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Please stop by the April group writing sign up sheet, with the broad theme “April Flowers.” Yes, it is April showers and May flowers in the old rhyme, and I’ve linked the two with good cause in this particular spring season. If you have a thought on work, we still have some openings in March, so you are welcome to make however brief a post and I will be happy to link it against a past open day, capturing your thoughts into the easily searchable theme. Tired of binge watching your streaming service? Cast an eye back across the wide range of different, delightful, and downright entertaining and informative past contributions. See the handy compendium of monthly themes. Check out links in the Group Writing Group. You can also join the group to get a notification when a new monthly theme is posted.
Suzy Bogguss: what a major find. Thank you.
This was on my granddaughter’s nursery playlist. And one afternoon, in Jenny’s kitchen, there I was, doing the dishes, when a voice came over the nursery monitor on the table. A tiny little voice, about eighteen months old, with absolutely perfect pitch, singing:
It was one of the most charming and extraordinary things I’ve ever heard. Thanks for the reminder.
This one. It was the slow march of Dad’s regiment (Wolfe’s Own, The Loyals, Lancashire, so, “red rose.”). We played this at his funeral.
La Vie En Rose was a key point in the ending of How I Met Your Mother.
Hmmmm.
My mind went immediately to the little ditty from
ShogunThe Mikado. ‘The Flowers that bloom in the Spring’Probably doesn’t fit in here. Especially the second verse.
Never mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLVq0IAzh1A
One of the many treasures from the “Beautiful Dreamer” album.
Yes, although I prefer Eva Cassidy’s rendition:
What a great compilation! It is so sad that Stephen Foster’s songs are now neglected. “Hard Times” should be on everyone’s play list – especially in our current crisis. And the tune for “Massa’s in the Cold, Cold Ground” is heartbreaking. Of course my middle school was named after him (and now renamed it goes without saying), so I’m prejudiced. Thanks again to everyone.
She’s great, part of that mid 90s “pop country female” boom. Does a great cover of Outbound Plane and her album with Chet Atkins is fantastic as well.