I dedicate my song today to the birthday of Blake ‘Eron’ Hite (son of my Facebook friend, Kitty Hite of California). Blake’s birthday is celebrated across the American and British time zones of April 15th and April 16th. I have never forgotten you when you used to eat at our house daily in Mirfield, Blake 'Enron' Hite and watch the television with your travelling buddy. Love Bill x
Today’s song is ‘You’re the One That I Want’. This song was performed by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John for the 1978 film version of the musical, ‘Grease’. It was written and produced by John Farrar. ‘You're the One That I Want’ is one of the best-selling singles in history, having sold over 6 million copies in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France alone, with estimates of more than 15 million copies sold worldwide.
Synopsis:
Danny Zuko (Travolta), leader of the T-Birds, has recently started cross-country running to win back his estranged girlfriend Sandy (Newton-John). Unbeknownst to him, Sandy, who has been conflicted about her upright and proper etiquette in a school full of brash greasers, has herself transformed into a greaser queen to win Danny back. In the song, Danny expresses pleasant shock and arousal at Sandy's transformation, with Sandy responding that Danny must "shape up" to prove himself capable of treating Sandy the right way.
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All my life, when I saw something I wanted, I have striven to secure it. Even as a teenager onwards, whenever I saw a young woman I wanted, I pursued her to the point of her capture and the surrender of her heart. Please note, it was the surrender of her heart I predominantly sought, not the surrender of her virtue!
I had always been wary in my teens not to get trapped into a life of marriage and domesticity until I’d travelled widely, and being an avid reader, I was constantly aware of Socrates’ advice to beware of beauty. He once compared ‘beauty as being the bait which with delight allures a man to enlarge his kind’.
I had always been happy with my life and content in dreaming my dreams and awaiting their coming true. I loved life to the full and I found life to be an exciting business whenever lived for satisfaction, pleasure and adventure.
I recall as a teenager aged around 18 years, while I liked having a drink with my friends, I never found the practice of seeing how many pints one could down before puking up as ever holding any attraction for me. I had seen too many drunks in my time ever to believe that the answer to any of life’s problems or the search for any of life’s pleasures could ever be found in the bottom of a pint glass. I once remember hearing a friend of mine boasting of being able to drink ten pints on a Saturday night and get up on Sunday and do the same again. A nearby alcoholic heard the boasts of my mate and tried to advise him against the life of drink addiction he was in danger of pursuing. The alcoholic said, “Drink isn’t worth it, Lad. It’s the devil in disguise. I tried to drown my sorrows after my wife and children left me, but the bastards learned how to swim and they’re still there every time I look into the bottom of my empty glass”.
The stupidity of getting drunk for being drunk’s sake was never a priority of mine, and while I enjoyed the rough and tumble of being part of a group of young men who went drinking, dancing, fighting and dating together, I always preferred being embraced by a beautiful young woman and putting my hands around her waist before putting my hands around a pint glass.
I was always a proud young man and conceited in many respects. I believed myself to be as good a catch any female fisher wanting the company of a good man might be angling for. I was never told to ‘shape up’ by a young woman I was dating and quite frankly, I’m not sure how I would have responded had I been? I’d have probably left her presence promptly with a flea in her ear and asked another beauty nearby to take the dance floor with me.
Love and peace Bill xxx
Today’s song is ‘You’re the One That I Want’. This song was performed by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John for the 1978 film version of the musical, ‘Grease’. It was written and produced by John Farrar. ‘You're the One That I Want’ is one of the best-selling singles in history, having sold over 6 million copies in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France alone, with estimates of more than 15 million copies sold worldwide.
Synopsis:
Danny Zuko (Travolta), leader of the T-Birds, has recently started cross-country running to win back his estranged girlfriend Sandy (Newton-John). Unbeknownst to him, Sandy, who has been conflicted about her upright and proper etiquette in a school full of brash greasers, has herself transformed into a greaser queen to win Danny back. In the song, Danny expresses pleasant shock and arousal at Sandy's transformation, with Sandy responding that Danny must "shape up" to prove himself capable of treating Sandy the right way.
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All my life, when I saw something I wanted, I have striven to secure it. Even as a teenager onwards, whenever I saw a young woman I wanted, I pursued her to the point of her capture and the surrender of her heart. Please note, it was the surrender of her heart I predominantly sought, not the surrender of her virtue!
I had always been wary in my teens not to get trapped into a life of marriage and domesticity until I’d travelled widely, and being an avid reader, I was constantly aware of Socrates’ advice to beware of beauty. He once compared ‘beauty as being the bait which with delight allures a man to enlarge his kind’.
I had always been happy with my life and content in dreaming my dreams and awaiting their coming true. I loved life to the full and I found life to be an exciting business whenever lived for satisfaction, pleasure and adventure.
I recall as a teenager aged around 18 years, while I liked having a drink with my friends, I never found the practice of seeing how many pints one could down before puking up as ever holding any attraction for me. I had seen too many drunks in my time ever to believe that the answer to any of life’s problems or the search for any of life’s pleasures could ever be found in the bottom of a pint glass. I once remember hearing a friend of mine boasting of being able to drink ten pints on a Saturday night and get up on Sunday and do the same again. A nearby alcoholic heard the boasts of my mate and tried to advise him against the life of drink addiction he was in danger of pursuing. The alcoholic said, “Drink isn’t worth it, Lad. It’s the devil in disguise. I tried to drown my sorrows after my wife and children left me, but the bastards learned how to swim and they’re still there every time I look into the bottom of my empty glass”.
The stupidity of getting drunk for being drunk’s sake was never a priority of mine, and while I enjoyed the rough and tumble of being part of a group of young men who went drinking, dancing, fighting and dating together, I always preferred being embraced by a beautiful young woman and putting my hands around her waist before putting my hands around a pint glass.
I was always a proud young man and conceited in many respects. I believed myself to be as good a catch any female fisher wanting the company of a good man might be angling for. I was never told to ‘shape up’ by a young woman I was dating and quite frankly, I’m not sure how I would have responded had I been? I’d have probably left her presence promptly with a flea in her ear and asked another beauty nearby to take the dance floor with me.
Love and peace Bill xxx
