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Post by gailkate on Jun 3, 2009 18:46:11 GMT -5
Uh-yep, that would be Gunsmoke. You can still see re-runs if you poke around at odd times. I haven't thought of "Sugarfoot" in I don't know how long.
Shoot, I found a youtube of Paladin, but my toolbar has disappeared and I can't copy. will try later.
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Post by doctork on Jun 3, 2009 20:17:35 GMT -5
By golly you're right! Gunsmoke is on TVLand tomorrow morning at 10:30, so I put a reminder for it.
I couldn't find Sugarfoot, though "The Sugarland Express" is on Friday morning. That is quite different.
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Post by sailor on Jun 4, 2009 6:52:53 GMT -5
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Post by doctork on Jun 4, 2009 23:30:51 GMT -5
Our little group is collectively coming up with a long list of great tunes!
I used to dream of buying an old-fashioned juke box, the kind with neon lights that bubble. I collected a fair number of 45's which I called "Juke Box of the Future." Those juke boxes were, and are still, quite expensive. But now I can just get an iPod for a fraction of the price and load up.
But the juke box would probably look really nice in our new old farmhouse, doncha think? You can't make a shrine out of an iPod, now can you?
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Post by liriodendron on Jun 5, 2009 15:37:33 GMT -5
Apparently you can.
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Post by liriodendron on Jun 5, 2009 16:37:11 GMT -5
Even better, you can buy a jukebox in which you can dock your iPod. How cool is that?
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Post by doctork on Jun 5, 2009 18:47:04 GMT -5
Even better, you can buy a jukebox in which you can dock your iPod. How cool is that? Oh, I want that!!! I still have to get an iPod of course. I remember that you said you got your iPod when you got your Mac, lirio - some kind of promotion. Do they still have that? I am thinking Howard needs his own computer - he could have the laptop and I could take the iPod!
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Post by ozski on Jun 5, 2009 19:32:26 GMT -5
Here is a song I heard for the first time recently. Steve Martin wrote it and performs banjo; Dolly Parton sings (don't know who the fellow is...Vince Gill??). It makes me immensely happy to listen and sing along.
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Post by liriodendron on Jun 5, 2009 19:56:06 GMT -5
Oh, I want that!!! I still have to get an iPod of course. I remember that you said you got your iPod when you got your Mac, lirio - some kind of promotion. Do they still have that? I am thinking Howard needs his own computer - he could have the laptop and I could take the iPod! I was able to take advantage of their education discount, since I was, ahem, purchasing on behalf of my college student son. (It was actually the guy at the Apple Store who pointed this out to me. I like to think that I bought my son the Mac and I bought myself the Dell and then we traded.) They have a similar deal right now, only it's an iPod Touch, not the regular iPod, that is part of the package.
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Post by doctork on Jun 5, 2009 20:29:46 GMT -5
Ozski, you have hit a stroke of genius! Banjo music is always happy music. And lirio, I am hereby assigning Spencer a task - pick out a Mac for his dad, and figure on getting me an iPod too. Then I will take responsibility for acquisitioning the juke box, as that will not be an overnight task. I think I might have to start back to work pretty soon The website says that the Wurlitzer juke box will play 100 CDs, and have access to Apple's 15,000 tunes collection. Do you think that is enough? Will that include all the songs we've posted here? If not, I have found another source that I think must have everything, including 16 Gene Pitney albums on vinyl: www.lastvestige.com/
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Post by doctork on Jun 8, 2009 22:35:37 GMT -5
Vancouver Rock 101 had a long series of classic rock tunes this afternoon. I can't remember (and I'm too lazy to read through all the threads) if we have the Doors and the Talking Heads on our list, but if we don't, Rock 101 reminded me we should. I'll pick what they played today:
The Doors - Break On Through (going for Light My Fire is just too easy)
The Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
There were some others played today, great but I couldn't remember artist & title. I need one of those nifty little things that you hold it up to the radio when they are playing the song you like, and it tells you the group and the name of the song.
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Post by BoatBabe on Jun 9, 2009 0:54:24 GMT -5
I think we are forgetting some of the real oldies here:
Irving Berlin: I'll be loving you ALWAYS
That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine (Don't have a clue, I could Google it, but what fun is that?)
Don McLean: Empty Chairs: I feel the trembling tingle of a sleepless night . . .
Remember Me
AAHHHHH-Maaaaaaziiii-iing Grace, How Sweeeet the Sound.
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Post by jspnrvr on Jun 9, 2009 5:59:26 GMT -5
Thanks, bb. I'm glad Gene Autry could sing that song without sniffling; I sure can't. And there's a little intro to AG but it's worth it. Here we go, hope folks like these versions........http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKBSaRpmJhg.........http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMF_24cQqT0
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Post by BoatBabe on Jun 9, 2009 9:27:00 GMT -5
Thanks Jay, I was leaning towards Lefty Frizzell [sic] ;D
Every single signature guitar lick of Chet Atkins makes me smile.
And don't forget every song we can dredge up from our memories to sing close harmony around a campfire:
Red River Valley You Are My Sunshine Desperado Poncho & Lefty Freight Train Please Don't Bury Me Fish 'N Whistle Please Release Me Country Roads Angel From Montgomery
" 'Cuz I said 'Mama! You treat your Daddy so damn mean. When I ask for water, you bring me gas-O-leen . . ."
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Post by ozski on Jun 9, 2009 11:29:00 GMT -5
And don't forget every song we can dredge up from our memories to sing close harmony around a campfire: Red River Valley You Are My Sunshine Desperado Poncho & Lefty Freight Train Please Don't Bury Me Fish 'N Whistle Please Release Me Country Roads Angel From Montgomery " 'Cuz I said 'Mama! You treat your Daddy so damn mean. When I ask for water, you bring me gas-O-leen . . ." Good Ones, boatie! May I add: Home on the Range There's a Long Long Trail We definitely need to get a PC Summer Camp goin'.
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Post by doctork on Jun 9, 2009 13:24:26 GMT -5
//We definitely need to get a PC Summer Camp goin'.//
I'll volunteer our new place in North Carolina for camp! It's right off the Blue Ridge Parkway, and the Blue Ridge is where everyone goes to Summer Camp, right?
At least everyone I knew from school in VA, WV, NC, SC. Plus all those Floridians that can't take the summer heat and humidity also retreat to western North Carolina.
And I'll add Sons of the Pioneers to our list - "Driftin' along with the tumbling tumbleweed..."
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Post by gailkate on Jun 9, 2009 17:43:29 GMT -5
Starting with the Gene Autry link I went to one of Jim Reeves singing (much more melodically) silverhaired daddy, and then to a link with Hank Snow doing his version from the old daddy's point of view. From there it was one fine old waltz after another. I kept C&P-ing, back and forth all over the place, and then - just as I was ready to post - hit some Very Bad Key and lost it all. You guys would've loved it. But here's Jim Reeves doing one I can't resist adding to the campfire song list: "Irene, Good Night." It's one of the earliest songs I remember singing along to. Of course I didn't know all the sad lyrics, didn't know it was originally a Leadbelly song. This video with old photographs makes it special. But once you get to "Irene' on youtube there are great versions by Cash, Nelson, the Weavers - boy, what a song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAgJ67j1NUQ
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Post by ozski on Jun 9, 2009 18:30:35 GMT -5
Dear gail, Jim Reeves was one of my Mom's all time favorites. We had an old dog; part coon-dog (yes, Virginia, there are rednecks!) part pit-bull that would put his head down and snore through entire albums [of Jim's] being played. Thanks for the memory, chica.
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Post by ozski on Jun 9, 2009 18:43:52 GMT -5
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Post by jspnrvr on Jun 9, 2009 19:50:50 GMT -5
Alright you people,this is getting hazardous. Gail...I started out back over there with "Gentleman" Jim Reeves, worked my way through Johnny and Tommy Cash, meandered into Willy Nelson, then the Weavers with Mississippi John Hurt. By that time I was completely sidetracked into Buddy Guy and Big Mama Thornton doing "Hound Dog", then it was just a natural progression into multiple versions of "Sweet Home Chicago". By that time I was on a slippery slope and it was one last slide into the SRV Shuffle with Stevie Ray Vaughn and Clapton, B.B. King, Dr John, Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt. Thank goodness, before I started I'd run into Tom Sawyer and he loaned me his old kite string which I'd tied to a table leg on Gene Autry's porch, or I'd have never made it back.
Then, oz, I started down that long dark tunnel of Deano.....innocently enough with the old John Wayne Western, then it's "Amore", then it's Dean and Foster Brooks, then it's Dean and Victor Borge.....lurking out there is Dean and George Gobel, then more Victor Borge. I'm glad I caught myself in time! I might never have come back!
I'll just go sit quietly in the corner now, and let everyone get back to the tunes. It's going to be quite a jukebox.
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Post by jspnrvr on Jun 9, 2009 20:03:35 GMT -5
Uhhmmm........just one more thing..............if we're going to have a jukebox....at summer camp........up in the hills..............http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VslJiZ9vEUw
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Post by Jane on Jun 9, 2009 20:08:00 GMT -5
Camp? I can't sing along because I am utterly and hopelessly tone-deaf, but I dearly love summer camp! Will we wear little uniforms of blue shorts, white shirts and a bandana? Please? And sleep in bunks? And will we take turns being "hoppers" at meals? And the last day, all the girls will cry and swear to be friends forever, while the boys gaze stolidly into the middle distance and flex their jaw muscles, ok?
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Post by gailkate on Jun 9, 2009 20:15:07 GMT -5
Thanks to both of you old romantics. I'm going to follow your itineraries exactly, so I need to do it when I have time. Oddly, I'm watching a Yo-Yo Ma and the Silkwood Ensemble concert in a NY park on PBS. It's mesmerizing. All sorts of strings and various percussion instruments, doing Chinese, Arabic, Azerbaijan music - all the kind of thing I thought I didn't have an ear for. I say 'oddly' because it's incredible, and I think Reeves and Deano would agree. How is it possible to listen to music and think we just blew out of a black hole in a random cosmic explosion of carbon particles?
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Post by liriodendron on Jun 9, 2009 21:24:40 GMT -5
OMG, Jane, I had forgotten all about "hoppers". Dibs on the top bunk!
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Post by doctork on Jun 9, 2009 23:19:25 GMT -5
If we have summer camp in North Carolina, then I think we will have two groups with different uniforms - the Blues and the Grays, of course! Shorts and bandannas in Blue or Gray, then the white T-shirts. Then we'll have Color Wars, a required part of all summer camps. Jay, I loved Gandpa Jones and "Good Ol' Mountain Dew" so thanks. Then right after that was "Are You From Dixie?" Great tune. Next thing that popped up of course was the "Yankee or Dixie Quiz" - check it out to see if you will be Blue or Gray: www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/yankee_dixie_quiz.htmlI personally am 71% Dixie, so I'll be Gray. Tone deaf, can't carry a tune? Doesn't matter a bit! This is summer camp, not the Metropolitan Opera. Lirio can be the choir director and she will keep us all on key (or kinda close). We already have a couple of designated camp anthems, I think "Side By Side" was one of them. Accommodations? I think it will need to be bunk beds, because the house has only two bedrooms. I'm planning on a treehouse down by the crick, but I don't think it will be ready in time, unless we maybe make it part of the Camp Crafts Project. We can haul out all those camp recipes, and I already know how to make Bug Juice, but what the heck is a "hopper?"
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Post by BoatBabe on Jun 11, 2009 8:43:47 GMT -5
Camp, eh? I'm in. So, let's also practice up on "Mustang Sally," "Heard it through the Grapevine," "I Know, You Don't Love Me No More, No More, No, No More . . ." and "Goin' to the Cha-pel, and we're, Goin'A Get Ma-a-a-Ried . . ."
Sounds like Hoppers are dining room/kitchen duty kids. But since I've never been to Summer Camp, what the heck do I know?
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Post by jspnrvr on Jun 11, 2009 10:15:52 GMT -5
Just happened to stop by for a minute.... maybe some one smarter than I could start a "Summer Camp" thread, so we don't stray from our happy melody memories. Move the camp entries and give our camp endeavor the attention it deserves? Just an idea. Later.
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Post by gailkate on Jun 11, 2009 13:41:54 GMT -5
We used to have Moderators. Remember that? I never understood their power, but it might have included cherry-picking posts to a new thread.
Are there enough camp memories to warrant a new thread? Lots of buried triumphs and truamas that need airing?
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Post by jspnrvr on Jun 11, 2009 14:15:25 GMT -5
I remember that very well, gail. And we still have booky and joe. I guess we still have trusty but his ongoing silence is beginning to disturb me. Shoot, we can start our own thread anytime, but as you said, sliding some the "Summer Camp" posts would take an insider. Tell you what, I'll just start a camp thread and we'll take it from there. If the initial posts ca be transferred, good deal. We seemed to be having fun with the songs that make us happy and I'd hate for that to poop out or get overrun.
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Post by gailkate on Jun 11, 2009 23:12:32 GMT -5
I exalt your can-do spirit, Jay. The new thread is thriving. So back to music. I remembered another song I learned as a child, maybe because it was so sing-able. Gogi Grant and "the Wayward Wind." Several versions take off from here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN_wSeQL26w&feature=relatedI don't remember it being quite so fast, but maybe that's because my friend Janie and I made the most of our dramatic harmonizing. Aha! Here's Patsy Cline giving it the proper melancholy tempo (though, of course, it will always be Gogi's song): www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFuzHbM9EEc&feature=related
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