Yesterday's Finds

Made some room for some equipment i am picking up today.

I found more space to put away some of the found CD's from charity shops i visit. I picked up four CD's yesterday at fifty pence each - the second Arctic Monkeys CD, one by Bruce Springsteen (not my fave artist bit will sell on Discogs as it is a sealed mint digipak one) and two classical CD's - William Walton's Violin and Cello Concerto , plus this one -



Sibelius is one of my favorite composers. 

The Commercialization of The Poppy

Veteran Harry Leslie Smith Says The 'Politicised' Red Poppy Is Used To 'Sell' The Government's War On Terror

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/11/07/veteran-harry-leslie-smith-red-poppy-politicised_n_8498786.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

New Old Hi Fi System

Thanks to cmcmck and hubby for the donation of this Technics system. Already listened to the CD and played a few twelve inch singles on it. Picked it up from their Gillingham home today. Speakers next visit, so i am using my headphones at the moment.

They are a wonderful couple, and it was great to finally meet up with her.

Rediscovering Vinyl

Rediscovering music with the lovely donation from cmcmck , so this is what i have played so far vinyl wise.




Trouble Funk - Still Smokin' 12"
Odyssey - Don't Tell Me Tell Her 12"
Stone City Band - Ladies Choice 12"
Al Green - Full Of Fire LP
John Knogos - Kongos LP
Tommy Smith - Peeping Tom

Sunday Musical Selection - Mo' Jazz

More cool jazz now.

Tommy Smith - Follow Your Heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKy3TTeLXRk&ab_channel=xenofos77

I have been listening to the vinyl LP, and it is one of my favouirte albums.

Johnny Dankworth - Libra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJCOLpbZs6A#JohnDankworth

From the LP "Zodiac Variations"

Dave Brubeck Quartet with Carmen McRae - Weep No More

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBQcMqTr_3I&ab_channel=ErlendurSvavarsson


Stan Kenton - September Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Pe6WYYcQuw&ab_channel=BH21206

All from the vinyl collection.

Poem Of The Week

Another poem from an American famous for hi short stories.

Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"


It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me-
Yes! - that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we-
Of many far wiser than we-
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.


Edgar Allan Poe