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1914 mandolin club 78 is over-the-top amazing
I managed to get two decent label shots out of several--I chose this because it's closer to the label's actual color. It's aqua, but it refuses to come out that way. But this is not important. (Note:...
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The One Horse Open Sleigh (J. Pierpont)
So, I received my eBay copy of the William B. Bradbury tunebook, The Victory (1872 edition), and there on page 74 is James Pierpont's The One Horse Open Sleigh, a.k.a. Jingle Bells. Only with its...
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This is what I like look when professionally photographed
The first professional, studio-type photo of me since high school, not counting my various driver's license photos (and who wants to count those?). Taken for the updated church directory, where I will...
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Later today... a public-domain Christmas concert, featuring your blogger.Stay tuned.Lee
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Christmas Concert, 2013 (Introducing, "Have a P.D. Christmas")
A public domain Christmas concert, featuring your favorite blogger/musician, me. The first zip contains two versions of my new song, Have a P.D. Christmas--one with a vocal (me), the other without....
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What'chu lookin' at?
Sarge wants to know. Sarge's full name is Sergeant Stripes (named by her former owner), and she's not quite a sarge, despite the stripes. More like a petite-pawed Daddy's Girl diva. And we love her...
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We Christians stole Christmas from the Winter Solstice
We Christians stole Christmas from the Winter Solstice. Or the sun itself. Or from older religions. Take your pick. For such champions of hard, clear thinking, the FFRF is curiously unable to state...
View ArticleAttack of the advertising track-downer thingies
So... Bev bought me Magix composing software for Nothing-to-do-with-religion-Mas, and so, naturally, ads for that software are popping up everywhere I cyber-travel, including on this blog. As an...
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Merry Mess-mas!
I refer to a Christmas--er, to a season/year-end event/holiday/Soltice/Day--filled with tension and stuff happening. Our cat Cookie has a nose tumor, and his surgery just ended (he's doing oaky); our...
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Merry Christmas 2013!!
Fourteen carols, hymns, and Christmas songs played by me from a group of 19th-century hymnals, sacred tunebooks, and Sunday School song collections--not the kind of holiday stuff you'll hear at the...
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Sunday morning sounds: Amazing Grace (Tune: Greenville) and The Star of...
The now-famous hymn Amazing Grace showed up in 19th-century tunebooks and hymnbooks joined to a variety of melodies. My copy of Harmonia Sacra (Tenth edition, 1860) uses the tune Greenville, with the...
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I pontificate, therefore I declaim.
While people are deciding whether or not to download a version of Amazing Grace straight out of a Civil War era Southern tunebook (last post), my latest pontification sits, waiting to be read, at Lee's...
View ArticleHappy 2014! "Lee's Comic Rack" almost ready to go. Reflections on the new,...
So, how's your 2014 so far? I'm loving it, because it's a time to relax and smell the 1) cat spray on the Christmas tree, 2) coffee, 3) breakfast cinnamon rolls baking. If I had to choose, it would...
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Sunday update
Yes, it's Sunday. Of that you can be sure. Even if you're reading this sometime after Sunday, it was still Sunday when I typed this. It's cold today, but not as coooooolllllllllld as it will be on...
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Sunday gospel selection, from 1908
Me, "live" at the Casio WK-3800. This is easier to play on a real/actual piano, but it came out okay, regardless. You may notice me speeding up a bit on the chorus, and that's the result of me...
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2013 Suite (Lee Hartsfeld, 2014)
Welcome to my newest composition, mostly made up of things I wrote 20 or so years ago. Exceptions: Mars Rock (improvised) and Blog Gone (semi-ad-libbed). You'll hear some of the built-in voices...
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Coldest spot in the nation?
I quote from the Newark (Ohio) Advocate:"At midnight Tuesday, the Newark-Heath Airport recorded 19 degrees below zero, making it the coldest spot in the nation at that moment, according to National...
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Godzilla Suite (2010, Lee Hartsfeld)
Godzilla is back in town. My eleven-part, 2010 tribute to the big green guy, plus two bonus Godzilla tracks.You'll be hearing both live and step-recorded sounds--some from my Noteworthy Composer...
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Pete Seeger (1919-2014), a middlebrow troubadour from a lost popular era (and...
Not so long ago, Pete Seeger's pop-folk music was recognized for what it was: a part of the pop music spectrum, if arguably more arty than, say, Burl Ives, another troubadour who had much success on...
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