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Nah, I think Bach gangstered it outta Africa. Or maybe China.

As a fairly recent parent, I've discovered that "Twinkle" has the same changes as those two other end-of-playgroup singalong favourites "Baa Baa Black Sheep" and "Sleeping Bunnies". Don't forget that all time kid's classic, the ABC song. Edit - beat to the draw! What a WONDERFUL world!

Uh, yeah, it is. Different changes & rhythmic displacement, but the same melodic intervals. I'm talking about just the first four bars, but that's the hook, so...

It's the same melody as "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star".

http://www.freshsoundrecords.com/record.php?record_id=1663 http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Guess%20Who:1922069909

An Earland discography: http://funky16corners.tripod.com/earland_discography.htm

And oh my, what is THIS?

http://funky16corners.wordpress.com/2008/1...t-cherie-amour/

Apparently, only until it reaches you, Dan. Do you have a sign on your door - "the fruitcake stops here"? MG No, because anyone who has given me a fruitcake has gone off the gift list thereafter. The lesson is learned pretty quickly. Oh, I misunderstood your post completely! Must be Jim with the fruitcake sign on his door. (Just realised what I've written.) MG Not necessarily...there's some awful fruitcakes out there....but some scrumptious ones as well.

Schweddy Balls? Nooooo.....

My mom makes these chocolate coated coconut/walnut balls that are all I want for Christmas.

I like me some good jello.

Duran Duran Roberto Duran Roberto Clemente

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16274.html

I like a good fruitcake.

Got to reluctantly agree with you there, for the most part... Cut date might be a bit late. Just checked, and the last Phil Woods recording that I know of that isn't "jazzy" IMO is Red Garland's "Sugan," rec. July 1957. Even at that, I can (usually) handle him up the point (early 70s?) when he returned from Europe and began becoming "iconic", which appears to have meant that whatever personal tension(s) had been driving his music was replaced by a self-congratulatory shower of alto-ism, where the differences between him & Bird became less relevant that the differences between him and Richie Cole.

Ok, I was reading this: DOH. I'm using Firefox 3.0.4. But i can still set things from the Options box...

I'm using 5.0 now (w/no complaints whatsoever, fwiw), but before was using a 3.X iirc, and isn't there a setting in, like, Tools--->Options--->Tabs... that allows you to automatically set links to open in new tabs rather than in new windows? The way that works is that links then open in new tabs, but navigational buttons and the like stay in the same tab. Failing that, I can always right-click a link & choose tab or window.

Pressing CDs is so...copulatory. You get in there and you leave your mark after a good bit of...proactive invasion. Burning them is, like.... zipperless. Hit and run. Think about that. You think about that.

I can think of two right off the bat - "You're Looking At Me" & "Can't Help It", both superb songs all but lost to modern song-consciousness (although, hell, what with all the "singer" thing of the last 10-15 years that I've gone out of my way to ignore, maybe they've become standards by now...). And yeah, I still think that song-form is not particularly a relevant creative arena going forth, but otoh, a good song is fun just because, and in that sense, yeah, hey, that's certainly relevant. So, let's hear it for the fun of a good song and carry that with us no matter where else we may or may not go. Anyway, that's the criteria for this thread - great songs recorded by Nat that haven't taken on a life/legend of their own. And now....