Tommy Bruce

Tommy Bruce (16 July 1937 – 10 July 2006) was an English rock and roll singer who had most of his success in the early 1960s. His cover version of "Ain't Misbehavin'" was a Top Ten hit in the UK Singles Chart in 1960.

Life and career

He was born Thomas Charles Bruce, in Stepney, London. Both his parents died when he was a child and he grew up in an orphanage, later working as a van driver in Covent Garden Market before undertaking National Service in Belgium.

Returning to London in 1959, and working again as a market porter, he became a friend of his neighbour, songwriter Barry Mason. Mason suggested he record a version of the song "Ain't Misbehavin'", written by Fats Waller, in a style similar to "Chantilly Lace", a recent hit single by the Big Bopper. Produced by Norrie Paramor and released on Columbia Records, Bruce's recording rose to number 3 in the UK Singles Chart in 1960. He had no musical training, and described his own "sandpaper and gravel" singing voice with a strong London accent as "diabolical".

Mission Snipers

The Mission Snipers are a professional roller hockey team based out of New York who competes in Pro tournaments across North America.

2015: The summer started in Detroit, MI at Torhs Nationals. The Snipers added another Championship to their resume with a win over the Alkali Assault in the Championship. The team went undefeated during the tournament and Shane Fox really showed the roller hockey world why he is one of the top players in the sport. Fox and Sigmund played lights out all tournament and Troy Redmann proved once again to be the best goaltender the US has to offer. The Snipers were also $12,000 richer!

After TORHS was over a lot of the players went over to Finland for the IIHF Inline World Championships in Tampere. PJ Kavaya, Shane Fox, David Makowski, Nathan Sigmund, Greg Thompson, Pat Cannone, and Troy Redmann all represented the United States.

However, the tournament of the year was State Wars 11. State Wars Hockey had the best Pro Division the sport has seen in a long long time. The Pama Pro Invitational was very unique and only allowed teams who were invited to play at the tournament. The Snipers had a tough round robin but squeaked into the playoffs as a 6th seed, taking down every team that go in their way! First the Bauer Bordercats, then the Pama Cyclones. In the finals the Snipers took down Alkali RPD and were awarded $20,000 and the right to call themselves the best team in the US.

Lavender (color)

Lavender (floral) (#B57EDC)

Lavender (web) (#E6E6FA)

Lavender is a pale tint of purple. It applies particularly to the color of the flower of the same name. The web color called lavender is displayed at right—it matches the color of the very palest part of the lavender flower; however, the more saturated color shown below as floral lavender more closely matches the average color of the lavender flower as shown in the picture and is the tone of lavender historically and traditionally considered lavender by the average person as opposed to those who are web site designers. The color lavender might be described as a medium purple or a light pinkish purple. The term lavender may also be used in general to apply to a wide range of pale, light, medium, or grayish purple colors, as well as some pale or light pinkish, magenta, or purple colors as well as some pale or light blueish-indigo colors. In paints, the color lavender is made by mixing purple and white paint.

The first recorded use of the word lavender as a color term in English was in 1705.

Lavender's Blue

"Lavender's Blue," (perhaps sometimes called "Lavender Blue,") is an English folk song and nursery rhyme dating to the 17th century. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3483. It has been recorded in various forms since the 20th century and some pop versions have been hits in the US and UK charts.

Lyrics

Although there are as many as thirty verses to the song, and many variations of each verse, most modern versions take this form:

Origins

The earliest surviving version of the song is in a broadside printed in England between 1672 and 1685, under the name Diddle Diddle, Or The Kind Country Lovers. The broadside indicates it is to be sung to the tune "Lavenders Green", implying that a tune by that name was already in existence. The lyrics printed in the broadside are fairly bawdy, celebrating sex and drinking. According to the Traditional Ballad Index, "The singer tells his lady that she must love him because he loves her. He tells of a vale where young man and maid have lain together, and suggests that they might do the same, and that she might love him (and also his dog)." Here is the first of ten verses: