I’ll going to tell of the story of my blog. A couple of years ago I was unhappy with Face Book and how it wasn’t possible to do what I wanted. For instance you can’t put more than one link on a post so sometimes I would have to make two different posts then the posts would be separated on the newsfeed so people would read my second post and not understand what I was talking about. And then my family complained that my post were too long. So I thought I would have my own blog. I didn’t know anything about blogging I tried to find all I could about a blog. It turns out that the reason it’s called a blog is because it’s a web log where the blogger, that’s me now, is suppose to make a daily log, it’s similar to a dairy on the computer. Blogs are supposed to have a theme. Maybe you like to cook so you start a cooking blog. Great idea there’s only a couple million of those. I thought on what my theme could be for a long time. I kept coming back to the idea to have a blog with songs. Now there are hundreds maybe thousands of song blogs on the internet, but all of them that I looked at were someone would take a song and tell why they liked it or not, the computer version of Dick Clark, or a DJ on the radio. Others had blogs about their favorite band, like the Beatles. But that wasn’t anything like I wanted to do with my blog What I wanted to is take a song and tell a story, an essay, kind of like an article in a magazine but with songs and pictures and maybe even a few videos. My essay may not be about a whole song it might be about a phase or even just a couple of words from a song. Then before I started my song blob I needed to find out if putting videos of singers singing their songs is legal? I know you say it doesn’t matter everyone’s doing it on Face Book. Well it turns out that because of the internet that is now what is known as a “Review Copyright” best that I could find out this means if that a video of a song from u tube and post it on your Face Book as long as your not selling the song but you make any kind of comment about the song then you have a “Review Copyright” and it’s legal to that. So if any of are afraid to put a song or video on Face Book thinking you are stealing from anyone there is a law that says you can do it and it’s not stealing from anyone. Well I knew that question would come up and wanted to be sure that I wasn’t going to do anything against the law before I started my bog. I thought I would try out my idea first to my friends on Face Book. What would be my first song ? This was in May of 2016 and people posted a whole lot about politics So I thought I would post Sheryl Crow’s Soak Up the Sun because it had the line: I gonna tell everyone to LIGHTEN UP!
So on May 31, 2016 I made my first post of Jeff’s song of the Day. I told how the election was way in November and summer was here and couldn’t we do what Sheryl Crow sang about enjoying the sun of summer and everyone lightening up. Well guess what no one thought that was a good idea they weren’t going to lighten up one bit and how dare me telling them they should lighten up! So I wasn’t giving up on my next post I posted the Theme from the Partridge Family. I wanted to point out that on their second season they had a different little brother and no one was supposed to notice. So I made up a conversation of the little Partridge girl, Traci and her teacher on her first day back to school. Teacher: Traci what did you do over the summer vacation? Traci: oh I got a new little brother named Chris. Teacher: Don’t you already have a brother named Chris? Traci: Yes but Mom got rid of my first brother Chis and now I have another brother named Chris Mom says he’s better-looking. Teacher: How does you Mom thinks she’ll get away with this? Traci: Oh Mom says that we have a neighbor down the street named Darren Stephens Mom says his wife was a witch and changed her husband without any one noticing. Teacher: Well I taught the Stephens girl, Tabitha and she told me if I told anyone she would turn me into a frog. Traci: Oh is that how you won the national teacher jumping contest?–OK I know there must be some one out there who thought that was a little funny. I guess there’s no one who thinks Face Book should be used for entertainment. No way Face Book is to used to fight over politics! I still would not give up on the 3rd of July of 2016 I again posted same song different video and told everyone that at least for one day the 4th of July that we could lighten up a little. No one did.
What to do now? There’s No Doubt in My Mind, and by the way that’s a title of a Partridge Family song, I have to take a stand against those who drag the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ through the mud to justify their hatred for non-whites and the poor. My next post will be the Johnny Cash song: What is Truth? Donald Trump does not know the truth his followers may know the truth but they would rather believe in lies. Even my Christmas songs will have a pollical message. The election of Donald Trump was changed our nation forever, not for the good. Our task now is to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ without hate in our voices but rather we should express our love for all peoples because as the Bible says; For Christ first loved us. I hope there comes a time when we can lighten up, but I believe it’s a long time off.