Month: February 2024

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The Top 40 Fantasies: No. 30

  1. Vincent (1972) Don McLean
  2. River Deep-Mountain High (1966) Ike and Tina Turner
  3. You Needed Me (1978) Anne Murray
  4. Blues In The Night (1941) Woody Herman and his Orchestra: vocalist, Woody Herman
  5. Hey! Baby (1962) Bruce Channel
  6. Slipping Away (1976) Max Merritt and The Meteors
  7. The Creep (1954) Ken Mackintosh and his Orchestra
  8. Don’t Fence Me In (1944) Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters
  9. Walk Away Renee (1966) The Left Banke
  10. Money For Nothing (1985) Dire Straits
  11. Morgen (One More Sunrise) (1959) Ivo Robic and The Songmasters
  12. I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) (1988 ) The Proclaimers
  13. Why Don’t We Do This More Often? (1941) Kay Kyser and his Orchestra, vocalists: Ginny Simms and Harry Babbitt
  14. Goodbye My Love (1965) The Searchers
  15. I’m A Boy (1966) The Who
  16. Ruben James (1969) Kenny Rogers and The First Edition
  17. There’s A Goldmine In The Sky (1938) Bing Crosby; organist: Eddie Dunstedter
  18. There’s A Gold Mine In The Sky (1937) Hoarce Heidt and his Orchestra; vocalist: Larry Cotton
  19. Big Time Operator (1967) The Id, featuring Jeff St. John
  20. Ballade Pour Adeline (1977) Richard Clayderman
  21. Jessie’s Girl (1981) Rick Springfield
  22. Somewhere In The Country (1968) Gene Pitney
  23. Hey, Good Lookin’ (1951) Frankie Laine and Jo Stafford
  24. Inside – Looking Out (1966) The Animals
  25. Don’t Rob Another Man’s Castle (1949) Eddy Arnold
  26. Wuthering Heights (1978) Kate Bush
  27. Mysterious (1987) Najee
  28. Don’t Let It End (‘Til You Let It Begin)) (1973) The Miracles
  29. Walk On The Wild Side (1973) Lou Reed
  30. Meet Me With Your Black Dress On (1953) Bullmoose Jackson and his Buffalo Bearcats
  31. Cool For Cats (1979) Squeeze
  32. Eat It (1984) Weird Al Yankovic
  33. I Cried For You (1961) Ricky Stevens
  34. Drowning In Memories (1985) Graham T. Brown
  35. It’s Too Late Now (1963) The Swinging Blue Jeans
  36. We Love Each Other (1975) Charlie Rich
  37. The Clapping Song (Clap Pat Clap Slap) (1965) Shirley Ellis
  38. Woman Is A Five Letter Word (1951) “Tennessee” Ernie Ford
  39. Price Tag (2011) Jessie J
  40. Come On In My Kitchen (1994) Keb Mo
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‘Greeks Buy Houses’

A few years ago a gentleman informed me that, “Greeks don’t sell houses. They buy them!”

This took my mind back some four decades to when we owned a home on a cliff, that overlooked the ocean, in a somewhat remote town. Instead of getting in tenants to rent the property and use our collateral in that home, to buy another property in another area where there was greater employment, we chose to sit out the year and a half that it took to sell, as we wanted to remain free from debt; in order that we might resume our real passion, which was to continue our travels.

A retired doctor walked into that house and, within seconds, announced that he was going to purchase it – as it turned out for $110,000.

That same property today would fetch around six million dollars!

Mind you! Tiki and I still own a home and it’s in an area that we really love! Besides, we’ve set foot in forty different countries and four different territories or dependencies. A number, more than once.