Where, James?
To Santa Monica? Saint Nicholas is very good! I thought that he only brings sweets to the children!
I wish I were there too! Look what a place… Heaven on Earth!
Nice subject for a perfect dream or a perfect subject for a nice dream?!
Or a perfect dream for a good night?
Anyway, it’s time to say
Good night!
I just realized something Monica - A snowman would melt on that beach
I’m tellin ya that place is a goddam death trap Monica!! hmmm? what about a Tenuous link I mean a Sandman? (instead of Snowman)
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CHORDETTES
Mr. Sandman Lyrics
Mr. Sandman
Bring me a dream
Make her compaction
Like peaches and cream
Give her two lips
Like roses in clover
Then tell me that my lonesome nights are over
Sandman
I’m so alone
Don’t have nobody
To call my own
Please turn on your magic beam
Mr. Sandman bring me a dream
Mr. Sandman
Bring me a dream
Make her the cutest
That I’ve ever seen
Give her the word
That I’m not a rover
Then tell her that my lonesome nights are over
Sandman
I’m so alone
Don’t have nobody
To call my own
Please turn on your magic beam
Mr. Sandman bring me a dream
Please Mr. Sandman won’t you bless me with a dream
Make her compaction just like peaches makes with cream
Give her two lips that look like roses in the clover
Then tell me that my lonesome…
Nights are…
Over!
Sandman
I’m so alone
Don’t have nobody
To call my own
Please turn on your magic beam
Mr. Sandman
Bring me
Please please bring me
A dream
Mr. Sandman…
Sandman…
And While we’re on the Beach what about a nice Lollipop!!
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Yes, unfortunately, it would melt quickly, like an ice-cream in the oven, and if they were three, they would melt all three together, like this:
Mr. Sandman? I don’t know him, but I like him - he must be living on the beach and I love beaches; there’s just one problem: we cannot go swimming together - his fate would be similar to Snowman’s. OK, OK, I would keep him far from the water and its waves, of course!
Snowman song? I have never heard it before, but it’s nice, I like it!
Lollipop is pretty new for me too, and I can say that it sounds very good, I like it too. I think I heard its refrain somewhere in the past.
Thank you James for both songs, I was delighted to listen and watch them.
See you! on the beach 
Monica
I remember going to Gran Canaria from Germany at Christmas and lying on the Beach
which was great to be honest, bit late for booking this year though Monica maybe next year but I tell you what its flippin freezing here stick another log on there before I turn to ice!!
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I find it strange you’ve never heard “Sandman” Its like your original elevator music from a bye gone(American)age. But I’m so glad you enjoyed it now maybe you can enlighten us by bestowing upon us some classic Romanian anthem “A blast from the past”
A Romanian “blast of the past”?
OK, I chose one of the songs that I remember from my early childhood – I was 3 or 4 years old, I was with my sister and parents on the Black Sea shore, we stayed in a hotel, there was a little and pretty lake in front of the hotel and there were frogs in it.
This song was on top that summer, it was about a frog (girl frog) and her boy -friend-frog and other frogs.
I imagined that the frogs from the song are there, in that lake, as I was hearing them “talking” croak, ribbit, gribbit every evening and night.
The song was sang by a famous band named “Trio Grigoriu”- three brothers who were very good singers.
And here it is - the song and its name: “Do you know the frog-girl Oak?"
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I wonder if Cristina has ever heard of it.
“It’s beginning to look alot like Christmas” is a beautiful Christmas song, thank you.
Ok I’ll do it Monica 
Trio Grigoriu was a Romanian pop music Band , founded in 1946 in Bucharest . Its members are brothers Gregoriou, born in Braila , their names are George , Angel and Caesar, the three singers .
First Trio plays jazz , and pop music. Compositions own (signed by George Grigoriu, lyrics by Angel Grigoriu) appear in the late 1950s and enjoys great success from the public. Topics covered in the songs are so certain “mandatory” ( propaganda imposed by the socialist leadership of the country ) and other silly, fun.
Today, Trio Grigoriu are known mostly through songs “Oacky Beetle” (1957) and “Cranes” (1961).
Beginnings
Father of three brothers named Radu Gregoriou, was a professional violinist , he was interested in music education’s George early. Even during high school (Braille), George and Angel Grigoriu playing in several bands voice . In 1945, George is part of the Conservatory of Bucharest , the station singing - opera . A year later, the formula of two is complemented by Caesar Grigoriu thus saw the establishment of the trio . The band starts playing Broadcasting , first in formula three, then the quartet called 3 +1 (Trio Grigoriu and Horia Ropcea ). Pianist Alexandrescu Bibi joins his jazz ensemble. [1]
Activity
Trio Grigoriu (front row) in 1960, the TVR . Rear: Mircea Albulescu and Margaret Pâslaru .
George Gregoriou, band leader, first write a number of works cults . In the early 1950s, however, he is dedicated exclusively pop music . [1] The first concert the trio’s own compositions show takes place in 1957, with the orchestra of the label Electrecord ; everything when Debuts “Beetle Oacky” one of the group’s most famous songs. In the same year there Electrecord disc LP Trio sings Gregoriou George Gregoriou. Disk enjoys great success from the public. [2]
Since then, the band prints relatively few takeovers and many own songs. Music and lyrics are performed by George-Angel tandem Gregoriou, so all the pieces are composed and orchestrated the first, [1] and the second creates texts almost all the songs. [3] adopted by Trio Grigoriu vocal style is the harmony close ( en. close harmony), taken from Western bands such as The Mills Brothers , The Andrews Sisters or Trio Lescano . Various light orchestral music reflects the evolution of the rhythm jazz to swing to dance Latin and Afro-Cuban and up to early rock ‘n’ roll .
Given the popularity of their music in Romania, Gregoriou brothers write and interpret music sometimes ordered propaganda in favor of the ideology of socialist - Stalin (“Satellite Song” - pays homage to launch a satellite of the Soviet Sputnik , “From tomorrow we do today”, “Cranes”) .
Echoes in mass culture
Music [ change ]
There is an unconfirmed rumor (possible confusion) that the singer American green Smith would have been a takeover after the song “Cranes”.
Arts
Photographer Stephanie Bocaneala performed a work called cranes silvery laugh in the sun, alluding to the lyrics of the song “Cranes”.
The first verse of the song “Cranes” (“Crane silvery laugh in the sun”) is often paraphrased in the media with a touch ironic enthusiasm proletcultism confronting the unpleasant consequences, sometimes tragic abandonment of many projects of the socialist era in Romania. [5] In other cases, paraphrase refers to the general idea of the site in Romania, without regard to the socialist period. [6]
Repertoire Select [ change ]
In the absence of chronological parts are ordered alphabetically . The names are given in script time.
Original compositions or other Romanian authors [ change ]
“Beetle Oacky” (originally called “Frogs in love” George Gregoriou / Mircea Block )
“How beautiful is my country”
“Who knows where the center-in Bucharest” (with Simona Cassian )
“Satellite Song” (1959, Elly Roman / Stefan Tita )
“From tomorrow to do today”
“Love”
“The cottage” Three trees’ "
“Cranes” (1961 Costel Zaharia )
“Sailors”
“Black eyes”
“Anglers”
“Bridge Grant” (with Gica Petrescu )
“The story of a child”
“My first secret” (with Gigi Marga )
“Let’s be cheerful”
“Serpentine”
Downloads [ change ]
“What boy” (Cuban composition)
“How beautiful I Love” (Bobby Darin)
“Turtle” (mandate)
It’s impressive! You did so much research on this Trio Grigoriu band!
Yes, they were very successful because their music was good quality; unfortunately, the lyrics had to follow all the indications in order to pass all filters and survive.
But “Cranes …” I think this is the most stupid song ever! Imagine that even the cranes were happy in our socialist country! It’s true that this song has been excesively broadcast those years.
So, as you said, you did it!
You also found all the titles of the songs – some of them I haven’t ever heard of. Some of the titles amused me, because they don’t match the original title.
You did a lot of work and I am really very impressed. You must have spent some time with it ! Thank you.
For you Monica anything
Hows about an Irish one?
Here’s Paddy Reilly with my favorite version (the only version) of the Fields of Athenry
This song often makes an emotional cripple out of me.
Now perhaps you can provide some background to this song and its singer Monica
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Hi, James
Fields of Athenry - beautiful song:
[i]
"By a lonely prison wall
I heard a young girl calling.
Micheal they are taking you away.
For you stole Trevelyn’s corn.
So the young might see the morn…
Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay.
Low lie the Fields of Athenry.
Where once we watched the small free birds fly.
Our love was on the wing… we had dreams and songs to sing.
It’s so lonely 'round the Fields of Athenry.
By a lonely prison wall.
I heard a young man calling.
Nothing matter Mary, when YOU’RE free,
Against the Famine and the Crown.
I rebelled… they ran me down…
Now you must raise our child with dignity.
Low lie the Fields of Athenry.
Where once we watched the small free birds fly.
Our love was on the wing we had dreams and songs to sing.
It’s so lonely 'round the Fields of Athenry.
By a lonely harbor wall.
She watched the last star falling…
As that prison ship sailed out against the sky…
Sure she’ll wait and hope and pray…
For her love in Botany Bay.
It’s so lonely 'round the Fields of Athenry.
Low lie… the Fields of Athenry…
Where once we watched the small free birds fly.
Our love was on the wing… we had dreams and songs to sing…
It’s so lonely 'round the Fields of Athenry."[/i]
Firt of all, where is Athenry? Do you know?
I do.
Athenry (/æθənˈraɪ/) in Irish: Baile Átha an Rí, meaning “Ford of the King”) is a town in County Galway, Ireland.
One of the attractions of the town is its medieval castle:
The town is also well known by virtue of the song “The Fields of Athenry”.
This song is an Irish folk ballad set during the Great Irish Famine (1845–1850) about a fictional man named Michael from near Athenry, who has been sentenced to transportation to Botany Bay, Australia, for stealing food (corn) for his starving family.
It is also a widely known and popular anthem for Irish sports supporters.
“The Fields of Athenry” was written in the 1970s by Pete St. John. A claim was made in 1996 that abroadsheet ballad published in the 1880s had similar words; however, the folklorist and researcher John Moulden found no basis to this claim, and Pete St. John has stated that he wrote the words as well as the music.
The song was first recorded in 1979 by Danny Doyle, reaching the top ten in the Irish Singles Chart. The song charted again in 1982 for Barleycorn, reaching number seven in Ireland, but the most successful version was released by Paddy Reilly in 1983.
Now, who’s Paddy Reilly?
Patrick ‘Paddy’ Reilly (b. October 18, 1939 in Dublin) is an Irish folk singer and guitarist.
He is one of Ireland’s most famous balladeers and is best known for his renditions of “The Fields of Athenry” and “The Town I Loved So Well” which are exactly the songs that you proposed in your message.
For years a solo performer, he joined The Dubliners, an Irish folk band founded in Dublin. Nine years later, he left the group, to move to New York, where he owns a number of pubs. Paddy now lives in Naples, Florida.
“The town I love so well” is also a very good song:
[i]In my memory I will always see
The town that I have loved so well
Where our school played ball by the gasyard wall
And we laughed through the smoke and the smell.
Going home in the rain running up the dark lane
Past the jail and down behind the fountain
Those were happy days in so many many ways
In the town I loved so well.
In the early morning the shirt-factory horn
Called women from Craigeen the Moor and the Bog
While the man on the dole played the mother’s role
Fed the children and then trained the dogs.
And when times got tough there was just about enough
But they saw it through without complaining
For deep inside was a burning pride
In the town I loved so well.
There was music there in the Derry air
Like a language that we all could understand
I remember the day that I earned my first pay
When I played in the small pick-up band.
There I spent my youth and to tell you the truth
I was sad to leave it all behind me
For I’d learned about life and I found a wife
In the town I loved so well.
But when I returned how my eyes have burned
To see how a town could be brought to it’s knees
By the armored cars and the bombed-out bars
And the gas that hangs on to every breeze.
Now the army’s installed by that old gasyard wall
And the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher
With their tanks and their guns, oh my god what have they done
To the town I loved so well.
Now the music’s gone but they carry on
For their spirit’s been bruised never broken
They will not forget but their hearts are set
On tomorrow and peace once again.
For what’s done is done and what’s won is won
And what’s lost is lost and gone forever
I can only pray for a bright brand-new day
In the town I loved so well.[/i]
I saw that both songs (ballades) are inspired from historical events:
- “Fields from Athenry” reminds of the Great Irish Famine (1845-1852) that killed 400,000 Irish men, women and children by starvation and related diseases.
- “The town I love so well” – town Derry in Northern Ireland - reffers to the ethno-nationalist conflict (1960-1998) named “the Troubles”, which has killed more than 3500 people
The Troubles (Irish: Na Trioblóidí) is the common name for the ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that spilled over at various times into the Republic of Ireland, England and mainland Europe. The Troubles began in the late 1960s and is considered by many to have ended with the Belfast “Good Friday” Agreement of 1998. However, sporadic violence has continued since then.
Now I understand why you said “This song often makes an emotional cripple out of me”.
I got informed from Wikipedia with all these and I hope it’s all correct.
Jezuz Monica Your like a tsunami of Information today!!
Crikey its like Irish Day!! very much appreciated. Managed to dry my house out a bit after the floods of tears from all the emotional music.
I actually worked in Athenry when I lived in Galway its about the same as Bangor and Belfast. One Job I worked on in Galway there were archaeologists on it inspecting the old walls of the town and one explained to me there was a lot of problems over ownership claims simply because so many people just disappeared and others took over their land and house etc.
In History I would always avoid the numbers Monica because thats were the problems usually start.
I will say this much in 1841 Ireland had a population of 10,897,449 thats the official census. It is widely believed and also my view that a figure of at least 6 Million Irish men and Women lost their lives in forced starvation similar to Stalin’s genocide of the Ukrainians. Here’ s a site which published official documents from the Public record office proving the reality of their crimes - papers then like magic started “disappearing”
Its pretty self evident
irishholocaust.org/tollofholocaust
Moving along swiftly Monica have you tried this??
youtube.com/watch?v=5swk95Fg1fM
Yes, swiftly indeed! 24 hours later, but better later than never
I haven’t ever tried it or at least listen to it, but I see that you did. So, Ĉu vi parolas esperanto?
I wasn’t curious about it ever, but after watching your link, I found another one, and it caught me. This is it: youtube.com/watch?v=tqJlJ_Ry52I
Christmas is getting closer and closer, so I wish you Feliĉan Kristnaskon.
And I will say to Santa Claus: Agrablas renkonti vin!, Mr. Santa!
This language sounds weird to me. Do you like it?
Now, let’s see if you can guess this: What is Irish and I like very much?
Bonan nokton, James!
From what I can see and I haven’t spent much time on it its like a “Multi Pidgin” which has been contrived instead of happening organically.
I’m not really sure what the point of it is?
One language instead of all the others, maybe?
I was just wondering if there was perhaps a specific event or situation(UN maybe)which initiated its creation.? It seems a Globalist kind of thing So maybe we’re getting one world government sooner than you think - welcome to the twilight zone
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Seen this Mons and Crikey I ended up training on the bars so I’m a big light headed
think I’ll just go to sleep for a while…ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬
Hi, James
I’ve just come back from the beach and I can tell you that it was fantastic and weird in the same time.
Oh, it seems that I can’t tell you that, because you are ZZZZZzzzzzzing alrready.
Anyway … after training on the bars, I went swimming and, on my way to the water, I found Mr. Sandman sitting very sad on the sea shore. I invited him to swim with me, as I thought he was feeling lonely and abandoned.
We started swimming side by side, I was happy, he was happy again, it was all fantastic, but I don’t know why, suddenly I felt that I was alone; I looked for Mr. Sandman everywhere but I could’t find him.
I think I shouldn’t have taken him with me to the water. I just hope to see him tomorrow. You may come too, if you like
Byyye!
Mons I was on the Bars again and I’m really tired but I dunno what I done with my Keys??? Do you think you couild give me a hand to look for them?
I know they’re here somewhere??? If I could just find my Towel?? Mons can you hear me?? Mons!!!
Yes, I heard, I heard you, but I was too busy! I could help you now, but still can’t, because my dog doesn’t want to go to sleep.
At least, I can tell you what I do: when I can’t find my keys, I whistle and my keys respond - with lots of beep-beep and flashing light.
Can you whistle? Come on, fill your lungs and whistle as never before!
If it’s not working … Maybe I can help you right now: your towel… let me think … yes, I saw it 152 people distance from the third white umbrella to the North-East. Hurry-up, start counting, I’m afraid they are moving too much !
Good luck!
Crikey that was lucky! A dog had buried them in the sand but it came and took me to them.
I would have found them anyway but it would probably have taken slightly longer.