You've Lost that Loving Feeling Thursday 4/2/2016
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Google+Life Quotes by Great-Quotes.com “You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’” George Bernard Shaw
Google+Life Quotes by Great-Quotes.com “You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’” George Bernard Shaw
1965, The Righteous Brothers were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with the Phil Spector song ‘You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’. Also a US No.1 at the same time. In 1999 the PRS announced that it was the most played song of the 20th Century
The weather was a bit grey until around midday. I always have plenty to do so I usually just get on with my admin.
The BBC News told us that the Zika virus has now been transmitted by sexual contact in America. Brilliant! The previous day we had been told that it was a virus impossible to transmit person to person. So which clever editor allowed us that one day of freedom from worry? You’ll remember I took issue with the fact that tourists were still being encouraged to book thir passage for the Olympic Games. Is there no cut-off point between money and honesty?
A BBC programme is looking at the work of the Housing Officers. With all the various immigrants and refugees due to arrive in the future this programme already depicts the depravity in which some people live. Hoarders seem oblivious to their impact on others. Drug-takers are obviously oblivious. Then there are just dirty people.
I really find it very difficult to understand how people can have such non-existent standards in which to keep their family homes. The tendency is to walk past people in the street and feel that they are very much like ourselves. This programme really highlights such differences and reminds me of my short few months working as a Supplementary Benefits Officer with the DHSS in Birkenhead. It gives great credibility to my feeling of gratitude for what I have been given in life.
Crime in the UK has become ridiculous. According to the Daily Mirror in just one year, there were 57 unlawful killings – more than one a week – by suspects allowed to walk free while awaiting trial for other crimes. Offenders on bail also committed an average of two rapes a week and a sex assault on a child almost every two days. In total, 44,595 suspects who had been released by the courts were convicted of a crime – including more minor offences such as criminal damage. This amounts to a staggering 122 a day, or one every 12 minutes.
On this day 2 years ago I played my guitar for my good friend Tom at his birthday bash at the Moli in Alfaz. It is nice to be able to play for friends and we enjoyed our Indian meal with friends old and new. I’ll let the pictures tell the tale….
Two Travelling Angels
………. stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the mansion’s guest room. Instead the angels were given a small space in the cold basement.
As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it.. When the younger angel asked why, the older angel replied, ”Things aren’t always what they seem”
The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very poor, but very hospitable farmer and his wife. After sharing what little food they had the couple let the angels sleep in their bed where they could have a good night’s rest. When the sun came up the next morning the angels found the farmer and his wife in tears. Their only cow, whose milk had been their sole income, lay dead in the field. The younger angel was infuriated and asked the older angel how could you have let this happen? The first man had everything, yet you helped him, she accused. The second family had little but was willing to share everything, and you let the cow die..
”Things aren’t always what they seem,” the older angel replied. “When we stayed in the basement of the mansion, I noticed there was gold stored in that hole in the wall. Since the owner was so obsessed with greed and unwilling to share his good fortune, I sealed the wall so he wouldn’t find it.” ”Then last night as we slept in the farmers bed, the angel of death came for his wife I gave him the cow instead. Things aren’t always what they seem.”
Sometimes that is exactly what happens when things don’t turn out the way they should. If you have faith, you just need to trust that every outcome is always to your advantage. You just might not know it until sometime later…
Events 4th February
1783 – Britain declared a formal cessation of hostilities with its former colonies, the United States of America. Roles have since been reversed
1789 – Electors unanimously chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States. By George!
1824 – J.W. Goodrich introduced rubber galoshes to the public. I used to have a pair of them
1904 – The Russo-Japanese War began after Japan laid siege to Port Arthur. It seemed ridiculous that Japan was the aggressor
1936 – Radium E. became the first radioactive substance to be produced synthetically.This is beyond my brain and it seems to have been a good commercial proposition that the world has used for war
1945 – During World War II, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a conference at Yalta to outline plans for Germany’s defeat. Three great names
1948 – Ceylon gained independence within the British Commonwealth. The country later became known as Sri Lanka. Britain used to import large quantities of tea from Ceylon. Is that still happening?
1957 – Smith-Corona Manufacturing Inc., of New York, began selling portable electric typewriters. The first machine weighed 19 pounds. They were wonderful machines which are now almost extinct
1968 – The world’s largest hovercraft was launched at Cowes, Isle of Wight. These were very interesting when they first came along
1976 – An earthquake in Guatemala and Honduras killed more than 22,000 people. What awful statistics
1985 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s defence budget called for a tripling of the expenditure on the “Star Wars” research program. I don’t think everyone was sold on the validity of this project
1993 – Russian scientists unfurled a giant mirror in orbit and flashed a beam of sunlight across Europe during the night. Observers saw it only as a momentary flash.
1997 – President Milosevic of Serbia apparently surrendered to the will of his people 1998 – In northeast Afghanistan, at least 5,000 people were killed in an earthquake that measured 6.1 on the Richter Scale. Dreadful
2000 – Austrian President Thomas Klestil swore in a coalition government that included Joerg Haider’s far-right Freedom Party. European Union sanctions were a result of the action.
2003 – Yugoslavia was formally dissolved by lawmakers. The country was replaced with a loose union of its remaining two republics, Serbia and Montenegro.
Music Events 4th February
1965, The Righteous Brothers were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with the Phil Spector song ‘You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’. Also a US No.1 at the same time. In 1999 the PRS announced that it was the most played song of the 20th Century. This really is a great song and one early successful version was by the DJ Jimmy Young
1967, The Monkees self-titled debut album started a seven-week run at No.1 on the UK chart. We all remember the hits
1968, Working at Abbey Road studios, London, The Beatles recorded ‘Across the Universe.’ John and Paul decided the song needed some falsetto harmonies so they invited two girl fans into the studio to sing on the song. The two were Lizzie Bravo, a 16-year-old Brazilian living near Abbey Road and 17-year-old Londoner Gayleen Pease. These are two names to remember for pop trivia
1970, John Lennon and Yoko Ono donated their hair for an auction in aid of the Black Power movement. They were a cut above others
1975, American jazz, blues, songwriter and saxophonist Louis Jordon died aged 66. Known as “The King of the Jukebox”, between 1942-1950 he scored eighteen No.1 singles and fifty-four Top Ten hits on the US R&B chart. He was another of those artistes whose work is known but not always remembered
1978, Abba started a seven week run at No.1 on the UK chart with ‘The Album’ their third No.1 LP. Class act
1978, The Bee Gees started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Staying Alive’. From the film soundtrack Saturday Night Fever, it gave the brothers their fifth US No.1, also No.1 in the UK. Who doesn’t like this and who certainly doesn’t remember it?
1978, ‘Up Town Ranking’ by Althia and Donna was at No.1 on the UK singles chart. It was the Jamaican duo’s only hit making the teenagers One-hit Wonders. Quite good and a worthy hit but what was it all about?
1982, Scottish singer Alex Harvey died of a heart attack while waiting to take a ferry back to shore after performing a concert with his new band, the Electric Cowboys. In an ambulance on the way to the hospital, he suffered a second heart attack, this one fatal.Another very sad pop story
1983, Karen Carpenter died aged 32 of a cardiac arrest at her parent’s house at her parents’ home in Downey, California; the coroner’s report gave the cause of death of imbalances associated with anorexia nervosa. In 1975 – In Playboy’s annual opinion poll; its readers voted Karen Carpenter the Best Rock Drummer of the year. This was a terribly sad event as Karen was such a talented and attractive lady. This needed to show everyone how serious Anorexia is as a problem to young people
1984, Culture Club started a three-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Karma Chameleon’ the group’s 5th US Top 10 hit, also a UK No.1- Good song
1984, Eurythmics scored their first UK No.1 album with their second release ‘Touch’, featuring the singles ‘Here Comes The Rain Again’, ‘Who’s That Girl’ and ‘Right By Your Side’. I loved these singles
1995, Celine Dion started a seven-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Think Twice’. The song peaked at No.95 on the US chart. ‘Think Twice’ received an Ivor Novello Award for the Song of the Year in 1995. I don’t remember this song
1999, American soul singer Gwen Guthrie died of cancer aged 48. Sang backing vocals for Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder and Madonna and wrote songs for Sister Sledge and Roberta Flack. Had the 1986 R&B No.1 ‘Ain’t Nothin’ Goin’ on But the Rent’.I liked this single
2000, Bjorn Ulvaeus confirmed that the members of Abba had turned down a $1 billion (£0.58 billion) offer by American and British consortium to reform the group. “It is a hell of a lot of money to say no to, but we decided it wasn’t for us,” band member Benny Andersson told the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. Good for them. Maybe they had made enough money
2001, Atomic Kitten started a four-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Whole Again’, the group’s first UK chart topper. The song was written by Andy McCluskey from OMD. I like this single
2003, Courtney Love was arrested at Heathrow airport for ‘endangering an aircraft’ on a transatlantic flight. The singer was said to have hurled abuse at the cabin crew on the flight from Los Angeles to London after her nurse who was in an economy seat was barred access to sit with Love in the upper class cabin. Why do these popstars put themselves above the law?
2004, police questioned Noel Gallagher after a photograph of him trespassing on a railway line appeared in a newspaper. The Oasis guitarist was in a studio in Cornwall recording the bands new album when he took a walk along the railway line. British Transport Police said ‘he was setting a bad example.’ Thank goodness there are others in positions of authority that see popstars as people of privilege who should set a good example to young people
2008, Leona Lewis went to No.1 on the Australian album charts with her debut release ‘Spirit.’ Lovely singer
Born on this day
1941, John Steel, drums, The Animals, (1964 UK & US No.1 single ‘House Of The Rising Sun’).
1944, Florence Larue, The 5th Dimension, (1969 US No.1 & UK No.11 single ‘Aquarius’).
1947, Margie and Mary Ann Ganser, vocalists for The Shangri-Las, who had a 1964 US No.1 & UK No.11 single with ‘Leader Of The Pack’. Margie died of breast cancer on July 28th 1996.
1948, Alice Cooper, (Vincent Furnier), singer, Earwigs, Alice Cooper Band, (1972 UK No.1 & US No.7 single ‘School’s Out’).
1975, Natalie Imbruglia, actress, singer, (1997 UK No.2 single ‘Torn’, 1997 UK No.5 album ‘Left Of The Middle’).
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