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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Grubb View Post
    Sammy Davis was a fantastic showman...
    Indeed he was...I always liked his acting too...If they ever make a movie of his life, I think Andre 3000 would be a natural for the part......Ben
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    That was great, Dave. For me, goose bumps don't lie, and I had them watching that one.

    I caught a performance when Sammy was touring with Frank Sinatra and Liza Minnelli in Houston years ago. I thought Sammy stole the show from those other two great performers, not an easy thing to do, and "yes," Sammy did "Mr. Bojangles." I am of an age where I watched him from his first national exposure as a young man on the Ed Sullivan Show until his end. Quite a career.

    I have always thought it unusual that that song was written by a country artist, Jerry Jeff Walker, who I heard perform it too in a small venue. His was not the equal of Sammy Davis' though, even if he did create it. Many, many have sung the wonderful song, but few the equal of Davis in my mind.
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    A change of pace if you will.

    This afternoon Andre Bacilli came on my random player singing the Ave Maria, the version by Bach/Gounod which is fantastic. On a whim I went to YouTube to see if there were any new artists singing this same piece--- and yes there was. Please allow yourself to meet Kimi Scota.

    BTW, there are multiple Ave Marias, the most common beyond Bach/Gounod are Franz Schubert and Johannes Brams.

    And---if you would be so bold as to have a bit of fun with the Ave Maria---relax for a moment here.

    Bobby McFerrin is an amazingly talented musician and is classically trained and has conducted some of the top symphony orchestras all over the world.

    For another turn, go here and watch a "band" of excellent musicians just having fun---they are contagious.
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    Maybe you will like this better.

    I suspect this might come as a surprise to some---but in a past life I was a clown as was my lovely wife. You might say we were a couple of clowns

    One of our performances included this piece and so it has a special sentimental adder for me.

    We were members of a troop of Christian clowns and performed mostly in hospitals for children and to a lesser amount old age homes.

    I have to admit I got far more from the experience than I ever gave
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Grubb View Post
    ...in a past life I was a clown...
    So many possible jokes...So little time...I'd better bite my tongue......Ben
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    Good thinkin




    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
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    A little ditty from my all-time favorite guitar player, Laurindo Almeida. He was a Brazilian and just could not help infusing some samba into Claire de Lune —

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TWN1Rw1AAj0
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    A random choice I have not heard in a while from a singer I had almost forgotten...

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    From the same "Ralph Emery Legends" recording, Kris Kristifferson tells what inspired him to write a real favorite of mine...

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    Oww, that was sooo fine, Ben. Thanks for that! I'm threading off the lead. Much more there. Some fine artists.
    Here's another delectible one — Kristopherson & Lorrie Morgan doing one of his best.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2v-j0fh3ZS4
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    And speaking of great female country artists...

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    Gotta love me lot's of Jessi. She quit recording for a long time to nurse her husband, Waylon Jennings, for drugs and diabetes, but after he died, she released a sterling album in 2006, which I play often, Out Of The Ashes. If you like Jessi, I recommend the album. Sadly, I haven't heard anything from her since.

    Own edit: here's a tune from that 2006 album — The Canyon

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-t6cYo2dfZY
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    Speaking of Waylon Jennings, here is his story of the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and J.P. Richardson:

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    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Grubb View Post
    For my money, John Lee Hooker, was the top of the blues ladder. There is an intimate little club in Houston, The Remmington, which was an old bank converted into a music venue and bar. I caught John Lee there with a pick-up band in the eighties. All seats were close, but because I was alone, I got an empty seat conversation close. That performance is burned in my white man brain. A blues master with no guitar pyrotechnics. His licks were a perfect fit, ragged & spare, but perfect, and that voice was the essence of soul.

    Here's my favorite — Boogie Chillun —
    The recorded version first
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eM3PuXDpKiA

    Now, with some old pick-up band
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eM3PuXDpKiA

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