Monthly Archives: December 2016

Christmas

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! I hadn’t had a home cooked meal or played, and lost so badly to a seven year old at wii, in quite sometime. Onward though, I bet you didn’t think i’d come up with one for U. I almost didn’t, but I remembered someone that everyone knows, probably without knowing.

U is for…Ukulele Ike

Ukulele Ike – “I’m a bear in a lady’s boudoir”

Even Though his real name was Cliff Edwards he went by Ukelele Ike for quite sometime in his professional career. He sung such classics as “Singing in the Rain” and “When You Wish Upon a Star”. He was also the voice of Jiminy Cricket. Told you you’d know him.

I picked this song though because of the lyrics, in the 1930s this stuff was considered to be pretty risque, here’s the first verse:

“You may talk about your colleges, fair Harvard and old Yale, And all the universities who’s banners brave the gale,And all the football heroes, their glory and renown;I never went to college, but I know I’ve been to town.I may not be a football hero,But I’m a star with the beautiful girls;You never see me in the thick of a fight,‘Cause I do my scoring mostly at night.”

“I’m a bear in a ladies boudoir”

-RR

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Neptune

N is also for Neptune. Here I am taunting him. Thanks to you all and Jon for keeping this thing going while I was away. A little Nat every now and then never hurt anyone.

M now, M. There are so many mmmm. I’m gonna go ahead and give you two cause I was gone for a week.

First, The Merseys – Sorrow. This song was covered by Bowie i’m pretty sure, and I think some others did it too..You can hear George Harrison singing a melody from this tune at the end of “It’s all Too Much” from Yellow Submarine if you listen real hard at the end. Oh you might have to sign up for the website to hear it, sorry it was the only place on the internet I could find the song.

Second, Marc Bolan & T. Rex-Metal Guru

On my iTunes T.Rex/Marc Bolan has so many different names, they make us taking the exclamation point out mute. Marc Bolan. Tyrannosaurus Rex. T Rex. T. Rex. Marc Bolan and T. Rex. etc…But alas! So many great songs, I may have linked you to a playlist with two of them because I didn’t know which to put, so if you have 6 or so minutes, maybe try both.

and lastly, something to ponder.

“To be nobody but yourself-in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you somebody else-means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

– e.e. Cummings

-RR

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N is for not guilty.

I heard from Ryan early this morning, his trip sounds way better than this. In the spirit of that picture, all that is the spirit and the letter N… I am going to choose: Nat “King” Cole – The Christmas Song. I don’t care what you may say, its never too early or too late. Put this song on early June and tell me it doesn’t make you smile. You’re welcome.

– Jon Walker

ps. Nancy Sinatra covered Day Tripper, a sunday driver yea..

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