FReeper Canteen - Tunes For Our Troops - 21 July 2012

Our Troops Rock!!! | The Canteen DJ's

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

Oops! I almost forgot to post the Salsa for tonight because LUV W was picking on me.

Mostly old Cuban music tonight with a lot of "The Buena Vista Social Club".

A little background on "Buena Vista Social Club":

There was/is a club in Cuba named, "The Buena Vista Social Club". Hence the name. The building was/is still standing but was vacant, rundown, dilapidated and hadn't been painted in years. That's where the band practiced, played and cut their first album. The American guitar player, Ry Cooder, visited Cuba looking for all of the old Cuban musicians who had performed but then disappeared in the 50s after Castro took power. Ry Cooder found many of them and formed the group. None of them had played any instruments or sung since Castro had seized power. When they became world-famous/popular the first thing that Castro did was to fire Ry Cooder and send him back to the states. Castro kept a few of the old-timers but replaced many of the band members with young, hardline communists. As they travelled the world, there were always "guards" with the musicians to avoid, so said the "guards", harm from others. The truth of the matter was that the "guards" were there to ensure that none of the musicians defected.

The musicians never got a dime of the millions made by the group. They still had to reside in their one-room, economy apartments. ALL of the money went to Castro and his communist regime.

What a country Cuba is, huh?

Anyway, here is tonight's offering of the Salsa

La Saaaaaaaaalsa! The page will open in a new window.

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Strawberry Fields Forever
~ Todd Rundgren ~

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[luvie]

Carlos Santana~Aqua Marine

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[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

LOL

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Michelle
~ Adriano Celentano ~

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[luvie]

Elvis Presley~I Can't Help Falling In Love With You

The Media Player shows the wrong title...just so ya know. Not sure why.

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From A Window
~ Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas ~

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[ConorMacNessa]

FREEDOM ISN’T FREE!

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It Is Purchased With The Blood Of Patriots!

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“Freedom Isn’t Free”

By DDR Kelly Strong USCG (ret)

I watched the flag pass by one day,
It fluttered in the breeze.
A young Marine saluted it,
And then he stood at ease.
I looked at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud,
With hair cut square and eyes alert
He’d stand out in any crowd.


Eternal Father, Strong to Save
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I thought how many men like him
Had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil
How many mothers’ tears?
How many pilots’ planes shot down?
How many died at sea
How many foxholes were soldiers’ graves?
No, freedom isn’t free.


Taps
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I heard the sound of Taps one night,
When everything was still,
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.
I wondered just how many times
That Taps had meant “Amen,”
When a flag had covered a coffin.
Of a brother or a friend.



I thought of all the children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives,
I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea
Of unmarked graves in Arlington,
No, freedom isn’t free.


God Of Our Fathers
(Click)

Many Thanks To ExTexasRedhead For Finding This Poem!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

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Being For The Benifit Of Mr. Kite
~ Cheap Trick ~

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Drumbo, for spinning tunes for the troops. ((HUGS))

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Can't Buy Me Love
~ Curtis King ~

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Luv, for spinning tunes for the troops. ((HUGS))

[ConorMacNessa]

Outstanding, Luv! One of his best, IMHO! Another great memory of my long-ago youth! It's hard to believe that song was a big hit over fifty years ago! (1961)



Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

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Got To Get You Into My Life
~ Earth, Wind & Fire ~

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[luvie]

Cassandra Wilson~Watch The Sun Rise

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What Goes On
~ Frankie Moran ~

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[luvie]

I’m glad you enjoyed listening to it! It’s one of my favorites, too. :)

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She Said, She Said
~ Gov't Mule ~

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[luvie]

Enya~Orinoco Flow

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[luvie]

Good evening, Kathy! (((hugs)))

It’s my honor and privilege to do this small thing for the ones that do so much for America!

Thank YOU for all your hard work for them...and for us! :)