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The World’s Oldest Song

Dreams of Digging

Q: What sort of fish is the most musicalfish?

A: A piano tuna!

(Learnt this when I was 8 from my Year 3 teacher and I thought it was lame even then. It is a free Dad joke for anyone adding to their repertoire that makes everyone groan.)


I’ve been dabbling around on an old piano I found for a steal on Gumtree, which is like Craigslist (I think) or TradeMe but for Australians. It is noticeably out of tune when you get to the higher registers, and its re-tuning is a work in progress (pending and not by me), but it makes noises that are non-offensive enough, so that’s cool.

Out of curiosity, this evening I Googled, “what is the oldest song in the world?”

Turns out that the oldest known piece of music is called Hurrian Hymn Number 6*, and dates to approximately 1400BCE

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President Joe Biden taps former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms to White House staff – UPI.com

Biden names former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms as senior adviser

“Mayor Bottoms understands that democracy is about making government work for working families, for the people who are the backbone of this country,” Biden said in a White House statement. “She led the city of Atlanta with strength through the pandemic, through a summer of protests and pain, and through the mass shooting that left Atlanta’s Asian American community in fear.

“Keisha is bright, honorable, tough and has the integrity required to represent our administration to the American public. Jill and I have known Keisha for a long time and look forward to working with her more closely.”

 

Source: President Joe Biden taps former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms to White House staff – UPI.com

♫ Just Like Me ♫

Filosofa's Word

I hinted last night that I was planning to do a music post for a friend.  Roger mentioned this one way back a week ago when I posted Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water, but I’m just now getting around to playing it … where the heck does time go???  So anyway, Sir Roger, this one’s for you!

I am not able … and I’ve searched high and low … to find much background or trivia about this song.  Released in November 1965, it was Paul Revere and the Raiders’ first national hit and one of the first rock records to feature a distinctive, double-tracked guitar solo, performed by guitarist Drake Levin.  The song peaked at #11 on Billboard’s Hot 100 in January 1966 during a then-lengthy 15-week run.  And that is all of the factual info I have, so you’ll just have to settle for giving…

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The Amazon Rainforest and Indigenous Forest Peoples in Peril! –  a series of short films by Barbara Crane Navarro – 2 – « The Fire Sculpture »  2:26

« Fire Performance » burning of one of my totemic sculptures and a traditional  Yanomami basket on a sandbank along the Orinoco river in Amazonas, …

The Amazon Rainforest and Indigenous Forest Peoples in Peril! –  a series of short films by Barbara Crane Navarro – 2 – « The Fire Sculpture »  2:26

Barbara Crane Navarro : « L’objectif de mes films, projets d’installation et livres pour enfants est d’attirer l’attention sur la forêt tropicale et …

Dès 1978, Barbara Crane Navarro vit à Paris et exerce ses talents d’artiste-peintre. Depuis plusieurs décennies, elle crée des œuvres « inspirées par…

Barbara Crane Navarro : « L’objectif de mes films, projets d’installation et livres pour enfants est d’attirer l’attention sur la forêt tropicale et …

MPF denuncia organização criminosa que comercializava ouro extraído de garimpos ilegais na Amazônia e exportado para a Itália! — Ecoamazônia

Só em 2019, mais de 1,5 tonelada de ouro ilegal foi comercializada pela organização criminosa! O Ministério Público Federal (MPF) denunciou 13 …

MPF denuncia organização criminosa que comercializava ouro extraído de garimpos ilegais na Amazônia e exportado para a Itália! — Ecoamazônia