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Feb13

Love Is In Da Blog 2024 – Take the A Train

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Love Is In Da Blog 2024 – Take the A Train

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Day 13 Love Is In Da Blog Prompt

Today, Jim Adams is guest hosting this challenge until Bee returns. Thanks, Jim!

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Every February there is a month long music challenge called “Love Is In Da Blog” It is hosted by Bee, at the above link. Check it out and join in! It’s fun.

The challenge is to find love songs, since February has Valentine’s Day. There are daily prompts we can use if we want to. This year we are to be featuring songs from black artists in honor of Black History Month.

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13.2.2024 Find A Jazz Love Song By A Black musician

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This is the Wiki article about this song. It has a very storied evolution which is interesting. It involves copyright problems they ran into, and how it was resolved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_the_%22A%22_Train

This song became Duke Ellington’s signature song, though it’s been recorded by others later on. This video shows the musicians in a train car playing their instruments, then the lady (I’m assuming a train employee) comes through and sings the song while dancing with the guys. They are promoting train travel.

Who knows if this is a love song, but it’s a peppy one and I like it. 🙂

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“Take the A Train”, a jazz standard, was in this movie, “Reveille with Beverly”, in 1943. It was written by Billy Strayhorn for Duke Ellington and his orchestra, in 1939. Betty Roche is shown in the  movie singing this song.

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Sep23

Pull Up a Seat # 37

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Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2019-Week 37

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This is a fun challenge that appears weekly. It is hosted by XingfuMama, and her blog can be found at the above link. Get details, and see other entries there. It’s fun. 🙂

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This first photo was taken at a shaved ice place here in town, called “Bahama Bucks”. They have cool decorations on the walls, in oranges and blues. This was a large booth, with seats and table in a beige color. The sign says, “Taste of Paradise”.

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This one I took at a local restaurant called “Jazz – A Louisiana Kitchen”. It’s one of our favorite places for Cajun food. The place is not very large, has a wooden floor, tables and chairs. On some nights they have a band playing music. The most interesting feature of this places is all the dollar bills that decorate everything in there. The walls are plastered with them, along with the ceiling, the chairs, the bar area, and everything else. I don’t know if anyone has counted all the dollars, but it must be in the thousands. 🙂

Some wooden chairs & tables at Jazz – a dollar bill is on the back of all chairs

One tiny section of a wall in Jazz – many dollar bills!

 

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