I Love “Soulful Strut”

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“Soulful Strut” is the song you don’t know by name, but odds are you love it. Instrumentals are tricky that way. Unless you know, you just don’t. The original definitive version is performed by Young-Holt Unlimited in 1968. This tune is the soundtrack to the happiest day of your life. Oh yeah, it puts that extra bounce in your step. You can finally say that you’ve walked on seventh heaven, and not the WB television show.

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Stage Walking

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George M. Cohan wrote “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” and “Give My Regards To Broadway” He was a bed wetter.

He woke up in the middle of a musical, on stage, in a serious stupor, and believe me, he was far from happy. Truth be told, his unhappiness was nothing compared to the members of the cast. As they danced past him, they glared daggers. If they didn’t have to sing “You’re A Grand Old Flag”, you can bet your sweet bananas that they’d be muttering words like dickhead and why are you ruining this? The actor wearing a derby with the old-timey barbershop quartet mustache dropped the ‘l’ in flag.

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Dreaming The Life

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There is nothing better than down time. Place that down time in Amsterdam, and you’re in some serious pig heaven. Today, Darryl Jones proudly played the role of carefree pig on furlough. He deserved this. 94 shows in 90 days takes a serious toll on the body. He will be the first to tell you, he is no longer a spring chicken.

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Aftermath

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She wore her sadness comfortably, like a well-worn pair of jeans on the verge of bursting and tattering. Everyone around her could sense the danger of embarrassing exposure with a precise mishap of unstitching, but not her, not Sheila Donoghue. In the last month alone, she had been heard saying to at least a hundred different people, “I’m bulletproof, bitches.”

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