August 27, 2009

Ellie Greenwich wrote huge hit songs. Did you ever hear of her?


I saw on NPR's website a clip from NPR radio program, All Things Considered, that spoke of this women and pioneering songwriter in the male dominated music industry of the 1960's, Ellie Greenwich, who just died at the age of 68. I can't believe great song writers like this do not get near the publicity that they should! I realize they may occasionally not want to be in the limelight and their names are well known in the circuit of publicists and producers, but I would have like to known her name and that she wrote great hits like "Chapel of Love," "Da Do Ron Ron" and "River Deep - Mountain High." 

5 comments:

Mia said...

Hi David , I took the liberty of dropping in on you & making a neighborly call ( despite the vast miles which may separate us - however , we are all inter-connected within the vestiges of cyberspace I believe :) Now , I had seen your post on Antonio's blog [Woork] concerning your trouble with the Retweet Button . Ok, I have the answer to your small problem here , however : you will have to look very carefully & diligently through your template in order to locate the following code . Once you do locate the following code , you will take the Retweet javascript code and paste it PRECISELY under the code which I will post here for you now . Ok ? Good , let us start then : Go to your dashboard : Select EDIT HTML > CLICK EXPAND WIDGETS> Now : CAREFULLY continue scrolling down throught your Template source code until you locate the following piece of code :
<div class='post-header-line-1'/>
This code is usually found between midway towards the end of the page so look carefully. Once you do locate it , please take the Retweet JS code : <script type="text/javascript">

tweetmeme_url = '<data:post.url/>';

</script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"> </script>

and paste it EXACTLY UNDERNEATH that code . Save your Template , and view your blog , your Retweet button will be located either at the top left of top right ( depending ) ; on my one blog it appears on the right & on my other blog it appears on the left side . I assume its got a mind of its own . I hope this has been of help to you . Should you have any problems you can contact me @ my blog page . Catch ya in cyberspace :)
PS: No, I have never heard of Ellie Greenwich, although I will admit to you at this point that I have been listening to Al Green " Love & Happiness " for the past 16 hrs - NON STOP ! LOL:) I get so involved in my coding I totally buzz out & forget to just click onto the next track ! & BTW : I cant believe Ive made it to the BIG 50 ! My God , Gucci & Prada , that makes me a half of a century old ! ( almost as old as the Acropolis itself ! ) LOL , keep smiling David , life can be beautiful at any age now cant it ? Yes..it surely can . Rock On !

M. 

David said...

Thank you so much Mia for making that correction so easy for me! It worked perfectly! Thanks also for reading and commenting on my blog. I look forward to reading yours as well. Take care!
David

Mia said...

Youre quite welocome David, no problem . Should you ver require any help w/ your blogging needs , template customization & whatever - as long as its Web Related , you can feel free to drop me a line @ any of my blog pages ; My other blog which started out as my main blog has a few tutorials you may find helpful @MiaZoe.com, and my other 2 blogs are simply Web Design related . They all connect , so you can track me down basically just by following the links . I also begun a Music Blog to boot :) I code & I Rock - what can be better than that I ask you ? :) Dont hesitate to ask if you need any help pertaining to anything . Antonio is quite a busy guy , he tries to respond to everyone but alas : what can one Italian Developer do ? :)P.S: I now know who Ellie Greenwich was ( R.I.P ) ; I never knew she was the original singer / songwriter behind the song " River Deep Mountain High " , uh, I love that song ! But I have only heard Tina Turner sing it . Now I will head on out to youtube and listen to the Ellie version. Sure brings back memories. Take care David , catch you in cyberspace :)
M

Mia said...

Ok David : I will bug you one last time ( I should really put this tweak on my main blog , just too darn tired @ the moment ) I tweaked this a bit further , and now you can choose on which side of your page you would like the button displayed on , so here is one last piece of code which you may choose to implement :

just copy this as it is and simply paste it over the existing code u have at the moment - if you wish to move the button to the RIGHT side of your page ; You may take it in further by increasing the padding which is currently set @ 4px- or you may be satisfied with it as it is . So here is the magic code :

<div style="float:right;padding:4px;"><script type="text/javascript">

tweetmeme_url = '<data:post.url/>';

</script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"> </script></div>

Thats it . Your button will now appear to the right :) Enjoy ~
M

David said...

Thanks again Mia!