Finis Henderson

Welcome to Monday’s Music Moves Me on Sundays!  This week’s theme is whatever music moves you! 

In January, our dance partner, Scriptor, introduced Finis Henderson to me with “Blame It On the Night”.  The song released in the early 80s. Somehow the song went unnoticed or I simply don’t remember it.  I couldn’t find out the song’s stats when it released, so I’m clueless on how well it did.  I learned Finis primarily performs for cruise lines, casinos, and corporate.  Perhaps, these career discussions is what kept him out of the commercial music arena.  I found a YouTube playlist of the album featuring the new to me song with nine others to enjoy.   

 

Interesting factoid, Fnis’ godfather was the late Sammy Davis, Jr. Cool, right?

 

 

This is a music link up.  Your post must contain at least one song or your URL is marked “No Music”.

 

Remember music themes are only suggestions.  I don’t care one way or another.  The important thing is to share whatever music moves you. Now, it’s your turn!

 

Earlier this morning, I published a BOTB showdown for those interested in playing along.  This is an extended weekend with the observation of Labor Day tomorrow in the US and Canada.   I hope you are enjoying the weekend as summer begins to wind down.  The warm temperatures will stay with us for awhile here in east Tennessee so there’s no hurry to put my shorts away just yet. 

This may be my last set of Friendly Fill-ins until after October.  

1. The summer is just about over and I have yet to finish all the yardwork I wanted to do.  It’s just been too wet this summer to get anything done and it’s so frustrating!
 
2. The highlight of my summer was planning for our vacation. I’m excited and will be glad to get away from some of the stuff that’s caused anxiety.
 
3.Snoopy is a fictional character I really relate to. Mostly because he’s a happy little guy and good friend which I think are two of my best qualities. 
 
4. My interest in creative writing began when I was in junior high. I wish I had really stuck to it but I mostly dabbled with it, never taking it seriously and like most things lost interest as time passed.

 

My semi-hiatus with continues and I may keep this routine for the rest of the year.   Feel free to do what you want, click “like”,  leave an emoji or a short comment.  I’m easy going.  This flags me of your visit.  Have a boogietastic week!

Awhile back Rain prompt for the TAD community was “balloon”. I immediately thought of hot air balloons in a late summer sky above the city but I thought the scene would be nicer placed over the Smoky Mountains. I used Procreate to illustrate my design and then used Brushstrokes for the final touch. The landscape reminds me of Cades Cove in the mountains.


 

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11 comments

  1. This man has a good 80s vibe and cool that his godfather is Sammy Davis Jnr. Love your drawing and the colouring. It reminds me when hubby and I were at his Aunt’s home and there were many balloons in the sky. There was some festive occasion going on.
    Yard work and cleaning is never ending. I started to deep clean the kitchen and then we had our restful vacation. Since then, my pain and tiredness has stopped me from continuing but I hope to restart.
    It was nice to know you had a nice time on vacation. You take the extra break because this is supposed to be fun.

  3. I don’t remember Finis from back in the day but I like his sound. Very nice. Also, I love your drawing. Thanks for hosting and I hope that you have a wonderful week.

  6. Hi, Cathy!

    I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this 1983 album by Finis Henderson. It’s loaded with smooth grooves including ballads and up tempo songs. I read that his cousin, a member of Earth, Wind & Fire, helped him develop his solo career. Indeed, Finis captures the EW&F sound, and he also reminds me of one of his contemporaries Al Jarreau.
    Interesting that he is also an impressionist and has worked with A list comedians along the way. Clearly, Finis Henderson has a very successful career going and is always in demand.

    I love the aqua, magenta, blue, purple, green and white color scheme used in your hot air balloon composition. It reminds me of my own visit to the Smokys a few years ago. I wish we would have received some of that rain up here in my neck of the woods. The second half of summer has been very hot and too dry, making it a challenge to keep the lawn, trees, shrubs and flowers healthy.

    It was a pleasure visiting you this month. If you enjoy a good “cliffhanger,” I hope you’ll check out my new post which begins running this coming Thursday, Sept. 5. Take care and continue to enjoy your summer hiatus, dear friend Cathy!

  9. Nice drawing. Thank you for participating in the fill-ins. great answers. Our yard got out of hand this summer from all the humidity and heat. XO

  10. I don’t know that song butI remember Blame it on the night (or was that Blame it on the rain I remember? Hmmm). It’ws funny how you can miss whole popular songs….

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