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How are you doing today? I hope everyone had a nice weekend. First thing let me give you an update from why Marie wasn’t around last week. In short Dave took a tumble on the ice. At first they thought he broke his hip but thank the good Lord it has a very bad bruised hip. Things have been crazy for her and on top of that she’s scheduled to get her back shot that makes her pain-free for a few months. Kindly keep them in your prayers until they both can get back on their feet again.
I borrowed inspiration from the National Day calendar for today’s theme honoring Winnie the Pooh. Everybody loves Pooh. I nearly forgot that I sketched Pooh & Piglet in 2018. Anyway, I sure picked a good one to challenge my lazy brain but I managed to pull together a playlist. I invite you to listen to my tracks while you’re read a little bit about each song selection and what prompted me to pick the title.
A.A. Milan got the idea for his popular children’s story watching his son, Christopher Robin play with his toys which first appeared in publication in 1926. I didn’t know Christopher Robin was a Disney movie. I delighted to find the song Christopher Robin on the movie soundtrack. Richard Sherman has a delightful Pooh Bear singing voice.
The bear with fluff for brains was name first Edward. So to honor the late Eddie Van Halen, I made an interesting discovery that he played guitar for Michael Jackson’s hit song Beat It. Here’s a bit of trivia from the New York Times you might find fun.
When the producer Quincy Jones called Van Halen and asked him to play on a new Michael Jackson album, he didn’t think he was the right guitarist for an R&B track. “Beat It” is a song about being tough, and given free rein, Van Halen played a virtuosic, expansive solo, during which speakers in the studio control room caught fire. Eddie played on the song for free, and wasn’t billed in the album’s credits. As he told CNN in a 2012 interview, one day when he was shopping at Tower Records, “Beat It” came on and he heard a kid snorting, “Listen to this guy trying to sound like Eddie Van Halen.” (“That is me!” Van Halen told them.)
Winnie was named after the Canadian city, Winnipeg. This got me to wondering what famous singers and musicians might I be familiar with, so I browsed this list to discover I knew a few but the one that caught my eye is the international folk artists, The Wailin’ Jennys. Dontcha just l love the play on words? I mean the first thing I thought of was the late country artist Waylon Jennings. I was surprised to learn TWJs have been around more than a decade. Their song, Bright Morning Star, bluegrass album peaked #1 in 2011.
House at Pooh Corner was written by Kenny Loggins but he didn’t record it first. Loggins was 17 when he wrote the song. He caught the ear of an upcoming band the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band who wanted the song for their next album but the song nearly got squashed before it got recorded. This is what Kenny said:
“About a month later, I got a phone call from John McEuen, who at the time seemed to be the leader of the Dirt Band. He says, ‘Kenny, I’m really sorry, but we won’t be able to record that song. We’ve been inundated with phone calls from Disney lawyers for the last few weeks, telling us that we’re not allowed to record a song about Winnie the Pooh.'”
“I was going on a date that night, and I mentioned to my girlfriend, ‘I’m kinda bummed tonight because I thought I had my first song recorded, and it’s not gonna happen. The Disney lawyers put the kibosh on it,'” he continued. “She looked at me and says, ‘Disney lawyers? Let me to talk to Daddy about that.’ I did not know that I was dating the daughter of the CEO of the Disney corporation.”
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band took the song to #53 in 1970. Loggins recorded his song a year later with Jim Messina for their album Sittin In. Many years later, Kenny rewrote the song after his third son’s birth, Return To Pooh Corner.
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This month’s honorary co-hostess is…. Me!
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This is a mewsic linky party. Every other week we have a suggested mewsic theme (see side menu) to build your song set around and all participants share YouTube or Vimeo videos for our mewsic enthusiasts. Failure to meet this basic guideline puts your URL in danger of being removed or labeled – NO MUSIC.
Before I skip off, I have two things I want to mention. First, if you haven’t yet, I’d like to want to invite you to vote in my BoTB 2021 Round 2 from Friday. Alrighty, that’ll do it for today. If things go well then I’ll be back tomorrow with an edition of Tickle Me Tuesdays. Have a boogietastic week! X💋X💋, Cathy
