My arrangement of "Amazing Grace." (Music Trad.) lyrics by Englishman John Newton, written
My arrangement of "Amazing Grace." (Music Trad.) lyrics by Englishman John Newton, written in 1772.
The pictures are of the California Ghost Town of Bodie...a State Historical Park.
I hope that you enjoy my arrangement of this great hymn! Please feel free to comment, and to "RATE" the video...thanks!!!
Some History: Bodie was named after Waterman S. Body (also known as William S. Bodey) who discovered gold here in 1859. That November, Body perished in a blizzard after making a supply trip to nearby Monoville. The change in spelling of the town's name has often been attributed to an illiterate sign painter, but another theory is, that it was a deliberate change by the citizenry to insure proper pronunciation.
The town of Bodie rose to prominence with the decline of mining along the western slope of the Sierra Nevada. Prospectors crossing the eastern slope in 1859 to "see the Elephant" - that is, to search for gold - discovered what was to be the Comstock Lode at Virginia City, and started a wild rush to the surrounding high desert country.
In 1876, the Standard Company discovered a profitable deposit of gold bearing ore, which transformed Bodie from an isolated mining camp, comprising of a few prospectors and company employees to a Wild West boomtown by 1879. Rich discoveries in the adjacent Bodie Mine during 1878 attracted even more hopeful people. By 1880, Bodie boasted a population of over 10,000 with 2,000 buildings. Over the years, Bodie's mines produced gold valued at more than $34 million.
Bodie was second to none for wickedness, badmen, and "the worst climate out of doors". One little girl, whose family was taking her to the remote and infamous town, wrote in her diary: "Good-bye God, I'm going to Bodie." The phrase came to be known throughout the west. As a bustling gold mining center, Bodie had the amenities of larger towns, including two banks, a brass band, railroad, miner's and mechanic's unions, several newspapers, and a jail.
Killings occurred with monotonous regularity, sometimes becoming almost daily events. The fire bell, which tolled the ages of the deceased when they were buried, rang often and long. Robberies, stage holdups, and street fights provided variety, and the town's 65 saloons offered many opportunities for relaxation after hard days of work in the mines. The Reverend F.M. Warrington saw it in 1881 as "a sea of sin, lashed by the tempest of lust and passion."
The town became more known for its wild living than for its big gold resources. Every other building on the mile long main street was a saloon. Seven breweries were working day and night. The whiskey was brought in by horse carriages, 100 barrels at a time.
The boom was over in four short years and by 1882, Bodie was in the grips of decline. The rich mines were playing out and mining companies were going bankrupt. Two fires, one in 1892 and the other in 1932, ravaged the business district. Bodie faded into a ghost town during the 1940's. It became a State Historic Park in 1962, managed in a state of arrested decay. Today, with less than 10% of the town still standing, it is still the largest ghost town in the western United States, and what is left looks much the same as it did over 50 years ago when the last residents left.
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Another one of my tunes...titled..."Patto's March©" I named this march after a friend of m
Another one of my tunes...titled..."Patto's March©" I named this march after a friend of mine in the UK...who's recovering from an illness. Stay well...patto!!!
The pictures were taken by me, in the "Fall" of 2005.
I hope that you enjoy my march!!! Please feel free to comment, and to "RATE" the video...THANKS!!!
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My arrangement of "In The Garden." Written in 1912 by Charles Austin Miles, (1868-1946). M
My arrangement of "In The Garden." Written in 1912 by Charles Austin Miles, (1868-1946). My rendering of this old hymn is sort of in the Gospel spirit. I hope you enjoy the song! Please feel free to comment, and to "RATE" the video...thanks!!!
The pictures are of the "Huntington Library" in San Marino, California, and "Butchart Gardens" on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
"In The Garden lyrics".....
I come to the garden alone
While the dew is still on the roses
And the voice I hear falling on my ear
The Son of God discloses.
Refrain
And He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own;
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.
He speaks, and the sound of His voice,
Is so sweet the birds hush their singing,
And the melody that He gave to me
Within my heart is ringing.
Refrain
And He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own;
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.
I'd stay in the garden with Him
Though the night around me be falling,
But He bids me go; through the voice of woe
His voice to me is calling.
Refrain
And He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own;
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.
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My arrangement of "Sail Along Silvery Moon." Written by Harry Tobias/Percy Wenrich. Billy
My arrangement of "Sail Along Silvery Moon." Written by Harry Tobias/Percy Wenrich. Billy Vaughn had a big hit with this tune in 1957,'58. I hope that you enjoy my musical rendition of this great melody! Please feel free to comment, and to "RATE" the video...thanks!!!
The pictures are from the internet, and enhanced with a moon...made with my photoshop program.
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Another one of my songs...titled..."Feelin' The Rain©"
The pictures are of the "Pacific N
Another one of my songs...titled..."Feelin' The Rain©"
The pictures are of the "Pacific Northwest" of the USA, and were all
taken by me, in the "Spring" of 2005.
As always...I hope that you enjoy my song! Please feel free to comment, and to "RATE" the video...THANKS!!!
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My arrangement of "Music Box Dancer." Written in 1974 by composer/pianist Frank Mills. I h
My arrangement of "Music Box Dancer." Written in 1974 by composer/pianist Frank Mills. I hope that you enjoy my version of this song!!! Please feel free to comment, and to "RATE" the video...thanks!!!
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My arrangement of Mein Kleiner Blumenstrauss, (My Little Bouquet). Written by Robert Jung
My arrangement of Mein Kleiner Blumenstrauss, (My Little Bouquet). Written by Robert Jung, and Willi M. Willmann. I hope that you enjoy my musical arrangement! The photos are of the Los Angeles County Arboretum. Please feel free to comment, and to "RATE" the video...thanks!!!
Some history of the Los Angeles County Arboretum:
When Elias Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin, (wealthy early California pioneer...considered "Lucky" for his numerous rich mining claims), purchased Rancho Santa Anita in 1875, he acquired not only the natural lakes and cienegas on the property, but water rights in both Big and Little Santa Anita Canyons just north of his homesite. The Baldwin Ranch was situated on a 2,000 acre artesian belt, a benefit of its location atop the Raymond Hill Fault. Sixty percent of Baldwin Ranch irrigation waters came from artesian sources, the remaining 40 percent from canyon waters. Baldwin Lake, which served as a holding reservoir for ranch irrigation projects, was dredged and deepened, perhaps 12-15 feet, by owner Baldwin in the late 1880s, and a retaining wall, capped by granite boulders, was constructed around the lake edge.
"Baldwin's Belvedere," today known as the Queen Anne Cottage, was built in 1885 on a peninsula jutting out into the horseshoe-shaped lake; the springs that feed the lake are located in both the north and south inlets. In front of the Cottage still stands a Baldwin era artesian well described in a Pacific Rural Press article of May 9, 1885, as "throwing water six feet above the ground in a large volume," with "cemented, open raceways made for the overflow to pass off in little rivulets all around the house." Julian Fisher, who worked on the ranch as a child with his father, remembered furnishing drinking fountains for ranch visitors by "taking my shovel, digging a hole, sticking a pipe in the ground and setting out a stack of cups for folks to take a drink from free flowing water." Lucky Baldwin supplied residents of the city of Arcadia with a combination of canyon and artesian water of such quality that a Los Angeles Herald reporter commented, "Why, if this God-given fluid were piped to Los Angeles and distributed to the city, the saloons would lose half their customers, and water drinking would become fashionable." (Mar. 30, 1887)
Johnny Weissmuller swam in LASCA Lagoon/Baldwin Lake for three decades as Tarzan and later Jungle Jim. A local news story reported that he, in fact, set an unrecorded Olympic swim record when a cage of crocodiles was accidentally opened during filming (Weissmuller beat the crocs to the lake shore). Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour took up a month-long watery Baldwin Lake residence in homes on stilts for the filming of Road to Singapore in 1939, the same year the Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.,/Madeleine Carroll film Safari managed to sink a paddlewheel boat in the same lake. Undaunted, television's original "Fantasy Island" lowered a pontoon plane by helicopter onto Baldwin Lake and propelled it across the water to disembark visitors to Mr. Roark's island paradise. For Alex Haley's "Roots II", Baldwin Lake became Kunta Kinte's river home in Africa.
The Arboretum is a 127- acre botanical garden and historical site jointly operated by the Los Angeles Arboretum Foundation and the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation.
Information...courtesy L.A. County Arboretum. For more information on the Arboretum...please click on the link below...
http://www.arboretum.org/index.cfm?CatTitle=Home&Catagory=ho me&CFID=37286&CFTOKEN=13533328
For a list of the movies, and television shows filmed at the L.A. County Arboretum...please click on the link below...
http://www.arboretum.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=getFrontPageFe ature&catagory=history&FeatureID=7daa361d-d95d-11d6-a278-00d 0b76949cb&TypeID=10&CFID=37286&CFTOKEN=13533328
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My arrangement of "Colonel Bogey March" is based loosely on Malcolm Arnold's arrangement,
My arrangement of "Colonel Bogey March" is based loosely on Malcolm Arnold's arrangement, rather than the original march written by F.J. Ricketts. I hope that you like my arrangement! Please feel free to comment, and to "RATE" the video...thanks!!!
The "Colonel Bogey March" is a popular march that was written in 1914 by Lieutenant F. J. Ricketts (1881-1945), a British military bandmaster who was director of music for the Royal Marines at Plymouth. Since at that time service personnel were not encouraged to have professional lives outside the armed forces, Ricketts published "Colonel Bogey" and his other compositions under the pseudonym Kenneth Alford. Supposedly, the tune was inspired by a military man and golfer who whistled a characteristic two-note phrase (a descending minor third interval) instead of shouting "Fore!". It is this phrase that begins each line of the melody. Bogey is a golfing term meaning one over par.
The English composer Malcolm Arnold added a counter-march for use in the 1957 dramatic movie "The Bridge on the River Kwai," which was set during World War II.
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My Arrangement of "Spanish Eyes." This song was written by Bert Kaempfert, and originally
My Arrangement of "Spanish Eyes." This song was written by Bert Kaempfert, and originally was released as an instrumental, with the title of "Moon Over Naples." Lyricist Eddie Snyder added the lyrics for the tune later, and it became "Spanish Eyes." I hope that you enjoy my arrangement of this song. Please feel free to comment, and to "RATE" the video...thanks!!!
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