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FReeper Canteen - Tunes For Our Troops - 14 March 2014
Our Troops Deserve A Pot O' Gold!
| The Canteen Leprechauns
Posted on 03/13/2015 5:44:16 PM PDT by AZamericonnie
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Free Republic
KEYWORDS: canteen; military; troops; vets
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To: SandRat
When my Dad was in hospice I gave him a tennis ball to take with him for Shadow. It is very comforting to know they are among friends.
To: Drumbo
It is amazing to me how many artists record the same songs.
To: E.G.C.
Good morning, E...((HUGS))...I’m hoping things will start to look up with my Mom. Her not being able to get around by herself has been really rough the last couple weeks, but yesterday we got an electric wheelchair. Hope it will be delivered soon. They will call me Monday.
Hope all is well with you and Bo. Enjoy your Saturday.
To: All
To: E.G.C.; beachn4fun; Arrowhead1952; ConorMacNessa; MEG33; LUV W; PROCON; SandRat; Mrs.Nooseman; ...
To: All
Good morning/afternoon/evening/night Troops, wherever you are.
Thank you for doing your part to help keep all of us free and safe.
Thanks, unique, for the pastries.
Coffee is always on........
How about a donut?
Cookies?
Veggies?
Sandwich?
To: Jet Jaguar; txradioguy; JemiansTerror; MEG33; Laurita; CMS; OneLoyalAmerican; Defender2; ...
To: Kathy in Alaska
Thanks so much for the update on your Mom. I’m keeping her and you and your family in my thoughts and prayers. Hopefully, she’ll get back on her feet again soon.
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03/14/2015 3:57:18 AM PDT
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E.G.C.
To: Kathy in Alaska
Two lovely little girls whom I enjoyed teaching.
An obsessive and “micromanaging” mom.
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03/14/2015 5:15:10 AM PDT
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left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: Kathy in Alaska
I imagine Alaska must suffer greatly with potholes, as the pavement expands and contracts with temperature extremes!
Boston’s potholes are LEGENDARY!
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03/14/2015 5:17:40 AM PDT
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left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: Kathy in Alaska
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03/14/2015 5:51:45 AM PDT
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mylife
To: Kathy in Alaska
VFW post 4011 report:
Last night was
Swiss Steak
Oven browned potatoes
Baked beans
Chocolate cake
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03/14/2015 5:54:25 AM PDT
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mylife
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03/14/2015 5:58:40 AM PDT
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mylife
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03/14/2015 6:00:05 AM PDT
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mylife
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03/14/2015 6:17:48 AM PDT
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mylife
“Tis” was far better than Angela’s Ashes.
America, promise and hope.
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03/14/2015 6:20:01 AM PDT
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mylife
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03/14/2015 6:40:25 AM PDT
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mylife
To: Kathy in Alaska; AZamericonnie; All
That's been kind of the point of these last 3 weekends for me Ma, to show the diversity and evolution of the Blues. Some songs evolved from the Delta to hardly resemble Blues at all, which in due course became Rhythm & Blues (like "CC Rider") and others that became Rock, Country ("Midnight Rider") and Soul ("I've Been Loving You Too Long") Standards.
Today, I'll feature several songs with multiple versions, like T- Bone Walker's "Stormy Monday" and the Gershwin/Gershwin/Heyward tune "Summertime" (which is purported to have over 25,000 recorded cover versions).
"Summertime" is an aria from the 1935 opera "Porgy and Bess" and was intended as a spiritual in the style of the African American folk music. "Summertime" is often considered an adaptation of the Negro spiritual "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child", which ended the play version of "Porgy". Alternatively, the song has been proposed as an amalgamation of that spiritual and the Ukrainian Yiddish lullaby "Pipi-pipipee". The Ukrainian-Canadian composer and singer Alexis Kochan has suggested that some part of Gershwin's inspiration may have come from having heard the Ukrainian lullaby, "Oi Khodyt Son Kolo Vikon" (A Dream Passes By The Windows) at a New York City performance by Oleksander Koshetz's Ukrainian National Chorus in 1926.
Whatever it's origin, as a ballad it has became a Jazz standard and a Blues Icon. Based on a pentatonic scale (C-D-E-G-A) in the context of the A minor tonality, it's slow-moving harmonic progression is most definitely Blues, embraced by the greatest artists of all genres. Billie Holiday's 1936 recording was the first to hit the US pop charts, reaching number 12, and Lady Day was most definitely all about the Blues.
Summertime
~ Billie Holiday ~
Summertime
~ Charlie Parker ~
Summertime
~ John Coltrane ~
Summertime
~ Dianna Washington & Maynard Ferguson ~
Summertime
~ Sam Cooke ~
Summertime
~ 101 Strings ~
Summertime
~ Ray Charles & Cleo Laine ~
Summertime
~ Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong ~
Summertime
~ Janis Joplin with Big Brother & The Holding Company ~
Summertime
~ Chick Corea, Gary Burton & The Modern Jazz Quartet ~
Summertime
~ Pat Metheny & Jim Hall ~
Summertime
~ Norah Jones and Marian McPartland ~
Summertime
~ Joni Mitchell & Herbie Hancock featuring Stevie Wonder ~
Summertime
~ Leslie West ~
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03/14/2015 7:49:02 AM PDT
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Drumbo
("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw (Robert A. Heinlein))
To: AZamericonnie; All
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03/14/2015 8:40:38 AM PDT
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Drumbo
("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw (Robert A. Heinlein))
To: AZamericonnie; Kathy in Alaska
Hi Connie and Kathy!
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03/14/2015 9:53:57 AM PDT
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Soaring Feather
(This time the poetry does not write itself.)
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