Monkey Mail

This is one of the greatest things... Monkey Mail

Muse with me however, that Career Builders has come up with this as a fun ploy to drive people to their website. Brilliant! I can respect that. Millions of people are logging in, including me, to send silly videograms and essentially waste time composing just the perfect mix of graphic & voice accompaniment. It's funny it promotes a company based on finding your career when all I see it promoting is monkeyin' around!

Are they saying we are all just monkeys? Is man still ape? Have you already sent a Monkey Mail? How much time out of your career did you spend on this monkey business? Whoever did this campaign was brilliant by the way!

You can send a monkey mail to me at sutton.lisa@gmail.com if you need a test monkey.
Hang on, I don't support chimpanzee testing ...that throws a monkey wrench into the plan!

I wish I had some Chunky Monkey in the freezer though. All this Monkey talk reminds me of a song called Monkey Trap which Layne Brooks wrote. Maybe I should pitch it to Career Builders as their theme. If they paid big money for the song, it could get the monkey off my back!
OK ... I'm sorry.
I'VE GONE BANANAS OVER MONKEY MAIL!
peace

12/3 Maybe it's the numbers...

Have you ever had one of those weeks where it just keeps getting better? I've just had one and though I'm tired, I'm grinning and being thankful I am alive and allowed to be so lucky sometimes.

My birthday really kicked this week off last Sunday. Generally a day of rest and gardening for me (like today!), this year it was going to be a bonfire in the front pasture, howling at the full moon aligned with the day I was born, 36 years later, on 12/3/06. 12/3 has become a personal mantra for me. I glance at the clock sometimes at either noon or the wee hours of the morning and I see 12:03. I fell in love with a guy on 12/3 who was born on 12/3. The business I sold last year was 12/3 Branding and even on my rampant, mind-cleansing drives across the country, tractor trailers show me I'm flammable at 1203 degrees fahrenheit.

Anyway, Happy Birthday to my other Sag friends out there!



Here's a little poem for your on your 36th Birthday.............

36 YEARS AGO


THE YEAR WAS NINETEEN SEVENTY
DECEMBER THIRD THE DAY
HEAVEN SENT A LITTLE ANGEL
A NASHVILLE COUPLES WAY

I'VE ALWAYS BEEN SO PROUD OF YOU
AND WATCHED SINCE YOU WERE BORN
AND MARVLED AS YOU PASSED FROM CHILDHOOD
TO A WOMAN ON HER OWN

TO ME YOU'RE STILL THE GREATEST
AND THAT WON'T EVER CHANGE
LARRY HENLEY'S-- SONG SAID IT BEST
YOUR THE WIND BENEATH MY WINGS

YOUR'RE BOTH BEAUTIFUL, SWEET & SMART
AND HAVE TALENT WITHOUT END
NOT ONLY ARE YOU A GREAT DAUGHTER
YOUR ALSO MY BEST FRIEND

I'VE HAD MY SHARE OF BLESSINGS
BUT, IN CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW
THE GREATEST BLESSING OF THEM ALL
CAME 36 YEARS AGO…….

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARLING:::


I LOVE YOU, DAD

12-3-06

Milwaukee & Fugitive song factoids

"MILWAUKEE WAS WRITTEN in 1968 ...and the first time I heard it on the radio was when Lynn and I were on our way back from Gatlingburg where we went on our honeymoon..............dad"

Here's a photograph of my dad getting ready for his wedding day!

I think Mom told me a set of pictures I have come across are their Honeymoon and they are in Hawai'i ?? I also have heard a tale of a honeymoon where they were in England? I'll have to get some clarification. Ah, the jet-setting lifestyle of being young, rich and famous!


"Another thing about the Session which was cut in Coumbia A studio....I went to the session and he also cut The Fugitive written by your grandmother on the same session..."

My Grandmother, Liz Anderson, wrote The Fugitive (BMI Work #895382) which was a Number 1 for Merle Haggard in the 60s.

I just checked iTunes and there's not a version of Jerry Lee's but there's a TON of Merle's version. I didn't realize Leo Kottke had cut Fugitive. That's pretty cool...

Who Made What's Made Milwaukee Famous ?

My father wrote "What's Made Milwaukee Famous" (BMI Work #1636984) in 19xx which is published by Al Gallico Music. It has earned a BMI Award and was made famous by Jerry Lee Lewis on Another Place, Another Time (1968). The song continues to suprise me. Years back it showed up in the monster-selling Rod Stewart ANTHOLOGY. The liner note by Rod is priceless: 'It was late, and I have no idea why we recorded this!' Appropriate, as the song opens with the line, "It's late, and she's waiting ....... What's Made Milwaukee Famous has made a loser out of me." I'm a fan of the KILLER, but Rod Stewart appeals to my rock n roll side ... and I was in college at the time, so this made my Dad very cool.

Currently, Rod & Jerry Lee have reunited to perform the song on Jerry Lee's duets CD, Last Man Standing, which happens to be selling really well. Being a designer, I completely approve of the CD cover as well! Check it out...

The new, duet version, as well as The Killer's original version and Rod's drunken one are all available on iTunes. Please dowload!!

Another exciting note on this song is that a great band out of Austin has named themselves WHAT MADE MILWAUKEE FAMOUS. I had heard about them several years ago on the Texas circuit as they are co-managed by some familiar faces from Pat Green & Jack Ingram's bunch. But last night it appears they were on Austin City Limits with Franz Ferdinand. Eventhough they're from Texas & have a classic country song title as the band name, they rock . So support them too!! They'll never probably cut Milwaukee, but if they make it big, they'll further the name value & awareness of the copyright. And it doesn't hurt that the band is really good! (I recommend Hellodrama)

Lastly, JLL was performing in Kentucky a couple of weeks ago so Dad & I grabbed a couple of friends and went to the show! I'm still a huge fan, but the Killa plays a short set these days. He only did 6 songs!! (got $35k & a lear to/from Memphis so I guess he ain't doin' so bad) I would have loved to have heard my Dad's song, but am satisfied to have witnessed the Killer perform "Great Balls of Fire" and "Whole Lotta Shakin'" after which he promptly plopped his butt across the keys to sound his final note ... and then left the stage. Follow That, Killer!


Related links:
Stephen Davis, Rolling Stone, 9/14/72
liveDaily
BMI
Wikipedia
STEREOGUM:: Glenn Sutton DOES rock!
What Made Milwaukee Famous (the band) on Austin City Limits