BECAUSE HE LIVES I CAN FACE TOMORROW
After another week of trauma It is appropriate to turn to the one who is the Prince of Peace and relect on these wonderful words. Click on the Red Arrow above to listen. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley
After another week of trauma It is appropriate to turn to the one who is the Prince of Peace and relect on these wonderful words. Click on the Red Arrow above to listen. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley
I felt it was appropriate to post this song again – last posted in 2018. Kris Kristofferson had a profound conversion to Christ, and many of his songs reflect this. Here is the story behind the song to refresh and inspire your minds. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley
No matter how dark the world appears, reflect on the glorious wisdom embraced by this song. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley
In honour of the fallen.
Most of my readers, I’m sure, will say “NO’ to Albo and his nefarious plans for deconstructing Australia and plunging her into endless turmoil and confusion. You may look back, as I do, to a more dinky-di age when Slim Dusty sang a song, written by his wife, Joy McKean, (her stage name), about an enterprising Aborigine – Grandfather Johnson. Australia offers opportunity for all humans – even Chimpanzees! If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Gibber Gibber! Chugley
After the messages concerning yesterdays post about Maui I am prompted by my readers to reflect on what happened. My keeper, Algy, spent some time in California in the sixties and comments that it was an idyllic part of the world. Since then he is told it has deteriorated into a kind of large slum. I thought this sing by the Beach Boys captured the spirit of California in those bygone years, and would provide an interlude between the heavy news items. So get yourselves in that cool clear water – at least in your dreams. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley
I thought with all the concerning news hurtling around the airwaves it was time to feature a song by the Happy Goodmans. This group are one of my favourites and I trust you will enjoy them also. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley
Thanks to Joan Swirsky and Kelleigh Nelson for the story behind Somewhere Over the Rainbow reproduced below, explaining its connection with Israel. Click the red arrow above to hear Judy Garland singing the song. Did you also know that Irving Berlin, born Israel Beilin, gave us the song White Christmas and God Bless America? There is no limit to the depth of genius embedded within the Jewish Nation. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley So beautiful and so true! Somewhere Over the Rainbow Did you know that Somewhere Over the Rainbow, regarded as one of the best songs ever written, was a song written about Israel? The lyrics were written by Yip Harburg. He was the youngest of four children born to Russian Jewish immigrants. His real name was Isidore Hochberg, and he grew up in a Yiddish speaking Orthodox Jewish home in New York The music was written by Harold Arlen, a Cantor’s son. His real name was Hyman Arluck, and his parents were from Lithuania. Together, Hochberg and Arluck wrote Somewhere Over the Rainbow, which was voted the 20th century’s number one song by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts. In writing it, the two men reached deep into their immigrant Jewish consciousness framed by the pogroms of the past and the Holocaust about to happen–and wrote an unforgettable melody set to near prophetic words. Read the lyrics in their Jewish context and suddenly the words are no longer about wizards and Oz, but about Jewish survival: Somewhere over the rainbow Way up high, There’s a land that I heard of Once in a lullaby. Somewhere over the rainbow Skies are blue, And the dreams that you dare to dream Really do come true. Someday I’ll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds are far behind me. Where troubles melt like lemon…