Fall 2012 - Blue Hen PHC

Fall 2012
Oct.-Nov.-Dec.
What a Summer! We celebrated the 5th Anniversary of the Blue Hen PHC with the Blue
Hen Bay Bash in July at the Riverview Inn with Jim Morris and the Big Bamboo Band!
A BIG “Fins UP!” to everyone who came and partied with a purpose! $3,300 was raised and
donated to the Cancer Support Community of Delaware in the name of Sylvia Diehl!
In September, singer/songwriters Mike Mangum and Jim Hoehn joined us for our social at
the Blue Parrot!
Welcome our newest member…Charlie Jenkins!
Club elections!!!
President: Bob Welch
Treasurer: Dawn Becker
VP: Tom Boone
Secretary: Marianne White
Director-At-Large: Jeff West
Ballots are being mailed to all members. Returned ballots will be counted at a special
meeting November 15th.
Blue Hen PHC Happy Hours (aka Socials) are held on the second Thirstday of the month
October 11th, 2012
6PM
We’ll be back at Stanley’s Tavern, 2038 Foulk Road, Wilmington, DE
(http://www.stanleys-tavern.com/restaurant.html)
for Beach Night! Discounted Coronas and Margaritas for all! We will also be
collecting your donations for the “Stockings For Soldiers” project. Needed items are:
music CD's, paperback books (no romance novels, please) and gently used DVD movies. (no VHS video tapes please).
toothbrushes, toothpaste and floss, crew socks, lip balm, toothbrushes and razors, Christmas candy, gum, fruit rollups & gushers, cracker jacks, Beef Slim Jims, pretzels, lemonade & flavored drink mixes, individual flavored teas, hot
drink mixes, large bags of coffee, commercially packaged Trail Mix, nuts, chips, cookies, (Sorry, no home-baked
items) Ramen soup, small cans of tuna, lasagna, Beefaroni, canned fruit, any small size of anything to eat. Pocket
games & puzzles, current magazines, Beanie Babies, AT&T phone cards, disposable cameras, lip balm, foot powder,
small sizes of toiletries & lotions, hand & foot warmers, fly swatters, & a Holiday Greeting Card with your messages
of Support & Friendship. If you include your return address, (email or snail) you might hear back from the soldier
who receives your card. (No soap products, please.)
(Please include $2.00 per bag of donated items for postage costs.)
November 8th
6PM
We’ll be back at Dead Presidents Pub, 618 North Union St. in Wilmington, DE
(http://www.deadpresidentspub.com/) Food and drink specials for all members! We
will again be collecting for the “Stockings For Soldiers” project.
December 13
6PM
We’ll be at the Hilltop Crab House, Route 41 (one mile north of the PA – DE state
line) in Avondale, PA. Food and drink specials for club members!
(http://www.hilltopcrabhouse.com/)
Many, MANY thanks to everyone who took some time out of their
weekend to come out and help with our final road clean up of the year!
21st Annual Meeting of the Minds
Key West, FL Nov. 1 – 4, 2012
The Annual club picture will be taken in front of Margaritaville on Duval St. at 12:45
PM prior to the street fest!
Once again the Blue Hen Parrot Head Club will host our Southernmost Happy Hour on
Saturday, November 3rd from 11AM – 1PM at the Rum Bar at the Speakeasy Inn,
1117 Duval St. This year Dani Hoy will be along to entertain us with music from her
CD “TropiGal”
Dani has just been nominated for a Trop Rock Music Association award for Female
Vocalist of the year!
And, for those of you who will still be around on Monday, November 5th, Chris Sacks
will be stopping by the Garden House (329 Elizabeth St.) to play for Happy Hour
from 5 – 7PM!
This is a BYOB event! Stop at Fausto’s or Shorty’s for your favorite libation and join
us!
More events in and around our area:
Pardi-Gras 2013 Jan. 17 – 20 New Orleans, LA
http://www.parrothead.org/events/midwinter13/index.asp
http://www.pardi-gras.com/2013.html
Feb. 28 – March 3rd, 2013
Mansfield, MA with Homemade Wine, Swim Skinny,
Crawdaddy, Ramajay Intercoastal & more
http://www.phcoem.com/convention/
Music On The Bay
Tampa, FL
March 1st – March 3rd, 2013
http://www.musiconthebay.org/
http://www.starsfellonalabama.org/stars_info.htm
Panama City, FL April 19th – 21st, 2013
http://www.panamacityphc.org/rendezvous2013/rendezvous2013.html
“Spending Money”—discounts with your Blue Hen PHC membership card
DID YOU KNOW ??
Margaritaville offers a discount on selected items when you order on line !!
When ordering online, just pop in PHC for the discount code in the box provided.
www.margaritaville.com
Growing Older…But NOT Up!
Blue Hen PHC members’ birthdays:
October:
Ken Allwoerden
Tom Boone
Dave Brosnahan
Dennis Mason
Paula Hartman
Jessie Madison
Barbara Ruqus
November
Robin Balla
Don Cook
Tali Villanueva
Sue Wardle
December
Tony DiIenno
Denise Irwin
Traci Ostroff
Maryanne Lutz-Kline
Buffy Wood
Tiffany Wood
Kev’s Corner
Kevin McGrath
Kate Ohr
Carolyn Wiesniewski
Trop-Rock cd reviews from Blue Hen PHC member Kevin McGrath
We have said our good byes to another summer. I feel like we got ripped off by at least a month this
year. August being so rainy, it kept me from the pool more than it let me in… So now it is up to each of
us to keep summer alive in our hearts, heads and attitudes through the coming months of cold. A little
Trop Rock music usually helps me along the way, well that and maybe a boat drink or two.
I had an unfortunate accident a few months ago that I am still working to recover from, I dropped the
hard disk that contained my entire music collection so I have been working as time permits to restore as
much of that as I can. Consequently I only have 1 new album to review, but I am going to take a look
back at a couple older ones and maybe even introduce you to an artist that you may or may not be
familiar with.
The Artist you may or may not know is Pat Dailey. He plays a few shows in Key West every year but is
not typically lumped in with the Trop Rock Genre, although in my opinion he should be. He is a fixture in
Put In Bay and has been for many years. Pat enjoyed a close friendship with Shel Siverstein and the two
co-wrote many of the songs that Pat has recorded over the years.
Pats music is steeped in a folk music style but infused with a lot of fun and good times. The Album we
are going to take a look at this month is probably the one that you have heard of if you have heard of
him at all. It is a 1997 release called Raw Bars.
Raw Bars is a humorous but an adults only record so take care in listening around the ‘keets or friends
and family who may not have a great sense of humor. The track list should give this away:
1. It's So Big
2. Nymphomaniac
3. Biological Clock
4. Doobie and a Brew
5. My Puddin's Putting Out
6. Just How Drunk Are We Gonna Get
7. You Don't Have to Be Drunk
8. Raw Bars
9. Resident Rapper
10. Don't It Get You Right Here
11. I've Got To Be Drunk To Do That
12. Aphrodisiac (Oysters)
My favorites are “You Don’t Have to Be Drunk”, “Doobie And A Brew” and “Nymphomaniac”. All three
of these songs show the great sense of humor of Dailey and Siverstein.
I can relate to You Don’t Have To Be Drunk” very well, In fact the Chorus may have been sung to me a
time or two in my life… “You don’t have to be drunk to be an asshole, you can be an asshole on your
own” Doobie and a brew is a little ditty about running off with your friends girlfriend and how one deals
with it and Nymphomanic, well that kind of speaks for itself, lets just say it is Pats idea of a dream girl.
(Yes ladies, there are a few chauvanistic moments to this album, but it is all in good fun).
Raw bars, while not an album you would play Daily (like the pun?) it is a great addition to ones library for
whenever a light hearted mood arises.
The next Record I am going to recommend as a Staple in any self respecting Trop Rock Collection is
Magic Chair by John Reno and the Half Fast Creekers. You may recognize John as
the partner of John Patti in the Folgers jingle contrst that many of us voted in this past spring. If you
have never heard John Reno before you are in for a treat with this album. This is another irreverant fun
frolic through the musical universe. Acouple of songs will probably be familiar to some. I Lobster But I
Never Flounder is an old Bobby Braddock tune that John and the HFC do a wonderful cover of, also on
this record is a recording of an old traditional sea shanty Drunken Sailor. This song is over 120 years old
but John and the boys breathe some modern life into it. As an interesting side note to the Football
loving parrotheads, the first song on this record, Heartaches and Hangovers is co-written by none other
than former NFL quaterback Kenny “the Snake” Stabler.
Finally, I can not put out a Album Review column in a Parrot Head Newsletter and not include the brand
new Jimmy Buffet Album, my God what would you people think? (in my best buffet impression)
Jimmy has just relaesed Volcano Live 2011. This is a collection of live versions
of his classic 1979 release Volcano. These songs were all recorded this past summer at his shows so they
are also current and fresh. One of my favorite parts of any Jimmy show and live album is the banter
between Jimmy and the audience and Jimmy and the band. That is all included on here too. Although I
know most of you probably have the Studio version, and if you are a music collector like me, you
probably have most if not all of the songs in a live version on one album or another, I still think this is a
fine addition to any collection as it brings these classics songs together in one place and injects new life
into some of them.
Well that is it for this issue phellow parrotheads until the winter edition keep on trockin’!
Thanks, Kev! We should note here that one of the singer/songwriters who recently
performed for our club’s social at the Blue Parrot (Jim Hoehn) has produced a series of
Trop-Rock cd’s called “Thongs In The Key Of Life”. There are 4 cd’s in the series and for
those of you who are curious about the Trop-Rock genre but don’t know where to start, we
highly suggest this series as a great way to begin. The first two cd’s have been out of
print for some time but are now available once again. For more info you can contact Jim
Hoehn at [email protected].
By the way, in case you thought we were joking about saving those pop tops…
And that’s all, folks!
“Hen Scratchings” is published quarterly by the Blue Hen Parrot Head Club…