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The Lion's Share Lyric Quiz - September 2009
Pretty often I think back on some of the vacations I went on with my family while I was growing up. Some of my strongest associations with those vacations are the songs we heard over and over on the radio while we were in the car, whether it was getting there or back or while driving around to various attractions while we were there. And it's not ( Read more... ) -
Not me...
...but in a way too close for comfort.
20-year-old held in fatal stabbing of his dad, a HCC art professorAs some of you know and my user profile states, my real name is Joe McCauley. Joseph E. McCauley II, to be more exact. I've known since shortly after moving back to Bloomington/Normal that there was another Joe McCauley in town, a professor ( Read more... ) -
August lyric quiz
The August edition of the Lion's Share Lyric Quiz is over and has been updated with the answers. The tally this month was 25 correct, no partials, and 6 unanswered, bringing the year-to-date totals to 210/7/26. I was surprised no one got #10, as I thought that would be one of the easier and more recognizable lyrics (the same was true of #22 on ( Read more... ) -
The Lion's Share Lyric Quiz - August 2009
When my parents were growing up, they listened to a lot of music by artists like Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra, and Patsy Cline. My siblings and I were exposed to some of it, but we didn't pay a lot of attention to it. As far as I know, none of our friends at school paid much attention to it either. We were listening to stuff like The Beatles, Led ( Read more... ) -
Casey and the Top 40
So Casey Kasem is retiring. Another one of those guys that you grow up thinking will always be there, but all good things come to an end. Casey was an icon of my growing-up years when I followed the music charts more closely ( Read more... ) -
July lyric quiz
The July edition of Lion's Share Lyric Quiz has ended, and the answers have been posted. The result was 25 correct, 1 partial, and 5 unanswered. With those included the year to date totals are 185/7/20 ( Read more... ) -
The Lion's Share Lyric Quiz - July 2009
I used to think I had a pretty big record collection. I bought about 250 45 RPM singles, most of them during a 2 year period in high school. My collection of LPs eventually grew to somewhere between 400 and 500, plus a handful of cassettes. All told I probably had somewhere in the neighborhood of 5000 songs. I knew a few people with bigger ( Read more... ) -
The Lion's Share Lyric Quiz - June 2009
Although my interest in music nowadays is mostly as a listener and a DJ, I was at one time a player. It wasn't rock and roll or anything like that, however. I had several years of piano lessons, spent three years in band as a percussionist specializing in mallets (I was never in marching band, however, and later wished I had been), was in a choir ( Read more... ) -
The Lion's Share Lyric Quiz - May 2009
The band Genesis has been through a number of changes in their musical style and their personnel over the years, and many fans have expressed a preference for the music of one or another periods of the band's history. Tony Banks, one of the founding members, once said that to his observation, such fans usually favor whatever they were exposed to ( Read more... )