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All of Me

Welcome to Saturday: 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so to speak. We encourage you to visit other participants' posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love to answer the questions, however, and here is today's questions!

Saturday 9: All of Me (1932)

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) In this song, Louis Armstrong calls his girl "baby." What's the last endearment someone used when speaking to you?  It's been almost a year if not longer. Enough said.

 

2) He sings that losing his love made him cry. Do you cry easily?  Yes, I am a weeper.  If I see someone crying, I will join them.  Commercials can make me cry. Laughing brings tears. Yes, I cry easily.

 

3) Louis was born in New Orleans, a city famous for music and cuisine. What's something you love about your home town?  My regular readers are probably groaning because I sing the praises of Lakeland all the time.  I love Lakeland and all it offers.  It has been my home town for nearly 33 years.  The town I grew up in holds a special place in my heart too.  Living in a small town was a great way to grow up.  Millersport, Ohio still only has around 1,200 residents.

 
4) At age 11, Louis unwisely fired a pistol during a New Year's Eve celebration and was sentenced to 18 months in a juvenile detention facility. It was there that he met music teacher Peter Davis, who believed in Louis and taught him to play cornet and bugle. Tell us about someone who believed in you and made your life better.  My parents, of course, but also my Joe.  I was so, so blessed to have him in my life.

 

5) Louis would say that arrest changed his life for the better because it was at the detention center that "me and music got married." After his release, he began playing on street corners, or in honkytonks ... any place he could hone his skills. What is something you have worked hard to be better at?  Patience. I am working on being patient all the time and think I am better at it.  

6) In the late 1920s, Louis led a jazz band called The Hot Five. His wife, Lil, believed he was too talented not to receive star billing. He just didn't feel ready. She went behind his back and convinced the management at Chicago's Dreamland Cafe to advertise: "The Hot Five, featuring Louis Armstrong: The World's Greatest Trumpet Player." It worked! At the end of the gig, Okeh Records signed him to a recording contract. Can you think of a time when, like Lil, you were glad you asked for forgiveness rather than permission?  Oh, I have done that more times than I can count! LOL

7) In 1932, the year this record was popular, the son of aviator Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped and killed. This famous case inspired Agatha Christie to write Murder on the Orient Express. Have you read the book? No.  Seen the movie, the remake, or the miniseries?  I think I saw one of the movies a long time ago.  I have not seen the miniseries.

8) Another aviator was in the news in 1932. Amelia Earhart flew 14 hours from Newfoundland to Londonderry. What is the longest flight you've ever taken?  Atlanta to Venice, Italy. Nine hours.

9) Random question: You have the opportunity to travel safely in a time machine. Would you go back to the past, into the future, or say, "no thanks, I'll stay in 2022?"  As much as it would be so great to see family members again who have died, I will stay right where I am.  I'm leaving life (and death) in God's hands.

Peace & hugs!!

Our God is an awesome God!