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TOTAL ECLIPSE in PAINTED HILLS, OREGON
The Total Eclipse of August 21, 2017 As Seen from the Magnificent Painted Hills, Oregon With Eclipstastic Music! We left Redmond, Oregon, at 7:15am. Madras, just north of Redmond, would be smack in the path of totality, but we decided … Continue reading
Posted in Melodies Linger On, Notes in the News, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged 2017, A-Ha, Another Day of Sun, August 21, Black Hole Sun, Blondie, Bonnie Tyler, C Moon, David Bowie, desert, Eclipse, Elton John, Fiddler on the Roof, George Michael, Good Day Sunshine, Good Morning Sarshine, Hair, Here Comes the Sun, In the Sun, Invisible Sun, Kate Bush, La La Land, Lea DeLaria, Let the Sunshine In, Man on the Moon, Moonage Daydream, occlusion, Oregon, Painted Hills, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, REM, Shoe Tree, Sole Tree, Soundgarden, Sun King, sunflowers, sunrise, sunset, The Beatles, The Dark Side of the Moon, The Great Gig in the Sky, The Police, The Sun Always Shines On TV, Total Eclipse of the Heart
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SONGS to RING IN the NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE
Remember the good old days of daily nightmares of nuclear armageddon? They’re back! Yippee! So let’s replay some golden oldies of the atomic age! Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War satire “Dr. Strangelove or How I learned to Stop Worrying and … Continue reading
Posted in Beginnings, Melodies Linger On, Notes in the News
Tagged Alphaville, apocalypse, armageddon, Atomic, Blondie, Bomb, Breathing, Dancing with Tears in My Eyes, Dear Leader, Dr. Strangelove, Forever Young, John Oliver, Kate Bush, Last Week Tonight, North Korea, Nuclear, Please Don't Nuke Us, Prokofiev, Russians, So Long Mom, Sting, Tom Lehrer, Ultravox, War, We Will All Go Together, We'll Meet Again, Weird Al Jankovic
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MANHATTAN BRIDGE and Associates
A Grab Bag of Bridge Photos, Bridge Songs and Bridge Memories. Art Garfunkel lays himself down like a bridge: Bridge Memory #1 (Spies and Walls) Adele’s love ain’t water under the bridge:
Posted in Beginnings, Chamber Works, Melodies Linger On, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Adele, Blondie, Bridge, Bridge of Spies, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Fellowship of the Ring, Glee, Kate Bush, Manhattan, Manhattan Bridge, Pantanal, photos, Simon and Garfunkel, Spreewald, Stevie Wonder
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A ROSE BY ANY OTHER SONG WOULD SOUND AS SWEET
It’s June, rose blooming season. So let’s enjoy some beautiful roses, and since we can’t enjoy their visual splendor accompanied by their sweet smells, we’ll enjoy their sweet sounds in the forms of favorite “Rose” songs from the last hundred … Continue reading
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Tagged A Rose by any Name, Beth Ditto, Bette Midler, Blondie, Brabra Streisand, Brooklyn Botanical Garden, Bye Bye Birdie, Dance of the Rose Maidens, Deborah Harry, Edith Piaf, Every Rose has its Thorn, Everything's Coming Up Roses, Fannie Brice, Gayaneh, Gypsy, James Horner, June, Khachaturian, Kiss from a Rose, La Vie en Rose, LGBTQ, month, Poison, Pride, Rocky Horror Show, Romeo and Juliet, Rose, Rose Tints my World, Rose's Turn, Sabre Dance, Seal, Second Hand Rose, Spanish Rose, Titanic
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BLONDIE vs. SHEENA – Grudge Match of the Bond Themes
With the release of the latest Bond, “Spectre”, a whole bunch of internet articles listed rankings of the Bond theme songs. Sultry “Nobody Does it Better” generally wound up the #1 choice of most of these polls, followed by the … Continue reading
