Year 4, Day 259

Hello! Today's song is Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and his Comets.

So these guys are considered to be one of the first predominately white rock and roll bands to make it big. I find this fact noteworthy only when you compare it to what they had been doing before being labeled as rock and roll. They were a country band. Yup, I said country. In fact Bill Haley was revered as one of America's top yodelers. They became part of the rock and roll family when their sound switched out of country and into rockabilly, and featured slap-back heavily. At the time they were known as the Saddlebacks, and it became clear that just wasn't going to work for their new direction. Thus the Comets were born.

Peace.

Year 4, Day 258

Hey guys. Today's song is Do You Wanna Dance by Bobby Freeman.

Bobby had this huge hit when he was only 17. It's one of the only big songs he had and a despite lots of touring he never quite hit the success he got with this song. Originally titled Do You Want To Dance, this song's fame lives on by all the people who choose to cover it. Notable groups who covered it include Del Shannon, the Beach Boys, John Lennon, and the Ramones. Personally nothing can beat the original for me.

Peace.

Year 4, Day 257

Hi. So today's song is Earth Angel by the Penguins.

Anyone who has seen Back to the Future knows this song. The Penguins were made up of Cleveland Duncan, Curtis Williams, Dexter Tisby, and Bruce Tate. The song however was actually in existence before this group formed. Williams had been in another group previously called the Hollywood Flames, and had written this song with another member of that group. Fun Fact: they kind of named themselves after a cigarette campaign penguin. I mean not really, but the correlation between "smoking is cool" and "our music is cool" is insinuated. This song had a similar origin to yesterday's song, by being on the B-side of the tape. A DJ accidentally played the wrong side and the rest is history.

Peace.

Year 4, Day 256

Afternoon. Today's song is In the Still of the Night by Fred Parris and the Satins.

I mentioned Frank Sinatra yesterday which got me thinking about the classic songs that I never listen to anymore. So it's time again (because I feel like it) to do an oldies week and shine a light on some fabulous acts from before my time. So originally this group wasn't so successful. They had to re-evaluate membership and came back sans two guys with one new guy. I think my favorite anecdote is this song was actually a B-side song. As in, not as important necessarily as the one on the A-side. And yet it charted at #3. It got even more success after being featured on a compilation disc. Unfortunately right around that time Fred Parris got drafted, effectively ending the group. After the war a lot of reincarnation of the group happened, some of which being Fred Parris and the Scarlets, and Fred Parris and the Restless Hearts. To me though, the group when this song came out will always be my favorite of the options.

Peace.

Year 4, Day 255

Hey everybody. So today's song is Death Of A Bachelor by Panic! At The Disco.

Oh Brendon Urie, you will always be my favorite. Even when you get mad that people want one song and one song only from you. You know the one. I get it now. I know why it pisses him off so much, and it's because the rest of his repertoire is so amazing. I mean listen to this song. Listen to it. It's like Frank Sinatra came down from heaven to grace us with a song then took off again. I can say that I listen to this on my ipod about once a day minimum because I love it so much. Which song is your favorite by the band? Let me know!

Peace.

Year 4, Day 254

Hi. So today's song is Cupid by Daniel Powter.

We all know Daniel for his super famous sad song, but I wanted to highlight the fact that he's more than just the Bad Day guy. Like this song is so adorable and makes me feel really happy. It will never have the same visceral reaction as the other song did, but not every song is meant to break our emotions. Sometimes we just need a cute little jam. It's that kind of day for me, so I'm sharing it with you.

Peace.

Year 4, Day 253

Morning. Today's song is Drops Of Jupiter by Train.

I've started playing Sims again. One thing I like about the Sims community is that people will create challenges for other players to do to make the game more interesting. I'm doing on of those right now. It's a Disney Legacy challenge in which you play through all these princesses and complete certain objective starting with Snow White. For her, she needs to have seven children (dwarfs) one of which will grow up to be Cinderella, and all of them need a specific trait. If you know about the seven dwarfs you can kind of guess what kind of traits they'll be given. Let me tell you though, it sounds so much easier than it is. It's taken me more than five hours of gameplay to get her to have that many children. And of course I decided to create the princes for them, so technically the dad of all of them is Prince Ferdinand, but he doesn't live with his wife and kids. It's a very stressful Snow White household. I'll keep you informed when I move to the next chapter.

Peace.