The Song Fight Bulletin Board

JANUARY 9th

<a href="http://www.songfight.org/artistpage.php ... y">Caravan Ray</a> - <a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/in_the_d ... td.mp3">In The Ditch</a>

1967 - The Artist Subsequently Known As Caravan Ray born - Newcastle, New South Wales.

In celebration of Caravan Ray's birthday today, I present "In the Ditch" for your listening enjoyment. This laid back acoustic number is bound to get you grooving. The guitar that kicks in at :57 matches the song quite well. I admittedly discovered the song today, but it is sticking in my head now. Good stuff.

Some things that happened on January 9th, according to the History Channel's <a href="http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih ... tory">This day in history</a> site:

GENERAL INTEREST

1768 FIRST MODERN CIRCUS
1806 Nelson buried at St. Paul's Cathedral
1972 Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire

AUTOMOTIVE

1958 Japanese Cars Arrive In California

CIVIL WAR

1861 "Star of the West" is fired upon

COLD WAR

1952 Truman warns of Cold War dangers

CRIME

1984 The Hillside Stranglers

ENTERTAINMENT

1911 Their First Misunderstanding released

LITERARY

1924 Virginia Woolf buys a house in Bloomsbury

OLD WEST

1887 Record cold and snow decimates cattle herds

VIETNAM WAR

1965 Support is pledged to civilian government

WALL STREET

1990 Flying the Unfriendly Skies

WORLD WAR II

1945 United States invades Luzon in Philippines

Thank you Glenn - I'm honoured to join such illustrious company


Also interesting to note I share my birthday with a curious historical event:

GlennCase wrote: GENERAL INTEREST

1972 Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire

That, and all the trouble with her kids - the lady's had a hard life.

"Japanese cars arrive in California" evokes some great imagery.

A lot of these headlines are really funny due to vagueness: "CIVIL WAR: 1863 Some dude gets shot" or "POLITICS: 1981 Reagan does something wacky with the economy."

GlennCase wrote:JANUARY 9th

LITERARY

1924 Virginia Woolf buys a house in Bloomsbury

WALL STREET

1990 Flying the Unfriendly Skies

hahaha oh virginia woolf bought a house on this day!! HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE!!!

and i'm still kinda tryin' to figure out what 'flying the unfriendly skies' was supposed to mean O_o...

I think you'll find it's the location that is significant.

Tsk tsk.

j$ wrote:I think you'll find it's the location that is significant.

Tsk tsk.

Forgive him. We're all stupid in America.

GlennCase will be noted to have wrote:JANUARY 18th

ON THIS DAY A FEW YEARS BACK, THE HIGH-KICKING RAWK MACHINE JOHNNY CASHPOINT WAS BORN IN LAGOS, NIGERIA.


Happy birfday for yesterday, Caravan Ray. I hope you got a hat with corks dangling off it on strings.

j$ (feeling kinda prescient today).

mkilly wrote:

j$ wrote:I think you'll find it's the location that is significant.

Tsk tsk.

Forgive him. We're all stupid in America.

yes yes... it happens to the best of us... (i dont' even really know any virginia woolf books... so i have no clue how it's significant)

Poor June wrote:

mkilly wrote:

j$ wrote:I think you'll find it's the location that is significant.

Tsk tsk.

Forgive him. We're all stupid in America.

yes yes... it happens to the best of us... (i dont' even really know any virginia woolf books... so i have no clue how it's significant)

http://www.google.com

:p

Each one of those events is actually a link if you go to the history channel <a href="http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih ... website</a>, and choose the date in question.

I have been linking to their website with every new <a href="http://glenncase.songhole.org/365.html">365</a> entry on these boards.

ROCK!

Glenn (DR FUNK)

JANUARY 10th

<a href="http://www.songfight.org/artistpage.php ... m:Music</a> - <a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/death_pl ... mp3">Death Plunge</a>

In celebration of a new <a href="http://www.eatmycomix.com/05.01.08.html">COMIC!</a> on <a href="http://www.eatmycomix.com">www.eatmycomix.com</a>, this is a perfect time to bring <a href="http://www.eatmycomix.com/03.01.20.html">Team:</a><a href="http://www.eatmycomix.com/03.03.07.html">Music</a> into this list!

The sad part of introducing you to this wonder of nature is... THEY ONLY HAVE ONE SONG! You will LOVE it, but then you will get NO MORE!

I have been practicing dark rituals in the attempt to influence the return of this band, but have been unsuccessful to date. One day....maybe...

Some things that happened on January 10th, according to the History Channel's <a href="http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih ... tory">This day in history</a> site:

GENERAL INTEREST

1920 LEAGUE OF NATIONS INSTITUTED

1922 Griffith elected president of Irish Free State
1923 U.S. troops depart Germany
1946 First meeting of the United Nations

AUTOMOTIVE

1901 Texans Strike Oil

CIVIL WAR

1861 William Seward named Secretary of State

COLD WAR

1989 Cuban troops begin withdrawal from Angola

CRIME

1987 Connecticut's Wood-Chipper Murder

ENTERTAINMENT

1951 House Committee on Un-American Activities clears Edward G. Robinson

LITERARY

1776 Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense

OLD WEST

1843 Outlaw Frank James born in Missouri

VIETNAM WAR

1972 Hubert Humphrey criticizes President Nixon

WALL STREET

1980 Labor Loses a Top Leader

WORLD WAR II

1941 Lend-Lease introduced into Congress
1945 United States invades Luzon in Philippines

JANUARY 11th

<a href="http://www.songfight.org/artistpage.php ... ome_guy">I Dunno, Some Guy</a> - <a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/brown_bo ... mp3">Brown Boxes</a>

I have heard that today is <a href="http://www.songfight.org/artistpage.php ... ome_guy">I dunno, Some Guy</a>'s birthday. It seems appropriate to make his <a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/brown_bo ... mp3">Brown Boxes</a> entry the song for today.

File this song under the "Gets stuck in your head and won't freeking leave" category. I find myself humming the melody to this from time to time. The lyrics paint a fun picture, and the exact structure of the words makes this song work.

Some things that happened on January 11th, according to the History Channel's <a href="http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih ... tory">This day in history</a> site:

GENERAL INTEREST

1928 STALIN BANISHES TROTSKY
1775 First elected Jew in the New World
1935 Earhart flies from Hawaii to California
1949 Cornerstone laid at Washington's Islamic Center

AUTOMOTIVE

1937 Violence Erupts At GM Plant

CIVIL WAR

1863 Battle of Arkansas Post

COLD WAR

1989 Reagan gives his farewell address

CRIME

1944 Nazi Enforcers Terrorize German POWs in U.S. Internment Camps

ENTERTAINMENT

1927 Charlie Chaplin's assets frozen

LITERARY

1978 Song of Solomon wins National Book Critics Circle Award

OLD WEST

1908 Grand Canyon National Monument is created

VIETNAM WAR

1956 Diem issues Ordinance No. 6

WALL STREET

1757 Birth of the First Treasury Secretary

WORLD WAR II

1945 Truce signed in Greek Civil War

GlennCase wrote:JANUARY 10th

1972 - Death of Georg Rendl - Austrian miner, bee-keeper, Satan-on-Earth and author of "The Bee Novels".
(NB: Unfortunately I know nothing more about this apparently fascinating man other than he was a miner, he kept bees, was known as Satan on Earth, and he died).

Thanks for including me, Glenn! Today is indeed I Dunno, Some Guy's birthday. How thoughtful. This song has already been officially dubbed in my head as "the song Glenn Case really likes" and that's a true badge of honor for me. I also really like the picture it paints. I'm sort of proud of it.

To even the scales, your "Bad Attraction" has permanent residence on my "Best of Songfight" CD that I burn for friends frequently.

Anyway, this is a fun project you've got going! Who'll take bets on how long he keeps it up? We should have taken bets on Glenn's previous ambitious project, the "I'm Going To Review Every Fight in Songfight History" project.

Jim of Seattle wrote:Who'll take bets on how long he keeps it up?

Dismissive people.

I say he does it all year, because I want to see if he posts a song of mine on my birthday. *dreaming*
-bill

The chances of me doing this all year are much more likely than that reviewing task. Mainly because I now have a normal 6 day a week job where I can play online, and update from there.

I might eventually attempt to tackle that whole archive reviewing thing again, but it isn't a high priority for me at the moment. Too many other things planned at present, especially playing real live shows! My band made it into a "Quest for the best band" contest here, locally. We are playing at a <a href="http://www.bigeasyconcerts.com">Local venue</a> on Thursday the 20th. We are stoked.

ROCK!

Glenn (DR FUNK)

- ON THIS DAY JAN 11th 2005 GLENN CASE timewarped into avatar/phantom zone in evil plot to harness energy and powers.

Hehe.

Yeah, I cracked up when I saw your new avatar, Leaf. I must've really been rocking out in the Octobarn when that shot was taken. I like it a lot, myself.

ROCK!

Glenn (DR FUNK)

JANUARY 12th

<a href="http://www.johnorama.com">The John Benjamin Band</a> - <a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/firebomb ... .mp3">Fire Bomb</a>

The Fire Bomb fight went from 01/12/04 - 01/23/04. What a great idea it was to have Erik write a song for John, and for John to write a song for Erik. It paid off with a victory for the <a href="http://glenncase.songhole.org/content/s ... p3">JBB</a>. Having heard both versions of both songs, I would have to say that I like them all. It made things a little interesting when I played for both Erik and John in Austin, and they both had Fire Bomb in their setlist. I was wondering to myself "Which version?!?"

Some things that happened on January 12th, according to the History Channel's <a href="http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih ... tory">This day in history</a> site:

GENERAL INTEREST

1984 PYRAMID MYSTERY UNEARTHED

1879 British-Zulu War begins
1932 First elected female senator

AUTOMOTIVE

1904 New Speed Record

CIVIL WAR

1865 General Kilpatrick is promoted

COLD WAR

1954 Dulles announces policy of "massive retaliation"

CRIME

1995 Malcolm X's Daughter Arrested

ENTERTAINMENT

1926 Amos 'n' Andy's precursor debuts

LITERARY

1876 Jack London is born

OLD WEST

1838 Joseph Smith abandons Ohio

VIETNAM WAR

1962 Operation Ranch Hand initiated

WALL STREET

1984 Report Recommends Government Cost-Cutting Measures

WORLD WAR II

1943 Soviet forces penetrate the siege of Leningrad

GlennCase wrote:JANUARY 12th

\m/ Caravan Ray's Rock Pig History \m/
2001 - British Airways staff complained about Oasis singer Liam Gallagher after he had grabbed a stewardess' bottom, refused to stop smoking and thrown objects around the cabin during a flight from London to Rio De Janeiro.

GlennCase wrote:JANUARY 10th
<a href="http://www.songfight.org/artistpage.php ... m:Music</a> - <a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/death_pl ... mp3">Death Plunge</a>

I did a mash-up with this song and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series. It wasn't very good, but it was arguably worth a listen. Yook liked it. I think.