46049 Blog Feed: lostarm 2008-08-03 18:08:56 lostarm Your e-mail address 132649 2008-08-03 18:22:56 123273 2008-07-14 19:27:08
Saturday, July 12, 2008
If U love ToDD, U will love this weekends shOW!
Everyone I think likes the fact that I have always randomly met people on the street who for various reasons made me want to have them on the show and then eventually become regulars over the years. I know that fans for sure like seeing some of the regulars on the show more than others but it might be fair to say that everyone loves Todd!

The first time I met Todd, I knew I would want him on to appear on the show over and over again. As you all know by now, I'm shooting the show from my van these days and I have room to take one person with me each week so every week I've been stopping by to pick someone up to go along for the ride. This weekend on the show you guys will be happy to see that I stopped by to pick up Todd!

Also, my failed attempts to lure a celebrity or rock star into my van to be a guest at the Music awards turned out not to be a complete bust after all. Aside from it maybe being slightly humiliating to have to dress up in that giant banana man costume, my efforts did pay off with a guest for the show this week. They aren't quite rock stars yet but they might be soon after winning a juno for best new group. The Band Mobile, joined us in the van this week for a bit of an interview and a music performance. Thats the first time thats happened in the van so thanks to the folks at Universal music for setting it up for us.

Hope everyone enjoys the show this weekend, and keeps spreading the word because I appreciate it!
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]]> 119922 2008-07-07 19:59:18 114544 2008-06-25 20:22:51 www.itsyourfestival.ca/index.htm

]]> 112168 2008-06-20 19:23:47 106610 2008-06-08 12:00:06

]]> 106049 2008-06-06 19:04:26 104316 2008-06-02 19:22:55 In his beat up Pontiac
When an old lady flagged him down,
Her Mercedes had a flat
He could see that she was frightened,
Standing out there in the snow
'Til he said I'm here to help you ma'am,
By the way my name is Joe

She said I'm from St. Louis,
And I'm only passing through
I must have seen a hundred cars go by,
This is awful nice of you
When he changed the tire,
And closed her trunk
And was about to drive away,
She said how much do I owe you
Here's what he had to say

You don't owe me a thing, I've been there too
Someone once helped me out,
Just the way I'm helping you
If you really want to pay me back,
Here's what you do
Don't let the chain of love end with you

Well a few miles down the road,
The lady saw a small cafe
She went in to grab a bite to eat,
And then be on her way
But she couldn't help but notice,
How the waitress smiled so sweet
And how she must've been eight months along,
And dead on her feet

And though she didn't know her story,
And she probably never will
When the waitress went to get her change,
From a hundred dollar bill
The lady slipped right out the door,
And on a napkin left a note
There were tears in the waitress's eyes,
When she read what she wrote

You don't owe me a thing,
I've been there too
Someone once helped me out,
Just the way I'm helping you
If you really want to pay me back,
Here's what you do
Don't let the chain of love end with you

That night when she got home from work,
The waitress climbed into bed
She was thinkin' about the money,
And what the lady's note had said
As her husband lay there sleeping,
She whispered soft and low
Everything's gonna be alright, I love you, Joe

[ More Walker Clay Lyrics ]
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]]> 101468 2008-05-26 19:33:35 100778 2008-05-24 19:30:00
On Saturday May 24th, 2008, Damon Allen, 2005 CFL MVP and Quarterback of the Toronto Argonauts, together with 11 other CFL Quarterback greats will compete in the Damon Allen Quarterback Challenge. This year the Challenge is sure to score another touchdown!

Each year, the Damon Allen Quarterback Challenge soars to new levels of success - from participation, excitement to the money raised for charities. Fun was had by all! Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors, at the last Challenge we were able to make a donation to Horizons for Youth, Orphan's Hope and Children's Miracle Network.

We are once again executing the ultimate football skills challenge. You can participate by:

Purchasing a corporate team;
Event sponsorship; and/or
Simply purchasing tickets and coming out to cheer for your favorite Quarterback.
Your generous support will also allow us to supply complimentary tickets to many youth charities throughout Southern Ontario providing children the opportunity to meet some of their heroes.

The event consists of a Corporate Challenge where participants have the unique opportunity to take part in a football clinic led by some of the greatest Quarterbacks in Canadian football history. This fun and innovative experience begins with a skills competition consisting of four events: footwork, long toss, sprint outside and a moving target accuracy challenge. Following the Corporate Challenge, the Quarterbacks will compete against each other in the Quarterback Challenge. The Quarterbacks will compete at the same events as the Corporate Teams; however the target distances will be extended for the pros!

Come on out to Ivor Wynne Stadium on May 24th for a fun filled day - meet and cheer for your favourite Quarterback or heckle the competition.

Score big and get involved!!
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Have a nice week
]]> 98706 2008-05-19 19:06:00 Took a shortcut through the woods, and I lost my way.
It was getting late, and I was scared and alone.
But then a kind old man took my hand and led me home.
Mama couldn't see him, but he was standing there.
And I knew in my heart, he was the answer to my prayers.

CHORUS:
Oh I believe there are angels among us.
Sent down to us from somewhere up above.
They come to you and me in our darkest hours.
To show us how to live, to teach us how to give.
To guide us with a light of love.

When life held troubled times, and had me down on my knees.
There's always been someone there to come along and comfort me.
A kind word from a stranger, to lend a helping hand.
A phone call from a friend, just to say I understand.
And ain't it kind of funny that at the dark end of the road.
Someone lights the way with just a single ray of hope.

REPEAT CHORUS

They wear so many faces, show up in the strangest places.
To guide us with their mercy, in our time of need.

REPEAT CHORUS

To guide us with a light of love.

All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners.
All lyrics provided for educational purposes only.

]]> 97690 2008-05-16 19:33:18 Sovereign's birthday

The Sovereign's birthday has been celebrated in Canada since the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901).

May 24, Queen Victoria's birthday, was declared a holiday by the Legislature of the Province of Canada in 1845.

After Confederation, the Queen's birthday was celebrated every year on May 24 unless that date was a Sunday, in which case a proclamation was issued providing for the celebration on May 25.

After the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, an Act was passed by the Parliament of Canada establishing a legal holiday on May 24 in each year (or May 25 if May 24 fell on a Sunday) under the name Victoria Day.

The birthday of King Edward VII, who was born on November 9, was by yearly proclamation during his reign (1901-1910) celebrated on Victoria Day.

It was not an innovation to celebrate the birthday of the reigning sovereign on the anniversary of the birth of a predecessor. In Great Britain, the birthdays of George IV (1820-1830) and William IV (1830-1837) were celebrated on June 4, birthday of George III (1760-1820).

The birthday of King George V, who reigned from 1910 to 1935, was celebrated on the actual date, June 3 or, when that was a Sunday, by proclamation on June 4.

The one birthday of King Edward VIII, who reigned in 1936, was also celebrated on the actual date, June 23.

King George VI's birthday, which fell on December 14, was officially celebrated in the United Kingdom on a Thursday early in June. Up to 1947 Canada proclaimed the same day but in 1948 and further years settled on the Monday of the week in which the United Kingdom celebration took place. George VI reigned from 1936 to 1952.

The first birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, in 1952, was also celebrated in June.

Meanwhile, Canada continued to observe Victoria Day. An amendment to the Statutes of Canada in 1952 established the celebration of Victoria Day on the Monday preceding May 25.

From 1953 to 1956, the Queen's birthday was celebrated in Canada on Victoria Day, by proclamation of the Governor General, with Her Majesty's approval. In 1957, Victoria Day was permanently appointed as the Queen's birthday in Canada. In the United Kingdom, the Queen's birthday is celebrated in June.

The Royal Union Flag, commonly known as the "Union Jack" where physical arrangements allow, is flown along with the National Flag at federal buildings, airports, military bases and other federal buildings and establishments within Canada, from sunrise to sunset, to mark this day.

Physical arrangements means the existence of at least two flag poles; the Canadian flag always takes precedence and is never replaced by the Union Jack. Where only one pole exists, no special steps should be taken to erect an additional pole to fly the Union Jack for this special day.

Attached is a list giving the dates of the observance in Canada of the Sovereign's birthday since Queen Victoria.

Observance in Canada of the Sovereign's Birthday

Sovereign Official celebration Natural birthday
Queen Victoria
(1837-1901) 24 May 24 May
King Edward VII
(1901-1910) 24 May (Victoria Day) November 9
King George V
(1910-1935) June 3 June 3
King Edward VIII
(1936) June 23 June 23
King George VI
(1936-1952) Wednesday June 9, 1937
Thursday June 9, 1938
Saturday May 20, 1939 (Royal Visit)
Thursday June 13, 1940
Monday June 9, 1941
Monday June 8, 1942
Wednesday June 2, 1943
Thursday June 8, 1944
Thursday June 14, 1945
Monday June 10, 1946
Tuesday June 10, 1947
Monday June 7, 1948
Monday June 6, 1949
Monday June 5, 1950
Monday June 4, 1951 December 14
Queen Elizabeth II
(1952- ) Monday June 9, 1952.
Since 1953, on Victoria Day April 21

Date modified: 2007-09-24

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Take care all
]]> 95113 2008-05-09 19:18:09 Pioneer of the "Nashville Sound" Took Country Music to a Wider Audience
May 5, 2008; Written by Ronnie Pugh
Country Music Hall of Fame member Eddy Arnold died early Thursday morning (May 8) at NHC Place, an assisted living facility near Nashville at age 89. His wife of 66 years, Sally Gayhart Arnold, died in March while he was recovering in a Nashville hospital following hip replacement surgery.

One of the Nashville area's wealthiest residents, he also leaves an estate estimated to be in excess of $40 million. Before Garth Brooks came along, Arnold was easily country music's biggest record-seller. Sales of his discs from the mid-1940s to the present, in every recorded medium from 78s to CDs, have topped 80 million. Along the way, Arnold became a key figure in "urbanizing" country music -- smoothing it out, opening it to influences from the wider world of pop music -- a trend you could almost guess by knowing that his early musical favorites were Vernon Dalhart, Gene Autry, Gene Austin, and Bing Crosby. The list of those he influenced is headed by Marty Robbins and Jim Reeves.

Richard Edward Arnold was born in the West Tennessee community of Henderson in Chester County (he titled his 1969 autobiography It's a Long Way From Chester County) on May 15, 1918. He learned to play just enough guitar on a mail order Sears Roebuck model to accompany his pleasing and expressive singing voice at area social events. Every little bit of income helped his widowed mother, as the Arnolds lost their family farm to foreclosure and became sharecroppers after his father's death in 1929. By the time Arnold turned 17, he was singing part-time on radio and at venues in and around Jackson, Tenn., where he worked for an area funeral parlor.

Leaving his home country for larger entertainment markets, Arnold moved on to radio work in Memphis and St. Louis, where like many other rural entertainers of his day he mixed singing with rube comedy. His big break came in Louisville, Ky., in 1940, when he was hired by future Country Music Hall of Fame member Pee Wee King to play guitar and sing in King's Golden West Cowboys, a band that had previously starred on the Grand Ole Opry and been featured in at least one Gene Autry film. It was also in Louisville that he met his future wife, a radio fan named Sally Gayhart. They married Nov. 28, 1941.

In the process bringing of Eddy Arnold back to his home state for good, the Golden West Cowboys soon returned to Nashville and the Opry. Arnold gained wide exposure when the band joined the Camel Caravan, a 1942 tour of military bases in the Western Hemisphere, and the next year (1943) struck out on his own, armed only with a promise of radio work from WSM's Harry Stone. It was Stone who linked Arnold with Chicago publisher Fred Forster, and together the two men managed to interest RCA Victor Records in the young singer, an affiliation that would last for over 50 years with only a single minor hiatus.

Unfortunately, the musicians union's first long recording strike was going on then, and it would be December 1944 before Arnold and his band of Tennessee Plowboys made their first recordings. ("I felt like the world was passing me by," he later said.) That initial session in WSM's studios included his first version of "Cattle Call" (his somewhat incongruous cowboy theme song), "I Walk Alone" from the pop field (a hint of more to come) and a couple of maudlin tearjerkers, all framed by Ivan Leroy "Little Roy" Wiggins' crying steel guitar, the trademark sound of Arnold's earliest and countriest recordings.

A former Tampa dogcatcher named Tom Parker assumed the guidance of Arnold's career in 1945, and big things began to happen for both men. Even before his recording of "That's How Much I Love You" became the first of his many major hits, Arnold was co-hosting a Saturday midday network radio show for Mutual, Opry House Matinee. Chart-topping hits began coming regularly in 1947 with "What Is Life Without Love," "It's a Sin" and "I'll Hold You in My Heart" all reaching No. 1 in that breakout year. Arnold's lucrative publishing arrangement with New York's Hill & Range Songs made both parties a lot of money, much of it the huge 1948 crossover hit "Bouquet of Roses."

At this peak of his early stardom, Arnold left the Grand Ole Opry cast over (what else?) money, and he always bridled in later years when anyone suggested the Opry "made" him. "If the Opry made me," he'd respond, "why didn't it make the Fruit Jar Drinkers?" As one of his records of that era suggested, "Baby I've Got Other Fish to Fry," and he did -- moving over to starring roles in network radio with Mutual and CBS and two movies (Feudin' Rhythm and Hoedown) for Columbia Pictures. The RCA hits just kept coming ("Just a Little Lovin'," "Don't Rob Another Man's Castle," "One Kiss Too Many," "I'm Throwing Rice"), and in the early 1950s, Arnold added television to his network notoriety, hosting summer replacement shows for Perry Como (1952) and Dinah Shore (1953).

Arnold fired his Parker as his manager late in 1953 over a dispute never made public (they actually remained friends), and Parker soon moved on to Hank Snow and (most famously) Elvis Presley. By then, Arnold's record royalties, publishing and personal appearance income, plowed into such solid long-term investments as real estate and local utilities, had made him a wealthy man. He became one of the few country stars of his generation to make and keep a fortune, a rare achievement he modestly downplayed in such later assessments as "I guess they won't have to do any benefits for me."

Even before the coming of rock 'n' roll in the mid-1950s, Arnold's repertory evinced a move toward pop music in his duet with Jaye P. Morgan, "Mutual Admiration Society," and his 1955 remake of "Cattle Call" backed by Hugo Winterhalter's full orchestra. When rock came, innovations of some sort became almost a necessity for hard country artists who wanted their careers to survive. Arnold, already rich enough to consider retiring in his early 40s as the decade ended, soon found a second career and a new audience in the pop field, trading in his old Tennessee Plowboy duds for dinner jackets at concerts in fashionable nightclubs or in symphony halls singing with prestigious community orchestras.

His recordings, henceforth all made in Nashville and for years produced by Chet Atkins (the earlier country hits, produced by Steve Sholes, were usually done in New York or Chicago), featured full orchestration and vocal choruses, and helped pioneer the smoother "Nashville Sound," a style fully exploited by Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline.

Arnold actually hit his full stride with this style after Reeves' 1964 death, scoring such hits as "Make the World Go Away" and "Welcome to My World" (both No. 1 hits in 1965). Amidst this career renaissance, Arnold had the distinction of winning election to the Country Music Hall of Fame (1966) the year before he was elected the Country Music Association's entertainer of the year, a feat never equaled and not likely to happen again. A frequent guest on NBC's The Tonight Show, Arnold became the first country artist to host the program in Johnny Carson's absence.

His career record sales reached 60 million by 1970, then 80 million by 1985, based on RCA's own figures. He won Academy of Country Music's Pioneer Award in 1985, and after an all-but-continuous association of more than five decades with RCA, moved over to Curb Records in the late 1990s. He performed his last concert at the Hotel Orleans in Las Vegas on May 16, 1999 (the day after his 81st birthday), though he continued to do some recording and maintained his Brentwood business office for some years thereafter. He returned to RCA in 2005 to record his 100th album, After All This Time.

Besides the aforementioned and rather sketchy 1969 autobiography, there are two published Arnold biographies, both from 1997 -- Don Cusic's Eddy Arnold: I'll Hold You in My Heart (Rutledge Hill Press) and Michael Streissguth's Eddy Arnold: Pioneer of the Nashville Sound (Schirmer Books-Prentice Hall).

Arnold is survived by a son, Richard Edward "Dickie" Arnold Jr. of Nashville, a daughter, Jo Ann Pollard of Brentwood, Tenn., two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

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2008-05-07 22:06:45

BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Illinois Derby champion Recapturetheglory, who came fifth in the Kentucky Derby, will run in the Preakness Stakes, his handlers said on Wednesday.

Recapturetheglory will be the only Kentucky Derby starter other than champion Big Brown to run in the $1 million race on May 17 at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.

"Big Brown is a bear but we're not going to run in it (the Preakness) to run second," Recapturetheglory co-owner Ronnie Lamarque told Preakness officials. "We're there to win and we believe it is a speed favoring racetrack.

"I'll look at all the other entrants. They don't scare me at all and I believe our horse definitely belongs and we feel like the Preakness is our kind of race."

With E T Baird in the saddle, the son of Cherokee Run broke from the 18th post position and fought gamely in last Saturday's Kentucky Derby before tiring in the stretch.

The nine starters confirmed so far for the Preakness are Big Brown, Recapturetheglory, Behindatthebar, Giant Moon, Kentucky Bear, Racecar Rhapsody, Stevil, Tres Borrachos and Yankee Bravo.

(Writing by Steve Ginsburg in Washington, editing by Ken Ferris)

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