FReeper Canteen - Tunes For Our Troops - 21 Nov 2015

Ours Troops Rock!!!!!!!!!! | Canteen DJ's

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The New Release Wall

Just some new stuff for you all to sample this week....enjoy!

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

Enjoy the variety of musical selections that the Canteen Deejays have provided throughout the thread. Please ping one of the DJ's 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.
 

 

Adele 25	Carrie Underwood - Storyteller
Eagles Of Death Metal – Zipper Down	Eric Church _ Mr Misunderstood
Jeff Lynne's ELO - Alone in the Universe	Tim McGraw - Damn Country Music

[Repeal The 17th]

For comparison:
The Beatles - You've Got to Hide Your Love Away

[SkyDancer]

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[AZamericonnie]

Hiya sweetpea. You & the family doing well? *Hugs*

[Publius]

ROCKUMENTARY: NOVEMBER 21, 1965

#65: Simon & Garfunkel: "The Sounds of Silence"

Paul Simon and Arthur Garfunkel grew up in the predominantly Jewish neighborhood of Forest Hills in Queens just three blocks away and attended the same schools. When still young, they developed a fascination with popular music. Both were taken with rock and roll as it emerged, particularly the Everly Brothers. When Paul first noticed Art, he was singing in a fourth grade talent show, and Paul thought that was a good way to attract girls. (In the fourth grade, no less! What a man!) They appeared together in the sixth grade in a school play. That first stage appearance was followed by their forming a street corner doo-wop group with three other friends and learning to harmonize. They began performing for the first time as a duo at school dances.

In 1956 they wrote their first song with Paul's father sending a handwritten copy to the Library of Congress to register a copyright. While trying to remember the lyrics to an Everly song, they created "Hey Schoolgirl," which they recorded for $25 in Manhattan. While recording, they were overheard by a promoter who signed them to his independent label. At age 15, Paul became Tom Graph, and Art became Jerry Landis.

The guys released that song, and their promoter paid Alan Freed $200 payola to get the single aired on his radio show on a nightly basis. It hit #49 on the national charts, and they landed a gig on Dick Clark's "American Bandstand," then based in Philadelphia. They earned a mere $4000 from that song, and the remaining 98% of the money went to their promoter. After that there were no more hits from Tom & Jerry.

Here is a bonus track.

Tom & Jerry: "Hey Schoolgirl"

They went to separate colleges but stayed in touch. Paul got into the Brill Building and did some work with Carole King and Gerry Goffin. Both recorded separately, but their individual work went nowhere.

They rejoined in 1963 during the great folk music revival that was spurred by ABC's "Hootenanny." They renamed themselves Kane & Garr and performed in Greenwich Village. One song, "The Sounds of Silence," got the attention of CBS Records producer Tom Wilson, who worked with Bob Dylan. Paul successfully talked Wilson into an audition. House engineer Roy Halee recorded the audition, and at Wilson's urging, Columbia signed the duo. Re-branded Simon & Garfunkel, they recorded an acoustic folk-oriented album, which did not sell, and their first gigs booked under their new name did not do well either.

Paul moved to England in 1964 and had some success there, believing that his future was in the UK. Art continued his studies at Columbia University.

In Boston, late night WBZ disk jockey Dick Summer aired "The Sounds of Silence," and the tune caught on. CBS Records was in the middle of the whole folk-rock trend with Dylan and the Byrds, and Wilson decided to re-mix the song with a folk-rock bed. But Wilson didn't bother informing the guys as to what he had done, and Paul was horrified when he heard the result. Art was headed for graduate school and didn't think that anything would come of it. After breaking out in Miami and one Gold Record later, CBS demanded a new folk-rock album from the boys. Purists condemned it for the same reasons that they had criticized Dylan -- "They sold out!" -- and the disk was something of a mishmash.

Their next disk in 1966 had Paul taking creative control, and their quality improved.

Simon & Garfunkel: "The Sounds of Silence"

[Repeal The 17th]

The Hollies - Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP94PlEtsEQ
I used to think it was Creedence Clearwater Revival doing that song.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!

It's Tunes For Our Troops!

[PROCON]

‘Long Cool Woman’...also a great Hollies hit!

[Publius]

ROCKUMENTARY: NOVEMBER 21, 1965

#9: James Brown: "I Got You"

I'll refer you to the movie about the man who had the tightest band in the business. As the father of funk, he made artists like Prince possible.

James Brown: "I Got You"

[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."

"Traumerei"
Robert Schumann
(Click)

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

[Publius]

ROCKUMENTARY: NOVEMBER 21, 1965

#60: The Statler Brothers: "Flowers on the Wall"

They made their money in Christian music, but this is how they started. This song began its life as an alternative set of lyrics to "Jingle Bells."

The Statler Brothers: "Flowers on the Wall"

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Sand...((HUGS))...the weekend finally got here. Hurrah!!

[SandRat]

We are all doing well.

But my neighbor ain't.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

~~Tunes For The Troops~~

Bonnie Raitt~ Let's Give Them Something To Talk About

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[Publius]

Ms. B!!!!!!

(GENTLE HUG & CHASTE SMOOCH)

Wonderful to see you here! We missed you so! Hope all is well and somewhat pain-free.

I love that icon!

Enjoy the Rockumentary tonight.

[Publius]

ROCKUMENTARY: NOVEMBER 21, 1965

#8: Marvin Gaye: "Ain't That Peculiar"

I went into the history of Marvin Gaye and his producer Smokey Robinson in earlier Rockmentaries. They were two of the most important male artists to emerge from Hitsville USA.

Marvin Gaye: "Ain't That Peculiar"

[Repeal The 17th]

I have seen James Brown perform.
A friend at one of the factories I visit (audit) used to play the drums for...
“The Godfather of Soul”
“The Hardest Working Man In Show Business”
“James Brown”

My friend says that James was a ruthless businessman.
His shows were all grand productions.
I talking about B-I-G productions with almost a carnival atmosphere.
Everybody in the show had a per-determined slice of the pie.
At the end of the night, when it came time to settle up,
if James thought you did not give 100%, he would cut your slice.
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James Brown - I Feel Good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgMAFXaVOXk
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James Brown - Living in America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5BL4RNFr58
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[Publius]

Wynton Marsalis played in his band and said it was the tightest in the business. Brown would catch his people in a mistake and cut their pay.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mayor...thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.

Have a relaxing weekend.

[PROCON]

MS. Deejay is in the Canteen!

((HUGS)) FRiend!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

PROF!

(GENTLE HUG & CHASTE SMOOCH RETURNED)
Thank you!
It is wonderful to see you, as well,
and you have been missed too!