If you've ever gone looking for things from the past on the internet, but couldn't find them, look again!

About a year ago I did a search on Google based on an old poster of an all-girl rock group I remember seeing hanging in Albany's Blue Note Record Shop years ago. They were being marketed as a female alternative to the Beatles. Couldn't find a thing! Even looked through what appeared to be an online database of Capitol Records 45rpm single releases dating back to the 1950s... again, nothing.

Schlepped down to the Blue Note and had a nice chat with the owner... but... dead end again!

But leave it to the power and magic of the information sensation (the internet) and voila! THE GIRLS were NOT a figment of my imagination! (I knew that if the Mascots eventually showed up on the Net, The Girls would too!)

#MusicMonday THE GIRLS (Capitol Records) 1960s

Most of the time, I absolutely hate re-makes. If you wanna do someone else's material, you'd better do a damn good job!

"To me this is the best kind of remake. You don't simply make a copy of the original. That's just lazy and disrespectful to the original artist. To take an admired song and do an interpretation that shows the song in a completely different light, yet sounds good too, makes it interesting and worthy of the original. Best of all, it 's not a competition- each can be admired on their own merits."

#musicmonday Beatles Soul

HAPPY V-DAY EVERYBODY!

the twitterer

#musicmonday - China Pops - This week I'm going home to a place where I spent 7 years of my young life: Hong Kong! So let's roll out with a song for Valentine's Day!

FREE Coloring Pages! Twilight coloring page movie theme art project ideas for older kids celebrating St. Valentines Day by learning about teen romance.

GUYS ::: If have no love and your life sucks, you're down with MOULTY!

chinaSMACK

University Graduates Earn Little More Than Migrant Workers - Statistics show that average monthly wages of migrant workers has been closing in on the average starting salaries of college graduates.

via Global Voices ::: China: Farewell to all Mubaraks!

"Illegitimate regimes," writes novelist Yang Hengjun of Hosni Mubarak, "end up illegitimate, no matter how many impressive reasons you put forward, no matter how smooth-tongued you are, no matter how big your army is." read »

Sonia Faleiro

Of course, Mark Zuckerberg's Stalker is - Indian. You nab all the good techies, you get the crazy techie for free.

Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot

Bob Marley: The Making of a Legend - http://vimeo.com/19876000 Actress, photographer and filmmaker Esther Anderson created the blueprint of this film in 1973!

Around The Blogosphere on Valentines Day 2011

Good Day! It is super CCCold here in NY this morning! Grab a cup of coffee and check out these posts!

chinaSMACK

Chinese Celebrities Target USA’s Sinophobia For Hu Visit - This week is a big week for China. The eyes of the world will be watching closely as Chinese President Hu Jintao meets with US President Barack Obama...

Twitter / NewYorkPost

NewYorkPost: How Caroline Kennedy blackmailed Disney to scrap sexed-up Camelot series http://nyp.st/ej6ROe

Miss Info

New Music: Chris Brown “Beautiful People” - Chris Brown announced on Twitter that the new single off his upcoming album F.A.M.E., would be an up beat pop track titled “Beautiful People”.

the twitterer

#musicmonday - FLY! - The Twitterer's Rap Odyssey (keeping with the birdie theme) continues with FLY by Alexei

Orient Lodge

Music Monday - Shanna Underwood -

TechCrunch

NoSQL: GraphDB Maker Sones Raises Millions To Expand Cloud Computing Business - Sones, developer of the GraphDB graph database, has raised a 'couple of millions' of euros to expand its cloud computing business...

2 AOL Tech Blogs Face Off in a War of...

chinaSMACK

Punished By Teacher, 11-Year-Old Schoolboy Hangs Himself - A 11-year-old Yunnan schoolboy hung himself at home, allegedly after his teacher punished him by making him stay after school and copy lines from a textbook...

Around The Blogosphere 17 January 2011

Expecting to fly? Might as well, it's Monday!

The Four Tops - ♫ If I Were a Carpenter ♫ (1968)

#musicmonday ::: HAPPY LABOR DAY, AMERICA!

Johnny Otis was a musical holdover from the previous decade who had a monster hit in the summer of 1958 that at the time sounded "futuristic" - the chart-topper was essentially a "swan song" for Otis, like "Kokomo" was for the Beach Boys!

Lead guitarist on "Wille and the Hand Jive" is Jimmy Nolen, who would join the James Brown band in 1965. Nolen developed the distinctive "chicken scratch" or "chank" sound that would become James Brown's trademark funk sound. Nolen was with the Johnny Otis Show from 1957-1959. Johnny Otis wrote "Willie and the Hand Jive" and sings lead vocal. The single was released in the U.S. on Capitol Records.

#musicmonday HAND JIVE

Can you hear me or am I all alone?
Blow home my true love's ship to me.
Once a lifetime twice a day - If you don't work you get no pay.
She couldn't wait another day for - the Captain of her heart.

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world ~ Capt. Trip

#musicmonday ::: Avast Ye Captains!

#musicmonday ::: ROX - I Don't Believe