In Color

Seems like ages ago that I shared Jamey Johnson's song with you, and I ran across this cover of it by
none other than Kid Rock, who is actually playing the piano and singing it.  I hope you enjoy it.

Hank Williams Jr. -- Da Blues Man -- Keep The Change & Kiss His A$$

The video abovd is one of my favorites .... Gimme 3 Steps - Skynard & Williams  -- you'll want your dancing shoes on for this one. 

Hey Baby I Love You, Hey Baby I Need You

I rarely watch television, but if Fox News has someone on that is an artist I like, I'll make a special effort to
listen to hear them and was listening the morning HWJr.'s promoting a cd turned into Kick his A$$ out of Monday Night football.  The result -- His new song -- Keep The Change

BTW, I do think what he said was taken out of context, but the end result was he lost one of the favorite things he liked doing ..... but he took it in HWJr fashion with a quirky kick A$$ song that pretty much sums it all up.  I don't care if you do or do not like HWJr., he should be respected for standing up for his beliefs, and for his support of our armed forces.  Can't you see what our country is coming to when only "special" people can express themselves, and others are not allowed ?   And that's pretty much the reasoning behind his song, but I digress, you can just listen for yourself and he'll give you a free download over on his website. 

Listen to Darryl Worley's song ............  

I watch the news and have to wonder if this country's going crazy, ....
I'm just the average joe, and that makes me smart enough to know there's other's
out here who think the same...........  GONNA KEEP OUR GOD  & OUR FREEDOM 

Ronnie Milsap - played keyboard on Elvis Kentucky Rain and sang harmony on Don't Cry Daddy

Once in every life someone comes along and you came to me... it was almost like a song;

You were in my arms, right where you belonged, and we were so in love, it was almost like a song.
Who couldn't love Ronnie Milsap?  The fact that he still has cd's in 2011, proves his worthiness of our time and ears.  One of our favorites is the one I posted, but I have alot of RM favorites. 
Here's a few more, if you don't know Ronnie's biography, I think I might have posted some info on him on here previously, but sorry my sciatica has had me in bed all day today and I'm not searching tonight, but will give you a little background on this amazing man ... and oh can you say J. J. Cale influcences.... yes, Ronnie's first real show was as a member of J. J. Cale's band, how awesome is that.  Mr. Riley Rhythm himself. 

Well basically some of Ronnie's bio goes like this.... he was raised by his father and grandparents after the divorce of his parents, he was born in Robbinsville, NC, and he was born blind from congenital glaucoma, he attended The Governor Moorhead School for the Blind at age 5, and a couple years later his tearchers experienced his amazing musical talents, thus he began to study formally (classical music).  

A single year after he began learning the violin, he was declared a virtuoso. He also mastered piano, guitar and a variety of other stringed instruments, as well as various woodwinds. Eventually, he became interested in rock 'n' roll and while still in school formed his first rock band, the Apparitions. He briefly attended college in Atlanta where he studied pre-law. Though he was awarded a comprehensive scholarship, he decided to become a full-time musician instead. His first professional gig was as a member of J.J. Cale's band in the early '60s.

Bleu Edmondson

Bleu Edmondson - 2011

Ronnie Milsap - The Future Aint What It Used To Be

Two amazing artists - hope you enjoy the songs.

Til next time, keep your eyes skyward, your heart in the right place,
your hands busy, and remember you aren't learning if your
mouth is moving when someone else is teaching.

Life's Journey

Sometimes we have people in our lives for a short while, others for a very long time, and some we merely cross paths with.  The important part sometimes is not how long they were there, but why they were there, and did we provide what they needed, or in some instances vice versa.  Thus, the same is true with our lives, we can live everyday trying to be number one, or we can live everyday being the person that our inner self wants us to be, for each of us that inner self might be a bit different, and that's what makes our journey through life so special.  We each have something to offer to others.  Some have the ability to perform operations that save lives, others have the ability to be your anchor in the storm, others motivate us to be all that we can be, and some people are there to teach us right from wrong. 

Perhaps this journey through life teaches us that love doesn't just mean looking at someone with love, but that we look together down the road on our journey and fill it with love.  The universal question might be how do we get there?  Each of us have an internal music box, the mirror to our souls, sometimes we get the lyrics and the melody out of tune and out of time, and we end up with a broken heart, or out of focus, our mirror gets smudged and we have a hard time seeing what we need to see.  Maybe the answer to the question is just love with everything you have inside you and if we suffer along the way, find the goodness from that experience and use that to kindle a fire to spread more love.  In the end, it isn't about how long we were here, it's really about what did we miss out on because we were not open enough to look inside our ownselves.  Each of us can be a better friend, sister, soulmate, lover, neighbor, just a better person if we let Love be the motivator. 

Today I have alot to be thankful for, amazing friends, a guide that came into my life that is far more knowledgeable that I will ever be, but is one of those amazing people that appears when we need them most.  An online family that is just as real as those that we have around us in person, and indeed they are with us in person because they are in our hearts.  Those that know me really well know that I tell people to always talk about people that have moved to a higher place, because we keep them alive here on earth with our talking about them, and sometimes they are that Angel in the Night that comforts us and keeps us safe from harm.  Today you might be someone's angel and not even know it, just a kind word or deed, might be the one thing that keeps someone out of harms way.  Sometimes it's not spoken words, it's a kind look, a friendly smile, or just an act of kindness towards someone; sometimes it's just three little words "I LOVE YOU" or "I REALLY DO CARE", and sometimes it's saying nothing at all. 

So today, I will say I love you to all of my friends and family, even to my enemies, because no matter who you are or what you have done, I am going to have faith that you will find the light. I will pray that God will keep you safe from harm, and that you always have an anchor in the storm.

To those that I hurt, I ask forgiveness and understanding, understanding that caring and getting hurt makes us strike out in anger sometimes.  It doesn't mean that I don't love you, it means I am human.

So today, I had to forgive me first, so that I can only hope to do my best today to make the world a little happier, a little better starting with ME.



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Falladions - Spiral Starecase

The Fylladions (sometimes spelled Falladions)

The Fylladions formed in Sacremento, California with Dick Lopes as sax player; Bobby Raymond on the bass; Harvey Kaye on organ; Vinnie Parello on drums and Pat Upton as lead guitarist and vocalist, who was from Alabama. 

The group auditioned for Columbia Records, who hated their name, but loved the group's music.  Dick Lopes scooped up the name "Spiral Starecase" from a movie with a slight variation in spelling, and they secured their contract.  Assigned to producer Gary Usher, their first two singles were released to regional successes in markets like Phoenix. At this time, Sonny Knight (himself a one-hit wonder with "Confidential" on Dot) was brought in as producer. Upton, encouraged by Usher to write original material for the group, had brought in "More Today Than Yesterday," which became the next single and their breakthrough hit. Considering the long-lasting impact of the song on oldies radio, it seems inconceivable that the tune charted no higher than number 12 nationally. The Starecase released one album and a couple more singles before poor management and squabbles over finances caused the group to splinter by 1969. Harvey Kaye led an ersatz version of the group for a brief period, while Upton fled to session work, eventually joining up with Rick Nelson as a backup vocalist. In the mid-'80s, after Nelson's death, Upton became a staple on the oldies
round robin cirucit. 

Kaye returned to Las Vegas where he re-formed the band. That line-up featured Mike Caschera (aka. Michael Anthony) (lead vocals), Al Sebay (guitar), Gene Austin (electric bass) , Mark Barrett (drums), and Tim McRoberts (backup drummer and vocals). The band toured extensively and played every major venue in the United States, Canada, and Mexico in the late 1970s through the mid 1980s with a full horn section and two backup girl singers to replicate the trademark sound of their biggest hits.  Kaye headed a management company in Las Vegas with his wife Candy. He died on August 17, 2008. Candy still owns SMASH Productions and holds the trademark for "Spiral Starecase". Parello is retired in Southern California but Upton still performs various times throughout the year. Raymond died in 1984.

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While the Spiral Starecase may be a one-hit wonder group, their songs actually deserved better showings; it just appears they got lost in the black-hole in the music world and never recovered.  However, their legacy song - Love You More Today Than Yesterday is still a much played song on the oldies stations, and a song everyone identifies with, but never seems to place the group's name.  Thus the black hole robbed a obviously fantastic group of greater fame and fortune.  So let's try to rectify that by giving them some much deserved recognition here and on air.  (Tune in http://www.partycentralradio.com/ - where White Rose will be playing their tunes).  (Tues/Thurs nites 9-the bewitching hour).............

The band is known for their hits "More Today Than Yesterday" (U.S. #12), released in January 1969, and the follow-up "She's Ready".   In 1969, "More Today Than Yesterday" charted #12 in the Billboard Hot 100, (in Cash Box, it reached #7) but sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.  "More Today Than Yesterday" has been widely covered by, among others, Diana Ross and the band Goldfinger, and was featured in the 1991 film My Girl, on the soundtrack of The Waterboy in 1998, and in an episode of Ally McBeal entitled Silver Bells.

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Discography:   http://www.45cat.com/artist/the-spiral-staircase

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Til next time .... Keep the Music rolling...........

Atlanta - Not Mylanta Anymore

Ice on Old Milton Parkway

The Charlie Brown Tree is Still Glowing Brightly LOL
But think Charlie found a warm spot somewheres.

Snow on Christmas in Atlanta at least an inch - first time in 100 or so years LOL.
Now the blizzard to rival 1992 - ok ENOUGH ALREADY....
I'm ready to be putting my ass in the sand and toes in some warm salt beach water elsewhere!

I'll share some pics -