Get this: it all started with the WSAV weather song.
I kid you not.
Taking a cue from the song in "The Sound Of Music", I figured it out.
Starting with today's high and following through the week, here goes!
LA -- DO -- MI -- SO -- MI -- SO -- LA
Very raggedy tune fragment, but there you have it.
Wilfried Van den Brande was inspired to make this documentary about Cole Porter after singing "So In Love" with Kim Criswell.
That duet was in 2007.
Seven years later, the film was completed, full of the music of the man that Van den Brande regards as "the greatest American songwriter".
I loved that Porter's journals were included in this!
All those notations about "Love For Sale", "Anything Goes", "Night And Day"...
his life in Paris with his wife, Linda, the only woman he loved...
spending his inheritance from his grandpa on fun in the sun with men...
what a vibrant life he led until a horse-riding accident in 1937.
I'm so glad that PBS gave this slice of his life to me!
(smile!)
"Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour" was even part of the A*List!
That meant it was free for me, perhaps as a bday68 gift from the Universe.
See, Barbara Nixon was a fan of the young American, perhaps because of her math students, so I went to the movie in memory of my friend.
The Universe was looking out for me.
I'd chosen the 2 PM, 3-D, movie time, but that had been a mistake in the schedule and wasn't actually a thing.
However, Brooke set me up with my very own private viewing...
and I could feel Boo's presence with me as I watched the 24-year-old singer/songwriter bounce all over the stage in Manchester, England.
I only knew four of her songs - "Bad Guy", "Ocean Eyes", "Birds Of A Feather", and "No Time To Die" - and that was rather glancingly.
Not so for her fans!
They knew every single word of every single song.
I should note that no one in that concert audience was my age.
The vast majority were females, in their teens and twenties, with a few male sprinkled in, as well as a few moms.
I came away knowing Billie to be a good role model for her peers, emphasizing knowledge and not sex appeal.
No wonder Barbara liked her music!
I opted for the Chef Salad at Midtown Sports Grill, topping it with the peanut vinaigrette usually reserved for their Thai Salad.
Wow, what a flavor sensation!!!
That used up the last of my winnings, too, from two months ago.
Sandy was the only one of to win this time, taking the free-appetizer prize for the second game, which was, appropriately for her, "80's Mix #2 - New"!
She does so love that era!
My card was pretty useless for that game, as well as for the first game, which was all about country music.
However, for the last game, that music was more the speed for me and Marcia, and I was only one song away from that 50-dollar prize card!
All I needed was "Feels So Good", by Chuck Mangione.
Better luck to all of us next time!
What a day full of music, and friends, for me!
i thank You, God!
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