Dear Friends and Schoolmates, We're having a little break from the heat here in Fayetteville this week; I hope you're not dueling the heat and humidity today... BONUS #1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tqxzWdKKu8 - Dueling Banjos - Clip from Deliverance (1972) - The submitter describes this as, "The best scene in one of the greatest movies of all time." Personally,
I've never seen the movie. The descriptions alone always struck me as -
well, strongly disturbing.....
And if you thought THAT was strange..... BONUS #2 - http://www.maniacworld.com/squirrel-vs-penguin.htm - ?!?
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dueling_Banjos: "Dueling Banjos" is an instrumental composition by Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith. The song was composed in 1955 by Smith as a banjo instrumental he called "Feudin' Banjos", which contained riffs from "Yankee Doodle". Smith recorded it playing a four-string plectrum banjo and accompanied by five-string bluegrass banjo player Don Reno. The composition's first wide scale airing was on the 1963 television episode of "The Andy Griffith Show" featuring the music of "The Darlings", otherwise known as "The Dillards", a bluegrass group. The show was aired in season four, production number 96 which aired in 1963, "Brisco Declares For Aunt Bee". A brief version was played by the parents of Mindy, in the pilot of Mork and Mindy. The version by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell went to #2 for four weeks on the Hot 100 in 1973, all four weeks behind Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly With His Song", and topped the adult contemporary chart for two weeks the same year.[1] The song also reached No. 5 on the Hot Country Singles chart at the same time it was on the Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary Singles charts. The song was made famous by the 1972 film Deliverance, which also led to a successful lawsuit by the song's composer, as it was used in the film without his permission. A cover of the song by Steve Ouimette (using electric guitars, bass, and drums) was released as downloadable content for the video game Guitar Hero World Tour. The Toy Dolls also covered the song on their album Absurd-Ditties. In Deliverance, a scene depicts Billy Redden playing it opposite Ronny Cox, who joins him on guitar. Redden plays "Lonnie"—a mentally challenged inbred but extremely gifted banjo player. (Redden could not actually play the banjo. A local musician, Mike Addis, disguised using careful camera angles, reached around from behind Redden.[2]) Two young musicians, Ron Brentano and Mike Russo, had originally been signed to play their adaptation for the film, but instead it was performed by the others.[3] "Dueling Banjos" was arranged and performed for the film by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell and was included on its soundtrack.[4] When Smith was not acknowledged as the composer by the filmmakers, he sued and eventually won, receiving songwriting credit as well as royalties.
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THIS DAY IN 1966:
Thursday, August 04, 1966 - What? Just nuffin'?!?
From My Friend, Susan, of NC - 08/03/15:
“In moments of fear
or doubt or troubling times, hold to the ground you have already won,
even if that ground is limited. … When these moments come and issues
surface, the resolution of which is not immediately forthcoming, hold
fast to what you already know and stand strong until additional
knowledge comes.”
-
Jeffrey R. Holland |
Thanks so much, Susan!
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From My Cousin,
Jean Atkinson Mallory (Warsaw
HS / Rappahannock HS / John Marshall HS - '65)
of VA - 08/03/16:
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“If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember
some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your
face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been
fulfilled.” - Red Skelton(18 July 1913 - 17 Sept 1997) |
BONUS BANJO CROCHET PATTERN: |
http://www.interweavestore.com/banjo-bag - Sharon Ballsmith's Banjo Bag - "Crochet this cute carry-all!" -
No longer free, but $5.50 for instant access to pattern.
BONUS BANJO RECIPES:
http://www.healthyhomerecipes.com/recipedetail.aspx?id=1005
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Banana Banjo Recipe
http://hubpages.com/food/how-to-make-the-perfect-egg-banjo - How to Make the Perfect Egg Banjo - "...Egg Banjo's have been popular with British troops since WW2 because they are incredibly quick to make and taste great. All you need is two slices of buttered bread (margarine is acceptable) and a fried egg (with the yolk still a bit runny. It really is that simple a fried egg between two slices of buttered bread. So why is this egg sandwich is called an egg Banjo? The accepted explanation is that when eating is not unusually for the egg yolk to drip onto your chest causing the eater to hold the sandwich to one side whilst using their free hand to brush drips off their chest. The holding of the egg sandwich away from you body whilst flicking food with your fingers (mimicking a banjo player)...." http://www.thelady8home.com/2012/08/06/banjo-with-egglands-eggs/ - Banjo with Egglands Eggs Recipe - "...About two decades ago, when my husband was an Engineering student, he often visited his Aunt who lived in the Indian city of Indore. There, he frequented an eatery where a vendor fed him something that was called ‘Banjo’. After we met, which was sometime after he had left his student life behind, he waxed eloquent about it at every opportunity he got. He even tried replicating it a couple of times. That’s when I figured out that whatever this ‘banjo’ was, it consisted of eggs and bread. To me it looked like a plain omelet squished between two pieces of bread..." |
FINALLY: |
From
www.ajokeaday.com
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08/03/16:
DATES TO REMEMBER:
Y'all take good care of each other! TYPHOONS FOREVER! We'll Always Have Buckroe !Love to all, Carol ==============================================
NNHS CLASS OF '65 WEB SITE:
http://www.nnhs65.com
![]() Dueling Banjos (Originally titled "Feudin' Banjos")
Co-composed
and recorded by
Don Reno
(21 Feb 1927 - 16 Oct 1984) and
Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith
(01 Apr 1921 - 04 Apr 2014), 1955
"Dueling Banjos" midi courtesy of http://www.reocities.com/aequum/music60s70s.html - 08/04/10 "Eight Banjos" Image courtesy of http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/banjo_lineup/ - 08/03/10 Animated Musical Divider Line clip art courtesy of - well, I cannot seem to locate that information at the moment
Animated Tiny Birthday Cake clip art courtesy of Sarah Puckett Kressaty ('65) of
VA - 08/31/05
Army Seal clip art courtesy of Al Farber ('64) of GA - 05/24/06 (still
missing...)
Coast Guard Seal clip art courtesy of
http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/SealsEmblems/USCG.htm - 10/03/07
Hampton High School's Crab clip art courtesy of
http://www.geocities.com/agent99bm/
- 10/02/05
Navy Seal clip art courtesy of
http://www.onemileup.com/miniSeals.asp - 05/29/06 Animated Laughing Jerry courtesy
of Cookie Phillips Tyndall ('64) of VA - 06/14/06
John Marshall High
School's Justice Scale clip art courtesy of Cheryl White Wilson (JMHS - '64) of
VA - 10/13/05 (replaced 02/23/09)
Big Grin Smiley
courtesy of Domi O'Brien ('64) of NH - 07/05/09
Jeffrey Holman's
Image "A Drop in the Bucket" courtesy of
https://tearsfromalonelygod.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/a-drop-in-the-bucket/ -
05/23/16 |