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Video unavailable - sorry Steve so I'll follow the post by ||:pwal:|| <- repeat signs Mr. Sandman - The Chordettes I loved this song when I was a wee child

"Heat Wave" - Cal Tjader & Carmen McRae I nice take on this jazz classic - IMO the entire album is nice.

Kurski Funk - Paul Winter with the Dmitri Pokrovsky Singers

'tis the season "Vote For Me" - Joe Walsh

Jesus Just Left Chicago - ZZ Top

You might like the entire album. IMO there isn't a bad song on it. He does a reading by Kerouac from in this Charlie Parker classic. I believe the words to the song itself are by King Pleasure, and I think the Kerouac reading is from "On The Road" Parker's Mood - Mark Murphy & The Muse All-Stars with Richie Cole on alto sax (Richie is one of my favorite bop alto players).

Surfers Rule - The Beach Boys

Joy Spring - Clifford Brown (He wrote it for his wife)

A great spoof of the Bond flicks.

Goodbye Porkpie Hat - Mark Murphy A Charles Mingus song dedicated to tenor saxophonist Lester Young with words added by Joni Mitchell and IMO Improved by vocalist Mark Murphy with alto saxophonist Richie Cole and the Muse All-Stars backing him up.

Violets For Your Furs - John Coltrane John Coltrane's take on this song originally recorded by the Tommy Dorsey orchestra with Frank Sinatra on vocals. Actually I like the Shirley Horn version better, but I posted that one a few months ago.

I think they should just get rid of Daylight Savings Time and keep Standard Time. The sun is supposed to be at the zenith in the sky at noon. Millions of sundials can't be wrong. :D

"Wild Weekend" - The Rockin' Rebels I learned this song when I was a little kid.

Arrived on Halloween. It's BOO-Tiful Bapu. I hope she plays as good as she looks.

Without a gig :( Yoko says "Oh No!"

I use Network Solutions for my domain name. I suspect there might be some deals out there, but I signed with them when they were the only game in town and they've always been reliable. I figure if it isn't broke, why fix it? I use Hostway for my web host. They are rarely down, and give me good service. The price is a flat rate per year. I use a separate shopping cart service. If interested PM me because there is a lot to write about. The good thing about a separate shopping cart services is if my web host ever gives me trouble, I can get a new host and won't have to change any shopping cart tags. I learned to write web pages with a book called HTML in plain English. That was back in the early 1990s when I think it was HTML version 1. I'm sure the book is no longer in print. I learned the basics of coding, and the basics are still in most websites (tags for paragraphs, headlines, tables, fonts, pictures, links <which are called anchors> etc.) Years later when I wanted something a bit more user friendly like the javascript menu on my Norton Music site, I just analyzed what someone else was doing and customized it to my own needs. Now there are probably tutorials all over the web, but back then, the web was slow, dial-up modems were 14k baud, Mosaic was the popular web browser, and the worldwideweb was still new (and had no spaces in the spelling). A book was the only way to go, and I had post-it note bookmarks between a lot of the pages. I use an old HTML compiler called HomeSite. It's also no longer available. I type the code in myself, but it has key combination shortcuts and clickable buttons for the most common HTML tags, which saves typing time. Then with a click of another button I can see the results in Firefox, Chrome, Edge, or other browsers. I tried a couple of WYSIWYG programs for making web pages, but after learning to code, I found their code wasteful and sloppy. Repeating the same tags over and over again when they didn't need to was one example. Say for instance you wanted to put a number of paragraphs in a different typeface/font, each one would start with the tag <font face="Times New Roman" color="#800000"> and ending with the tag </font>. For a dozen or so paragraphs, that's a lot of wasted tags which slow down the browser at the end user's computer. One at the beginning and the other at the end of the dozens of paragraphs would be sufficient. HTML 5 has a nifty new code for playing music. I plan on converting all my samples (all I need is the time). My sites are http://www.nortonmusic.com and http://www.s-cats.com feel free to borrow any HTML code. Insights and incites by Notes

I probably tortured my neighbors and parents. I could practice hours on end learning how to 'master' songs like "On Top Of Old Smoky", "Merrily We Roll Along" and other beginning band classics. ;) I grew up in Florida and our next door neighbors lived in Canada in the summer. Mom used to make me go next door and play in their empty carport because I was driving her crazy in the house. Sad songs. An strange concept for me. The lyrics are the last thing I ever listen to in a song. At first they are just articulation in the lead line which I am listening to in relationship to the rhythm section and other comp parts. After my mind understands and even semi-memorizes (to the point of being able to 'sing along' to the parts in my head) the meanings of the lyrics slowly register in my brain. I've heard some sad lyrics, but I can't say the song is sad. I guess that's why I suck at songwriting. But I'm a decent arranger and can write some pretty good Band-in-a-Box styles. Josef Suk wrote his Asrael Symphony after his teacher/mentor/father-in-law composer Antonín Dvořák and his wife Otilie Suková (Antonín Dvořák's daughter) died. It must have been sad to write, but to me it's beautiful. BTW, Leilani and I are in the audience in Prague on opening day of the Czech Philharmonic's 2014 season. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFoFxa7Hc04 So for me there might be sad lyrics, but no sad songs. Notes

I think the music variety and innovation were better in the 1950s and early 1960s, before the big labels started buying up the indies and when the individual disc jockeys chose the songs they would play on their radio shows. Now with the Internet, people can innovate, but the supply is so saturated, getting noticed takes more talent and hard work than it does to play music. I've played live all my life, almost signed to a major label (dispute over money ended that), opened in concerts for major headliners, played cruise ships, show clubs, singles bars, supper clubs, neighborhood bars, restaurants, seedy dives, and a lot of unusual places as well (like on top of a gas station's grand opening). Although I never quite got that record deal, in the days when the record deal was the ticket to fame, I would do it all again. So far it's a happy life. Now if this #@($!*%& COVID would only go away. Notes

And no matter how often, it's never often enough ?

Because it's Halloween Rachmaninoff - The Isle of the Dead, Op.29 - Vladimir Ashkenazy / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Over, Under, Sideways, Down - The Yardbirds

IMO it was a mistake to expect priests and nuns to remain celibate and deny one of our strongest drives. You get a lot less of this sort of behavior with religions that don't prohibit s-e-x for it's clergy. Come on auto censors, the word ***** is written on my driver's license and just about every form I've filled out.