A Year on the Night Train songs by Clifford Fry Whole Discography A Year On The Night Train The Cat Waits The Babe (Why I Surrendered My Molotov On The Eve of the Revolution) The Reason (The Promise) I Remember The Night July Lou, Too Questions and Answers by Clifford Fry and Darelyn Fry Jennings …
Shades of Love
Shades of Love songs by Clifford Fry and Doug Sharp Whole Discography Tonight I'm Calling on My Angel Youtube Link: Tonight I'm Calling on My Angel (youtube.com) Out of Control The Monster Side of Love Youtube Link: The Monster Side of Love - YouTube Music When You're Running, You're Staying Youtube Link: When You're Running, You're Staying (youtube.com) Blow Wind Blow Youtube Link: Blow Wind Blow - YouTube Music For the Players of Night's Game Youtube Link: For the Players of Night's Game - YouTube Music Little by Little Youtube Link: Little By Little (youtube.com) Anytime, Anywhere, Anyhow Youtube Link: Anytime, Anywhere, Anyhow - YouTube Music Drunk Again Youtube Link: Drunk Again - YouTube Music Marylin's Song Youtube Link: Marilyn’s Song YouTube Music Oh Maria Youtube Link: Oh Maria (youtube.com) I Ain't No Outdoor Girl Devil's Canyon Road Youtube Link: Devil's Canyon Road (youtube.com) Too Much to Lose Youtube Link: Too Much to Lose - YouTube …
POST 18 – SAN FRANCISCO
San Francisco in the late 1960’s seemed engulfed in a dream-like aura, perhaps best captured in Scott McKenzie’s song. “San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair).” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlVwcBTXwmo I was at Texas A&M studying away, so I was far from that scene. But dreamy songs do not necessarily portray reality, and many who traveled to the Haight Ashbury Street area during that period likely found a reality different from their dream. Nevertheless, like in the song “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” there is a part of me, poetically speaking, that I left in San Francisco. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC73kdOL5hk The period was 1979-1980. I was in my mid-30’s and on leave from the University of Houston. I headed up the U.S. economics division of what was then Crocker National Bank. San Francisco embodied an interesting culture. My office looked out over a circular fountain with cement extensions that served as seating all …
POST 17- THIS WEEK IN AMERICA The Ric Bratton Radio Program
On Thursday morning of this week, Ric Bratton interviewed me for about 20 minutes on his radio program, This Week in America, which is broadcast in more than 100 stations around the U.S. It is also available as a podcast on streaming services. I am glad it was a telephone interview, because the night before I got little sleep, for reasons unrelated to his program. Sometimes we look our best, and sometimes not. Ha. The topic is my book IS YOUR ANCESTOR A MONKEY? and, if interested, you can listen to the interview at the following link. IS YOUR ANCESTOR A MONKEY? by Clifford L. Fry, Ph.D. (podomatic.com) Best wishes to all, Clifford Get My New Book on Amazon! Is Your Ancestor A Monkey?: An Exploration of Key Issues in the Evolution Versus Creation Debate …
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POST 16 – Blow Ye Wind
Truth be told, I now give my mother many thanks that were left unsaid when she was alive. My mother died at 72, and she may have had a premonition. When I was on the faculty of the University of Houston, one day she visited me with the sole purpose of conveying a message. She said, “I am late in life, but you are not yet. If there is something you want to do, then do it now.” I sensed she had regrets and did not want me to someday feel the same. I had played guitar when in high school, mainly by myself or with my dad and sister. Being a poor musician trapped in the body of well-to-do economist, it was a no-brainer. I knew I wanted to be more involved with music. From the late 1970s to the mid-1990’s I wrote and recorded songs, and I managed the business side of a popular Houston band, in which I also played. I kept my economics profession intact, consulted, spent time with family, but one only has so much time. This was my glory music period, or my …
POST 15- Forgetting God
In the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence we find the stirring words, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness.” Remove “Creator” in the Preamble and you erase the premise of inherent rights. The Preamble is not the only reference to God in our government documents. A Pew Research Center Analysis of August 17, 2017 reports that God or the divine is mentioned at least once in each of the 50 state constitutions and nearly 200 times overall. Yet, we have forgotten God in our public-school classrooms to our potentail peril. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn describes the horrors of his 8-year imprisonment in the Soviet Union’s labor camps in his book The Gulag Archipelago. The Gulag is the Soviet government agency in charge of a network of labor camps established by Lenin and later expanded by Stalin. They were …