Charlie Chaplin's Spring Song

Charlie Chaplins's Spring Song

From "Limelight" 1952

Even Jackie Wilson's great talent couldn't lift him higher and higher

Jackie Wilson was a truly great singer and entertainer who was never able to scale the heights that his talent truly deserved. I blame management. Where was Berry Gordy when Jackie needed him? Chasing  a Dream Girl, I suppose. 

To Be Loved

Higher and Higher

Sometimes we live. Sometimes we die. Sometimes we cry.

"Sometimes we live. Sometimes we die. Sometimes we cry." 

Sometimes we know, sometimes we don't

Sometimes we give, sometimes we won't

Sometimes we're strong, sometimes we're wrong

Sometimes we cry

Sometimes it's bad when the going gets tough

When we look in the mirror and we want to give up

Sometimes we don't even think we'll try

Sometimes we cry

Well we're gonna have to sit down and think it right through

If we're only human what more can we do

The only thing to do is eat humble pie

Sometimes we cry

'Fore they put me in a jacket, and they take me away

I'm not gonna fake it like Johnnie Ray

Sometimes we live, sometimes we die

Sometimes we cry

Sometimes we can't see anything straight

Sometimes everybody is on the make

Sometimes it's lonely on the lost highway

Sometimes we cry, sometimes we cry

Gonna put me in a jacket, and take me away

I'm not gonna fake it like Johnnie Ray

Sometimes we live, sometimes we die

Sometimes we cry, sometimes we cry

Sometimes we live, sometimes we die

Sometimes we cry, sometimes we cry

The great Charles Pierce took a Marathon walk among the ruins

The great Charles Pierce took a Marathon walk and found many things to remember - including the never ending call of nature.

The Start

The Winners

The Finish

The Losers

Louis Armstrong was a Cabaret o' Charm

Louis Armstrong was a Cabaret o' Charm

Winstone tastes good like Flintstones' cigarettes should

Fred and Barney, sneak a smoke before their dames, Wilma and Betty, throw the wet mop and bucket at 'em. (A Don Draper Production).

Bruce sings for Ol' Blue Eyes who takes his turn and sings for Angel Eyes

Dean and Sammy, (not to mention Bruce and good ol' Tom Waits) had nothin' 

on ol' Frankie when it was time to belly up to the bar.

Bruce sings Angel Eyes for Frank Sinatra - 1995

Sinatrs sings Angel Eyes for you, me and Joe - 1974

Frank, Bruce and some other guy

Duke Ellington - La Plus Belle Africaine - 1969

Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - Berlin - 1969

La Plus Belle Africaine - (The Beautiful African Flower)

Black Beauty featuring Johnny Hodges

Groovin' through this world of beauty with the Rascals

It can happen on any soft, summer day when the flowers are in bloom and the young grass is tall and damp with dew that I spend a part of some sunny morning groovin' to the Rascals. 

All Human Knowledge is Moonshine - H.L. Mencken

Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (1880 – 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, editor, satirist, critic of American life and culture, and a scholar of American English. Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he was widely known for his attacks on America's Puritan tradition and its "booboisie".  He was, perhaps, the most influential writer of the first half of the twentieth century. His coverage of the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" trial ridiculed defense attorney William Jennings Bryan for his "theologic bilge" and established him as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century and a curmudgeon and misanthrope of incalculable influence. 
Damn funny to boot.

Below is a selection of my favorite Menckenisms: