The Battle of The Bands (BOTB) is your
basic Which-do-you-like-best contest where the one that gets the most votes
wins. All you have to do is show up (the 1st and/or 15th
of every month) give a listen and cast your vote in the comment section. Next, hop on over to
see what battles other participants (links located top right column of this
page) have posted for us to vote on! Votes will
be tallied and the winner revealed on or about 8 days later.
I hope everybody enjoyed Thanksgiving! This was the first time ever that when it cane to saying Grace, we all looked around the table with blank stares, It was a tough month. So we agreed to all be thankful for the entire year despite an abundance of recent pitfalls since day one of November. We lost one of the girls (Chocolate Labs) I'm always talking about and are hoping against hope we don't also lose her sister. I guess eleven is quite advanced in dog years. We are extremely grateful to have had her in our lives, and are perfectly fine with whatever tricks the other, more mischievous, of the two, gets up to between now and Christmas :-)
Wishing everyone joy and good cheer for Christmas!
I don't expect ya'll to vote between the two, since I'm so late getting this posted, but I'd love it if you share a smile.
Many thanks to everyone who
stopped by to listen and cast a vote on my latest Battle of the Bands! I also
appreciate how you all voted when you didn’t have to – especially since I
posted one of my most favorite Christmas songs for the second time in as many years – you guys are the best!
ContendersSong(s)Votes
Ben Rector Thanksgiving Song 4
(Including my Sister, Dana E.)
Chris Rea Driving home for Christmas 6 (including me)
So, there ya have it, folks!
Best wishes for a wonderful holiday! I’ll leave you with one last favorite
Christmas song to lift the spirit and warm the heart J
See you all soon after the first of the year! Be happy, safe, and well.
The Battle of The Bands (BOTB) is your basic
Which-do-you-like-best contest where the one that gets the most votes wins. All
you have to do is show up (the 1st and/or 15th of every
month) give a listen and cast your vote in the comment section. Next, hop on over to
see what battles other participants (links located top right column of this
page) have posted for us to vote on! Votes will
be tallied and the winner revealed on or about 8 days later.
I hope your holiday season is off to a peaceful, happy
start. Thanksgiving here was very
enjoyable with good food and great people. We should have dragged everything outside to
enjoy the southern Arizona weather, but there was such a lot of food and at 80
degrees, the weather already had folks shedding outer layers of clothing so we
turned the cooler back on and stayed inside ;-)
As I watched the last ones drive away to destinations far
and near, I realized how thankful I was for the wonderful time we’d all had together. Since I’m so late getting this out, I’ll not ask you all to vote; just
listen. But be on the lookout for my vote on your battle!
The Battle of The Bands (BOTB) is your basic Which-do-you-like-best
contest where the one that gets the most votes wins. All you have to do is show
up (the 1st and/or 15th of every month) give a listen and
cast your vote in the comment section. Votes will be tallied and the winner
revealed on or about 8 days later.
I sure hope everyone had a
pleasant Christmas ;-) Mine was so crazy busy I plumb forgot to come back with
the results of my “Special Edition” Christmas battle - despite replaying
“Driving home” nearly every day…
Which brings us to results
I may have inadvertently insisted on with my enthusiasm for a certain contender
– ha! You guys are so sweet. While Bryan Adams couldn’t quite pull it off, he
got a few well-deserved cheers. The Ronettes dusted off a couple of memory
banks (2 votes), and Chris Rea, drove home for the win (4 votes)! Thank you all
for voting ;-)
As for today’s Battle of
the Bands, it may have been the surprisingly cold and rainy weather we had here
over the holiday that made it easy it choose a song and contenders for another
installment of my on-going “For the Birds” theme ;-)
Written and originally
performed by Gene MacLellan
in 1969, “Snowbird” was well received and covered by a wide variety of artists
(including his own daughter), some famous, some not so much, over the years.
For instance our first
contender, Anne Murray; whose cover became the
first gold record ever recorded by a Canadian solo female artist. *This was an
inaugural song inductee of the Canadian Songwriter’s Hall of Fame in 2003
Next up, this recording of
the song by a guy (Burl Ives) whose name was tossed
around quite a bit last month…
And I’m sure that
somewhere there’s a code I’d be breaking if I didn’t share this version by
Elvis Presley.
There you
have it, folks! Which do you like best? And how come? Let me know in the
comment section below. Oh! And, before you go, hop around and see the rest of
today’s battles (participating sites are located in the top right sidebar of
this page)
The Battle of The Bands (BOTB) is your basic Which-do-you-like-best
contest where the one that gets the most votes wins. All you have to do is show
up (the 1st and/or 15th of every month) give a listen and
cast your vote in the comment section. Votes will be tallied and the winner
revealed on or about 8 days later.
This is officially a Special Edition since I don't usually post twice a month. But hey, it's Christmas!
First up: A song my daughter introduced me to a week or so ago. I'm glad to know artists are still coming up with new holiday songs ;-)
Next up: A song I can honestly say I hadn't heard before, don't know how or why, but I'm glad I ran across it. It's fast becoming a favorite.
And, because we should have at least a little tradition going on, here's a golden oldie crowd-pleaser for all of us "birds of a feather."
There you
have it, folks! Which do you like best? And how come? Let me know in the
comment section below. Oh! And, before you go, hop around and see the rest of
today’s battles (participating sites are located in the top right sidebar of
this page)
