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June Dillon Passed Away Today

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

At the Lions Club meeting tonight, I learned from Don Mills that June Dillon passed away earlier today from some form of cancer.  My family and hers lived across the street from each other during the early 1970s on North Third Street in Bellwood, and as a boy, I had a crush on Mrs. Dillon because she could play the organ so well; she used to do songs I liked when I’d visit her daughters, which at that time, were elementary schoolmates of mine besides.  She invited my sisters and I over to watch Batman on their color television now and then, as we only had black and white at our house, and she knew how much we enjoyed seeing the shows in color.  Then we’d sit around her and her organ afterwards, and be mesmerized by the complex yet intricate melodies that flowed from her fingers.  Anyone that could play like June was a queen in my book, as I loved music then as I do now, and idolized anyone who could make it sound as good as she did. 

In fact, I’d said to [Emmy] a couple years ago that we should visit June and have her play for us.  I think their organ was a Hammond B3 (or something that sounded very much like the B3), and as [Emmy] and I are big fans of music in which the B3 was used, we really wanted to visit and have June show us what every lever, button, knob, and key did.  However, June’s been sick for a long time, as has Mom.  So we never got down to see the Dillons, though had Mom felt better, she would have taken us, and I think June would have enjoyed seeing me after over thirty years.   

Anyway, I just wanted to say to June, thanks for all the music and wonderful childhood memories, for it was your playing that got me interested in the B3, and is largely why today, I’m a huge organ music fan.  You could play that instrument every bit as well as the musicians I’d heard on the radio, who were cranking out the big B3 hits in the sixties and seventies.  You could have made the hits as well if you had ever followed that path.  But actually, I’m glad that you decided to stick around our small town and raise a family; else, I’d have never heard you play, live, in your living room.  Do rest in peace, June.

 Tom Hesley

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Repeater Song: 2009-12-04

Friday, December 4th, 2009

12:30 AM: Well, I just spent the past hour listening to today’s repeater song, which is Marie Digby’s adult contemporary version of the smash hit from 2007,  Umbrella.  Made the most popular by pop star Rihanna, this song is just one of perhaps thousands, since the rock and roll era began, where someone attempts to assure a beloved of her undying devotion, dedication, and eternal love.  But though its message is common, I enjoyed this light-hearted expression of a very profound idea.  In this song, the person tries to convince her lover of her love by offering the opportunity to stand underneath her umbrella, any time the driving rains of discontent, sadness, loss, disagreement, or any other disruptive influence darkens their happy and succcessful world together.  In short: She’ll stick around no matter how tough times become.

They played around thirty seconds of Digby’s version (my favorite) on The Young and the Restless sometime in early 2007 ([Emmy], correct me if I’m wrong), just one time so far as I know, and it was only used as very quiet background music, in just one single scene.  But it grabbed me within ten seconds of hearing Digby’s gently soothing singing, and I marveled at how eloquently she had turned Rihanna’s rather rough-sounding single with loud rap and driving drums, into an intimate-sounding, soft invitation to trust openly, in love. 

This version is more acoustic than Rihanna’s; indeed, if not for its faint-sounding Hammond B3-like organ, it would be considered a purely unplugged rendition in my opinon, and to me, as with my other repeater songs, it never grows tiresome to listen to.  So do check it out.   Perhaps you’ll enjoy it as much as I.

Tom Hesley

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Hammond B3 Music

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Last summer at camp, some friends and I were sitting around my DJ computer playing our favorite songs. when someone asked if I had any songs that featured the Hammond B3 organ.  I didn’t know.  But we scrounged around and found some great rock classics that did.  Later, after I returned home, I decided to listen to my entire music library (over 58000 recordings at present), to identify all the B3 music.  Now I’ve not gone through everythng yet.  But I wanted to give you a list of the songs I’ve discovered so far.  I can’t say for sure that every one of these actually uses a B3.  But they all SOUND like a B3.  So if you’re a Hammond B3 fan, check these out.  Also, send along other popular B3 music and I’ll add it to the list.

A Foot In Coldwater – (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
Al Green – Call Me (Come Back Home)
Al Green – Guilty
Al Green – How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?
Al Green – Let’s Stay Together [Long]
Al Green – Look What You’ve Done For Me
Al Green – You Ought To Be With Me
Albert King – Breaking Up Somebody’s Home
Albert King – Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven
Albert King – I’ll Play The Blues For You (Pt. 1)
Alice Cooper – Eighteen
Alice Cooper – Hello, Hooray
Alive & Kicking – Tighter, Tighter
Andy Kim – Baby, I Love You
Andy Pratt – Avenging Annie
Apollo 100  (Feat. Tom Parker) – Joy
Aretha Franklin – Angel
Aretha Franklin – Bridge Over Troubled Water
Aretha Franklin – Bridge Over Troubled Water [Long]
Aretha Franklin – Let It Be
Aretha Franklin – Rock Steady
Aretha Franklin – Son Of A Preacher Man
Aretha Franklin – Spanish Harlem
Aretha Franklin – Spirit In The Dark
Aretha Franklin – Wholly Holy
Argent – Hold Your Head Up [LP]
Argent – Hold Your Head Up [Single]
Arthur Alexander – Rainbow Road
Assembled Multitude – Overture From Tommy (A Rock Opera)
Atomic Rooster – Tomorrow Night

B.B. King – Ain’t Nobody Home
B.J. Thomas – Hooked On A Feeling
Badfinger – Lonely You
Badfinger – Without You
Barbara Lewis – Hello Stranger
Bill Withers – Another Day to Run
Bill Withers – Harlem
Bill Withers – Hope She’ll Be Happier
Bill Withers – Let It Be
Billy Joe Royal – Cherry Hill Park
Billy Joel – Captain Jack
Billy Paul – Am I Black Enough For You
Billy Preston – Outta-Space
Billy Preston – Will It Go Round In Circles [Longer]
Billy Swan – I Can Help [Longer]
Black Mountain – Stay Free
Black Nasty – Getting Funky Round Here
Blood, Sweat & Tears – More & More
Blood, Sweat, & Tears – Hi-De-Ho That Old Sweet Roll
Blood, Sweat, & Tears – Lucrettia MacEvil
Blood, Sweat, & Tears – You’ve Made Me So Very Happy
Bloodrock – D.O.A.
Bloodrock – D.O.A. [Long]
Blue Mink – Melting Pot
Blues Magoos – (We Ain’t Got) Nothin’ Yet
Bob Dylan – Lay Lady Lay
Bob Dylan – The Mighty Quinn (Quinn, The Eskimo)
Bob Marley – Duppy Conqueror
Bob Marley – Fussin’ & Fightin’
Bob Marley – It’s Alright
Bob Marley – Kaya
Bob Marley – My Cup
Bob Marley – No Sympathy
Bob Marley – No Water
Bob Marley – Reaction
Bob Marley – Riding High
Bob Marley – Soon Come
Bob Marley – Soul Almighty
Bob Marley – Soul Captive
Bob Marley – Soul Rebel
Bob Marley – Soul Shakedown Party
Bob Marley – Stand Alone
Bob Marley – Stop The Train
Bob Marley – Sun Is Shining
Bob Marley – Try Me
Bob Marley – You Can’t Do That To Me
Bobby Womack – Woman’s Gotta Have It
Booker T. & The MG’s – Green Onions
Booker T. & The MG’s – Hang ‘Em High
Booker T. & The MG’s – Melting Pot
Booker T. & The MG’s – Something
Booker T. & The MG’s – Time Is Tight
Boston – A New World [LP]
Boston – Hollyann [LP]
Boston – Long Time
Boston – Smokin’
Boston – The Launch [LP]
Boz Scaggs – We Were Always Sweethearts
Bread – Just Like Yesterday
Bread – Look What You’ve Done
Brenda Lee – Nobody Wins
Brook Benton – Rainy Night In Georgia
Brooklyn Bridge – The Worst That Could Happen
Bruce Springsteen – For You
Bruce Springsteen – Lost In The Flood
Buck Owens – Made In Japan

Carlos Santana – Mudbone
Carole King – Locomotion
Carole King – Out In The Cold
Carole King – Sweet Seasons
Carolyn Franklin – It’s True I’m Gonna Miss You
Chase – Get It On
Chee-Chee & Peppy – I Know I’m In Love
Cheech & Chong – Basketball Jones [LP]
Cheech & Chong – Basketball Jones [Single]
Chicago – I’m A Man
Chicago – It Better End Soon (1st Movement)
Chicago – It Better End Soon (2nd Movement)
Chicago – It Better End Soon (3rd Movement)
Chicago – It Better End Soon (4th Movement)
Clarence Carter – I Can’t Leave Your Love Alone
Clarence Carter – Too Weak To Fight
Crazy Elephant – Gimme Gimme Good Lovin’
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Someday Never Comes
Crispian St. Peters – The Pied Piper
Crosby & Nash – Girl To Be On My Mind – (Graham Nash – David Crosby)
Crosby & Nash – Strangers Room – (Graham Nash – David Crosby)
Crosby & Nash – Where Will I Be – (Graham Nash – David Crosby)
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Everybody I Love You
Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young – Woodstock
Crow – Evil Woman Don’t Play Your Games With Me
Cymarron – Rings

Daddy Dewdrop – Chick A Boom (Don’t Ya Jes Love It)
Danny O’Keefe – Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues
Dantalian’s Chariot – Madman Running Through The Fields
Dave & Ansil Collins – Double Barrel
Dave ‘Baby’ Cortez – The Happy Organ
Dave Mason – Only You Know And I Know [Live]
David Cassidy – Some Kind Of A Summer
Dawn (Feat. Tony Orlando) – Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose
De Janeiro – Chica [Promo Only Clean Edit] [CW]
Dee Jay & The Runaways – Peter Rabbit
Deep Purple – Burn
Deep Purple – Child In Time
Deep Purple – Demon’s Eye
Deep Purple – Fireball
Deep Purple – Highway Star [LP]
Deep Purple – Hush
Deep Purple – Kentucky Woman
Deep Purple – Kentucky Woman [Short]
Deep Purple – Knocking At Your Back Door
Deep Purple – Lazy [LP]
Deep Purple – Listen, Learn, Read On
Deep Purple – Never Before [LP]
Deep Purple – Perfect Strangers
Deep Purple – Pictures Of Home [LP]
Deep Purple – Smoke On The Water (Live)
Deep Purple – Smoke On The Water [LP]
Deep Purple – Soldier Of Fortune
Deep Purple – Speed King
Deep Purple – Stormbringer
Deep Purple – Strange Kind Of Woman
Deep Purple – Woman From Tokyo
Derek & The Dominos – Bell Bottom Blues
Derek & The Dominos – Layla
Dionne Warwick – You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling
Donny Osmond – Sweet & Innocent
Donovan – Atlantis

Eddie Floyd – California Girl
Eddie Floyd – Yum Yum Yum (I Want Some)
Eddie Kendricks – Keep On Truckin’
Edgar Winter – Tobacco Road
Edward Bear – Close Your Eyes
Edward Bear – Fly Across The Sea
Edward Bear – Fool
Edward Bear – Masquerade
Edward Bear – You Can’t Deny It
Edwin Starr – Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On
Edwin Starr – Twenty Five Miles
El Chicano – Viva Tirado [Part 1]
Ella Fitzgerald With The Ray Charles Singers & Bill Doggett (Organ) – Smooth Sailing
Elton John – Honky Cat
Elvis Presley – If I Can Dream
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Hoedown
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Jerusalem
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Karn Evil 9 / 1st Impression, Part 2
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Knife Edge
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer – Black Moon [Single]
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer – I Believe In Father Christmas [Alt. Version 1]
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer – Tarkus
Eric Clapton – After Midnight [Longer]
Eric Clapton – Let It Rain
Ethel Smith – It Came Upon The Midnight Clear

Fat Man’s Music Festival – Sweetness Of Soul
Fats Waller & Alberta Hunter – Beale Street Blues
Flash – Small Beginnings
Flash – Small Beginnings [Long]
Fleetwood Mac – Sentimental Lady
Focus – Eruption
Focus – Focus II
Focus – Hocus Pocus [LP]
Focus – Hocus Pocus [Single]
Freda Payne – The Road We Didn’t Take
Freddie Hart – Easy Loving

Gene Pitney – A Street Called Hope
Gene Pitney – It Hurts To Be In Love
Gene Pitney – She Lets Her Hair Down (Early In The Morning)
Genesis – After The Ordeal [LP]
Genesis – Aisle Of Plenty [LP]
Genesis – Can-Utility & The Coastliners [LP]
Genesis – Dancing With The Moonlit Knight [LP]
Genesis – Firth Of Fifth [LP]
Genesis – Get ‘Em Out By Friday [LP]
Genesis – I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) [LP]
Genesis – Seven Stones [LP]
Genesis – Supper’s Ready [LP]
Genesis – The Battle Of Epping Forest [LP]
Genesis – The Cinema Show [LP]
Genesis – The Fountain Of Salmacis [LP]
Genesis – The Return Of The Giant Hogweed [LP]
Genesis – Watcher Of The Skies [LP]
George Harrison – A Bit More Of You
George Harrison – The Light That Has Lighted The World
George Jones & Tammy Wynette – The Ceremony
George Strait – River Of Love
Georges Thill, Chorus, & Orchestra – Noel-Minuit Chretiens
Gladys Knight & The Pips – Midnight Train To Georgia
Golden Earring – Candy’s Going Bad
Gordon Lightfoot – Summer Side Of Life
Graham Nash – Chicago
Graham Nash – There’s Only One
Grand Funk – Rock & Roll Soul
Grand Funk Railroad – Footstompin’ Music

Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds – Sweet Pain
Hanson – Mmm Bop
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes – I Miss You
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes – I Miss You [Part 1]
Harry Nilsson – Me & My Arrow
Honey Cone – The Day I Found Myself
Hootie & The Blowfish – Hold My Hand
Hot Butter – Tristana
Hot Chocolate – A Child’s Prayer
Hot Chocolate – I Believe (In Love)
Hot Chocolate – You Could’ve Been A Lady
Hot Chocolate – You’ll Always Be A Friend
Hot Sauce – Bring It Home (& Give It To Me)
Hugo Montenegro, His Orchestra & Chorus – I Dream of Jeannie
Humble Pie – Hot ‘N’ Nasty
Humble Pie – Shine On

Ike Turner Presents The Family Vibes – Garbage Man
India.Arie – Chocolate High
Iron Butterfly – Easy Rider (Let The Wind Pay The Way)
Isaac Hayes & David Porter – Ain’t That Loving You (For More Reasons Than One)
Isaac Hayes – Do Your Thing
Isaac Hayes – Let’s Stay Together [Instrumental]
Isaac Hayes – Men [TV Theme]
Isaac Hayes – Never Can Say Goodbye
Isaac Hayes – Theme From ‘The Men’ [Instrumental]

Jackie Moore – Precious Precious
James Brown – Make It Funky [Part 1]
James Carr – Pouring Water On A Drowning Man
Janis Ian – Society’s Child
Janis Joplin  – Me & Bobby McGee
Janis Joplin – Cry Baby
Janis Joplin – Get It While You Can
Janis Joplin – Move Over
Jason Aldean – She’s Country [CW]
Jean Knight – Mr. Big Stuff
Jennifer Love Hewitt – Barenaked
Jermaine Jackson – That’s How Love Goes
Jerry Butler & Brenda Lee Eager – Ain’t Understanding Mellow
Jerry Butler – One Night Affair
Jessica Simpson – I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
JET – Falling Star
Jethro Tull – A Passion Play Edit #8
Jethro Tull – Teacher
Jim Reeves – Padre Of Old San Antone
Jimmy Cliff – Many Rivers To Cross
Jimmy Smith & The Big Band – Walk On The Wild Side
Jimmy Smith & Wes Montgomery – Night Train
Joan Baez – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Joe Cocker – Space Captain (Single Version)
Joe Simon – Cleopatra Jones [Theme]
Joe Simon – Drowning In The Sea Of Love
Joe Simon – Pool Of Bad Luck
Joe Simon – The Chokin’ Kind
Joe Simon – The River
Joe Simon – Trouble In My Home
Joe South – The Games People Play
John Fogerty – Centerfield
John Kay – I’m Movin’ On
John Prine – Mexican Home
John Prine – Pretty Good
John Prine – Quiet Man
Johnnie Taylor – Steal Away
Johnny Rivers – Into The Mystic
Josh Gracin – Telluride [LP]
Junior Walker & The All Stars – What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)
Junior Walker & The All Stars – What Does It Take (To Win Your Love) [Stereo]

Keith Hampshire – The First Cut Is The Deepest
Kenny Loggins – Vahevala
Kenny Rogers – Ruby Don’t Take Your Love To Town
King Floyd – Groove Me
Kris Kristofferson – Josie
Kris Kristofferson – Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again)
Kris Kristofferson – Nobody Wins

Lancelot Link & The Evolution Revolution – Sha-La Love You
Latimore – Jolie
Led Zeppelin – Thank You
Lenny Dee – A Foggy Day (In London Town)
Little Angels – The First Cut Is The Deepest
Little Milton – Rainy Day
Livingston Taylor – Lady Tomorrow
Livingston Taylor – Loving Be My New Horizon
Livingston Taylor – Packet Of Good Times
Lobo – How Can I Tell Her About You
Lobo – It Sure Took A Long , Long Time
Lobo – Me & You And A Dog Named Boo
Lobo – She Didn’t Do Magic
Loggins & Messina – House At Pooh Corner
Los Chijuas – Changing The Colors Of Life
Lulu – Boy
Lulu – Cry Like A Baby
Lulu – Gimme Some Lovin’
Lulu – Let’s Pretend
Lulu – Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo), The
Lulu – Oh Me Oh My (I’m A Fool For You Baby)
Lulu – The Boat That I Row
Lulu – The Boat That I Row [Stereo]
Lulu – To Sir With Love
Lulu – You And I
Lulu With The Dixie Flyers – After The Feeling Is Gone
Lulu With The Dixie Flyers – Hum A Song
Lunar Funk – Mr. Penguin [Part 1]
Luther Ingram – If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don’t Want To Be Right)
Luther Ingram – You Were Made For Me
Lynsey De Paul – Sugar Me

M.F.S.B. – Lay In Low
Mac Davis – Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me
Mac Davis – Dream Me Home
Mac Davis – Everybody Loves A Love Song
Mac Davis – Half & Half (Song For Sarah)
Mac Davis – Kiss It And Make It Better
Mac Davis – The Lonesomest Lonesome
Madacy Entertainment – Christians Awake [Organ & Chimes]
Madacy Entertainment – From Heaven On High [Organ]
Madacy Entertainment – Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant [Vocal]
Madacy Entertainment – O Holy Night [Organ & Chimes]
Madacy Entertainment – Once In Royal David’s City [Organ & Chimes]
Mahalia Jackson – Amazing Grace
Manfred Mann – Father Of Day, Father Of Night
Margie Joseph – Stop! In The Name Of Love
Marmalade – Reflections Of My Life
Martina McBride – Ride
Mashmakhan – As Years Go By
Mel & Tim – Backfield In Motion
Mel & Tim – Starting All Over Again
Melanie – Bitter Bad
Melanie – Little Bit Of Me
Melanie – Ring The Living Bell [LP]
Michael Jackson – Love’s Gone Bad
Michael Jackson – Melodie
Millie Jackson – (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want To Be Right
Millie Jackson – A Child Of God (It’s Hard To Believe)
Millie Jackson – Ask Me What You Want
Moe Denham – Autumn Leaves
Moe Denham – Dyna Moe
Moe Denham – Filthy McNasty
Moe Denham – Gone Wes
Moe Denham – I Still Fell In Love With You
Moe Denham – Listen Up
Moe Denham – September Song
Moe Denham – Song For My Father & Eleanor Rigby (Song For Elanor Rigby’s Father)
Moe Denham – Song For Stanley T
Moe Denham – When Jonny Comes Marching Home Again
Motherlode – When I Die
Mott The Hoople – All The Young Dudes
Mott The Hoople – One Of The Boys
Mountain – For Yasgur’s Farm
Mountain – Theme From An Imaginary Western
Mountain – Travelin’ In The Dark (To E.M.P.)
Neil Diamond – Holy, Holy
Neil Diamond – Soolaimon
Neil Diamond – Walk On Water
Neon Philharmonic – Morning Girl
New Colony Six – Things I’d Like To Say

O.V. Wright – A Nickel & A Nail
Ohio Players – Food Stamps Y’All
Ohio Players – Sleep Talk
Ohio Players – Varee Is Love
Ohio Players – Walt’s First Trip
Organ, Orchestra, & Nuns Chorus – Processional & Maria
Oscar Toney Jr. – For Your Precious Love

Pandamonium – No Presents For Me
Paul Davis – A Little Bit Of Soap
Paul McCartney & Wings – Let Me Roll It
Paul McCartney & Wings – Maybe I’m Amazed
Paul McCartney & Wings – Mumbo
Paul Revere & The Raiders – Indian Reservation [Alt. Version 1]
Paul Revere & The Raiders – Let Me
Paul Simon – The Mother & Child Reunion
Peggy Lee – So What’s New
Peggy Lee – Walking Happy
Pink Floyd – Another Brick In The Wall [LP]
Pink Floyd – Any Colour You Like
Pink Floyd – Arnold Layne
Pink Floyd – Astronomy Domine
Pink Floyd – Bike
Pink Floyd – Brain Damage
Pink Floyd – Echoes
Pink Floyd – Eclipse
Pink Floyd – Hey You
Pink Floyd – In The Flesh?
Pink Floyd – In The Flesh?
Pink Floyd – Keep Talking
Pink Floyd – Learning To Fly
Pink Floyd – Mother
Pink Floyd – One Of These Days
Pink Floyd – Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
Pink Floyd – Sheep
Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1 – 7)
Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond [Part 1] [LP]
Pink Floyd – Speak To Me/Breathe
Pink Floyd – The Great Gig In The Sky
Pink Floyd – Time
Pink Floyd – Us & Them
Pink Floyd – Waiting For The Worms
Pink Floyd – Young Lust
Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade Of Pale
Procol Harum – Bringing Home The Bacon
Procol Harum – Conquistador
Procol Harum – Homburg
Python Lee Jackson – In A Broken Dream

Quincy Jones (Feat. Bill Cosby) – Hikky-Burr [From The Television Series 'The Bill Cosby Show']
Quincy Jones (Feat. Billy Preston) – Call Me Mister Tibbs [Main Title] [From The Motion Picture 'They Call Me Mister Tibbs']
Quincy Jones (Feat. Edd Kalehoff, Bobby Scott, Milt Jackson, Freddie Hubbard, & Toots Thielemans) – Theme From ‘The Anderson Tapes’
Quincy Jones – Sanford & Son [TV Theme]

Rare Earth – (I Know) I’m Losing You
Rare Earth – Born To Wander
Rare Earth – Get Ready [LP]
Rare Earth – Get Ready [Single]
Rare Earth – Here Comes The Night
Rare Earth – Hey Big Brother
Rare Earth – Hum Along & Dance
Rare Earth – I Can Feel My Love Risin’
Rare Earth – We’re Gonna Have A Good Time
Rare Earth – What’d I Say
Ray Stevens – Bridget The Midget (The Queen Of The Blues)
Reginald Foort – Medley-The First Nowell-O Come All Ye Faithful-Silent Night-Hark The Herald Angels
Renee Renee – Lo Mucho Que Te Quiero
Rich Acocella – The Bunny Hop
Ringo Starr – I’m The Greatest
Ringo Starr – It Don’t Come Easy
Rita Coolidge – Fever
Robin McNamara – Lay A Little Lovin’ On Me
Rod Stewart – (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Man
Rod Stewart – Jodie
Rod Stewart – Maggie May
Rod Stewart – Maggie May (Longer)
Rod Stewart – Maggie May [LP]
Rod Stewart – Maggie May [Short]
Rod Stewart – Missed You
Rod Stewart – My Way of Giving
Rod Stewart – Reason To Believe
Rod Stewart – So Tired
Rod Stewart – You Wear It Well
Rod Stewart – You Wear It Well [LP]
Rod Stewart – You Wear It Well [Long]
Rodney Atkins – It’s America

Santana – All I Ever Wanted
Santana – All I Ever Wanted [Longer]
Santana – Black Magic Woman, Gypsy Queen [LP]
Santana – Black Magic Woman, Gypsy Queen [Single]
Santana – Brightest Star
Santana – Europa (Earth’s Cry Heaven’s Smile)
Santana – Everybody’s Everything
Santana – Evil Ways
Santana – Evil Ways [Live]
Santana – Flame Sky
Santana – Hope You’re Feeling Better
Santana – I Love You Much Too Much
Santana – I’ll Be Waiting
Santana – Jingo
Santana – La Fuente Del Ritmo
Santana – Let The Children Play
Santana – Love, Devotion, & Surrender
Santana – Mirage
Santana – No One To Depend On
Santana – Open Invitation
Santana – Oye Como Va
Santana – Persuasion
Santana – Samba Pa Ti
Santana – She’s Not There
Santana – Smooth
Santana – Song Of The Wind
Santana – Soul Sacrifice [Live]
Santana – Toussaint L’ Overture
Santana – Toussaint L’Overture [Live]
Santana – Veracruz
Santana – Waves Within
Santana – You Know That I Love You
Saving Abel – 18 Days [LP]
Scrugg – I Wish I Was Five
Seal – Fly Like An Eagle [Instrumental]
Seatrain – 13 Questions
Seatrain – Gramercy
Seatrain – Home to You
Seatrain – How Sweet Thy Song
Seatrain – Lonely’s Not The Only Way To Go
Seatrain – Losing All The Years
Seatrain – O.B.S. (Orange Blossom Special)
Seatrain – The State Of Georgia’s Mind
Seatrain – Waiting for Elijah
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’77 – Promise Of A Fisherman
Simon & Garfunkel – America
Sir Douglas Quintet – Mendocino
Sly & The Family Stone – If You Want Me To Stay
Sly & The Family Stone – Runnin’ Away
Smith – Baby It’s You
Sonny & Cher – The Beat Goes On
Steam – Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
Stephen Stills – Love The One You’re With
Stephen Stills – Nothin’ To Do But Today
Stephen Stills – Old Times Good Times
Stephen Stills – To A Flame
Stephen Stills – We Are Not Helpless
Steppenwolf – For Ladies Only
Steppenwolf – Hey Lawdy Mamma
Steppenwolf – Magic Carpet Ride
Steppenwolf – Magic Carpet Ride (Short)
Steppenwolf – Monster-Suicide-America
Steppenwolf – Ride With Me
Steppenwolf – Rock Me
Steppenwolf – Screaming Night Hog
Steppenwolf – Snowblind Friend
Steppenwolf – Who Needs Ya
Steve Miller Band – Evil [Live]
Steve Miller Band – Fly Like An Eagle [Live]
Steve Miller Band – Going To Mexico
Steve Miller Band – Kow Kow Calqulator
Steve Miller Band – Sugar Babe
Steve Miller Band – Your Saving Grace
Steve Winwood – Freedom Overspill
Steve Winwood – Vacant Chair
Styx – Blue Collar Man
Styx – Fooling Yourself
Styx – Fooling Yourself [Longer]
Styx – Lady
Styx – Light Up
Styx – Mademoiselle
Styx – Renegade
Styx – Superstars
Styx – The Grand Illusion
Sugarloaf – Green-Eyed Lady [LP]
Sugarloaf – Green-Eyed Lady [Single]
Sun Ra – We’ll Wait For You [Live]
Sweathog – Hallelujah

Ten Years After – Love Like A Man
The 1910 Fruitgum Co. – Indian Giver
The 1910 Fruitgum Co. – Simon Says
The Acid Gallery – Dance Around The Maypole
The Allman Brothers – Jessica
The Allman Brothers – Melissa
The Allman Brothers – Ramblin’ Man
The Allman Brothers – Revival (Love Is Everywhere)
The Allman Brothers Band – Back Where It All Begins
The Allman Brothers Band – Change My Way Of Living
The Allman Brothers Band – Dreams
The Allman Brothers Band – End Of The Line
The Allman Brothers Band – Every Hungry Woman [Live]
The Allman Brothers Band – Everybody’s Got A Mountain To Climb
The Allman Brothers Band – Get On With Your Life
The Allman Brothers Band – Good Clean Fun
The Allman Brothers Band – Hot ‘Lanta [Live]
The Allman Brothers Band – In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed
The Allman Brothers Band – Jessica
The Allman Brothers Band – Mean Woman Blues
The Allman Brothers Band – No One To Run With
The Allman Brothers Band – Sailin’ ‘Cross The Devil’s Sea
The Allman Brothers Band – Seven Turns
The Allman Brothers Band – Soulshine
The Allman Brothers Band – Southbound
The Allman Brothers Band – Southbound [Live]
The Allman Brothers Band – Statesboro Blues
The Allman Brothers Band – Stormy Monday [Live]
The Allman Brothers Band – Temptation Is A Gun
The Allman Brothers Band – Trouble No More
The Allman Brothers Band – What’s Done Is Done
The Allman Brothers Band – Whipping Post
The Allman Brothers Band – Win, Lose, Or Draw
The Animals – House Of The Rising Sun
The Archies – Nursery Rhyme
The Archies – She’s Puttin’ Me Thru Changes
The Archies – Sunshine
The Archies – This Is Love
The Archies – Who’s Gonna Love Me
The Archies – Whoopie Ti Yi A
The Archies – You Know I Love You
The Atlantics – Come On
The Band – Life As A Carnival
The Band – The Shape I’m In
The Band – Up On Cripple Creek
The Bar-Kays – Sang & Dance
The Beatles – Let It Be
The Beatles – Let It Be [Alt. Take 1]
The Beatles – Something [Hit Version]
The Beginning Of The End – Funky Nassau [Parts 1 & 2]
The Brighter Side Of Darkness – Love Jones
The Buckinghams – Don’t You Care
The Buckinghams – Hey Baby (They’re Playing Our Song)
The Buckinghams – I’ve Been Wrong Before
The Buckinghams – Kind Of A Drag
The Buckinghams – Lawdy Miss Clawdy
The Buckinghams – Makin’ Up And Breakin’ Up
The Buckinghams – You
The Carpenters – Goodbye To Love
The Casinos – Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye
The Chi-Lites – A Lonely Man
The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown – Fire
The Creedence Clearwater Revival – Have You Ever Seen The Rain
The Cuff Links – Tracy
The Dells – Oh What A Night
The Doobie Brothers – Jesus Is Just Alright
The Doors – Light My Fire [LP]
The Doors – Love Her Madly
The Doors – Touch Me
The Exciters – You Don’t Know What You’re Missing (Till It’s Gone)
The Faces – Love Lives Here
The Faces – Ooh La La
The Faces – Wicked Messenger
The Faces – You’re So Rude
The Fifth Dimension – Save The Country
The Five Man Electrical Band – Signs [LP]
The Foundations – Build Me Up Buttercup
The Foundations – Build Me Up Buttercup [Alt. Version 1]
The Foundations – Build Me Up Buttercup [With Dialog]
The Foundations – Take A Girl Like You
The Four Tops – In These Changing Times
The Four Tops – Just Seven Numbers (Can Straighten Out My Life)
The Free Movement – Land Where I Live
The Free Movement – Love The One Your’re With
The Gap Band – Oops Upside Your Head (I Don’t Believe You Want To Get Up & Dance)
The Gentrys – Keep On Dancing
The Grass Roots – Sooner Or Later
The Grass Roots – Temptation Eyes
The Grass Roots – Wait A Million Years
The Grateful Dead – Truckin’
The Guess Who – It’s My Pride
The Guess Who – Laughing
The Guess Who – No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature
The Holiday Ensemble – Ding Dong! Merrily On High
The Holiday Ensemble – Joy To The World
The Hollies – Long Dark Road
The Hombres – Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)
The Ides Of March – Vehicle
The Intruders – I’ll Always Love My Mama
The Intruders – I’ll Always Love My Mama [Long]
The Jackson Five – E-Ne-Me-Ne-Mi-Ne-Moe (The Choice Is Yours To Pull) [LP]
The Jackson Five – Feelin’ Alright [Live] [LP]
The Jackson Five – Goin’ Back To Indiana [Live] [LP]
The Jackson Five – Medley- Walk On- The Love You Save [Live] [LP]
The Jackson Five – Stand [Live] [LP]
The Jaggerz – The Rapper
The Kinks – Get Back In Line
The Kinks – Powerman
The Kinks – Rats
The Kinks – This Time Tomorrow
The Kinks – Top Of The Pops
The Looking Glass – Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne
The Masqueraders – I Ain’t Got To Love Nobody Else
The Matadors – Get Down From The Tree
The Missing Links – You’re Driving Me Insane
The Mockingbirds – How To Find A Lover
The Moments – All I Have
The Moments – If I Didn’t Care
The Moments – Just Because He Wants To Make Love (Doesn’t Mean He Loves You)
The Monkees – Oh My My
The New Colony Six – I Will Always Think About You
The O’Jays – 992 Arguments
The O’Jays – Love Train [Dance]
The O’Jays – Love Train [Single]
The Ohio Express – Chewy Chewy
The Ohio Express – Chewy Chewy [Alt. Mix]
The Osmonds – Goin’ Home
The Partridge Family – Somebody Wants To Love You
The Piglets – Johnny Reggae
The Poppy Family – Tryin’
The Raiders – Indian Reservation
The Rolling Stones – Time Is On My Side
The Small Faces – Afterglow
The Small Faces – All Or Nothing
The Small Faces – Here Comes The Nice
The Small Faces – Itchycoo Park
The Small Faces – Itchycoo Park [Mono Mix]
The Small Faces – My Mind’s Eye
The Soul Children – Hold On, I’m Coming
The Spencer Davis Group – Aquarius-Let The Sunshine In
The Spencer Davis Group – Dust My Blues [Live]
The Spencer Davis Group – Feel Your Way
The Spencer Davis Group – Gimme Some Lovin’
The Spencer Davis Group – Gimme Some Lovin’ [Live]
The Spencer Davis Group – Groove Extra (Instrumental)
The Spencer Davis Group – I’m A Man
The Spencer Davis Group – I’m A Man [Live]
The Spencer Davis Group – Let’s Have A Party [Live]
The Spencer Davis Group – Man Jam [Live]
The Spencer Davis Group – Moonshine
The Spencer Davis Group – Mr Second Class
The Spinners – I’ll Be Around
The Spinners – My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me)
The Spiral Staircase – More Today Than Yesterday
The St. Davids Cathedral Choir – Ding Dong Merrily On High
The St. Davids Cathedral Choir – Rocking
The St. Davids Cathedral Choir – What Child Is This
The Staple Singers – Be What You Are
The Staple Singers – Oh La De Da
The Starlite Orchestra – From Heaven On High
The Starlite Orchestra – Jolly Old St. Nicholas
The Starlite Orchestra – LL Est Ne Le Divin Enfant
The Starlite Pop Orchestra – Away In A Manger
The Starlite Pop Orchestra – Christians Awake
The Starlite Pop Orchestra – Deck The Halls
The Starlite Pop Orchestra – Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
The Starlite Pop Orchestra – Joy To The World
The Starlite Pop Orchestra – O Little Town Of Bethlehem
The Starlite Pop Orchestra – Once In Royal David’s City
The Starlite Pop Orchestra – While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night
The Steve Miller Band – Fly Like An Eagle [LP]
The Steve Miller Band – Fly Like An Eagle [Single]
The Stories – Brother Louie
The Street People – Jennifer Tomkins
The Stylistics – Rockin’ Roll Baby
The Stylistics – You’re A Big Girl Now
The Supremes – Automatically Sunshine
The Sutherland Brothers & Quiver – (I Don’t Want To Love You But) You Got Me Anyway
The Tee Set – Ma Belle Amie
The Temptations – Ball Of Confusion (That’s What The World Is Today)
The Temptations – Cloud Nine
The Temptations – Runaway Child, Running Wild
The Turtles – You Showed Me
The Twilights – Cathy, Come Home
The Ventures – Sleigh Ride
The Voice – The Train To Disaster
The Wheels – Bad Little Woman
The Who – Pure & Easy
The Who – See Me, Feel Me
The Who – The Seeker
The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again
The Zombies – Time of the Season
Three Dog Night – An Old Fashioned Love Song
Three Dog Night – An Old Fashioned Love Song [Hit Version]
Three Dog Night – Celebrate
Three Dog Night – Easy To Be Hard
Three Dog Night – Eli’s Coming
Three Dog Night – Family Of Man
Three Dog Night – Let Me Serenade You
Three Dog Night – Liar
Three Dog Night – Never Been To Spain
Three Dog Night – One Man Band
Three Dog Night – Out In The Country
Three Dog Night – Shambala
Tim Hardin – Bird on the Wire
Todd Rundgren – Hello It’s Me
Tom Jones – The Young New Mexican Puppeteer
Tommy James & The Shondells – Ball Of Fire
Tommy James & The Shondells – Sweet Cherry Wine
Tommy James – Draggin’ The Line
Tommy Roe – Pearl
Tommy Roe – We Can Make Music
Tony Joe White – Polk Salad Annie
Tony Orlando & Dawn – Runaway & Happy Together
Traffic – Empty Pages
Traffic – Freedom Rider
Traffic – Glad
Traffic – Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush
Traffic – Shanghai Noodle Factory

Uriah Heep – Come Back To Me
Uriah Heep – Easy Livin’ (Live)
Uriah Heep – Easy Living
Uriah Heep – Easy Living [Live 2]
Uriah Heep – Free Me
Uriah Heep – Gypsy
Uriah Heep – Lonely Nights
Uriah Heep – Love Machine
Uriah Heep – Love Stealer
Uriah Heep – Something Or Nothing
Uriah Heep – Wise Man

Vanity Fare – Hitchin’ A Ride
Virgil Fox – Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Virgil Fox – Joy To The World

Wadsworth Mansion – Sweet Mary
War – All Day Music
War – City, Country, City
War – Deliver The Word
War – Four Cornered Room
War – Gypsy Man
War – Nappy Head
War – Slippin’ Into Darkness
War – Spill The Wine
War – Where Was You At
War/Eric Burdon – Tobacco Road
We All Together – It’s A Sin To Go Away
William Bell – Save Us
Wilson Pickett – Don’t Let The Green Grass Fool You
Wilson Pickett – Engine Number 9
Wilson Pickett – Sugar Sugar
Wings – Love Is Strange
Wings – Uncle Albert-Admiral Halsey
Winston’s Fumbs – Real Crazy Apartment

Yes – Changes
Yes – Heart Of The Sunrise
Yes – Hearts
Yes – Hold On
Yes – Our Song
Yes – Roundabout
Yes – Roundabout [LP]
Yes – Wonderous Stories
Yes – Your Move [LP]
 

Tom Hesley

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Calliope (Steam Organ)

Saturday, July 8th, 2000

Dear   [Lynn],

I just wanted to prove how much longer BMP files take to download than JPG or GIF files having roughly the same content (pictures). :-) I’ll send you ones of us on the roller coaster later. I got a few good shots from up on top. Was the BMP file included in the message with two attachments, or a separate one? Really, I had not intended to send you a Longwood Gardens pic, and looking at my “Sent Mail” folder from last night, I can’t find where I sent you this. Both pics should have been of the calliope.

The word calliope is not in the dictionary I was reading last night. However, it is listed in the Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary. A calliope, also called a steam organ, is a musical instrument consisting of a set of harsh-sounding steam whistles, that are activated by a keyboard. Hmmm. Sounds like the same definition you read last night. This word came into being sometime between 1855 and 1860, and originated in America. By the way, have you ever seen a calliope close-up? Quite interesting. Apparently, the drums, cymbals, and lights are embellishments not present in the classic calliopes apparently, as the dictionary makes no mention of these. Hmmm, another Jeeves question: Tell me the history of the calliope, please. :-)

Mom is up and atom, getting ready to head off the beach for a week, in about an hour. She’s all excited. They’re going to New Jersey. She just asked me to help her carry stuff to the car. So, I’ll get back with you later on.

Take care, and enjoy your day. Beautiful here, and it sounds like it’s going to be ditto up there.

Later.

Tom Hesley