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Since it is music day today on this blog of DT’s, and I am in a good mood, I thought to share some cheerful Italian music. I lived and worked in Italy many years ago and so was exposed to a lot of contemporary Italian music on the radio. Italians, generally speaking, are happy people who love beautiful things, especially women, food, sport, design and music.
I grew up in a house full of classical music and opera because my father was a pianist and opera buff so some of their singing was familiar to me…Mario Lanza, Caruso, Gigli, all famous opera stars.
But Italians of all stripes sing with such joy and humour, such passion and enthusiasm, you can’t help but love their music even if you don’t understand the words.
Here, for anyone interested, are a few links. Hope some of you enjoy them. Apart from the music, the videos are also great:
1) four famous neapolitans singing about their love of Naples
Gigi D’Alessio, Lucio Dalla, Sal Da Vinci, Gigi Finizio – Napule
2) Lucio Dalla, a famous Italian singer in a strange but funny Fellini like video, singing about the big bad wolf (il lupo)
3) Pavarotti and friends singing Verdi and having fun
1992 Pavarotti, Luciano and Sting, Zucchero and Lucio Dalla – La donna e’mobile
Tunesday: Roger McGuinn – “Shenandoah”
A sample of some obscure – and maybe not obscure – tunes from my strange and off-the-wall collection.
Today’s selection: Roger McGuinn – “Shenandoah” 2003
“Away, we’re bound away, cross the wide Missouri“
I sometimes wonder if songs such as this, “Mr Tambourine Man“, “The Wayward Wind“, and a few others led to my itchy feet taking me west.
“Shenandoah” is known as a sea chantey but more likely originates among the river men of the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri rivers of the early 1800s. Shenandoah was an Indian chief living along the Missouri River … or was it upper New York? There are many versions of the song – it became internationally famous as the song propagated down the rivers to the clipper ships travelling around the world.
Roger McGuinn – sometimes known as Jim McGuinn – was born in 1942 and is best known as the lead guitarist and singer for The Byrds. He began as a folksinger in the late 50s/early 60s. He co-founded The Byrds with Gene Clark in 1964. The Byrds began breaking up by 1967; McGuinn finally finished the name in 1973. He then went on to a solo career, returning to his folk music roots.
He recorded this in 2003 – one of my favorite versions.
Circumstances
… long ago took me away from one of my favorite places I’ve lived. The place where I worked emergency services for 8 years. Where I lived up in the mountains in a log cabin. Where daily chains were necessary in winter; steep grades, 3 miles of narrow dirt road. A place where I was one of the oddballs – being more or less “normal”.
I’m now about 100 miles away on the other side of the mountains but I still keep in touch. There was an incident over there yesterday – a 15 mile, high speed chase along a twisty – but paved – canyon road with low visibility, rocks on one side, a creek on the other. And spike strips.
The sheriff’s office released a photo.
I see the deputy cleaned up for his photo …
Winter’s End – Almost
Early morning. Fog rising as the ice slowly gives way to the coming sun.
Too late to go ice fishing …
The days are warming but winter’s not over.
I won’t trust the weather for at least another 6 weeks or so … not that we had any winter this year – so far. Ski resorts shutting down already. Usually doesn’t happen until mid-May.
Coming In For A Landing
Improvement?
There’s been a bit of trouble adding images to comments; some load with no problem, some don’t load at all. Some of it has to do with WordPress security – allowing such things can create problems. Joe let me know he was having problems embedding an image and even as Administrator, I also had trouble getting it to embed.
Say what??? I am supposed to be dictator of this universe. 🙂
(I did get it work though … finally)
Images can speak volumes so I added a few bits of code to make it easier to intentionally load images. There is a 1Mb limit on size and only JPG, GIF, WEBP, and PNG formats are allowed.
When you want to add a comment, you get a box that looks like this:
In the lower right corner is an itty-bitty icon. Clicking this allows you to add an image from a file. As long as the image fits within the parameters, it should load. I first tried it under the post “Once Was And Never Again Great Britain“. The first time didn’t work … grumble, mumble … tweaked a bit more and it seems the second time did.
Let me know if you have any problems. Just because I’ve stayed at Holiday Inn Express doesn’t make me a programmer.
If security issues come up, I’ll yank the code.
Once Was And Never Again Great Britain
They must be trying for a 3rd go-around.
“Ofcom has confirmed it is referring 4chan to a final enforcement decision under the Online Safety Act. The target is a Delaware company that runs an entirely anonymous imageboard from the United States, with no offices, staff, servers or assets in Britain.
The demand: install age-verification systems and content filters so that British children cannot access the site or face daily fines levied from London on an American platform.“
Ofcom: A British government agency – the Office of Communications is the government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, internet, telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom.
In summary, the Brits are trying to apply British law (and fines) to an American company operating on American soil because the bloody Brits don’t like something or another … mostly complaints about the Islamic British government policies.
Bugger the Brits – at least their government.
Maybe Trump should liberate the British people and leave the Middle East muzzies to themselves.
Damn …
originally posted by Jean Dec 16, 2025
There is no god.
There is no god to damn.
Just life.
Damn life.
We’re Broke …
“USPS Could Run Out Of Funds Within A Year Without Congressional Action: Postmaster General“
Here’s an idea: Quit giving discounts to bulk mailers. Charge extra for all that non-solicited bulk advertising crap no one wants anyway.