"Just a season" by The Byrds, one of my favorite 45s!

The Byrds recorded some great songs, such as Bob Dylan's "Mr Tambourine Man" and "Turn, turn turn".

They were: Jim McGuinn, David Crosby, Chris Hillman, Gene Clark and Michael Clarke.

Crosby went on to form Crosby, Stills and Nash.  I think that Michael Clarke sang with The New Christy Minstrels, a very popular folk group.

McGuinn enjoyed a solo career.  He is a great guitar player!

They also recorded "Just a season".   It was not a big hit but I liked it a lot.   It's one of those 45s in my box!

Here is the video...............

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Written by Roger McGuinn and Jacques Levy

"If all my days was hills to climb and circles without reason

If all I was was passing time, my life was just a season

Dares and dreams and silly schemes and fillies running freely

I was young and no song was sung that didn't sound appealing

I'd have my fun with a shy girl and maybe hop a train

And I'd look back at her standing in the rain

Dirty hands and root beer stands and money like a river

Making deals to see how it feels to get more than you're giving

I'd have my fun with a gamblin man and bluff him with my face

And it's drinks for everybody in the place

If all my days was hills to climb and circles without reason

If all I was was passing time my life was just a season

If all my days was hills to climb and circles without reason

If all I was was passing time my life was just a season

Shouting crowds and mummer's shrouds and people going crazy

Always said what was in their heads it surely was amazing

I had my fun in the bull ring and never got a scar

It really wasn't hard to be a star

If all my days was hills to climb and circles without reason

If all I was was passing time my life was just a season"

A song about "Sara" by Bob Dylan

It's time to remember another Dylan song.   This is about a lady named Sara.  I'm talking about Bob Dylan's first wife Sara.  

Dylan and Sara were married in 1965 or about the time that Dylan was writing many of his best songs. 

He wrote this one Sara.  It's still one of my Dylan favorites.

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Our annual Halloween show with Leslie Eastman & Daisy Viktoria

Guests:  Leslie Eastman, editor of Temple of Mut and contributor to Legal Insurrection PLUS Daisy Viktoria..........Click to listen:

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2016: Our annual Halloween chat with Leslie Eastman

2016: Our annual Halloween chat with Leslie Eastman.......... https://t.co/NWqfWfUCBv

— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) August 7, 2017

Remembering Red Barber, the voice of The Brooklyn Dodgers

We remember that Red Barber died on this day in 1992.    He began with the Reds but we remember him as the voice of the legendary Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1950's.

Barber's southern accent and expressions became hugely popular.

Want to enjoy something?  Go to the library or internet and check out anything by Red Barber.

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We remember Jorge Valls (1933-2015)

Jorge Valls, author and former political prisoner in Cuba, died on this day in 2015.   Valls spent 20 years in Castro's political prisons.   He was 31 when he entered the prisons and 53 when he finally left.

Valls wrote a book about it later.

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The war on terror began years before Iraq

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Anne Coulter reminded us back in 2006 of what terrorists had been doing for a couple of decades, from the 1979 Iran hostage crisis to 9-11:   

November 1979: Muslim extremists (Iranian variety) seized the U.S. embassy in Iran and held 52 American hostages for 444 days, following Democrat Jimmy Carter's masterful foreign policy granting Islamic fanaticism its first real foothold in the Middle East.
1982: Muslim extremists (mostly Hezbollah) began a nearly decade-long habit of taking Americans and Europeans hostage in Lebanon, killing William Buckley and holding Terry Anderson for six and a half years.
April 1983: Muslim extremists (Islamic Jihad or possibly Hezbollah) bombed the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 16 Americans.
October 1983: Muslim extremists (Hezbollah) blew up the U.S. Marine barracks at the Beirut airport, killing 241 Marines.
December 1983: Muslim extremists (al-Dawa) blew up the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait, killing five and injuring 80.
September 1984: Muslim extremists (Hezbollah) exploded a truck bomb at the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, killing 24 people, including two U.S. servicemen.
December 1984: Muslim extremists (probably Hezbollah) hijacked a Kuwait Airways airplane, landed in Iran and demanded the release of the 17 members of al-Dawa who had been arrested for the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait, killing two Americans before the siege was over.
June 14, 1985: Muslim extremists (Hezbollah) hijacked TWA Flight 847 out of Athens, diverting it to Beirut, taking the passengers hostage in return for the release of the Kuwait 17 as well as another 700 prisoners held by Israel. When their demands were not met, the Muslims shot U.S. Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem and dumped his body on the tarmac.
October 1985: Muslim extremists (Palestine Liberation Front backed by Libya) seized an Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, killing 69-year-old American Leon Klinghoffer by shooting him and then tossing his body overboard.
December 1985: Muslim extremists (backed by Libya) bombed airports in Rome and Vienna, killing 20 people, including five Americans.
April 1986: Muslim extremists (backed by Libya) bombed a discotheque frequented by U.S. servicemen in West Berlin, injuring hundreds and killing two, including a U.S. soldier.
December 1988: Muslim extremists (backed by Libya) bombed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 on board and 11 on the ground.(Then came an amazing, historic pause in Muslim extremists' relentless war on America after Ronald Reagan won the Cold War by doing the opposite of everything recommended by Democrats, depriving Islamic terrorists of their Soviet sponsors. This confuses liberals because they don't understand the concept of terror sponsors, whether it's the Soviet Union or Iraq.)
February 1993: Muslim extremists (al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, possibly with involvement of friendly rival al-Qaida) set off a bomb in the basement of the World Trade Center, killing six and wounding more than 1,000.
Spring 1993: Muslim extremists (al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, the Sudanese Islamic Front and at least one member of Hamas) plot to blow up the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the U.N. complex and the FBI's lower Manhattan headquarters.
November 1995: Muslim extremists (possibly Iranian "Party of God") explode a car bomb at U.S. military headquarters in Saudi Arabia, killing five U.S. military servicemen.
June 1996: Muslim extremists (13 Saudis and a Lebanese member of Hezbollah, probably with involvement of al-Qaida) explode a truck bomb outside the Khobar Towers military complex, killing 19 American servicemen and injuring hundreds.
August 1998: Muslim extremists (al-Qaida) explode truck bombs at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 and injuring thousands.
October 2000: Muslim extremists (al-Qaida) blow up the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole, killing 17 U.S. sailors.
Sept. 11, 2001: Muslim extremists (al-Qaida) hijack commercial aircraft and fly planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, killing nearly 3,000 Americans.

Let me remind you that all of that happened before we invaded Iraq.   This is a great book by President Bush.

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Guantanamera” by The Sandpipers is all we had in Wisconsin

By the fall of 1966, we were starting year 3 of “el exilio” in a place called Wisconsin.  

We were very grateful to this wonderful country for opening its arms and giving us a chance to be free.  We were also looking for anything “Cuba” and then we heard something on the radio that reminded us of the island we left behind. 

The Sandpipers released “Guantanamera“, an old Cuban melody mixed with Marti’s poetry.   

The original melody has different lyrics.   This one was beautifully arranged with Marti’s verses. 

It was enough to turn my parents into a couple of Top 40 radio fans.   All of a sudden listening to the Top 40 station in the car was acceptable.

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We remember Paul Splittorff (1946-2011)

The late Paul Splittorff broke with Kansas City in 1970.    He was part of the Royals' youth movement that included Steve Busby and others that would make up the divisional winners of the late 1970s.

By 1973, Paul was a 20-game winner.    He became one of the best lefties in the AL in the late 1970's.

Overall, he won 166 games with a 3.81 ERA.   He was "an innings eater" and generally pitched late in the game.   

Paul pitched well in the post season, too:  2-0 and 2.79 ERA.   He was the starting and winning pitcher in game 3 of the 1980 ALCS, or the year that KC swept New York.

Paul died in 2011.   He still leads KC in career wins.   

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1956: The late Don Larsen and “el perfecto”

By the fall of 1956, Cubans were watching The World Series on TV in the island.   As my father told me, they watched Game 5 and Don Larsen’s perfect game against the Brooklyn Dodgers.  My father said that they had a little TV at the bank and caught the game.

It is still the only post-season perfect game in major league history.

Don played 14 seasons with various teams: 81-91 with a 3.78 ERA.  He stood out on October afternoon in New York!

For more, check out this little gem.

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We remember Kenneth D Taylor (1934-2015)

Back in 1979-80, US diplomats were detained in Iran.  It was a total and complete violation of international law, or exactly what we expected from the lawless fanatics running that country.  

Later, we learned about the Americans who were protected by Canadian diplomats in Iran.    Incredibly, the Canadian embassy took several US diplomats, reworked their identities and took them out of the country.  It was an incredible act of friendship and courage by the Canadian embassy.

Kenneth D Taylor was the Canadian Ambassador to Iran and the man responsible for the operation or the protection of the aforementioned diplomats.

Mr. Taylor was born on this day in 1934 and died in October 2015.   

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We remember Ray Kroc (1902-1984)

Like many of you, our family met McDonalds burgers, French fries and shakes in our early days in the US.

In “Cubanos in Wisconsin“, our family story, I recall our mom giving my brother and I a dollar and enjoying a meal.  It was a great welcome to the US.

Today, we remember Ray Kroc, or the man who gave us McDonalds hamburgers.  He was born in Illinois on this day in 1902. His life was a great entrepreneurial story.

He popularized the idea of franchises, or a system that “…..would be famous for providing food of consistently high quality and uniform methods of preparation. He wanted to serve burgers, fries and beverages that tasted just the same in Alaska as they did in Alabama.”

Kroc saw the growth of suburbs and placed his stores there. He captured new markets with tasty hamburgers and French fries.  Last, but not least, he made those early years in “el exilio” very interesting.

His story is very interesting.

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We remember President Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893)

Rutherford B. Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio on this day in 1822.  He died in 1893.  We remember him as the 19th president of the US and the winner of the contested 1876 election.   

US history does not rank President Hayes very high.  It's a different story down in Paraguay.

Why do they love President Hayes in Paraguay, a country way down in South America?  Why does he have a holiday, a province, a town, a museum and a soccer team named after him?

The answer is rather remarkable.    Back in 1878, President Hayes and the US participated in a territorial dispute with Brazil and Argentina.  He supported Paraguay and its territorial claims.  Therefore, Mr. Hayes became a hero when Paraguay was able to maintain its territory.

So they love # 19 ever since down there.

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A chat about "Sears" with Frank Burke, author & businessman.

 

A chat about "Sears" with Frank Burke, author & businessman.....click to listen..

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The story behind "Victory in.Europe Day" with Barry Jacobsen

Friday May 13: The story behind "Victory in.Europe Day" with Barry Jacobsen....click to listen...https://t.co/kt4FvlJxPs

— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) May 13, 2016

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