Hi! 

I hope everyone is having a safe and pleasant Memorial Day!  

We are drawing from Bill's "Easy Listening" set for the music.  I have chosen only one song to emphasize the day.   Listen to any Memorial Day tribute and you find a reason to be thankful for what we all many times take for granted.   

 . . . . So listen with Bill, watch these truly American scenes and reflect.

George Winston was first recorded by John Fahey for Fahey's Takoma Records. The album Ballads and Blues disappeared without much notice, although it was later reissued on Winston's Dancing Cat Records. However, in 1979, William Ackerman talked with Winston about having Winston record for Ackerman's new record label, Windham Hill Records. At first Winston played some guitar pieces he liked and then he played some of his nighttime music on the piano, which became the basis for the record Autumn, which Ackerman produced. Autumn soon became the best-selling record in the Windham Hill catalog,[citation needed] and his albums December and Winter into Spring both went platinum (million-plus sales in the United States). He has recorded seven more solo piano albums, and he is one of the best known performers playing contemporary instrumental music.  thanks WIKI

Happy Memorial Day Bill!

Till next week

Harv

Good Morning Everyone!

What a difference a couple of weeks make!  Almost looks like mid-summer.  Little stormy but NO SNOW!!!!

Now that we're all a bit more mellow  . . . .  I thought I would play some of the Kingston Trio songs from 1958 to late 60's.  

The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to late 1960s. The group started as a San Francisco Bay Area nightclub act with an original lineup of Dave Guard, Bob Shane, and Nick Reynolds. The Kingston Trio was one of the most prominent groups of the era's pop-folk boom that started in 1958 with the release of their first albumand its hit recording of "Tom Dooley", which sold over three million copies as a single.[1] The Trio released nineteen albums that madeBillboard's Top 100, fourteen of which ranked in the top 10, and five of which hit the number 1 spot. Four of the group's LPs charted among the Top 10 selling albums for five weeks in November and December 1959,[2] a record unmatched for more than 50 years,[3]and the group still ranks after half a century in the all-time lists of many of Billboard's cumulative charts, including those for most weeks with a number 1 album, most total weeks charting an album, most number 1 albums, most consecutive number 1 albums, and most top ten albums.[4]  Thanks WIKI

Well that's it for this week.  Bill, we're hoping things are going well for you and we want you to know we are thinking about you.

Harv

Hi Everyone! 

Well Joan and have been back for a week now and guess what!!!  We can't figure out what all the fuss was about.  70's met us on Monday and in the last week we experienced only a few 50's.  What's up with all the complaining????  Sure, 70's / 80's are nicer than the 50's . . . . but then, some days are diamonds and some days are stones!

So you really thought I would miss a week????

Not on your life!  I visited with Bill Saturday this week and must say he is doing great!  Sharon, Bill, Chris (Sharon and Bill's youngest), Joan and I had lunch together and had a really fun time.  Lots of smiles and laughs.  Bill was happy to tell us that he returns home on Monday (today).  Turns out that Joan and I finally reached home today too!  So . . .  any song on Bill's iPod with "Home in it's name is fair game!  

Here are three that I think you will really enjoy.

Just want to report that the weather in Burnsville, MN today is in the 70's  -  same for tomorrow.  I'm taking credit!!!!

Hope everything is well with you all.  

See you next week.

Harv