Favorite songs and arrangements
(Click text to listen to song)
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Beethoven Violin Concerto No. 1
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Willy Nelson singing Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
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Bob Dylan – Idiot Wind
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Anne Hills – Donna from Mobile
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Lady Gaga – You and I
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Vivaldi – Four Seasons
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Jason Mraz – I Won’t Give Up
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Joan Baez – Birmingham Sunday
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Richard Dyer-Bennet – Spanish is the Loving Tongue
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John Prine – Hello in There
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Paul Robeson – Ol’ Man River
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Roberta Flack – The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
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Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
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Josh Groban – The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face
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Itzhak Perlman: Brahms – Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 (Note that if classical instrumental music is not to your taste go to around the 35 minute mark. From there you will experience the genius of Perlman and the composition. It is an emotional experience. It feels like the music is speaking to you. )
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Righteous Brothers – Unchained Melody
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Lara Leaves Yuri – Doctor Zhivago (Maurice Jarre, 1966)
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Lara’s Theme – André Rieu
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Mireille Mathieu – La Marseillaise
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Dame Judi Dench – Send in the Clowns
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A Little Fall of Rain
Things Worth Sticking Around For That I
Haven’t Tried Yet
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The Classics I’ve yet to read beginning with The Odyssey
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Jump from an airplane, land safely on the ground
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Kayak the Mississippi from St. Paul to New Orleans
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Visit Antarctica
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Ride the Trans-Siberian Railroad from Moscow to Vladivostok
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Perfect my French
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Make amends
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Be a good dad
Beliefs
The sweep of goodness in the world curves upward. If it doesn’t seem that way it is because our lives are too short to be aware of great change other than that which happens to us personally.
Some day a major part of human nourishment will come from materials derived from insects. (Don’t be concerned. It will be a long time.)
If Jimmy Hoffa is ever found we will be glad only briefly. Then we will wish he’d disappear again.
Never watch a movie with ‘Hawaii’ in the title.
Movies with ‘Moon’ in the title are usually entertaining.
Most international laws amount to little.
It don’t rain in Indianapolis in the summertime.
Blueberry Pie is very good.
Diamond rings are not beautiful, an open heart is beautiful. New shoes are not beautiful, kindness is beautiful. Vulnerability is beautiful. Compassion, honesty, courage, and confidence are the really beautiful things.
My friend Jackson’s list of good baseball names
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Matt Batts
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Homer Bush
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Champ Summers
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Bob Walk
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Cub Stricker
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Cecil Fielder
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Bill Hands
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Barry Foote
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Dizzy Trout
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Kevin Bass
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Chico Salmon
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Catfish Hunter
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Razor Shines
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Sterling Sharp
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Chris Short
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Dale Long
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Chief Bender
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Narciso Crook
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Brad Penny
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Rodney Nichols
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Don Money
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Willie Banks
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Barry Bonds
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Norm Cash
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Rollie Fingers
And Jackson, being Jackson, could not resist including the following:
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Pete LaCock
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Rod Carew
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Dick Pole
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Wilbur Wood