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The flipSide  05/29/2017

5/29/2017

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​Straight out of 1965

You Were on My Mind" is a popular song written by Sylvia Fricker in 1962. It was written in a bathtub in a suite at the Hotel Earle in Greenwich Village. She wrote it in the bathroom because "it was the only place ... the cockroaches would not go".   ​In 1965 the song was covered in an up-tempo version, with slightly altered lyrics and melody by the California pop quintet We Five. Their recording reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in September 1965 and topped the Billboard easy listening chart for five weeks.[2] Billboard ranked the record as the No. 4 song of 1965.[3]
"Help!" is a song by the Beatles that served as the title song for both the 1965 film and its soundtrack album. It was also released as a single, and was number one for three weeks in both the United States and the United Kingdom.  It was ranked no. 29 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[2]
"Crying in the Chapel" is a song written by Artie Glenn for his son Darrell to sing.  Released as an "Easter Special" single (447-0643) in April 1965,[7] hitting number three on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and topping the Easy Listening chart for seven weeks,[8] the greatest chart success for Presley over a six-year span.
"My Girl" is a 1964 standard recorded by The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label which became a number one hit in 1965. Written and produced by The Miracles members Smokey Robinson and Ronald White, the song became the Temptations' first U.S. number-one single, and is today their signature song. ​
 
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The flipSide - 05/22/2017

5/22/2017

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               Today's flipSide is brought to you by
​                                             JL




                                              (Disclaimer)
​                 Publishment of this material is not necessarily an                                                       endorsement of it's contents
         
              When I miss Wisconsin, I play this little ditty and remember why I left... JL

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JL - Early Years


Although I gotta say - our HS years were
                          DA BEST!!

                                                              Thanks Jerry

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The flipSide  05/15/2017

5/15/2017

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​JL - Pure Wisconsin (Manitowoc/Sheboygan metro area) just to let you all know that virtually nothing has changed over the past 60 years... inso?
                                                        (Today's flipSide compliments JL)                                                       
                                                      

As you are no doubt already aware, the "Happy Schnapps Combo" is to Wisconsin what                                                        "Rush" is to Canada:
                                                                 a band.
                                       
​                                           
Remember to drink Wisconsinbly!
    The bears still suck! Happy Schnapps Combo



​​It ain't just any band, though. 
Manitowoc's very own Jim "Bruiser" Krueger, who wrote the hit song "We Just Disagree" just so's his pal Dave Mason could afford to pay him what he was worth, created da Combo with an important goal in mind: t'sing about how much "Da Bears Still Suck".
​   Happy Schnapps Combo - Dis Ain't My Toilet 


​Dis was a noble goal indeed, and he was rewarded greatly, never having to buy his own cheesecurds no matter where inna state of Wisconsin he traveled. He is greatly missed, though his brother Rich Krueger and the remaining Combo is doing everyt'ing dey kin t'keep Bruiser's memory alive t'rough his music...


​The original band was made up of Bruiser (Otto); Bill (Horst) Soucy; Steve (Wolfgang) Heise; Dave (Helmut) Heise; and Bruiser’s brother Rich (Wenzel) Krueger, who is still with the Schnapps today. The band cut two early albums, “100 Proof” and “Raise It”. Much of the music played by the Happy Schnapps Combo was written by Bruiser; however, Horst also contributed to this madnes
       On Da Badger-Happy Schnapps Combo


​Bruiser was the band’s leader until his unfortunate and untimely death in 1992.  But everyone knew that the “show must go on”.  And so it did…from the first recording, “100 Proof” to its current album “Polka Power”, the Happy Schnapps Combo has had its mettle tested – and it has survived… to become Wisconsin’s Premier Show Band!


​
   Happy Schnapps Combo- Blatz and Saurkraut

Thank You JL - 

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The flipSide 05/01/2017

5/1/2017

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                             Ella Fitzgerald
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100 years April 25, 2017
        none have been able to imitate her talent
               and
                     record of musical achievement.   JL



Here’s a beautiful performance by Ella Fitzgerald of “Summertime,” the famous lullaby from the 1935 George Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, who wrote the novel the opera is based on.
Summertime,
And the livin’ is easy
Fish are jumpin’
And the cotton is high
Ella in Berlin is a 1960 live album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald. This album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have "qualitative or historical significance." [3]
One of Fitzgerald's most acclaimed live performances, at this concert in Berlin, Fitzgerald improvised lyrics for "Mack the Knife" after forgetting the original lyrics. In recognition of this, she received the Best Female Vocal Performance (Single) and the Best Vocal Performance, Female (Album) at the 3rd Annual Grammy Awards.
"How High the Moon" is a jazz standard with lyrics by Nancy Hamilton and music by Morgan Lewis.  The song was sung in various recordings by Ella Fitzgerald.  ​Her most celebrated recording of "How High the Moon" is on her 1960 album Ella in Berlin, and her version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have "qualitative or historical significance."[10]

Thanks for your contribution Jerry!  Keep it coming!

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