WHO SANG THAT?

Friday, 19 November 2010, 12:44 | Category : Authors, Free-form Friday, Humor, Wink
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By Wink Believe it or not we have some pretty steady readers here at W-L. It is for them that we dedicate today’s article. Below are sections from three songs. Try to guess who sang them. The first one is for dear Peggy…. Isaac said he kissed you, beneath the apple tree. When Benji held [...]

Yakety Sax – A ‘Must-Have’

Thursday, 7 October 2010, 5:00 | Category : Authors, Humor, Wink
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By Wink (Warning: There is an “I dare you” challenge at the end of this article. Take the challenge….if you dare….) A few years back I wrote an article about my ever-shrinking attention span. In that article I described my fondness for my I-Pod. At that point I had it loaded with about 1200 songs. [...]

Rock & Roll: Thanks, But No Thanks.

Friday, 18 September 2009, 11:30 | Category : Authors, Free-form Friday, Wink
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By Wink I grew up surrounded by all kinds of music: big band, pop, soul, country, jazz, blues, classical, metal, disco, and so on. Beatles? Mozart? Hendrix? John Philip Sousa? Aretha? I heard it all, and then some.. The music that still ‘drives’ me, to this day, is rock and roll. But I do have [...]

Record Short Attention Spans

Friday, 13 March 2009, 6:00 | Category : Authors, Free-form Friday, Humor, Wink
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I will confess here that I am ‘oldish’ (but not yet old). I have a large collection of record albums that I never got rid of. I just couldn’t let go of these old “friends,” in spite of the fact that I hadn’t played any of them in decades. I have somehow come into possession [...]