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FULL TITLE: 96-year-old World War II veteran Pete DuPré played the national anthem on a harmonica before the @USWNT match

Okay. I have sort of gone nuts with harmonica the last six months. Thinking of the tough job our President has and wishing him well on a nasty day like today, I was also surfing harmonica. I saw this and thought it was supposed to be about him -- but it has been online for eight years. It's a good duo and I am waiting for a delivery of a new custom harmonica amplifier next week. Let's hear it for OUR Orange Dude. Click the source link or cut and paste. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmPOnRUDZAE

ean-Baptiste “Toots” Thielemans, whose unrivaled mastery of the harmonica led to collaborations with jazz luminaries such as pianist Oscar Peterson and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, and whose mellifluous sound graced soundtracks as varied as “Midnight Cowboy”(1969) and the television show “Sesame Street,” died Aug. 22 in Belgium. He was 94. The cause was complications from a fall, his agent, Veerle Van de Poel, told Belgian media.

In another thread, I came across Donald Trump doing a passable job of the Green Acres theme. Here in the Dallas area, the Ticket sports station has their own variation of the theme. My question to the vast collection of musicologists out there in FReeperland is about the instrumentation deployed on that familiar theme. What in the heck are those instruments that gave it such a distinct, rustic flavor? Was it Moog synthesizers or traditional string and woodwinds? I'll admit to being pretty much of an idiot when it comes to the "behind the scenes" stuff involved in creation of...

NEW YORK: Time flies, and the handbag designing disgraced intern who serviced the White House, Monica Lewinsky, whose highly publicized sexual relationship with US President Bill Clinton led to calls for his impeachment, has done a complete turn around and graduated from the London School of Economics, publicist Barbara Hutson said. Lewinsky is interviewing for jobs in Britain according to Hutson. Lewinsky, 32, received her Masters of Science degree in Social Psychology last Thursday. Hutson said Lewinsky spent the past year studying and “staying away from the London social scene.” According to Hutson, Lewinski completed a thesis titled “In Search...