Author Connection Series

#Song Lyric Sunday

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This week we have something totally different, that being using a song that is from a Musical or an Opera, and I think everyone will have fun with this. 

https://jimadamsauthordotcom.wordpress.com/2020/09/05/entertainment-with-culture/

Thank you Jim.

My choice is The Music of the Night from the Phantom of the Opera.

I’ve loved the intricacies of this story from the very first time I saw it on television in the 60’s. At the time, I didn’t know it was based upon the novel The Phantom of the Opera (French: Le Fantôme de l’Opéra), by French author Gaston Leroux.  I’m amazed how many versions before and after of this incredible tale exist. I’ve enjoyed watching many of them. I can’t choose a particular one as my ultimate favorite but I will say Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical contributions are incredible. However, in Webber’s musical, his focus was making it more of a romance piece. Whereas Leroux’s novel was a mystery and a romance and bits of other genres that had broader appeal to more audiences.

If you’re not familiar with the tale, it’s about a love triangle between the Phantom (Eric), Christine, and Raoul.

“Look! You want to see? See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik’s face! Now you know the face of the voice! You were not content to hear me, eh? You wanted to know what I looked like? Oh, you women are so inquisitive! Well, are you satisfied? I’m a good-looking fellow, eh?…When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me.She loves me forever! I am a kind of Don Juan, you know!…Look at me! I am Don Juan Triumphant! -Erik in The Phantom of the Opera” ~ Gaston Leroux

“You will be the happiest of women. And we will sing, all by ourselves, till we swoon away with delight. You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.” ~Gaston Leroux

Christine ran off with Raoul because she loved him, not Erik. A relationship based on pity will never survive. The story revolved on the pity she felt for Erik, but pity does not equal love. Plus, she was /terrified/ of Erik; he murdered innocent men, kidnapped her, stalked her, pretended to be her deceased father. I’m as much of an Erik lover as the next person, but Raoul was definitely the better choice for Christine.

Erik has been compared to other Gothic monsters like Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, Dracula and Dr. Jekyll. I can see the comparison because there’s hints of madness, jealousy, revenge and despair in Eric but then if truth be known those traits have also been mine too, from time to time. But I’m not called a monster, at least to my face.

“Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!…Look, I am not laughing now, crying, crying for you, Christine, who have torn off my mask and who therefore can never leave me again!…Oh, mad Christine, who wanted to see me!” ~ Gaston Leroux

You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!”~ Gaston Leroux


Questions Hetty asked and Sunday Reflections

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An undeserved recognition: Vincent Ehindero Award

I’m going to reiterate what I already said to Hetty her nomination was deserving. She’s an excellent blogger, I hope you take time to check her blog out.

These are the awesome questions she asked of her nominations and I decided to answer them as well.

  1. Were you a dork growing up? I wasn’t the coolest kid by a long shot. I’ve always walked to my drum. So probably people did consider me dorky. I know I never fit into a girl mode… I hated dresses, playing with dolls or pretend tea parties. I was always playing football with the neighborhood boys much to my mother’s dismay.
  2. Which literary villain most resonates with you? Cathy Ames from East of Eden by John Steinbeck. She wasn’t nice but neither were the people in her life. There are times I’ve fantasized killing people as well.
  3. What is your perspective on existence? This makes me think of my blog title most people merely exist. I feel we all sneak moments to just ease along with minimal effort but in reality we’re procrastinating. We’ve got to put energy into getting what we want, nothing will ever be handed to us. I’ve had numerous rejections, failures, and downright kicks in the face but not once have I simply rolled over. I’ve faced everything in life with the same mantra, is that all you got because this is what I got.
  4. What is your favorite video game? I’m not a huge gamer although I do enjoy solitaire or free cell or wordscapes or suduko but these don’t really engage me long my doctor seems to think it’s important for us seniors to keep our mind active. If he only knew me, he wouldn’t be as worried.
  5. Who is the worst boss you’ve ever had? The worst I’ve ever had unfortunately was my last one at Starbucks. He was an arrogant man in his late thirties that shouldn’t ever had been promoted to manager because the work that got him there wasn’t really his but actually him being in the right place and a large turnover of employees that knew the truth. Thankfully, the fates intervened and he got his ass fired because the truth always comes out in the wash. The fates apparently had a lot in store for him because his wife dumped him too at the same time. I wish I could say he’s changed… but he hasn’t. Overall, I’ve been very lucky when it comes to bosses he was the only one I truly disliked.
  6. Do you have a “tic” when you think of something embarrassing you’ve done? (eg, I shake my head really hard) Nah, I don’t shake my head but I do blush something wicked if I’m recalling it myself or if someone says remember when? I hate that I blush. My husband thinks it’s cute.

Sunday Reflections:

The weight hanging over my head about the rest of the story with the other procedures is finally gone. The polyps were benign so I can focus on eating right and getting things ready to sell before our move. I’m not going to let the next endoscopic procedure loom over me. I’m going to focus on the positive.

I submitted three poems for a magazine seeking submissions. I’m going to do more submissions because I do have a lot of poems ready and with Esther’s help on Monday’s I’m racking up a slew of limericks.

If you’re looking for a cool fall decoration check this blog out. The flower pot with the children’s shirt is really cute and something that could be done with your child’s help.

Easy Fall Porch Decorating

https://chascrazycreations.com/easy-fall-porch-decorating/

Sunday frustration continues with this block editor as well I don’t want the link shown twice but I can’t delete it either. Grrrr

#SOC- sharp

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Time once again for #SoCS. Our host with the most, the lovely Linda G Hill writes and I rewrite “Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “sharp.” Use it in any or all of its definitions. Have fun!

The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS Sept. 5/2020

Sharp as an adjective (of an object) having an edge or point that is able to cut or pierce something or producing a sudden, piercing physical sensation or effect. Sharp as an adverb precisely (used after an expression of time). in a sudden or abrupt way.

When I use the word sharp generally I apply it to describe physical sense like. She looked sharp in that outfit. Or Her tone was sharp. I need to trim Macavity’s claws, they are wicked sharp. Macavity gave me a sharp reminder with the piercing sensation and blood spewing that he runs this house. All work for me because sharp indicates an edge. (Macavity wasn’t very happy with my clipping his nails.)

Yet, when I think of sharp with a wider view…. an artist I really enjoy and miss Kevin Sharpe comes to mind especially because one of his songs I feel has an painful point or edge to it. Nobody Knows it but Me.

Kevin Grant Sharp (December 10, 1970 – April 19, 2014) was an American country music singer, author, and motivational speaker. Sharp came on the country music scene in 1996 with his first single ” Nobody Knows , which topped the Billboard country chart for four weeks. The same year, Sharp released his first album, Measure of a Man.

Having survived a rare form of bone cancer in his teenage years, Sharp became actively involved in the Make a Wish Foundation. He wrote an inspirational book about his life and his fight with cancer, and occasionally toured the United States as a motivational speaker. One could say his speaking skills were sharp. ( he cut right to the heart of the matter) Unfortunately, that cancer returned and stole him away.

“The pain is real even if nobody knows it but me.”~ Sharpe’s song is about a lost relationship but for me it’s a a dang reminder about all the lost time we didn’t have …my grandson, Johnny and I. So much time lost. All the missed football games, wrestling matches because we lived so far away. And now it’s too late.

I love you Johnny so much. I miss you. Yet, it’s hard to express how I feel with the family because my loss is nothing like the pain your parents are experiencing. I ask them how they’re doing and try to be supportive. But sadly, that’s not a two way street.

We’re your grandparents, we loved you too and we lost you too! That pain is just as sharp for us even 14 months later. I’m grateful because good friends ask how we’re doing.

Grief and family both are like dual edged swords because with one wrong comment they’ll pierce deeply. If I Die Young was played at his service. The lines in the song “The sharp knife of a short life” and “funny when you’re dead how people start listenin'” really hit me so f-ing hard. They drive the guilt of not being with him more and sorrow of his death even deeper.

“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.” ― Elbert Hubbard

But the pain has also become a driving force for me I can’t miss anymore of my granddaughter’s life because I live so damn far away. This house is too expensive and the move has to happen. Our location comes down to what I really need and for me that is spending as much time as possible with Olyvia.

30 day album challenge#5

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https://sandmanjazz.wordpress.com/2020/09/05/30-day-album-challenge-day-5/

I was initially going with Jimi Hendrix, the ultimate master of guitar but once I saw that Sandman had already gone there I decided that I would go with the Queen of Soul. No one puts a song out there like Aretha Franklin.

This album release in 1967 ushered the Queen of Soul into the mainstream. Along with now-classic hits like the title track, she delivered outstanding covers of songs that, on paper, shouldn’t be touched, like “Drown in My Own Tears” and Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come”- she gave them an edge that they didn’t have with their original artists. The strongest cover of all, of course, is her legendary take on Otis Redding’s “Respect,” which she truly made her own, turning it into perhaps the female empowerment anthem and wowing us with unparalleled vocals.

“Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter, actress, pianist, and civil rights activist.  Hit songs such as I Never Loved a Man and Respect propelled her past her musical peers. By the end of the 1960s, Aretha Franklin had come to be known as the Queen of Soul. Aretha was awarded the National Medal of Arts and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1987, she became the first female performer to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She also was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005 and into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2012, ~wikipeida.

“You’re a no good heart breaker
You’re a liar and you’re a cheat
And I don’t know why
I let you do these things to me
My friends keep telling me
That you ain’t no good
But oh, they don’t know
That I’d leave you if I could

I guess I’m uptight
And I’m stuck like glue
Cause I ain’t never
I ain’t never, I ain’t never, no, no (loved a man)
(The way that I, I love you)

Some time ago I thought
You had run out of fools
But I was so wrong
You got one that you’ll never lose
The way you treat me is a shame
How could ya hurt me so bad
Baby, you know that I’m the best thing
That you ever had
Kiss me once again

Don’t ya never, never say that we we’re through
Cause I ain’t never
Never, Never, no, no (loved a man)
(The way that I, I love you)I can’t sleep at night
And I can’t even fight
I guess I’ll never be free
Since you got, your hooks, in me

Whoa, oh, oh
Yeah! Yeah!
I ain’t never loved a man
I ain’t never loved a man, baby
Ain’t never had a man hurt me so badNo
Well this is what I’m gonna do about it

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Ronnie ShannonI Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc, Springtime Music Inc

This was the song that attracted me to Aretha’s amazing voice.

But this is my ultimate favorite on the album.

[Verse 1]
Take me to heart, and I’ll always love you
And nobody can make me do wrong
Take me for granted, leaving love unsure
Makes willpower weak and temptation strong

[Pre-Chorus]
A woman’s only human
You should understand
She’s not just a plaything
She’s flesh and blood just like her man

[Chorus 2]
If you want a do right, home days woman
(Do right, do right, do right, do right woman)
You’ve got to be a do right, home nights man
(Do right, do right, do right, do right man, man)

[Bridge]
Yeah, yeah, they say that it’s a man’s world
But you can’t prove that by me
And as long as we’re together, baby
Show some respect for me

[Chorus 2]
If you want a do right, home days woman
(Do right, do right, do right, do right woman)
You’ve got to be a do right, home nights man
(Do right, do right, do right, do right man, man)

[Pre-Chorus]
A woman’s only human
You should understand
She’s not just a plaything
She’s flesh and blood just like her man

[Chorus 2]
If you want a do right, home days woman
(Do right, do right, do right, do right woman)
You’ve got to be a do right, home nights man
(Why don’t you? Why don’t you? Why don’t you? Why don’t you?)
You got to be a do right, home nights man

https://genius.com/Aretha-franklin-do-right-woman-do-right-man-lyrics

Songwriter: Dan Penn & Chips Moman

Interestingly, these artists also did covers of Do Right Woman


Do Right Woman, Do Right Man by Willie Nelson

Do Right Woman, Do Right Man by Martina McBride

Do Right Woman, Do Right Man by Joan Baez

Do Right Woman Do Right Man by Rebecca Lynn Howard

Do Right Woman, Do Right Man by Etta James

Do Right Woman, Do Right Man by Dan Penn

Do Right Woman, Do Right Man by Dionne Warwick

Do Right Woman, Do Right Man by Phoebe Snow

Do Right Woman Do Right Man by The Commitments

Do Right Woman by The Flying Burrito Brothers

Do Right Woman, Do Right Man by Cher

Do right woman, do right man by Niamh Kavanagh

Do Right Woman by Marc Broussard

Etta James did it justice, I wasn’t as impressed with the other covers.

I really enjoy Willie but this wasn’t one of his best covers.

But when it’s Aretha…. that bar is really high 🙂

Letter- c Finally!

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I can have a brief reprieve. The doctor responded to my inquiry about the results in the portal at 7:29 pm. (The message is time stamped.)

The polyps are all benign. There are signs of stomach irritation but no tumors. Woohoo. So now we can relax a bit. I’m going to continue eating the cancer fighting diet with the one exception of coffee. I’m not giving up coffee. I enjoy it way too much to concede on that point.

I have the next scope in 3 months to double check the bile duct where they removed the cancerous growth but for now… I’m going to do a happy dance. Small victories are just as important as the big ones.

“There is nothing in this life that can destroy you but yourself. Bad things happen to everyone, but when they do, you can’t just fall apart and die. You have to fight back. If you don’t, you’re the one who loses in the end. But if you do keep going and fight back, you win.”― Alexandra Monir

#FOWC- Excuse

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Today’s word is “excuse.”

Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.

FOWC with Fandango — Excuse

Excuse is defined as an attempt to lessen the blame attaching to (a fault or offense); seek to defend or justify. Or a reason or explanation put forward to defend or justify a fault or offense.

I’m not going to offer either one. I’m not the easiest person to live with. I’m inherently stubborn and opinionated. For neither will I make an excuse. I’m who I am no more … no less. But I do have feelings.

In a conversation this afternoon, about a situation we have going on and I said jokingly to another friend that I would be the disrupter on our mutual friend’s team because he’s a manager after our email exchanges. Of what doesn’t really matter. I just know we don’t talk the same language outside of our love of writing. Anyway, the response back was, you would never be on his team. I agreed initially because the two men do seem to talk a language I don’t.

But as I mulled the conversation later, yeah, yeah,… we’re all guilty of mulling things afterward. His laize-faire comment hurt. No, I don’t function in the business arena but I have skills that neither of them are even aware nor has it been necessary to demonstrate my hidden talents anymore than I’ve asked either of them to demonstrate theirs. Here I go making a fucking excuse when I didn’t intend too.

Our connection is foremost writing and occasionally drinking together. We’re friends. And some times unintentional things are said that are upsetting. What he said did hurt. I’m also aware it wasn’t said to be hurtful either.

Truth be known….I truly wouldn’t have wanted to be on their team either in the business world. There’s way too much testosterone and we would have butt heads all the time.

My inner voice is right, if I had been crazy enough to seek working for him… I wouldn’t have been there long. I’m a damn independent thinker, and my days of worker bee mentality is gone.

But looking at the bigger picture, I’m also the person holding our group together. That’s the reality. I keep the dots connected. I’m very aware of their roles in the background and equally aware of my role in the foreground. My contributions aren’t light. Unfortunately, this covid crap has definitely impacted the group dynamics. I totally get how challenging it is to be online one in one more zoom meeting. I don’t do as many as them but I certainly spend a lot of time online with the different groups. It’s a matter of making a choice. It’s apparent to me the choice was made.

Today I’m reminded again of one of my favorite quotes “familiarity breeds contempt.” Did you know the English writer Geoffrey Chaucer was the first to use this expression back in 1300’s. It appeared in the Tale of Melibee.

It wasn’t my intent to turn this post into a rant either. I’m kicking the negativity to the curb.

#Day 4 – 30 Day Album Challenge

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https://sandmanjazz.wordpress.com/2020/09/04/30-day-album-challenge-day-4/

Well, you already know I loved the Rolling Stones. I aslo loved Black Sabbath, David Bowie, CCR, Three Dog Night, and Alice Cooper. Man no one played guitar like Bowie. I’m going with Cooper because of the song School’s Out.

Remember those glory days when Alice Cooper were still a group, before their lead singer absconded with the name for a solo career? The band released ‘School’s Out’ in 1972, featuring a title song so classic that it easily qualifies its parent album as one of the 10 top albums of 1972. Like every kid at the time I wanted school out forever.

School’s Out“Alice Cooper, Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith ~ wikipeida.

It was the first song on the album School’s out. School’s Out is the fifth studio album by American rock band Alice Cooper, released in 1972. That was a fun song to sing along with my friends.

This was my third album of the band, I already had Love it to Death and Killer. I played the heck out these too. I eventually replaced them to cassettes. I never did buy the cds. I do listen to Alice Cooper on YouTube still.

I used to wear a lot of dark makeup like Cooper back in the 70’s. Goth before Goth was cool. For me, I just loved how haunting it made my blue eyes.



Halloween poem, letter-c, recipe and other stuff

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Memento
Memento, created by Emily Romano is a poem about a holiday or an anniversary, consisting of two stanzas as follows: the syllable count should be 8 beats for line one; 6 beats for line two; and two beats for line three. This is repeated twice for each stanza. The rhyme scheme is: a/b/c/a/b/c for each of the two stanzas.

Thought I would give one a try just for fun. And since Halloween is on my brain. I’ve been thinking a lot about our quandary to decorate or not. Do I expect trick or treaters? Probably, the same children in the neighborhood since they already run everywhere in our development. I’ve crossed paths numerous times and we always maintain social distance. I could simply set a filled dish on the steps for them. Some how I don’t see the trunk or treats at the school happening this year. The majority of our schools are distance learning.

Halloween©

Halloween, a ghoulish delight
goblins and fairies join
so glad
to partake in whatever fright
without flipping a coin
you cad!

“One need not be a chamber to be haunted. One need not be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material place.” ~ Emily Dickinson

Letter-c and custard

Three weeks have come and gone without a word from the doctor. Should I safely assume no news is good news on the biopsies done on the polyps? So I logged into the online portal that seems to be the methodology of the medical field these days, nothing was listed in my test results there either. Why is it so hard for communication channels to work as efficiently as their billing channel does?

Fall is approaching and with it comes the drying of herbs or freezing them for future use. I can’t freeze this year so I will be drying a slew to take with me.

I looked in the cupboard and I noted I have 8 cans of pumpkin on hand. I don’t feel like a pie or bread but then I remembered in the cancer fighting cookbook a recipe for pumpkin custard. Now that sounds divine.

Preheat oven 325

1 cup canned pumpkin, 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon of sea salt, and ground ginger, 1/4 teaspoon of ground cloves, allspice, nutmeg. 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons of maple syrup. She indicates dark is better. 1 tablespoon of molasses. 1 teaspoon of vanilla. I cup of organic milk or coconut milk. I didn’t have either so I used 1 cup of vanilla almond milk.

Combine pumpkin, cinnamon, ginger,cloves,allspice and nutmeg in large bowl. In a smaller bowl beat the eggs lightly, then add the maple syrup, molasses,vanilla, and milk. Blend together then whisk into pumpkin mixture until thoroughly combined.

Pour the mixture into 6 ramekins and place them inside a 13″x 9″ pan or whatever pan you have that has at least 3 inch sides so the water doesn’t spill when you put it and pull it from the oven. Add 2 inches of hot water around the ramekins and carefully transfer pan to oven. Bake 45 -55 minutes. Test with a knife to make sure it comes out clean. Serve warm or cold. So good! ❤ Your family will love you for it.

This recipe belongs to Rebecca Katz from the Cancer Fighting Kitchen.

Rant:

“There are horrors beyond life’s edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man’s evil prying calls them just within our range.~ H.P. Lovecraft

More violence and more covid-19

6,132,074 in the United States. deceased in the United States 186,173

confirmed cases: New Jersey: 192,973 Maine: 4,632 Virginia 124, 779, Nevada 70,474 , Massachusetts 129, 596

Looks like it’s safer still to live in Maine but unfortunately, they don’t have the medical I require available without long trips to Boston.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/what-we-know-about-the-death-of-michael-forest-reinoehl-the-portland-shooting-suspect/ar-BB18HUzg?li=BBnb7Kz&

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/man-struck-by-stray-bullet-while-sleeping-5-others-shot-in-east-germantown-during-burst-of-violence/ar-BB18HQ

https://apnews.com/29c7f7a558778e132a0f09c1c4d2b8b4

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/coronavirus?ocid=TSHDHP

I’m inclined to stay inside and continue reading Roald Dahl’s Ghost Stories the outside world isn’t appealing to me. Maybe start a new crochet project so I’m not transporting it all with me.

Sandman’s Q&A

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https://sandmanjazz.wordpress.com/2020/09/02/sandmans-q-and-a-24/

If I could have my hair any color for 24 hours, what color would I choose?

Macavity and me

I had the electric blue for more than 24 hours, I loved it. But then I’ve had so many hair colors over the years thanks to my awesome friend and hair stylist.The typical colors of auburn, brunette, blonde after chemo stole my hair color. My hair came back in snow white. All of my natural color was gone. So then I tried, Royal blue,turquoise, pink, eggplant, green, red, orange, black and blue together, black and green together, purple, silver with red tips, I love the freedom, I have to express myself.

Am I a Hitchcock fan? If so, what is my favorite movie?

Hitchcock fan oh yeah. My introduction was because my Gramma loved John Forysthe, he starred in an unusual Hitchcock The Trouble with Harry. It wasn’t all that suspenseful, the setting isn’t busy, and the story is unusually quaint but she loved it and I watched it with her.

My second favorite is I Confess. the film stars Montgomery Clift in the leading role as a priest who’s wrongly suspected of murder. I Confess puts the ethics of privacy of the church on the stand, which ultimately results in showing the oath of silence in a new light. Which at the time was novel.

My third favorite is Spellbound. Spellbound is a twisting and turning suspense thriller from Alfred Hitchcock that nearly reaches the heights of his greatest works. Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck star in the film and both give excellent performances.

And finally, you can’t be a Hitchcock without the Birds. Why would anyone want to make a movie about Birds? I love birds but there are lots of people who hate birds. That’s due to a phenomenon known as ornithophobia — the fear of birds — and Hitchcock understood better than anyone how to tap into it. According to google to The Birds is one of Hitchcock’s most iconic works and has inspired countless spoofs and parodies over the years. For as silly as a swarm of birds inexplicably attacking people may seem to some, the film speaks more broadly to base human fears about how fragile our sense of security in the world actually is. The delicate balance of our daily routines could unravel and disrupt our lives forever — a horrifying theme indeed. The Birds is a multi-layered horror thriller from the master whose weighty themes cut beneath its story’s strange and frightening surface.

Do I decorate for Autumn/Halloween and will it be affected by this year’s craziness?

The witches cackle, the books move.
Igor offers interesting dining options.

I’m the house in the neighborhood that people come to see what I’ve done inside and out each year. I decorate because I love Halloween and how festive or scary I make it depends on my mood more than anything. I love creating the villages each year, I takes lots of pictures so I don’t repeat the set-up.

This year I have more than covid weighing on me. We’re moving and unpacking all the decorations and setting up draws away from what I need to be focusing on. But on the other hand I love how it feels in here with everything up and this is going to be last opportunity in this house. I’m going back and forth on this.

This being a grown up totally sucks.

I’ll never have a fun bathroom like this again.

# day 3 album played to death

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Day 3: An Album You Played too Death

https://sandmanjazz.wordpress.com/2020/09/03/30-day-album-challenge-day-3/

Hands down the Rolling Stones, my love hasn’t diminished in the last fifty years plus. Jagger and the Rolling Stones set the bar for rock-n-roll and not many groups have beat it or even come close.

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in the UK in 1962. As a diverging act to the popular music of the early 1960s, the Rolling Stones pioneered the gritty, heavier-driven sound that came to define hard rock. According to wikipeida these were the artists on the American release:

  • Mick Jagger – lead vocals, backing vocals, harmonica (on “The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man”), tambourine (on “Play with Fire”)
  • Keith Richards – electric guitar, backing vocals, acoustic guitar (on “The Last Time” and Play with Fire”)
  • Brian Jones – electric guitar, acoustic guitar (on “Good Times” and “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”), harmonica (on “The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man” and “One More Try” [15]), backing vocals
  • Bill Wyman – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Charlie Watts – drums

Back in the day, there were UK releases and American ones with variations on the tracks.

I remember when I saw them on the Ed Sullivan in my living room on that black and white monstrosity with the snowy imagery my parents owned. It didn’t matter what they looked like I was hooked with the song and as soon as I saved enough I bought the album Out of Our Heads.

It was actually the very first album I ever purchased with my babysitting money in 1966 or 67. The album became so scratched I purchased it again in an 8 track. Unfortunately, it was in the player when my boyfriend at the time wrecked his car so I was out my favorite group for a while.

Then I bought a collection of the Rolling Stones on cassette tapes which I played to death, one cassette tape broke. GRRRR.

My final purchase which is still going strong is on a cd. No scratches and many years ahead of me to enjoy. I’ve shared my ultimate four favorites for your listening pleasure.