This is a series of posts that will talk about my favorite Keyboard players.
So far I’ve chosen, Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, Eumir Deodato, Gershon Kingsley, Jon Lord, Elton John, Billy Joel, Nicky Hopkins, John Paul Jones, Richard Wright, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Billy Preston. Let me chose some more to consider.
Originally, the drink mixes were sweetened primarily with cyclamate, an artificial sweetener that became extremely popular during the 1960s because it provided sweetness without the calories of sugar.
Funny Face Drink Mix was one of the most recognizable powdered soft drink brands of the 1960s and early 1970s, remembered for its brightly colored flavors, whimsical advertising, and memorable cartoon mascots. Introduced by the Pillsbury in 1964, the product entered a rapidly growing market for inexpensive powdered beverage mixes that could be prepared at home by simply adding water.
The name “tupelo” is generally associated with trees that grow in forests, swamps, floodplains, and other wet environments, although not every tupelo requires saturated soil.
Tupelo trees are a group of deciduous trees belonging to the genus Nyssa, a genus native primarily to North America and especially well represented in the eastern and southeastern United States. The name “tupelo” is generally associated with trees that grow in forests, swamps, floodplains, and other wet environments, although not every tupelo requires saturated soil. The word itself is believed to have Native American origins, probably deriving from Creek words meaning “tree” and “swamp.”
The expression can describe a dishonest salesperson, a charlatan, a con artist, or anyone making extravagant promises about a product, service, investment, or idea.
The expression “snake oil salesman” is one of the most colorful insults in the English language, and today it means much more than someone who literally sells a dubious medicine. A snake oil salesman is a person who promotes something as valuable, effective, or miraculous when it is actually worthless, deceptive, or seriously exaggerated. The expression can describe a dishonest salesperson, a charlatan, a con artist, or anyone making extravagant promises about a product, service, investment, or idea.
The company traces its origins to March 1960, when founder H.J. Griffith opened the first Griff’s Burger Bar in Wichita, Kansas.
Griff’s Hamburgers, often known through the years as Griff’s Burger Bar, is one of the surviving regional fast-food chains from the great expansion era of American hamburger restaurants during the mid-twentieth century. The company traces its origins to March 1960, when founder H.J. Griffith opened the first Griff’s Burger Bar in Wichita, Kansas.
The area’s modern history began in the 1870s when extensive chrysotile asbestos deposits were identified beneath the hills surrounding the community.
The town now known as Val-des-Sources, located in Quebec’s Eastern Townships, is one of the most unusual communities in Canadian history because it was built almost entirely around one mineral: asbestos. For well over a century the community was internationally famous under its former name, Asbestos, Quebec, a name that was synonymous with one of the world’s richest chrysotile asbestos deposits.
The expression first appeared literally in cricket reports during the late nineteenth century, with newspapers describing teams struggling to score runs on rain-soaked pitches.
The expression “a sticky wicket” means a difficult, awkward, or delicate situation that requires careful handling. It is used to describe circumstances in which there is no easy solution and where a wrong move can make matters worse. Although the phrase is widely understood throughout the English-speaking world today,
Formed to indulge their fascination with the psychedelic pop and rock of the late 1960s.
The Dukes of Stratosphear were a fictional English psychedelic-pop group who were, in reality, a side project and alter ego of XTC. Formed in 1984 in Swindon, Wiltshire, the Dukes allowed Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding and Dave Gregory to indulge their fascination with the psychedelic pop and rock of the late 1960s without the expectations attached to the XTC name.
For so many years are gone
Though I’m older but a year
Your mother’s eyes from your eyes cry to me
“‘39” is one of Queen’s most unusual and deceptively simple songs, written by guitarist Brian May and released on the band’s 1975 album A Night at the Opera, where it appears as the fifth track; it was also issued in June 1976 as the B-side of “You’re My Best Friend.” Musically, it is a striking departure from Queen’s heavier, theatrical sound, blending acoustic folk,
It was a good thing this was an origin story because I would have had no idea what was happening.
“Masters of the Universe” is the 2026 live-action fantasy adventure film based on Mattel’s enormously popular Masters of the Universe franchise, bringing He-Man, Skeletor, Teela, Man-At-Arms, the Sorceress and the world of Eternia back to the big screen in a much more ambitious production than the earlier 1987 movie. The film was directed by Travis Knight, whose previous work includes “Bumblebee” and the acclaimed animated features “Kubo and the Two Strings” and “The Boxtrolls.”
