Smokey 1142 hr (Tuesday 23rd February 2016)

It's that cat again, nicely silhouetted against the front upstairs window.

L.
26.2.2016 (1347 hr)

Blip #1767 (#2017 including archived blips)
Consecutive Blip #007
Day #2161
Smokey #328
LOTD #1001 (#1125 including archived blips)

Taken with Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX100

Smokey series

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Dusty Springfield - Son-of-a preacher man (recorded 26 September 1968, American Studios, Memphis TN)
I've followed the punctuation of this as it appeared on the original single and the album release Dusty In Memphis. I acquired a new remastered copy of this as part of a 5 Classic Albums CD set and was playing it on this day.
Dusty had recently signed to the Atlantic label and was in Memphis with some top line producers and engineers, and their best studio band, the Memphis Cats, plus the Sweet Inspirations vocal trio.
The tracks were chosen and set down in a matter of days, but Dusty was over-awed to be working with Aretha Franklin's team and had such problems with her vocals that they were re-recorded later in New York.
The songs were also from top-drawer writers such as Goffin and King, Mann and Weil, Bacharach and David, Randy Newman. I was surprised to find that all but two of the songs had previously been released by other artists, some quite obscure.
Of the two new songs, both were written by session musicians who worked at the studios, one being Breakfast In Bed (written by Eddie Hinton and Donnie Fritts) and the other being Son-Of-A Preacher Man. Ronnie Wilkins and John Hurley had written this especially for Aretha Franklin but her version had been considered too gospelly for her album and was not issued. After Dusty's success with the song she had a change of heart and recorded it again in 1969 for her album This Girl's In Love With You.

One year ago:
Marlborough (A moorhen)