Cold Squirrels & Dessert

Yes you heard me! I'm going for the weird post title of the day award. No, there isn't any squirrel in this desert but the following squirrel pictures I captured today were rather hilarious. Someone needs to tell that squirrel it'll soon be time to gather nuts and hibernate. I'll start this off with a picture of last nights dessert.

Please don't wake me . . . I want to sleep!

You had to do it, you had to wake me?

Oh! I don't want to go!

Remembrance Day

That was yesterday but we "celebrate" it today as a civic holiday, I also don't post on weekends.

Today's Tidbit

On this day in the year of my birth The Association were No.1 on the US singles chart with "Windy".

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"The Little Old Lady From Pasadena" was released by Jan & Dean on this day in 1964. I am pretty sure surfing aficionado's are still out there by the ton but aren't very well represented in today's music. Skater's had a music movement within the last twenty years but surfers seem to have been forgotten in the music world post 2000.

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My musical tastes are mostly rock based but they vary a lot as well. For the purposes of this blog I also enjoy nostalgia. On this day in 1975 Captain and Tennille started a 4 week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with "Love will keep us together". It was pretty common to hear this on the radio in the seventies. I'd never seen this video and it's pretty funny to watch. Enjoy!

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Lack of inspiration? Silly marketing strategy? Misguided idea? Either way on this day in 1972 Paul McCartney and the Wings released the nursery rhythm "Mary Had a Little Lamb" as a single. This is probably one people opted to forget, I know I had. Enjoy pondering it's existence.

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I predicted in April that Vancouver would win the Stanely cup. In the back of my mind I was hoping they would and that maybe by doing so there would also be no stupid riot aftermath. Well, the Canucks lost and the rioting is still going on at midnight. It's pretty much a global embarrassment I don't have much to say about it. This is the typical scene downtown now. Image, thanks to ctv.ca. I was all ready to throw Luongo in the fire but the truth is whether he let in 200 goals or zero goals nobody on the Canucks could score a single goal game 7. The entire team stepped away from the plate.

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On this day in 1975 the band America reached No.1 on the US singles chart with "Sister Golden Hair". It's a song I haven't heard in a while but definitely did grow up listening to it and do like it a lot. Enjoy yet another trip down musical memory lane over dinner tonight.

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The quality of the video helped me decide what today's tidbit would be. In 1959 Chuck Berry released the album "Chuck Berry is on Top". This is a clip from the low-fi movie scene from "Go, Johnny, Go from the same year. It was blended with an hq recording so it's not an original mix.

The reality is this was really only a compilation album with just one new single entitled "Blues for Hawaiians". I couldn't find a Video or mention of that song on You Tube. It must not have been one of his more popular efforts, I'd never heard of it myself either.

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There weren't a lot of No.1's on the charts I wanted to talk about today. However, on this day in 1978 Joe Walsh released "Life's Been Good".

1978 was a great year that brought us Rush's "All the Worlds a Stage" their answer to Led Zeppelin's song remains the same. I found it really was the last decade of some of that better rock music that took a huge nose dive in the disco era that followed and the bubble gum rock era that followed that. Other then a few key exceptions this is probably the last decade for decent song writing and serious stadium filling rock on the whole. I haven't forgotten the KISS or Van Halen's of the world but that 70's decade was still dishing out 60's era song crafting for the most part.

No video again this time just sound.
Joe Walsh "Life's Been Good"

Today's Tidbit

On this day back in 1974 The Wings reached No.1 on the US singles chart with their musical effort entitled "Band on the Run". One of my all time favourites.

[The auto checker wants me to spell that as "favorites" the American way. I often will go along with these Americanized spelling corrections just to get rid of the red error line underneath, dropping more u's then I can count in the process. I.E. color vs colour in the process. This time I won't do that as it just looks plan wrong without the u! Canadians spell things straight from their original derivatives from the UK].

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David Bowie released "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" on this day in 1972. It was an epic album with more influential hits then I will point to here today. David was on another planet mentally then which is probably why his music was so successful, it was different.

There are other songs of his I'd like to link here but for today I'll post "Starman" from this album.

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On this day in 2008 the legendary guitarist Bo Diddley died. I don't usually commemorate death but there isn't a lot to talk about today in music history and Bo definitely deserves mention. He's was and still is a big influence to more bands and musicians then I can count. Often with a black woman on bass and a white man on guitar, in a time when that was actually a societal controversy, he was progressive in every sense of the word. Here is a video of him in later years with his famous homemade square guitar.

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On this day in 1966 The Monkees began filming for it's TV series. It subsequently began airing from September 1966 to March 1968. I grew up watching The Monkees in reruns along with the Banana Splits and Ultra Man to name a few.

Here is a link to that very first episode released Sept 12th 1966. It's in two parts so make sure to watch the second video as well. I will also post "I'm a believer" which arrived in December of 1966.

Season 1 Episode 1 Part 1


Season 1 Episode 1 Part 2


"I'm a Believer"

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There were a lot more popular song choices in history to pick from today but I can appreciate the more obscure ones too. On this day in 1982 Paul McCartney reached and then held No.1 on the US singles chart for three weeks with "Tug of War". Simply titled "Paul McCartney" this was Paul's first official solo album after disbanding The Wings a year earlier and was also the first since John Lennon's death.

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On this day back in 1973 The Edgar Winter Group, led by the albino multi-instrumentalist Edgar Winter, were No.1 on the US singles chart with "Frankenstein". If you get a chance you should check out this self proclaimed scientologist's fellow albino and brother Johnny Winter & the psychedelic blues experiment. At the time of this posting I could find no reference to that in Google or YouTube, ouch! That makes me feel old just for knowing about it.

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On this day in 1976 The Wings reached No.1 on the US singles chart with "Silly Love Songs". It stayed at the top of the charts for a solid five weeks and along with other Wings songs it's still a part of my music collection.

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It's Friday, Friday. Gotta get down on Fri. . . .  NO!!!

Actually it is Friday just not THAT kind of Friday!

On this day back in 1967 The Young Rascals were No.1 on the US singles chart with "Groovin". It was actually a Saturday in 1967 so were kicking off this weekend early so to speak. See what I did there?

Whether you're "groovin' on a Sunday afternoon" or you "gotta get down on Friday" enjoy your weekend and if you're Canadian enjoy one less "Manic Monday" compliments of Queen Victoria.

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Tiny Tim released "Tiptoe through the Tulips" on this day in 1968. I never personally understood Tiny Tim and still don't but what I find was significant was that he was only doing a cover for a song that already existed when Nick Lucas had written and performed it in 1929. It actually was No.1 on the charts in 1929 for 10 weeks!  That original performance was in the movie "Gold Diggers of Broadway" which was the official second all color/all talking movie ever made. I think I just took a Tiny Tim song and found relevancy I didn't know existed. Considering the size of the moon in this following excerpt it could have as easily been "Tiptoe in the Moonlight" Enjoy!

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It was on this day back in 1970 the very influential Crosby Stills Nash & Young reached No.1 on the US album charts with "Deja Vu". This album was a keynote of the times. Profound music that although timeless in itself contains lyrics that are very distinctively 1970. It didn't get much better then this.

Deja Vu


Almost Cut My Hair


4 + 20


Our House


Country Girl