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 [...]

It’s almost spring, and St. Patrick’s Day is around the corner…It is time for…

…an “Irish” toast to the creator of a (spring) tonic

Lily The Pink · Irish Rovers · 1969
  Play the song.       Lyrics   (Read the lyrics while you listen to the track.)

Now here’s a story, a little bit [...]

February 14, 2011
Sealed With A Kiss · Brian Hyland · 1962
  Play the song.      

There was a time before Facebook.
It was in an age long before Twitter. Before texting. It was an era when young lovers didn’t have cel phones.
(They actually had to write notes to one another.)
And if [...]

I was lucky that she was my mother. She was there with me when I was born, and while I was growing up.

Fools rush in where wise men never go.
But wise men never fall in love, so how are they to know?

It happened to Sue Thompson in the fall of 1961, and to Lesley Gore in the Spring of 1963. Sue was at the movies, and Lesley, at her own birthday party. It’s enough to make any teenage girl cry.

Many music memories have come from motion pictures.

It might be an up-beat pop tune from the sixties, or a country music song — or both. It’s an old-fashioned love song. Listen to some for me.

Tommy Edwards’ most successful record topped the Hot 100 in 1958. It was a re-recording of a 1951 song, and it also has the distinction of being the only number one pop hit to have been written by a former Vice-President of the United States.

Remember the lessons from the 12 days of Christmas: believe, light a candle, ring a bell, laugh, and give the gift of love.