Early Christmas FRT!

Christmas style! Remember to load up your music player with Christmas songs, and then hit "random." These are mine, tonight. Enjoy.

Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree


The Christmas Waltz


Santa Baby


A Holly, Jolly Christmas


Have Yourself A Merry Christmas


Jingle Bell Rock


Mary's Boy Child


Christmas Don't Be Late


Sleigh Ride


O Holy Night



Of all the songs, "O Holy Night" is my favorite to sing. With or without music, it's an inspirational number to do during the Christmas season.

Rosie/Jessica
Johnny Mathis
Eartha Kitt
Burl Ives
Jewel
Corey Feldman (yeah, you got that right!)
Charlotte Church
Alvin & The Chipmunks
Ella
Aaron Neville

More "Hot August Night"

"Well I'm New York City born and raised and nowadays I am lost between two shores. LA is fine, but it ain't home, New York is home, but it ain't mine no more."

FRT, Imagination

I am tempted to forgo tonight's FRT based on the DMCA take down notice from my last week's version. I had planned on loading up the songs from Neil Diamond's Hot August Night album, which was a taped performance of his concert at the Greek Theater back in the 1970's.

I don't care if any of you like Neil Diamond at all. He is a rather erudite songwriter/musician, whose works are standards in music.

I am listening to the album now. I'll probably put up ONE song, and hope I pass the DMCA smell test!

Growing up in Los Angeles, many of us avoided paying to see acts play at the Greek Theater by climbing up into the trees that surrounded the stage and seating area (the Greek is in the giant Griffith Park area). We were always noticed because after the regular seated audience would finish their applause, then we, the "tree people" would be heard clapping and whopping it up. In this album, it's nice that Neil "acknowledged" the tree people after he thanked the people in the audience.

You have to play these back to back.

DMCA Take Down Notice

Well, after five years, the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) group filed a complaint with blogger about my Friday Random Ten! Ha ha. Blogger put last Friday's into "draft" mode so that I could decide what to do with it, which is nice that they didn't just delete it.

I was wondering if anyone was going to make a stink about the songs I was uploading using DivShare. The complaint was made regarding three songs on last week's list, but it does not identify the three songs. Funny, none of the other songs posted using DivShare have been tagged, but for whatever reason, last week's songs bugged someone. I am not even sure how they track it, because I can pretty much account for all the users ISP numbers, and most are regular readers that have nothing to do with the music industry's gestapo.

I'm not going to try and guess which three songs someone didn't like -- I'll keep it in draft and not re-post. But, that does sort of put a damper on my continuing FRT posts, although I might be able to get around it by giving the song titles, but put the link in the FRT title to my DivShare and one can simply open up that week's file and listen to the music. Although, I am not sure that will work either.

Oh well. Considering that I've been downloading music since 1998, more than 12 years now, and sharing it, and I've had this blog for five years, I've only had one (well three to be exact but in one post) take down notice. I should consider myself lucky, I guess.

FRT Recap

Listening to the tunes, which once you hit play on the first song, no matter where you go on the net, as long as you keep "this" window open, the songs will play in order.

Hey, I'd hire me as a DJ (laughs).

I challenge my readers to come up with their own FRT playlist.

Friday Random Ten, Updated

Back a few years ago, there was a blog viral of FRT, where one would upload all their music into a player, and hit "random" play. Of course, we would only post the title of the song, sometimes with a comment. But one could not really "hear" the songs.

Well, I'm starting a new tradition. I've loaded up all of my 35 gigs of songs, hit random, and this is what came up for my Friday Random Ten. The numbers in parenthesis are what number they show up, as in number of the song on my player. I upload off my computer, using Winamp, believe it or not! Plus, when I actually do play music, I play off my computer these days, because I have a great sound system attached to my computer.

1. (8783) Gangstarr - Straight Talk



2. (1680) Don Johnson - Heartbeat



3. (4284) Loverboy - Heaven In Your Eyes



4. (1644) At The Drive-In - Speechless



5. (4176) Linda Rondstadt - Tu Solo Tu



6. (6886) Soweto String Quartet - St. Agnes Nokusha



7. (6363) Green Day - Nice Guys Finish Last



8. (4643) Mott The Hoople - Sucker



9. (700) Cheryl Lynn - Got To Be Real



10. (3448) Jack Jones - She



BONUS TRACK:

11. (7641) David Guetta - Love Don't Let Me Go