No more, no more, no more, no more

I'm mightily peeved! One of my favourite YouTube sites of them all, the marvellous Soft Tempo Lounge has (for some mysterious and unexplained reason, as per usual) fallen foul of the inscrutable gnomes at Google and has been closed down for good.

As you wil be aware, dear reader, STL's cleverly-spliced snippets of impossibly glamorous people cavorting in exotic climes, set to some obscure lounge music, have been a mainstay of this very blog. In one fell swoop, ten years' worth of regular blog posts have now been ruined. [I managed to salvage a couple by uploading videos I had downloaded, and a few others are still OK because they feature videos from a previous "incarnation" of the STL channel, but still...]

Sigh.

Never mind, eh? How about some "Sunday Music" - courtesy of a German combo, with a classic Ray Charles R&B number, sung in Portuguese?!

That'll do nicely...

Mo´Horizons - Hit the Road Jack (Pé na estrada)

Fabulosa!

Don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more

As well as the centenary of the distinctly unlikeable Mickey Rooney, another incongruous assortment of "names" share a birthday today, including Bruce Springsteen, Julio Iglesias, John Coltrane, Romy Schneider, Cherie Blair, Walter Pidgeon, Deborah Orr, Aldo Moro, Danielle Dax, Nicholas Witchell, Emperor Augustus, Floella Benjamin, Yvette Fielding and Kublai Khan - and it would also have been the 90th birthday of the legendary Ray Charles.

Truth be told, apart from the classic Georgia On My Mind, this - his only hit here in the UK, way back in 1961 - is the only song of his with which I am really familiar...

...but it is a corker!

Ray Charles and the Raelettes - Hit The Road Jack

Takes the mind off the rain, I suppose...