Well, we’re back from Florida. We’re two weeks into the real world of North Dakota. What a shock to come from sunshine and warmth to cloudy and cold as hell! I’m pretty sure we’ve got our bearings back though.
One thing that we did in Florida quite a few times was follow a band called
Bell Curve
at the Naples Beach Hotel and Golf Club. David Bell and Maribeth McCormick are a duo with great talent and taste in the music they perform.
I wrote down the tunes they featured in one set.
Imagine by John Lennon; You’ve got a Friend by Carole King; Landslide by Fleetwood Mac; Leavin’ on a jet Plane by Peter, Paul and Mary; Let it be by the Beatles; ‘Til There was you by The Beatles; Daniel by Elton John; Fire and Rain by James Taylor; Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell; All my Lovin’ by The Beatles, (again;) Nobody Does it Better by Carly Simon; Will you Still Love me Tomorrow by The Shirelles; Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers; and Still the Same by Bob Seger.
I was sold! Great songs, great arrangements and a very friendly pair. So friendly in fact, that my son Curt, (who visited for four days,) asked them to learn and play a song for Jane and me. (“In My Life”-Beatles.)
What a surprise when they sent me this after we’d been home a week or so. When I played this video for Jane, she wept. We both loved the thought of my son, and the thoughtfulness of Bell Curve. We made some great friends.
Please watch this pair.
(Jack Sunday is a radio veteran with 50-years “behind the mike.” He likes to say he’s not old…just aging. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter @nodakjack. Listen weekdays, 4-6pm on KFGO.)
