Music for Jesse

[Jesse]

Yes, the time I had, I think I made it good.

That's cool. I'm hoping because of what I know, I would not follow in my dad's footsteps.

 

[th1b.taylor]

Oh Bill, by the way, Jethro is older than both of us, at least with looks.

Who's who?
Jethro, Rollo, and Bill

LOL!!!!!!!!

 

[Jesse]

For my friend Willie! Listening to 60s, 70's music, learned who Creedence Clearwater was and I think they must be my favorite band so far from that era....

 

[Willie T]

I'm with you, there. CCR is one of my favorites. Have you heard their "Proud Mary?" Ike & Tina Turner did a great job with that one, too.

Here's one you may not have heard. Gordon Lightfoot was cool. The story is true.... I've been to a maritime museum that featured this wreck.

 

[Willie T]

Ike & Tina's version. (Crank up those speakers at about 2:36, and let this one blow you across the room.)

Compared to CCR's more sedate style..

Then we'll bring the same song into your era.....

 

[Willie T]

Here's one that doesn't show up much. And "Yes", we really DID dance like that.... dumb hand motions, and all.

 

[Willie T]

STOP LAUGHING !!!!! (I KNOW you were..... 'cause I sure was.)

 

[Willie T]

Here's some more of "our" dances... I tore the floor up with these.

 

[Willie T]

I figured I owed you this in English... (Me disculpo por no hacerlo antes.)

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

For my friend Willie! Listening to 60s, 70's music, learned who Creedence Clearwater was and I think they must be my favorite band so far from that era....

Yeah, not given much credit today, but Creedence was top of the line stuff back then.

 

[Willie T]

Of course you guys from the 90's got a little strange, too...

They even did it in prison...

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

This stuff ain't bad...

 

[Jesse]

I'm with you, there. CCR is one of my favorites. Have you heard their "Proud Mary?" Ike & Tina Turner did a great job with that one, too.

Here's one you may not have heard. Gordon Lightfoot was cool. The story is true.... I've been to a maritime museum that featured this wreck.

I really like that song, sad, but good.

 

[Jesse]

Ike & Tina's version. (Crank up those speakers at about 2:36, and let this one blow you across the room.)

Definitely CCR blew it out of the water, the original is my favorite, hands down.

 

[Jesse]

That is some crazy dancing, Willie. Do you know how to square dance? Waltz?

This stuff ain't bad...

What else do you listen to?

 

[Willie T]

That is some crazy dancing, Willie. Do you know how to square dance? Waltz?

You're kind of making me smile. I think every kid my age in America could square dance. (It used to be required in Phys Ed.) And the waltz, two-step, cha-cha, and foxtrot were some of the first dances you learned in cotillion.

I guess I can manageably stumble through passable versions of about 200 dances... actually "open" Silver and Gold in several. ("Open" is minor competition, as opposed to syllabus, which is some serious hot-shot stuff)

I don't tap dance, and I never learned to Clog. But I can do the Chicken Dance... that's a German children's dance.

And this is Clogging. Not the original authentic stuff, but close enough.

 

[Willie T]

In case you didn't guess, my family is German, and straight out of the Smokey Mountain/Blue Ridge country.

Now, I DID grow up "Flatfootin' ' and Buck Dancing. (It's a less violent version of Clogging.)

THIS is more my style of Flatfootin'. I still sometimes embarrass my wife at a dance by breaking out in a little of this.

 

[Willie T]

We're sort of a tribal bunch of misfits. Here we are celebrating one of our sunsets a few years back.

And this is the coliseum at another one of our beaches where we go dancing.

 

[Willie T]

Here's one that never goes outta style. We went to a party one of our neighbors had last year, and even the kids were doing the Hand Jive.

 

[Willie T]

This is one even most of us kids thought was AWFUL when it came out in 1966.