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Amy's Place ... Poetry and Potpourri ... June, 2008
June 1, 2008 | JustAmy; St.Louie1; MamaBear; Billie

Posted on 05/31/2008 11:14:27 PM PDT by JustAmy




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'Amy's Place' welcomes all poets
and those who enjoy poetry.
'Amy's Place' is more than just about poetry.
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TOPICS: Humor; Miscellaneous; Poetry; The Poetry Branch
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To: yorkie

They did try to revive the old love songs and it didn’t work! I saw Rod Stewart on an interview with someone after he was finished his last group of songs on that last C.D. He said he thought he would take a break but may come back in the future with more of the same type music. I think he made a lot of money on those C.D.’s because they appealed to more folks like me.


2,701 posted on 06/28/2008 8:44:46 AM PDT by jaycee
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To: yorkie

Yorkie, the songs on his third C.D. album called Stardust are:

Embraceable You
For Sentimental Reasons
Blue Moon
What a Wonderful World
Stardust
Manhattan
‘S Wonderful
Isn’t it Romantic
I can’t get Started
But Not For Me
A Kiss to Build a Dream On
Baby, Its Cold Outside
Night and Day
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

On each C. D. there were that many songs, so thats a lot of music. Every now and then I play them through the computer. I have a great speaker my son bought for a gift one time and the sound is great!


2,702 posted on 06/28/2008 8:52:05 AM PDT by jaycee
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To: yorkie; All
Good morning!

About your post, I guess artists are ready last.


2,703 posted on 06/28/2008 8:52:43 AM PDT by Lady Jag (Donate to FR anytime at https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
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To: yorkie

Yorkie, the songs on his third C.D. album called Stardust are:

Embraceable You
For Sentimental Reasons
Blue Moon
What a Wonderful World
Stardust
Manhattan
‘S Wonderful
Isn’t it Romantic
I can’t get Started
But Not For Me
A Kiss to Build a Dream On
Baby, Its Cold Outside
Night and Day
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

On each C. D. there were that many songs, so thats a lot of music. Every now and then I play them through the computer. I have a great speaker my son bought for a gift one time and the sound is great!


2,704 posted on 06/28/2008 8:52:49 AM PDT by jaycee
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To: yorkie

Gosh I’m sorry about that double post. Its running slow and I couldn’t get it through. Guess its time for me to get busy doing something else for a while. See ya’ll later~~~


2,705 posted on 06/28/2008 8:55:13 AM PDT by jaycee
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To: yorkie; JustAmy; ST.LOUIE1; Mama_Bear; dutchess; DollyCali; Aquamarine; GodBlessUSA; OESY; MEG33; ..
Oh, we're doing trains and train music - Yayyyyy! I love trains! This is my very favorite train song of all time:

~ Gladys Knight & the Pips ~

Some of you may remember a couple of years ago our "Train" thread at the Finest.....

March 6, 2006 ~ All Aboard!

2,706 posted on 06/28/2008 9:08:29 AM PDT by Billie
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To: jaycee
was this recorded in his 'pre-idol' days?

Yes, and his first two albums were very low budget, because he did them himself - hoping the re-release will be of much better sound quality. I still like that one just as it is, though some of the softer, prettier ballads he wrote really need the sound mixing cleaned up.

BTW, Taylor will be performing, along with other celebrities, on July 4th at the "Capitol Fourth" on PBS - look for it in your time zone - it's huge and it's spectacular! We've watched it before - great entertainment, great symphony, great fireworks displays!

2,707 posted on 06/28/2008 9:19:48 AM PDT by Billie
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To: Billie
Billie, in your link to train songs, the Honky Tonk Train Blues one sounds so much like Floyd Cramer on the piano - but I wasn't sure.

Here's another good train song:

Big YuYu - Memphis Train

2,708 posted on 06/28/2008 9:28:00 AM PDT by yorkie ( Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass....It's about learning to dance in the rain.)
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To: Billie

Thanks for the additional info. Am glad that you found an artist that you enjoy so much. I’ve never watch American Idol, I tend to watch the Jewelry and Weather channels. Pretty boring, huh?


2,709 posted on 06/28/2008 9:42:40 AM PDT by Aquamarine
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To: yorkie
Hi, yorkie - I'm not sure how people make midis, but maybe they used Floyd Cramer's original to do it. So many midis all sound the same (like a Hammond Organ thingie! lol), but there are some better than others. Of course, midis REALLY pale in comparison to the mp3's and You Tubes we can listen to on the pc!

Being on dialup, I have to download all the mp3's and YouTube music to be able to listen to them without buffering every few seconds. YouTube has changed, because I used to be able to just click on it, mute it until it fully loaded, and then click on "Replay". Can't do that anymore because it just starts at the beginning and buffers again. :(

2,710 posted on 06/28/2008 9:44:38 AM PDT by Billie
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To: Aquamarine

Hey, girl! Jewelry and Weather channels?!! :)


2,711 posted on 06/28/2008 9:46:26 AM PDT by Billie
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To: MEG33; JustAmy; yorkie; pandoraou812; La Enchiladita; gardengirl; OESY; jaycee; Mama_Bear; ...
Happy weekend, all!


2,712 posted on 06/28/2008 9:54:32 AM PDT by Lady Jag (Donate to FR anytime at https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
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To: Lady Jag

Hello Lady, how are you this morning? Up to your old funny tricks again, girl? I’ve got to go running. I have a couple of things I have to take back and I hate doing that! I will be back sometime later~~~have funzies!


2,713 posted on 06/28/2008 10:18:25 AM PDT by jaycee
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To: Billie

I love that July 4th event from Washington....I try to never miss it!....I’m not sure what day our cookout will be and the fireworks. My oldest son always has a cookout and buys many, many fireworks and we really have a good time. We invite most of the family for the cookout but we invite more to the fireworks. Hope I can work it all in! I’d love to see and hear Taylor! There will be a repeat, I guess. Does C-span carry that also, Billie?


2,714 posted on 06/28/2008 10:23:20 AM PDT by jaycee
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To: Lady Jag

I always wondered how axe (ask) was pronounced~~LOL~~know what I mean?


2,715 posted on 06/28/2008 10:25:19 AM PDT by jaycee
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To: Lady Jag

The Birth of Paul Bunyan
retold by
S. E. Schlosser

Now I hear tell that Paul Bunyan was born in Bangor, Maine. It took five giant storks to deliver Paul to his parents. His first bed was a lumber wagon pulled by a team of horses. His father had to drive the wagon up to the top of Maine and back whenever he wanted to rock the baby to sleep.

As a newborn, Paul Bunyan could hollar so loud he scared all the fish out of the rivers and streams. All the local frogs started wearing earmuffs so they wouldn’t go deaf when Paul screamed for his breakfast. His parents had to milk two dozen cows morning and night to keep his milk bottle full and his mother had to feed him ten barrels of porrige every two hours to keep his stomach from rumbling and knocking the house down.

Within a week of his birth, Paul Bunyan could fit into his father’s clothes. After three weeks, Paul rolled around so much during his nap that he destroyed four square miles of prime timberland. His parents were at their wits’ end! They decided to build him a raft and floated it off the coast of Maine. When Paul turned over, it caused a 75 foot tidal wave in the Bay of Fundy. They had to send the British Navy over to Maine to wake him up. The sailors fired every canon they had in the fleet for seven hours straight before Paul Bunyan woke from his nap! When he stepped off the raft, Paul accidentally sank four war ships and he had to scramble around sccooping sailors out of the water before they drowned.

After this incident, Paul’s parents decided the East was just too plumb small for him, and so the family moved to Minnesota.


2,716 posted on 06/28/2008 10:30:33 AM PDT by yorkie ( Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass....It's about learning to dance in the rain.)
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To: ST.LOUIE1; Mama_Bear; Billie; DollyCali; La Enchiladita; dutchess; Aquamarine; GodBlessUSA; OESY; ..
June 28, 2008



Graphic by Billie

Ebb Tide
R. Maxwell/C. Sigman

First the tide rushes in
Plants a kiss on the shore
Then rolls out to sea
And the sea is very still once more

So I rush to your side
Like the oncoming tide
With one burning thought
Will your arms open wide

At last we're face to face
And as we kiss through an embrace
I can tell, I can feel
You are love, you are real
Really mine

In the rain, in the dark, in the sun
Like the tide at its ebb
I'm at peace in the web
Of your arms


2,717 posted on 06/28/2008 10:38:46 AM PDT by JustAmy (I wear red every Friday, but I support our Military everyday!!)
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To: Lady Jag

He-man! Cue music


2,718 posted on 06/28/2008 10:50:21 AM PDT by gardengirl
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To: Billie

I love trains too. The local track runs right through the center of town,so it is crossed by multiple roads. I’m worse than a kid about being close and waving to the engineer!


2,719 posted on 06/28/2008 10:52:56 AM PDT by gardengirl
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To: Mama_Bear; MEG33; La Enchiladita; jaycee; gardengirl; yorkie; OESY; Kitty Mittens; The Mayor; ...


Good morning, Everyone.

It looks like I am late to the party again. ;)

Today's celebrations are ....
Paul Bunyan Day and Handshake Day

We can also celebrate trains ..... just because. ;^ )

Happy Paul Bunyan Day!!

2,720 posted on 06/28/2008 10:53:54 AM PDT by JustAmy (I wear red every Friday, but I support our Military everyday!!)
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