Category: Music

  • Tuesday Tunes

    Tuesday Tunes

    The Fort at No 4 held the annual Rendezvous last weekend. Ally had a blast. She came back with new moccasins that she is raving about. As an interpreter for the Fort, she baked bread in the beehive oven, then sold it to the encampment, this is very much in period. That went over so…

  • Tuesday Tunes

    Tuesday Tunes

    I have heard this song many times. I love Eartha’s voice, and her ability to tell a story. This is the first time I’ve seen her singing. Wow.

  • Tuesday Tunes

    Tuesday Tunes

    Maybe Val’s version is better? Here’s the album version Regardless, it is one of the tracks from my youth that lives on.

  • Tuesday Tunes

    Tuesday Tunes

    There are so many versions of this song. The ending changes sometimes.

  • Tuesday Tunes
  • Tuesday Tunes

    Tuesday Tunes

    I have always loved this song. I first heard it some 20 odd years ago, and it has stuck with me ever since. There’s a specific verse that comes to mind once in a while, when I’m feeling down or bad or wrong… Now, depression’s not a million laughs But suicide’s too dang’rous Don’t go…

  • Tuesday Tunes

    Tuesday Tunes

    This randomly showed up on my Google Radio the other day, and it made me stop and listen. The music strikes me as a cross between a Russian folk song and something out of a circus performance. But the lyrics… Oh, the lyrics. My first impression of this was that it was a rallying cry…

  • Tuesday Tunes

    Tuesday Tunes

    “Drink a toast to my best friend, Samuel Colt!” One of the things I’ve noticed in listening to the vast array of older music lately, is that most of it wouldn’t make it on today’s radio. This song, for instance, would be considered horribly violent even though it wouldn’t even be a footnote in an…

  • Tuesday Tunes – Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron

    Tuesday Tunes – Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron

    You may ask yourself, why is Allyson posting up songs from 1967 that weren’t even popular back then? Listen to the song. Sure, it’s a song about Snoopy. No question at all. It’s more than that. I’ve been listening to bunches of OLD music (defined as pre-1970s, thank you very much… you know, EARLY 20th…

  • Tuesday Tunes

    Tuesday Tunes

    Every time I hear AOC trying to give a speech, this song comes to mind.