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A ‘Spirit’ From the ’60s That Won’t Die
By TOM McNICHOL
You probably wouldn’t know who Norman Greenbaum is, until you hear his guitar riff.

LOOKING BACK IN LYRICLAND


Same Old Lang Syne     Dan Fogleburg            (1999)
A Long December   Counting Crows             (2000)
Auld Lang Syne (The Millennium Mix)    Kenny G      (2001)
In This Life       Collin Raye       (2002)
Mind Your Own Business    Hank Williams                       (2003)
The Beauty Of Days Gone By   Van Morrison             (2004)     
New Year's Day        U2                   (2005)
New Year's Prayer     Jeff Buckley                   (2006)


TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY


2000 Former Beatle George Harrison is discharged from the hospital to enjoy what is left of the New Year celebrations at home with his family after having been stabbed in a life-and-death struggle with an intruder. Harrison, 56, narrowly avoided death when he was stabbed by an intruder armed with a six-inch knife in his home two days before.
1999 Alyssa Milano weds Cinjun August Tate of Remy Zero in Louisiana. The star of the WB TV series "Charmed" marries Tate at a plantation home, Rosewood, near Baton Rouge.
1997 Townes Van Zandt, the singer-songwriter who wrote the country hits "If I Needed You" and "Pancho and Lefty" and gained a cult following for his blues-inspired recordings about life's losers, dies from a heart attack.
1997 Many fans at the Three Tenors New Year's Eve concert at Vancouver's B.C. Place Stadium are angered and disappointed when Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavorotti leave the stage before the stroke of midnight, missing the "Auld Lang Syne" sing-along with the crowd.
1995 Singer-songwriter Ted Hawkins dies in an L.A. hospital after suffering a stroke. The 58-year-old former street musician released his first major-label recording, "The Next Hundred Years,'' in 1994.
1985 VH-1 premieres as an adult contemporary music video channel with Marvin Gaye's "Star Spangled Banner'' video.
1967 Gary Lewis of the Playboys is drafted into the U.S. Army.
1962 The Beatles fail an audition in London for a recording contract with Decca Records.
1958 Grandmaster Flash (Joseph Saddler) is born in New York.
1953 Country music singer Hank Williams dies while on his way to a concert in Canton, Ohio. His 1953 song "Your Cheating Heart'' is inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1983. He wins a posthumous Grammy for the 1989 recording "There's a Tear in My Beer,'' a duet with his son, Hank Williams Jr. The younger Williams mixed his own vocals with his late father's vocal track to make the song.
1942 Country singer Joe McDonald of the Fish is born in El Monte, Calif.

{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{Everyone}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} Despite all the stress (and bills!) that the holidays bring, December really is the season for kicking back and enjoying yourself. And to top it all off, you have the excitement and chaos of New Year's Eve. I'll be celebrating at home watching it on TV, with a glass of wine and babysitting my two older grandsons who should be asleep well before midnight, who knows I may be asleep too LOL.

It's hard not to start making resolutions and creating goals on New Year's Eve. There's that sense of renewal, of rebirth, and the guilty awareness that you ate your own weight in chocolate during the holidays. Sure, last year's resolution didn't make it past the fifth of January, but hey, this year's going to be different, right? So this year I've decided not to make any resolutions <G>

As always I hope you like todays choice, in my quest to find songs appropiate for the holidays, I came across the lyrics to todays song which made me laugh and is all about resolutions. New Year's Eve has always been a time for looking back to the past, and more importantly, forward to the coming year. It's a time to reflect on the changes we want (or need) to make and resolve to follow through on those changes.  Top Ten New Year's Resolutions

I only have a wav to share so if anyone sends in the MP3 I will forward that another time. The name of the song is Happy New Year and it is all about resolutions..........  New Year's resolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

New Year's Day -- History, Traditions, and Customs

Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones (December 14, 1911 – May 1, 1965) was a popular musician and comedian. He was born in Long Beach, California. His father was a Southern Pacific railroad agent. He got his nickname by being so thin that he was compared to a railroad spike. At the age of eleven he got his first set of drums. As a teenager he played in bands that he formed himself. A chef in a railroad restaurant taught him how to use adapted pots and pans, forks, knives and spoons as musical instruments. He frequently played in theater pit orchestras. In the 1930s he joined the Victor Young Band and thereby got many offers to appear to radio shows including the Al Jolson Lifebuoy Show, Burns and Allen (with George Burns) and Bing Crosby's Kraft Music Hall. In 1940, he had an uncredited part in the film Give Us Wings, and in 1942 as a hillbilly in Pass the Biscuits, Mirandy. He joined up with vocalist Del Porter and performed in Los Angeles, gaining a cult following. By 1941 the band included violinist Carl Grayson. Other band members were George Rock (voice and trumpet), Mickey Katz (clarinet and voice), Doodles Weaver (voice) and Red Ingle (voice). They became his backing band The City Slickers. Saxophonist Ed Metcalfe performed with Spike Jones for a while. Jones's wife was the singer Helen Grayco, who performed on some of his radio shows. They received a recording contract with RCA Victor and recorded extensively for the company until the mid 1950s. They also hosted a weekly television show on NBC during the 1950s. Jones had four children, Spike Jr., Linda, Leslie and Gina. Leslie today is the Director of Music and Film Scoring at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch in Marin County.

Spike Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Spike Jones - Happy New Year

"This is my New Year's resolution:
When my mother-in-law begins to yell and shout
Through the window I would like to throw her out.
But I resolve not to do it, here is why:
I'm afraid of hitting someone passing by.
This is my New Year's resolution.

When I'm at the movies watching a love seen
And a lady's hat is blocking half the screen
I resolve not to shout, "Take off that hat!"
I'll remove it gently with a baseball bat.
This is my New Year's Resolution.

When I take a lovely lady out to eat
And she orders caviar instead of meat
I resolve to let the lady have her fill.
And of course I'll also let her pay the bill.
This is my New Year's Resolution.

When I'm sitting with my wifey on a bus
And a dear old lady stands in front of us
I resolve to be a gentleman discreet.
I'll politely offer her my wifey's seat.
This is my New Year's Resolution.

When my mother says, "Come in, it's time to eat."
And I keep on playing games out in the street
I resolve to rush right home now when I'm called
Cause my pop just got a hairbrush and he's bald.
This is my New Year's Resolution.

On the radio this year I hope to score
With some funny jokes you've never heard before.
I resolve not to tell a corny joke.
Hello, what's that? The church burned down? Holy smoke!
This is my New Year's Resolution.

In this coming year I'm going to be discreet.
Have the Slicker's playing music soft and sweet.
I resolve to treat Tchaikovsky tenderly
And set his second movement with TNT.
This is my New Year's Resolution."