Hootie hooo!
Wooooo, a week of good days in a ROW. It's awesome! And my jeans are getting baggier by the day, yaaaay!
Got all the outside lights and the Christmas tree up today, the kid got a 96 on a physics project which gives him an A in that class, and his new trumpet mouthpiece came in the mail today (not much time to test drive it, but he loves it), and we went to a swell concert by the Georgia Brass Band at the new Dozier Center for the Arts tonight. All in all, just a great day all around. I'd never heard a brass band before-- very unique sound, and they played Saint-Saens' Marche Francaise which I hadn't heard since we played it for festival in symphonic band in nineteen seventy-cough-cough-cough. There were some moodier special arrangements I absolutely adored (especially the one inspired by an island off the coast of Scotland) and they finished up with one of my favorite pieces of music for this season, the oh-so-British The Holly and the Ivy. "and the running of the dee-ahh" - I can just hear it being sung. Saw our friends Scott and Jerry, who were performing. The Dozier Center is a PALACE, and the minute we win the lottery, we are SO having it duplicated in Jacksonville, Alabama! Seriously, the Dozier Center is MUCH swankier than Marietta CC, which is just across the street from it.
Okay, so here's some feelgood stuff for the weekend:
My all-time fave 60's song, "Be My Baby" by Ronnie Spector and the Ronettes, lip-synched (ya can't have everything) on a 1965 B&W tape of the old National Bandstand clone, "Shivaree": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDwDdA8wVa0
Sisters Veronica (before she became Mrs. Phil Spector) and Estelle Bennett and their cousin, Nedra Talley, look so darling with that fabulous 60's big hair and sweet sheath dresses. They look cute and classy, and happy that they've got a hit.
Cool article I found on a back-dated online Salon magazine, about what makes "Be My Baby" such a pop music masterpiece:
http://archive.salon.com/ent/masterpiece/2002/01/28/be_my_baby/
(I'm sorry about the lack of hotlinks... this version of the Blogger software is still in Beta, and it shows.)
I love 60's *anything*.
Have a great weekend, whoever finds this...
Got all the outside lights and the Christmas tree up today, the kid got a 96 on a physics project which gives him an A in that class, and his new trumpet mouthpiece came in the mail today (not much time to test drive it, but he loves it), and we went to a swell concert by the Georgia Brass Band at the new Dozier Center for the Arts tonight. All in all, just a great day all around. I'd never heard a brass band before-- very unique sound, and they played Saint-Saens' Marche Francaise which I hadn't heard since we played it for festival in symphonic band in nineteen seventy-cough-cough-cough. There were some moodier special arrangements I absolutely adored (especially the one inspired by an island off the coast of Scotland) and they finished up with one of my favorite pieces of music for this season, the oh-so-British The Holly and the Ivy. "and the running of the dee-ahh" - I can just hear it being sung. Saw our friends Scott and Jerry, who were performing. The Dozier Center is a PALACE, and the minute we win the lottery, we are SO having it duplicated in Jacksonville, Alabama! Seriously, the Dozier Center is MUCH swankier than Marietta CC, which is just across the street from it.
Okay, so here's some feelgood stuff for the weekend:
My all-time fave 60's song, "Be My Baby" by Ronnie Spector and the Ronettes, lip-synched (ya can't have everything) on a 1965 B&W tape of the old National Bandstand clone, "Shivaree": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDwDdA8wVa0
Sisters Veronica (before she became Mrs. Phil Spector) and Estelle Bennett and their cousin, Nedra Talley, look so darling with that fabulous 60's big hair and sweet sheath dresses. They look cute and classy, and happy that they've got a hit.
Cool article I found on a back-dated online Salon magazine, about what makes "Be My Baby" such a pop music masterpiece:
http://archive.salon.com/ent/masterpiece/2002/01/28/be_my_baby/
(I'm sorry about the lack of hotlinks... this version of the Blogger software is still in Beta, and it shows.)
I love 60's *anything*.
Have a great weekend, whoever finds this...
