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Playlist by Algernon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6irfBMm48g&feature=fvst
Ohio – Crosby Stills Nash & Young
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrDVzbeDzRk
Oklahoma – Hugh Jackman (Rogers and Hammerstein)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuC_l3ymXhM
Portland Oregon- Loretta Lynn and Jack White
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_muFwwTSMs
Pennsylvania 6-5000 – Glenn Miller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAmhRBuMyRc
Rhode Island is good for you – Erin McKeown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXmgkvIgc0w
Carolina on Mind – James Taylor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RblQu0va9iE
South Dakota Morning –Bee Gees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7oNS-bDZqc&feature=fvst
Tennessee Jack – Grateful Dead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2xmScmG1Rw
Deep in the heart of Texas – with the ranch party gang
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQFWIeTv6VY
Utah –Emarosa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NGbRXKg6Kg
Moonlight in Vermont – Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg2436anrIg
Blue Virginia blues – Larry Sparks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAwqhnqSAc
Washington Square – The Village Stompers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07zFCP1anO4
Wheeling West Virginia -Neil Sedaka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIomLMfAli8
Cadillac Ranch – Bruce Springsteen (Winsconsin in lyrics)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGahh8JQFCk&feature=fvst
Song of Wyoming – John Denver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ5E-qgtij4
Born in Puerto Rico – Paul Simon
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
IDon’t forget on ABC at 8.30pm The Eye of the Storm with Judy Davis. A brilliant movie.
This is from Gerard and the picture is not me! Computer is funny again. Needs a thrashing .
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Thank you for the reminder, helvi. I bought a copy of Patrick White’s Riders in the Chariot and sent Eye of the Storm back to the library waiting further inspiration. I then heard of the movie being made. I hope I’m saved. 🙂
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Yes Shoe,
You’re back in the fold.;)
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Thanks alge for Paul Simon’s ‘ Born in Puerto Rico’, very very nice…and Ella and Louis, it does not get much better than that…
Listened to Springsteen, Bee Gees, James Taylor…the rest can wait…
This is the real H….
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Funny thing with music, it’s all very personal. I couldn’t stand the large Roger Hammerstein musicals OOOOOhklahoma da da daaa still freaks me out. As for that other one with those girls with pleats climbing up a Swiss mountain, i forgotten its name, . I think it had Julie Andrew sisters in it. Ah, The Sound of Music it was, went for years,. Yet in Germany it lasted two weeks. Far too sugary and sweet.
Is anyone old enough to have seen The Glenn Miller Story? I saw that before I came here. Must be a 1955 vintage film or so.
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That reply was from Gerard, the picture doesn’t match me.
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“Julie Andrew sisters in it”. What a hoot. This is so close to ‘I don’t speak a da musicals’ as a gag I can’t credit it. It doesn’t even sound like Gerard is writing let alone you Helvi. Something must happen not only in the translation when he puts on the mask but he must feel free to express himself as someone else even though neither himself or possessed of the identity of the mask.
The Glen Miller Story is mother’s milk to us poor post-war babies, Gez, yes, we went through the post-war mayhem and a lot more, further back even, The Al Jolson story, oooo, how I luv ya how I luv ya. What do you take us young ones for. Nincompoops? 😉
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See how we go with this. Did it again, I’ll try it somewhere else
I went to a men and meat night last night where a butcher broke down the part of a beast, showed us where all the cuts came from an then we BBQed the meat afterwards. At the end they auctioned of meat trays to help cover the costs (which we did). The bloke said $50-70 of meat in each tray. Well they started low, at $25 it started to slow, I bid $30 and the bidding stopped.
And what did I get two nice sized t-bones, two large oyster blades, some nice casserole beef, and two topside roasts. On 2.4kg and the other 1.8kg. Couldn’t believe it stopped at $30! Just weighed it all 7.5kg or $4kg. Oh and its bucketing down here too
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I’ve watched a few.
The Ranch Party won me over with their hairstyles and country garb; the girls dressed like Annie Oakley…very good 🙂
Ohio, I know. Most of their stuff I can sing along to.
Hugh Jackman, “can” sing. I was surprised. In fact I went into another room and expressed surprise to the trouble & strife. She agreed and alleged that she knew already. That’s what you get from a preforming arts teacher!!
Jack White’s clip was fantastic. A rip-snorter. Who’d of thought that they could team up. Apparently (I peeked at Wiki), he is the 70th best guitarist….of all time. I thought that it was going to be an instrumental at first. Perhaps with her banging the tambourine, or something. Anyway the energy and collaboration was terrific. I am a (American only) country tragic, for certain parts of the genre. Excellent.
I didn’t like Erin Mactavish…Awful.
Love most Bee Gees. This was good even though I was unfamiliar with the song.
Glenn Miller…Well he reminds me of…………………………….Glenn Miller. Pretty damn reasonable.
Havn’t got to Paul or JD yet. Another two of my favs. Denver, just has an extra special voice. Something unique.
I’ll play him and the others 2moro 🙂
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Hugh Jackman has been singing as long as he has been acting. He was the bad (but extremely handsome) guy in Beauty and the Beast which I saw in Melbourne at the Princess Theatre about 16 years ago.
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Yup, a good all rounder. And comes across as a nice guy too. What a future for him.
Probably worth a squillion already. Good luck to him.
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Just got back from the farmer’s market. pouring with rain up here. I bought some tenderloin fillets (steak) off the butcher’s stall.He has a cold cabin thingee, that he drives down from Brissie.
It’s the ends of the fillet, so one has to trim little sinew and fat off, but at $15 kilo, it’s cheap. Great for up market stir-fry… like beef stroganoff, ect. Or fillet steak and oyster pie ect….
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Bargain. But you couldn’t turn it into a carpet bag steak !! hehehe
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True, the pieces are too small. I can just about make medallions, however, one would be hard pressed to get more than a quarter of an oyster inside each piece.
Aaaah, now there’s an idea.
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I don’t get this wordpress thingy, post a comment and it disappears, and when you try to repost it thinking it’s lost it says it’s a duplicate. Lucky I saved it I’ll see if it emerges in an hour.
Anyhow, I liked the White/Lynn clip I thought that was a fairly savage facelift Loretta Lynn had had so I googled her and found out she’s 80 years old! Still an amazing voice though.
The Erin clip was the best of a bad lot, the vagaries of YouTube I suppose, the materials crap also but not much on Rhode Island is available.
I thought the ranch party was a hoot, I think my father had something similar on record when I was a kid, hence that one’s inclusion.
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Got a mind of its own sometimes.
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Its stupid. All I’m trying to say is aI went to a mena and meat thing last night an managed to pick up a meat tray 7.5kg at an auction for $30 including an nice topside roast for tonight. It will turn up half a dozen times now.
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Went walking through supermarket with my Conversational English student today, otherwise I would not be knowledgeable an 8.3 kg tray of lamb side is sixty dollars fifty something … and not to forget the meatworks is down road like.
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I wrote something lengthy before about this shoe, but it just disappeared into the ether. The bloke butchered this part of the beast and went through all the cuts, then we BBQed it, The meat trays were to help cover costs which it did. Before the auction however the bloke said that the trays were worth $50-70, I thought more like $100. Anyhow the first tray came upand the bidding slowed at $25 so I bid $30 and it stopped, I couldn’t believe it. Obviously most these blokes don’t buy a lot of meat.
Anyhow 2.4kg topside roast and a 1.8kg topside. Two large round steaks and two T-bones and a 1kg of steak for casseroling. All now in the freezer for later. What a bargain and the large topside was very nice for dinner tonight.
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Got caught in the spam trap, Algy. Don’t really know why, maybe it caught the dollars and thought you were trying to flog something. Anyway, here you are now !
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Blasted spamtrap, you’d have thought It knew who I was. Maybe I’ll need to spell dollars in future, no harm done really
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75th birthday I believe I heard of the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Eeeeh! ‘Appy borthdee owa Goold’n Gyate Bridge… Ah’ve known ‘im since ‘e wore a specky-wee iron filin’…
😉
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Loretta Lynn is older, shes a few weeks younger than the Sydney Harbour Bridge
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When I was a young girl in the early 60s I saw Oklahoma as a stage production in Cairns, I think put on by Cairns Little Theatre which was a vibrant company in those days of my experience of it. I saw a lot of theatre with my parents. Then we sang these production numbers as a parlour entertainment with family and friends. Hugh Jackman’s Oklahoma you’ve listed here is spectacular for its energy. What a humble student of musical theatre he has been. It brings tears to my eyes to think on his application. Thank you Algernon. I will listen up to these tracks over the afternoon.
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I’m not a great fan of Rogeres and Hammerstein however, I was struck by the energy of Jackman in this particular clip. Mrs A and I regularly go to a local restaurant every other Friday. One of our favourites is a local Korean which always seems to be playing Washington square as the background music, great food though and cheap as for a sit down. Doesn’t matter which CD they have on it always seems to be playing.
You are tight on the age of the Golden gate bridge. 75 on 19/4. I always thought that the Golden gate was older than the Sydney Harbour Bridge but its 5 years younger. Anyhow I think the bridge in the picture is the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York.
Enjoy this little selection, shoe. There’s one more of these in the series in a couple of weeks.
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The thought of Korean food especially BBQ makes me really jealous. We do not have a Korean here on the border and we should.
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Well living where I do we’re spoilt, We have Chinese from nearly every region, a wealth of Korean, there is even a new Vietnamese, to add to the three others we have. It’s like walking straight into Asia when you walk through the shopping centre. On top of that we have 4 or 5 large Asian supermarkets. Many of the locals don’t like it harking for days that didn’t exist. I’m of a different view the place has vitality that didn’t exist 30 years ago.
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