50s Rock 'n' Roll Party at T.R.A.C.S

T.R.A.C.S at Timothy Street on River Island

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Rock ‘n’ Roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, from African-American musical styles such as gospel, jazz, and rhythm and blues, with country. While elements of rock and roll can be heard in blues records from the 1920s and in country records of the 1930s, the genre did not acquire its name until the 1950s.

"Rock and roll" can refer either to the first wave of music that originated in the US in the 1950s prior to its development into "rock music", or more broadly to rock music and culture.

In the earliest rock and roll styles of the late 1940s and early 1950s, either the piano or saxophone was often the lead instrument, but these were generally replaced or supplemented by guitar in the middle to late 1950s. The beat is essentially a blues rhythm with an accentuated backbeat, the latter almost always provided by a snare drum. Classic rock and roll is usually played with one or two electric guitars (one lead, one rhythm), a double bass or string bass or (after the mid-1950s) an electric bass guitar, and a drum kit.

Beyond simply a musical style, rock and roll, as seen in movies and on television, influenced lifestyles, fashion, attitudes, and language. In addition, rock and roll may have contributed to the civil rights movement because both African-American and white American teens enjoyed the music. It went on to spawn various genres, often without the initially characteristic backbeat, that are now more commonly called simply "rock music" or "rock".

The Rock and Roll Era is generally dated from 25 March 1955 premiere of the motion picture, "The Blackboard Jungle". This film’s use of Bill Haley and His Comets' "(We’re Gonna) Rock Around the Clock" over its opening credits, caused a national sensation when teenagers started dancing in the aisles.

CAT PARTY at T.R.A.C.S

Here are the snapshots I made during our party. DJ Cat was our deejay, spinning her great set of songs in theme.

Love You More - Racoon

Racoon are a Dutch rock band, formed in 1997. Their first big appearance was at the 1999 Noorderslagfestival. The first album, Till Monkeys Fly, appeared in January 2000, produced by Michael Schoots (Urban Dance Squad). The first single, "Feel Like Flying", became a hit and got a lot of airplay on the Dutch radio station 3FM. The band's biggest hit so far came in 2005, when its single "Love You More" reached #3 in the Dutch music charts.

Racoon - Love You More

Clouds above go sailing by

I found my meaning in this life

clear white is flying in my eyes,

underneath a blue, blue sky

The waves come rolling in with the tide.

I've been away too long

and every day I missed you more.

You look like you did before,

only prettier.

Every day I love you more.

All the people rushing by, by, by

looking for meaning in this life

so used up, and blinded by lies,

They're underneath the blue, blue sky

the way they seldom seem to smile

I don't know why.

'Cause I've been away too long

and every day I missed you more.

You look like you did before,

only prettier.

Every day I love you more

I love you more,

every day I love you more,

and more.

Cause I've been away too long

and every day I missed you more.

You look like you did before,

only prettier.

And every day I missed you more,

and more and more and more and more.

I've been away too long

and every day I missed you more

oh you look like you did before

only prettier

every day I love you more.

I love you more.

Every day I love you more

Racoon - Laugh About It

Can you give me solid ground,

‘cause all my footsteps turn me down.

One by one.

Can you give me free advice,

I don't know if I can,

but I'll try to listen.

And I can blast friendship to hell,

or I can try to make things better

Believe me that I'll make things better

But they change the rules when it's my turn,

so they can laugh and watch me burn.

I can laugh about it,

or I can cry about it,

I should ignore the words you say.

‘Cause they can hurt,

but won't kill me

They can hurt,

but won't kill me.

They can hurt but won't kill me.

A fist full of the things you love.

Life's a quiz so cough it up.

Go on and cough it up now.

When the future's far away,

it's always better than today.

And everytime I'm having fun,

there's something I'm doing wrong.

And all these warning lights are lit,

but always after you need it.

Yeah well anyway,

I can laugh about it,

I'd better try to laugh.

I can cry about it.

You'll never see me cry

I should ignore the words you say.

they can hurt,

but won't kill me

They can hurt,

but won't kill me.

They can hurt but won't kill me.

So I can laugh about it,

yeah I'd better try to laugh.

I can cry about it.

You know you'll never see me cry.

I should ignore the words you say.

They can hurt,

but won't kill me.

‘Cause they can hurt,

but won't kill me.
No they won't kill me.

CAT PARTY at T.R.A.C.S

T.R.A.C.S at Timothy Plaza on River Island

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Mud - The Cat Crept In

The Cat Crept In lyrics

I said a hey you guys
Look who's awaitin' outside.
Well she got style you can see it in her feline eyes.
When she starts movin' you sure can tell
When she starts shakin' she's raisin' hell.
I said a hey you guys
Look who's awaitin' outside.

Do you remember how she left that floor last Saturday night.
When the cat broke loose well she darn near started the fight
Well she may be flashin' like a neon sign
But you can't touch her 'cause she's mine all mine.
I said a hey you guys look who's awaitin' outside.

And then the cat crept in and crept out again
The cat crept in and crept out again
So I open the door for that high-heeled paw
I said the cat crept in
Ooh
And crept out again.
I said the cat crept in and we crept out again.

I said a hey you guys
Look who's awaitin' outside

Hey you guys
You can hear that alley cat cry
Well she ain't superstitious but she's hangin' on life No. 9
Well you may not know it but she hides in the light
And she may not know it but this cat can bite
I said a hey you guys
Look who's awaitin' outside.

And then the cat crept in and crept out again

I said a hey you guys
Look who's awaitin' outside

Hey you guys
Look who's waiting outside
She got style you can see it in her feline eyes
Well she may be flashin' like a neon sign
But you can't touch her 'cause she's mine all mine.
I said a hey you guys
Look who's awaitin' outside.
And then the cat crept in and crept out again

Year of the Cat (song)

"Year of the Cat" is a single by singer-songwriter Al Stewart, released in July 1976. The song is the title track of his 1976 album Year of the Cat, and was recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London in January 1976 by engineer Alan Parsons. The song reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 1977. Although Stewart's highest charting single on that chart was 1978's "Time Passages", "Year of the Cat" has remained Stewart's signature recording, receiving regular airplay on both classic rock and folk rock stations.

Year Of The Cat Lyrics

On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolor in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came
In the year of the cat

She doesn't give you time for questions
As she locks up your arm in hers
And you follow 'till your sense of which direction
Completely disappears
By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls
There's a hidden door she leads you to
These days, she says, I feel my life
Just like a river running through
The year of the cat

While she looks at you so cooly
And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea
She comes in incense and patchouli
So you take her, to find what's waiting inside
The year of the cat

Well morning comes and you're still with her
And the bus and the tourists are gone
And you've thrown away your choice you've lost your ticket
So you have to stay on
But the drum-beat strains of the night remain
In the rhythm of the new-born day
You know sometime you're bound to leave her
But for now you're going to stay
In the year of the cat

CAT

The domestic cat (Latin: Felis catus) or the feral cat (Latin: Felis silvestris catus) is a small, typically furry, carnivorous mammal. They are often called house cats when kept as indoor pets or simply cats when there is no need to distinguish them from other felids and felines. Cats are often valued by humans for companionship and for their ability to hunt vermin. There are more than 70 cat breeds; different associations proclaim different numbers according to their standards.

Cats are similar in anatomy to the other felids, with a strong, flexible body, quick reflexes, sharp retractable claws, and teeth adapted to killing small prey. Cat senses fit a crepuscular and predatory ecological niche. Cats can hear sounds too faint or too high in frequency for human ears, such as those made by mice and other small animals. They can see in near darkness. Like most other mammals, cats have poorer color vision and a better sense of smell than humans. Cats, despite being solitary hunters, are a social species and cat communication includes the use of a variety of vocalizations (mewing, purring, trilling, hissing, growling, and grunting), as well as cat pheromones and types of cat-specific body language.

Cats have a high breeding rate. Under controlled breeding, they can be bred and shown as registered pedigree pets, a hobby known as cat fancy. Failure to control the breeding of pet cats by neutering and the abandonment of former household pets has resulted in large numbers of feral cats worldwide, requiring population control. In certain areas outside the cats native range, this has contributed, along with habitat destruction and other factors, to the extinction of many bird species. Cats have been known to extirpate a bird species within specific regions and may have contributed to the extinction of isolated island populations. Cats are thought to be primarily, though not solely, responsible for the extinction of 33 species of birds, and the presence of feral and free ranging cats makes some locations unsuitable for attempted species reintroduction in otherwise suitable locations.

Since cats were venerated in ancient Egypt, they were commonly believed to have been domesticated there, but there may have been instances of domestication as early as the Neolithic from around 9,500 years ago (7,500 BC). A genetic study in 2007 concluded that domestic cats are descended from Near Eastern wildcats, having diverged around 8,000 BC in West Asia. A 2016 study found that leopard cats were undergoing domestication independently in China around 5,500 BC, though this line of partially domesticated cats leaves no trace in the domesticated populations of today.

As of a 2007 study, cats are the second most popular pet in the United States by number of pets owned, behind freshwater fish.

Blue

Blue and Jenna's "lazy" Golden Retriever. Snapshot is made by Tim.

PHONE PARTY

By the middle of the twentieth century the telephone network had grown into something extraordinary, a web of cutting-edge switching machines and human operators that linked together millions of people like never before. But the network had a billion-dollar flaw, and once people discovered it, things would never be the same.

Here are the snapshots I made during the party.