It was a nice concert last night, seeing the Rat Pack imitators. They were good.

We're going to a Rat Pack tribute show tonight in Dumfries. The weather today is a bit of a mess. Obviously, it's indoors but still a bit of a hassle to go out. We don't go to many shows, really.

Also wanted to mention that I've got a few quotes for our Canadian train trip holiday ... I emailed several places to see what they come up with so I'm not ( Read more... )

We don't live in a big place...  Dumfries is a good sized town for this area, but not what you would consider a big place.  So, it's not like we get a lot of concerts and big-time entertainment acts here... not that we would probably go to very many anyway.  For the bigger acts, you'd need to go to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle, or maybe Carlisle ( Read more... )

So ... Back to this list of favourite recording artists. Last week I went thru a few changes in the top 50. Now to continue down the list.

It turns out the last time I evaluated my top 200 recording artists list was last July… exactly one year ago. I like to do this every year or two.

It used to be a top 100 list but I believe last year I expanded it ( Read more... )

In the grouping of 81-90, in no particular order are:

Aerosmith 2 (includes 1 new song in SHoF since last time)
Big Star 3 (not in DRAHoF)
Cream 2
Dean Martin 2
Grateful Dead 1
Harry Nilsson 3 (not in DRAHoF)
Squeeze 2
Steve Miller Band 1
Temptations 1
The Band 2 (not in DRAHoF)

I've got this thing called my Early Influence List... It's updated below. Probably the top 3 on the list, if they had been included, should've been on my top 50 recording artists list... but I've kept them separate for some reason (the other list is rock era artists only ( Read more... )

I almost forgot....  here's the Early Influence List...  top 15 (unchanged in rankings since last year)



Early Influence List:

1 Hank Williams 4 songs in SHoF

2 Woody Guthrie 4

3 Frank Sinatra 4

4 Nat King Cole 3

5 Richard Wagner 2

6 Carter Family 0

7 Bill Monroe 1

8 Robert Johnson 1

9 Bing Crosby 1

10 Dean Martin 2

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Right... It's been a bit over a year since I made my last update. So I spent a little time mulling over it and am making some slight changes ( Read more... )

Next for the Song Hall of Fame... "September Song" sung by Dean Martin

A song about growing old...

I'm 51 now. So I figure I'm probably in July headed into August if I'm lucky...

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Back in October of 2010, I made a list of my top 100 favourite recording artists, then in January 2014 I revised the order of the rankings.... And now, here I am back again revising the list ( Read more... )