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1966 Top Ten: Red Rubber Ball (#8)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86654) • United States 23 Apr

April, the Paul Simon month! Yes, Mr. Simon is back again as we celebrate songs that are now 60 years old. You may not know that he co-wrote this song, which is one of the reasons I like doing these things. Here’s...

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1966 Top Ten: I Am a Rock (#10)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86654) • United States 21 Apr

Last month it was 1986 and 1976. The songwriter here was used in the 1986 countdown, and we talked about his dramatic change for the worse in songwriting. Today, in this song that’s now 60 years old, I’ll show you what I mean....

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1986 Songs: All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints

Four Walls @FourWalls (86654) • United States 1 Mar

Since I deviated from my “regular” formula last month, a reminder that the music lists are back to normal: alphabetical for the first part of the month, then my ten favorites at the end. With that said, let’s dive into 1986 with...

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1973 Songs: Loves Me Like a Rock

Four Walls @FourWalls (86654) • United States 10 May 23

Things are getting more interesting as they report about those tornados Sunday. They said it was on the ground for six minutes, which is three radar scans. Someone was asleep on the job! (They’ll probably promote him,...

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Back to Music WITH This Commercial Break!

Four Walls @FourWalls (86654) • United States 4 Aug 22

The other day I mentioned that interesting time in history when the BBC banned the Kinks’ song “Lola” because it mentioned a brand name in the lyrics. The Kinks changed “Coca Cola” to “cherry cola” and everything was fine....

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Diamond Songs Top Ten: Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes (#9)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86654) • United States 15 Dec 20

It’s time for more diamonds! It’s an unintentional dual countdown: songs with diamond in the title, and Neil Diamond songs. We’ll get to Neil in a few minutes, but first, for today’s diamond song, here’s another boy from...

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Baby Songs: Baby Driver

Four Walls @FourWalls (86654) • United States 2 Oct 20

Oh, baby, is fall here! Nice and cool this morning! Perfect weather for a drive to look at the progress of the foliage. It’s also the perfect time for another song with “baby” in the title. Another one without much suspense as...

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November 5 - Let's discuss what happened on that day

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222314) • United States 5 Nov 19

Election Day - Get out and vote! National Love Your Red Hair Day 1895 - George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile. 1940 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is the first and only President of the United States to...

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October 13 - Let's discuss what happened on that day

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222314) • United States 13 Oct 19

National M&M Day National Yorkshire Pudding Day 1792 - The cornerstone of the U. S. Executive Mansion (called the White House in 1818) is laid. 1983 - The first U. S. cellular network is launched in Chicago by Ameritech...

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Ten Favorite Mother Songs: Mother and Child Reunion (#10)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86654) • United States 12 May 19

With Mothers Day winding down I’ll start my list of favorite songs with “mother” (or mom or mama or mommy [everything except “Hey, you!”...so no BTO this time ]) in the title. While there may be an obscurity or two,...

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Artist Paul Simon's donation for special needs students in Portland

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122132) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 27 Jan 19

Musician Paul Simon, 77, who is retiring from doing concert tours is leaving a positive imprint on the city of Portland Oregon by donating $10,000 dollars to the Portland Public School system. Half of the donation will go to the...

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thelina o daniel

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Ten Favorite 1986 Albums: Graceland (#3)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86654) • United States 20 Nov 18

With today's entry most people who know me know what the top two will be, so my "announcements" for favorite albums from 1986 in essence ends today. It's just a guess which album is #1 from here, right? I started this after...

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Happy New YEAR Top Ten: Still Crazy After All These Years (#9)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86654) • United States 29 Dec 17

And that is a wrap on 2017, as far as working goes. I have my candles lit, some candy cane herbal tea in the tea maker (technically sold as a "coffee maker," but I don't drink coffee, which of course means [i]more for...

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The Year I Was Born: What Was Happening?

Alice Henry @IreneVincent (15960) • United States 10 Aug 17

Doing My Morning Reading It is my habit to read while I have my morning cup of coffee. Today, I found something interesting, as I usually do, and I would like to share it with you. I had purchased a tiny little book, published...

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Carrie Fisher's Music Connection

Four Walls @FourWalls (86654) • United States 27 Dec 16

By now I'm sure everyone has heard the sorrowful news that actor and author Carrie Fisher died today (12/27), four days after suffering cardiac arrest on a flight from London to Los Angeles. Did you know she has a couple of music...

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Honk If You Love Paul Simon

cmoneyspinner @cmoneyspinner (9218) • Austin, Texas 8 Aug 16

The album "Rhythm of the Saints" (one of my favorite albums) was released Oct 22, 1990 and uber talented singer / songwriter / musician Paul Simon showed everyone that he had even "Further to Fly!" [i]“It was Simon's...

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Paul Simon to quit music?

ElicBxn @ElicBxn (64169) • United States 1 Jul 16

That is what I read today! He's going to "retire." Come on Paul! You are part of the sound track to my life! Granted, he's 75! He started making music since he was 13 - that is my ENTIRE life! But... it is hard to imagine...

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Paul Simon got the Award of Polar Music Price.

Marja @buenavida (9984) • Sweden 28 Aug 12

Polar Music Price was founded in 1989 by Stig Anderson, the manager of ABBA with a donation to Royal Swedish Academy of Music. The price goes annually to one contemporary musician and one classical musician. This year Paul...

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We Are The World

Tony @Tonycn (76) • Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island 13 Oct 08

This is one of my favorite,written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie,published in 1980's.Over 40 greatest singers involved in the song.Include Stevie Wonder,Paul Simon,Kenny Rogers,Tina Turner etc.Selfless sentiment abounded...

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Have you ever wondered what happened in the year you were born on?

p3halliwel2005 @p3halliwel2005 (3156) • Philippines 18 Sep 08

Wouldn't you want to know what transpired during the year you were born on? I would want to know all the details. It is nice to know of the history of the past.I was born on April 26, 1973 and here is what happened then that...

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