A Music and Movie Monday Merry Christmas to ALL!

| December 25, 2023

Pre-posting a Christmas day blog update as I’m expecting to be busy with our family … and for the record … I am finally getting in the spirit and correct mood to celebrate Christ’s birthday. Since this is a Music Monday, it is appropriate to include the most popular Christmas song in America … BUT […]

Music Monday: “Island” – Jimmy Buffett lives in my head

| October 2, 2023

It is still difficult to believe that Jimmy Buffett in gone and won’t be making new music or touring. I know I still hear his music in my head and wish there was a way to go back a few decades to enjoy a new albums and songs every year all over again.    Jimmy […]

The ablity to memorize passes to the next generation #TBT

| September 28, 2023

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Music Monday: “Key West Address” by James T. Slater

| July 10, 2023

In July I’m usually looking for hot weather music mood, so for summer 2023 I’m tuning SiriusXM to the Florida Keys Xtra channel. James T. Slater‘s “Key West Address” popped on and it does a pretty good job of capturing my summertime state-of-mind, although it would probably be just fine in the middle of winter […]

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 […]

Music Monday: Replacing our Driveway Blues, or close to it

| August 23, 2021

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Music Monday: Don McLean performing “Crossroads” live

| July 5, 2021

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Music Monday: B.T.O. – Roll On Down The Highway

| June 14, 2021

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Music Monday: Paul Simon (and Art Garfunkel) – Kodachrome

| April 5, 2021

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Music Monday: The Marshall Tucker Band – “Can’t You See”

| February 22, 2021

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Music Monday: The Coconut song always makes my wife smile

| December 28, 2020

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

| October 12, 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: Neil Diamond #COVID19 contribution

| March 30, 2020

Neil Diamond sings “Sweet Caroline” with updated lyric for safety during Covid-19 pandemic. Stay safe out there!

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

| January 6, 2020

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Music Monday: Just Another Day in Paradise – Bertie Higgins

| December 9, 2019

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Music Monday: Dusty Springfield and The Six Million Dollar Man

| November 25, 2019

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Music Monday: Cool Change – Little River Band 1979

| November 18, 2019

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Music Monday: “Faithfully” by Journey – from 1982

| June 3, 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: Ooh La La, I wish that I knew what I know now

| November 26, 2018

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Memorial Day Music Monday – Star Wars theme song

| May 28, 2018

It is not my ordinary Memorial Day post honoring those who died in service to our country, but I enjoyed watching a couple older Star Wars movies this weekend and couldn’t get the theme song out of my head. It has been a while since I enjoy watching the original 1977 Star Wars (IV – […]

Music Monday: Theme from Amazon’s Man in the High Castle

| April 30, 2018

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Music Monday: Whenever I see your smiling face

| May 8, 2017

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Music Monday: Another year and more Van Morrison

| April 17, 2017

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Music Monday: Shambala, 1 of the top 10 Three Dog Night tunes

| April 10, 2017

While listening to background music this past weekend (working on taxes), it became an easy decision post something on music. Next … decide which group and song to include without repeating something mentioned before on My Desultory Blog? How about Three Dog Night??? The rock band was not necessarily in my record (or cassette tape) […]

Music Monday: Escaping from my 1970s rut with Yo La Tengo

| March 6, 2017

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Music Monday: Shocker not to have mentioned American Pie yet?

| February 20, 2017

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Tech gadgets add a new wrinkle to Cat’s in the Cradle message

| February 13, 2017

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Remembering a couple musicians and the song Drift Away

| January 30, 2017

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Music Monday and thankful I can still hear things

| January 9, 2017

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Music Monday: Starting 2017 with a favorite song by The Carpenters

| January 2, 2017

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Music: A forgotten (by me) hit from the past – Rock Me Gently

| October 31, 2016

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Hanging on to summer with the band Sugar Ray and Fly

| September 17, 2016

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The Pretender from 1976 by Jackson Browne never gets old

| August 8, 2016

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Music: Who was Kent LaVoie? Look at that hair!

| July 9, 2016

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Music, mood, memories … Incommunicado.

| April 26, 2016

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Music: Another day, another song. All for You – Sister Hazel

| October 8, 2015

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Music: Run-Around from the 90s by Blues Traveler

| October 7, 2015

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The Head and the Heart – Let’s Be Still and Another Story

| March 16, 2015

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The Ebola Song – humor from the IMUS in the morning show

| October 22, 2014

Youtube VIDEO was Removed It is probably in bad taste to be chuckling at anything related to Ebola … but neither my wife or I have been able to get the Imus show’s Comedian Rob Bartlett‘s ‘The Ebola Song’ (audio mp3) out of our heads. I’m hoping you’ll don’t have the same problem every time […]

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes are happening on my personal blog

| September 13, 2011

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The Rockford Files redux on NetFlix

| March 30, 2011

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Wimoweh, wimoweh … it makes you feel good, doesn’t it?

| April 26, 2010

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  2. digressing from or unconnected with the main subject; random: a desultory remark.
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