BLUE BLUES BLUESA NOVA

 "Blue Blues Bluesa Nova" is a trilogy of songs using the same lyrics I wrote.

 I used 5 of my haikus — ultra-short verses to express a mood, a moment, a remembrance or a just a chant — to  create a piece of lyrics of 5 verses.

Based on the resulting lyrics, the possible rythmics could be:

¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶
or
¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸
⁴ and ⁸ = [silence]

Here's the lyrics:

LYRICS: OUR BLUE DREAMS

Haiku 1
One million years it seems

Haiku 2
Have gone by since we shared

Haiku 3
Our blue dreams [long silence]

Haiku 4
But I'll hold you again

Haiku 5
There won't be any sad days...

THREE SONGS FOR THE SAME LYRICS

My feelings were that the song(s) should reflect the untemporality invoked by the lyrics. Then I defined for each one of the songs I wished: the tempo, the bpm, the genre etc... in order to make three prompts for Gemini.

Then, my intention is to place the song in three successive period of time of the history of Chicago, since the end of the 19th Century until nowadays.

Prompt 1:

• period: at the beginning of the 20th Century (1890-20s)

• rythm : Waltz

• instruments: Grand Piano with orchestral intro

BLUE WALTZ LONGAGO

Prompt 2:

• period : Chicago Jazz/Blues... between (1920-60s)

• rythm : Blues

• instruments: 🎷🎹🎸🥁

BLUES DOWNTOWN CHI

Prompt 3:

• period: Chicagoan Blues (starting mid-60s)

• instruments:  🎷🎹🎸🥁

CHICAGO BLUESA NOVA

&... Now: Dance❣️

👢👢📃:UNDER👷‍♀️🚧👷‍♂️

SPECIAL... SPECIAL...SPECIAL... POSTAB 1

Jonas, baby whale, says: My day is March 23rd!

COCO NA NA

👢👢📃: Alison Johnstone & Joshua Talbot

🐤STRUMMINGBIRD🐥

👢👢📃: Maddison Glover

SIXTEEN NUMBER

👢👢📃: Fabienne Goulais 

Videoteach: 📽🎓🕸

WINGS TO FLY

👢👢📃: Lai, Hayley Wheahley

COUNTRY GIRL LIKE YOU

👢👢📃: Daniel Trepat

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SPECIAL... SPECIAL... SPECIAL... POSTAB 2

SHIMMER

👢👢📄: Michelle Wright

A LITTLE DREAM

👢👢📄: Guillaume Richard

CANDY SHOPPIN

👢👢📄: Guillaume Richard

CHASING THE WIND

👢👢📄: Bruno Morel

CLAYMORE SHUFFLE

👢👢📄: Guillaume Richard

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SPECIAL... SPECIAL... SPECIAL... POSTAB 3

 

I LOVE THAT DANCE

👢👢📃: Tim Gauci

TURN THIS TOWN

👢👢📃: Maddison Glover & Jo Thompson Szymanski

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ROLLING STONE🌊💎

👢👢📃: Maddison Glover & Gary O'Reilly

KISS MY GLASS👄🍸 Maggie

👢👢📃: Maggie Galagher

KISS MY GLASS👄🍷 Karl-Harry

👢👢📃: Karl-Harry Winson

FOLLOW TIL THE END

👢👢📃: Maggie Gallagher

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OCTOBER: ITALIAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH

 THE ITALIAN AMERICAN HERITAGE

COLUMBUS DAY 2026 OCT 12TH

Christopher Columbus was the 2nd European Shipmaster to land on the shores of the New World... almost 500 years, after Leif Eriksen.

Then, for two centuries, came other explorers who left their names to many places:

– First of all, of course, is Amerigo Vespucci whose first name was given to the New Continent (America!)

– Then, Verrazano who left his name to a bridge of NYC 

– And also Giovanni Cabotto... John Cabot for the King of England, Jean Cabot for the King of France...

Their common point is that they sailed for the kings of Spain, France or England... but never for "Italy" because Italy was not a Kingdom but it was divided in powerful cities-republics like Genoa or Venice, and... puny tiny kingdoms.

MASSIVE ITALIAN IMMIGRATION

It was not before late 19th Century that massive Italian immigration started further to the economical situation of the new re-unified Kingdom of Italy.

ITALIAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE

 IN SONGS MUSIC & DANCE

Although it was "late", considering that the Italian explorers took a major part in the early exploration of the New World, this immigration gave to America major artists recognized worldwide.

The posts of this Blog contains already many songs and music of members of the famous Franky's Rat Pack. We can also add other major artists, like:

- Madonna (Song: Medellin /Dance: The Sphinx)

- Nancy Sinatra (Summer Wine/Angel's Kiss)

- Liza Minelli

- and many others❣️

THE SPHINX

(coached by my 💔Agnès💘)

👢👢📃: on Copperknob

🗣🎙: Madonna (Medellin)

ANGEL'S KISS

👢👢📃: Harry Heng on Copperknob

🗣🎤🗣🎙: Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood

NEW YORK NEW YORK

👢👢📃: Andre Adhitama Rizal on Copperknob

🗣🎙: Lisa Minnelli New York NewYork

: 

HOWDI, COWBOY! PLEASE YODEL ME A SONG!

 Hallo, Cowboy! Bitte Jodl mir ein Lied...

This article will dig into the legacies of German speaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg and also other Allemanic regions of Europe like Alsace and Lorraine in France, Lombardy in Italy et many other places) to the domains of music, songs and dances in America and their contributions both to the entertainment industry and to all sub-domains related to Country and Western hobbies.

Unlike the peoples of the countries that colonized North American lands — I mean England, Spain, France, Holland, Portugal — the whole german-speaking population who settled there were immigrants, while among the others were colonists, merchants, soldiers, Royal Civil Servants and of course migrants for some of them.

As in my Blog and Website there should be music, songs and dances all time, let's listen to:

SHE TAUGHT ME TO YODEL

👣📋: John Warnars

🦬RIDE-OR-DIE FOREVER🌱

✈️🛬 RIDE-OR-DIE FOREVER🦬🌱

A COWBOY STORYTELLER'S SONG

This song is closely linked to my previous one:

"BUFFALO GRASS ON THE AIR"

Let me tell the genesis of this one.

Years ago. when Twitter was just launched, for my bio I wrote : "The geek converted yo haikus." Actually, Twitter posts were limited to 160 characters for tech reasons of these times. So, I decided to post only haikus... my bio remains unchanged! It helped me a lot because with haikus the author could just in few words create a  complete atmosphere and its environment.

Years later, I started to write lyrics for songs. All my lyrics are short rhyming verses. My last song, BUFFALO GRASS ON THE AIR, is a real autobio, even my buddy's first name is real❣️ A couple of days ago, I was thinking: "What would it be if I expand it to a kind of a long Cowboy Storyteller's song? So that's what I did with... Copilot or Meta AI — more probably Copil for the words and certainly Meta for the drawing of the two buddies. 

Here it is:

LEIF ERIKSON DAY: 2026 OCT 9TH

 

Leif Erikson was the first shipmaster to land in America, more precisely in Newfoundland, Canada. It was around year 1021. He is celebrated on Friday 9th of October. Actually nobody knows the exact day he showed on the North of America... The date was chosen for the organized Nordic immigrants, on board of the ship Restauration, were landing in NYC: it was on Oct. 9th, 1825.

So, it was more than seven centuries later that started the immigration of Northern European origins who settled in the USA. However, in percentage of the total population, they were very few¹.

Back to Leif, now: actually the Vikings did not settled definitely. They founded a settlement ar L'Ance aux Meadows in the Canadian Province of Newfoundland.

In fact, the Viking didn't settle in North America but they founded families. And the families returned to Scandinavia. Below is the photos of the statues of:

Thorsfinn Karlsefni,

 Gudrid & their son Snorri born in America

respectively in Boston,MA and Iceland

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 The following song is about Scandinavian emigrants in America:

The Swede from North Dakota

 The lyrics are in Scandihoovian², a dialect used in some scandinsvian emigrant families. There is no dance choreographied on this song.

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 Here's amodern song and dance related to Scandinavian immigrants:

VALHALLA BELIEVER

👢👢📋: Russell Breslauer

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⭐️Notes⭐️

¹ Approximately between 3% and 4% of the total population have Scandinavian ascendant. Among them, Marylin Monroe, by recognition — her declared father's name was Mortensen — although post mortem DNA tests did not prove he was the natural father.

North Dakota is the state with the most important Scandinavian families, followed by Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.

² Lyrics:

THE SWEDE FROM NORTH DAKOTA

I bane a Swede from Nort' Dakota
Work on a farmstead 'bout two yare
Tank I go to Minnesota
Go to Mi nneapolis to see great fair.

Walkin' 'round the stetreet in Saint Paul
Ain't seen no feller anywhere
So I yump on streetcar to Minneapolis
Bet your life lots Swede men there.

I buy me a suit, I buy me a bottle
Dress me up way out of sight,
Yunp on the tail of a Yim Hill wagon
Yesus Christ! I feel for fight!

I go down to Seven Corners,
Where Salvation Army play,
One dem vomans come to me
This is what dat voman say:

She say, "Will you work for Yesus?"
I say, "How much Yesus pay?"
She say, "Yesus don't pay nothing"
I say, "I won't work today."

So I go back to North Dakota
Get a yob on farm somewhere,
And I say to all Swede fellers
Dey can go to hell with de big State Fair.

🦬BUFFALO GRASS ON THE AIR🎙

 BUFFALO GRASS ON THE AIR

📃✍️&📋🎬: Jack HW LeQueux

🎼🎵: Gemini on my prompt

🗣🎙: AI-Cover

I intended to write a Blue Grass song celebrating my friendship with Bob... so I tried to remember what we're the warmest moments we spent together... Here's my lyrics:

A glass of Zubrowska in hand
That I drank in one gulp and...
Bob telling me his past life in
Planes, shooting, shootin' N shootin'...
I dreamed that 'twas on a map...
While Lynette's having a good nap...

SOUVENIRS OF LIFE ON THE RIVER

 

Swimming in the Bayou

📋🎬: My story board is in prose

Deep in my heart are the hot and wet summer afternoon, swimming in the bayou with other kids of my age... their moms were on their guard for alligators... but mine was at work. Only unc' Ben sometimes could show some minutes still in his cop's suit and he used to call me as I swimmed far away... Back to the river bank... Unc'Ben had just time to hug me, give a kiss and jump in his Crown and rush.

SLOW RIVER REST

Content under packagin'...

BAYOU MOSS REMEMBER

Content still under packagin'...

Over & Beneath the Bayou

 Lyrics by Jack HITTHEROAD

 (aka Jean LW LeQUEUX)

OVER THE BAYOU

— 🎼🎵: Cypress Canopy Dreams —

🎼: GEMINI

📃✍️LYRICS: J LW LeQUEUX

Over the Bayou highest tree
Near the sky there's the canopy
Where all my childish dreams fly
Like flocks of birds over up high

On the fresh and muddy water
Green and blue round drops glitter

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BENEATH THE BAYOU

— 🎼🎵: Beneath the Sleeping Trunks—

📃✍️LYRICS: J LW LeQUEUX

While dragonflies are hovering
Over leaves and branches floating

Under trunks like aligators sleeping

Are schools of tiny fish wriggling
It's where my big pa's and ma's souls
Met all my sinking dreams and thoughts

🍂OF RED AND GOLD🍁

 

AUTUMN LEAVES

🗣🎙: Tony BENETT

📝✍️: Johnny MERCER

(adaptation of Prévert's French poem: "Les Feuilles Mortes")

🎼🎵: Joseph KOSMA

DANCE TITLE: OF RED & GOLD

Please read lyrics verses in Notes at the end of this article to fit them with the phrases of the dance.

👞👠📋: Jean (Jack) Louis LEQUEUX

On Copperknob

In this dance, "Of Red and Gold", I'm trying to fit the moves and motion of the dancer with the mood and reminidcence of the singer who is remembering a past love he lost by an autumn day when foliage turns to orange, red and gold, the whirlwind throwing autumn leaves endlessly.
It is a phrased choreography but simple: verses of the song — originally a French Poem of Jack Prevert not translated but re-interpreted by Johnny Mercer — alternate the feelings of the singer and the sadness of fall.
Joseph KOSMA's music is definitely a jazz ballad. By inserting a choir singing, in background and like in faraway in the past, some verses of the French poem like some classical music, Tony BENETT's cover definitely adds a fourth dimension to this works.

CHOREOGRAPHY
BPM:  +  78
Rythm: Jazz Ballad
Level: Easy Intermediate
Walls: 2
5-Phrase-dance:  Intro, A, B, C, Outro
No tag no restart
Weight on:
- left foot: WOLF
- right foot: WORF

Phrasing
Intro-A-A-B-C-B-Outro
▪︎ Intro (instrumental)
▪︎ Phrase A on verses 1 and 2
▪︎ Phrase B on verse 3 and 4
▪︎ Phrase C on Choir
▪︎ Phrase B on verse 5 and 6
• Outro
At start: WOLF
Start with music

INTRO (instrumental)
Sad and slow sliding stroll.
24 counts

Section 1
Sliding marche forward
1 to  4:  slide foot forward: right left right; slide left foot near right.
Sliding marche backward
5 to 8:  slide foot backward: right left right; slide left foot near right.

Section 2
¹ ² ³ ⁴ Slow side step to the right
- side step to right, assemble; side step to right, left foot touches right foot (WORF)
⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ Slow side step to the left
- side step to left, assemble; side step to left. right foot touches left foot (WOLF)

Section 3
Jazz-box
¹  Cross right foot over left foot
²  Slide left foot to the left behind right foot
³ Slide right foot at the right of left foot
⁴ Drag right foot near left foot
Rocking chair
⁵ Rock right foot forward
⁶ Recover on left foot
⁷ Rock tight foot back
⁸ Recover on left foot
(WOLF)

PHRASE A: 16 counts
On Verse 1 and 2

Section 1
Start Phrase A with Verse 1
Jazz box
¹ Cross right foot over left foot
² Step left foot back left
³  Step right foot to the right side
⁴  Step left foot together next right foot (WOLF)

Side right, touch, Side right, touch. Schuffle left
⁵  Step right foot to right
⁶ Right foot touches left foot
⁷ Step right foot to right
& Step left foot against right foot
⁸  Step right foot to right keeping your WOLF

Section 2

Quarter-turn right, marche forward (x3); facing 🕒
¹ quarter turn right foot to right, (WORF)
² Step forward left foot
³ Step forward right foot
⁴ Step forward left foot (WOLF)

Sailor ¼ turn right; shuffle right; facing 🕕
⁵ Sweep right foot with a quarter turn back to right facing 6:00
⁶ Slide left foot near right foot
⁷ Walk right foot forward
& Lock left foot behind right foot
⁸  Slide right foot near left foot (WOLF)

Dance phrase A on verse 1 and verse 2
At the end of Phrase A you're facing 6:00

PHRASE B: 32 counts
Dance phrase B
•  on verses 3 and 4
•  and on verses 5 and 6
Phrase B is a lateral sliding promenade

Section 1
Side steps
¹ Slide right foot to the right
² Assemble left foot near right foot
³ Slide right foot to the right
⁴ Assemble left foot near right foot
Side shuffles
⁵ Right foot to right side
& Assemble left foot near right foot
⁶  Right foot to the right
⁷  Left foot touches right
& Left foot to the left side
⁸  Right foot touches left foot
WOLF

Section 2
Rocking chair
¹ Rock right foot forward
² Recover on left foot
³ Rock right foot backward
⁴ Recover on left foot
Sliding jazz box
⁵ Cross right foot over left foot
⁶ Slide left foot on the back left of right foot
⁷ Slide right foot back aligning it slightly distant of left foot
⁸ Drag slowly left foot neat right foot
WOLF

Section 3
Slide drag shuffle to right
¹ Slide right foot to right
& Drag left toes against right foot
²  Pose left heel near right heel (WOLF)
³  Slide right foot to right
& Drag left toes against right foot
⁴ Pose left heel near right heel (WOLF)
Rocking chair
⁵ Rock right foot forward
⁶ Recover on left foot
⁷ Rock right foot backward
⁸ Recover on left foot
WOLF

Section 4
Front weave
¹ Right foot crosses over left foot
² Step left foot to the left
³ Cross right foot behind left foot
⁴ Step left foot to left side - change weight on right foot
Back weave
⁵ Cross left foot behind right foot
⁶ Step right foot to the right
⁷ Cross left foot over right foot
⁸ Step right foot to thr right

PHRASE C: on the Choir
The choir is singing, in French, some verses of Jack PREVERT's poem. "Les Feuilles Mortes" — Dead Leaves —  sounding like it is a voice from very far away long time ago.
This section consists in 8 turns evocating autumnal leaves carried away by a gentle october whirlwind.

32 counts
1 Wall
Phrase C is composed of 4 full turns

Section 1
Quarter turn to the right marche(x4)
¹ ²
Step right foot to the right, toes facing 🕒
Slide left foot near right foot (WOLF) 🕕
³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸
Repeat preceeding steps twice, facing 🕘 and 🕛

Section 2
Quarter-turn right jazz box (x2)
¹ ² ³ ⁴
Jazz box with a ¼-turn while right foot crosses over left foot
⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸
Repeat preceeding steps.

Section 3
Monterey half turn right (x2)
¹ Point right foot to right
² Half-turn right, left foot together with right foot
WORF
³ Point left foot to left
⁴ Assemble left foot near right foot
WOLF
⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸
Repeat preceeding steps

Section 4
Quarter turn to the right marche(x4)
¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸
Repeat Section 1

OUTRO (Short Instrumental)
8 counts
Pivot full turn x3
¹ Step forward right foot
² Pivot ½ turn left
³ Step forward right foot
⁴ Pivot ½ yurn left
Repeat twice

####NOTES####
"Autumn Leaves" Lyrics by Johnny Mercer

INTRO: 21" Instrumental

VERSE 1  
The falling leaves
Drift by the window
The autumn leaves
Of red and gold

VERSE 2
I see your lips
The summer kisses
The sunburned hands
I used to hold

VERSE 3
Since you went away
The days grow long
And soon I'll hear
Old winter's song

VERSE 4
But I miss you most of all
My darling
When autumn leaves
Start to fall

CHOIR

VERSE 5
Since you went away
The days grow long
And soon I'll hear
Old winter's song

VERSE 6
But I miss you most of all
My darling
When autumn leaves
Start to fall

OUTRO

NO SAMBA❣️NO JAVA❣️BUT A BOSSA NOVA💔

Yesterday I left a 📱msg to my Nepalese buddies saying I was on my way for their Sambat Party ~ New Year ~ ... on my way they called me: this year... it was on Sept. 12th because of the🌙& the 🌞were dancing a Java together. S😥, I got in a "bistro" to have a java... And headed back home where my sweet💕 , waiting for me, said: "No Java!... no Samba either... let's dance a Bossa Nova".

I T😃TOLD HER: "There's a dance that could be danced every two weeks a year...even every week— because there are 25 official New Year's days per year and 27 others non official...

Here's the dance:

ריקוד שורות לשנה החדשה

SHANA TOVA LINE DANCE

👢👢📋: Ira Weisburd

⛾PAUSE⛾COPPERKNOB⛾FOR⛾ME⛾

I took some of my time today to publish on Copperknob my writings: songs on my own lyrics with their choreography.

LITTLE TRAILS Xing BIG ROUTES

👢👡📋: My Choreo on Copperknob

📝🎤: My Lyrics: here!

HEY, ALL OV'U: DANCE HALLELUYAH

👢👡📋: My choreo on Copperknob

📝🎤: Already published on this Blog

SAINT JOHN'S TURN

Already on this blog (in Labels list on right)

👢👡📋: My choreo on Copperknob

ROCK ME IN HEAVEN

Already on this blog (in Labels list on right)

👢👡📋: My choreo on Copperknob

I'll make some other Copperknob Pauses to feed my choreospace with stepsheets from this blog... but I won't probably drink so much coffee!

SUNNY DAY AT FALL: LET'S HICK HOP❣️

 

Autumn is falling over the remaining green leaves mixing the colors of our little blissful acres where Tommy has a catnap near his surviving green catnip and...

me

...my memory completely enrapt in Lil Nas' rendition of Billy Ray Cyrus Song,

OLD TOWN ROAD

...still astonished by the hick hops of the

 Black Cowboys who counted for ¼ of the "cattle guardians" during the Westward Rush.

Hick Hop Steps

🌹 ROSEBUDS OF SEPTEMBER🌹

SOMEWHERE IN SEDONA

👢👠📝: Maddison Glover & Jo Thompson Szymanski

GIANTS

👢👠📝: Gudrun Schneider

JUST A HUMAN

👢👠📝: Daniel Trepat & Guillaume Richard

NOT AT THIS PARTY

👢👠📝: Gary O'Reilly

🌊TIDE IS  HIGH♒

👢👠📝: Mark Furnell, Chris Godden & Esmeralda van de Pol

🌞JEALOUS OF THE SUN🌄

👢👠📝: Lee Hamilton & José Miguel Belloque Vane

Week 2026-39: Sept. 20ᵗʰ Nice & Lovable Weekly Routine

 Hi, all❣️

Autumn will start in the middle of this week. I've got a post to mark it... but I'm not ready to publish it. Anyway I've also many and nice vibes to share with you, which will appear drop by drop over the course of these new seven days.

VELVET TANGO

👣📋: Ira Weisburd

BABY BLUES CHA

👣📋: Simon Ward  & Shane McKeever

NO RECUERDO

👣📋: Ira Weisburd

To be Cont'd until next saturday

WHEN AND WHERE DID COWBOYS STOMP SUCCESSFULLY?

BOB WILLS

In 1941, Bob WILLS recorded "Cowboy Stomp", which was an instrumental on swing music.

COWBOY STOMP

Another "Cowboy Stomp" works was popular more than half a century after, i.e. in the early and mid 90s, but it was not a song but dance steps popularized by Barry Amato, a dance instructor who published the "Nashville Steps Instructional Series Vol. 1", where there was the stepheet 

👣📋: Cowboy Stomp

(Unknown Choreographer) 

that could be danced on various Country Songs.

Actually, although this dance was not at all a milestone in the history of Country Line Dance, 15 years after, the "Cowboy Stomp Fever" crossed the Atlantic Ocean and spread over in Latin countries: Italy, Spain and above all France where dance clubs bearing the name "Cowboy and/or Stomp XYZ (in France, often words in Frenglish)" appeared between the years 2006 and 2010! "In a fascinating twist of cultural blending, European dancers transformed traditional low-impact stomps into high-energy jumps, heavily influenced by local regional folk dances like those found in Catalonia."

Moreover, in many European countries—and notably in France—country dance enthusiasts have highly formalized their own codes and dress systems on the floor. This has resulted in a distinct cultural synthesis: a blend of historic American traditions and an idealized, media-driven vision of the New World frontier.

Week 2026-38: Sept. 14ᵗʰ 1814 Birth of the National Anthem

 FROM THE DEFENSE OF FORT McHENRY SONG

🇺🇸TO THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER🇺🇸

It was on September 14ᵗʰ 1814 that Francis Scott Key was inspired to write the poem "Defence of Fort McHenry". In 1931, part of the poem became the lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner", the US National Banner.

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Back to today's dances

TAKE A LOOK AT YOURSELF

👣📋: Simon Ward & Jo Thomson Szymanski

LOVE BITES BACK

👣📋: Simon Ward & Niels Poulsen 

DANGEROUS GAMES

 👣📋: Simon Ward & Maggie Galagher

CUP OF JOY

👣📋: Haley Wheatley

FEVER DREAM

👣📋: Karl Harry Winson

OLE ES LA VIDA

👣📋: Daniel Trepat &Chloe Ourties

TEARS IN YOUR HEARTS

👣📋: Adrian Helliker & Eddy Huffman

ÇA FAIT RIRE LES OISEAUX

🎼: La Companie Creole

👣📋: Gérard Thomas (videoteach)

Of course. The mocking birds also laughed❣️

SAINT ELVIS DAY

 

🍀SAINT ELVIS🍀

Painting: Courtesy of Catholic Ireland site

GIFization: no-AI/ by an RI, the webmaster

The anglicized name of Saint Ailbe of Emly, County of Tipperary, Republic of Ireland... is: ELVIS. He lived in the 6th Century. The Catholic Church celebrates him every year on September 12th.

Almost all media (dictionaries, AI engines, Wiki, etc. say "no connection" with Elvis Presley!  However, digging in the Irish etymology of the name Ailbe (Ailbhe in Old Irish, Ailfiw in Old Welsh) gives the hidden keys :🗝,🔑:

— 🗝"Ail" means ROCK

— 🔑"bhe" and "fiw"  both mean ALIVE

ELVIS = A LIVING ROCK ❣️

And that's very true: Rock N Roll forever!

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So, the connexion between them is definitely etimologic... Well well... not only!

 

I found, in a Christian hymm covered by Elvis in a non-commercial record, like a kind of evocation in its title :

ROCK OF AGES

(HIDE THOU ME)

Lyrics & Music

📝: Rev. Augustus Montague
Written in 1763
Published in 1775 (The Gospel Magazine)
🎼Thomas Hastings

LYRICS

Oh, Rock of ages, hide Thou me
There is no other refuge
Can save but thee
Through this old world
I've wandered so far, far from thee

Then I cry
Ooh, rock of ages
Hide thou me
Hide thou me

My choreography

Title: Hide thou me

Dance on this music

👣📝

BPM: + 64

16-count

1-wall

Level: AB

Weight on left goot

Start Section: Rocking chair step:

1 Rock right foot forward while raising arms

2 Recover on left foot, arms down

3 Rock right foot backward while raising arms

4 Recover on left foot, arms down

Core Sections: Kneeling rocking chair steps

1 ¼ turn right foot to the right while rocking it forward and benfing knees, arms up

2 Recover on bended left leg, arms down

3 Rock right foot backward bending back your back, arms up

4 Recover on left foot, arms down

Continue Core Section until the end.