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Arrival is the fourth studio album by the Swedish pop group ABBA. It was originally released in Sweden on 11 October 1976 by Polar Records. It became one of ABBA's most successful albums to date, producing some of their biggest hits: "Dancing Queen", "Money, Money, Money" and "Knowing Me, Knowing You". The track "Fernando", which had been released as a single in March 1976, was included on the Australian and New Zealand versions of the album. Arrival was the best-selling album of 1977 in the United Kingdom and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. In 2024, the album was selected for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". There's also a great version here live. Go Anni-Frid!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA1pBoL_xFk

Art Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Blakey made a name for himself in the 1940s in the big bands of Fletcher Henderson and Billy Eckstine. He then worked with bebop musicians Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie. In the mid-1950s, Horace Silver and Blakey formed The Jazz Messengers, a group which he led for the next 35 years. The group was formed as a collective of contemporaries, but over the years, the band became known as an incubator for young talent, including Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, Benny Golson, Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley, Donald Byrd, Jackie McLean, Johnny Griffin, Curtis Fuller, Chuck Mangione, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Cedar Walton, Woody Shaw, Terence Blanchard, and Wynton Marsalis. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz calls the Jazz Messengers "the archetypal hard bop group of the late 50s." Blakey was inducted into the DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame (in 1981). Posthumously, he was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1991 and the Grammy Hall of Fame (in 1998 and 2001). He was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.

Rudolph Isley (April 1, 1939 – October 11, 2023) was an American singer-songwriter and one of the founding members of The Isley Brothers.

Billy Higgins (October 11, 1936 – May 3, 2001) was an American jazz drummer. He played mainly free jazz and hard bop. In his career, Higgins played on more than 700 recordings, including recordings of rock and funk. Higgins played on Ornette Coleman's first records, beginning in 1958. He then freelanced extensively with hard bop and other post-bop players, including Donald Byrd, Dexter Gordon, Grant Green, Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson, Don Cherry, Paul Horn, Milt Jackson, Jackie McLean, Pat Metheny, Hank Mobley, Thelonious Monk, Lee Morgan, David Murray, Art Pepper, Sonny Rollins, Mal Waldron, and Cedar Walton. He was one of the house drummers for Blue Note Records and played on dozens of Blue Note albums of the 1960s. He also collaborated with composer La Monte Young and guitarist Sandy Bull.

Born on this day in 1943, Gene Watson is an American country music singer. His discography consists of 33 studio albums, eight compilation albums, 61 singles, and five music videos. Of his singles, 48 charted on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts between 1975 and 1997, including five number one hits.

Born on this day in 1946, Daryl Hall is an American rock and soul singer-songwriter. He is best known as the co-founder and principal lead vocalist of Hall & Oates, with guitarist and songwriter John Oates. Outside of his work in Hall & Oates, he has also released six solo albums, including the 1980 collaboration with progressive rock guitarist Robert Fripp, Sacred Songs. His 1986 album Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine provided his best-selling single, "Dreamtime", which peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100. He has also collaborated on numerous works by other artists, such as Fripp's 1979 release Exposure, and Dusty Springfield's 1995 album A Very Fine Love, which produced a UK Top 40 hit with "Wherever Would I Be". Since late 2007, he has hosted the streaming television series Live from Daryl's House, in which he performs alongside other artists, doing a mix of songs from each's catalog. The show has been rebroadcast on a number of cable and satellite channels as well. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2004 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2014.

Born on this day in 1952, Paulette Carlson s an American country music singer-songwriter, who rose to fame in the 1980s as the founder and lead vocalist for the country band Highway 101. With Highway 101, she charted four No. 1 hit singles, seven Top 10 hits and won two Country Music Association Awards. As a solo artist, she has charted five times on Hot Country Songs and recorded three studio albums. Her most successful solo single is "I'll Start with You", which peaked at number 21 in 1991. Carlson continues to tour and record new music as a solo artist. This song was written by Kix Brooks.

Born on this day in 1946, Gary Mallaber is an American musician from Los Angeles, mostly known as a drummer, but plays percussion, vibraphone, and keyboards. In addition, he is a songwriter, arranger, composer, producer, engineer, and actor.. Mallaber plays keyboards and sings on many albums by well-known rock artists. He is probably best known for his work as drummer-percussionist, backup singer, and co-composer for The Steve Miller Band. He has also played with the Greg Kihn Band. Mallaber was offered the job as drummer in Kiss, as a replacement when Peter Criss had left in 1980 but he did not accept the offer. Mallaber was the main studio drummer for Eddie Money for most of his earlier recordings and has played on some Bruce Springsteen and Van Morrison solo albums. He was also in the 1974 Brian DePalma film Phantom of the Paradise; in addition to performing on the film's soundtrack he is seen in the film as the drummer for the Juicy Fruits, the Beach Bums, and The Undeads. In addition to drums, Mallaber plays vibraphone on some of Van Morrison's records. As well as being featured on Miller, Morrison and Springsteen's albums, Mallaber has also played on hit singles by Peter Frampton, Poco, Paul Williams, Jimmy White and Kermit the Frog. I suppose that last one was the "Rainbow Connection" and he also played on Van Morrison's version of "Bein' Green" too.

Neil Hefti (October 29, 1922 – October 11, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger. He wrote music for The Odd Couple movie and TV series and for the Batman TV series.

He began arranging professionally in his teens, when he wrote charts (musical arrangements) for Nat Towles. He composed and arranged while working as a trumpeter for Woody Herman providing the bandleader with versions of "Woodchopper's Ball" and "Blowin' Up a Storm" and composing "The Good Earth" and "Wild Root". He left Herman's band in 1946. Now concentrating on writing music only, he began an association with Count Basie in 1950. Hefti occasionally led his own bands. He also arranged songs for Frank Sinatra as well. He was nominated for 10 Grammys in his career.

Diane Keaton (January 5, 1946 – October 11, 2025) was an American actress. Her career spanned more than five decades, during which she rose to prominence in the New Hollywood movement. She collaborated frequently with Woody Allen, appearing in eight of his films. Keaton's accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, along with nominations for two Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. She was honored with the Film at Lincoln Center Gala Tribute in 2007 and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2017.

International Day of the Girl Child is an international observance day declared by the United Nations; it is also called the Day of Girls and the International Day of the Girl. October 11, 2012, was the first Day of the Girl Child.

This goes out to a certain quartet at North Shore High School.

Johnny Burke (October 3, 1908 – February 25, 1964) was an American lyricist, successful and prolific between the 1920s and 1950s. His work is considered part of the Great American Songbook. His song "Swinging on a Star", from the Bing Crosby film Going My Way, won an Academy Award for Best Song in 1944. He wrote this one with Arthur Johnston back in 1936.

Alan O'Day (October 3, 1940 – May 17, 2013) was an American singer-songwriter, best known for writing and singing "Undercover Angel", a million-selling Gold-certified American No. 1 hit in 1977. He also wrote songs for many other notable performers, such as 1974's Helen Reddy No. 1 hit "Angie Baby" and "Rock and Roll Heaven" (originally by Climax and made famous by the Righteous Brothers). In the 1980s he moved from pop music to television, co-writing nearly 100 songs for the Saturday morning Muppet Babies series, and in the 1990s he wrote and performed music on the National Geographic series Really Wild Animals. O'Day also collaborated with Tatsuro Yamashita on a series of popular songs in Japan, including "Your Eyes", "Magic Ways", "Christmas Eve" and "Fragile" (which rapper Tyler, the Creator interpolated in "Gone, Gone / Thank You").

Born on this day in 1941, Chubby Checker is an American rock and roll singer and dancer. He is known for popularizing many dance styles, including the Twist, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard & The Midnighters' R&B song "The Twist", and the Pony, with his 1961 cover of the song "Pony Time". His biggest UK hit, "Let's Twist Again", was released one year later (in 1962). That same year, Checker also popularized the song "Limbo Rock", a previous-year instrumental hit by the Champs to which he added lyrics and its trademark Limbo dance. He also introduced other dance styles, such as the Fly. In September 2008, "The Twist" topped Billboard's list of the most popular singles to have appeared in the Hot 100 since its debut in 1960, an honor it maintained in an August 2013 update of the list. In 2014, Checker was inducted into the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame, and he was selected for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2025

Born on this day in 1946, P.P. Arnold is an American-born soul singer. She rose to prominence in the 1960s after performing as an Ikette with the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, before launching a successful solo career in the United Kingdom. Arnold is best known for her recordings of "The First Cut Is the Deepest" and "Angel of the Morning" from her albums The First Lady of Immediate (1968) and Kafunta (1968). She collaborated with artists including Small Faces, Nick Drake, Peter Gabriel, and Roger Waters. Arnold has continued to record and perform, releasing the albums *The Turning Tide (*2017) and The New Adventures of… P.P. Arnold (2019). In addition to her music career, she has appeared in the musical theatre productions Starlight Express in 1984 and Once on This Island in 1994.

Born on this day in 1949, Lindsey Buckingham is an American musician, record producer, and the lead guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the rock band Fleetwood Mac from 1975 to 1987 and 1997 to 2018. In addition to his tenure with Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham has released seven solo studio albums and three live albums. As a member of Fleetwood Mac, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. Buckingham was ranked 100th in Rolling Stone's 2011 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Buckingham is known for his fingerpicking guitar style.

This goes out to a certain quartet at North Shore High School.

Well, I don't know what to think about this film. At some point about halfway through I felt it was struggling. I guess I was hoping for the story of the couple at the beginning of the film to reappear. Thankfully, itdid. Sadie and Ash were kind of boring. Both had parental problems that we see often in these films. People needed to be seen to do things their own way. "People in limbo" is the motto of most lead characters at the beginning of any Hallmark film. If you're not going places, you are standing still instead of just being happy with your lot. Our two leads were okay. Walker generally bores me. I don't think I've seen Odette Annable in any more before. Thankfully, no backstory with these two. No backstory where a simple miscommunication causes a decades-long problem. I did feel the mini-tiff about the necklace was a little too much. I mean I was expecting more of a bit excitement that their relatives knew each other in the first place. I mean that fact is surprising enough. But they didn't stop for a moment to be amazed by that. O and that Camila. Brava to her on her work but surely she shouldn't be near horses so late into a pregnancy? I guess the horses are trained enough not to kick out at a friendly face.. Maybe that's just me being overprotective. Just something I thought of while watching her with the horses.

While it was nice that we had a couple who have has past loves and seemingly both are divorced, once again I felt that despite the leads' good looks and youthful appearance, the two main characters could have been played by two actors ten years younger. O, maybe that's me again. Yeah, you can change your career at anytime like Sadie is doing but she's starting out at the bottom(although it didn't really seem to be the bottom) in her new field. I mean she's doing well being so far down the totem pole with getting the boss' ear and attention. It's funny how I just watched "Hats Off To Love" and this film reminded me of it in a way. A similar location and interest. I found myself looking at the hats of the ladies in this one because of it. O, and Sadie's fashion sense was a little too on point it seems. She wore several dresses with flowers on them. We get it. She loves flowers. O, and while it might be timely and costly to get red roses, I thought "Why doesn't someone go to Cincinnati to get the flowers needed?" Maybe they wouldn't have them there anyway. Also the expense. The Golden Reed Farm is one special place with deep red roses growing wildly there.

So Gigi and Charlie. Well, class divides love once again although less so these days than in their day. I mean they somewhat hinted at that with Ash and Sadie but Sadie had an in with the family right away so no problems there really. Anyway, she overacted to getting wet in the stable if you ask me but this is how she met Charlie so it's important to the story.Their story was true to the time and it was sad and I liked how it was used in the story overall. O, it's a good thing she's from Canada what with the lack of a Kentuckian accent. Apparently, things hadn't changed down to the current generation of Moore women either. Ha ha. But I digress. Good to see Brynn Thayer and Gregg Henry who I know from many a tv show as well. One thing I noticed was that in the final race they mentioned previously three horses and they are shown on the mini-leaderboard during the race. The 4th horse shown on it was called "Clare Direction." Clever since this film was directed by veteran Hallmark director Clare Niederpruem. That made me chuckle.

So overall an okay film. Not sure if I will see it again despite liking the multi-generational aspect of the story. I mean you would expect such a storyline in one of those one-horse towns(this was a many-a-horse town) that feature in many a Hallmark movies. But both families had a close connection to the Derby so it's cute that they shared a connection from way back. Still even that wasn't enough to save this movie. It had some good things but it wasn't enough for me to give this a more glowing review.