For inclusion in the Uber SHoF... "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" by the Beatles

One of my favourite Beatles songs off probably my favourite album.

Most people probably think it's about drugs or is in reference to Yoko... maybe it is... but the lyrics are mostly about Transcendental Meditation. Stuff the Maharishi would ( Read more... )

Uber HoF song: Rocky Raccoon by the Beatles

White Album song… And not the first from that album to be inducted to my UBER list of favourite songs. Won't be the last.

It's one that I've always enjoyed singing along to. Pretty simple. I like songs like this that tell a little story. It's a bit mockish of folk music and country music, which I think is a ( Read more... )

Here's some info I got off the internet, excepted:

A third of Pakistan has been left underwater as the vast country of 230 million people suffers a calamitous monsoon season "on steroids".

That was the description from UN Secretary General António Guterres this week

An estimated 33 million have been impacted with half a million displaced to relief ( Read more... )

The language of the Gypsies was the key that unlocked the mystery of their supposed origin.

...the discovery that Gypsies originated in India was made by a scholar who noticed a close similarity between the language of the Hungarian Gypsies and the Sanskritized Malayalam of subcontinent Indians.

... the English word, "pal," (first recorded in 1681) ( Read more... )

More info about Gypsies... from an internet source.

Although a Persian story has been cited as proof they came from a single caste of entertainers, more recent evidence, including blood-type research, points to a gathering of diverse peoples in the Punjab region of India to form an army and its support groups to counter Muslim invaders.

In the ( Read more... )

I found interesting info about Gypsies on the internet.... I might excerpt some of it here...

Here's the first bit:

The term Gypsy derives from Egyptian, reflecting a mistaken assumption of the origins of the people who refer to themselves as the Roma.

Ethnic Gypsies are the descendants of diverse groups of people who were assembled in northern India ( Read more... )

Right.... I've been a bit lazy lately... and this should've been done a month ago.... but I have another song to add to my list I call my Song Hall of Fame.... Six hundred something songs in it and still slowly growing. Very slowly, lately.... but here's another to add ( Read more... )

No work today, as it's a Bank Holiday Monday....   and it's a rainy day.

Thinking a lot about India lately.  I hope the Covid situation gets better over there.  A lot of suffering.  It's not nice, but I do hope the Baghavad Gita is right:

BG 2.12 paraphrased:

Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you...... nor in the future shall any ( Read more... )

I want to add a recording artist to my DRAHoF (D's recording artist hall of Fame) list.... And today it is Ravi Shankar.


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