Sprang Thang: The Blackbyrds' "Thankful 'Bout Yourself"

It's pouring down rain again -- Spring has Sprung, I guess -- but let's bracket that, and listen to and download some summer something.


The Blackbyrds on YouTube

Download the Blackbyrds' Thankful 'Bout Yourself.mp3
This song is the kind that will go on the Cosby Show mix, "Hello Jello".

Speaking of BlackByrds, what is going on with all the bird deaths lately? Could it be....
a sign of the impending apocalypse?!?!?!
Clearly a rhetorical question.



Margeaux and I saw a dead bird by my house; I saw two more by Villanova's main chapel; the three ladies-who-lunch next to me are talking about seeing some too. I think it is fair to hazard that they saw different birds than the ones I saw. Which means that there is a minimum of four dead birds, seen by 5 different people -- clearly we have an epidemic on our hands.

But what kind of epidemic? Avian Bird Flu? Maybe the birds flew too much and died of exhaustion?: but what were they flying away from? The planet's impending doom, perhaps?
Or something more sinister?...?

Aren't birds supposed to get born, not die, in the spring?
Well. Anyhow.

Fire Dance With Me- Ohio Players

Well, as of noon, I am done with the semester.
In full. In toto. In-joying myself.

Margeaux will be done tonight too. Which requires that I present another helping of the mix I am preparing: Hello Jello!, the The Cosby Show-inspired mix I mentioned last time.


on YouTube - Ohio Players: Together, from their album FIRE.

Ayo! Si muy caliente, y fuego mas fina!
Please note the almost NSFW cover art. Scandalous.


I am not sure if I will put this very song on the mix yet, but certainly some Ohio Players song will go on there. The YouTube clip doesn't have to be the exact song yet, since I am just trying to let you know what type of sounds to expect.

The clips are just a taste,


just a teaser,


of what greatness and grandness is to come.

Maybe "Fire" will go on the mix, that is a big one; maybe "Ecstasy" would be better for this mix than "Together." "Ecstasy" got a li'l more bounce to it; but then, "Together" has those horns. Brass instruments will be big on this mix,
because it is going to be deeply funky.