Showing posts with label The Drifters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Drifters. Show all posts

Five On Friday - Sum-Sum-Summertime

Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Friday, June 10, 2011 9 Of Your Sparks

Photobucket Check out the other participants by clicking on the link to the left...and join in!

You can register for free at playlist.com and type in a band name and BAM the song will be there to assist in building your playlist.

Travis lays out some guidelines for this meme and they go like this:

1. Grab the banner, make your post title Five on Friday, and be sure to link back here.

2. Go to Playlist.com to make your play list of five songs. Choose a particular theme to share with us. You can simply post the play list, or you can add a little summary about what you are sharing.

3. I don't know how to make a specific linky, so be sure to leave me a comment to let me know that you participated.

4. No tags, but feel free to invite your friends to play along if they need a post topic on a Friday.

It might not be June 21st, but the Summer has started here in memphis. HOT it tis. Been mid-nineties for 10 days at least

WAIT, I said all this yesterday!

Anyway...it inspired this set of music...which is not in the exact order I wanted but not only has playlist.com taken away the option of letting you start the music, it was not letting me rearrange the playlist today...ugh...well all five songs are there and that is most important

ENJOY

HAVE A GRAND WEEKEND!



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Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Thursday, September 11, 2008 15 Of Your Sparks

Yesterday was one of those days when my mind could not wrap around anything. Huge changes at work with our mailings and someone leaving this week has caused a fluctuation within the earths rotation causing a synopsis of the neurons to coagulate and transform...resulting in the inability to maneuver throughout the bloggosphere, causing a loss of connection with your mental thoughts and rescinding the explosion of concurrent internal cerebration from the cerebral cortex located within my cranial appendage...

WHAT THE HELL IS HE TALKING ABOUT?

Don't ask me, have no idea... so it is time for MUSIC!





AMERICA
"Watership Down"


DRIFTERS
"This Magic Moment"


STAPLE SINGERS
"I'll Take You There"


ERIC CLAPTON
"Bell Bottom Blues"


Be by today...promise...

TUNEAGE TUTELAGE - "White Christmas"

Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Wednesday, December 19, 2007 22 Of Your Sparks



TIME TO DONATE SOME RICE TODAY!
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Build your vocabulary, feed the hungry...
9,481,828,970 grains donated at this point...





Yesterday the winner of the "Frosty The Snowman" sing-off...
the incomparable BING CROSBY with 77.8% of the votes,
followed by Willie Nelson with 44.4%
18 voters yesterday...


Our favorite Christmas Carol...
"WHITE CHRISTMAS"

Written by Irving Berlin. The morning after he wrote the song — Berlin usually stayed up all night writing — the songwriter went to his office and told his musical secretary, "Grab your pen and take down this song. I just wrote the best song I've ever written — hell, I just wrote the best song that anybody's ever written!"

The song was written in early 1940 while Berlin sat poolside at the Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa in Phoenix, Arizona.

Introduced by Bing Crosby in the 1942 musical "Holiday Inn". In the film, he actually sings it in a duet with Marjorie Reynolds. The song went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Though, while Marjorie Reynolds was the actress playing Linda Mason, her voice was dubbed by Martha Mears for the movie, and in the script as originally conceived, Reynolds, not Crosby, was to sing the song.

The first public performance of the song was also by Crosby, on his top-rated NBC radio show The Kraft Music Hall on Christmas Day, 1941.

Once again, you get two choices...


THE BEACH BOYS


THE DRIFTERS


DESTINY'S CHILD


SHANIA TWAIN


OTIS REDDING


FRANK SINATRA




As he was the winner yesterday, we did not include the original by Bing Crosby, but will put it here for all y'all to hear...





This one amazed us...yesterday we decided to sign up with blogrush. It is a service where you add a widget and other blog posts are displayed on your site ... our good friend Matt-Man has it on his site...

So, we scoot over to their site and sign up. We are told to insert the widget and they will review THE COUCH and get back to us within 24-48 hours...la la la la la ...less than an hour later we receive an email back with the header "We're Very Sorry"...

WHAT? Huh? WHAT?

The email reads in part:

"This message is to inform you that
we have carefully reviewed your blog:

Big Leather Couch
http://bondsbigleathercouch.blogspot.com

And your blog did not meet the strict BlogRush quality criteria.

Reason Your Blog Wasn't Approved:
Not Enough Unique Content

Therefore, your blog has not been approved for use in our network.

Please do not take this decision personally.
We have decided to
only approve the highest quality blogs for our network.

You should remove the BlogRush code from your blog's pages.

Our Quality Guidelines and criteria are listed within our
Terms Of Service agreement:"

WTF??? OK, OK, maybe we missed something...so we head over to look at those TOS...
here is what we found...

BlogRush Quality Guidelines & Criteria
- The blog contains unique, quality content that provides opinions, insights, and/or recommended resources that provide value to readers of the blog. Articles, videos, public domain works, press releases, and content written by others are okay to be used on the blog, but the ratio of unique content should far outweigh content from other sources.
16 original works of fiction in the last year...
9 Tuneage Tutelage posts in the last 10 months...
Show us where our posts are not original??? SHOW US..
OK, if you look at the last 5 posts only, 2 are Tutelage that maybe do not fit since there are few words, but Friday's post was about the Mitchell Report...ALL original words...
Did they spend 5 minutes and look at three, maybe four posts????

'splain it to me lucy...de ratio it be heavy to the original side me thinks...

- The blog should be updated on a regular basis (at least several times a month) and should not just go a few months between posts.
FIVE days a week...FIVE days a week...ok, so we have missed, what??? 10 days this whole year???

- The blog should already contain at least 10-12 quality posts. New blogs with very little content will not be accepted.
ummm...477 posts...just a tad more than 10-12

- The blog's primary content must be in English. BlogRush is currently not available for non-English blogs.
OK, so maybe sometimes we speak "Couch-eze" but it am mainly in English...ain't it?

- The blog should not contain an excessive amount of advertising and links and very little actual content. The focus of the blog should be quality content.
NO advertising...the links are to give our guests additional information...wut am quality????

- The primary content of the blog should not be "scraped" content from other sources and/or script-generated pages for the sole purpose of search engine rank manipulation. The focus of the blog should be quality content.
Pullllllllleasssssse...have you seen our Technorati ranking lately? If you have, tell us about it because it has shrunken smaller than a steroid users gonads...

- The blog's content (or advertising) should not contain any of the following types of content: hate, anti-racial, terrorism, drug-related, hacking, phishing, fraud, pornographic, nudity, warez, gambling, copyright infringement, obscene or disgusting material of any kind, or anything considered illegal.
Well some might think we are disgusting...but we don't do any of those other things...

- BlogRush reserves the right to determine if any blog is suitable for its network or not.
Guess this is the out-clause...we don't want you in our club
, so go away little boy ya bothering me...


Now, we know some of you are shaking your heads saying "who the hell gives a sh..." oops, they might be watching...

and some will say, "don't you write your blog for you????"

Just kind of ticks us off is all..and HELL YEAH, we write this for ourself, so guess what???? We get to write what we want and this is what we wanted to write about...


We have not put one link to this site, because they do not deserve it..you can find it easy enough and maybe you will want to join in on the fun...

we actually found some content on Matt-Man's site and visited the blog that caught my eye...we think it is a good idea...YES THINK...but we would love to hear how THE COUCH is not original...



BLOG TALK RADIO UPDATE

Join MO as he discusses the Dickens classic
"A Christmas Carol"


Summer Friday

Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Friday, August 03, 2007 21 Of Your Sparks


Well, we didn't get home until almost 8:30 tonight and then needed to watch "BIG BROTHER" and do some 'domestic chores'...and then realized...DOH...you didn't do a post yet!

We have a slight headache, so we are going simple today...

Summer...beach...romance...it all rolls together when you grow up near the beaches, which we did.

Hot summer nights on the boardwalks...on Long Island they weren't mini-amusement parks...just beautiful boardwalks for miles...

Then we would also go down to the NJ beaches and their boardwalks with the games of chance and the bars....

And we also did it the summer we turned 16 in New Hampshire....

Under the boardwalk, down by the sea, on a blanket with my baby...is where I'll be...





"UNDER THE BOARDWALK"
Composers: Kenny Young and Arthur Resnick

The Drifters
(1964)
US: #4 UK:# 45
Johnny Moore
Charlie Thomas
Gene Pearson
Johnny Terry




Oh, when the sun beats down and burns the tar up on the roof
And your shoes get so hot you wish your tired feet were fire-proof
Under the boardwalk, down by the sea, yeah
On a blanket with my baby is where I'll be

(Under the boardwalk) out of the sun
(Under the boardwalk) we'll be havin' some fun
(Under the boardwalk) people walking above
(Under the boardwalk) we'll be making love
Under the board-walk (board-walk!)

From the park you hear the happy sound of a carousel
Mm-mm, you can almost taste the hot dogs and French fries they sell
Under the boardwalk, down by the sea
On a blanket with my baby is where I'll be

(Under the boardwalk) out of the sun
(Under the boardwalk) we'll be havin' some fun
(Under the boardwalk) people walking above
(Under the boardwalk) we'll be making love
Under the board-walk (board-walk!)

Oooooh, under the boardwalk, down by the sea, yeah
On a blanket with my baby is where I'll be

(Under the boardwalk) out of the sun
(Under the boardwalk) we'll be havin' some fun
(Under the boardwalk) people walking above
(Under the boardwalk) we'll be falling in love
Under the board-walk (board-walk!)



Wednesday/Thursday December 20/21, 2006

Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Tuesday, December 19, 2006 44 Of Your Sparks

We continue to add more tunes for your sitting and listening pleasure


A HOLIDAY MUSICAL INTERLUDE COURTESY OF:

Al Green

Elvis Presley

Christina Aguilera

Manhattan Transfer

Randy Travis

Frank Sinatra

Harry Belafonte

Harry Connick, Jr.

Willie Nelson

The Drifters

Tony Bennett

Arthur Fiedler & The Boston Pops

Barbra Streisand

Better Midler

Brenda Lee

Dean Martin

Elton John

Garth Brooks

Jackie Wilson


NOT SURE HOW MUCH WE WILL BE POSTING THE NEXT 6 DAYS...
BUT FOR NOW - KEEPING IN THE TRADITION OF

THE COUCH


So, sit back and let THE COUCH
be your entertainment.


To My Family - I Love You All

To My Friends,
Both Cyber & Real
And Especially To Those Of You
I Have Met In The Last Year,
Both Soul Patrol & Bloggosphere:

HOWEVER YOU CELEBRATE -
CELEBRATE WITH LOVE, HAPPINESS AND SAFETY
St. J - P.B.U.A.B.W.A.B


Thanks for sitting on THE COUCH, hope you enjoyed your stay.



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Keep that spark of insanity kids...It helps keep you an individual.


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