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"Centerfold" - J Geils Band lyrical association: My memory has just been sold My angel is the centerfold

"Angel of the Morning" - Merrilee Rush & The Turnabouts (IMO her tender approach makes it the much better version than the later Juice Newton cover - YMMV) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLm92VlmavE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwJfAjtgtKQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdt6MP6zy4Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6iC64-47mQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGBNAu2vaRI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQToIeA8csU Looks like none of these will embed - if anyone else can do it, please let me know how you did it.

Angel Baby - Rosie and the Originals

I make all my own backing tracks for my duo http://www.s-cats.com I've been asked so many times in the Band-in-a-Box forum, that I made my own instruction and information page. Feel free to use whatever you like. http://www.nortonmusic.com/backing_tracks.html I still use Master Tracks Pro because MIDI is easier there than in Cakewalk. Cakewalk does audio though and MTPro does not. Insights and incites by Notes

Ah, the last comment at the bottom. I concur.

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child - Traditional https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXg9UFUXFXU (Odetta) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hohnr22zTxc (Mahalia Jackson)

Twilight Zone (When The Bullet Hits The Bone) - Golden Earring

Sorry guys, it's true. I've never seen Simpsons, Sopranos, Taxi, Cheers, Idol, Thrones, Downtown Abby, or anything. The last two shows on TV I watched were (1) Johnny Carson's last Tonight Show because I grew up with that an (2) Jay Leno's first tonight show to see how it changed. And since without a cable or antenna I can't get anything but one Christian Sermon channel on my TV (snowy at that) I had to go to my mother-in-laws to see them. Paulo, my wife and I talk and talk and laugh and talk constantly. I got very-very lucky with her (she's my second, the first was a disaster). 24/7 wouldn't be too much time together. We work together http://www.s-cats.com and play together. We have similar tastes in music, we both love travel, we both prize experience over possessions, we both have warped senses of humor, and we are each other's best friends. It's been 41 years of bliss. Last year we spent 5 weeks in Australia in a tiny camper van - could have done 50 if we could have afforded it. Like I said, I got lucky. Notes

I quit watching TV in the late 1980s. I've never seen American Idol. No cable, no antenna, no digital converter just a DVD player for an occasional rented movie from Netflix in my mailbox. Gigging on cruise ships for 3 years in the 1980s, when there was no TV on them except the movie that played again and again and again week after week after week broke me of the habit. When I got home I hooked up the cable, and in a couple of months realized I wasn't watching much, and when I forced myself to watch it, I would get fidgety because I was used to doing things. So instead of watching TV I learned to play wind synthesizer, learned to play lead guitar, learned to write aftermarket styles for Band-in-a-Box, learned to create a mail-order business selling those styles, learned to write web pages and transfer that business to the Internet, and I spent a lot of quality time with my wife/best-friend/lover/band-mate. There is nothing wrong with TV, but it's not for my wife or me. Insights and incites by Notes

It is hard. That could be a cover up after the first anti-auto-tune wave years ago when singers were saying "I don't need it", or it could be the truth. I guess it doesn't matter, what matters is IMHO auto-tune is the most abused technology in the recording industry. I have nothing against Cher except that song. All in all she's a decent singer. Notes

I read that when she went into the session she hadn't sung in a very, very long time. She was out of practice, her voice was out of shape, she had a lack of control and that made her intonation terrible. So they used auto-tune to fix it. I forget where I read that so I can't say for sure it was a trusted source.

While on the subject of Blues, here is a very unusual take on the blues from an LP I had when I was very young. We played right before The Dave Brubeck Quartet in a Muscular Dystrophy telethon. (We didn't get on TV, we played during commercials.) Paul Desmond, the sax player was very kind to this young sax player still playing with metamorphic training wheels. Maori Blues - The Dave Brubeck Quartet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86HF6u0Eac8 it wouldn't embed so here is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86HF6u0Eac8

Exactly why it's repulsive - but although cheesy there are worse out there. The Black Eyed Peas auto-tuned and vocally quantized I Gotta Feeling never fails to irritate me a bit. There are people out there working for people who can sing without auto-tune. Let them do it. End of minor rant Notes

I Smell A Rat - Buddy Guy This Guy can play the guitar!

Start Me Up - Rolling Stones

"This Old Heart Of Mine" - Isley Brothers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_9M6kRfJes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_9M6kRfJes

"Straight from the Heart" - Bryan Adams

All Night Long (All Night) - Lionel Ritchie.

Since the animal who kissed the toad/frog was a pig, was she a wart hog? ------- InstrEd - for 12 years running we are gigging at a marina once a week during lunch time. Across from us is a bridge. (See picture below - it's way in the background). It's a weekday and attracts a retirement crowd, but on days when there is no school, groups of kids walk up there and jump off into the water then swim to shore and do it all over again (until police come and stop them). This answers the age-old question your mother asked you, "If your friends jump off a bridge, would you jump too?" From my observation the answer is "Yes"

I was ribbit-ed to the cartoon <grooooaaaaaaannnnnn>

My wife toad me to post this one. ?

"Rainy Night In Georgia" - Brook Benton Four strikes trying to embed this wonderful song. So here is a link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7VsQwVSqXw https://youtu.be/X7VsQwVSqXw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDRbF80NKDU https://youtu.be/bDRbF80NKDU I guess it must be Firefox but I'm not a Google/Chrome fan (voluntary spyware IMO). Notes

well at least nobody is walking out on you or complaining ;)

Sweet Lorraine - jazz standard sung by many including Nat "King" Cole