I saw this on Bob Bennet's website just about 30 minutes too late for Father's day. I worked Father's Day at a K.C. COugars game selling concessions. Kids were playing catch with their Dads. I watched them do it and remembered playing catch on that field with my son just a few years ago.
I really enjoyed this new look at one of my favorite songs.
Yesterday, I was cleaning out some junk from my room and decided to put on some music while doing so. I chose a Randy Stonehill You tube video, that I had previously shared here.
The video is from a series called More than a Song which is part concert and part interview. After the Stonehill segment had ended I found there was another artist form my big 5. Bob Bennet, who was also in an episode. I liked it and thought I'd share it here as well
I just sent a letter to Allen Levi. If you read this blog you know he is a singer-songwriter who lives near the Alabama Georgia border. In the letter, I told him that my favorite song of his is House of Mercy from his album Rivertown. (You can check it out at Bandcamp by clicking here. Or listen to it on Spotify by clicking here.)
After I sent out that letter I realized that I had set up this song to play today. It reminded me that almost every song of Allen's is among my favorites.
Good morning and welcome to Day 8 of the A to Z challenge. This year I chose 3 themes for the challenge: Limericks, MLB sluggers in my lifetime, and A to Z wordles. For more information about these themes click here.
Part I: A to Z Limericks
Today's limerick is also about today's home run hitter. I don't consider Hank Aaaron a home run hitter. I consider him the home run hitter. On April 8,1974 he hit his 715th al time home run to break the record of Babe Ruth. I am writing this post on Friday April 8th just a few hours before Saturdays H post drops. That means 48 years ago I watched Hank Hammer 715 on television. Here is what it looked like
On April 8 '74
Hammering Hank #44
Hit home run 7 1 5
I felt so alive
To be part of such great baseball lore.
Part II: A to Z Homerun hitters of my lifetime
Yesterday I talked about Ken Griffey Jr. the 7th leading homerun hitter of all time. For over 33 years Hank Aaron was the all time leading home run hitter. He is now 2nd behind Barry Bonds.
I was born in 1964. I was 9 years old when Aaaron broke Ruth's record. Aaronhit his first homer in 1954 and his last in 1976. From 1954 to1963 Hank hit 342 home runs. This was 5th most of all players over that time period and only 40 less than Willie Mays who hit the most in that time period.
From 1964 to 1975 Aaron hit 403 homers 387 for the Braves and 16 for the Brewers. Aaron led all of baseball by 46 homers during that period. In 1976 Aaron hit the last 10 of his 755 dingers while finishing his HOF career in Milwaukee. Aaron batted .305 in the course of his career so he was much more than just a home run hitter.
Part III: Wordle Starting Words from A to Z
Note: Correct letters in the correct places will be shown in bold. Correct letters in incorrect places will be shown in italics.
Playing wordle every day can be a big hairy deal. On March 8th I began my wordle with ...
H A I R Y - I may as well have been bald as none of those letters were in the answer
Q U EST - This got me a e and t in the right places and s in the wrong one.
SWE P T - On my third guess I was exteremely closing getting 4 of the letters in the right position.
The Academy Awards are a one week away and in preparation for the awards I have been watching some acceptance speeches. In 1970 John Wayne was nominated for True Grit and Barnbara Streisand who had one best actress in 1969 for Funny Girl was presenting the award for best Actor. Not only did Wayne put on a clinic for how to gracefully and quickly recieve an award, nut Streisand set the standard for how to read off the nominees.
We reversed our selves all the way back to the begiining of our Allen Levi concert. Feel free ro listen to just this song or listen to the concert in it's entrety.
Today is January 28th and there are 5 more songs left in the Allen Levi Concert in reverse. Let me see if we can get them out here and begin the concert by February. first. His introduction islonger than the song itself but what an introduction it is! The song is ggreat too and I dedicate it to my wife and I certainly echoe the sentiment.
Bob Saget died yesterday at the age of 65. Today I saw a video on You Tube of him singing the National Anthem at a Wgite Sox game almost 10 years ago, He did an admirable job and I thoought I'd play it hers since I am all things White Sox.
