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This month marks the > 12th year anniversary of the Battle Of The Bands blogfest, and this is my 220th BOTB installment. After I post the voting results on July 8th, I will be taking a break from BOTB for awhile, so I can focus on some other things. How long is "awhile"? I don't know; I guess we'll discover that together. However, during my hiatus, I will still be a regular voter at your Battles.
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I wanted to do something special to commemorate this historic anniversary and decided to present two songs by an ultra-obscure & somewhat mysterious singer-songwriter whom you have never heard of (unless I previously made you aware of her).
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Her name is Pat Berrington and she recorded only one album which was titled 'Allen Street Rose'. The 10 songs on the 1996 album address mysterious characters who may or may not have lived in Tombstone, Arizona, in the 1880s and regularly performed at the infamous Bird Cage Theatre on Allen Street. (You likely remember the Bird Cage Theatre from the movie 'Tombstone'.)
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The person at Insanely Rare Music wrote this: "Here is a VERY rare country western cd, from Pat Berrington ... The cd tells the story of Rose Callahan and why her spirit returns to Tombstone and The Bird Cage. Almost anyone who has heard her music, HAS TO have this cd. It was sold exclusively at The Bird Cage, and you can no longer find it anywhere."
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Others have said:
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"I love it!!"
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"...that thing is definitely special. Magical."
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"...she has a much higher voice than I normally like but, oddly, it seems absolutely perfect for these atmospheric, haunted graveyard-like songs. ...there's a very ethereal sound to her songs."
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Because the album's first song, 'At The Old Bird Cage', mentions "whiskey", I originally intended to use this in a Battle Of The Booze installment. However, knowing that this will be my last BOTB post for "awhile", I decided to really put Pat in the spotlight by using the album's first song against the album's last song, 'Lonely, Alone'. The shared themes in these songs are Tombstone ("The Town Too Tough To Die"), The Bird Cage Theatre, and disembodied spirits.
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The Bird Cage has a reputation for being heavily "haunted" by a number of "ghosts".
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If you're interested in learning how I discovered this album and my personal history with it, and also about a spooky experience that occurred in the Bird Cage Theatre the first time I visited it, click > HERE, where the entire album can also be accessed for your listening pleasure.
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In the documentary 'No Direction Home', Joan Baez said this regarding Bob Dylan's music:
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"There are some people who'd say...you know, 'Not interested'. But IF you're interested, he goes way, way deep".
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I suspect the same applies to Pat Berrington's album 'Allen Street Rose'. Some folks would undoubtedly complain that all of the songs have VERY sparse arrangements. It's all acoustic; no drums, no bass. It's primarily just vocals, piano, fiddle, and acoustic guitar. Most of the songs are ballads, with just a couple of mid-tempo songs mixed in. However, it seems that those who do like the album really dig it to a great degree!
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* Special thanks to Bryan "Julio" Pedas for creating these videos from my compact disc!
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Alright, let's get on it.
Let's get ON this thing!
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Please vote in the comment section for the song you like best, and then visit the other BOTBers who are BOTBing.
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Note: 'Allen Street Rose' is a concept album and this first song begins with a brief narrative outline of the story which unfolds through the 10 songs. If this is an outrageous "bridge too far" for you, you can skip to the 1:53 mark in the video & begin there. (But I hope you won't.)
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AT THE OLD BIRD CAGE
by Pat Berrington
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LONELY, ALONE
by Pat Berrington
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Psst! Remember, click HERE if you want to read some interesting stuffs about my times in Tombstone and to hear the entire Pat Berrington album, including my very favorite song, the title track, 'Allen Street Rose'.
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~ Stephen T. McCarthy
(...the "dirty dog")
Pat is certainly an interesting vocalist. The first song transported me to the roaring 20s with the music arrangement and the way she sang it. The second song sung so softly mentally caused me to feel like I was all alone with her voice. I unsure if I could listen to her entire album but I'm going to check out your link to hear more of her stuff. I wouldn't want to be too quick to judge. She might really be a ghost herself haunting the Old Bird Cage and I don't want any haints (old timer expression for ghost) spookin' me. Between these two song choices, I'm dropping my vote for "Lonely, Alone".
ReplyDeleteMy battle is up, come by when you can and enjoy your blogging hiatus, my friend!
CAThy! It's That YOU!! ~
Delete>>... I don't want any haints (old timer expression for ghost) spookin' me.
Well, that's news to me. I thought haint was what one said when asked this question...
"Are you going to the disco dance tonight?"
"Nope! I haint a-goin'!!"
I recommend you listen to Pat's song 'WHAT DO YOU HEAR (When You Walk Down Allen Street)'. It's the most up-tempo song on the album and also the most earwormy. Almost all of her songs *can* get stuck playing over and over in my noggin, but 'What Do You Hear' is the one that seems to play most often up there in that empty cranial cavern.
~ D-FensDogG
POSTSCRIPT:
Pat Berrington isn't a ghost. And if memory serves, she doesn't even really believe that the ghost of Rose Callahan haunts Tombstone. There was a book... and as I recall, Pat believed herself to be Rose reincarnated.
Interesting story to accompanying the tunes, Stephen! I prefer Lonely Alone. It paints a vivid mental image of the lonely ghost, wandering the streets.
ReplyDeleteP.S. Sad to see you'll be stepping away from BOTB, but I understand, having done the same thing. Keep in touch, though!
ReplyDeleteThanks for bringing some Canadian whiskey to the--- oh, wait. This one isn't a "Battle Of The Booze", is it?
DeleteDEBBY, thanks for stopping by to participate in my last (for "awhile") BOTB contest. I appreciate that!
I'll still be heard from at times; I'm not going to be one o' them "perfect strangers".
The two words that have always puzzled me more than any others are "awhile" & "yonder":
"He went yonder for awhile".
"OK... where's yonder, and how long is awhile?"
~ D-FensDogG
I remember past stories about Tombstone that you've posted so I probably heard mention of this singer. Kind of cool about the "collectability" of this album.
ReplyDeleteI like sparse arrangements like this so I'm fine with that part. And the voice is okay to my ears. The first song has a nostalgic feel that reminded me of some indistinct thing.
"Living Alone' has a nice feel to it. I liked it. Give that one my vote.
Lee
BOIDMAN ~
DeleteYep, I know that I have mentioned Tombstone once or twice over my many blogging years. Not sure if I've ever mentioned Pat. I'm thinking that FAE would have really liked her music.
I figured the biggest draw for you would be the fiddle in Berrington's tunes.
Hey, have a bitchin' Summer, dude! Stay cool, man!
~ D-FensDogG
Lonely Alone gets my vote. Happy trails!
ReplyDeleteThanks, dEAR dIEDRE!
DeleteHappy Trails and may the Good Lord take a likin' to ya!
~ D-FensDogG
When a man is right, he is right. And you are right. You said: "Yes, Bruhthuh, I can dern-near promise unequivocally that you will dislike BOTH of the songs in my July 1st Battle. How come that? Because... I love them. (Needest thou any further proof?)"
ReplyDeleteVerily, verily, I am astonied that thou canst abide these numbers. However, being a just man, and not willing to make you a publick example, and not minded to "put you away," I will refrain from further explanation of WHY I do not like these songs.
However, I must vote and therefore must choose one of these. I can only wish that Johnny Mathis or Willie Nelson covered Lonely Alone so i could vote for them instead. Since that is not an option, I will vote for Lonely Alone as sung by Pat Berrington.
Sixgun McItchyfinger
SIR SIX-A-LOT ~
DeleteYou left out the beginning part:
"Come back on July 1st, as I will have a very unique Battle presented for your disgust."
Now, I aint sayin' that you're predictable but...
I sho-nuff did accurately predict yer opinion, didn't I?
It's just that when two gentlemen have been disagreeing about music 97.8% of the time over a 12-year period, one begins to notice patterns emerging. GOL!
I'm about to write something that will convince you I have flipped my lid. But then I'll 'splain it mo' better.
The music of Pat (Berrington) is similar to the music of Pat (Metheny).
OK, OK, what I mean is this:
When I bought my first Pat Metheny Group album (and all of the PMG albums I bought after that first one), I really didn't "get it" for awhile. How long is "awhile"? I don't know. Maybe playing the albums on 'repeat' for 10, 12, 18, 20 times?
You know what I mean, because I've mentioned this a few times over the years. One day I'm thinking "All these songs sound the same", and the next day I'm whistling along with every melody and amazed by how uniquely wonderful they are!
It was the same thing with Pat Berrington's album. I just kept playing the cassette over and over and over, while I was writing stuffs. Believing that it all sounded the same. And then one day - "POOP!-POOP!" - every song sounds different and beautiful; I'm humming, singing, or whistling along and in a full-blown Toad Mania!! (I realize you don't get the "Poop!-Poop!" reference, and maybe not the "Toad Mania" bit, either. But... it's what happens to me at times. And it's good.)
Incidentally, it also took me many listening sessions before my mind was able to lock on to & appreciate some of Brian Wilson's & The Beach Boys' more experimental music between 1970 & '86.
No, I don't believe any number of listening sessions could turn you into a fan of Berrington's album. But there's A LOT of subtlety and nuanced moments in the 'Allen Street Rose' album that no one is going to notice & appreciate without getting to know every second of every song.
Sir Six, my sincerest gratitude to you for all of your years of BOTB participation & for being a loyal reader of my blogs. I think there's a word for that-- friendship? Insanity? Insaniship?
~ D-FensDogG
POSTSCRIPT:
DeleteSixy, I forgot to say...
Thank you for being a just man and not putting me away like Joseph didn't put Mary away! "I'm mighty grateful".
~ D'DogG
VOTE = LONELY, ALONE
ReplyDeleteOK. Interesting. Different. Sweet, in a way. Haunting. Oddly evocative. Hunh. Tombstone.
HERMANO EDUARDO ~
DeleteUhm... yeah. OK. Yes. THIS! And maybe some of That. And the Other Thing! Let us not forget about the Other Thing.
Oh... and, thanks, too! ;^D
~ D-FensDogG
Thou art welcomed, Esteebieness. The Other Thing must perchance not ever henceforth be-eth relegated-eth to-eth the proverbial dung heap. Not ever, mind you! Buffalo roam, antelope play, rockets red glare, purple mountain majesties, pilgrims' pride, long cool woman in a black dress, ring of fire, stand by me, lean on me, let it be me, gimme a break, kit-kat bar.
Delete~Eddie
Exactly! I couldn't have said it better.
DeleteOf course, as everyone knows, in the Third-Wave Postmodern translation, ring of fire has been updated & expanded into ring around the Rosie O'Donnell, pocket full of miracles, stand up, sit down, "Fight! Fight! Fight!"
But guys like me an' you, we don't cotton to no Third-Wave Postmodern translations. That crap's for losers with a capital "El".
~ D'DogG
I like both and her voice is perfect for this type of music. The ballad is one of enjoy. Do you know what happened to her? I vote for the more melancholy Alone. I am feeling a bit melancholy so it fits for my way of thinking right now. I do hope you rejoin later because I like what you write and place in for BOTB.
ReplyDeleteBIRGIT ~
DeleteThank you very much! Very kind of you to say, my friend.
To my mind, there's a great deal of mystery about Pat Berrington in that she has no real Internet presence.
'Allen Street Rose' was recorded in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and I believe she may still live there with her husband, whom I believe produced her one and only album.
It was sold only at The Bird Cage Theatre in Tombstone, so used copies are extremely rare. One won't find it at Amazon & other similar sites. It seems a copy of the CD sold on eBay last March.
Check out the link to my STUFFS blog if you get a chance and you'll learn how I first encountered the music & became so mesmerized by it that I drove 6 hours to get it on compact disc.
Thanks again, Birgit, for all of your votes in my BOTB contests over the years. Your BOTB loyalty has always been tremendously appreciated by me!
~ D-FensDogG
Well, most likely, you know where I stand on this one. Both are fine tracks, but Lonely, Alone earns my bote every time, and also adds onto the one-sided drubbing. Or perhaps I might say one-sided slap contest.
ReplyDelete~Chief Julio (dodges, ducks, dips, dives and dodges slaps)
JULIO 6-B ~
DeleteThanks for "boting" in this most unique of Battles. Yes, I knew exactly how you'd bote. I also predicted that this contest would go just as it has. I seen it coming. (Like Daphne Moon, I get these "psychic flashes".)
I'll 'splain in my Final Results comment what line of thinking went into this match-up.
~ D-FensDogG
And Stephen,
ReplyDeleteWhile the music itself isn't my cup of Soco I found her voice both soothing and a little haunting. The Old Bird Cage edges out the Lonely/Alone. Which makes me ponder if she made a reservation at the Old Bird Cage would it be for Loner....Party of One?
Enjoy your break, I will miss your BOTB and the occasional reminders.
JW,
Poooooooohooohooo
...AND, POOH, THAT'S NOT ALL!...
DeleteAt the time your vote came in, I was watching [Link> THIS BAND on-stage. I'm pert-sure those were the dudes who politely axed if they could party with muh boiyz 'n' me on Catalina Island. Of course, you were still floundering in the Venice Canals at that time, so you weren't a party to that party.
Ahh!... the good ol' daze, when "Trouble" led us astray like a poorly trained dog!
>>...if she made a reservation at the Old Bird Cage would it be for Loner....Party of One?
SOITENLY!
You know that [Link> THIS is what they say about the number 1.
It ain't merely a coincidence that the word "one" can be found in the word "lONEly", and that the word "asses" can be found in the word "mASSES"? And it ain't no wonder that I'm retiring from this gig. I mean, why should I continue to give away this (God-given) brilliance for $Fr.ee? I want some monie$ and I want 'em... NOW!
I'll never forget that time you got drunk & got hurt.
Those were the funniest times EVER! Why can't we go back to those good old daze again? Oh, yeah, that's right... because *you* quit drinking, you quitter! You're not my breed anymore. [Link> "Get in the back, punk!"
~ Stephen
(a.k.a. Intense -- MISTER Intense, to you!)
POSTSCRIPT:
I Loves you, Pooh. (JOHN WAYNE! JOHN WAYNE!)
But you still gotta get in the back, punk!
And Stephen...that American Graffiti was a perty dern good movie. Great scene selection. Sorry to have lost my breed status even after Al confirmed I was via a card, last year I think. Sorry to see you give up the BOTB. But I know how much effort you put into it so I getz it. I'm not sayin it was your people, but I appreciate the effort. I will gladly get in the back, it is much safer than falling in something or another. Loves ya back, JW,JW!
DeletePoohregard
...AND, POOH, THAT'S NOT ALL!....
DeleteActually, if you recall, the back seat of the Caddy was the best place to be, because you could easily dispose of your empty beer cans down those holes where radio speakers used to be. If you were in the front seat, you would be forced to politely ask someone in the back seat to dispose of your empty beer cans.
'American Graffiti' is a true American classic. That's one of only a very small handful of movies I can think of which I am in the mood to watch 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, & 365 days a year!
I think I mentioned to you that I reread "The Book" last year. For my money, this is one of the funniest bits in the entire monstrosity:
Chapter 19 -- IT'S MY PARTY (I'LL CRY IF I WANT)
The most extraordinary thing during the evening was that, although completely drunk out of his mind, like everyone else, Lyle Flynn did not wind up in one argument with anybody. In fact, he had even helped me to break up a few of them.
Someday, that story is going to be made into a blockbuster Hollywood movie and we'll ALL become famous! Of course, it's not going to happen in *THIS* lifetime! So, who gives a ____?!!
~ D-FensDogG
(...whose 23rd birthday was *ruined* by a surprise party thrown for him by his Brother, a *bad* judge of characters! ;^D)
POSTSCRIPT:
Deletepage 128 --
By the time the police came again, there had been a severe amount of beer consumed and the Wild Turkey was dead. Cranium was passed out on the floor of my bedroom and everyone was drunk... except me.
Terrific party for everyone... except for the bertday boi.
~ D'DogG
Proof there are times when the planets align and times when they do not. I barely remember that surprise party. Heck I barely remember 1980-July 13, 1986 when I been had become a quitter. Thanks for the memories and laughs my friend. I will have to pick up that book too.
DeleteIt's almost as if the 1980s could have sent you a post card saying "Wish You Were Here". Ha!
DeleteWell, you dun the right thing, and "The Book" is proof of that. (NO! Not *that* kind of "proof"! ;^)
I'll let ya know when / if my music Battles resume, ol' pal o' mine.
~ D'DogG
Al Bondigas here. I enjoy both songs in this battle and find Pat’s voice to my liking. The second song has that ghostly, ethereal feel that I’ve always liked, but, I’m gonna have to make a rulin’ fer ‘AT THE OLD BIRD CAGE’. I like the melody a bit more and the tempo as well. Anyway, that’s muh rulin’. That’s muh rulin’ I say!! Now git outta muh bar!!
ReplyDeleteAWW!... FAKE VOTE! FAKE VOTE!
DeleteSince this is my last BOTB, and even though you *are* "muh Bruhthuh" (as Robert Barone said in a hilarious ELR episode), I am calling you out!
Judge Al Bondigas, you ain't nuttin' but a [Link> meatball soup!
Well, either that or... [Link> "an old potato".
Git outta yer bar? Sure! Soon'z ya run outta cherries fer yer world famous [Link> Shirley Temples, *that's* when I'll ger outta yer bar! ...Do you know who I am?!!
JUDGE AL, all joking aside, I sincerely appreciate you supporting my Battle Of The Bands contests all o' these years. For a judge who don't take into consideration the [Link> "evidence", you alright, judgey.
~ D-FensDogG
("I'm innocent! I'm innocent, I tell ya! I didn't do anything against the law. Honest! I didn't do anything against it!")
Al Bondigas here. Man, you done got a link fer everthang. The man of many links. I wouldn’t be surprised if you found the missing link.
DeleteFind the Missing Link??!!
DeleteWhatchoo talkin' 'bout, Willis?
I LIVE with the Missing Link!
~ D'DogG
Oh yeah, I forgot. But, now I remember.
DeleteWell, as you know I became as obsessed with this album as you did! I listen to it quite often. It's also one of the few albums I always listen to all the way through, versus picking out a few of the tracks as I do on other albums. The entire album is a winner for me! If I am pressed for time, I might skip the one instrumental (Abbey's Song), but that is because there is something about Pat Berrington's voice that I love and I want to make sure to hear those songs.
ReplyDeleteMy vote is going to : At The Old Bird Cage
I love the mind pictures that song conjures up. Picturing what it was like in the Bird Cage's heyday and what the people that frequented it might have been like.
I do like "Lonely, Alone" as well, just not enough to edge out in front.
Enjoy your hiatus, I hope that you will come back and continue at some point!! :)
COUNTESS ~
DeleteYou've made me so very happy (not to be confused with the BS&T song) by participating in this swan song of mine! This Battle, and the Mint Julep Battles, wouldn't have been quite right without your input.
I'm the same way, in that when I play this music, I play ALL of the music -- the whole album -- all the way through. These songs are like a play or film, and you don't just watch a few scenes, because the story needs to be told from scene to scene, act to act.
I learned the hard way that I shouldn't listen to the 'Allen Street Rose' album late at night. If I do, those melodies will be running through my brain all night, making it nearly impossible to fall asleep and stay there.
'Mingus Ah Um' (Charles Mingus)
'16 Most Requested Songs (Johnny Mathis)
'Allen Street Rose' (Pat Berrington)
Those are my three biggest No-No albums when it's late and I'll be going to bed soon. My mind CANNOT stop those melodies from playing in my brain. "No, no, I no kidding you-uh. It cannah! It cannah!!"
>>... "that is because there is something about Pat Berrington's voice that I love..."
Oh, I know, and I can't even 'splain a lot of it.
I remember when I first bought the cassette, I played it once, maybe twice, and thought: Eh. I dunno about this music.
But I kept playing it, flipping the tape over from side to side: A, B, A, B, A, B, etc. I don't know how many times I played the entire album before... "POOP-POOP! POOP-POOP! POOP-POOP!"... The next thing I knew, I was driving 6 hours just to buy the album on CD, because I knew I would shortly wear out that cassette tape.
It's not just the melodies and Pat's voice in general. There's something else... She has some remarkable vocal control and techniques that I can't fully explain.
Examples (best heard through headphones or earbuds) :
Like, in 'At The Old Bird Cage', when she sings "whiskey", it sounds more like "hwhiskey", which gives me a mental closeup image of whiskey being poured out of a bottle. "Hwhiskey" is not the same as "whiskey".
In that same song, the way she sings "whistled" -- it almost sounds like there's a whistle in the word. And when she sings "wild" -- you can actually *hear* the wildness in the word!
In the second song, 'Silver Rose Marie', when she sings "Rose" for the second time (at 0:38-0:43), how does she do that with her voice? How many tonal shifts are there in just that one word?! I count at least four.
In 'The Pleasures Of Lizzie McGee' (so earwormy!) there's that point where the song completely stops for maybe half or three-fourths of a second (2:10). And then it starts in again, shifting to a different point of view. That blows my mind! It's like a "hook" of a different kind.
Later in the song -- "when the hammer... clicked back... on the gun" -- the sound & pacing right there, that was pure genius!!
And so on and so forth. There are so many cool facets in this gem, but it takes multiple listening sessions to pick up on all of them.
This is easily one of the most addictive albums I've ever heard. It should have come with a warning label!
What a shame that this was Pat's one and only album. But then again, maybe she fulfilled her artistic purpose in this one recording. How many albums like 'Allen Street Rose' could possibly be inside a single person?
Did I ever tell you that I also bought a CD copy of 'Allen Street Rose' for
[Link> Joe Curtis, owner of Mark Twain's Book Store in Virginia City? I knew he'd dig it.
Thanks again for chiming in, Countess! It means a lot.
~ D-FensDogG
>>"Swan song?" "And it ain't no wonder that I'm retiring from this gig."<<
ReplyDeleteI thought you were just taking the summer off to catch some waves - wearing your baggies, huarache sandals too, a bushy, bushy grey hairdo... surfin' Crystal Bay.
Are you actually quitting, or contemplating quitting again? You've considered it before.
Sheboyganboy
MISTER 5SIX.08 ~
DeleteHa! I dig your Beach Boys reference (including the grey hairdo). Every time I get my hair cut - which isn't nearly as often as I should - I ask the barber, "Where is all this grey hair coming from that is piling up on the floor around me?!"
Your Q is a goot juan, and I suspect only Daphne Moon and The Amazing Sixwell really know the answer.
There's a part of my mind that DOES want to return and complete the 'Battle Of The Booze' series (I still have a LOT of really top-notch songs that remain unused). But then there's also a rebellious portion of my brain that's saying "This is it".
Since there are only two things certain in life - disappointment & termination - I guess we'll just have to wait and see. (Unless you happen to know where Sixwell can be found.)
~ D-FensDogG
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ReplyDeleteBATTLE OF THE BANDS
Results For 2025, July 1st
'AT THE OLD BIRD CAGE'
by Pat Berrington
Versus
'LONELY, ALONE'
by Pat Berrington
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First and foremost, I want to sincerely thank each person who took the time to visit 'n' vote in my BOTB contest. Not just this July 1st Battle, but every single Battle I have presented over the last 12 years. From the bottom of my heart I tremendously thank each of you! It's been a blast!
Back on June 29th, I wrote the following to a dear friend of mine:
...despite my generally pessimistic attitude, I don't really have any bad news, other than this possibility: In 12 years of BOTB, I have never once had a shutout occur, but this next Battle - as much as I love both songs - has me worried that I could possibly go out on a shutout. I played both songs for Nappy tonight, and he said he thought the contest would be very close ("No chance of a shutout") but I'm not so confident. Oh, well, whatever will be, will be. Or to express that in a more Biblical manner...
"...if I perish, I perish”.
~ Queen Esther
(Esther 4:16)
When the first 8 (EIGHT!) votes came in for 'Lonely, Alone' I could feel that noose tightening around my neck. Especially since I knew that my own vote would also be going to 'Lonely, Alone'. Thankfully, votes 9, 10, and 11 went to 'At The Old Bird Cage', keeping my 'no-shutouts' record alive to the end.
[Link> WHAT DO YOU HEAR (When You Walk Down Allen Street) is the most uptempo and (in my opinion) the most earwormy song on Pat Berrington's terrific album. And it references the fact that Pat believed herself to be Rose Callahan reincarnated. A couple of times I considered using that song against 'Lonely, Alone' in this Battle, because I knew that match-up would make for a very close contest -- much tighter than using 'At The Old Bird Cage'. However, I really liked the idea of using the album's first song against its last song; especially since the first track included the narration that explained the concept tying the album's ten songs together.
I'm pleased as spiked punch that I went with my first idea, even though it resulted in a blowout (NOT a shutout, thank you very much!)
FINAL TALLY:
At The Old Bird Cage = 9 votes
Lonely, Alone = 3 votes
Again, I genuinely appreciate each and every voter, past, present and... future? Know that as long as BOTB remains a thing, I will remain a regular voter.
TTFN and WP&Z!
May You Bless & Be Blessed!!
~ STMcC
DogGtor of Alcohology &
King of Inebriation Nation
POSTSCRIPT:
DeleteI do a very special kind of math - very speeeecial - which I call Numbers 180, and which most folks aren't bright enough to understand.
Therefore, let me clarify that the song
'LONELY, ALONE'
clobbered the song
'AT THE OLD BIRD CAGE'
by a score of 9 votes to 3.
POST-POSTSCRIPT:
My thanks to the folks who still do Olde School Math for pointing out the seeming inconsistency in my comment above. You alright, you Olde School Math-doers! [;^D}
~ D'DogG
("Bad! Bad DogG!")
Did you reverse your results? I think "Lonely" had the most votes. Or are you just checking to see if we're paying attention?
ReplyDeleteLee
R. LEE BOIDMAN ~
DeleteI just got home from playing ping-pong with my brother. I had to "show him a lesson", to quote Oscar De La Hoya. Of course, he showed me some lessons, too.
I knew I shouldn't have tried to write that BOTB Results comment sober. But would I listen to myself? NOooooooooooo! I never listen to myself. I always trust the Magic B-Ball, and it always gets me in hot water.
~ D-FensDogG
Um. I think you got the tally backwards there, Bruh; one way or another. Should not Lonely, Alone have the 9 votes?
ReplyDeleteAlso, I am deeply chagrined that we may not see you in the BOTBs anymore! This may spell the end for all of us!
HERMANO EDUARDO ~
DeleteHokey-Smoke! Had I known that some people actually read what I write, I would have approached my BOTB Results post with greater care & attention to detail. Ha!
I can state with 100% confidence that BOTB will carry on perfectly fine in my absence. I base this belief on *real* history (not like some of that "History" we read in our school books!)
Some years back ago, in "that other time before", I dropped out of BOTB for at least 6 months or more, and BOTB continued on just fine without me. It's a blogfest that runs itself. In fact, when I finally returned to BOTB, I found that no one had even missed me. Somebody said, "Oh, I hadn't noticed that you'd gotten out of the yard. Who let the DogG out?!!"
~ Stephen the Stray
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. Modesty, humility, not indispensable... blah, blah, blah. It cannot be the same without you, my man: literally, logically, fundamentally, existentially, physically, naturally, spiritually, hierarchically
DeleteBut, whatever, Dude. Don't forget the little guys. 😉
GOL!
Delete"The little people... I love 'em, LOVE 'em!"
Thanks! That was quite a compliment! I haven't seen so many allys congregated in a single location for nigh onto thirty years. The only ones missing are the Englishwomen allys:
psychically (Daphne Moon's "psychic flashes")
and
supercalifragilistically.
Fun Fact: I get on these binges that I refer to as "Toad manias", based upon the magnificent Mr. Toad.
'Mary Poppins' is a perfect example of one of my Toad manias. I watched that movie at least 7 times (that I know of) in 2023. And the next thing I knew, I was writing a blog bit comparing Mary Poppins with Quantum Mechanics. Ha!-Ha!
Anyway, bear in mind that although I won't be posting any Battles of my own for some time, I'll still be around and contributing votes via my weird, stream-of-consciousness comments. So, my brand of BOTB psychedelia will still wafting around. (Someone grab the Lysol!)
~ D'DogG
LOL. In our house it's the Febreze. And we do use the word 'waftage.'
DeleteI was on the right side this time and "Lonely Alone" really won out big time. Plus, you didn't end up with a shut out which is the most important thing, right? Have a good weekend, my friend!
ReplyDeleteCAThy ~
DeleteAfter 12 years of 0 shutouts, had my last BOTB installment ended in one, I'd have been extremely depressed, despondent, dejected, downcast, disconsolate, down-in-the-mouth, but most of all...
PISSED!!!. (NOT pissed at any of my voters, but solely at myself, because I knew 100% in advance that I *could* have had a really super-close Battle had I used Pat's song [Link> 'WHAT DO YOU HEAR (When You Walk Down Allen Street' instead of 'At The Old Bird Cage'.)
If my last Battle had been a shutout, I probably would have felt it necessary to do "one last Battle" "one more time!" (my apologies to the Count Basie Orchestra). However -- God be praised! -- I'm out.
To quote my #1 all-time favorite singer...
[Link> "God bless us, every one!"
~ D-FensDogG