What is Virtual Reality travel ?
/Skip the lines and the passport. Have a look at the future and what you can do from the comfort of your living room (and good internet) !
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How to Update your iPhone
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It’s a good idea to keep your phone updated.
Apple is continuously updating security and other bug fixes
iPhone or Mac Mail - "Remind Me"
/Ever need a reminder to check back on an email ?
It works on your iPhone too. (swipe right on the listing and look for Remind Me)
Another way to enjoy music
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Here’s an interesting interview by Billie Jean King with a person figured out how to enjoy music - with other people.
Burt Bacharach's favorite song
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We lost Burt this week. Few people have ever written a song like this. Very complex music - key and tempo changes - and beautiful words by Hal David
This story is in three parts
Here’s Burt explaining why Alfie is his favorite.
Here’s the recording session at Abbey Road’s famous Studio One (cameo by George Martin)
Here’s Cilla Black, from Liverpool - (before Autotune)…take 28
Others have sung it…… Cilla owns it.
Burt Bacharach - What the World Needs Now is Love
/Here’s Burt playing one of his best songs.
What does he start in the middle ?
Gene Krupa wakes up Benny Goodman at Carnegie Hall
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You’ve heard about musicians “talking” to each other.
Well, Benny Goodman’s orchestra was very nervous at their Carnegie Hall debut and the audience response was “tepid”
During the first number “Don’t Be that Way”, Gene Krupa was trying to wake them up, using rimshots and high hat and bass drum. Finally, he used his brief break (3:25) to “hit every drum in kit” (thanks Ken Burns) and then the orchestra loosened up.
For extra credit - see if you can not tap your feet to Sing,Sing,Sing - the beginning sets up the end but, don’t miss the last couple minutes.
Chebeague Community Church-2023 Community Survey
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The Chebeague Community Church invites you to participate in CCC's 2023 Community Survey. All people are welcome to take the survey. You do not need to be a member of the church to participate. The information will inform the Pastoral Search Committee and the Church Council in our plans for the future. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Church Office at 846-6987 or church.chebeague@gmail.com.
Thank you! SURVEY LINK: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZKYXDSN
Email: Rochelle@RochelleRice.com
Phone: (917) 678-1137
Celinde Schoenmaker duets with busker Stephen Barry in Covent Garden London 10 Nov 2016
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In 2016, Irish singer, Stephen Barry, was stood on the end of James Street in Covent Garden London busking to an audience with a microphone and sound system.
He had just finished performing a song from the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Phantom of the Opera when he was approached by a woman who asked if he would sing ‘All I Ask of You’, another song from the hit musical.
Barry, who would go on to become a finalist in Ireland’s Got Talent, replied that he couldn’t sing two songs in a row from the same musical.
The woman responded, “If you sing it, I’ll sing with you”. Barry looked sceptical and asked the young woman if she was any good.
To which the woman, Celinde Schoenmaker, responded, “I’m currently playing Christine in the West End production”.
Then in 2017
2017 Duet
What's an Apple Wallet?
/Lots of stuff can be stored here. And it saves you time
David Crosby - Guinnevere
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He probably sang some of the songs to your soundtrack. Here’s one he wrote, performed with Graham Nash
Here’s another of his songs.
JT - Caroline I See You
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These playlists that know what you listen to are pretty good. This just showed up.
When his special guitar work is interpreted by an orchestra it’s even better.
And the harmonica at the end. The player knew all they needed to play was the same simple line twice !
Sounds like summer.
iPhone - How to take a screenshot
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You can save a picture of what your screen is showing.
Then you can save it or send it.
Unclaimed Property ?
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A reader asked to post this as they noticed some Chebeague Residents had unclaimed property.
Find My
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Ever lose you phone or other Apple Device?
Or, if it is lost - did you know you could wipe it clean for security ?
Lot’s of things you can do with this app.
What's Goin' On - then and now
/Here’s Marvin Gaye in 1972.
Including a rare glimpse of bassist James Jamerson who created many famous Mowtown bass lines (see next post).
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And here it is…half a century later
James Jamerson - Heard It Through the Grapevine - couldn't resist republishing
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In 2020, Rolling Stone, ranked him - “the number one greatest bassist of all time”
Played on twenty three Billboard Hot 100 Number One hits and fifty six R&B number one hits
Listen to this isolated version of his bass track along with Gladys Knight’s extraordinary vocal.
This is hard enough to play on guitar, let alone a large Fender Precision Bass - with one finger
This is just one instrument and one voice. When the other tracks are revealed, the musicians are just playing straight up.
If you don’t get up and dance…you have to stay after school.