"A look at what happened in years past on on my birthday" "This is not about just one song, but Rock N Roll in general. My Dad brought home one of those big old wooden radio/turntable combos and put it in my room and said I could do anything I wanted with it, except break it. Well, I started playing with the dials and found a station that came in clearly. I heard the most amazing music on it. I ran out of my room telling my parents how much better my radio was than my Mom's, and then was asking why Mom's radio never played this kind of music. It was 1964, my parents were strictly country and I had found the local Rock N Roll station, that I never knew existed before then. Thanks Dad." -SQ "When I first heard, "I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover" it was Easter time. Ever since then that song goes through my memory and heart with a happy feeling that it's spring again!" -Linda "When I think of that song, I remember a whole bunch of kids in our backyard pool. Even though one of them was my best friend, who about a year later, died of Lukemia. I can still feel the warm breeze and the warm summer sun, and the smell of the chlorine in the water, when I think of that song. I also hear my friend laughing." -Glenna "The only song I remember my mother singing to us was, I think, called "The Prison Song". The lyrics went: "well, if I had the wings of an angel, over these prison walls I would fly. I'd fly to the arms of my darling, and there I'd be willing to die". Great stuff for toddlers, eh? My mother had a beautiful voice, and I was too young to understand the meaning, until years later when I thought about it. To my knowledge, my Mom was never incarcerated, so why she chose that song to lullaby us to sleep, I'll never know." -Cathy "Songs that remind me of childhood memories: "Green Eyes" by Jimmy Ricks & the Ravens and "Funeral for a Friend" by Elton John. Me and my dad use to sing back and forth on "Green Eyes" motown style (there are two guys switching back and forth singing throughout the song) and we used to ROCK OUT to "Funeral for a Friend." -John ~*~ Peace, Love and Music ~*~ Today's birthdays include: Al Jarreau, who was born in 1940 (age 64) Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane/Starship fame in 1942 (age 62) Liza Minnelli in 1946 (age 58) James Taylor in 1948 (age 56) Little Feat keyboardist Bill Payne and Badfinger drummer Mike Gibbins, both in 1949 (age 55) The Jackson 5's Marlon Jackson and Iron Maiden's Steve Harris, both in 1957 (age 47) Blur guitarist Graham Coxon in 1969 (age 35) ------------------------------------------------------------ A friend bought these for my husband but ended up wearing them too... Just once was all it took. I slipped on the pair of Pajamamia's and never felt better. Turns out that wearing them is all the rage. Everyone is wearing them to school, to shop, just about anywhere and everywhere. 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And in 1969, Simon and Garfunkel's soundtrack of "The Graduate" won the Grammy for best record of 1968. Jose Feliciano also won a Grammy as Best New Artist while Aretha Franklin won a Grammy for Best Female R&B Performance for "Chain of Fools." In 1971, John Lennon released "Power to the People." He was backed by the New York-based band Elephant's Memory. Also in 1971, Jethro Tull released its "Aqualung" album. In 1974, John Lennon and Harry Nielsen were thrown out of the Troubadour Club in Los Angeles after constantly interrupting a show by The Smothers Brothers. Ironically, five years earlier, Tom Smothers sang backing vocals on Lennon's first Top-40 single "Give Peace A Chance." In 1976, Joe Stampley's "The Sheik of Chicago" -- a tribute to Chuck Berry -- entered the country music charts. In 1991, Janet Jackson signed what was then called the biggest recording deal in music history -- a $50 million contract with Virgin Records. In 1992, Dizzy Gillespie underwent surgery to remove an abdominal blockage. Also in 1992, singer/actor David Carroll collapsed and died from AIDS-related causes during a recording session in New York. He was 41. In 1995, George Clinton toured the site of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. He also donated memorabilia to the museum. In 1996, Nancy Sinatra donated her white go-go boots -- presumably, the ones she sang about in "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" -- to the Hard Rock Cafe in Beverly Hills, Calif. In 1998, rock act Korn served a cease-and-desist demand to the Michigan assistant principal who suspended a student for wearing a T-shirt carrying the band's name. Attorneys for the Immortal/Epic rock act served Assistant Principal Gretchen Plewes, Zeeland High School, and the Zeeland, Mich., public school district with the papers, demanding that the three entities stop "[making] defamatory comments about Korn and its products" as well as "[claiming] to have personal knowledge that Korn intends to be insulting to the listeners of its music." In 1999, Elvis Costello, Kiki Dee and Lulu were among the mourners at the funeral for pop singer Dusty Springfield, who died March 2 of breast cancer. The service was held at St. Mary the Virgin Church in Henley-On-Thames, England. In 2000, in London, multi-platinum R&B quartet Destiny's Child played its first live date since the Feb. 18 naming of Farrah Franklin and Michelle Williams as the group's new members. Also in 2000, canadian music newcomer Chantal Kreviazuk dominated Canada's Juno Awards, which honor the best in Canadian music. 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