Today's funny :o)

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Oh, boy.....

I totally LOST all my pics when I tried to put them on discs for safe keeping. I have no idea where they went. They are not on the discs, that's for sure....

These were in the camera, so that's all I have: 

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It warmed up on Friday and

all the snow melted:

The balmy weather didn't last long though -  Saturday and Sunday were freezing again!

I came down with some kind of bug....

Not in the mood to go through the laptop to look for the pics - I know they are in there SOMEWHERE......

I'll try to figure out where my pictures went off to on some other day.....

Sniffle, sniffle

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Easy Listening for a Sunday Afternoon

Vaughn Monroe !

 (But it's not what you usually expect from my Sunday selections .....  LOL!)

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At the Hop!

Brook Benton!

Brook Benton

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Brook Benton
Promotional photo of Benton.
Background information
Birth name	Benjamin Franklin Peay
Born	September 19, 1931 Lugoff, South Carolina, United States
Died	April 9, 1988 (aged 56) Queens, New York, United States
Genres	Pop rhythm and blues soul
Occupation(s)	Singer, songwriter, actor
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	1948–88
Labels	Okeh, Mercury, Cotillion, RCA

Brook Benton, born Benjamin Franklin Peay, (September 19, 1931 – April 9, 1988) was an American singer and songwriter who was popular with rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and pop music audiences during the late 1950s and early 1960s, when he scored hits such as "It's Just a Matter of Time" and "Endlessly", many of which he co-wrote.
He made a comeback in 1970 with the ballad "Rainy Night in Georgia." Benton scored over 50 Billboard chart hits as an artist, and also wrote hits for other performers.

Early life and career

When Benton was young, he enjoyed gospel music, wrote songs and sang in a Methodist church choir in Lugoff, South Carolina, where his father, Willie Peay, was choir master. In 1948, he went to New York to pursue his music career, going in and out of gospel groups, such as The Langfordaires, The Jerusalem Stars and The Golden Gate Quartet. Returning to his home state, he joined a R&B singing group, The Sandmen, and went back to New York to get a big break with his group. The Sandmen had limited success and their label, Okeh Records, decided to push Peay as a solo artist, changing his name to Brook Benton, apparently at the suggestion of label executive Marv Halsman.
Brook earned a good living by writing songs and co-producing albums. He wrote songs for artists such as Nat King Cole, Clyde McPhatter (for whom he co-wrote the hit "A Lover's Question") and Roy Hamilton. He eventually released his first minor hit, "A Million Miles from Nowhere", before switching to the Mercury label, which would eventually bring him major success. He also appeared in the 1957 film, Mr Rock And Roll with Alan Freed.

Success

In 1959, he finally made his breakthrough with hits like "It's Just a Matter of Time" and "Endlessly". "It's Just a Matter of Time" peaked at #3 on the United States Billboard Hot 100 chart, sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA. "Endlessly" made it to #12. Both of the first two hits were written by Benton with Clyde Otis. They were originally offered to Nat King Cole, but when Otis became an A&R manager and producer at Mercury, he convinced Benton to sign with the label and record them himself, while asking Cole not to record the songs as planned^] Benton followed this success with a series of hits, including "So Many Ways" (#6), "Hotel Happiness" (#3), "Think Twice" (#11), "Kiddio" (#7), and "The Boll Weevil Song" (#2). In 1960, he had two top 10 hit duets with Dinah Washington: "Baby (You've Got What It Takes)" (#5) and "A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around and Fall in Love)" (#7)^]
In the mid 1960s, Benton recorded for RCA Records and Reprise Records with minimal commercial success. Then, in 1968, he signed with Cotillion Records, a subsidiary of Atlantic Records, where, the following year, he enjoyed his last major hit with "Rainy Night in Georgia", written by Tony Joe White and produced and arranged by Arif Mardin. a million-seller which topped the Billboard R&B chart. Benton recorded a total of five albums with Mardin, including a gospel album, during his stay at Cotillion.
Benton eventually charted a total of 49 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, with other songs charting on Billboard′s rhythm and blues, easy listening, and Christmas music charts. The last album made by Benton was Fools Rush In, which was released posthumously in 2005. He also had records released on various other labels, including All-Platinum, Brut, Olde Worlde, Stax and Groove Records.

Death

Weakened from spinal meningitis, Brook died of pneumonia in Queens, New York City, at the age of 56 on April 9, 1988. He was survived by his wife, Mary Benton, and five children, Brook Jr., Vanessa, Roy, Gerald and Benjamin, all of Queens.

Friday Night Steam

A wonderful video just published on YouTube!  Enjoy!

Source:

Speed Graphic Film and Video

Published on Dec 30, 2017

Fox Movietone's cameramen visited the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1929 and brought back this sound footage. Some of the scenes are in the Sacramento engine shops, the rest show some of their largest steam locomotives out for a run. The scenes include: 0:00 The drivers of a SP-1 4-10-2 as it accelerates. All the SP's 4-10-2's had three cylinders. Listen for the six-per-turn exhaust. 1:02 Scenes of boiler work in the shops. (Note: the sound for this segment has been lost.) 1:27 Putting a connecting rod back on a 4-10-2. There seem to be a large number of shop personnel working on this locomotive. Maybe they all wanted to be in the movies. 2:46 More shots of a 4-10-2's drivers. A suit rides the pilot beam and checks the driver hardware afterwards. 4:18 Cab-forward AC-5 No. 4124 and SP-1 No. 4005 and 4003 running side-by-side. First take, too much smoke. 5:03 Back up for a second take. 5:12 Take two. 6:19 Beautiful pacing shot of the AC-5. 6:15 Pacing shot of all three locomotives. The Movietone people apparently liked these side-by-side locomotive shots, and the Southern Pacific appeared happy to oblige. This film comes from the Fox Movietone News outtakes at the University of South Carolina's Moving Image Resource Collection (mirc.sc.edu).

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Today's funny! :o)

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Dirt???

Yep - it sure is!!!

And I'm not even complain about it when it turns to mud!!

It warmed up nicely yesterday!

Have no idea what they were pecking at....

Blabbermouth:

Yikes! A wet tootsie!!!!

Betty had enough of that snow stuff and ran back to the pen:

Thelma and Louise managed to walk out front:

But they sure didn't like it when I chased them back!

Chicken foots:

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