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greatbearmd

Anniversary number two, with an unexpected surprise

Oct 25, 2014 00:47

Jeff and I met 14 years ago on October 23, 2000. That was yesterday (Thursday). Until we got married, Oct. 23 was our "unofficial official" anniversary date, one we'd always celebrate with a dinner out. While our marriage date has become the "official" anniversary, we will continue to celebrate both days. Why? Well, because it's fun and nice and we ( Read more... )

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champdaddy October 25 2014, 16:18:54 UTC

I am familiar with the Kenny Ball version…

Happy Anniversary, guys!

greatbearmd October 27 2014, 16:00:47 UTC

Thanks, Champ!

mrdreamjeans October 25 2014, 17:07:27 UTC

Happy Anniversary to you! Like Jeff, I feel that your mom was paying you a visit .. the music triggered a flow of warm memories and that's wonderful ...

I've always felt attached to you, though we haven't met, because I am inspired by your love for your mother, how much she meant to you. I miss my mother so much; it's coming up on 11 months since she died.

HUGS!

greatbearmd October 31 2014, 18:09:51 UTC

Certain situations like this tend to reopen floodgates of pain, but it's not a bad thing anymore. The timing couldn't have been any better either. I'll remember this one for a long time to come.

11 months? Wow. Seems like just the other day. *hugs*

fingertrouble October 26 2014, 06:05:37 UTC

Wow thanks for not only a great story, but introducing me to such a great song...I didn't know it. Interesting how Kenny Ball and HIS Jazzmen (me and Kirk always take the piss out of that, stressing HIS Jazzmen, not YOUR Jazzmen or MY Jazzmen, they are ALL his and his alone! ;-)) also did another foreign cover, Suki Yaki, which I know better...pop charts seemed strangely more international in the 50's & 60's despite the cold war. Strange how Gangnam Style was made out to be so unusual, when even when I was a kid songs with foreign languages sometimes made the charts, and even Japanese songs back then in the US/Europe, which I find pretty incredible ( ... )

fingertrouble October 26 2014, 06:13:32 UTC

Found it = Radio Moscow 1981:

EDIT no, that's a different song I think. This apparently was the version they used, rather upbeat?

greatbearmd October 31 2014, 18:28:04 UTC

Yep, this is where I remember hearing it a lot. I was an avid SWL in my early years, and my Mom liked to hear what was going on at home, as it were. It played at regular intervals. Everyone knew what the song meant, apparently. The first one is definitely a different song, the second one is definitely Moscow Nights, but, well, perhaps as it would've been played on The Love Boat. LOL! That era in music touched everything in it's own unique style.

greatbearmd October 31 2014, 18:20:05 UTC

There's something very hopeful in the lyrics of both this song and the one I linked to, yet the music carries the sadness in the background. I've long felt that Russian music is very emotional, and reflects the long suffering the Russian people have endured over the years. Though I never lived in Russia, I had my own little world of it at home, and in the early days Mom and I weren't well-to-do at all. But we had hope, we would try to overcome and did. My memories still can put me into my earliest years, and even a modern song that might be written with an old Russian music and feeling to it can send me back.

Thanks for sharing this! I had no idea it existed. It has so much warmth and innocent charm to it, but that music, well, it hits me in the gut.

notdefined October 27 2014, 16:44:47 UTC

These anniversary dates get so confusing, we have three and one of those I can never remember:

1. The day we officially became a unit: 4/25/1993*
2. The day of our commitment: 9/21/1994
3. The day we got married: 6/21/2008

I always have to google this one. It was the day of the 1993 march on Washington.

greatbearmd October 30 2014, 20:38:42 UTC

That's three nice dinners, I'm sure. ;)

mort_83 October 29 2014, 02:50:51 UTC

Happy Anniversary...those are some wonderful Russian memories. I never knew your Mom was from Russia. Thanks for sharing this. :)

greatbearmd October 30 2014, 20:39:41 UTC

Yep, And at an early age my Mom called me a bear. :)

mort_83 November 4 2014, 02:50:43 UTC

:-)

My Mom woofs. My High School gym teacher, Mr Drago, was a hottie (even his name...)..stocky, hairy Italian guy with a great porn stache. When my parents came home from their first parent's night my first year of HS, I asked them about each of my teachers..when I got to Drago, my Mom said "He's a GOOD looking man.....WOOF!"

My Mom turned me into a bear. :-)