with scenes from old New York

So what does some German trumpeter have to do with the Beatles? 

You didn’t ask. I’m going to tell you anyway.

This just in from our Pennsylvania correspondent, Bert Kaempfert was a radio hit maker in the early 1960’s. I grew up with him on the radio.

An immigrant from Hamburg, he led an orchestra and blew a horn so well he caught the attention of the labels while writing “Strangers in the Night” for Sinatra and hits for Elvis, Nat King Cole and Johnny Mathis.

Kaempfert went on to hire the Beatles in 1961 as the back up band to another recording artist of the era, Tony Sheridan. 

Within a few years they were doing just fine.

bbc.co.uk/1965

By 1980 at the age of 56, the cigarettes finally got him.

Here’s one of his easy listening hits, Wonderland by Night. Check out his cup work at 1:44.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Kaempfert

Monday morning rushin' around

Billboard called the song "wildly infectious."

Rolling Stone said the single was a "nightclub anthem in the making."

Entertainment Weekly hailed the single as "three smashingly punchy minutes of garage pop so tightly wound…”

Blender said the single is a "superb blaze of synthesizers and guitars that builds to the year's best one-liner.”

”Heaven ain’t close in a place like this.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_Told_Me

yeast infraction

no time for whine

grounds for caffeination

http://en.ilovecoffee.jp/

http://clocktowertenants.com/2013/01/trouble-brewing.html

everything is free now

Article 19, an international human rights organization, has embraced this occasion to launch their “Right to Share” manifesto.

They place the “free flow of information” as a higher priority in the digital age than a creators right to maintain artificial scarcity and require a for-sale price.

Now INTEL, through their McAfee Software subsidiary, has patented technology to surveille online and combat this very principle.

This ain’t over by a long shot.

gawker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors'_rights

http://www.musicunited.org/

enlightened

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sidelight