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Hobo told me to say Happy New Year to everyone, I just want to thank you all for an amazing year and for your continous love, support and smiling faces. You’re the best. I think ‘09 is going to be a year to remember.. I could only come up with one resolution this year and it is this: Be better. What were yours?



R
R is for….The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones-Street Fighting Man
“Everywhere I hear the sound of marching, charging feet, boy
cause summers here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy
But what can a poor boy do
Except to sing for a rock n roll band
cause in sleepy london town
Theres just no place for a street fighting man
No

Hey! think the time is right for a palace revolution
But where I live the game to play is compromise solution
Well, then what can a poor boy do
Except to sing for a rock n roll band
cause in sleepy london town
Theres no place for a street fighting man
No

Hey! said my name is called disturbance
Ill shout and scream, Ill kill the king, Ill rail at all his servants
Well, what can a poor boy do
Except to sing for a rock n roll band
cause in sleepy london town
Theres no place for a street fighting man
No”

Seems just as relevant to me now as it could have in 1968. I’m pretty sure this is what rock and roll was supposed to sound like.
Thats it for now, try something though. When you look in the mirror, smile.
-RR

S

S is for…Smokey Robinson
Smokey Robinson-Going to a Go-Go
Smokey sure has a voice doesn’t he?
-RR


T

T is for…There are Too many Bands I want To use for T.
So I will.
The Troggs-Wild Thing
Now if this isn’t a party song, what is?
The Turtles-Happy Together
and one more
Television-Venus
oh and one more thing… watch this
unreal. Short update, lots of goods though, gotta go get on this plane.
-RR

U

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! I hadn’t had a home cooked meal or played, and lost so badly to a seven year old at wii, in quite sometime. Onward though, I bet you didn’t think i’d come up with one for U. I almost didn’t, but I remembered someone that everyone knows, probably without knowing.
U is for…Ukelele Ike
Ukelele Ike- “I’m a bear in a lady’s boudoir”
Even Though his real name was Cliff Edwards he went by Ukelele Ike for quite sometime in his professional career. He sung such classics as “Singing in the Rain” and “When You Wish Upon a Star”. He was also the voice of Jiminy Cricket. Told you you’d know him.
I picked this song though because of the lyrics, in the 1930s this stuff was considered to be pretty risque, here’s the first verse:
“You may talk about your colleges, fair Harvard and old Yale,
And all the universities who’s banners brave the gale,
And all the football heroes, their glory and renown;
I never went to college, but I know I’ve been to town.


I may not be a football hero,
But I’m a star with the beautiful girls;
You never see me in the thick of a fight,
‘Cause I do my scoring mostly at night.”
“I’m a bear in a ladies boudoir”
-RR

V

writing this from a plane in Charlotte, yea I missed my flight yesterday. But anyway looking through some comments alot of you suggested the band XTC for the letter X. Rob Mathes loves them, and they totally slipped my mind, he’d be ashamed. Someone also said “Xenon” referring to the Disney movie, which I was pretty obsessed with when it came out. But i looked it up and they actually spell it with a Z. I think the band in that movie was called Protazoa but I could be wrong. Onward, to V. V is for…Velvet Underground! Velvet Underground- Candy Says theres lots of good ones for V, Van Morrison, Van Dyke Parks.. But i’ve been listening to this band more lately, this self titled album in particular, but check out “Loaded” also, it’s louder. -RR