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Pat Blythe – Women of Blues Revisited – Part III

Posted in Opinion, Review with tags 81 Theatre, A Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Aretha Franklin, Billie Holliday, Blue Goose Hollow, Bob Segarini, Buck Washington, Charlie Green, Chu Berry, Clarence Smith, Coleman "Hawk" Hawkins, David Dicaire, DBAWIS, Dori Previn, Empress of the Blues, Fletcher Henderson, Frank Teagarden, Frank Walker, Frankie Newton, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, HBO, Jack Gee, James P Johnson, Janis Joplin, Jazz, Joe "Fox" Smith, John Hammond, Louis Armstrong., luvthemusic, Ma Rainey, Mahalia Jackson, Mamie Smith, Mo'nique, Mount Lawn Cemetery, National Endowment for the Arts, New Race Records, Norah Jones, Okeh Records, Pat Blythe, Queen Latifah, Recording Industry of America, Richard Morgan, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Songs of the Century, Swing Era, the blues, The Charleston, The Greatest Blues Singer in the World, The Roaring Twenties, Viola Smith, White Elephant Saloon on August 10, 2017 by segarini

Thoughts and ramblings…..

Let me just wander/wonder for a moment. It’s a simply gorgeous day today (Wednesday) and there are way, way too many diatribes written about “he who shall not be shamed”, south of the 49th parallel. Noodling around in amongst what neurons are actually firing is this thought…… What if we all just simply stopped reporting on his every move, his every tweet, his every fart (cause that’s what comes out of his mouth….gas) What if it ALL just completely halted….any mention of his name or his family’s. No Tweets or tweet responses, no Facebook or Facebook sharing, no comedy shows, no “fun” news (i.e. John Oliver), nadda, zip, bupkis….. NOTHING! A complete blackout for say……48 hours. What would we talk about? What exactly are we missing in other news and stories? My curiosity has got the better of me…. what would “he” do. No attention paid, nothing to rail against, no media outlet to harangue, no “fake news” to protest….. I wonder…….and my neurons wander……

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Pat Blythe – Squirrels, Applesauce and Swing

Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Basil Rathbone, Big Song Magazine, Bob Segarini, Bobbie Breen, boy soprano, Crown Records, Dallas Fairmont Hotel, DBAWIS, Decca, Dizzy Gillespie, Dolores Costello, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Fred Waring Band, Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Hit Parader, Hit Radio Songs, Hit Records, Inaugural Ball, Jazz, Johnnie Scat Davis, Lenny Bruce, Madame de Monterey, May Robson, Motown, Palace Pier, Pat Blythe, Penny Blythe, President Reagan, Sally Breen, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Silver Slipper Dance Hall, Sing, Swing Era, The Beatles, The Comback Story, trumpet on January 13, 2016 by segarini

I have recently rediscovered (for the umpteenth time) an entire box of music, lyrics, short stories and pics stretching from the late 1930s to 1949. The collection once belonged to my late mother-in-law, Penny Blythe. Since she was born in 1924, by my calculation, she started collecting Hit Parader, Sing, Hit Radio Songs, Big Song Magazine, Song Hit Folio, etc. when she was a young teenager. They contain hundred of song lyrics and the list of performers is endless. Some names I am familiar with but many I’ve never heard of.

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