LOSING STUFF WHEN MOVING!

 

Amazing things are always happening to Erskine and me! This is the drawer of an old bedside table that was in the spare room of our rental apartment when we moved in. The drawer was stuck so I thought we hadn't put anything in it.

A couple months after unpacking and stowing everything away, I needed one of my two old address books but couldn't find the books anywhere. I thought they would probably just turn up. However, recently I really needed one of them so we went throughout the apartment, searching! We even tried to open the stuck drawer several times. No luck, so we figured the address books couldn’t be in there and didn’t try to open it again. Then yesterday I decided to try the stuck drawer one more time. As I approached the drawer, I saw that it seemed to be very slightly ajar! I pulled on it and it opened easily right away! Inside were the missing address books! In all the unpacking and putting things away after we moved in, somehow the drawer couldn't have been stuck at that time and I must have placed them in there and then forgotten about them. Strange though how the drawer now managed to become unstuck all on its own!

SEASON'S GREETINGS!

 

This is an old photo from the mid-nineties when Erskine and I managed The Islands Club, oceanfront condominiums opposite Quality Food Store, Cable Beach, and next to what became the luxury Bayroc condominiums. We lived in a lovely little cottage on the grounds and this is the gorgeous beach where The Islands Club was situated.

Most of the residents back then were “snow birds”, who flew down to The Bahamas in the winter to escape the freezing cold weather in the north. Usually there were no owners in residence during the summer and Erskine was able to do his real estate broker work in his spare time. Now The Islands Club mostly has occupants year round.

I hope you are enjoying this special time of the year wherever you are. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy Hanukkah, Joyeux Noël, Feliz Navidad….! May your holiday season and the New Year be filled with much joy, happiness and success.

 

HISTORY OF A GUITAR

 

One of our followers at on our tiktok platform asked: "I like your music. Where did you get your guitar?"

My husband Erskine has had many guitars (electric as well as accoustic) but he bought this accoustic guitar from a music store in Davie, Florida in the early nineties. It was made by Hohner, one of the oldest German guitar makers.

SINNER MAN

"Sinner Man" is a traditional spiritual song about a sinner trying to hide from divine justice on Judgement Day!

There are several versions going back to the one by the Les Baxter Orchestra in 1956, but it possibly originated from the spiritual "No Hiding Place Down Here" recorded in 1928 by the Old South Quartet.

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COUNTRY & WESTERN IN BAHAMAS!

 

My husband Erskine Knowles sings "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" (No. 1 hit on the Billboard US Country chart for Johnny Cash). Written by Kris Kristofferson and recorded in 1969 by Ray Stevens. WATCH HERE

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A MEDLEY OF CALYPSO SONGS!

Erskine Knowles singing and playing 

a medley of Calypso songs

“A Medley of Calypso Songs” is sung and played HERE by my husband Erskine on his guitar. This is another song from our Tiktok platform "youngheartsforever". These songs are folklore and quite old.

I often wonder how Erskine has such a good memory! He knows the words and music of hundreds of songs: Bahamian, Caribbean, Rhythm & Blues, Rock, Soft Rock, Romance, Blues, Country & Western, and so on!

He says he once had a book with 900 chords that he studied - "All kinds of chords". Along with the major and minor chords that he already knew, he learned 300 more but he says he hardly ever uses all of them. He could use them if he wanted to though and he does use a lot of them in songs.

Thank goodness Erskine has this remarkable memory as I am quite the opposite!

(Video was originally posted on our Tiktok platform "younghearts")

"YOUNG HEARTS" - A SONG OF ROMANCE

Erskine Knowles

This song by my husband Erskine tells of how we met over 58 years ago!

YOUNG HEARTS
Lyrics, music, guitar and vocals by Erskine Knowles
(Based on true events when Erskine and I first met!)

View Video here

Listen/download digital track here

LYRICS

The day we first met I will always remember
You came into my life in the month of September
Your smiling face, your warm embrace
No one else in the world can take your place

We fell in love on a warm summer’s night
Down by the sea under a pale moonlight
The stars shone brightly from above
That’s the night when I found my one true love

CHORUS:
Lying here all alone thinking of you
Long blond hair and pretty eyes of blue
Two hearts that beat as one
From two different worlds now under the sun
We have a love that will last for years to come

BRIDGE:
You went away, but you couldn’t stay
Across the sea so far away
Those lonely days and nights so long
Back into my arms where you belong
Back into my arms where you belong

We’ve been together for so many years
Lots of happiness and lots of tears
And as we look back and reminisce of our past
We knew then we had found true love at last

CHORUS:
Lying here all alone thinking of you
Long blond hair and pretty eyes of blue
Two hearts that beat as one
From two different worlds now under the sun
We have a love that will last for years to come
We have a love that will last for years to come
We have a love that will last for years to come

© 2015 Erskine Knowles