Here are some spring-inspired hit songs from the late fifties and early sixties that come to us from motion pictures. The two songs (with similar opening sequences) celebrate young people in the spring. One was a world-wide favorite from a movie about students on spring break. The lesson from the other song is that [...]

For all April fools…

Send In The Clowns · Judy Collins · 1975
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Where are the clowns?
(aka: Fools)

Judy Collins sang contemporary folk songs in the late sixties and and in [...]

March 11th, 2011

Several times a year we travel south into the Texas Hill Country. For Spring Break, we’re planning another short trip for a few days.

The Hill Country Theme · Willie Nelson · 1968
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March 7th, 2011

The first number one hit of 1956 was recorded by a singer who as a young man had held a wide variety of jobs. (Previously, he had been a gas station attendant, boxer, steel worker, coal miner, drugstore clerk, mill hand and blackjack dealer.)
But by the time this song hit the [...]

March 1st, 2011

Here in Texas we know that we are only a few weeks away from the bluebonnet highways, fields, pastures, and parks. In this state, a good family photographer could get rich just by taking pictures in April.

Between the Red and Rio Grande
This one is for my nephew and his family.
One lone star [...]