Sunday, January 6, 2013

FROM MURRAY 010613

1.  Candy Challenge
There is a narrow wood casing trim board on each side of
the wall for them to grasp with both hands.  Still hard to
believe Avory and Logan's strength at 4 and 3 years old. 
Murray 
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2.  Old Man Doing Turtle Freeze On A Bottle
In Nuremberg Germany
One of the most famous break dance freezes.
Serbian named Zivorad Sotirovic.  Looks 75.
Viewed By  6,505,929
1:26
http://youtu.be/MLQ3Uz4ALb0
3.  Michael Davis - Ford's Theater
Performing for President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan
6:43
4.  Where The Hell is Matt - 2012

By Matt Harding and wife Melissa Nixon.  Live in Seattle Washington. 
Song for video is Trip The Light.  On ITunes.  Credits at end of video. 

Video includes 71 locations in 55 Countries & 11 U.S. States
Song: One Day by Matisyahu.  Matt knows he is a bad dancer. 
30 to 40 people involved, band, camera operators, dance instructors,
choreographers - in this 2012 video.  Only 2 or 3 involved in first or
second 2005 Where The Hell Is Matt videos.  My favorites are:  The
Trinidad dancers - and the dancing seal matching Matt at Sea
World in San Diego.  Murray

From Sherry Silvey
Viewed By  8,486,557
4:53
http://youtu.be/Pwe-pA6TaZk
5.  Red Skelton's Pledge Of Allegiance
So impressive.
Viewed By  2,304,474
4:20
6.  Star Spangled Banner Whitney Houston
Beautiful.
Viewed By  4,474,150
2:50
7.  Elvis Presley An American Trilogy - Hawaii
Beautiful.
4:30
8.  Elvis Presley - Always On My Mind
Maybe I didn't treat you
Quite as good as I should have
Maybe I didn't love you
Quite as often as I could have
Little things I should have said and done
I just never took the time
You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind
3:29
Viewed By  12,819,332
On This Day
The New York Times
June 18, 1986
9.  Kate Smith All American Singer Dies At 79

From Jan DeMedicis

She recorded 3,000 songs - more than any other popular performer.  She introduced more songs than any other performer - over a thousand of which 600 made the hit parade.  She made 15,000 radio broadcasts and over the years, received more than 25 million fan letters.  At the height of her career, during World War II she repeatedly was named one of the three or four most popular women in America.  No single show business figure even approached her as a seller of War Bonds during World War II.  In one 18 hour stint on the CBS radio network she sold $107 million worth of War Bonds which were issued by the United States Government to finance the war effort.  Her total for a series of marathon broadcasts was over $600 million.  President Roosevelt once introduced her to King George VI of England saying ''This is Kate Smith.  Miss Smith is America.''  
With Alan Taylor in In Focus in The Atlantic
May 29, 2012
From Jan Loomis
Sunday marked the 75th anniversary of the opening of San Francisco's
Golden Gate Bridge.  Before 1937 the city's growth was hampered by a
reliance on ferry traffic.  The 8,981 foot suspension bridge changed that
creating a link between San Francisco to Marin County.  Construction
was completed under budget but at the cost of 11 workers' lives.  Here
are images from building this iconic bridge as well as scenes from
its 75 years of service and from Sunday's celebration.  41 photos.
11.  Meet Jeffrey Adam Gutt - THE X FACTOR USA - 2012 36 year old rocker from Detroit impresses judges with
his Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah audition.
Viewed By  2,910,267

12.  Kate Smith - When The Moon Comes Over The Mountain
The Song Bird Of The South with her Sewanee (TN) Music
From Brenda Seilacher
3:05

13.  Wildfire - Michael Martin Murphey Viewed By  2,219,191
5:07


Elephants Moving Silently Through The Tall Grass
Sentence Author   Lt Col George Goodson  USMC
14.  Amazing Juggling Finale By Chris BlissThis video is not about his command of juggling.  
It is about his love of three of the Beatles' songs: 
Golden Slumbers, Carry That Weight and The
End.  His interpretation of that music thru juggling
is great.  Further he is a comedian.
Total views to date are over 80,000,000.
From Joyce Gauntt, Florida & Gaston White
15.  Where the Hell is Matt - 2006
Viewed By  18,178,161
3:43
16.  My Christmas Eve - Bob Welsh 
Drawing from a lifetime of experiences including the U.S. Navy and 29
years as an Ohio State Trooper, Bob has mesmerized listeners around
campfires, in churches, schools and auditoriums with inspirational stories
of fact, fiction and humor set to verse.  For more about him and to order
CDs and books or to book him for a speaking engagement visit his
Website at end. 
From Josie Screiber
Kentucky Dancer And Friend
Viewed By  1,667,973
17.  That's Life BBC 1986 - Soda Water Dogs From Dutch TV Zomergasten 2010
Three German Shepherds In A British Pub
Comments From Viewers:  1. A British guy speaking
madeup Japanese to German Shepherds on a TV show
subtitled in Dutch.  2. Once I was in Germany and met
a Chinese prostitute who only spoke Spanish.
Viewed By 2,524,116
From Bill Sacra & William Bankson 
18.  Carrie Underwood With Vince Gill - How Great thou Art
Standing Ovation
Viewer Comment:  I would not change one thing in this song -
Carrie and Vince's vocals and his guitar instrumental with his
Stratocaster guitar, really deserve a Grammy.
Viewed By  16,742,668
5:12  
19.  Christopher Maloney - Bette Midler's The Rose - The X Factor UK
36 year old shaking like a leaf suffering from serious case of stage fright.  
Watch as the shy singer overcomes his nerves to give a show stopping
performance
Viewed By  5,667,387
9:02
20.  Sheila Nirenberg - Prosthetic Eyes To
Treat Blindness - At TEDMED
She shows a bold way to create sight in
people with certain kinds of blindness: 
By hooking into the optic nerve and
sending signals from a camera directly
to the brain.
10:06
21.  Swing Diego 2009 - West Coast Swing Clips





These dance clips are from a recent annual three-day-long swing dance weekend in San Diego.  Similar weekends occur in Anaheim, Atlanta, Dallas, Seattle, Tampa Bay, St. Louis, Columbus Ohio, and twenty other cities in the U.S., by some of the present top West Coast Swing Dance competition couples in the U.S.  A year later at the 2010 event, many of these present best-in-the-world WCS dancers will have improved even more, and will be joined by some new couples. 
Some of these phenomenal top dancers began seriously taking WCS and other styles of dance lessons at 8 to 10 years old.  The ones who have the most ability develop into this caliber of dancers by age 16 to 25 or 30.  They can be rapidly turning six times and stop in a tenth of a second.  The flow of their hands, arms, feet, legs, head, upper body and lower body greatly adds to the illusion they create individually and as partners.  They learn to arch only one side of their body, subtle head movements, extensions, how to hit certain lines, how to let their fingers, hands, feet and other parts of their body flow in such a natural way that there is a transformation into a creative beauty - for them to feel and for us to experience as we watch, or as we dance with them. 
Some of the top competition dancers practice every day not only on new steps and choreography but learning, and practising over and over, to isolate their lower body and muscles from their upper body and their mid section from their chest - similar to the movements and flow of the best belly dancers and dancers from Hawaii and Tahiti.  They spend part of every day working on simple basics that all dancers learn.  But the best dancers of every type - ballroom, swing, ballet, tap, return to these basics and spend some time each day repeating these moves until their bodies and brains are trained consciously and subconsciously to use these basics and balance of body weight over balls of their feet, no matter what new steps and routines they or their choreographers create for them. 
One workshop instructor demostrated in her workshop on techniques how she practiced isolating and moving different parts of her body when she was at her home brushing her teeth in front of a mirror.  Though these dancers live in a different world, requiring years of practicing and dedication, the great thing about dancing is that even beginners, and non competition intermediate and advanced dancers can enjoy dancing to good songs whether they only know three steps in each type of dance or thirty steps.  Few of the very large number of dancers in the U.S. and the world, compete.  Whether dancers take lessons or invent their own style of moving around the dance floor to the music as they feel it, there is a purity and pleasure that occurs when a good song begins and we move to the dance floor.  
As much as I enjoy seeing the top dancers of every decade, I have also been mesmerized sometimes over the years watching some street dancers who have had few or any formal lessons, dance their particular style, sometime at lightning speed of 180 beats per minute and some using only the three street style steps they know, sometimes to a beautiful slow song, waltz or Samba - but so together and so enjoying flowing and moving together with their partner or with another dancer - fancy or not, beginner or experienced.  Dancers, beginners or experienced, can watch, learn and add some steps each week, month or year, from dance videos or from a couple you see on the floor.  Murray
22.  Kyle Redd & Sarah Vann Drake - 2009 Seattle Dance Classic West Coast Swing with Kyle Redd & Sarah Vann Drake at Seattle's Easter Swing. 
And they only got 2nd Place. 

23.  Marianne Faithfull - As Tears Go By - 1965
Viewed By  5,630,799
2:33

24.  Benji Schwimmer & Heidi Groskreutz - 1st Place - Showcase Division
2005 US Open Swing Dance Championships - West Coast Swing 

Viewed By  3,633,758

3:08
25.  Sissel - Going Home
Sissel, international singing sensation from Norway, born 1969, 43, is widely
regarded as one of the finest most talented sopranos in the world.  Her crystal
clear voice has made her a national institution in Norway.  She has sung all
over the world, selling over six million solo albums.  She contributed the
haunting vocals for the soundtrack to Titanic.  She has sung great duets with
singers like Placido Domingo, Charles Aznavour, Taro Ichihara, Bryn Terfel,
Jose Carreras, Russell Watson, Kurt Nilsen, Neil Sedaka and Josh Groban. 
A very remarkable voice you will only hear once in your lifetime.  She uses a
large orchestra wherever she performs.
5:28
26.  Formation Standard Showdance Competition At The
German Championships 2004 - International Waltz
Viewer 1 Comment:  I have seen many team formations but
this one is something so very beautiful, full of emotions,
perfect technique, great music, fantastic trainer, incredible
dancers.  Ten stars.   Viewer 2:  I am speechless.  Great
exciting mixture of the best dancers, music, art, training.  
Viewer 3:  The choreography is beyond description.  I enjoyed
them so very much.   Viewer 4:  All are dancing with their soul
and heart not just with their body.  That is why they are so
unique.  They don't care about 1st place.  They want to feel
good and to show others how incredible they are.   Viewer 5: 
I am guessing twenty eight hours a week practice.  5:44
27.  Sissel Kyrkjebø - One Day A sweet song from her about looking forward
and leave all your fears behind you.  
And One Day you will find your love.
4:37
28.  Abba - I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do 3:17
http://youtu.be/tW3HN_pvbE4
29.  Sissel - Se Ilden Lyse - Fire In Your Heart
3:44
30.  Boots
The latest commercial from
Temptations Treats for Cats
From Andrea Stanley
Viewed By  1,272,178
0:32
31.  Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville - Don't Know Much - 1990
Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville performing at the 1990 Grammys. 
Song was written by Barry Mann, his wife Cynthia Weil and Tom
Snow; Mann & Weil also wrote Ronstadt's hit Somewhere Out
There and are writers of many pop classics such as You've Lost
That Lovin' Feeling, On Broadway, You're My Soul and Inspiration,
Just Once and many more.
3:36
32.  Leonard Cohen Sings His Hallelujah Viewed By  16,965,555
6:55
33.  Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah At Montreal Jazz Festival 2008
Wikipedia - Leonard Norman Cohen, September 1934, 78, is a Canadian singer songwriter, musician, poet and novelist.  His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships.  He has been inducted into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.  He is also a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour.  In 2011 Cohen received Prince of Asturias Award for literature.  In a speech at Cohen's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame March 2008, Lou Reed described Cohen as belonging to the highest most influential echelon of songwriters.  Critic Bruce Eder wrote of Cohen's overall career in popular music:  He is one of the most fascinating enigmatic singer songwriters of the late 60s and has retained an audience across four decades of music making.  Second only to Bob Dylan and perhaps Paul Simon in terms of influence, he commands the attention of critics and younger musicians more firmly than any other musical figure from the 1960s who is still working at the outset of the 21st century.  The Academy of American Poets has commented more broadly on Cohen's overall career in the arts, including his work as a poet, novelist and songwriter stating Cohen's successful blending of poetry, fiction and music is made most clear in Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, 1993, which gathered more than two hundred of Cohen's poems, several novel excerpts and sixty song lyrics.  While it may seem to some that Leonard Cohen departed from the literary in pursuit of the musical his fans continue to embrace him as a Renaissance man who straddles the elusive artistic borderlines.
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34.  Leonard Cohen - Dance Me To The End Of Love Viewer's Comments:  I saw Leonard yesterday in Madrid,
the concert lasted four hours and was one of the best
moments of my entire life.  I cried for 30 minutes.  Such an
honest, beautiful and generous soul.
Viewed By  1,695,191
6:20
35.  Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man - London 2009
Still hot at 78.  As if I'm Your Man were not total perfection
he follows it with lyrics from A Thousand Kisses Deep. 
Life does not get better, ever, than to listen to Cohen.
Viewed By  1,464,394
9:55
36.  Leonard Cohen - A Thousand Kisses Deep 6:30
37.  Leonard Cohen - A Thousand Kisses Deep - LyricsThe ponies run, the girls are young,
The odds are there to beat.
You win a while and then it's done
Your little winning streak.
And summoned now to deal
With your invincible defeat,
You live your life as if it's real,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.

I'm turning tricks, I'm getting fixed,
I'm back on Boogie Street.
You lose your grip, and then you slip
Into the Masterpiece.
And maybe I had miles to drive,
And promises to keep
You ditch it all to stay alive,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.

And sometimes when the night is slow,
The wretched and the meek,
We gather up our hearts and go
A Thousand Kisses Deep.

Confined to sex, we pressed against
The limits of the sea:
I saw there were no oceans left
For scavengers like me.
I made it to the forward deck.
I blessed our remnant fleet"
And then consented to be wrecked,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.

I'm turning tricks, I'm getting fixed,
I'm back on Boogie Street.
I guess they won't exchange the gifts
That you were meant to keep.
And quiet is the thought of you,
The file on you complete,
Except what we forgot to do,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.

And sometimes when the night is slow,
The wretched and the meek,
We gather up our hearts and go,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.

The ponies run, the girls are young,
The odds are there to beat. 
38.  Elvis Presley - I'll Remember You
Aloha from Hawaii is a concert by Elvis Presley broadcast around the
world on January 14, 1973.  It was watched by over one billion viewers
worldwide and remains the most watched broadcast by an individual
entertainer in television history.
2:31

39.  Circus Roncalli Fur Coat A beautiful coat 
From Ross Harrison & Fred Graham
Viewed By  13,559,013
1:02


40.  BBC's Human Planet
Beautiful Scenes From BBC
January 2011 
www.bbc.co.uk/humanplanet  Human Planet is an awe inspiring, jaw dropping, heart stopping landmark series that marvels at mankind's incredible relationship with nature in the world today.  Uniquely in the animal kingdom humans have managed to adapt and thrive in every environment on Earth.  Each episode takes you to the extremes of our planet The arctic, mountains, oceans, jungles, grasslands, deserts, rivers and even the urban jungle.  Here you meet people who survive by building complex, exciting and often mutually beneficial relationships with their animal neighbors and the hostile elements of the natural world.  Human Planet crews have filmed in 80 locations, bringing you many stories that have never been told on television before.  The team has trekked with HD cameras and state of the art gear to film from the air, from the ground and underwater.  Result:  A cinematic experience created by world class natural history and documentary camera crews and program makers. 
Viewed By  3,655,860
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