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I think the reason why Summertime has been interpreted in differant ways is it is  a song that makea a performer want to dig deep when playing and singing it. Whenever I hear it sung by good singers I get a warm fuzzy feeling.

Cheers Jim I am glad you got the humour of the ad sometimes Kiwi comedy doesn’t travel well.

Bill excellent info on drum brushes thank you. You  are a good teacher. Drum beats have been part of my life growing up but not always in a way commonly used all around the world. When I was kid back in Fiji around 1960 we had to learn the meaning of differant rythmic beats on the Lali so we knew what the message been sent by the drummer was about. Today that is more a thing of the past as Fiji has caught up with the rest of the world. Modern cell phones are cheap there and are every where with radio and TV also available in most areas.. Lali is a Fijian drum of the wooden slit similar to many other drums commonly found throughout  Polynesia. It was an important part of traditional  Fijian culture used as a form of communication. to announce births, deaths and wars. A smaller form of the Lali drum (Lali ni meke) is used in music. Lali drums are still used to call the people of an area together, such as church services; the Lali is also used to entertain guests at many hotel resorts. Mostly the Lali nowdays has become more of a just an entertainment thing.The Lali drum is made out of wood and played with hands but, is most commonly played with sticks (i uaua) which are made out of softer wood so as not to damage the Lali. Historically, a larger and smaller stick were used together when playing the Lali
Attached is a Lali drummer  calling villagers to church.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FT4fkj3eW4

Fijian kids still welcome in the New Year with drumming  a long standing tradition called 'Qiri Kapa'.  Now days it is done  using things that have been thrown out to drum on. Drumming is still very much a male thing in Fiji but I guess time will change that. Attached is a short clip showing kids following the Qiri Kapa tradition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgnD2BeKHpg

Thank you Dong And Tig great to  watch a magic moment in a talented persons life.      Welcome to chordie Dong.

Jim that is an excellent song with an  excellent message .     

Happy Easter Bill and Dondra and all the chordie family.  That is very powerful Carrie Underwood  vocal and Vince Gill  guitar  I loved it..     

Cheers Jim down here in the South Pacific there are many beautiful Islands. I feel lucky to live in this land called New Zealand. Our big challenge is making sure that big multi national developers respect the people,  ecology of the land and water. I will attach  a link to an article talking about what I mean.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/money/news/si … ar-BBVNjOp

Your South Pacific Brother
Pete

Cheers Tf like you I was not a fan of Disco. Listening to that track on youtube reminded me that Phill Collins is an excellent drummer. For many years New Zealand was involved in ongoing protest over French nuclear testing here in the South Pacific from the mid-1960s. France began testing nuclear weapons in French Polynesia. Mururoa (or Moruroa) Atoll became the focal point for both the tests and opposition to them. Greenpeace vessels sailed into the test site in 1972, and the following year the New Zealand and Australian governments took France to the International Court of Justice in an attempt to ban the tests. France ignored the court’s ruling that they must cease testing.
The test site at Mururoa was dismantled following France’s last nuclear test to date, detonated on 27 January 1996,.There was alot of distrust here of the French government through the  1960’s to 1996 made worse with the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, codenamed Opération Satanique, was a bombing operation by the   action branch of the French foreign intelligence service, the Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure (DGSE)(, carried out on 10 July 1985. During the operation, two operatives sank the flagship of the Greenpeace fleet, the Rainbow Warrior, at the Port Of Auckland here in New Zealand on its way to a protest against a planned French  nuclear test in  Moruroa. Fernando Pereira, a photographer, drowned on the sinking ship.
France initially denied responsibility, but two French agents were captured by New Zealand Police and charged with arson,conspiracy to commit arson, wilful damage, and murder. As the truth came out, the scandal resulted in the resignation of the French Defence Minister Charles Hemu..
The two agents pleaded guilty to  manslaughter and were sentenced to ten years in prison. They spent just over two years confined to the French island of Hao  before being freed by the French government.
Below is atttached a song of protest against French nuclear testing in the South Pacific at that time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuJ8PP1Icfw

TF I love the age spread with the group all of them  play their parts perfectly. That young drummer has got a good future.

Cheers TF  I agree with Jim you gave me a good laugh.
Here  is a  Doo Wop group singing about telegrams,
  The Capris,    Morse Code Of Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz_9r1APwM4     

Cheers Zurf where would we be without bureaucratic spelling. Here in NZ what they do with government departments is they change the name of them to make them sound more efficient and devise more rules to make them even more inefficient. If the public gets too upset with our bureaucracy our politicians love to set up expensive committees and inquiries.They put out reports change the name of things and carry on just as inefficient as before.

TF , Excellent song choice big trawlers and commercial fishing fleets, have all but destroyed the livelihood of the smaller in-shore fishermen here in New Zealand also.

I think war might be a bit better if we still had the old fashion knghts going into battle. No modern weapons just swords and daggers and whatever else they used. They conducted themselves according to the Code of Chivalry, which stressed courtly etiquette and valour in battle. That would leave the rest of us to get on with our lifes while they fight the battles  very fairytale and unrealistic of course.  Song attached below..
Camelot (Knights of the Round Table)  - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9wdYy3tCm4     

Cheer Zurf That is a great bit of Johnny Cash I enjoyed that. .
A fireman, stoker or watertender, is a person whose occupation it is to tend the fire for the running of a boiler, heating a building, or powering a steam engine. Much of the job is hard physical labour, such as shoveling fuel, typically coal into the boiler's firebox.  On steam locomotives the title fireman is usually used, while on steamships and stationary steam engines, such as those driving saw mills, the title is usually stoker (although the British Merchant Navy did use fireman). The German word Heizer is equivalent and in Dutch the word stoker is mostly used too. The United States Navy referred to them as watertenders.
There were approximately 176 stokers on board the Titanic to keep boilers running.  Short video attached below about that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1gyA3MOIwo&t=41s

Back when times were tough people would  search the side of railway tracks for coal fallen from trains to heat their stoves and homes. Apparently some of the firemen  on trains would deliberately shovel some some of the coal on to the tracks meant for the train boilers to help the poor out. Here is Dave Gunning singing about his grandfather shoveling some coal onto the tracks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7nLTnzTaw4

Dave Gunning - Coal From The Train.

Cheers Phill Here in  Wellington we use be dependent on the tram in many areas as a means of transport, but gradually city planners began to realise that their days were numbered. Many of Wellington's streets were very narrow by Australasian standards and large trams lumbering down the centre-line of the road didn't mix well with increasing numbers of cars. Working on the  tram were conductors and a driver. Like your clippies the the conducter would ring the bell ding ding  so the driver new when to move the tram on from a stop and yell out  "hold tight please" . They took the trams of the roads in 1964 and replaced them with buses that didnt have conductors just drivers.

TF thank you for the two songs about workers and also the traffic control new technology video. I see now they are developing robotic technology to pick fruit I will attach a video of one picking apples here in New Zealand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhswzqyVuLw

EB  Will Rogers quote  “Common sense ain't common.”

DE I love that James River Blues song  I guess many of the Boatmen jobs or Ferrymen as Kiwis call them on rivers around the USA were lost with more bridges been constructed across rivers. Most people here in New Zealand live on the two main Islands the North and the South Island. We are reliant on Ferrys to get us and our vehicles and freight from North to South video attached.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR_L5k4rpu0

Milk was delivered to houses in New Zealand cities and towns until the mid-1990s, when it gradually stopped. Now people get their own milk from shops. There use to be a saying if you were differant to your father they would say “ Your obviously the milkmans son”.  Here is a song attached  about a milkman The fastest Milkman In The West.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e1xvyTdBZI