Sunday, April 19, 2015

Sentimental journey.


Les Brown and His Band of Renown had been performing the song, but were unable to record it because of the 1942–44 musicians' strike. When the strike ended, the band, with Doris Dayas vocalist, had a hit record with the song,[1] Day's first #1 hit, in 1945. The song's release coincided with the end of WWII in Europe and became the unofficial homecoming theme for many veterans.[1] The recording was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 36769, with the flip side "Twilight Time".[2] The record first reached the Billboard charts on March 29, 1945 and lasted 23 weeks on the chart, peaking at #1.[3] The song actually reached the charts after the later-recorded "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time".
About this same time, the Merry Macs had a recording following Brown and Day which featured a bouncy arrangement where the group modulates (or augments) the verse eight times in the last half of the song. A vocal feat for any group attempting to record a song in one take without the benefit of tape editing in that era of modern recording.
The song later became something of a standard with jazz artists and was recorded, among others, by Buck Clayton with Woody Herman and by Ben Sidran. Frank Sinatra recorded his version of the song in 1961. Rosemary Clooney issued an album Sentimental Journey (2001) which included the song.

Doris Day- Sentimental Journey

https://youtu.be/BgRgExUMEis

Doris Day & Les Brown - rare 1985 reunion video of "Sentimental Journey"


The Platters - Sentimental Journey (1963)



Ken Griffin – Sentimental journey

Mike Reed plays "Sentimental Journey" on the Hammond Organ

Lyrics

The song describes someone about to take a train to a place they have a great emotional attachment for. It describes their mounting anticipation and they wonder why they ever roamed away.
Its memorable opening verse is:
Gonna take a sentimental journey
Gonna set my heart at ease
Gonna make a sentimental journey
To renew old memories.[1]


Doris Day – Sentimental Journey Lyrics

Gonna take a sentimental journey
Gonna set my heart at ease
Gonna make a sentimental journey
To renew old memories

Got my bag, got my reservation
Spent each dime I could afford
Like a child in wild anticipation
Long to hear that "All aboard"

Seven, that's the time we leave, at seven
I'll be waitin' up for heaven
Countin' every mile of railroad track
That takes me back

Never thought my heart could be so 'yearny'
Why did I decide to roam?
Gotta take that sentimental journey
Sentimental journey home,

Sentimental journey!
Songwriters: PRIMA, LOUIS/BUTERA, SAM /
Sentimental Journey lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.

PS
A very popular LP record by Ken Griffin, played in the Medical Students Common room, Kynsey road, Colombo, in the early 1960s.

Keeping wild elephants away from home-steds.

Falling 'out of love'.

Philosophy of a Tibetan Mandala.

“The Tibetan monks make mandalas out of dyed sand laid out into big, beautiful designs. 
And when they’re done, after days or weeks of work, they wipe it all away. They let it all go, 
no pain, no regrets. That is happiness. That is bliss. The euphoria of Nirvana. We live for 
that. Just for the experience. We paint a picture and we erase it. ” 
 
Thisuri Wanniarachchi, The Terrorist's Daughter


Saturday, April 18, 2015

Blueberry Hill.

"Blueberry Hill" is a popular song published in 1940 best remembered for its 1950s rock n' roll version by Fats Domino. The music was written by Vincent Rose, the lyrics by Larry Stock and Al Lewis. It was recorded six times in 1940. Victor Records released the recording by the Sammy Kaye Orchestra with vocals by Tommy Ryan on May 31, 1940 (catalog #26643, with the flip side "Maybe"; matrix #51050[1]). Gene Krupa'sversion was issued on OKeh Records (#5672) on June 3 and singer Mary Small did a vocal version on the same label with Nat Brandwynne's orchestra, released June 20, 1940 on OKeh Records #5678. Other 1940 recordings were by: The Glenn Miller Orchestra on Bluebird Records(10768), Kay Kyser, Russ Morgan, Gene Autry (also in the 1941 film The Singing Hill[2]), Connee Boswell, and Jimmy Dorsey. The largest 1940 hit was by The Glenn Miller Orchestra, where it reached #1.[3]

Louis Armstrong's 1949 recording charted in the Billboard Top 40, reaching #29.[4] It was an international hit in 1956 for Fats Domino and has become a rock and roll standard. It reached #2 for three weeks on the Billboard Top 40 charts, becoming his biggest pop hit, and spent eight non-consecutive weeks at #1 on the R&B Best Sellers chart.[5] The version by Fats Domino was also ranked #82 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[6] The song was Domino's greatest hit and remains the song most associated with him.

Please click on each of the web-links below with your speakers on :-

fats domino - blueberry hill

Louis Armstrong 4 - Blueberry Hill
https://youtu.be/3Xy5JsrQg_Y


Vladmir Putin sings Blueberry hill


Lyrics 


I found my thrill
On Blueberry Hill
On Blueberry Hill
When I found you
The moon stood still
On Blueberry Hill
And lingered until
My dream came true

The wind in the willow played
Love's sweet melody
But all of those vows you made
Were never to be
Though we're apart
You're part of me still
For you were my thrill
On Blueberry Hill

The wind in the willow played
Love's sweet melody
But all of those vows you made
Were never to be
Though we're apart
You're part of me still
For you were my thrill
On Blueberry Hill

Songwriters
ROSE, VINCENT/STOCK, LARRY LAWRENCE/LEWIS, AL
Published by
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., MEMORY LANE MUSIC GROUP

Control Insects By Bolstering Your Bat Habitat

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Attract bats to your property with a bat habitat. Enjoy the natural insect control and enhanced ecosystem biodiversity that accompanies them.

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