Four Walls

@FourWalls (71740)

United States

Joined myLot 10 years ago

Music. Music. And more music.

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1985 Songs: After the Fire

Four Walls @FourWalls (71740) • United States 23h

Ah, here’s where we can get confused. There was a band called After the Fire, who did the hit “Der Kommissar.” This isn’t related to them or it. And you know me: if there are certain people I can use, I...

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1955 Songs: The Ballad of Davy Crockett

Four Walls @FourWalls (71740) • United States 23h

Hot date today! They’re having an Apple Watch class at the store this afternoon, and I’m going to it. While I have lunch I’ll give you another song that is now 70 years old, and this will show you what a song can do. And, as...

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1955 Songs: Ain’t That a Shame

Four Walls @FourWalls (71740) • United States 1 Mar

Along with music that’s 40 years old, we’re going way back to the advent of rock and roll in 1955. Yesterday in the teaser I mentioned good pop and bad pop. We start off a look back 70 years with an outstanding example of...

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1985 Songs: Addicted to Love

Four Walls @FourWalls (71740) • United States 1 Mar

Happy March! And with the new month we “march” right in to another countdown. As usual, it’s alphabetical until we get to the top ten. And, as usual, I’ll alternate between which year goes first. Since I did the 1955 teaser...

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You Asked for It!! (Part 2)

Four Walls @FourWalls (71740) • United States 28 Feb

If you think the 1955 stuff sounds strange, you can comfort yourself that it was 70 years ago. But 1985? You still hear these songs on the oldies channel! “Oldies channel.” Ouch. I lived through that year. And now...

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You Asked for It!! (Part 1)

Four Walls @FourWalls (71740) • United States 28 Feb

Oh, so you missed music while I was out toodling about in Florida, huh? You wanted music, huh? Remember, YOU ASKED FOR IT!!!!! Welcome to 1955. The year Elvis broke out (darn those pimples…oh, wrong “breaking out”...

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Busy Little Beaver

Four Walls @FourWalls (71740) • United States 27 Feb

Every year about this time the car gets a clean-out. Not so much vacuuming, but medication that I carry for an emergency and my first aid kit get examined for expiration dates. Normally I’m not a wasteful person, but I do like...

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Midweek Musings

Four Walls @FourWalls (71740) • United States 26 Feb

Greetings from the dealership! Traveling means oil changes. Oil changes mean long life for the car. The other day @TheHorse said something about a little old lady trying to run him down in a parking lot. I mentioned that I...

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Monday Morning Musings

Four Walls @FourWalls (71740) • United States 24 Feb

Well…technically Monday afternoon now, because I’ve been goofing off at lunch. But it’s Monday, blah. And, for you hard-working folks who wonder, YES, retired people don’t like Mondays, either....

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Most Productive Day!

Four Walls @FourWalls (71740) • United States 22 Feb

That’s a sunset from a trip to the Smokies a few years ago. The sun has set on this week, and yesterday was a most productive one. In an earlier discussion I mentioned waiting for Social Security to call me back. They did, and...

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Warming Up Those Buns!!

Four Walls @FourWalls (71740) • United States 21 Feb

While the photo is a play on the title (my hamburger buns warming up in the skillet), there’s one thing that I absolutely cannot live without anymore: heated seats in the car. Heck, I have that thing on (temporarily, of course)...

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BIKINI WEATHER!!!!!

Four Walls @FourWalls (71740) • United States 20 Feb

Hey, hey! I told my brother that I was out in the back yard in my bikini*!! (*Asterisk: I had six layers of clothes on over it. ) It’s just too cold to go out today, so I stayed home, had two Boca burgers (for...

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Music Obituaries: January 2025

Four Walls @FourWalls (71740) • United States 19 Feb

The new year has dawned. As each month passes, it takes with it a number of famous people in all walks of life. As my primary interest is music, I highlight the ones who left us in the preceding month. The new year began with a...

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2025 music obituaries

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Wednesday Afternoon Musings

Four Walls @FourWalls (71740) • United States 19 Feb

Hi, everyone! Wow, I had to stop and take a break from shoveling that 4-8” of sn*w we got overnight!!! That is sarcasm: we got maybe an inch. They missed that forecast BIG TIME…and I couldn’t be happier....

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Good Morning, Afternoon, Whatever!

Four Walls @FourWalls (71740) • United States 18 Feb

The best news I can think of in this dreadful winter is that I’ll get to watch a Spring Training game in a little over 48 hours. This has been a pretty nasty winter here. To be fair, though, most of our winters...

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It’s Pretty, But YUCK

Four Walls @FourWalls (71740) • United States 16 Feb

You know what I say about how I love sn*w: somewhere else. After a wild day of record rainfall (every single county in Kentucky — and there are 120 counties — had some type of flood warning yesterday into this...

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The Sun Has Set on THAT Trip

Four Walls @FourWalls (71740) • United States 15 Feb

So, when’s the next one? I have a doctor’s appointment in early March, then nothing until early April. It’s just a question of whether it’ll be warm enough by then. No kidding, we’re supposed to have...

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Who Wouldn’t Be Happy?!

Four Walls @FourWalls (71740) • United States 14 Feb

Look at that. Just look at that! You have to remember, my car is NOT a hybrid. It’s also EPA rated at 28 MPG city/32 MPG highway. On my trip, over two weeks and 2,782.5 miles, I averaged 36.2 miles per gallon....

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Not-So-Wild Wildlife

Four Walls @FourWalls (71740) • United States 14 Feb

Congratulations to me! Despite all the signs about alligators I didn’t actually see one on the trip. I also didn’t see any snakes or bears or anything else that they had warning signs about. So here are a few things I...

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Along the Way…

Four Walls @FourWalls (71740) • United States 13 Feb

Let me tell you the greatest thing in the world about the advent of the phone camera: you can take pictures of everything. For you kids: back in the old days, you had this stuff called film, and it had a limited...

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