Some Friday afternoon travelin’ music, in tune with the holiday
Even on a Friday with some late-breaking news, it’s important to keep with tradition.
And speaking of tradition….
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AmVet
July 3rd, 2009
5:29 pm
Niice! But where are the Sousaphones?
Something a little more recent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQccK0F1_iY
Kayaker 71
July 3rd, 2009
5:33 pm
Surprised that you don’t have your 7th or so Palin post, in view of her decision to step down as the governor of Alaska.
RW-(the original)
July 3rd, 2009
5:38 pm
Obama backers celebrating Independence Day would be hysterical if it wasn’t so tragic.
DebbieDoRight
July 3rd, 2009
5:41 pm
Here’s a bit of Old School — Summertime By the Fresh Prince:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W9kcxdPPjk&feature=PlayList&p=000B7E23EA021C7D&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=28
josef nix
July 3rd, 2009
5:41 pm
“And speaking of tradition….”
Ah, yes! The good old days of the 1890s–the Bourbon Restoration, Plessy v Ferguson, Williams v Mississippi, the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Yellow Journalism, the Spanish-American War, and all to a Sousa March…jus’ passin’ a lets-be-honest-now observation.
@@
July 3rd, 2009
6:02 pm
There are too many people seeing “stars” already. The “stripes” will come from government’s whip.
wet wiccan
July 3rd, 2009
6:03 pm
This one goes out to Mark Sanford
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DayCrQWJXuI
Kayaker 71
July 3rd, 2009
6:09 pm
Wet,
It should go out to Mr.Wonderful. He has told more lies in the first six months of this misdirected thing we call an administration than Bushie did in 8 years. But we don’t acknowledge that, now do we?
DebbieDoRight
July 3rd, 2009
6:16 pm
Summer always makes me think of Jamaica; which makes me think of How Stella Got Her Groove Back; which makes me think of Shaggy!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz4qVUyeWqo&feature=related
getalife
July 3rd, 2009
6:20 pm
Got to go with the boss:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPudiBR15mk
Paul
July 3rd, 2009
6:24 pm
Thanks Jay!
Leonard Bernstein AND John Philip Sousa are American icons.
Have a great Independence Day, all!
josef nix
July 3rd, 2009
6:27 pm
Debbie, in reference to our earlier conversation on conituum
“Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtracted into nothingness and night again, and you shall find begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas. The seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, and our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern, because a London cutpurse went unhung. Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time. This is a moment…”
–Thomas Wolf, “Look Homeward, Angel”
Hillbilly Deluxe
July 3rd, 2009
6:31 pm
I’m probably the only person here who remembers that “Stars and Stripes Forever” was the theme song for Live Atlanta Wrestling with Ed Capparel and Promoter Paul Jones. (Who can ever forget the Masked Assassins?)
Glen Campbell had a big hit with this song back in the 70’s. I’m as big a fan of Glen as there is but I love this version of the song by the writer, Allen Toussaint.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGAFOz5GA8I
wet wiccan
July 3rd, 2009
6:43 pm
Kayaker71 — If I were going to dedicate a song to our new president, it would be this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp6-wG5LLqE
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss . . .
wet wiccan
July 3rd, 2009
6:52 pm
getalife — Excellent choice!!
j$
July 3rd, 2009
6:53 pm
red white and blue, baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSWuA-RttGU
josef nix
July 3rd, 2009
6:54 pm
Hillbilly Deluxe–great choice!
TnGelding
July 3rd, 2009
6:59 pm
RW-(the original)
July 3rd, 2009
5:38 pm
That might get a halfway decent reception if not for the Bush comedy/tragedy.
Hillbilly Deluxe
July 3rd, 2009
7:01 pm
For the beach music fans:
These guys used to be billed as “The Mighty Atlanta Tams”. One of the writers on this was J. R. Cobb who was later in The Classics IV and the Atlanta Rhythm Section.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QipMRix4URE&feature=related
mm
July 3rd, 2009
7:10 pm
Palin. Imagine that. A cut and runner in the GOP.
Whiner, RW, @@, spin this one. Bwa.
Please put her on the national stage. We need more laughs.
TnGelding
July 3rd, 2009
7:12 pm
Still owing for many wars?
MOUNTAIN OF DEBT: Rising debt may be next crisis
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Founding Fathers left one legacy not celebrated on Independence Day but which affects us all. It’s the national debt. The country first got into debt to help pay for the Revolutionary War. Growing ever since, the debt stands today at a staggering $11.5 trillion – equivalent to over $37,000 for each and every American. And it’s expanding by over $1 trillion a year.
TnGelding
July 3rd, 2009
7:17 pm
Live test for missile defense?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/02/us-ready-for-n-korean-missile/
TnGelding
July 3rd, 2009
7:24 pm
wet wiccan
July 3rd, 2009
6:43 pm
You never know. Bush fooled us at least twice. Or did he?
Speaking of the devil:
http://www.normantranscript.com/letters/local_story_183181042.html?keyword=topstory
@@
July 3rd, 2009
7:27 pm
LOVED IT JAYNOT!!!!
Been missin’ ‘ya. (ISH)
Normal
July 3rd, 2009
7:30 pm
Help me! Help Me! The grandkids, they’re….AARRRGGGHHHHH!
@@
July 3rd, 2009
7:30 pm
mm:
I’ll step out on a limb and predict that Sarah Palin has become ten times…..no make that a hundred times more dangerous to dems now that she’s unencumbered by politics.
Sarah Unleashed!!!!
Hillbilly Deluxe
July 3rd, 2009
7:36 pm
This Atlanta area boy is one of the deepest thinkers as a writer that I know of. Old timers will remember that the “drag strip down by the riverside where my Grandmas cow used to graze” refers to the Yellow River Dragstrip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AirBbS4R7Z0
Midori
July 3rd, 2009
7:54 pm
I’ll step out on a limb and predict that Sarah Palin has become ten times…..no make that a hundred times more dangerous to dems now that she’s unencumbered by politics.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
I didn’t know @@ did standup!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Hillbilly Deluxe
July 3rd, 2009
8:05 pm
Another Atlanta area guy. While he”s noted for his comedy songs this one is one of his best. As relevant now as when it came out forty-one years ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z3ad7V30ZU
Normal
July 3rd, 2009
8:09 pm
This is for all y’all out there…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tv_gxzRSjw – 101k
Normal
July 3rd, 2009
8:14 pm
Hill Billy Here’s my favorite Ray
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgFjLB4VYSU – 123k
j$
July 3rd, 2009
8:21 pm
hey @@!
here’s a nice one to listen to out back on a fine summer’s evening such as this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsDEpMdcLXg
Midori
July 3rd, 2009
8:24 pm
my prediction: next step for Sarah? Her very own show on Fox News!!
any takers?
@@
July 3rd, 2009
9:04 pm
Thanks again, jay. Excellent!
Eagles A cappella.
I’m listening to some Brad Paisley right now. Hillbilly Deluxe has turned my head.
@@
July 3rd, 2009
9:11 pm
Whoops! Make that
Thanks again, JayNot. Excellent
What was I thinkin’?
Redneck Convert
July 3rd, 2009
9:12 pm
Well, I just got back from Billy Bob’s, and the great news is the boys voted to make Sarah Palin a Ornery Redneck. The invite comes with a free PBR and a special invite to come to Billy Bob’s on any Saturday night she wants.
The libruls never stopped till they made her step down. She’s been paying $1,000 of bucks to defend herself against ethics complaints. But the boys figure she’ll still be President of the U.S. of A. in 2012 and we’ll be rid of abortion and flag-burning and taxes and this health care mess.
Clem Bucknell will be writing her with the invite and I sure look forward to her showing up. Us rednecks will be taking over after all when she runs next election. So the libruls better not be sellabrating her stepping down. She’ll be rising again, just like the South. Have a good night everybody.
getalife
July 3rd, 2009
9:32 pm
Midori,
Probably after she is indicted, then join false news with the other crooks and losers.
I am guessing kick backs from the gas pipeline or oil companies.
Midori
July 3rd, 2009
9:40 pm
Getalife,
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7280#more-7280
Hillbilly Deluxe
July 3rd, 2009
9:42 pm
This song has been done by a lot of people but this is the writer’s version. Another talent from Atlanta. One of his best I think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLMv58wWclo
Southern Comfort Zone
July 3rd, 2009
9:43 pm
Bushwhacked Republicans wanting more of the same. It would be hysterical if…come to think of it, it is hysterical.
Kayaker 71
July 3rd, 2009
9:49 pm
Well you libs have gotten your wish. Palin will no longer be the governor of Alaska as of the 26th of July. You have successfully intimidated and humiliated this lady and her family to the point that she no longer has the will to stay in the political game. That’s at least what you think. Why is it that she represents such hate with all of your liberal posters? You just can’t be critical of her and her beliefs…. when she doesn’t fit into a box that you have made for her, she is to be destroyed, plain and simple. What ever is against us must be done away with.
This is especially for you, Midori, my special friend. You and your friends have maligned this lady to point of ridicule, debasement…. she is the devil reincarnate to you. But when she runs for the Senate in 2010 and wins, then uses this as a stepping stone for the presidency, you will be laughing out of the other side of your silly face. Then we will see who was right and who was wrong. She will throw your wonder boy out the door if given the chance. It scares you, doesn’t it. Just a little bit? To think that your wonder boy from Chicago can be beaten by some Alaskan hick who just doesn’t get it. Stay tuned, this isn’t over yet, not by along shot.
j$
July 3rd, 2009
9:51 pm
olive juice @@
TnGelding
July 3rd, 2009
9:53 pm
Armed…and delightful!
http://growingbolder.com/media/technology/vehicles/romancing-the-road-259598.html
TnGelding
July 3rd, 2009
9:55 pm
Kayaker 71
July 3rd, 2009
9:49 pm
It’s over. And the reason,if ever known, will be shocking.
Kayaker 71
July 3rd, 2009
9:57 pm
Gelding,
We shall see…. we shall see.
DoggoneGA
July 3rd, 2009
10:11 pm
“You have successfully intimidated and humiliated this lady and her family to the point that she no longer has the will to stay in the political game. ”
Better to learn it now than AFTER she is elected President…or even VP. Cut and run takes on a whole new meaning.
Midori
July 3rd, 2009
10:13 pm
Kayacker,
*blush, blush*
Midori
July 3rd, 2009
10:15 pm
Doggone,
better watch it. he might make you his next “special friend”
DoggoneGA
July 3rd, 2009
10:19 pm
“better watch it. he might make you his next “special friend””
If he keeps making contradictory statements like this: “To think that your wonder boy from Chicago ***can be beaten by some Alaskan hick who just doesn’t get it.***” – should I worry?
Midori
July 3rd, 2009
10:20 pm
Goggone-it!!!
ROFL!!!
getalife
July 3rd, 2009
10:33 pm
Yeah, she sounded scared.
Kay is losing it.
It will be okay kay.
Geez.
DoggoneGA
July 3rd, 2009
10:39 pm
“Goggone-it!!!”
I got a million of them (isn’t the a quote of some comedian?)
How about this one: if she can’t take the heat, maybe she should go BACK to the kitchen.
Mrs. Godzilla
July 3rd, 2009
10:52 pm
Howdy!
I was wrong….not network TV…embezzelment.
My favorite patriotic song…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5gO-jWKsqU
This land was made for you and me. Indeed.
I really love Independence Day.
My country is like my kids and me. Mostly delightful but in need of a swift kick every now and again.
Y’all don’t blow anything up this weekend. I gotta’ keep an eye on Mr. G and the boys.
Midori
July 3rd, 2009
10:52 pm
talk about bring home the bacon — Word is the materials used for her kitchen was embezzelled.
kayak must really be suffering from the vapors
Mr. Snarky
July 3rd, 2009
10:59 pm
“Well you libs have gotten your wish. Palin will no longer be the governor of Alaska as of the 26th of July. You have successfully intimidated and humiliated this lady and her family to the point that she no longer has the will to stay in the political game. That’s at least what you think. Why is it that she represents such hate with all of your liberal posters?”
Not my wish. I think she’s the greatest!
Of course, if she thinks things have been tough, then she probably didn’t have the makings of a President. Got to be able to handle some criticism in that job.
More likely, she’s not seeing opportunities to shine as Alaska’s governor and wants more freedom to get ready for 2012. She’s never going to be more famous than she is now.
Hillbilly Deluxe
July 3rd, 2009
11:12 pm
Mrs. G
The original Woody Guthrie version had a couple verses that the modern players leave out. Changes the meaning quite a bit. It was written during the Depression.
As I was walkin’ I saw a sign there
And that sign said no tress passin’
But on the other side it didn’t say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me!
In the squares of the city In the shadow of the steeple
Near the relief office I see my people
And some are grumblin’ and some are wonderin’
If this land’s still made for you and me.
TnGelding
July 3rd, 2009
11:17 pm
Mr. Snarky
July 3rd, 2009
10:59 pm
Not more famous. But what about infamous?
jaypat
July 3rd, 2009
11:18 pm
@Hillbilly Deluxe–
Thanks for the links. Brings back many fond memories.
Mr. Snarky
July 3rd, 2009
11:19 pm
Midori, thanks for the link.
That’s quite a display of stream-of-consciousness speaking.
So, she can make more significant changes for Alaska outside the office of Governor? She wants to have a successful administration without disruptions, so she’s resigning? Hmmm…Her basketball analogy…she’s passing the ball? More like she’s pulling herself out of the game, at least as far as Alaska is concerned.
Why can’t she just say she wants to spend more time with her family like any other respectable politician? Based on her reasoning, Sonny should resign too, since he’s a lame duck “milking” his salary.
Finally, whoever is picking on Trig should stop.
TnGelding
July 3rd, 2009
11:19 pm
Mrs. Godzilla
July 3rd, 2009
10:52 pm
My fireworks neighbor wasn’t home tonight. Hope he’s missing tomorrow, too.
Mr. Snarky
July 3rd, 2009
11:22 pm
Mr. Gelding…infamy has its benefits…ask Bush. Let’s hope she never achieves it.
Mrs. Godzilla
July 3rd, 2009
11:23 pm
HD
Aren’t those the verses Pete Seeger sang with Bruce Sprinsteen at one of the Obama Inaugural functions?
I just always liked Peter, Paul and Mary….”Too much nothing can turn a man into a liar, it can cause a man to sleep on nails another man to eat fire….”
Really need to zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Midori
July 3rd, 2009
11:35 pm
Mr. S,
I have yet to hear one single person say anything negative about Trig.
Not one.
Nother strawman, to rival her feigned outrage against David Letterman.
you read the Vanity Fair article? The one in which McCainites trashed her: http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/08/sarah-palin200908
Hillbilly Deluxe
July 3rd, 2009
11:46 pm
Jaypat
You’re welcome. I just love music and try to expose people to things they wouldn’t ordinarily hear. Lots of great things aren’t on Youtube though.
Mrs. G
Could be. I didn’t see that performance.
I’ll close out on this one from a very clever songwriter. You got to love anybody who can work Tonto and the Lone Ranger into a song about a boat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9HVFw0jj00
josef nix
July 4th, 2009
7:27 am
Lots of good music posts. MRS G, my vote goes with you and your choice. This is how I always have felt, and hope I always will feel, about “my” country. Back when I was in high school, several of us, pacifists that we were, objected to the singing of the militaristic “Star Spangled Banner” in school assemblies. Our government teacher took our petition to deliver to the administration, but asked us first what did we think should be our “national song.” “This Land is Your Land” won in a landslide. We sang it as we followed behind her to deliver the petition and, in the next assembly, following the “Star Spangled Banner,” she led us in singing it. American democracy in action taught properly in the Mississippi Public Schools one year post desegregation at the height of the Vietnam protest. (And, Jay, let’s be honest, this lady was the leader of the local UDC, as well as the DAR).
It also gets the vote of the Unmentionable, a big Woody Guthrie fan, who has always said it should be our national anthem and, icing on his cake, “it was written by one of us Pesky Redskins…”
Other verses?
“This land is my land,
This land ain’t your land.
I’ve got a shotgun,
And you don’t have one…”
Have a happy Fourth, all…
Bud Wiser
July 4th, 2009
7:43 am
For all of the reasons this republic was established 233 years ago, those same reasons are being assaulted on an almost hourly basis now by the Obowo administration, as we sit here.
I hope that everyone takes a moment to review real, not revisionist, history, to appreciate the sacrifices that were being made, and still are, to bring us to this moment in history.
Happy 4th to everyone fortunate enough, and proud enough, to call themselves an American.
Rightwing Troll
July 4th, 2009
7:58 am
Bud,
How about a point by point of the “assaults” you allege?
josef nix
July 4th, 2009
8:11 am
Oh, and Hillbilly Deluxe–thank you for posting link to “Mr. Businessman.” I’ve listened to it three times already. It’s as timely now as it was then. Big Stevens fan. Who else could do this AND “Ahab, the Arab” and “Guitarzan!”
Kayaker 71
July 4th, 2009
8:20 am
Nix,
Why would you object to singing the “militaristic” Star Spangled Banner? It is the story about the assault on Ft. McHenry where the British were trying to blow the whole place into next week and the survival of those brave enough keep the flag flying as a protest of surrender to the British. The land of the free, the home of the brave…… Woody Guthrie was a pretty good song writer but not in the caliber of those who established our freedom and created a nation like no other. Maybe Congress should adopt a different Anthem….. maybe Satisfaction by the Stones or Born in the USA by the Boss. That oughta do it.
TnGelding
July 4th, 2009
8:24 am
Bud Wiser
July 4th, 2009
7:43 am
Unfortunately, most of those sacrifices had nothing to do with America or keeping us free, but were due to misadventures by ill-advised presidents that didn’t have a clue.
I urge you to take off your blinders and look at what “Obowo” (great respect you have for your president) has been forced to do by the previous eight years of an incompetent, disengaged administration.
Are Canadians, Mexicans and those living in Central and South America Americans? Maybe we should select another identifier. The world might see us as less arrogant.
Yeah, all the unnecessary wars fought and blood spilled brought us to this moment in history. If our independence had been gained without war, maybe we’d be a less violent society.
That said,
Happy Independence Day!
@@
July 4th, 2009
8:27 am
Nope, not olive juice, JayNot……bookman jay.
Now Woody Guthrie I know but only because Dylan knew. Maybe it was Arlo I knew but only because…
Lyle Lubbock I know but only because he sang a song about cheeseburgers that I liked, not cheeseburgers — hate cheeseburgers — but liked the song.
Why no Hoyt Axton, Hillbilly? My Dad loved Hoyt Axton.
Two old maids
sittin’ in the sun
talkin’ ’bout the lovin’ that
they never had done
but they still had fun…just
talkin’ ’bout love, love, love
She’s my fiddle and
I’m her beau
We make music
wherever we go
that’s for me….
sweet harmo….kneeeeeeee
You get the knife
I’ll get the gun
Come on boys
We’re gonna have a little fun
Sump’n like ^^^ that. Catchy tune.
“Evangelina” was Dad’s favorite. Hoyt Axton has/had??? a very rich voice.
Why no Hoyt Axton, Hillbilly?
@@
July 4th, 2009
8:55 am
I know there’s a new thread upstairs but this one?
This was among my Dad’s all-time favorites.
500 Miles
Makin’ myself melancholy so “we’re off like a herd of turtles” as my Dad used to say. The 4th of July was the only holiday he loved.
DB, Gwinnettian
July 4th, 2009
9:11 am
Aren’t those the verses Pete Seeger sang with Bruce Sprinsteen at one of the Obama Inaugural functions?
Yes indeed.
More to the point, when interviewed around that time (there was also a big birthday party celebration for Seger at Madison Square Garden earlier this year) Pete has talked at length about how important it is that people hear “ALL the verses.”
josef nix
July 4th, 2009
9:51 am
Kayaker–that was then, this is now. I have matured into a better understanding of what you bring up, no small part of that maturation due to the lessons taught by that teacher, may she rest in peace. She would probably have laid any of our patriotism and/or jingoism in the shade, but she understood what the country was built on and understood dissent and how to direct it.
josef nix
July 4th, 2009
9:54 am
Tn Gelding in relation to your @ 8:24, that same teacher reminded us at every turn that we were a “revolutionary republic.”
j$
July 4th, 2009
9:59 am
beautiful, @@
TnGelding
July 4th, 2009
9:59 am
josef nix
July 4th, 2009
9:54 am
I like that term.
catlady
July 5th, 2009
5:13 pm
This gave me chills.
How about a thread on songs for politicians that quit/had to resign?