOL!!

Accents continued

...and here goes with Indiana....

Hoosiers, more Hoosiers...and more Hoosiers...FUNNY!!

I listened to the accents folks recorded from around the state...and didn't really hear the "countrified" Indiana accent I remember from my past.  Maybe I'm just remembering an accent from a past generation?

The young folks all seem to just sound unaccentless...mid-western...

Southern Indiana, Southern Indiana

Northwest Indiana

Northern Indiana

May Day

Happy May Day!!

Some further delving into accents...I thought I'd see what kind of accent I have!!

(side-notes--I remember NOT understanding a convenience store worker in Georgia who was trying to give me directions.  I thought she was saying go down the highway to highway "286"...but she was saying to just go down the highway "two exits"!!  WHAT an embarrassing experience that was as I kept repeating the question in various ways until I finally understood her!! Also, I now realize I don't say Nevada the way a Nevadian would say it--I say the "va" like vaaah/vamonos...NOT "va" like vaseline!!)

I wish I had known about the worldwide accent project from numerous years ago!!...some FUNNY accent videos out there!!

Part 1: Let's start with Texan accents!! 

Texas Twang!!
Texan Words--I only use Howdy...but that is a very recent addition to my vocabulary--Howdy Doody!!
Austin
East Texas--I think she sounds like a west Texan!!...probably too much time in LUBBOCK!!
These sound more East Texas to me East Texas
Northeast Texas
Dallas
Fort Worth
Panhandle
El Paso
Southeast Texas
West Texas
Ya'll
Houston, Houston
South Texas
Deep South Texas