MusicBasics4Keyboard

MusicBasics4Keyboard

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  • Great Pizza is all about the Dough!!

    This episode is about Two Thumbs UP for a pizza brand. Even though it looked burned from the oven, it tastes delicious. The brand name is Screamin' Sicilian Pizza Co. Can't wait to send my comments about the great sauce, cheese and holy pepperoni. It's delicious! Highly recommended. Thank you for listening.

    2 min
  • Can't Help Falling in Love with You

    These song lyrics by Elvis Presley are meant to lift your spirits if you are feeling under the weather today or lonely tonight.

    In this podcast I sing a few lines from the song "Don't Be Cruel". Music by Elvis Presley makes me happy. This episode is about a trip down memory lane when I was in high school. I was in love with my boyfriend who was very kind, played football, made me feel safe and very happy. Being together on weekends lifted my spirits and made me feel alive. We didn't make it to the altar, but it was liberating for about one year. It just wasn't meant to be. I hope you are in love with someone today whose love is worth all the gold on earth and is not one sided. Spending any time in Heartbreak Hotel isn't good for anybody. Thanks for listening.

    Lyrics: Wise men say only fools rush in, but I can't help falling in love with you. Shall I stay? Would it be a sin if I can't help falling in love with you?  Like a river flows, surely to the sea, darling, so it goes, some things are meant to be. Take my hand, take my whole life, too, for I can't help falling in love with you.  Like a river flows, surely to the sea, darling, so it goes, some things are meant to be. Take my hand. Take my whole life, too. For I can't help falling in love with you.

    4 min
  • Elvis Presley's Number One Hits

    Can you name one or more? If you listen to music or play a musical instrument you are blessed. Your gift is meant to be shared with others. It's about more than saving yourself from loneliness and heartbreak. Music brings relief to our troubled minds when we are all shook up. Surrender to the healing powers that music brings to suspicious minds and a broken heart. Don't be cruel. Listen to music when you feel under the weather. It works. Do it! It's now or never. Should I try to sing one of these hit songs by Elvis? I might; check back. Thanks for listening.

    Meaning of "under the weather". The term under the weather is an English phrase that means someone is feeling sick or sad. Example of Use: “I don't feel like hanging out today. I'm feeling a bit under the weather.” Source: Google search. Also check: when pigs fly and fit as a fiddle.

    Why is a fiddle fit?

    The violin was picked out as the exemplar because of the alliteration of fit and fiddle, and because the violin is a beautifully shaped instrument producing a very particular sound. But then fit came to mean 'in good physical shape' and so fit as a fiddle came to mean 'in good condition physically'. Source: Google search.

    4 min
  • City Slickers, Bringing in the Herd & Pizza

    If you are a Billy Crystal fan and know this movie, you know what this episode is about. It's a comedy about bringing in a herd of cattle in a rain storm. Please visit my YouTube channel with the same name for pictures of pizza boxes taken today at the supermarket. Leave a comment about pizza, vacations or food shopping in a rain storm. Enjoy your day. Celebrate life and thanks for listening.

    3 min
  • Grape Music to Start your Day

    Music by Clover_3 from the YouTube audio library. Have a grape day. Remember life's lessons from Pepe Le Pew. Whew! Thanks for listening. Okay. Like Bud Fox, played by Charlie Sheen in Wall Street says to Gekko seated in a limo on Park Avenue - "Okay, you got me."

    What stinky smells come to my mind? Unclean farm animals in pens, some cheeses, some fish, dirty fish tanks and some pet stores. Corporate raiders. Insider trading. Greed. Publish or perish. This really stinks until you self-publish.

    On the Wall Street of the 1980s, Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) is a stockbroker full of ambition, doing whatever he can to make his way to the top. Admiring the power of the unsparing corporate raider Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), Fox entices Gekko into mentoring him by providing insider trading. As Fox becomes embroiled in greed and underhanded schemes, his decisions eventually threaten the livelihood of his scrupulous father (Martin Sheen). Faced with this dilemma, Fox questions his loyalties. Source: Google search results.


    3 min
  • Nanny Extraordinaire and Me at Work!

    What happens when two women get together for wine tasting events? If those two women are Nanny Extraordinaire and me, the result is a book filled with great memories. Not just Wine Arts Night, but dinner with California winemakers at the Beard House in New York City. See chapter 9. Wine tasting with Andrea Immer at the French Culinary Institute renamed International Culinary Center in NYC. See chapter 10. See pages from Live on Tape at Amazon and other online bookstores. Thank you for listening.

    3 min
  • Dad tells You to Go to Work

    If you were Sebastian Maniscalco, your father told you to "get a job" when you were eight years old. Maniscalco is one of America's most successful stand-up comedians of all time, after Bob Hope. Call me sentimental, but I miss the days when Girl Scouts came to our door selling cookies: mint, peanut butter and plain. I was one of those Girl Scouts. During the summer, most of my neighbors opened their doors whenever I came calling to take orders for cookies, flower seeds and magazines. My biggest selling item was flower seeds. I was a child entrepreneur who loved to work, talk to people and make a sale. I went door to door for many years until I was 12 years old. Much later I sold encyclopedias, new cars, cooking lessons and musical instruments. More recently I wrote magazine articles and published books. Read my book about the art of the interview: Live on Tape.

    What Are the 4 Types of Entrepreneurship? Anyone interested in starting and running their own business should consider which entrepreneurial model they prefer: small business, scalable startup, large company, or social entrepreneurship.

    Seven Characteristics of an Entrepreneur

    • They're passionate. Successful entrepreneurs have a passion for what they do
    • They're business savvy.
    • They're confident.
    • They're planners.
    • They're always on time when there's a timeclock.
    • They're money managers.
    • They never give up. Source: School of Business, Northeastern University, Boston, MA.

    • Thank you for listening.

      3 min

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