Folder downloading issues, sinus issues

Looks like the folder-download function at Box still isn't working. I just tried, and no go. The option pops up, but clicking on it does nothing.

I'll have to write Box. I'm slow getting to stuff--at the moment, my sinus infection is hanging on. (I know--I'm just having a great time!). So we (Bev and I) will be going to the doc's tomorrow, where hopefully I can be properly diagnosed and medicated. The first round of antibiotics hit the infection pretty hard, but not hard enough, probably. This isn't uncommon for me and my sinus infections.

Respiratory problems--especially sinus issues--are chronic with me. I couldn't imagine life without them, though I sure wouldn't complain.

Anyway, sorry about the Box issues, though at least single files (so to speak) can be d/l'd. That's a start. Box always bounces back. They fix things fast.

And thanks a million more times for your wonderful words of sympathy and encouragement. Sorry if I haven't gotten around to answering them all--this kid's head is spinning at the moment. I'm serious. And I don't drink.

Just my balance center being affected, is all. My doc will know what to do....


Lee

Memorial Day at MY(P)WHAE, Part 3

Today, after all, is Memorial Day. Monday was the day we observed it, but... this is the real deal. May 30th.

That, plus I had some more stuff to put up. Good Bye, Dolly Gray, pictured above, was popular during the Spanish-American War, in case you were wondering. Then it became popular in England as a Boer War song. 1901 Barbershop, anyone?

Arthur Field's version of Der Fuehrer's Face isn't nearly as famous as Spike Jones'--and, to be sure, it's not nearly as funny. However, the extra verses--i.e., the ones that didn't show up on Jones' hit--are priceless.

We Must Be Vigilant (American Patrol) is terrific, even if the disc (no longer in my collection) had seen better days. I committed this to cassette tape years ago--it was time to rescue it. Like Arthur Field's number, it was recorded for Hit--by Chico Marx and His Orchestra, no less!

I love typing "Chico Marx and His Orchestra." That's why I typed it again.

Bugle Call Rag is not the famous tune by that name. Rather, it's the much lesser-known Eubie Blake number. The Victor Military Band does a darned good job on it, I think. From a thrifted 12" Victor 78.

And there are some marches from my 78 collection, with National Emblem March showing up twice. I couldn't decide which version was better, you see.

And a 1916 recording of the National Anthem, and a Stairway to Heaven burlesque by yours truly called Stairway to Liberty. A gentle burlesque, I should note. Maybe "dry burlesque" covers it. I composed it on music software and played it back through my HP's sound card. I guess we could call it middle-tech (as opposed to hi-).

Enjoy!

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Tracklist

Der Fuehrer's Face--Arthur Fields and His Orchestra, 1942. From Hit label 78.

We Must Be Vigilant (American Patrol)--Chico Marx and His Orchestra; vocal: Ziggy Lane, 1942.

National Emblem March (Bagley)--Prince's Orchestra, 1911.

"Lights Out" March (E. E. McCoy)--Arthur Pryor's Band, 1906.

The Star Spangled Banner--Prince's Band, 1916.

National Emblem March (Bagley)--The United States Marine Band, 1914.

The Hut-Sut Song (A Swedish Serenade)--Freddy Martin and His Orch.; voc: Eddie Stone, 1941.

Bugle Call Rag (Eubie Blake)--Victor Military Band, 1916.

Juke Box Saturday Night--Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, 1942.

Goodbye, Dolly Gray--The Columbia Quartette, 1901.

Under Orders (Glogan)--Prince's Band, 1919.

Stairway to Liberty (Hartsfeld)--Lee Hartsfeld, 2006.



Lee

Godspeed, Cindy

"Good-bye America ...you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can’t make you be that country unless you want it."

So says Cindy. And she's totally and completely right.

She's courageous. And wise. And sick of fighting the fight. And I don't blame her.

Cindy writes about the way certain liberals turned mean because of her habit of insisting that we ALL do what's just. That we all engage in critical moral self-examination. All of us. As in, conservatives and liberals and everyone in between. Apparently, some liberals don't like having their perfectness questioned. This liberal finds these folks a royal pain in the party.

Godspeed, Cindy.

And now we go back to our regularly-scheduled MP3s and stuff.

Lee

"Gettin' olllllllld...."--Howlin' Wolf

Over the weekend, I enjoyed a wonderful visit with my brother and sister (and her beau). We looked at old family photos, most of which, despite their vintage, were new to me. For instance, I'd never seen my Grandma Clara as anyone except a sweet old lady with her white hair in a bun. And there she was, circa 1907 (in her mid-20s, probably), with a curly top. And, circa 1929, with dark, straighter hair and a rather stern expression (I don't think she was comfortable around cameras. Like most people!).

Then I spotted my mom's exact double, age 30 or so. But it wasn't my mom--it was my dad's mom. Spooky. And there was "Uncle" Pete (my step-grandfather on my father's side), the laconic and powerfully-built (and very Polish-looking) guy who I still miss terribly after all these years. No one was better with children. Or more loving. Looking at Pete's photo, I was five again and sitting on his lap. I say this as someone whose memories of childhood are rarely very focused, let alone vivid. Yet, there I was.

Photos of my dad as a young jazz musician, and looking just like my brother Tal (and vice versa). Tal, unlike me, has aged handsomely. Eats like a horse and stays lean. I'm not a big eater, but you wouldn't know it.... His hair is thinning, finally. I remember when my hair started to thin. Back in high school.

Then again, there were times, as kids, when we looked almost alike. And there's a baby picture of my mom in which she has my face. And photos of Navy Lee looking like his late Uncle Mike.

And I think of a line from the original Outer Limits. Scene: Jill Hayworth, visiting scientist Edward Mulhare: "Ge-net-ics." Mulhare: "Genetics." Yup. Genetics. And we have the photos to prove it.

Anyway, a lovely visit. Amazing, the joyous moments that can happen in the midst of a week of loss and sorrow.

As we get older, we become the cliches we've spent our lifetimes laughing at or otherwise doubting (denying?). And we start thinking about the countless folks who've been there, done that, before us. And we feel really weird.

But it's a good kind of weird, weirdly enough. When we're young, we feel so remote from the past. It's way back there, someplace. As we age, we bond with it. The flow of time changes.

And I thought getting old was gonna be boring.

Memorial Day at MY(P)WHAE, Part 2

First of all, a million thanks for the very kind words of sympathy and encouragement. From the bottom of my heart. They are greatly appreciated. We're getting through these trying times. Getting through is all one can do sometimes. That sounded corny as all get-out, but I imagine it's very true.

Through-do-true. I missed my calling (greeting card verses). But, seriously, thanks.

A bigger playlist this time, including a 1944 V-Disc conducted (and composed!) by Andre Kostelanetz and a version of We Take Our Hats Off To You, Mr. Wilson on Silvertone (a Sears, Roebuck & Co. label). I'm almost sure the latter is a reissue of the 1914 Peerless Quartet recording on Columbia. Forgive the bad fidelity on this one--the grooves are pretty much no longer there. In fact, I'm happy I got a listenable file out of it. I wasn't sure I would.

Just a bunch of WWI and WWII songs, along with the Civil War classic Tentin' on the Old Camp Ground in a highly down-home version from 1928. Oh, and a cool Korean War number.

Ten of these are from 78s; the rest are from vinyl.

Wow. I ran out of introduction pretty quickly. To the tunes:


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Playlist

Goodbye, Sue (Rule, Ricca-Loman)--Perry Como with Mixed Chorus, 1943.

We Take Our Hats Off to You, Mr. Wilson--Vocal Quartette (prob. Peerless Quartet), prob. 1914.

Come Josephine in My Flying Machine-Spike Jones and His City Slickers, 1942.

Impressions of Basie (Kostelanetz)--Andre Kostelanetz, 1944. From 12" V-Disc.

Korea (Fighting in the Foreign Land)--Gospel Pilgrims, 1951.

Remember Pearl Harbor (Reid-Kaye)--Sammy Kaye and His Orch., 1941.

We're Going Over (Sterling-Grossman-Lange)--Peerless Quartet, 1917.

I Don't Know Where I'm Going but I'm on My Way (George Fairman)--PQ, 1917.

Our Country's in It Now (Empey-McCarron-Morgan)--Orpheus Quartet, 1918.

Defend America (Handley)--Prince's Orchestra, 1917.

Your Country and My Country (Berlin)--Peerless Quartet, 1917.

Joan of Arc (Welis)--Henry Burr, 1917.

Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer (McHugh-Adams)--Song Spinners, 1943.

Rodger Young (Loesser)--Merv Griffin, 1963.

Rosie the Riveter (R. Evans-J. Loeb)--Allen Miller and His Orch., 1943.

Billboard March (John N. Klohr)--Joe "Fingers" Carr, 1956.

Semper Fidelis (Sousa)--Ferrante and Teicher, 1952.

Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground--Mt. Vernon Quartet, 1928.


Lee