Hello, Everyone!
Many thanks to one
and all for participating in my “Rainy Mood” Battle of the Bands for August!
Here are the results:
The Cascades Votes = 6 + 1 (me)
Bruce Hornsby Votes =3
Quotes:
“Music is the soundtrack of your life”
~ Dick Clark
Fun Facts:
“Happy Birthday” is
(still) the most profitable song of all time!
Trivia:
Which rock Icon was
the Founder of the Society for the Prevention
Of cruelty to
Long-haired Men?
~ David Bowie
And, Just For Fun:
For
August Birthdays
dEAREST dIEDRE ~
ReplyDeleteDespite my joke about Bruce Hornsby being a sleepy Jackson Browne, I honestly did think this was a real good BOTB installment.
And on behalf of ALL the blokes & blokettes who celebrate birthdays in August, I wants to thank you!
I gotta leave ya with (what I think is...) a humorous micro-story:
On my 8th birthday, I received from my parents my first ever LP. It was the debut album by The Monkees. Some years later, I traded it to a neighborhood friend for a Strawberry Alarm Clock LP, and I later came to regret that.
So, for my birthday in 2003 (two years before she went to Heaven) my Ma replaced the long-gone Monkees LP with the same album, now on newfangled Compact Disc!
Every year since then, I have played that Monkees CD to celebrate the day and my Ma.
This year, I received a birthday card from "The Countess".
The cover is filled with drawings of dinosaurs and it says: "Why not celebrate your birthday at the Natural History Museum?"
The inside of the card reads: "Think of it as a chance to catch up with old friends".
I was so amused by the card that, in a text, I told The Countess that it has inspired a new tradition beginning in 2024. From now on, after listening to 'The Monkees' CD, I'm going to follow that by listening to the Bocephus (Hank Williams Jr.) song 'DINOSAUR'. (Psst! The Countess and I once went to a Bocephus concert together, many years yonder.)
And I'm about to go listen to that song right now!
I thanks ya for your enduring friendship, my friend from out Tucson-way!
Bless & Be Blessed!!
~ D-FensDogG (a.k.a. Dinosaur-Boy)
Happy Birthday, Stephen! Glad you got your Monkees LP back.
DeleteThanks, DEBBIE!
DeleteI still like The Monkees (and the silliness of their recording 'Gonna Buy Me A Dog').
In fact, today I am planning to take a minor road trip which will take me through a tiny li'l town called Pleasant Valley. Every single time I drive by that sign (and the red barn nearby), naturally I always think of the Monkees' song 'Pleasant Valley Sunday'. But this time it's going to be a Pleasant Valley Saturday.
~ Stephen
I think 'Pleasant Valley Sunday' is one of the Monkees' best songs! It has real meaning. ☺
DeleteHa! Hard to say which little story is better than the other. I can't believe you let go of the Monkees - for Incense and Peppermints (though I've enjoyed a bit of both over the years)
ReplyDeleteGlad you got the Monkees back, and isn't nice to be remembered on your birthday?
Happy, happy day, Maestro!
I don't know 'bout no "maestro", but I appreciated the wink & nod about the significance of the day. Gracias!
DeleteI think it kind of hurt my Ma's feelings when I traded away The Monkees LP. But truth be told, unbeknownst to me, the LP era was coming to an eventual end anyhow, and I'd be switching all of my "licorice pizzas" to compact discs someday. So my Ma repurchasing that same Monkees album for me on CD years later really worked out perfectly. (I'd rather be lucky than good!)
~ D-FensDogG
That Dick Clark quote is a favourite! ♫ I'm surprised Bruce didn't do a little better, but the nostalgia factor probably had something to do with it.
ReplyDeleteI like that quote too. You're probably right about the power of nostalgia. Gets me every time ;-)
DeleteYay, I'm on the winning side in your battle, too! I hope you're still enjoying the pitter patter of rain in your neck of the woods...I mean desert. :) Thanks for sharing how things turned out!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome! Glad I even remembered to post; with everybody passing around a virus ;-) Storms are terrific and still around for the next couple of weeks
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