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“Lizzie Borden took an ax. Gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41.” Or did she? On this day in 1893, Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the hatchet murders of her father and stepmother at their home in Fall River, Massachusetts, about 50 miles south of Boston. She and the family’s Irish maid were the only other people in the house when Andrew and Abby Borden were hacked to death, in broad daylight and apparently without attracting the attention of anyone on the busy street outside. Andrew Borden was a wealthy businessman. The townspeople could scarcely believe at first that Lizzie, a hospital board member and Sunday school teacher at the affluent Central Congregational Church, could commit the violent acts. She was seen as such a model of rectitude that the head of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union called her a Protestant nun.
And yet Lizzie Borden and her sister had a tense relationship with their stepmother and their father was described as miserly. Lizzie had tried to buy poisonous prussic acid the day before the murders at a nearby drugstore. And a close friend saw her take a bloody dress out of a closet and throw it into the coal stove. The case has inspired books, an opera, a ballet, a movie, and, of course, the immortal schoolyard chant. For a close-up look at the crime scene you can rent a room at the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast/Museum.
“Lizzie Bordon took an ax. Gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41.” Or did she? On this day in 1893, Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the hatchet murders of her father and stepmother at their home in Fall River, Massachusetts, about 50 miles south of Boston. She and the family’s Irish maid were the only other people in the house when Andrew and Abby Borden were hacked to death, in broad daylight and apparently without attracting the attention of anyone on the busy street outside. Andrew Borden was a wealthy businessman. The townspeople could scarcely believe at first that Lizzie, a hospital board member and Sunday school teacher at the affluent Central Congregational Church, could commit the violent acts. She was seen as such a model of rectitude that the head of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union called her a Protestant nun.
And yet Lizzie Borden and her sister had a tense relationship with their stepmother and their father was described as miserly. Lizzie had tried to buy poisonous prussic acid the day before the murders at a nearby drugstore. And a close friend saw her take a bloody dress out of a closet and throw it into the coal stove. The case has inspired books, an opera, a ballet, a movie, and, of course, the immortal schoolyard chant. For a close-up look at the crime scene you can rent a room at the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast/Museum.
or 3 March 2007 1837 CST.
The almanac said the sunset was at 6.13 pm and the moon rise was at 6.11 pm. We drove to Whiterock Mountains to try and 'catch' it at rise. I was distracted by the gorgeous sunset en route, but didnt want to lose the moon rise. After driving through all that dirt road, we were there, right place, right time: wrong equipment. This point and shoot is not designed for astrophotography. So the event was seen, but cannot be shown like I wanted to. This was 30 minutes after the rise. See comments below for shots taken at different times.
Have a great Sunday!
I wanted to show you all the photos in one place. I have included the large size photos of the series below. If it gets difficult to scroll down, please let me know, I will decrease the size.
Sunday Almanac Easter 2016
Dom played:
I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It– The 1975
The Sea & She – Rotary Connection
Wait A Minute Baby – Gay Marvin
The Universe – Gregory Alan Isakov
Pom Pom – Matthew Dear
Clearest Blue – Chvrches
A Change Of Heart – The 1975
Can’t Give You Everything (But My Love) – The Stylistics
Doctor My Eyes – Jackson 5
Take Me In Your Arms – Scritti Politti ft. Sweet Irie
Roses Are Red – The Mac Band
Somebody Else – The 1975
The Way It Used To Be – Pet Shop Boys
Prick Up Your Ears – Stanley Myers with the John Harle Band
Selena Gomez- Hands To Myself
My Love Is Your Love – Whitney Houston
Sweetest Thing – U2
Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) – Edison Lighthouse
Chris played:
Massage - Catherine Tate as Derek Faye
Hooked On A Feeling – Blue Swede
Trouble Town – Jake Bugg
Eleanor Rigby (Strings only) – The Beatles
As Tears Go By – Rolling Stones
Lovelight – Robbie Williams
Carmelita – Linda Ronstadt
Genghis Khan – Miike Snow
I Want To Spend The Night – Bill Withers
One On One – Daryl Hall & John Oates
Tenement Yard – Jacob Miller
I’ll Have To Say I Love You In A Song – Jim Croce
‘Cause I’m A Man – Tame Impala
If You Were The Only Girl In The World – Tony Perkins
Long Time Coming – The Delays
Never My Love – The Association
Not Gonna – Lily & Madeleine
Sisters Of The Moon – Fleetwood Mac
Brother Louie – Hot Chocolate
Ugh – The 1975
People Are Strange – The Doors
Sound Of Silence – Simon & Garfunkel
If You Leave Me Now – Chicago
Lonely Goat Herd – Julie Andrews
David T played:
Jealousy – Queen
Suffragette City – David Bowie
All You Get From Love Is A Love Song – The Carpenters
Magic – Pilot
One Way Ticket – Eruption
The Logical Song – Supertramp
I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper – Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip
Because The Night – Patti Smith Group
Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue – Crystal Gayle
Airport – The Motors
Rhinestone Cowboy – Glen Campbell
Rose Garden – Lynn Anderson
Lucky Number – Lene Lovich
My Best Friends Girl – The Cars
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick – Ian Dury & The Blockheads
Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) – Edison Lighthouse
I Hear You Knocking – Dave Edmunds
The Name Of The Game – Abba
BATTLE:
The Crunch – The Rah Band
Crucified – Army Of Lovers
Angel Eyes – Roxy Music
Hippychick – Soho
Brown Sugar – Rolling Stones
Do Ya Think I’m Sexy – Rod Stewart
Peanut Butter Jelly – Galantis
Gett Off – Prince
Funky Town – Lipps Inc
Harvest For The World – Isley Brothers
Sign Of The Times – Belle Stars
Sweet Dreams My L.A Ex – Rachel Stevens
The Boy With The Thorn In His Side – The Smiths
Love To Love You Baby – Donna Summer
Oops- Tweet ft. Missy Elliott
King Of My Castle – Wamdue Project
Big Fun – Inner City
If I Can’t You – Yvonne Elliman
Under Pressue – Queen & David Bowie
Life On Mars – David Bowie
Pop Music – M
California Dreaming – Mamas & Papas
Love In The First Degree – Bananarama
Searching – Change
Wanna Be Starting Something – Michael Jackson
Since You’ve Been Gone – Rainbow
Jump – Pointer Sisters
Living On The Ceiling – Blancmange
Knowing Me Knowing You – Abba
Wordy Rappinghood – Tom Tom Club
The Way Make Me Feel – Michael Jackson
Live & Let Die – Paul McCartney & Wings
Lola’s Theme – The Shapeshifters
This Is Tomorrow – Bryan Ferry
Liquidator – Harry J & the Allstars
You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) – Sylvester
Lucky Number – Lene Lovich
Love Hangover – Diana Ross
Kids – Kylie Minogue & Robbie Williams
Relax – Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Mandy – Barry Manilow
Before Wikipedia,
people used almanacs.
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Illustrations of Ulysses S. Grant's tomb,
and the el train at 110th Street and 8th Avenue
EXPLORE #97, Oct 5/08
Yesterday I came across this lovely pair nestled in the woods. I thought these two pink asters (they were pink not purple) looked rather "autumny" with the yellow...Nature's own bouquet!! ;) This, nature's own composition is what caught my eye..I couldn't have arranged it better myself. ;)
Happy Sunday!!
Best viewed LARGE..
Left: Yongnuo 560iii in a 24" Soft box high at 45deg, Right: 44" White Reflector, Behind: Window back-lighting with white & purple sheer.
IG: @beer_shark
'The British Journal Photographic Almanac 1896' - Editor and reviewer J. Traill Taylor.
H. Dennis Taylor's patent 'Cooke' lens
'sui generis' = 'of its own kind'
Traill Taylor had attended Dennis Taylor's lecture at the RPS when this design was introduced for the first time, so his apparent confusion regarding the optical layout is slightly puzzling. Otherwise his observations follow the findings presented by Dennis Taylor at that lecture.
This review lens of f/5.6 would have been a prototype.
The reviews and new product reports would have been put together in the last three months of 1895, ready for publication in January 1896.
There is no mention of this design is Traill Taylor's book 'The Optics of Photography and Photographic Lenses' 1898 edition.
Opening Battle
Madness- Yesterday's Men
Prince- I Wanna Be Your Lover
The Irrepressibles- Two Men In Love
Hall & Oates- Back Together Again
Scritti Pollitti- Oh Patti [Don't Feel Sorry For Loverboy]
Girls Aloud- Biology
Simple Minds- Someone, Somewhere In Summertime
Janice Nicholls- I'll Give It Five
PM Dawn- Sometimes I Miss You
Womack & Womack- Love Wars
Rosie Vela- Magic Smile
The Nolans- Attention To Me
Midland- Chapter 10
George Benson- On Broadway [Live]
The Funboy Three- Summertime
Cigarettes After Sex- Keep On Loving You
Future Sound Of London- Papua New Guinea
Rod Stewart- I Don't Wanna Talk About It
ABBA- Suzy Hang Around
Primal Scream- Come Together
Chris played
Fleetwood Mac- You & I, Part 1 & 2
Gary Glitter- Hello, Hello I'm Back Again
The Cure- Play For Today
Donna Summer- If It Hurts Just A Little
ABBA- Head Over Heels
Billy Ocean- Loverboy
Marvin Gaye- What's Going On?
Glen Campbell- Galveston
Doris Day- Secret Love
Bee Gees- I Started A Joke
Peggy Lee- The Folks Who Live On The Hill
Carpenters- Goodbye To Love
Simon & Garfunkel- The Boxer
Perry Como- Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes
Chaka Khan- I Know You, I Live You
Steely Dan- Do It Again
Peter Gabriel- Solsbury Hill
Madonna- Open Your Heart
Diana Ross- Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Dom played
Robin The Frog- Halfway Up The Stairs Is A Stair Where I Sit
The Smiths- Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
Val Bennett- The Russians Are Coming
Damian Marley- Caution
ABBA- That's Me
David Bowie- Queen Bitch
Queen Latifah- Come Into My House [Midland Re-edit]
Prince- The Future
Frankie Avalon- Beauty School Dropout
Orbital- Chime
A Tribe Called Quest- Can I Kick It?
Leftfield- Original
The Funboy Three- The Lunatics Are Taking Over The Asylum
Dave Brubeck- Unsquare Dance
Laurent Garnier- The Man With The Red Face
Marshall Hain- Dancing In The City
Soft Cell- Torch
BATTLE
Blondie- Atomic
Michael Jackson- P.Y.T.
Girls Aloud- Sound Of The Underground
David Dundas- Jeans On
AC DC- You Shook Me All Night Long
Pretenders- Back On The Chain Gang
Madonna- Lucky Star
Madonna- Music
Fine Young Cannibals- Johnny Come Home
Piglets- Johnny Reggae
U2- Mysterious Ways
The Doors- Light My Fire
The Shapeshifters- Lola's Theme
The Flying Lizards- Money
Shirley & Co- Shame, Shame, Shame
Donna Summer- I Feel Love
The O'Jays- Love Train
Grace Jones- Pull Up To The Bumper
Siouxsie & The Banshees- Dear Prudence
The Supremes- Where Did Our Love Go
Elastica- Connection
Glen Campbell- Rhinestone Cowboy
Olivia Newton John- Physical
Pat Benatar- Hit Me With Your Best
The Smiths- Ask
Salt N Pepa- Push It
Queen- Now I'm Here
Julie Andrews- My Favourite Things
Dean Friedman & Denise Marsa- Lucky Star
Electric Light Orchestra- Mr Blue Sky
Dom played:
Radiohead – ‘Faust Arp (On A Hill)’
ABBA – ‘Like An Angel Passing Through My Room'
Dream Academy – ‘Life In A Northern Town’
Pet Shop Boys & Kylie Minogue – ‘In Denial’
Liza Minnelli – ‘So Sorry, I Said’
Wings – ‘Let ‘Em In’
1975 – ‘Change Of Heart’
Jon & Vangelis – ‘I’ll Find My Way Home’
Rufus Wainwright – ‘Vibrate’
China Crisis – ‘King In A Catholic Style’
Smith & Burrows – ‘When The Thames Froze’
Queen – ‘Love Of My Life’
Coldplay feat. Big Sean – ‘Miracles (Someone Special)’
Hot Chocolate – ‘I’ll Put You Together Again’
Human League – ‘Louise’
Lee Marvin – ‘Wanderin’ Star’
Kwabs – ‘Perfect Ruin’
Ramones – ‘Baby I Love You’
Mike Oldfield – ‘Moonlight Shadow’
Nat King Cole – ‘Let There Be Love’
Chris played:
Joglaresa – ‘The Boar’s Head Carol’
Steeleye Span – ‘Gaudete’
Mike Oldfield – ‘On Horseback’
Blanche – ‘City Lights’
Baxter Dury – ‘Miami’
Tracey Thorn feat. Green Gartside – ‘Taking Down The Tree’
Sutherland Brothers & Quiver – ‘Arms Of Mary’
Jennifer Lopez feat. LL Cool J – ‘All I Have’
Al Green – ‘Let’s Stay Together
George Thorogood – ‘Bad To The Bone’
Bob Dylan – ‘Lay Lady Lay’
David Bowie – ‘Beauty & The Beast’
Elton John – ‘Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word’
Olivia Newton-John – ‘A Little More Love’
New Seekers – ‘You Won’t Find Another Fool Like Me’
Paul McCartney & Wings – ‘Goodnight Tonight’
The Pretenders – ‘2000 Miles’
Benny Hill – ‘Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West)’
Coldplay – ‘Viva La Vida’
Joey Negro – ‘It’s More Fun To Compute’
Lorde – ‘Green Light’
Gabriel played:
Jon Brion – ‘Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind Theme’
Novo Amor – ‘Carry You’
Lucius – ‘Two Of Us On The Run’
Alabama Shakes – ‘Sound & Colour’
Charles Bradley – ‘This World (Is Going Up In Flames)’
Salt ‘N’ Pepa – ‘Shoop’
Drake – ‘Passionfruit’
Chairlift – ‘Bruises’
Public Enemy – ‘He Got Grace’
Otis Redding – ‘Respect’
Del Shannon – ‘Runaway’
The Smiths – ‘Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before’
Modern English – ‘Melt With You’
The Commodores – ‘Sanctified’
Norman Greenbaum – ‘Spirit In The Sky’
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas – ‘Nowhere To Run’
Steppenwolf – ‘Magic Carpet Ride’
Jimi Hendrix – ‘All Along The Watchtower’
The Clash – ‘Should I Stay Or Should I Go’
AC/DC – ‘You Shook Me All Night Long’
Radiohead ‘Gagging Order’
BATTLE:
Blondie – ‘Pretty Baby’
Rainbow – ‘Since You’ve Been Gone’
Reef – ‘Lay Your Hands On Me’
Kenny – ‘The Bump’
Canned Heat – ‘Going Up The Country’
The Archies – ‘Sugar Sugar’
Blackstreet – ‘No Diggity’
Indeep – ‘Last Night A DJ Saved My Life’
Eurythmics – ‘Love Is A Stranger’
Gladys Knight & The Pips – ‘Baby Don’t Change Your Mind’
Change – ‘Change Of Heart’
Waitresses – ‘Christmas Wrapping’
INXS – ‘Need You Tonight’
Shannon – ‘Let The Music Play’
Blur – ‘Charmless Man’
Dandy Warhols – ‘Bohemian Like You’
Fine Young Cannibals – ‘Ever Fallen In Love With Someone’
Simon & Garfunkel – ‘Keep The Customer Satisfied’
Petula Clark – ‘Downtown’
Ike & Tina Turner – ‘Nutbush City Limits’
George Michael – ‘Faith’
The Cure – ‘Close To Me’
The Cure – ‘Boys Don’t Cry’
Elvis Presley – ‘Way Down’
Eddie Cochran – ‘Summertime Blues’
Elkie Brooks – ‘Pearl’s A Singer’
Rihanna – ‘Umbrella’
David Essex – ‘Hold Me Close’
David Bowie – ‘Boys Keep Swinging’
Belle Stars – ‘Iko Iko’
Queen – ‘We Will Rock You’
Blur – ‘Song 2’
The Adverts – ‘Gary Gilmore’s Eyes’
Kasabian – ‘Fire’
Mariah Carey – ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’
ABBA – ‘Supertrouper’
This is a photo on my Old Farmer's Almanac Calendar.
Though I'm so busy packing I didn't want to forget to stop and say "Happy Easter" to all my Fabulous Flickr Friends. Even though I'm not commenting much, you continue to comment on my photos and I do appreciate that very much!
Project Almanac #31 of 365
There's always 'this' and 'that' to contend with in life. Sigh!
(poster is available to buy www.madeofsticks.com)
New Hampshire State Capitol, Concord. According to the New Hampshire Almanac, Concord was named state capital in 1816 and the capitol building, made of granite quarried on the north edge of Concord, was finished in 1818. It is part of the Concord Civic District Historic District, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 (83004203). Concord is the seat of Merrimack County, as well as state capital; its population in 2010 was about 43,000.
The statue is of Daniel Webster (1782-1852), noted constitutional lawyer and orator who served several terms in each house of the U.S. Congress and was secretary of state under three presidents.
One of my earliest digital photos, I recently re-edited it in Lightroom.
Press "L" for larger image, on black.
I think this quote from Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac is quite fitting:
"High horns, low horns, silence, and finally a pandemonium of trumpets, rattles, croaks, and cries that almost shakes the bog with its nearness, but without yet disclosing whence it comes. At last a glint of sun reveals the approach of a great echelon of birds. On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh....Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language. The quality of cranes lies, I think, in this higher gamut, as yet beyond the reach of words."
Sunday Almanac - February 2019
Dom played:
Efdemin – ‘Oh, Lovely Appearance Of Death’
Midland – ‘Untitled’
Faithless – ‘Bombs’(Album version)
Booka Shade – ‘I Go, I Go’ (feat. Kaktus Einarsson)
Sigrid – ‘Sucker Punch’ (Four Tet Remix)
KH – ‘Question’
Derrick Hatton & The Chosen Few – ‘Psychedelic Train (Dub Cartel Session)’
Madness – ‘Yesterday’s Men’
John Grant & Villagers – ‘My Love My Life’
John Grant - ‘Sweet Painted Lady’
Elton John – ‘Tiny Dancer’
Melba Moore – ‘This Is It’
Luther Vandross – ‘Stop To Love'
Depeche Mode – ‘Everything Counts’
Sigrid – ‘Don’t Feel Like Crying’
ABC – ‘That Was Then But This Is Now’
Demis Roussos – ‘Forever & Ever’
Chris played:
The John Barry Seven – ‘The James Bond Theme’
David Arnold feat. David McAlmont – ‘Diamonds Are Forever’
Siouxsie – ‘Here Comes The Day’
Nightmares On Wax – ‘Typical (feat. Jordan Rakie)’
2 Pac – ‘California Love’
James Ingram – ‘Yah Mo Be There’
Robbie Williams – ‘Come Undone’
P!nk – ‘Just Like A Pill’
Fleetwood Mac – ‘Silver Springs’
Gallagher & Lyle – ‘I Wanna Stay With You’
Janis Ian – ‘At Seventeen’
Abba – ‘Angel Eyes’
Windsor Davis & Don Estelle – ‘Whispering Grass’
The Coral – ‘Don’t Think You’re The First’
Yazoo – ‘Only You’
Cat Stevens – ‘Another Saturday Night’
Noel ‘Bunny’ Brown – ‘It’s Too Late’
ABC – ‘Poison Arrow’
The Monkees – ‘Daydream Believer’
David Bowie – ‘Absolute Beginners’
Peter played:
Brigitte Fontaine feat. Grace Jones – ‘Dancefloor’ 02
Material feat. Nona Hendrix - ‘Bustin’ Out (Single Edit)’
The Creatures - ‘Mad Eyed Screamer’
Iggy Pop - ‘Success’
The Style Council feat. Tracey Thorn - ‘The Paris Match’
Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg ‘Jane B’
Patti Smith - ‘Frederick’
The Shangri-La’s - ‘Give Him A Great Big Kiss’
John Leyton - ‘Johnny Remember Me’
Lou Reed - ‘Make Up’
Jobriath - ‘I’m A Man’
G.X Performance - ‘Nice Mover (7” Edit)’
Buzzcocks - ‘Orgasm Addict’
Hercules & Love Affair feat. John Grant - ‘I Try To Talk To You’
DJ Hell feat. Bryan Ferry - ‘U Can Dance (Radio Edit)’
JD Samson & MEN feat. Antony – ‘Who Am I To Feel So Free?’
Cristina – ‘Is That All There Is?’
David Bowie – ‘The Secret Life Of Arabia’
BATTLE:
Stevie Nicks – ‘Edge Of Seventeen’
Soft Cell – ‘Where Did Our Love Go' (Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing version)
Hot Chocolate - ‘Emma’
Fun Boy Three – ‘Tunnel Of Love’
Chairman Of The Board – ‘Give Me Just A Little More Time’
Madonna & The Beatles – ‘Ray Of Light Vs Eleanor Rigby’ (Dom's Rigby Ray edit)
Bay City Rollers – ‘Bye Bye Baby’
Kate Bush – ‘Running Up That Hill’
Spencer Davis Group – ‘Keep On Running’
Tom Tom Club – ‘Wordy Rappinghood’
Psychedelic Furs – ‘Pretty In Pink’
Japan – ‘Visions Of China’
Zager & Evans – ‘In The Year 2525’
Visage – ‘The Damned Don’t Cry’
Bill Haley & The Comets – ‘Rock Around The Clock’
Suede – ‘Filmstar’
David Bowie – ‘Jean Genie’
Madonna – ‘Lucky Star’
Fleetwood Mac – ‘Seven Wonders’
Siouxsie & The Banshees – ‘Peek-A-Boo’
The Killers – ‘Somebody Told Me’
Subababes – ‘Freak Like Me’
Adriano Celentano – ‘Prisencolinensinanciusol’
Human League – ‘Love Action’
Led Zeppelin – ‘A Whole Lotta Love’
Abba – ‘Lay All Your Love On Me’
Aerosmith – ‘Dude (Looks Like A Lady’
Eurythmics – ‘I Need A Man’
Rolling Stones – ‘Let’s Spend The Night Together’
Rockers Revenge – ‘Walking On Sunshine’
Chaka Khan – ‘I’m Every Woman’
Kid Creole & The Coconuts – ‘Annie, I’m Not Your Daddy’
Kings Of Leon – ‘Sex On Fire’
Prince – ‘Alphabet Street’
Electric 6 – ‘Gay Bar’
Pet Shop Boys – ‘Heart’
Manfred Mann’s Earthband – ‘Blinded By The Light’
Depeche Mode – ‘New Life’
Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton – ‘Islands In The Stream’
Sugababes- 'Push The Button'uu
- Ex Bill Robinson collection...
Stillbridge Post Office - it was located one mile north-west of Burnaby Lake, at 5445 Douglas Road in the Stillbridge Grocery Store. It was named after the nearby bridge over Still Creek.
The Stillbridge Post Office was established - 1 August 1926 - the Post Office became New Westminster Sub Office Stillbridge - 1 August 1938.
Sent from - / STILLBRIDGE / FE22 / 35 / B.C. / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer was proofed - 20 June 1926 - (RF E / now is a RF E1).
Post Office Location - 5445 Douglas Road (Stillbridge Grocery Store) from - 1 August 1926 to - 1 August 1938. It then moved to 5461 Douglas Road (Co-Op Grocery Store) after the name change to New Westminster Sub Office Stillbridge with Lewis Hilton Lowe as Postmaster.
Mrs. Jean (Jeannie / Jane) Bowie - Postmistress from - 1 August 1926 until her death in July of 1928.
Jeanie "Moffatt" Bowie (b. 1881 in St Rollox, Lanarkshire, Scotland - d. ?)
Charles Bowie - took over as Postmaster from - 27 August 1928 to - 2 August 1938.
Charles Bowie (b. 7 January 1878 in Dunning, Perthshire, Scotland - d. 29 July 1957 in North Burnaby, B.C.)
The Bowie family (Charles & Jeannie) immigrated to Canada from Scotland in 1911. They arrived in Quebec City on the ship Athenia in July 1911 with $400 in cash. They took the CPR train to Vancouver, B.C. Charles occupation in Scotland was a grocer.
Head of House Charles Bowie
Wife - Jane (Jeannie) B. Bowie
Daughter - Sarah Bowie (b. c. 1912)
Son - Charles Bowie (b. c. 1916)
Son - William Bowie (b. c. 1917)
Daughter - Marguerite Bowie (b. c. 1918)
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Letter was sent by: J. Iverson / Stillbridge, B.C. / via New Westminster, B.C.
John Iverson - 3285 Norfolk, Burnaby, B.C.
Addressed to: The Dr. Chase Medicine Company Limited / Dr. Chase Building Toronto 2, Ontario / Canada
A study of almanacs advertising Dr. Chase's patent medicines, 1904–1959. Patent medicines flourished in the 19th century and advertisers started using almanacs to sell their products with vigour by the 1850s, making the almanac a rich source of information on self-medication for the historian.
Link to an article on Dr. Chase Medicine Company: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3567798/
Chris played
Aerial Tai- Kate Bush
Suicide Dreams 2- How To Dress Well [Holy Other Mix]
Carousel- East India Youth
Quando Quando- Engelbert Humperdinck
So Long Marianne- Leonard Cohen
Ain't No Sunshine- Bill Withers
Love Is A Losing Game- Amy Winehouse
I Never Will Marry- Linda Ronstadt
The Letters- Joe Cocker
98.6- Keith
Hypnodance- Who's Who
Cuba- Gibson Brothers
Dr Kiss Kiss- 5000 Volts
Sign Of The Times- Bryan Ferry
Lady Is A Tramp- Della Reese
Read U Wrote U- Ru Paul [Ellis Miah Mix]
Let Me Go- Heaven 17
Rasputin- Boney M
Outside- George Michael
Dom played
Robinson Crusoe Theme- Robert Mellin & Gian- Piero Reverberi
Moon River- Henry Mancini & Johnny Mercer
Paradise Circus- Massive Attack [Gui Boratto Mix]
Don't You Know- Jan Hammer
Physical Fraction- Trentemoller played over
Bladerunner Theme- Vangelis played over
Lost In The Humming Air- Brian Eno & Harold Budd
If You Can't Give Me Love- Suzi Quatro
Come In My Mouth- Let My People Come
Crash- Usher
Come With Me- Black Coffee ft Mque
Beltane Walk-T Rex
Tour De France- Kraftwerk
Birthday Card- Marcus Marr & Chet Faker
Waiting For A Train- Flash & The Pan
I'm In Love With A German Film Star- Sam Taylor Wood [Jürgen Paape Mix]
Sweet Harmony- Beloved
The Survivors- Pet Shop Boys
Can You Hear Me?- David Bowie
Matthew Stradling played
L'eau de Rose - Air ft. Louis Armstrong
Happy House (SFB Free Vocal) - Siouxsie And The Banshees
Naive Song - Mirwais
Elastic Love - Christina Aguilera
Keep On Loving You - Cigarettes After Sex
What Now My Love - Shirley Bassey
Rebel Rebel - Dead or Alive
Circles - Izzy Bizu
Music for Celeste - Bela Bartok
Blackstar (Middle Section) - David Bowie
Oxygene - Part 4 (Magic Finger Project Remix) - Jean Michel Jarre
Beautiful Ones - Suede
You Can't Always Get What You Want (Soulwax Remix) - The Rolling Stones
America What Time is Love - KLF
You Only Live Twice - Nancy Sinatra
To Me You Are A Work Of Art - Morrissey
Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve
Rock 'n' Roll Suicide - Black Box Recorder
BATTLE
Boogie Oogie Oogie- A Taste Of Honey
Ever So Lonely- Monsoon
Horse With No Name- America [Todd Terje re-edit]
Jungle Rock- Hank Mizell
Mama Used To Say- Junior
Deutscher Girls- Adam & The Ants
Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye- Bananarama
Shake It All Over- Suzi Quatro
Never Gonna Give You Up- Rick Astley
Charmless Man- Blur
Oblivious- Aztec Camera
The In Crowd- Bryan Ferry
Walk On The Wild Side- Lou Reed
Heaven Is In The Back Seat Of My Cadillac- Hot Chocolate
Edge Of Seventeen - Stevie Nicks
Can't Get Enough- Soulsearcher
Love Never Felt So Good- Michael Jackson
Big Sky- Kate Bush
I Eat Cannibals- Toto Coelo
Right Now- Creatures
If I Can't Have You- Yvonne Elliman
Liquidator- Harry J Allstars
Fashion- David Bowie
One Way Or Another- Blondie
Feels Like Heaven- The Cure
Senses Working Overtime- XTC
Sheila Take A Bow- The Smiths
There Is A Ghost In My House- R. Dean Taylor
Hey Music Lover- S' Express
Aquarius/ Let The Sunshine- Fifth Dimension
Jumpin' Jack Flash-Thelma Houston
New Life- Depeche Mode
From LA To New York- Patsy Gallant
Fade To Grey- Visage
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Connection- Elastica
Juan Nepomucene Almonte.
The Naming of Almonte
Written in 1920 by William Bennett Moore, Professor of Government at Harvard University
The municipality now known as the Town of Almonte was originally called Shepherd’s Falls because Mr. Shepherd received from the Crown the tract on which the town now stands. The place appears as Shepherd’s Falls on the map which accompanies Scobies Canadian Almanac for 1854; but the post-office is given in the text as Ramsay with James Wylie as postmaster. Mr. Shepherd was unable to fulfill the conditions imposed in the original patent from the Crown; accordingly his grant revoked and a re-grant made Mr. Shipman and others. There was some discussion about calling the place Shipman’s Falls and it was so called locally for a very short time; but the name Ramsayville was finally selected by the owners and the settlement (which was not yet a village) appears on the map of Scobies Canadian Almanac for 1855 as Ramsayville. The Post-office continued, however as Ramsay.
The site of this “Ramsay” post-office was on the south side of the river; but about this time the land on the northerly side of the river was surveyed into building lots and the plan of this survey was registered under the name of “Victoriaville,” This situation resulted in some confusion. Ramsay was the name of the township and the post-office. Ramsayville was the name of the settlement on the south side of the river and Victoriaville was the local name for the area north of the river. Accordingly a meeting was held (probably in 1854 but the exact date of which I have been unable to determine), and the settlers on both sides of the river agreed that the whole place should be called Waterford.
In the Canadian Almanac for 1855 the officials of the Township of Ramsay are listed as follows: Reeve John Scott; Treasurer: John Wylie, Waterford; Clerk: David Campbell, Waterford.
But when application was made to the post-office department to change the name of the local post-office from Ramsay to Waterford the request was refused on the ground that there was already a post-office of the latter name in “Norfolk County Canada West.” So the settlers cast about for another name and although many names were suggested, all of them encountered opposition. Finally Mr. John M. Haskin, a leading villager who owned a planning mill which stood below the Stone Bridge across the river from where the Almonte Knitting Company’s mill now stands, suggested that the place be called Almonte after a Mexican general whose name was then familiar to all readers of the newspapers. In default of any better suggestion this proposal was adopted at another meeting. This was probably in 1856, for the Canada Directory (1857) lists the place as Almonte; but the name of the post-office was not changed from Ramsay to Almonte, according to the post-office records, until 1859.
Now it may appear curious that a village in Canada should adopt the name of a Mexican general who had never had the remotest connection with Canadian affairs, but the explanation is simple enough. General Almonte, who was a man of great distinction in his own country, served from 1853 1856 as Mexican ambassador al Washington. During this period which immediately followed the Gadsden Purchase, there was considerable friction between the United States and Mexico, so that Ambassador Almonte had an ample chance to get his name into the newspaper headlines.
Admired By Canadians
As he was a man of uncommon frankness and had plenty of courage, he stood up for the rights of his country in stalwart fashion and gave Uncle Sam enough vigorous back-chat to make things interesting. This quite naturally, gained him a good many admirers among Canadians who had misgivings over the rapid expansion of the United States to the southwest and west, or who on general principles were distrustful of American motives during these antebellum days.
The name of Almonte at any rate, figured prominently in the Canadian newspapers during these years and was as well known throughout the American continent as the names of Carranza, or Venezelos, or Clemenceau have been in more recent times. It was a good enough name in its way, relatively short, easy to pronounce, and with no local associations to excite neighborhood jealousy. So it was adopted. Gen. Almonte’s career was exceedingly interesting. He was born at Valladolid, Mexico, in 1804, the natural son of Jose Morelos, the patriot priest of Neoupetaro. Morelos headed one of the early uprisings against Spanish rule in Mexico and although successful for a while he was ultimately captured by the Spaniards and executed in 1815.
There was a current tradition that his son, young Almonte, derived his name from the fact his father, Morelos, whenever a skirmish with the Spaniards was at hand, would shout to the mother and child “Almonte” (to the hills), that is to a place of safety. But in his trial before the Inquisition, immediately preceding his execution, Morelos testified that the child’s mother was an Indian girl named Brigida Almonte, and that for obvious reasons the child was given his mother’s and not his father’s name.
On his execution of his father the boy, whose full name was Juan Nepomucene Almonte, was sent to New Orleans to be educated. Here he remained for several years and acquired ability to speak both French and English, an accomplishment which stood him in good stead later when he rose to prominence in his own country and was appointed to serve as Mexican ambassador, first to Washington, then to England, and later to France. Almonte, on his return to Mexico from New Orleans in 1822, entered the Mexican army and steadily rose in rank. In the War between Mexico and Texas he served as Colonel on the staff of General Santa Anna and was with the latter when the Texans defeated the Mexican army at San Jacinto in 1836. In 1839 he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General and in 1840 became Mexican Minister of war under president Bustament.
Ambassador to Great Britain
After finishing his term as ambassador at Washington in 1856 he was sent in the same capacity to Great Britain and then to Paris where he figured prominently at the court of Napoleon III. There he became involved in the diplomatic manoeuvres which resulted in the sending of the French military expedition to Mexico in 1862 and was in high favor with Maximilian and the authorities of the ill-starred Mexican Empire during the brief period of its existence. From 1863 to 1865 he served as president of the Mexican Junta or Cabinet. When the Empire was overthrown by Juarez in 1867 Maximilian was executed and a republic re-established. Gen. Almonte then went back to Paris where he died in 1869.
Although three-fourths an Indian, Almonte was a cultivated, highly educated man, intelligent, courageous, and more honest than the other Mexican leaders of his age. He was persevering and resourceful, a veritable Tallyrand in keeping favor with whatever government happened to be in power. Born under Spanish rule, he lived through a half-dozen revolutions and gained high appointments from the authorities of republics and empire alike. That he managed throughout these fifty years of intrigue and plots and complots to keep the breath of life in his body is a considerable tribute to his own skill and resourcefulness. He was one of the few great Mexicans of his generation who lived to die an honest and natural death.
Accomplished Gentleman
The London “Daily Telegraph” in announcing General Almonte’s death in 1869, spoke of him as a “soldier, statesman and diplomist,” as well as “a kindly, courteous and accomplished gentleman.” He had many warm friends in England among them Lord Palmerston, whom Almonte greatly admired. “He never cut anybody’s throat,” says the Daily Telegraph, “never squeezed gold-dust out of a foreign merchant, and never robbed a stage-coach,” which is saying a good deal for anyone who held a position of power among the Mexicans for nearly forty years. His picture shows a firm, well-set face, with a strongly-marked Indian cast; but with a noticeable touch of Spanish hauteur and eyes that bespeak intelligence.
Almonte’s only daughter, who married Colonel Jose Herran was still living in Mexico City two or three years ago a very old lady, half-blind, but mentally alert and with a keen memory. She gave me considerable data concerning her father and was much interested in knowing that a Canadian town was named in his honor. She still had his general’s uniform, his sword, and an oil portrait which was presented to him by Maximilian, his commissions of appointment as ambassador. etc. I am not sure that she is still alive. Her address was: Senora Guadaloupe Almonte de Herran, 3 Calle Liverpool, 26, Mexico City. A grand-daughter, Senorita Clothilde Almonte de Herran was then living with her at the same address.
The above interesting and informative sketch of General Almonte was presented to the then editor of The Gazette, Mr. James Muir by Major J. MacIntosh Bell on July 31, 1920, just prior to the 100th anniversary of settlement in the district and the town’s first Old Boys Reunion. The composer was a personal friend of the Bell family and a native of Almonte.
Project Almanac #22 of 365
Remembering all the lost souls that passed in the Titanic tragedy
(Buy this poster from www.madeofsticks.com)
Original caption: Veruschka wrapped in honey color wrap, with fur hood, and leather straps, by Georges Kaplan, Almanac and Paul Rotcage; look imagined by Giorgio di Sant'Angelo. ca. 1968
ODC:SOLSTICE
Almanac: “Winter Solstice 2021: The First Day of Winter”
This year the winter solstice, based on the astronomical seasons, is on the 21st of December. This marks, in the northern hemisphere, the longest night and the shortest day. This can cause challenges to wildlife as the short days make finding enough food difficult. After the winter solstice the days get longer though the coldest winter weather and highest chance of snow is often in January and February.
A preview of my three photographs in this year's Edinburgh Lo-Fi exhibition 'Almanac' at the Art & Design Library* from Saturday 2 March to Friday 29 March 2019.
* Central Library, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EG
Published by the Henry Greenwood the BJ Almanac first appeared in 1859 and was the "bible" of all things photographic.
There were selected images from the year. new product reviews, chemical formulae and other information.
There were approximately 200 pages of adverts from manufacturers and service providers. There were only four Japanese companies advertising: Nikon, Minolta, Fuji and Konica, this would change completely over the next ten years as they swept aside scores of European companies.
Over the next two, or three, weeks I will post some photographs and adverts to give a taste of the contents of this book.
With 620 pages it is a BIG book.
Sunday Almanac November 5th 2017
Chris played:
Mistura – ‘The Flasher’
George Benson – ‘This Masquerade’
Steve Miller Band – ‘Fly Like An Eagle’
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – ‘Luna’
Echo & The Bunnymen – ‘The Killing Moon’
Kae Bush – ‘And Dream Of Sheep’
This Mortal Coil – ‘Song To The Siren’
Andrew Gold – ‘Thank You For Being A Friend’
Mr. Big – ‘Romeo’
Pointer Sisters – ‘Automatic’
Dorothy Morrison – ‘Rain’
Pop-Tops – ‘Mamy Blue’
Silver Pozzoli – ‘Around My Dream’
Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty - ‘Stop Dragging My Heart Around’
Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes – ‘Wake Up Everybody’
Dom played:
Dalida – ‘Il Venait D’avoir 18 ans’
Manu Chao – ‘Bongo Bong’
Baxter Dury – ‘Miami’
Stephen Marley – ‘Rock Stone’
Miranda Pountney- ‘I’m On Fire’
Sting – ‘Moon Over Bourbon Street’
Disco Tech- ‘Papa Was Rollin' Stoned’
The Supremes – ‘Your Wonderful Sweet, Sweet Love’
Miss Kittin – ‘Bassline’
I Am A Camera – ‘The Legendary Children’ [Mr Jones mix]
Ralph Tresvant – ‘Sensitivity’
Jean Michel Jarre – ‘Oxygene IV’
Sheryl Crow – ‘All I Wanna Do’
Dominik Eulberg & Essáy- Dream Machine [Traum V211]
Sara Lugo – ‘Really, Really Like You’
Junior Walker & The All-Stars – ‘Roadrunner’
Jamiroquai – ‘Shake It On’
Sly & Robbie- ‘Fire’
Scritti Politti – ‘Wood Beez’
Kate Bush – ‘The Big Sky’
George Michael & Paul McCartney – ‘Heal The Pain’
George Michael & Aretha Franklin – ‘I Knew You Were Waiting For Me’
Scarlet Fantastic – ‘No Memory’
Ini Kamoze – ‘Here Comes The Hot Stepper’
Amy Winehouse – ‘Valerie’ [Reggaesta re- edit]
Malcolm McLaren – Waltz Darling’
Jane Wiedlin – ‘Rush Hour’
Gladys Knight & The Pips – ‘I’ve Got To Use My Imagination’
Nina Simone – ‘See-Line Woman’
A Taste Of Honey – ‘Boogie Oogie Oogie’
Donna Summer – ‘Love Is In Control (Finger On The Trigger)’
Big Audio Dynamite – ‘Medicine Show’
Godley & Creme- 'Cry’
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – ‘The Power Of Love’
Chris played:
MFSB – ‘Love Is The Message’
Philadelphia All-Stars – ‘Let’s Clean Up The Ghetto’
The O’Jays – ‘Put Our Hands Together’
Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes – ‘The Love I Lost’
Jean Carn – ‘Don’t Let It Go To Your Head’
Archie Bell & The Drells – ‘Soul City Walk’
Lou Rawls – ‘You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine’
Three Degree – ‘When Will I See You Again (Tom Moulton Mix)’
Teddy Pendergrass – ‘I Don’t Love You Anymore’
Billy Paul – ‘Only The Strong Survive’
The Jacksons – ‘Goin’ Places’
The O’Jays – ‘Backstabbers’
The Jones Girls – ‘Nights Over Egypt’
McFadden & Whitehead – ‘Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now’
Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes – ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’
BATTLE
The O’Jays – ‘Love Train’
Billy Idol – ‘White Wedding’
Hank Mizell – ‘Jungle Rock’
The Cure – ‘Boys Don’t Cry’
Prince – ‘I Would Die 4 U’
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – ‘American Girl’
The Creatures – ‘Right Now’
Morrissey – ‘Spent The Day In Bed’
Blondie – ‘Pretty Baby’
Janet Kay – ‘Silly Games’
Isley Brothers – ‘Summer Breeze’
Doobie Brothers – ‘What A Fool Believes’
Fine Young Cannibals - ‘Johnny Come Home’
Man Parrish – ‘Male Stripper’
Siouxsie & The Banshees – ‘Peek-A-Boo’
S-Express – ‘Theme From S-Express’
The Equals – ‘Baby Come Back’
Elvis Presley – ‘(Marie’s The Name) His Latest Flame’
REM – ‘The One I Love’
Brothers Johnson – ‘Stomp’
Alessi – ‘Oh Lori’
Gwen Guthrie – ‘Ain’t Nothing Going On But The Rent’
The Temptations – ‘Papa Was A Rolling Stone’
Queen & David Bowie – ‘Under Pressure’
Sunday Almanac: February 23rd 2014
Dom played
Celebrating Our Differences – Dale Hansen mixed over~
To Wish Impossible Things – The Cure
12.34 – Calum Graham
Route 66 – Nat ‘King’ Cole
Over The Ocean - Here We Go Magic
If You Want Me To Stay – Sly & the Family Stone
Joy – David Poe
Living For The City – Ike & Tina Turner
Beach Baby – First Class
I’ll Always Love My Mama – The Intruders
Boogie On Reggae Woman – Stevie Wonder
Gimme Some – Brendon
Your Wildest Dreams – Lonnie Gordon
Hello This Is Joanie – Paul Evans
Gemini (Pilooski Edit) – Del Shannon
Magic Carpet Days – Ocean Colour Scene
7 – Prince
In The Summer Time – Mungo Jerry
Chris played
Norrie Paramour – Soul Coaxing
The Chauffeur – Duran Duran
Girl Don’t Come – Sandie Shaw
18 With A Bullet – Pete Wingfield
Kandi – One Eskimo
Stoney End – Barbra Streisand
He Wasn’t Man Enough For Me – Toni Braxton
Windy – Johnny Mann Singers
Hurt So Good – Susan Cadogan
This House – Big Sound Authority
Poppa Joe – Sweet
Down To Zero – Joan Armatrading
Mr Raffles – Cockney Rebel
Young Blood – Bad Company
Getting Better – Cass Elliot
Stop Your Sobbing – The Pretenders
The Belle of St Mark – Sheila E
Dom played
Beauty School Dropout – Frankie Avalon
Rush Hour – Jane Weidlin
Back In The Day – Missy Elliott
Some Velvet Morning – Nancy Sinatra
Silver Mac – Westworld
I Wanna Hold Your Hand – Dollar
Watching You Without Me (Fred Pelakon Mix) – Kate Bush
Heart To Heart – James Blunt
After The Goldrush – Prelude
Theme to Hill Street Blues - Mike Post
Email – Pet Shop Boys
Can’t Rely On You – Paloma Faith
Talking Loud & Clear – Orchestral Manouevres In The Dark
The Sweetest Girl – Madness (for Hayley)
Los Palabras De Amor – Queen
SOS – ABC
Rooms On Fire (Acapella) – Stevie Nicks
Double Dutch – Malcolm McLaren
Chris played
I Say A Little Prayer – Aretha Franklin
Jack & Jil – Raydio
Torn – Natalie Imbruglia
Squeeze Box – The Who
Bad Blood – Neil Sedaka
Sweet Child Of Mine – Miche Braden
In The Ghetto – Elvis Presley
The Best Part Of Breaking Up – The Ronettes
Real Real Gone – Van Morrison
John I’m Only Dancing – David Bowie
Up Up & Away – Fifth Dimension
Christine – Siouxsie & The Banshees
The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Any More – Walker Brothers
Harvest For The World – Isley Brothers
Eagle – Abba
Heard It All Before – Sunshine Anderson
For You – Judie Tzuke
Dom..
Run For Home – Lindisfarne
Welcome Aboard – Love Unlimited Orchestra
Love Hangover (Album Version) – Diana Ross
Left To My Own Devices – Pet Shop Boys
Manchild – Neneh Cherry
& Chris.
Cloudbusting – Kate Bush
Got To Have Your Love – The Sapphires
Still The One – Orleans
I Am A Rock – Simon & Garfunkel
Silver Star – Four Seasons
Day By Day – The Cast of Godspell
One Day Like This – Elbow
Brimful of Asha – Cornershop
We will be back at the St.George's, 33 Upper Sudeley Street, BN2 1HE on March 23rd.
Sunday Almanac, April 2nd 2017
Dom played:
The Beatles – ‘Blue Jay Way’
Grace Jones – ‘Don’t Cry, It’s Only The Rhythm’
Sugarpussy – ‘Sigmund’s Theme’
Dosem – ‘Beach Kisses’ (Joris Voorn Mix)
Crown Heights Affair – ‘Empty Soul Of Mine’
The 1975 – ‘By Your Side’
Shuggy Otis – ‘Inspiration/ Information’
Duffer & Dom – ‘Just A Groove’
Calvin Harris & Frank Ocean – ‘Slide’
Bryan Ferry – ‘No Face No Name No Number’ (John Monkman Remix)
Matt Duffer Brown 'Who Da Funk' (Sugarpussy Lost In Translation Mix)
Drake feat. Sampha – 4422
Groove Armada – At The River (Presence Mix)
The Beatles – ‘Flying’
The Beatles – ‘In My Life’
Alison Moyet – ‘Whispering Your Name’ (Vince Clarke Mix)
Pulp – ‘Help The Aged’
Chris played:
Visage – ‘The Steps’
Duran Duran – ‘The Chauffeur’
New Birth – ‘It’s Impossible’
Wisdom – ‘Nefertiti’
The O’Jays – ‘Give The People What They Want’
Nadestrom vs Heartbreak – ‘Church’
Fleetwood Mac – ‘Tango In The Night’
Steely Dan – ‘Rikki Don’t Lose That Number’
Passengers & Pavarotti – ‘Miss Sarajevo’
Dakota Staton – ‘Misty’
The Flamingos – ‘Where Or When’
Pet Shop Boys – ‘Indefinite Leave To Remain’
Ronnie Dyson – ‘When You Get Right Down To It’
Ella Fitzgerald – ‘Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye’
Ozark Mountain Daredevils – ‘Jackie Blue’
Smokie – ‘If You Think You Know To Love Me’
Elton John – ‘Rocket Man’
BATTLE
Barry Gray Orchestra – ‘Aquamarina’
America – ‘A Horse With No Name’
Led Zeppelin – ‘Rock & Roll’
Idris Muhammad – ‘Hey Pocky Way’
Yoko Ono – ‘Kiss Kiss Kiss’
Yazoo – 'Too Pieces’
Tina Turner – ‘Better Be Good To Me’
Goldfrapp – ‘Everything Is Never Enough’
Machine – ‘There But For The Grace Of God Go I’
Marvin Gaye – ‘Got To Give It Up’
Barry White – ‘What Am I Gonna Do With You?’
Midlake – ‘Roscoe’ (Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve Remix)
The Trammps – ‘Hold Back The Night’
Prince – ‘New Position/ I Wonder U’
Devo – ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’
Blueboy – ‘Remember Me’
Four Seasons – ‘Who Loves You’ (Disco Remix)
Two Door Cinema Club – ‘Bad Decision’ (Purple Disco Machine Remix)
The Emotions – ‘I Don’t Wanna Lose Your Love’
Mish Mash – ‘Speechless’
Donna Summer – ‘On The Radio’ (Venice Beach Remix)
Hubie Davison – ‘Sanctified’
Roxy Music – ‘Angel Eyes’
Change – ‘Change Of Heart’
Stevie Nicks – ‘I Can’t Wait’
Beck – ‘New Pollution’
The Doors – ‘Break On Through’
Celia Cruz – ‘Guantanamera’
The B52’s – ‘Love Shack’
Elvis Presley – ‘(Marie’s The Name) His Latest Flame’
Bananarama – ‘Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)’
Michael Jackson – ‘PYT’
Thunderclap Newman – ‘Something In The Air’
Blur – ‘Charmless Man’
The Emotions – ‘Best Of My Love’
Monsoon – ‘Ever So Lonely’
Pat Benatar – ‘Love Is A Battlefield’
The Smiths – ‘How Soon Is Now’
The Knack – ‘My Sharona’
Kasabian – ‘Fire’
The Monkees – ‘Theme From The Monkees’
Blondie – ‘Picture This’
Whitney Houston – ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’
Blur – ‘Girls and Boys’
David Bowie – ‘Fashion’
Elastica – ‘Connection’
The Clash – ‘Rock The Casbah’
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts – ‘I Love Rock N Roll’
Siouxsie & The Banshees – ‘Happy House’
Harry J Allstars – ‘Liquidator’
Flying Lizards – ‘Money’
Mott The Hoople – ‘All The Young Dudes’
A Tribe Called Quest – ‘Can I Kick It?’
Double Trouble and the Rebel MC – ‘Street Tuff’
Lipps Inc. – ‘Funky Town’
Fleetwood Mac – ‘Go Your Own Way’
Fine Young Cannibals – ‘Johnny Come Home’
The Cure – ‘Close To Me’
Pet Shop Boys – ‘Heart’
Queen – ‘I Want To Break Free’
Yazoo – ‘Don’t Go’
The Archies – ‘Sugar Sugar’j
I have always wanted a miniature book and I finally have one. This is Bijou Illustrations of the Life of Christ. I think the tiny engravings are amazing.
No cover but all the pages are there. They also published things like an almanac and punch cartoons, I would rather have had those but I am not grumbling.
(Sorry about Kizzie's, or is it Ruby's, butt in the background lol)
This little village of ice fishing houses is on the Androscoggin River. A train bridge is in the distance and used by the Downeaster. I heard this poem read this morning by Garrison Keillor on his daily The Writer's Almanac show. The much ballyhooed blizzard that was due to arrive this past weekend did not. I guess it blew out to the Gulf of Maine. The photo is just an excuse for the poem.
The Blizzard
by Phillis Levin
Now that the worst is over, they predict
Something messy and difficult, though not
Life-threatening. Clearly we needed
To stock up on water and candles, making
Tureens of soup and things that keep
When electricity fails and phone lines fall.
Igloos rise on air conditioners, gargoyles
Fly and icicles shatter. Frozen runways,
Lines in markets, and paralyzed avenues
Verify every fear. But there is warmth
In this sudden desire to sleep,
To surrender to our common condition
With joy, watching hours of news
Devoted to weather. People finally stop
To talk to each other—the neighbors
We didn’t know were always here.
Today they are ready for business,
Armed with a new vocabulary,
Casting their saga in phrases as severe
As last night’s snow: damage assessment,
Evacuation, emergency management,
The shift of the wind matters again,
And we are so simple, so happy to hear
The scrape of a shovel next door.
“The Blizzard” by Phillis Levin from Mercury. © Penguin, 2001. Reprinted with permission.
From a 1930s printers almanac showing examples of colour separation and printing as being used for high quality advertising. This quite lucious illustration is intended to seel the multi-coloured woollen yarns available fromt he famous Bardford concern of Lister's. Lister's originated in silk production but diversified into other fibres especially the locally important wool industry and became known for fine velvets as well as heavier moquettes. The paper label design is lovely with the very '30s image of the modern lady golfer!
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3AMWc6t3cc
The Kinks...'Autumn Almanac'
From the dew-soaked hedge creeps a crawly caterpillar,
When the dawn begins to crack.
Its all part of my autumn almanac.
Breeze blows leaves of a musty[mustard? ]-coloured yellow,
So I sweep them in my sack.
Yes, yes, yes, its my autumn almanac.
Friday evenings, people get together,
Hiding from the weather.
Tea and toasted, buttered currant buns
Cant compensate for lack of sun,
Because the summers all gone.
La-la-la-la...
Oh, my poor rheumatic back
Yes, yes, yes, its my autumn almanac.
La-la-la-la...
Oh, my autumn almanac
Yes, yes, yes, its my autumn almanac.
I like my football on a saturday,
Roast beef on sundays, all right.
I go to blackpool for my holidays,
Sit in the open sunlight.
This is my street, and Im never gonna to leave it,
And Im always gonna to stay here
If I live to be ninety-nine,
cause all the people I meet
Seem to come from my street
And I cant get away,
Because its calling me, (come on home)
Hear it calling me, (come on home)
La-la-la-la...
Oh, my autumn armagnac
Yes, yes, yes, its my autumn almanac.
La-la-la-la...
Oh, my autumn almanac
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Bop-bop-bopm-bop-bop, whoa!
Bop-bop-bopm-bop-bop, whoa!
(etc.)
Warm thanks to friend Karon, who sent me this birthday card that features a subject dear to my heart - the classic British bus, in this case a London Transport AEC Routemaster. It is based on a print by Barry Goodman and was published by Almanac Gallery.
Doing further research, I learnt that Barry Goodman specialises in nostalgia of the 1960s, having done prints of Lambretta scooters of the Mod Era, Airfix kit box art and Matchbox Toys boxes. He is a graduate of Reigate School of Art and London College of Printing. Most astonishingly, he is a fellow resident of St. Pete FL and is an active participant in the local arts scene. I shall be delighted if our paths cross.
Anorak PS: Barry Goodman has depicted RM617 (WLT617). The bus was new in January 1961, based initially at Edmonton (EM) garage and later Wood Green (WN). It was one of London Transport’s earlier RM withdrawals, being sold for scrap in 8/85, as the Ian’s Bus Stop website confirms.
From a 1930s printers almanac showing examples of colour separation and printing as being used for high quality advertising. This image demonstrated the Vivex Clour Process system as produced via three-colour blocks by Gee & Watson.
The selection still looks delicious! Macfarlane, Lang were origianlly a Glasgow company who had built a large bakery in the est of the city, the Victoria Biscuit Works, and had also expanded as a national brand and opened an additional works in Osterley, west London.
"Autumn arrives, array'd in splendid mein;
Vines, cluster'd full, add to the beauteous scene,
And fruit-trees cloth'd profusely laden, nod,
Complaint bowing to the fertile sod."
― Farmer's Almanac, 1818
Text from G Keillor's "The Writers Almanac"
Photo, US Park Service.
"The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Today in 1884, the cornerstone of the Statue of Liberty's pedestal was laid. One year prior, a fundraiser for the pedestal's construction solicited art and literary works for auction; 34-year-old Emma Lazarus donated a poem for the occasion, which she titled "The New Colossus."
Devoted to the plight of Jewish immigrants, Lazarus imagined that the statue would become a symbol of hope for all Ellis Island arrivals. She wrote her verse three years before the statue was completed, and only four years before her own death. The poem was essentially forgotten for 20 years, after which Lazarus' friends lobbied to have it emblazoned on a bronze plaque and hung in the museum inside the pedestal.
www.drinkinbrighton.co.uk/saint-georges
Dom played:
1. You & Me Against The World - Helen Reddy
2. History of Touches - Bjork
3. Remember Walking In The Sand- The Shangri-las
4. Cheryl Tweedy - Lily Allen
5. Spirits Having Flown - Bee Gees
6. Lost Queen Pt 2- Pharell Williams
7. Girl Crazy - Hot Chocolate
8. Italian Song - Jon & Vangelis
9. Stepping Out - Joe Jackson
10. La Vie En Rose - Grace Jones & Edith Piaf (Mick Guihen Re-edit)
11. Sweet Like Chocolate - Shanks & Bigfoot
12. Move On - Abba
13. Under The Shadows - Rae Martin
14. Only One - Kanye West & Paul McCartney
15. Utopia (Me Giorgio) - Giorgio Moroder
16. Cry - Godley & Creme
17. Around The Way Girl - LL Cool J
18. Boogie On Reggae Woman - Stevie Wonder
19. Cry Me A River - Justin Timberlake
Chris played:
1. Albatross - Fleetwood Mac
2. White Horses - Jacky
3. I Say A Little Prayer - Aretha Franklin
4. You Are My Love - Liverpool Express
5. Papa Was A Rolling Stone - The Temptations
6. Spinning & Spinning - Syreeta
7. Groovin' The Young Rascals
8. Everlasting Love - Robert Knight
9. Misunderstanding - Genesis
10. The Time Is Now - Moloko
11. Never Too Much - Luther Vandross
12. Concrete & Clay - Unit 4+2
13. Walk Away Renee - The Four Tops
14. Two Of Us - The Beatles
15. Just The Two Of Us - Grover Washington Jr
16. Sail On Sailor - The Beach Boys
17. Unforgettable - Nat 'King' Cole
18. Shannon - Henry Gross
Dom played
1. Goodnight My Love - Gracie Fields
2. Push Pull - Purity Ring
3. Lovelight - Robbie Williams
4. Close [To The Edit]- The Art Of Noise
5. It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back) - Eurythmics
6. Four Five Seconds - Rhianna, Kanye West & Paul McCartney
7. Ask - The Smiths
8. Music & Lights - Imagination
9. She's In Fashion - Suede
10. Cambodia - Kim Wilde
11. Looking Good Diving - Morgan McVey & The Wild Bunch Feat. Neneh Cherry
12. John Wayne Is Big Leggy - Haysi Fantaysi
13. Say When - Lene Lovich
14. Never Let Me Down Again - Depeche Mode
15. Big Sky - Kate Bush
16. Urgent - Foreigner
17. Slow - Kylie Minogue
Chris played:
1. Rock & Roll Suicide - David Bowie
2. Cantonese Boy - Japan
3. Laura - Scissor Sisters
4. A Song From Under The Floorboards - Magazine
5. Looks Looks Looks - Sparks
6. All Kinds Of Everything - Dana
7. Neon Lights - Kraftwerk
8. Little Willie - Sweet
9. I Am A Rock - Simon & Garfunkel
10. Hey Jude - Wilson Pickett
11. Heaven Must Have Sent You - The Elgins
12. Jezebel - Frankie Laine
13. I've Got To Use My Imagination - Gladys Knight & the Pips
14. I Die:You Die - Gary Numan
15. Witch Queen Of New Orleans - Redbone
16. You Wear It Well - Rod Stewart
17. Being Scrubbed - Girls On Top
18. Fooled Around & Fell In Love - Elvin Bishop
19. To Sir With Love - Dawn Penn
BATTLE
1. Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles
2. Let The Music Play - Shannon
3. Situation [Original Only You B-Side Version] - Yazoo
4. There It Is - Shalamar
5. Right Here, Right Now - Giorgio Moroder & Kylie Minogue
6. Crying At The Discoteque - Alcazar
7. Fascinating Rhythm - Bassomatic
8. New York Groove - Hello
9. Sound Of The Crowd - Human League
10. Don't Stop Moving - S Club 7
11. Popcorn - Hot Butter
12. Let's Spend The Night Together - The Rolling Stones
13. Brother Louie - Modern Talking
14. Feel Good Inc- Gorillaz
15. Confusion - New Order
16. Drive In Saturday - David Bowie
17. Wordy Rappinghood - Tom Tom Club
18. Song 2 - Blur
19. Jump Jump - Kriss Kross
20. You're So Vain - Carly Simon
21. (You Make Me Feel) Mighty Real - Sylvester
22. No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) - Barbra Streisand & Donna Summer
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Dom played:
Glen Gray & The Casa Nova Orchestra – ‘Girl Of My Dreams’
Fatima Yamaha – ‘What’s A Girl To Do’
Sugarpussy – ‘Deliverance (Extended Piano Mix’)
Stooshe – ‘Black Heart’
Stevie Wonder – ‘Boogie On Reggae Woman’
Jade – ‘Everyday Of The Week’
Olivia Newton-John – ‘A Little More Love’
Lil Louis – ‘I Called U’
Angie Stone – ‘Wish I Didn’t Miss You’
The Four Tops- ‘I’m In A Different World’
Huff & Puff – ‘Help Me Make It’
Val Bennett – ‘The Russians Are Coming’
Underworld – ‘Like A Swimmer’
Bill Withers – ‘Heartbreak Road’
Jody Wisternoff – ‘The Bridge ft. Sian Evans’
Depeche Mode – ‘Any Second Now’
Chris played:
Ben Taylor – ‘I Try’
Primal Scream – ‘Come Together’
Cliff Richard – ‘When Two Worlds Drift Apart’
Ten Fe – ‘Turn’
Rolling Stones – ‘Tumblin’ Dice’
Procol Harum – ‘Pandora’s Box’
Hall & Oates – ‘She’s Gone’
Chicago – ‘Baby What A Big Surprise’
Joni Mitchell – ‘Free Man In Paris’
Stephen Bishop – ‘Little Italy’
Hot Chocolate – ‘So You Win Again’
Thin Lizzy – ‘Don’t Believe A Word’
Roxy Music – ‘Same Old Scene’
Henry Gross – ‘Shannon’
Dom played:
Floyd Cramer – ‘On The Rebound’
Yazoo – ‘Situation’ (7’’ B side version)
Bee Gees – ‘Spirits (Having Flown)’
Miike Snow – ‘Genghis Khan’
Chaka Khan – ‘Like Sugar’
Thompson Twins – ‘Hold Me Now’
Malcolm McLaren – ‘Deep In Vogue’
Prelude– ‘After The Goldrush’
America – ‘A Horse With No Name’ (Todd Terje edit)
Jamelia – ‘See It In A Boy’s Eyes’
ABC – Minneapolis
Symarip – ‘Skinhead Moonstomp’
Mylo – ‘Drop The Pressure’
Nat King Cole – ‘Nature Boy’
Shanice – ‘I Love Your Smile’
Baccara – ‘Sorry I’m A Lady’
Chris played:
Marvin Gaye – ‘Let’s Get It On’
Miike Snow – ‘Genghis Khan’
Elton John – ‘Are You Ready For Love?’
Db Boulevard – ‘Point Of View’
Diana Ross – ‘Living, Loving & Giving’
Donna Summer – ‘Our Love’
Crystal Waters – ‘Gypsy Woman’
Alex Party – ‘Don’t Give Me Your Life’
David Bowie – ‘Rebel Rebel (2003 Mix)’
Olive – ‘You’re Not Alone’
Felix – ‘Don’t You Want Me’
Hubie Davison – ‘Sanctified’
BT – ‘Loving You More’
Farley Jackmaster ft. Daryl Pandy – ‘Love Can’t Turn Around’
BATTLE:
The Seekers – ‘Georgie Girl’
David Bowie – ‘5 Years’
Little Richard – ‘Lucille’
Human League – ‘Don’t You Want Me’
Roxy Music – ‘Angel Eyes’
Abba – ‘Eagle’
Elvis Costello – ‘Pump It Up’
The Jam – ‘David Watts’
Altered Images – ‘Happy Birthday’
Kelly Clarkson – ‘Since You’ve Been Gone’
Middle Of The Road – ‘Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep’
Rachel Stevens – ‘Some Girls’
Gary Glitter – ‘Rock & Roll Part 2’
Patsy Gallant – ‘From New York To LA’
Ryan Paris – ‘La Dolce Vita’
Toni Basil – ‘Mickey’
Manhattan Transfer – ‘Chanson D’Amour’
Edison Lighthouse – ‘Love Goes (Where My Rosemary Goes)’
Teardrop Explodes – ‘Reward’
The Smiths – ‘Hand In Glove’
The Undertones – ‘Teenage Kicks’
The Kinks – ‘Lola’
Stone Roses – ‘Fools Gold’
Hank Mizell – ‘Jungle Rock’
David Bowie – ‘Ashes To Ashes’
Kym Sims – ‘Too Blind To See It’
Irene Cara – ‘Flashdance (What A Feeling)’
Fun Boy Three – ‘The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum’
The Beat – ‘Can’t Get Used To Losing You’
The Piglets – ‘Johnny Reggae’
The Buzzcocks – ‘Ever Fallen In Love With Someone’
Sinead O’Connor – ‘Mandika’
Prince – ‘Gett Off’
John Miles – ‘Music’
Kraftwerk – ‘The Model’
Judy Garland – ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’
Harvey K-Tel- ‘Boops Apocalypse’
The Beatles – ‘All You Need Is Love’
Yazoo – ‘Nobody’s Diary’
Electric Light Orchestra – ‘The Diary Of Horace Wimp’
Siouxsie & The Banshees – ‘Peek-A-Boo’
Boy Meets Girl – ‘Waiting For A Star To Fall’
Eagles – ‘Hotel California’
Bruce Springsteen – ‘Born To Run’
Sister Sledge – ‘We Are Family’
Charles Aznavour – ‘She’
from 1947 world series
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Babe Ruth Quotes
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Quotes From & About Babe Ruth
Quotations From Babe Ruth
"All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill."
"All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good." Source: The American Treasury (Clifton Fadiman)
"As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy." Source: Giants of Baseball (Bill Gutman)
"Aw, everybody knows that game, the day I hit the homer off ole Charlie Root there in Wrigley Field, the day October first, the third game of that thirty-two World Series. But right now I want to settle all arguments. I didn't exactly point to any spot, like the flagpole. Anyway, I didn't mean to, I just sorta waved at the whole fence, but that was foolish enough. All I wanted to do was give that thing a ride... outta the park... anywhere." Source: My Greatest Day in Baseball (John P. Carmichael)
"Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder." Source: The Babe Ruth Story (Babe Ruth)
"Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world." Source: The Babe Ruth Story (Babe Ruth)
"(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit." Source: Big Sticks (William Curran)
"Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks."
"Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do." Source: Babe: The Legend Comes to life (Robert W. Creamer)
"Hot as hell, ain't it Prez (Calvin Coolidge)?" Source: How the Weather Was (Roger Kahn)
"How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball...The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can." Source: Words of Wisdom (William Safire)
"I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands." Source: The Babe Ruth Story (Babe Ruth)
"I don't give a damn about any actors. What good will John Barrymore do you with the bases loaded and two down in a tight ball game. Either I get the money (more than Barrymore), or I don't play!" Source: Giants of Baseball (Bill Gutman)
"I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time."
"If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600."
"If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery." Source: Baseball As I Have Known It (Fred Lieb)
"I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun."
"I never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout." Source: Grand Slams and Fumbles (Peter Bellenson)
"I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat."
"Just one (superstition). Whenever I hit a home run, I make certain I touch all four bases."
"Paris ain't much of a town." Source: How the Weather Was (Roger Kahn)
"Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading." Source: Babe: The Legend Comes to life (Robert W. Creamer)
"Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. You know how bad my voice sounds. Well, it feels just as bad. You know, this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you're a boy and grow up to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing clubs today in your national pastime. The only real game in the world, I think, is baseball. As a rule, people think that if you give boys a football or a baseball or something like that, they naturally become athletes right away. But you can't do that in baseball. You got to start from way down, at the bottom, when the boys are six or seven years of age. You can't wait until they're 14 or 15. You got to let it grow up with you, if you're the boy. And if you try hard enough, you're bound to come out on top, just as these boys here have come to the top now. There have been so many lovely things said about me today that I'm glad to have had the opportunity to thank everybody." Source Babe Ruth Day Speech Transcript, Yankee Stadium, April 27, 1947
"That last one sounded kinda high to me."
"The termites (cancer, the day before he died, to Connie Mack) have got me."
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."
"What the hell has Hoover got to do with it (his contract being bigger than the Presidents)? Besides, I had a better year than he did."
Quotes About Babe Ruth
"An outfield composed of (Ty) Cobb, (Tris) Speaker and (Babe) Ruth, even with Ruth, lacks the combined power of (Joe) DiMaggio, (Stan) Musial and (Ted) Williams." - Connie Mack
"A rabbit didn't have to think to know what to do to dodge a dog... The same kind of instinct told Babe Ruth what to do and where to be." - Sammy Vick
"Babe Ruth is dead and buried in Baltimore, but the game is bigger and better than ever." - Sparky Anderson
"Babe Ruth was the greatest baseball player that ever lived. I mean, people say he's less then a God, but more than a man. Like Hercules or something."- The Sandlot
"Babe Ruth struck out 1330 times." - Graffiti Seen in New York
"Babe Ruth, what can you say? You are almost speechless when people put your name alongside his name. I wish I can go back in time in meet him. Obviously, he was probably the most important sports figure in the world at that time. Hopefully, someday when I pass away, I get to meet him, and then I can really find out what he was really like." - Mark McGwire
"Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business." - Sammy Sosa
"He had such a beautiful swing, he even looked good striking out." - Mark Koenig
"He hits a ball harder and further than any man I ever saw."- Bill Dickey
"He (Honus Wagner) was a gentle, kind man, a storyteller, supportive of rookies, patient with the fans, cheerful in hard times, careful of the example he set for youth, a hard worker, a man who had no enemies and who never forgot his friends. He was the most beloved man in baseball before (Babe) Ruth." - Bill James
"He was very brave at the plate. You rarely saw him fall away from a pitch. He stayed right in there. No one drove him out." - Casey Stengel
"I can't believe that Babe Ruth was a better player than Willie Mays. Ruth is to baseball what Arnold Palmer is to golf. He got the game moving. But I can't believe he could run as well as Mays, and I can't believe he was any better an outfielder." - Sandy Koufax
"I had a great game against him... I held him to three hits." - Rollie Stiles in the Los Angeles Times (Obituary)
"I hope he lives to hit one-hundred homers in a season. I wish him all the luck in the world. He has everybody else, including myself, hopelessly outclassed." - Frank "Home Run" Baker
"It's a pretty big shadow - it gives me lots of room to spread myself." - Lou Gehrig
"No one hit home runs the way Babe (Ruth) did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands." - Dizzy Dean
"Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play." - Joe DiMaggio
"Now they talk on the radio about the record set by (Babe) Ruth, and (Joe) DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely mention mine. Do you know what I have to show for the sixty-one home runs? Nothing, exactly nothing." - Roger Maris
"(Babe) Ruth made a grave mistake when he gave up pitching. Working once a week he might have lasted a long time and become a great star." - Tris Speaker
"(Babe Ruth) never played a night game, he never hit against fireball relief pitching, he never traveled cross-country for a night game and played a day game the next day, he never performed before millions of television viewers, he never had to run on artificial turf. It is the changes in the game, the modern factors that have made the game more difficult, that bring Babe in here as number three, behind (Willie) Mays and (Hank) Aaron. His feats were heroic. So were theirs. They simply did them under tougher conditions." - Maury Allen
"Some twenty years ago I stopped talking about the Babe (Ruth) for the simple reason that I realized that those who had never seen him didn't believe me." - Tommy Holmes
"The greatest name in American sports history is Babe Ruth, a hitter." - Ted Williams
"There's no question about it, Babe Ruth was the greatest instinctive baseball player who ever lived. He was a great hitter, and he had been a great pitcher." - Leo Durocher
"There will never be another Babe Ruth. He was the greatest home run hitter who ever lived. They named a candy bar after him." - Reggie Jackson
"They can talk about Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb and Rogers Hornsby and Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio and Stan Musial and all the rest, but I'm sure not one of them could hold cards and spades to (Ted) Williams in his sheer knowledge of hitting. He studied hitting the way a broker studies the stock market, and could spot at a glance mistakes that others couldn't see in a week." - Carl Yastrzemski
"We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax." - Whitey Herzog
"Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League." - John McGraw
Quotes From & About Babe Ruth
Dom played:
Frankie Cosmos – ‘Outside With The Cuties’
Tears For Fears – ‘Pharaohs’
Marvin Gaye – ‘Abraham, Martin & John’
Bryan Ferry – ‘Is Your Love Strong Enough?’
Rihanna – ‘Needed Me’
Beck – ‘Blue Moon’
Andre Lodemann- 'Coming Your Way'
Pet Shop Boys – ‘Odd Man Out'
Nat King Cole – ‘Nature Boy’
Cathy Dennis – ‘Falling (PM Dawn AAWWWS#!T Mix)’
Maria Muldaur – ‘Midnight At The Oasis’
10CC – ‘Donna’
Chet Faker – ‘Cigarettes & Loneliness (I-Tunes Sessions)
Frankie Cosmos - 'If I Had A Dog'
Tuff City Kids- R- Mancer (Roman Flugel Happy Gerdy Remix)
Midland- 'Same Old'
Gay Marvine – ‘Wait A Minute, Baby’
Kirsty MacColl – ‘Days’
Chris played:
Attilas – ‘Seduzienteau’
The Beatles – ‘Getting Better’
Brothers & Sisters – ‘The Times They Are A Changin’
Aretha Franklin – ‘Spanish Harlem’
Shirley Brown – ‘Woman To Woman’
Blanche – ‘City Lights’
Psychedelic Furs – ‘The Ghost In You’
Queen – ‘Spread Your Wings’
Shanice – ‘I Love Your Smile’
The Beatles – ‘Lovely Rita’
Liverpool Express – ‘You Are My Love’
Joan Armatrading – ‘The Weakness In Me’
Alison Moyet – ‘Invisible’
Joe Jackson – ‘Steppin’ Out’
The Beatles – ‘She’s Leaving Home’
Esther Phillips – ‘Home Is Where The Hatred Is’
Matt Monro – ‘My Kind Of Girl’
Sparks – ‘This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us’
Onuka – ‘Vidlik’
Lorde – ‘Green Light’
Oasis – ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’
The Beatles – ‘Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
The Beatles – ‘A Day In The Life’
THE BATTLE
Blondie – ‘Shayla’
New York City – ‘I’m Doing Fine’
Ray Charles – ‘What’d I Say’
Fifth Dimension – ‘Up Up And Away’
Edison Lighthouse – ‘Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Grows)’
Crown Heights Affair – ‘You Gave Me Love’
Madonna – ‘Secret’
Doobie Brothers – ‘What A Fool Believes’
Electronic – ‘Getting Away With It’
Funboy Three – ‘Our Lips Are Sealed’
Narada Michael Walden – ‘I Shoulda Loved You’
The Pretenders – ‘Back On The Chain Gang’
Stevie Wonder – ‘I Wish’
Labelle – ‘Lady Marmalade’
Foster The People – ‘Pumped Up Kicks’
Sheila B Devotion – ‘Spacer’
David Bowie – ‘Be My Wife’
Chaka Khan – ‘I Feel For You’
Squeeze – ‘Goodbye Girl’
The Move – ‘Blackberry Way’
Staxx – ‘Joy’
Malcolm McLaren – ‘Double Dutch’
Kanye West – ‘Gold Digger’
Sex Pistols – ‘Rock Around The Clock’
The Mixtures – ‘Pushbike Song’
Derek & The Dominos – ‘Layla’
The Smiths – ‘Sheila Take A Bow’
Gary Glitter – ‘Rock & Roll Part 2’
Chic – ‘Dance Dance Dance’
Joan Armatrading – ‘Me Myself & I’
Cabaret Original Soundtrack – ‘Money'
Al Wilson – ‘The Snake’
The Cure – ‘Love Cats’
Bob Marley & The Wailers – ‘Could You Be Loved’
Wham – ‘Club Tropicana’
Fleetwood Mac – ‘Big Love’
The Specials – ‘A Message To You Rudy’
Run DMC – ‘Walk This Way’
Madonna – ‘Ray Of Light’
Ike & Tina Turner – ‘Nutbush City Limits’
Pulp – ‘Common People’
Bananarama – ‘Robert De Niro’s Waiting’
ABBA – ‘Fernando’
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Dom played:
Carl Brisson – ‘I Kiss Your Hand Madam’
Madonna – ‘Drowned World/Substitute For Love’
Neneh Cherry – ‘Kong’
Malcolm McLaren – ‘Madame Butterfly’
SCNTST – ’14 Tepéca’
OMD - ‘Souvenir’
David Bowie – ‘Nature Boy’
LFO – ‘Ultra Schall’
OMD – ‘Talking Loud & Clear’
Aretha Franklin – ‘A Rose Is Still A Rose’
Depeche Mode – ‘Halo (Goldfrapp Mix)’
Pet Shop Boys & Kylie Minogue – ‘In Denial’
Japan – ‘Taking Islands In Africa’
Japan- ‘Taking Island In Africa’ (Soulwax Remix)
Coldplay & Big Sean – ‘Miracles (Someone Special)’
Pet Shop Boys – ‘Miracles’
Aretha Franklin – ‘I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Loved You)’
Gracie Fields – ‘Goodnight My Love’
Rihanna feat. Drake – ‘Work’
Gabriel played:
Maxence Cyrin – ‘Where Is My Mind’
Town Of Saints – ‘The Silent Sea’
Lisa Hannigan – ‘I Don’t Know’
Streets Of Laredo – ‘The Hammer & The Nail’
Twit One – ‘Giving It Back, Part 2’
Bror Gunnar Jansson – ‘Ain’t No Grave’
AC/DC – ‘T.N.T’
Cream – ‘White Room’
The Cult – ‘Lil’ Devil’
Steppenwolf – ‘Born To Be Wild’
ZZ Top – ‘La Grange’
The Beatles – ‘I Saw Her Standing There’
Stray Cats – ‘Stray Cat Strut’
Titus Turner – ‘Hungry Man’
Quincy Jones – ‘Soul Bossa Nova’
Fatboy Slim – ‘Soul Surfing’
Teddybears – ‘Cobra Style’
The Smiths – ‘Panic’
David Bowie – ‘Moonage Daydream’
Stephen Fretwell – ‘Run’
Chris played:
The Brothers & Sisters – ‘The Times They Are A Changing’
Average White Band – ‘Queen Of My Soul’
Aretha Franklin – ‘Spanish Harlem’
Stephen Stills – ‘Love The One You’re With’
Doobie Brothers – ‘Taking It To The Streets’
Fleetwood Mac – ‘Rhiannon’
Aretha Franklin – ‘Get It Right’
Whitney Houston – ‘Love Will Save The Day’
The Delfonics – ‘Didn’t I Blow Your Mind (This Time)’
Aretha Franklin – ‘Angel’
The Beatles – ‘Let It Be’
Elton John – ‘Border Song’
Aretha Franklin – ‘(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman’
Stevie Wonder – ‘All I Do’
Aretha Franklin- ‘It’s My Turn’
Dionne Warwick – ‘Heartbreaker’
George Michael – ‘Too Funky’
Incognito – ‘Always There’
Aretha Franklin – ‘Who’s Zooming Who’
Madonna – ‘Papa Don’t Preach’
Scritti Politti – ‘Wood Beez’
Aretha Franklin – ‘Until You Come Back To Me’
Aretha Franklin – ‘I Say A Little Prayer’
Battle:
Ronnie Hazlehurst ‘Are You Being Served Theme Tune’
Blondie – ‘Pretty Baby’
The Smiths – ‘Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want’
Sandie Shaw – ‘Puppet On A String’
Mos Def – ‘Quiet Dog’
Kelly Clarkson – ‘Since You’ve Been Gone’
The Bodysnatchers – ‘Let’s Do Rock Steady’
2 Bears – ‘Angel’
Meat Loaf – ‘You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth’
The Commodores – ‘Sanctified’
Hot Chocolate - ‘Every One’s A Winner’
Strawberry Switchblade – ‘Since Yesterday’
Frank Wilson – ‘Do I Love You’
Dolly Parton – ‘9 To 5’
Andy Williams – ‘House Of Bamboo’
INXS – ‘Need You Tonight’
Primal Scream – ‘Rocks’
Garbage – ‘I Think I’m Paranoid’
The Cult – ‘Lil’ Devil’
Sex Pistols – ‘Pretty Vacant’
Prince – ‘Kiss’
Babert - Let’s Get Down (Bassline remix)
Booty Luv – ‘Boogie 2Nite’
Bobby Brown – ‘Two Can Play That Game’
Beatles ‘Birthday’
Narada Michael Warden – ‘I Shoulda Loved You’
Gorillaz – ‘Feel Good Inc’
The Communards – ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’
Soulsearcher – ‘Can’t Get Enough’
Odyssey – ‘Native New Yorker’
Pointer Sisters – ‘Automatic’
Madonna – ‘Hung Up’
Fern Kinney- ‘Together We Are Beautiful’
Aretha Franklin – ‘Respect’
Donna Summer – ‘I Feel Love’