Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
Well, I appear to be relatively healthy, my cough is gone and I don’t have the congested feeling in my head, and my nether regions seem to be healing nicely so I will consider myself lucky that I have so far successfully avoided the flu which has befallen so many of us. I get the flu shot early every year, usually in October which this year seems especially foresighted. Like everyone else I hate being sick. Denis Hamill, a columnist for the Daily News, wrote a column last week that he titled, Sick of Being Sick which I think we can all go along with. Currently I’m just sick of the Winter although today was a little more temperate and tomorrow the forecast is for positively Spring like weather. Let’s hope.
Very little going on otherwise, visited my ancient Aunt and read to her from Patti Page’s obituary. When I was younger I was not a fan, as at the time I considered this to be music of my parent’s generation and as such, nothing for me to pay attention to. But as I’ve aged I’ve discovered that music from all generations has it’s good points and I can enjoy it as much as I enjoy the music I grew up with. I listen to old radio programs off the web while at work and sometimes I’ll play old music clips off YouTube. YouTube is dangerous in that it is much akin to eating peanuts, you watch or listen to a video which leads you to another and pretty soon you’ve lost a substantial portion of the day. I try my best to avoid that. The other day I was listening to my Mills Brothers channel on Pandora which, much to my disappointment, had a dearth of Mills Brothers songs it but it did have wonderful pop music. I heard the Andrews Sisters and then found myself listening to a 15 minute medley of their hits. Afterwards, as it was on the same page, I played a 8 minute excerpt from an old movie that featured the big band leader Tex Beneke. The clip I saw had him, the band, and a group of backup singers, singing I Got a Gal in Kalamazoo, which is currently a favorite of mine. That was wonderful but when it ended, the lights dimmed and the spotlight hit the curtain and out came the Nicholas Brothers, two Black tap dancers. They started as children and in this clip they must be in their early 20’s. They were phenomenal dancers, moving as if their bodies had no bones. I had to bring over my young colleague to watch and at one point I said to her, do you think Michael Jackson watched these guys? You could see lots of Michael’s moves, the splits, flips and moonwalking but to my mind these guys were so much better. At one point they leapt onto a platform, probably five feet from the floor and did a split. I commented to my coworker that while the split was sensational, it was even more sensational that they bounced right up from it. Without using their hands. At the end of the routine one of them danced up a wall and did a back flip! They lived to ripe old ages and danced pretty much up till the end.
Give yourself a treat and spend 7 minutes 43 seconds with Tex Beneke, The Glenn Miller Orchestra and the Nicholas Brothers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFv_PoZ2iP0 Andy G.
Manila Christmas Carollers
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcfalch/8349951260/ In my kitchen Dans ma cuisine
http://www.flickr.com/photos/87668730@N02/8292156900/in/photostream/ Sweet brolita
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22979184@N05/8372887556/ Shalimar
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7388762@N03/8287924868/ Spice boys
http://www.flickr.com/photos/71513399@N05/8290142509/ Maid to Be Drag
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48007664@N04/8294423192/ Slinky sissy satin maid!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/62100005@N03/8284726233/ Innocent
http://www.flickr.com/photos/emilysakura/8282063085/ Petticoat discipline10
http://www.flickr.com/photos/91172671@N07/8316367798/ 2244729285_883a07505c_z Davita was drerssed into his moms very beautiful wedding gown.As his mom had no girls. Davita dressed her older son Devita in his moms gown. As Devita is going to marry his girl friend in his moms gown.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/91084223@N03/8318624462/ sloup_2007_215
http://www.flickr.com/photos/58303474@N06/8318967106/ 
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