Thursday, July 15, 2010

Theme Thursday - Help

This one gave me a pause until I finally had an idea yesterday. So on my way to various errands and such yesterday, I got some shots of the various public agencies that provide help of one sort or another which lay along my route.





Music video time. Whoever posted the theme for this week used the Beatles's "Help" as the example, so I decided to search out alternative "help" songs. How's about we start out with Alvin Lee and Ten Years After doing the old blues classic "Help Me"?


Of course when mentioning songs named "Help Me", the next obvious choice is Joni Mitchell.


But in the end, we come back to the Beatles, but with another help song, "A Little Help from My Friends". But instead of the Beatles version I figured I'd go with the one that defined how the song stuck in the heads of those of us old enough to remember - Joe Cocker at Woodstock. It doesn't get any better than this. Enjoy!


PS - Please go visit the article I posted yesterday. I'm always afraid to post something important on Wednesdays because of the possibility of it being overshadowed by Theme Thursday, but I had to get that one out and in the public.

Photos & text © 2010 by A. Roy Hilbinger

15 comments:

  1. I love the phrase from one of your pictures - "the bridge to self-reliance" (there is an awful lot of meaning in those few words). And the Joe Cocker rendition of "With A Little Help" is one of my all-time favourites.

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  2. I enjoyed the pics and the music of your TT help post. Well done. Love that Joe Cocker version of "With a Little Help".

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  3. 'a little help from my friends...' this song is now pleasantly stuck in my head! Thanks, Roy! I love it!

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  4. Good help choices. I really like that the police are so thoughtful as to have those hanging baskets outside their entrance!

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  5. Thanks for Ten Years After and Joe Cocker. They HELPED me to many wonderful memories. ;)

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  6. Always love to see a Joni Mitchell included, and a lot of help too, that's for sure!

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  7. and "Help I need somebody..."

    great reflections with music
    thanks my friend

    my TT is here

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  8. I haven't posted this week I was absolutely incapable of thinking outside the box but you've nailed it with your helpful shots!

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  9. nice shots roy...some quite helpful places there...digging ht joni mitchell song....happy tt!

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  10. Hey Roy!Help Is Everywhere! Even In The form of that Shaply Yorkshireman Mr Cocker!

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  11. I love the Beatles, but the Joe Cocker version is the better one, I think. :)

    Nice TT!
    -C

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  12. Nice photos of all the helpful places in your neck of the woods, Roy.

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  13. Great job on the Help theme. I enjoyed the photos and the videos. Yeah, Joe Cocker is a tough act to follow. Awww, those wonderful days of Woodstock!

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  14. Alvin Lee! Yeah! All great tunes but this is the first time I've heard Alvin in...way over ten years(hyuk!). That was great.

    I like it that you're pointing out helpful parts of the "everyday scenery," always there and usually taken for granted; but the existence of such institutions kinda makes you think, maybe at least part of the human heart is in the right place. Way to go.

    I like that Steven Mitchell take on the Tao te Ching, too.

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