{"id":573896816,"date":"2024-04-18T21:41:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T01:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573896816"},"modified":"2024-04-25T00:37:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T04:37:39","slug":"enjoy-these-many-featured-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2024\/04\/18\/enjoy-these-many-featured-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Enjoy these many featured items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It occurred to me Monday evening that I&#8217;m way behind in the Re-Listening Project. Six whole discs! Which means I&#8217;m right on schedule, I suppose. But just six discs since the end of February. I haven&#8217;t been driving a lot, fortunately. Saving the earth and all of that. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannermusic.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is the one where I&#8217;m listening to all of my old CDs in the car, in the order in which I acquired them. I&#8217;ve been (intermittently) writing about them here to pad things out. These aren&#8217;t reviews, because who cares? Usually they are just memories, but mostly excuses to post some music. <\/p>\n<p>And so we go back to 2004! We go back to 2004 to hear songs from a man who died in 1995! A collection of his songs from the 1950s and 1960s! <\/p>\n<p>I speak, of course, of Dean Martin, one of the true peaks of 20th century entertainment. Captured on &#8220;Dino: The Essential Dean Martin,&#8221; are 30 tracks, and you need almost all of them. Here, you can learn to croon. Here, you can learn to mumble, badly through a few Italian phrases. Here, you could learn Volare.<\/p>\n<p>I knew, or was passingly familiar, with a full two-thirds or more of this album when I first picked it up, but I didn&#8217;t own any of them. And the rat pack wasn&#8217;t on the radio in my house or my grandparents&#8217; homes or anywhere else, but I knew them all the same. The King of Cool is just imprinted on you somehow, I suppose. It makes it easier to see what he was, and what you are not. Anyway, the track listing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ain&#8217;t That a Kick in the Head?<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s Amore<br \/>\nMemories Are Made of This<br \/>\nJust in Time<br \/>\nSway<br \/>\nI&#8217;d Cry Like a Baby<br \/>\nVolare (Nel Blu di Pinto di Blu)<br \/>\nUnder the Bridges of Paris<br \/>\nLove Me, Love Me<br \/>\nIf<br \/>\nMambo Italiano<br \/>\nLet Me Go, Lover!<br \/>\nStanding on the Corner<br \/>\nYou Belong to Me<br \/>\nPowder Your Face with Sunshine (Smile! Smile! Smile!)<br \/>\nInnamorata (Sweetheart)<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll Always Love You (Day After Day)<br \/>\nKiss<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re Nobody till Somebody Loves You<br \/>\nReturn to Me (Ritorna-Me)<br \/>\nThe Door Is Still Open (to My Heart)<br \/>\nHouston<br \/>\nSend Me the Pillow You Dream On<br \/>\nEverybody Loves Somebody<br \/>\nIn the Chapel in the Moonlight<br \/>\nI Will<br \/>\nLittle Ole Wine Drinker, Me<br \/>\nSomewhere There&#8217;s a Someone<br \/>\nIn the Misty Moonlight<br \/>\nGentle on My Mind<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My favorites remain this one, which started as a show tune, crossed over and became a big hit for The Four Lads in 1956. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1CriukwPkxI?si=1OTewhAvmqUaYqDR\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s The Four Lads version, which sounds like it came from a different generation after you hear Martin&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i9AtE1h9hx0?si=0JE9t0lXwbxT0cGU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They came out in the same year.<\/p>\n<p>Probably the song I listened to the most was &#8220;Houston.&#8221; Written by the incredibly influential <a href=\"https:\/\/leehazlewoodmusic.net\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lee Hazlewood<\/a>, and first recorded by the rockabilly singer Sanford Clark (a man usually ahead of his time), but Martin made it his own. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/50vNZcc_Eno?si=IHs18ahJqJiiNRv-\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was a hit. &#8220;Houston&#8221; spent 9 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at 21, and settled in at number two on Billboard&#8217;s Easy Listening chart.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerhouse.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s check in on a few of the things growing around here. The squash is going strong. We could be eating a lot of squash this summer. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr24\/apr50.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And I will definitely be enjoying a lot of tomato sandwiches this summer. Grow, tomatoes, grow!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr24\/apr51.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re still waiting on a few other things to emerge from the soil, potentially, but so far this has been an encouraging first effort in our new-old greenhouse. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannercalifornia.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And, finally, because it is Thursday and you deserve something peaceful and stunningly gorgeous, please enjoy with me this mesmerizing comb jelly from the Monterey Aquarium, which we saw on our trip to California last month. <\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;left:0px;top:0px;overflow:hidden\" frameborder=\"0\" type=\"text\/html\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x8xb2oq\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" allowfullscreen title=\"Dailymotion Video Player\" > <\/iframe> <\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These beauties are incredibly fragile. These spotted comb jellies are small, but they vary in size within the species. Some 186 species are recognized today, ranging in size from a few millimeters to 5 feet! The comblike plates beat to move the jelly through the water, and the combs diffract the light to produce that captivating rainbow effect. They eat other jellies, and some of them can expand their stomachs so they can consume prey nearly half their size! Salmon, turtles and other jellies think of these comb jellies as a tasty meal.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll show you another comb jelly on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, we&#8217;re going to look at an old book. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It occurred to me Monday evening that I&#8217;m way behind in the Re-Listening Project. Six whole discs! Which means I&#8217;m right on schedule, I suppose. But just six discs since the end of February. I haven&#8217;t been driving a lot, fortunately. Saving the earth and all of that. 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