Music Monday: “Imagine” by Music Travel Love and Friends

| June 12, 2023

One cannot watch ANY of the videos by Music Travel Love and not be enamored by the beauty in the travel videography of their productions. The scenery aside, their singing of favorite hits throughout time is excellent and have me wanting to buy more of their music and hope for more beautiful travel. Most of […]

Music Monday: RIP Gordon Lightfoot, a folk singing legend

| May 8, 2023

Canadian singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot passed away last week; he was 84. The respected entertainer has been a favorite of mine since high school and I enjoyed his music throughout the years … and still do. Music Monday has highlighted a few of his many songs and I felt obligated to reflect on his music this […]

Music Monday: “Puff the Magic Dragon” – Peter, Paul and Mary

| November 28, 2022

In keeping with the 1960’s Music Monday from a couple week’s ago, the song “Puff the Magic Dragon” by Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary flickered by in some way this past week when someone mentioned the old rumors speculating that “it contained veiled references to smoking marijuana.” But the authors, including the original […]

Tech Friday: Replaced my old MPOW Bluetooth headphones with discounted Wyze Noise-Cancelling headphones

| June 17, 2022

When it comes to a headset/headphones, I wear them all the time and am pretty much an Aftershokz guy. I find that I rarely take them off during the day, ever since getting my first “bone conduction” Bluetooth headset. I love nearly everything about the current Aeropex model even as the company updates with newer […]

Tech Friday: A new Shokz headset called OPENRUN is available

| March 25, 2022

Those who know me likely have noticed that I’m often wearing an Aftershokz headset. I’ve worn them for the last several years and since my hearing has been impacted by Ménière’s disease way back in the late 1990s (long story) … in dealing with Menieres related hearing loss, I have found a bone conduction headset […]

Music Monday: The 1943 classic movie “Watch on the Rhine” and 1982 song “Bette Davis Eyes” by Kim Carnes

| March 21, 2022

Old black and while films have never been top picks for Brenda and me when selecting a movie for the weekend, but as the Coronavirus pandemic shutdowns started, we decided to add a few classic movies as a way to broaden our life experience. Like reading classic literature as part of a higher education, watching a […]

Music Monday: One big 1970’s hit for Chairmen of the Board

| December 13, 2021

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Rickie Lee Jones: Her book “Chronicles of an American Troubadour” plus “Chuck E’s in Love” music from 1979

| December 6, 2021

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Music Monday: Michael W. Smith — Worship Forever

| September 20, 2021

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Music Monday: The Coasters, “Yakety Yak” and an aviation tweet

| August 16, 2021

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Music Monday: Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?

| August 9, 2021

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Music Monday: Don McLean performing “Crossroads” live

| July 5, 2021

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Music Monday: Mercy Me and their “Say I Won’t” music video

| May 17, 2021

My Desultory Blog‘s Music Monday does not include enough music from the Christian music genre and after hearing the story of Gary Miracle last weekend, I had to include Mercy Me‘s “Say I Won’t.”  

Music Monday: The Beach Boys, “Fun, Fun, Fun” and some R & R

| May 3, 2021

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Music Monday: More Than a Feeling – Boston 1976

| March 22, 2021

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Music Monday: Steely Dan – “Peg” from their 1977 album Aja

| February 15, 2021

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Music Monday: Lexington Lab Band does 1971 Chicago song

| January 25, 2021

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Music Monday: Early Pure Prairie League and Vince Gill

| January 18, 2021

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Music Monday: Holiday memories from the Carpenters

| December 21, 2020

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Music Monday: A record 2020 Hurricane Season is almost over

| November 16, 2020

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Music Monday: Are you ‘feeling groovy’ this morning?

| October 12, 2020

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Music Monday: Social unrest and the 1970s song Chevy Van

| September 28, 2020

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Another Jimmy Buffett 2020 stay-at-home video memory

| September 14, 2020

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Music Monday: I Heard It Through The Grapevine – CCR (1970)

| September 7, 2020

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Music Monday: The Box Tops – The Letter (1967)

| August 31, 2020

Brenda started to sing along to a song that was on in the intro or background of a movie or TV show were were watching a couple weeks ago (don’t recall the show). I looked over and asked, “How do you remember this song … it was before our time?”  She replied that she thought […]

A weekend Brenda birthday photo and Jimmy Buffett video

| August 18, 2020

We are really enjoying the time we have to stay around home this summer amidst Coronavirus concerns … although Brenda has never stopped going to work … she works in an “essential business” – pharmacy. We certainly enjoyed having Katelyn, Drew, Annalyn and Ellerie to our house for a mini-vacation for several days earlier this […]

Music Monday: The Righteous Brothers – One For The Road

| August 17, 2020

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Music Monday: Walk With You – Ringo Starr with Paul McCartney (4: John Paul George Ringo)

| August 10, 2020

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Music Monday: Time Passages -Al Stewart (1978)

| July 27, 2020

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Music Monday: Demonstrating your talent at a public piano

| May 11, 2020

One of posts that once received a lot of traffic on my blog was Jacob Tolliver playing a piano in an Ohio hardware store several years ago. The Facebook embed was taken down, but I reposted the video from YouTube last year. I must not have been the only one who appreciates watching those with […]

Music Monday: Back to the 1970s with Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer”

| April 27, 2020

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Muzak Monday: The Pink Panther Theme – Henry Mancini

| April 6, 2020

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The weekend (weekdays) bookshelves and painting project

| March 21, 2020

The painting projects continue without a need to rush or complete anything quickly. Finished the ceiling paint, some patching and trim area and “might” paint the first coat of paint that Brenda has picked on Saturday – “Bermuda Sand” (which is more yellow than the pink sand color that comes to mind – see below). […]

Music Monday: Johnny Rivers and Swayin’ to the Music 1977

| March 16, 2020

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Music Monday: That sorrowful bluegrass sound from Alison Kraus – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s “Catfish John” for the slew of bad news

| March 9, 2020

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A trip to Florida so that Encore could function on 12 volts again

| January 30, 2020

Encore has battery power again, Alleluia! After fiddling around with dying and dead batteries on the boat for the past year, I finally broke down and yanked out the 3 deep cycle AGM 105 Amp Hour batteries. I did a little rewiring and strapped down 2 new DEKA-made batteries this past weekend ($253 ea). The […]

Music Monday: Green Day and the a US National Park road trip

| January 20, 2020

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Music Monday: A lesson from Warren Zevon, the “Excitable Boy”

| January 6, 2020

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Ending the Music Monday decade with “I Go Crazy” by Paul Davis

| December 30, 2019

Here’s a #7 hit in 1977 (which has me thinking of American Top 40 and Casey Kasem) way back in the year I graduated high school. The song was “I Go Crazy” song by Paul Davis, who “looks like one of the Allman Brothers” as the late Ricky Nelson comments at the beginning of the […]

Music Monday: We don’t see family often enough as time passes in “the wink of an eye” – Jackson Browne and The Pretender

| December 23, 2019

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Music Monday: “Where We Belong” by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes and the movie An Officer and a Gentleman

| October 28, 2019

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Music Monday: Remembering Aerosmith – Sweet Emotion 1975

| October 7, 2019

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Tech Friday: Loving the new Amazon Echo Auto in my car

| October 4, 2019

Last week, Amazon authorized my invitation and gave me a promo code for the Echo Auto Alexa device for the car (it was a long wait, but they did discount to $24.99 for invitation holders). For the passed several months I’ve been using an Echo Input (no speaker) in my BMW X5 35d in an […]

Music Monday: Ruby Tuesday – Rolling Stones 1967

| September 30, 2019

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Music Monday: If You Love Me Let Me Know – Olivia Newton John

| July 29, 2019

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Music Monday: Sheryl Crow and Soak Up The Sun #video

| June 24, 2019

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Music Monday: Ventura Highway – the mellow sound of America

| May 27, 2019

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Music Monday: Doobie Brothers – China Grove

| May 20, 2019

Whenever I hear the Doobie Brothers, I can’t help but think about being back in high school and listening to my high school pep band at basketball games (while I was behind the basket shooting photos for the paper). Several songs were regularly played as I recall … China Grove, Listen to the Music and […]

Music Monday: Ramblin’ Man by Allman Brothers live in 1972

| May 13, 2019

Having posted songs from the Allman Brothers Band and Gregg Allman a few times before, it was surprising not to have included a Music Monday “Ramblin’ Man” post? So instead of a vinyl single to mp3 (recorded 1972 – release 1973), how about a live YouTube live video from November of 1972 at Hofstra University […]

Music Monday: The Rascals and “A Beautiful Morning”

| April 15, 2019

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My small town, old friends and Springsteen’s “Glory Days” #TBT

| March 28, 2019

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Music Monday: Eric Carmen songs and a memory from Brenda

| March 18, 2019

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Music Monday: John Mellencamp songs and my parents

| March 11, 2019

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Music Monday: Vahevala from 1971 by Loggins and Messina

| March 4, 2019

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Music Monday: Average White Band – Pick Up The Pieces

| February 25, 2019

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Music Monday: And for something totally different from Annalyn

| January 14, 2019

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Music Monday: Starting with a change for 2019 – Kenny Chesney

| January 7, 2019

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Music Monday: Gordon Lightfoot singing Carefree Highway

| December 10, 2018

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If you enjoy music, Rumours of Fleetwood Mac is a great concert

| November 10, 2018

It has been 41 years since Fleetwood Mac released their ginormous selling album called Rumours which was a must have by college students like me in the late 1970s (45 million copies of Rumours has been sold). Brenda and I attended a Rumours of Fleetwood Mac concert marking the 40 years milestone this past week […]

Music Monday: Getting in the mood for a Fleetwood Mac concert

| October 29, 2018

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Desultory - des-uhl-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee

  1. lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
  2. digressing from or unconnected with the main subject; random: a desultory remark.
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