...hiya! I guess it is safe to say this is a 'dormant' blog... the evolution of FaceBook has rendered a 'general topic' blog pretty much moot... so... check out the archives here, but, since time is not readily available...
...there probably won't be much more posting on this blog, honestly...
...BUT, check out FB, where I post things once in a blue moon which would fall under this category... I am VKMfan Huey on FB, so...look me up!!!
Hope all is well with you... And please visit GINGEROLOGY - it's not going ANYwhere, of course...
KIG!
Hu
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Sunday, December 22, 2013
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Big Band Wednesday #8 - I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo - Glenn Miller Orchestra
...hope all is well with you folks out there, whom ever you may be...
This week, we have a perky little tune from the Glenn Miller Orchestra, "I've got a Gal in Kalamazoo"... one of several tunes centered around a 'specific locale' that the GMO did... this one is purt near impossible not to sing along to... I had someone call in at work not that long ago from...you guessed it, Kalamazoo, Michigan...it was ALL I could do not to break out in this song... heh heh...
...looks like work is clearing out, so...hopefully will be able to get G-ology rolling soon... as well as some 'other' posts on here....
Until Then - y'all have a nice week!
Hu
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This week, we have a perky little tune from the Glenn Miller Orchestra, "I've got a Gal in Kalamazoo"... one of several tunes centered around a 'specific locale' that the GMO did... this one is purt near impossible not to sing along to... I had someone call in at work not that long ago from...you guessed it, Kalamazoo, Michigan...it was ALL I could do not to break out in this song... heh heh...
Until Then - y'all have a nice week!
Hu
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Friday, January 25, 2013
Super Seventies Saturday #9 - "Jolene" by Dolly Parton
...OK, this one might be a little bit of a 'curveball', considering the general 'style' of tunes presented so far...but then again, Dolly Parton's 'Jolene' actually DOES fit into the 'serious theme' of a lot of 70s tunes... and it's a reminder that one of the BIG reasons the 70s were so cool, music-wise, is that it's the first decade where ALL forms of music 'co-mingled' on any given radio station... I'm pretty sure I heard this tune on 'mainstream Top 40' radio, alongside stuff from Elton John, Eagles, The Spinners, etc... just a cool potpourri of tunes...
...probably my favorite Dolly tune... although '9 to 5' is pretty dang peppy, and 'I Will Always Love You" is a classic, even before Whitney got aholt of it... (is 'aholt' a word? Sounds good to me...) ...the line that speaks of "auburn hair" is pretty cool, since I am an Auburn football fan, second-most...my MAIN team is my alma mater, UAB, but I grew up as an aubie, so will always have that 'pulling' as well... anyway... this song is just intense, in that, the cat's out of the bag regarding 'the affair', so now Dolly's just trying to reason with this Jezebel (Jolene must be a variant of that, no?) to leave her dude alone, most likely to no avail...
OK, well... hope all is well out there...wrapping up some work stuff this weekend, but...things are proceeding... stay tuned...
Until Later...
Hu
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OK, well... hope all is well out there...wrapping up some work stuff this weekend, but...things are proceeding... stay tuned...
Until Later...
Hu
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Big Band Wednesday #7 - "Sweet Georgia Brown" by The Count Basie Orchestra
...Hi, y'all!
Hope all is well for you... Hu and the crew are fine.
As for this week's Big Band selection, I went with Count Basie and his Orchestra, performing that perennial fave, "Sweet Georgia Brown" - a.k.a. the Harlem Globetrotters 'theme song'.
SGB was written by Ben Bernie (bandleader), Maceo Pinkard (music), and Kenneth Casey (lyrics), in the genteel year of 1925; it was a big hit for Bernie's Orchestra, charting at #1 for 5 weeks.
According to Wiki, this song is the first to have a saxophone solo...so there ya go.
This rendition by the Count Basie Orchestra is noted as being from 1977...thus a somewhat recent recording. A VERY cool note to the video...at the beginning, when the Count sits down, the dude on the upright bass is Cleve Eaton... whom my Ma knows from her time working in a local bakery! He and his wife used to frequent there quite a bit, and I even have a CD from him, with him collaborating with some of the local musicians in town... so it's REAL cool to (kinda) know this fellow - I think I met him once when I was a young 'un, but I would REALLY like to hear some of his tales now...
Anyway, hope you enjoy... a very nice 'dixieland' type jazz tune.
Have a great week, y'all!
Until later...
Hu
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Hope all is well for you... Hu and the crew are fine.
As for this week's Big Band selection, I went with Count Basie and his Orchestra, performing that perennial fave, "Sweet Georgia Brown" - a.k.a. the Harlem Globetrotters 'theme song'.
SGB was written by Ben Bernie (bandleader), Maceo Pinkard (music), and Kenneth Casey (lyrics), in the genteel year of 1925; it was a big hit for Bernie's Orchestra, charting at #1 for 5 weeks.
According to Wiki, this song is the first to have a saxophone solo...so there ya go.
Anyway, hope you enjoy... a very nice 'dixieland' type jazz tune.
Have a great week, y'all!
Until later...
Hu
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Saturday, January 19, 2013
Super Seventies Saturday #8 - "Year of the Cat" by Al Stewart
...Well, days are just running together here in South Gingerville, I tell ya... We had snow on thursday, lingered into bad roads Friday morning, so everyone took off, and now it's 'normal', but... not real sure it's Saturday... but yepyepyep, shure is... so...
With that, here's a fine tune from1976 by Al Stewart, called 'Year of the Cat'...it's a quite 'moody' tune, best described as a cold, barren windy winter day...just my take on the mood it 'sets'... not sure where the 'Year of the Cat' comes into play with that tone, but... a pretty neat song to just listen to and figure out what's up with the story...
...hope everybody's doing well out there... real or imaginary... don't get "T'eo'ed", y'all... (boy, the spell-check had a conniption with that word...)
Till Later (?),
Hu
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With that, here's a fine tune from1976 by Al Stewart, called 'Year of the Cat'...it's a quite 'moody' tune, best described as a cold, barren windy winter day...just my take on the mood it 'sets'... not sure where the 'Year of the Cat' comes into play with that tone, but... a pretty neat song to just listen to and figure out what's up with the story...
Till Later (?),
Hu
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Big Band WEDNESDAY #6: Goodnight My Love - Ella Fitzgerald with the Benny Goodman Orchestra
Alright...this one is just a very cool tune, sung by the legend, Miss Ella Fitzgerald... it's a nice little theme describing the end of a date night, and how memories will remain in dreams... cool stuff. A goofy thought for this tune...would be neat to play this on the PA system at a concert just after it is over and the lights turn on for folks to leave... just my thought...
...well, hope all is well out there...whoever's reading this... my 'stats' noted 0 reads the last three days, so... hmmm..... who knows...if anything, it's an 'archive' for stuff, so...THERE!!!
Until Then,
Hu
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Until Then,
Hu
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Friday, January 11, 2013
Super Seventies Saturday #7 - "Go All The Way" by The Raspberries
...whoa, is it the weekend AGAIN?
...not that I'm complaining or anything...
Well, here is the seventh installment of the Super Seventies Saturday...
This one is a tune from 1972 called "Go All The Way" by The Raspberries... now, first of all, when I was a kid, listening to this tune on the vastly inferior Amplitude Modulation (AM) format (...ask your parents about it), I thought the dude was saying, "Please Go Away", which of course is about as opposite of a meaning as one can have from the actual lyric...
All I remember was that, although the 'stanza' portions of the song were OK, with nice harmony, the real 'hook' was obviously when the guitars kicked in and dude started yelling incoherently... YEAH!!!
But looking back on this one now, it really is an interesting tune, as this dude is REALLY desiring this lady he is warbling about, and his appraoch goes back and forth, from 'please...' in the mellow harmony parts, to a yelling lunatic who is more or less 'forcing the issue', as it were, in the kickin' guitar parts... and the bridge in the middle...c'mon...C'MON... works pretty well as a 'big picture' of what the end game is in his mind, anyway...
OK, probably WAAAY too much analysis on this, but.... it's 12:30 A.M. - that's 'Ante Meridiem', not 'Amplitude Modulation'...
Well, overall, this song was a 'heavy rotation' when I started listening to radio, at the ripe old age of 5-ish... and is probably one of my faves from that time, if just to 'recall' some of the cool goofyness that was the Seventies...
Hope y'all have a groovy week! ...until then...
Hu
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...not that I'm complaining or anything...
Well, here is the seventh installment of the Super Seventies Saturday...
This one is a tune from 1972 called "Go All The Way" by The Raspberries... now, first of all, when I was a kid, listening to this tune on the vastly inferior Amplitude Modulation (AM) format (...ask your parents about it), I thought the dude was saying, "Please Go Away", which of course is about as opposite of a meaning as one can have from the actual lyric...
All I remember was that, although the 'stanza' portions of the song were OK, with nice harmony, the real 'hook' was obviously when the guitars kicked in and dude started yelling incoherently... YEAH!!!
But looking back on this one now, it really is an interesting tune, as this dude is REALLY desiring this lady he is warbling about, and his appraoch goes back and forth, from 'please...' in the mellow harmony parts, to a yelling lunatic who is more or less 'forcing the issue', as it were, in the kickin' guitar parts... and the bridge in the middle...c'mon...C'MON... works pretty well as a 'big picture' of what the end game is in his mind, anyway...
OK, probably WAAAY too much analysis on this, but.... it's 12:30 A.M. - that's 'Ante Meridiem', not 'Amplitude Modulation'...
Well, overall, this song was a 'heavy rotation' when I started listening to radio, at the ripe old age of 5-ish... and is probably one of my faves from that time, if just to 'recall' some of the cool goofyness that was the Seventies...
Hope y'all have a groovy week! ...until then...
Hu
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