This past week, the Library of Congress published a list of “culturally significant recordings” that it would preserve. There seems to be no real unifying theme; the recordings cover from the 1850’s to the 1990’s. Music practically everyone knows:
Music few have heard of:
Spoken word:
Country and/or Western:
Folk:
Pop/jazz:
A Papal Mass:
Jazz:
Pop / jazzy rock?:
There are several others that can be fairly easily found in the list at the link above. Music can be very uplifting. The wide variety provides something for everyone.
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Good morning Hamsters. Balmy 70 at 6 and humid but not mugly. Light breeze stirs after Sunup, rain chances drop to 10% this morning, disappointment lurks again. Everywhere we watered the yard all is Spring green, but the dry pastures are losing that beautiful tone bit by bit. How deceptive is the scene. Hay will be hard to obatin this… Read more »
Condolences Bob. Everything else has been said.
Hey,it’s Monday morning, rise and shine. Gnaw tthourgh those straps and have a good week.
or not.
Springsteen and Bon Jovi are also gaming the system in New Jersey by claiming special ‘farm exemptions’ in order to avoid paying the typical taxes on their property. Thanks to a tax exemption for beekeepers Bon Jovi pays a paltry $104 dollars on 6.8 acres of land in Monmouth County. Springsteen also found a favorable exemption to help him avoid… Read more »
I was in Kroger yesterday and almost bought a six-pack. But I kept thinking “grapefruit” and “beer” and I just couldn’t wrap my mind around the combination. Maybe I’ll try it after all.
Speaking of GoatTrucker, a tip of the hat to ‘im. This stuff is pretty good. Not my favorite Shiner brew but it’s pretty nice right now.
Some guys need to retire. This is a memory killer. Thank gawduhhhhh Gary Wright lost the white boots.
Sing it Spooky
Twenty years ago, almost to the day, I lost someone I cared for deeply. This song came on the radio that night. To this day it still makes me cry like a baby.
May God bless your mother, Bob42.
Let it roll over me
Little bits a Bakersfield
Where’s gto?
Thanks to all for the warm thoughts and prayers. Please rest assured that they are greatly appreciated, that I love y’all, and know that I’m both pleased and proud to call you my friend. Also rest assured that I’ll be back next week, with my usual snarky, cynical, edgy, sometimes over the line, and hopefully “makes you think” commentary. Older… Read more »
Bob, Just got read up on the weekend thread. My most sincere and heartfelt condolences. You will be in our family’s prayers in the days ahead as you pass through the grief and pain of losing a parent. If there is anything at all I can do, please don’t hesitate to let me know. I live on your side of… Read more »
I just found out that I have a new grandnephew. They’ve named him Robert Elliot. Dad’s name is “Robbie”. Does this mean they’ll call the baby “Bob”? NOOOOoooooooooooo!!!!!!
#51 SuperDave Thanks for the nice but premature congratulations. Handsome has a spot on the TEAM, not entrance into the university. He’ll have to test for that, and boy is he stressing out! Keep him in your prayers, that he (1) can find the time to study, (2) makes the time to study, (3) doesn’t lose his focus on his… Read more »
But I don’t see any Neanderthals on Hamous’s couch or in the recliner in the corner or even on the footstool beside the wing chair. I do see good ladies and gentlemen who well understand and care when someone suffers a serious loss, for many of us have been through it by sad experience. Losing a parent has its own… Read more »
Leave it to Ms Adee to make the case much better than the resident
Neanderthals’Guys here. 😉Bob, that piano restoration is a wonderful project in this time of sorrow, for it awaits your attention when you need distraction. The benefit is you can see/hear the progress made, and that helps blunt the at times overwhelming emptiness of the loss–if only for a little bit each time. Grieving takes its own pace, and there are no rules… Read more »
Bob
I pray God draws you and yours near and keeps you in peace. If you need anything, ANYTHING, do not hesitate to yank my chain. BSue and I are here for you and will come there for you if need be.
Squawk
#54 The tuning is coming along, depending on the key the piece is in. I have several notes that I don’t want to “blow torch” any further because the risk of snapping the tone bar in two is too high. I want to have a few spares on hand before I push my luck. Fortunately, there is a cult like… Read more »
I’m sorry if I put a downer on the weekend OC. Definitely no apology required there, Bob. There is most definitely a time for grief and it’s wholly appropriate. I made mention the other day to Squawk that there was more going on than I cared to get into here, and one aspect of that is that I recently lost… Read more »
Oh and Bob, “the Rhodes’ intonation is still not where I’d like it to be, but here goes.”
I’d say you did pretty good. 😉
Thanks Bones, SD, and Katfish. I’ll be fine, with time. My employer has been quite understanding of my intermittent cerebral paralysis, the pre-rehearsal “milk and cookies” choir crew has been helpful, as are my interactions with folks here (more than y’all can know.) I’m sorry if I put a downer on the weekend OC. Next time I upload something I… Read more »
Bob I reckon I missed the memo………….
Kneemail for Peace, Strength, and Solace are your sir
“Her last breath on EARTH was her first breath in HEAVEN!”
Well I’ve been outa’ pocket of late, so let me catch up. Bob, I send my condolences to you and your family, I know that you took real good care of her in the end and I sure that she appreciated it. You were fortunate to see often near the end. God Bless you. Tedtam, Congratulations to The Boy and… Read more »
Bob42: May Mom42 rest in peace and you live in peace with your grief soothed.
Good Sunday morning smiling music.
Karl Denninger TELLS it like IT IS ………………..once AGAIN
Good Sunday morning music.
#42 tedtam
Maybe you need to fix him a sammich so he can keep up his strength.
And make it snappy.
TT #42;
That’s my kind of man!
#37 – Mister DEEEEEEEEEEP Cut way ta GO SQuawkster!
Your elected representatives in Washington have declared you incompetent to care for yourself. Your elected representatives in Austin agree with Washington as they work harder to relieve you of the last of your meager savings and freedoms. Your elected representatives in City Hall know your street is full of potholes and there are thieves lurking in the shadows. Sadly, there… Read more »
I’m just tired of waiting on Hubby to arrive with the backhoe. He’ll watch me for a moment and say “I could do that with the backhoe, you know.” I just look at him, look at the pile of dirt, and say “Bring it!”
And he goes back inside to do something else.
#40 TT
You are a one-woman perpetual motion machine!
I spent most of my day working in the yard. I finally moved the walkway from my back porch over to where it will be easier to use. I wanted to get the bricks and loads of dirt moved before the potential rainfall, which I’m hoping will help it settle. I don’t know how many loads of dirt I’ve moved,… Read more »
I know it’s late in the day, but my sincere condolences, Bob. I know from your posts how much your mother meant to you.
Thanks y’all I do appreciate the thoughts and prayers.
I am no bodies slave, I am no bodies master
Sing ‘er John
/A nod to Mr. Fish
I can only wish. Oh well, a little mornin maniac music just the same.
Sing it Gracie
And where is the TeaParty?
Sing it Brother Isleys
A little song for the “R”s
Sing it Danny
Mark Levin on Budget Deal: ‘This Is a Historic Scam’
Great points from Levin. Including $10 billion of the cuts possibly from the two previous CRs.
bob #26;
Sympathies to you and your. Take care and God bless.
Don’t forget you have friends to call upon.
Arranged in memory of Carolyn B. Drumm, 10/31/1941 – 3/31/2011. Bob, is this your mother? You did not mention this and it has been over a week since March 31. It is not my job to chide you here, but you should let people know, and not be joking around about “dating yourself”, etc. That being said, if your mother… Read more »
So sorry for your loss, Bob. I know you’re not the praying type, but you’re in mine anyway.
Bob, deepest sympathy on the loss of your mother.
#17 ST, Ooohhh, now that proposal sounds like an invitation to Get A Rope….
My condolences, bob.
Of the dozens of (then) popular songs I learned to mimic on the piano as a kid, this one was most requested by mom42. I hadn’t played it in well over 30 years, and the Rhodes’ intonation is still not where I’d like it to be, but here goes. Hello darkness, my old friend I’ve come to talk with you… Read more »