Memory Lane is a Long and Winding Highway

Moss Bluff





Hello Jazz Lovers,



A very hot and dusty beautiful day in Bahrain.


Today I am taking a slow walk down memory's highway, (Too old for a stroll down memory lane)I am now realizing that none of us have a choice in where we were born or who we were born. But we do have a choice in who we are today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kkJeF14COI

Moss Bluff will always be the place that helped shape my love for music and dancing,(it was not allowed) Sothern living had so many things that were not allowed. Dancing in certain areas of my childhood was definitly not allowed. So we loved to dance!!! There were two known record players in our area,45 rpms,in Moss Bluff while we were in grade school. Eva Lois and Janice, Eva Lois was invited to all grade school parties.....mostly birthdays. At Janice's is where we learned the 6-2-6, which was the precurser to the electric slide (no sugah there is nothing new).


The slop was done to this next cut which was the precurse to the Moon Walk.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-7QSMyz5rg


In High School there was the forbidden DANCE!!! The slow drag! Now I know some of you do not know what that is but as Gladys Knight Said " You touched your partner"!" Didn't have to look for them"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjLZtt8ggiI She says it very well here, but at that time music was about falling in love with the idea of love.... The beautiful thing about slow dancing was if you were in love! you could touch in public (but not too close) it was wonderful it was a magic time....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XKisuzJJKQ&feature=related If you wanted to fall in love,or wanted to get close to someone,if you thought you wanted to fall in love!!! Slow dancing was a way to be close,,,,,there will never be a more beautiful time...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yLlvywMDEY

On this song you would do The Slow Buggie ! Now how many of you remember that one???

Moss Bluff was a wonderful place to grow up....


Well Jazz lovers I would like to leave you with one of the most beautiful peices of music ever written... Mr. Erroll Garner Playing " Misty"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_tAU3GM9XI


Until the next time Keep the beat and remember Love is the answer.....to all things..

DW Jazzlover..