FReeper Canteen - Labor Day Weekend Music Thread - 30 Aug 2014

Our Troops Rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And then some.... | Canteen DJ's

[AZamericonnie]

 

 

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Tunes For Our Troops

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Tunes For The Troops
 

 


This music is provided for the entertainment of our Troops, Veterans, Allies & their families!

Enjoy the variety of musical selections that the Canteen Deejays provide throughout the thread. Please ping any DJ with your requests for the Troops!


All music is removed on Monday.
Thanks to all the DeeJay's for their time & effort providing entertainment for the Troops!

*Canteen Mission Statement*

Showing support and boosting the morale of
our military and our allies military
and the family members of the above.
Honoring those who have served before.

 

 

Allstar Weekend - A Different Side Of Me	Black Eyed Peas - Another Weekend
Canned Heat - Let's Work Together	Charlie Rich - Lonely Weekends
Earth & Fire - Weekend	Eddie Cochran - Weekend
Fatboy Slim - The Weekend Starts Here	Golden Earring - Weekend Love
Grown Ups - Three Day Weekend	Iron Maiden - Weekend Warrior
Jimmie Vaughan - Lonely Weekend	Jimmy Page & Friends - Lonely Weekends
Lee Shot Williams - Boogie Down on the Weekend	Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Lost Weekend
Loverboy - Working for the Weekend	Mental Crush - Weekend in Brazil
Neil Young - Out On The Weekend	Randy Rhoads - Honey Do Weekend
Ratt - Lost Weekend	Reba Mcentire And Kenny Chesney - Every Other Weekend
S.O.S. Band - Weekend Girl	Sammy Hagar - Rock 'n' Roll Weekend

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

Dudess! ;-)

[hoagy62]

Huey Lewis & the News-Couple Days Off

[AZamericonnie]

Good evening DJ's & Thank you!

*The House Is A Rockin'*

[luvie]

ALL COUNTRY, ALL NIGHT....

Bob Wills~I'm Through Wastin'Time On You

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[luvie]

Dude....

Yer here! :)

[ConorMacNessa]

Welcome To All Who Enter This Canteen, To Our Serving Military, To Our Veterans, To All Military Families, To Our FRiends and To Our Allies!



Missing Man Setting

"The Empty Chair"

By Captain Carroll "Lex" Lefon, USN (RET), on December 21st, 2004

"In the wardroom onboard the aircraft carrier from which I recently debarked was a small, round table, with single chair. No one ever sat there, and the reasons, both for the table being there, and for the fact that the chair was always empty, will tell the reader a little bit about who we are as a culture. The wardroom, of course, is where the officers will dine; morning, noon and evening. It is not only a place to eat – it is also a kind of oasis from the sometimes dreary, often difficult exigencies of the service. A place of social discourse, of momentary relief from the burdens of the day. The only things explicitly forbidden by inviolable tradition in the wardroom are the wearing of a cover or sword by an officer not actually on watch, or conversation which touches upon politics or religion. But aboard ships which observe the custom, another implicit taboo concerns the empty chair: No matter how crowded the room, no matter who is waiting to be seated, that chair is never moved, never taken.

The table is by the main entrance to the wardroom. You will see it when you enter, and you will see it when you leave. It draws your eyes because it is meant to. And because it draws your eyes it draws your thoughts. And though it will be there every day for as long as you are at sea, you will look at it every time and your eyes will momentarily grow distant as you think for a moment. As you quietly give thanks.

AS YOU REMEMBER.

The small, round table is covered with a gold linen tablecloth. A single place setting rests there, of fine bone china. A wineglass stands upon the table, inverted, empty. On the dinner plate is a pinch of salt. On the bread plate is a slice of lemon. Besides the plate lies a bible. There is a small vase with a single red rose upon the table. Around the vase is wound a yellow ribbon. There is the empty chair.

We will remember because over the course of our careers, we will have had the opportunity to enjoy many a formal evening of dinner and dancing in the fine company of those with whom we have the honor to serve, and their lovely ladies. And as the night wears on, our faces will in time become flushed with pleasure of each other’s company, with the exertions on the dance floor, with the effects of our libations. But while the feast is still at its best, order will be called to the room – we will be asked to raise our glasses to the empty table, and we will be asked to remember:

The table is round to show our everlasting concern for those who are missing. The single setting reminds us that every one of them went to their fates alone, that every life was unique.

The tablecloth is gold symbolizing the purity of their motives when they answered the call to duty.

The single red rose, displayed in a vase, reminds us of the life of each of the missing, and their loved ones who kept the faith.

The yellow ribbon around the vase symbolizes our continued determination to remember them.

The slice of lemon reminds us of the bitterness of their fate.
The salt symbolizes the tears shed by those who loved them.
The bible represents the faith that sustained them.
The glass is inverted — they cannot share in the toast.
The chair is empty — they are not here. They are missing.

And we will remember, and we will raise our glasses to those who went before us, and who gave all that they had for us. And a part of the flush in our faces will pale as we remember that nothing worth having ever came without a cost. We will remember that many of our brothers and sisters have paid that cost in blood. We will remember that the reckoning is not over.

We many of us will settle with our families into our holiday season, our Christmas season for those who celebrate it, content in our fortune and prosperity. We will meet old friends with smiles and laughter. We will meet our members of our family with hugs. We will eat well, and exchange gifts and raise our glasses to the year passed in gratitude, and to the year to come with hope. We will sleep the sleep of the protected, secure in our homes, secure in our homeland.

But for many families, there will be an empty chair at the table this year. A place that is not filled.

WE SHOULD REMEMBER."

Many Thanks To Alfa6 For Finding Capt. Lefon's Chronicle Of "The Empty Chair."

"Träumerei"
Robert Schumann
(Click)

Never Forget The Brave Men And Women Who Gave
Their Lives To Secure Our Freedom!!

"Riamh nár dhruid ó sbairn lann!"

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

Yes, it appeared immediately after the FReepmail. ;-)

[Publius]

ROCKUMENTARY: AUGUST 30, 1966

I was about to enter my freshman year at a small, socially backward engineering college in Philadelphia. Officially I would major in chemistry, but off the record I would major in college radio. Those radio skills were to be far more important than my degree in the long run.

So what were you up to?

Cue the Rockumentary theme!

San Remo Golden Strings: “Festival Time”

This band was Motown’s Funk Brothers backed with pickup musicians from the Detroit Symphony.

#10 – Billy Stewart: “Summertime”

Billy weighed in at about 400 pounds, which was not good for his heart or his general health. He had been singing gospel since he was 12, and his family had their own radio show in DC. He switched to the popular side of music and rubbed shoulders with Don Covay, Marvin Gaye and Bo Diddley before joining Bo as a piano player. He signed with Chess Records in Chicago and developed his own style of scat singing, an art form that had lived briefly in the Forties. He had the fastest mouth and largest body of anyone in the business. He died in 1970 at age 33 in a car accident.

The song is from the opening of “Porgy and Bess”, the George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin and Dubose Heyward opera of 1935 that changed the American musical stage.

Billy Stewart: “Summertime”

[luvie]

Magic! :)

[Fiji Hill]

Lazy Day--Bing Crosby (with Isham Jones & His Orchestra), 1932

[luvie]

He WAS a big dude! Had some pipes, though!

[luvie]

ALL COUNTRY, ALL NIGHT....

Brad Paisley~I'm Sure Gonna Miss Her

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[left that other site]

I was just a toddler when my folks took me to Durgan Park. Mom had duck, and I picked up the carcase and threw it in a perfect forward pass across the restaurant wher it landed squarely at the feet of en entering guest.

My mom has never let me forget that. LOL!

Dad used to take us to Old Ironsides all the time.

[Fiji Hill]

Billy Stewart: “Summertime”

In August, 1966, my father, a music teacher, church choir director, vocalist and fan of the classics heard us listening to this song on Boss Radio 93 KHJ. He hit the ceiling and charged Billy Stewart with committing an out-and-out travesty for what he did to a Gershwin classic, and he warned us that we were developing poor tastes in music.

[luvie]

ALL COUNTRY, ALL NIGHT....

Brantley Gilbert~Take It Outside

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[ConorMacNessa]

Good evening, Maestro! I remember that one well!

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[ConorMacNessa]

ROTFLMAO, you bad girl!!!!

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[luvie]

ALL COUNTRY, ALL NIGHT....

Carrie Underwood~Inside Your Heaven [live]

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[Publius]

Your father had a point. Here's what it looks and sounds like in the opera.

Gershwin: "Porgy and Bess" ("Summertime")

[Fiji Hill]

La Mer (the sea)--Jacqueline François (1948)