Oh, Very Young - Cat Stevens

Cat Stevens - Oh, Very Young  

When I used to do my on-air radio shows, I thought this was one of the most important songs ever written. 

I hope the very young can change things in the world and especially this country and get rid of the backwards thinking.

Our only hope is from our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.  

I wish the young could hear songs like this today.

Joe

Radio's Joe "Copper" Cooper aka Joe Giannunzio's paintings featured at Trilogy

Left to Right:
Charles Jones, Joe "Copper" Cooper aka Joe Giannunzio,
Jaynie Dillon Jones

Joe "Copper" Cooper aka Joe Giannunzio's paintings were featured among a spectrum of some 30 artists at the recent Trilogy Art Show and Sale in Redmond, Washington.  Joe is best known from his decades on-the-air in radio here in the Seattle area, Portland, Oregon, and in Michigan long ago where his radio career began.  

However, Joe's artistic talent has always been smoldering in the background.  Few people know of his remarkable talents and accomplishments as a home builder.  But beneath all of those other natural talents and abilities, Joe has always had a passion for drawing and painting.  

Now that Joe is retired he is able to devote more time to painting and has completed more than 50 fairly large scale paintings.  

Earlier this month (May 2017) the Trilogy community in Redmond sponsored an Art Show and Sale where Joe exhibited some of his paintings for the first time in a public show.  Charles and Jaynie Jones drove up to Redmond from Tacoma to take in the show.  

There were interesting and outstanding works of art from many artists who were on-site.  All of the pictures shared in this blog post feature paintings by Joe Giannunzio.

The show spanned two days, Friday hours were exclusively for residents of Trilogy, but the show hours on Saturday were open to the public.  It was a thrill to see so much creativity on display.  

--Jaynie Dillon Jones

2017 Trilogy Art Guild Annual Show and Sale (Public Invited Saturday)

Trilogy Art Guild Annual Exhibition 2017

IN THE BALLROOM

Phil Magallanes         Photography                         

Gloria Thiele             Photography             

Carlo Parravano       Photography

Don Adamaitis         Ceramics

Dayle Dodds            Miniatures

Don Smith                Metal and Glass Panels

Karen Butler            Floral

Brenda West           Quilts

Carole Neer            Quilt

Diane Magnuson      Fiber Arts

Rosanne Cohn         Fiber Arts                                          

Kathy Jones            Pastels

Judy Heibling          Watercolor

Donna Raymond     Watercolor

Lois McIntosh         Watercolor, Acrylic, Fiber Arts                   

Janine Cooley          Acrylic

Joe Giannunzio        Acrylic

Jack Jones               Acrylic

Camea Davidson      Acrylic

Judy Martin              Acrylic, Watercolor

Bill Neer                   Acrylic

Patty McCoy            Acrylic, Pastel, Oil

Doris McFarland      Acrylic, Watercolor, Original Watercolor Greeting Cards

Gwen Edmunds        Oil

Barbara Wright        Oil                               

IN THE LIBRARY

Renee Dyer              Watercolor/Collage

Dick Dyer                Collage

Lois Haskell             Oil

Nancy Harmon        Original Watercolor Greeting Cards

Trilogy Art Guild Hallway Case

Fiber Arts Group

Marilyn Waite, Kathy Frank, Jan Glisson, Jill Acosta, Candace Johnson, Lois McIntosh

IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM

Gia R. Mendoza          Watercolor

2 Demos on Saturday

Art Guild at Trilogy Exhibition May 13, 2017

Over the years I've done some painting, but since retiring I have become even more passionate about it.  I have become obsessed with painting.  I have done at least 50 paintings so far...First time ever putting any of my paintings in an art show or exhibit.

These are just a few examples.  I wish there was more room, but there just isn't room to display all of them, so these are just a few of them. These are large paintings, too.  Most of them are 30 x 40 inches or even larger.

Saturday, May 13, 2017

11AM- 5PM

Free Admission

It is open to the public so you are invited. The show will take place in the Clubhouse at Trilogy, in Redmond, WA.

Trilogy is located above Redmond on Novelty Hill.

The clubhouse is easy to find.  Here's the address:  

Trilogy at Redmond Ridge

Clubhouse 

23225 NE Greens Crossing Road
Redmond, WAl

More than 30 artists of all types will be included in the exhibit at The Art Guild at Trilogy.

If you live nearby, maybe we will see you there.

Cheers, 

Joe

I Am What I Play - Rock Radio Documentary

Joe Cooper!  It's Jaynie Dillon Jones here.  There's a new rock radio documentary that has just been released.  I thought you'd enjoy seeing it and reading about it.  Here are the full details from Roger King.  Enjoy!  --Jaynie

Hey friends & colleagues:

Excuse the mass email but when it comes to blatant self-promotion, it’s really the way to go.

So, I made this documentary called I Am What I Play...Many of you know this.  A number of you saw it.  For some, it may be news.  

After playing at festivals, special screenings and on the CBC Documentary Channel for the last two years, my film will finally be available to anyone in the world as of midnight tonight!  

For those who don’t know, it’s a documentary about rock radio disc jockeys, told through the life stories of 4 different DJ’s form 4 different cities: Meg Griffin (New York), Charles Laquidara (Boston), David Marsden (Toronto) and Pat O'Day (Seattle).  But it’s really the story of anyone who has worked on-air in radio – and the story of radio itself, from the free form era of the 60’s and 70’s right up to present day.  

The film includes songs from The Ramones, Rush, The Kinks and David Bowie, among others.   It really is for radio & music fans everywhere.  
So, as of May 1st, people can stream or download the film through Vimeo on Demand at this link:

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/iamwhatiplay

If you haven’t seen it, I hope you will.  If you have seen it, I hope you will forward this email to others, raving about it.  If you haven’t seen it and couldn’t care less, maybe you know some radio & music fans who might.  Whatever camp you’re in, I hope you’ll tell two friends and they’ll tell two friends...Well, you know the drill.

And hey, if you tweet or Facebook or have a blog, don’t be shy to spread the word.  All the support is (and has been) much appreciated!

With affection,

Roger King
Producer/Director, I Am What I Play(416) 515-8918
www.iamwhatiplaythemovie.com

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/pages/I-Am-What-I-Play/297875140261718Twitter:  https://twitter.com/radiodjmovie

I Fall to Pieces by Patsy Cline

Patsy Cline - I Fall to Pieces

As far as music goes...

I have never stopped listening to her great songs.

She sang from the heart and it was as if she was singing to you.

This is one of my all time favorites -- she recorded so many great songs. 

If you have ever had someone you were going with and they broke up with you, this song hit home, in a therapeutic way. 

It made you feel like you were not alone.  If someone wrote a song about this, it must have happened to them, too.

Joe

In Memory of Eugene Giannunzio: SSGT Barry Sadler and the Ballad of the Green Berets

Ballad of The Green Berets




This song by the late SSGT Barry Sadler...that sold millions, always come to mind when I think of my late, joyful brother Eugene Giannunzio. 

He made it into the difficult Green Berets, but was shot and left for dead by the Viet Cong.  

Somehow he survived but his life was not the same. 

He did receive a full disability, but roamed the country and we only saw him every few years when he would stop by to stay. 

He would leave (never wanted to say goodbye to anyone), I think because he saw so much death of his fellow soldiers and others. 

I have never liked war, but we need to honor the ones that are and have been brave enough to serve.  

Joe

THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED KGW RADIO SPECIAL WITH JOE COOPER FEB 1974

I send this every year on the anniversary of the plane crash February 3, 1959, that took the lives of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper.  Buddy was 22 and Richie was only 17.
Joe

THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED KGW RADIO SPECIAL FEBRUARY 1974

THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED KGW RADIO SPECIAL FEB 1974 by Bill Cooper

KGW'S Joe Cooper hosted this special on Buddy Holly on the 15th anniversary of the singer's death in a plane crash. The program was written by Joe Cooper and produced by Richard W. Miller

Abraham, Martin, John and Bobby shot down along with our innocence

Today, as you know, is Martin Luther King Day in America. 

He was one of the good people, who did so much for others in America of all races, ethnicities, nationalities and walks of life, not just a chosen few.

Abraham, Martin, John and Bobby all shot down by deranged killers with guns, who robbed us of our innocence, and broke the hearts of their families and the young in this nation.

Maybe it's true that the good do die young...

Joe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDOmf5ER0-M&feature=em-share_video_user

By: Dion
"Abraham, Martin and John" is a 1968 song written by Dick Holler and first recorded by "Dion" DiMucci. It is a tribute to the memory of four assassinated Americans, all icons of social change, namely Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy. It was written in response to the assassinations of King and the younger Kennedy in April and June 1968.
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Giannunzios Return to Capestrano

Capestrano, Abruzzo, Italy
Photo Credit Giuliano Bianchini

Kathy and I, our daughter Gina and her husband Aaron, and our three 'grand-girls' Madeline, Samantha and Ruby just got back from our trip to Europe. We were gone for three weeks.  We visited Rome, Florence, Capestrano, Paris and Barcelona...a great trip! (Some of our photos are interspersed in this blog post, but the majority appear at the end.)

Kathy and I decided to stay longer so we could see Capestrano and then Florence along with the Tuscany countryside. Fantastic!  

We were flabbergasted by everything we saw:  Roman coliseum, Sistine Chapel, Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, sculpture of David, Mona Lisa, Vincent V. and so many more. How could one man do it? I am not super-religious, but seeing what had been accomplished so many years ago with no modern equipment...hundreds of feet high...there had to be help from God.  

Here is the story of our trip to Capestrano and some of the photos we'd like to share.

Kathy and I went back to Rome and rented a car. Luckily, I was used to driving a stick shift because there were no automatics.

Getting out of the airport was not too bad.  I would never drive in Rome...offensive driving...no one pays attention to speed or rules...so you need to be careful walking. Hundreds of small restaurants on the narrow streets of Rome....but all  good. 

We went to a bakery that has been handed down for 500 years, family to family.

Wow!  So much to talk about like seeing the Pope and getting within a few feet and seeing him bless so many disabled...people would cry when he blessed them. 

We were lucky to take mass at Notre Dame on Christmas Eve.

We had Christmas dinner at the Eiffel Tower.  It was so huge!

Everyone was so nice.  We felt very safe. No open-carry...just armed military guarding famous places. Gun laws are very strict...never saw or heard of even one shooting in any country we visited. 

 We get our rental car. We had to bring chains just in case a snowstorm came. 

This is Abrusso country, surrounded by high mountains and national parks with wolves, deer, wild boar, etc. and high elevation surrounded by mountains. Breathtaking! More than a 100 miles from Rome. 

We saw a few snowflakes...some ice...but no problems. Driving was easy until we came to the toll booths.  We should have studied more on how to use them. No attendant and nothing in English so at first we couldn't get through. (Our GPS would tell us to go back, very confusing). 

With our delay we didn't get to Capestrano until dark. The GPS told us to turn into what looked like a driveway and we thought it must be wrong. We drove another five miles before we came upon a small town called Opena. We saw lights at a bed and breakfast.  We asked where was Capestrano (no one there could speak English) and they told us to go back.

We ended up seeing a sign and went up the mountain to Capestrano where we were to pick up the key to the 600-year-old place that we were to stay. Unfortunately, the woman that could speak English at the place we were to stay had left town.

The woman at the bar could not speak English, but knew where the place was, but had no address so another woman drove us to where we were to stay. It was very old, but fun and like going into the past. We would not have found it without help.

The next day we went to the castle where there was supposed to be someone there to let us know where any Giannunzios lived. It was open, but no one was there. 

The only person that could speak English the next day at the bar where she worked did not live in Capestrano so knew nothing of the Giannunzios. 

The only restaurant in town was closed. We accidentally found an old grocery store (no signs) very small but had a great deli....all kinds of food. We bought some homemade ravioli and some other goodies.  Owner did not speak English, but said he had an uncle that was a Giannunzio, but could tell us no more. Said we should have learned Italian before we got there. He was correct. If an Italian came to Redmond, I doubt if he would find anyone that spoke Italian.

Kathy and I had both picked up bad colds but made the best of it. 

I found the church where my grandmother Isabella D'Alfonso and Nunzio Giannunzio where married.  We got lucky.  It was the day before New Year's, went in the church to take a look. A catholic mass had just started. Only five older women and three nuns at the service so we got to take communion in this beautiful church. My grandfather had been groomed all his life to become a priest, but after a trip to the USA he decided to get married to my grandmother and move to America instead or I would not be here.  

We visited the very old castle and later I took a walk around this small town of 900. Not many people there anymore. Most young people leave for the big cities for work. Saw only a few kids.  Mostly elderly walking around telling stories in Italian. On my walk I saw and walked the playground where my grandparents walked...drank out of the city artesian fountain where they drank. Saw the old school. Then I looked on a wall and this was really surprising and mystical in many ways..

Two posters of Giannunzios that have recently passed on.  Above the posters was a portrait of Jesus (the only picture I have ever painted of Him) and it was the exact same one. I called it "Gone Girls", women and girls that are no longer with us) Wow!  What a coincidence.  I took them from the wall (what was left of them) I am sure we were related so wished we had gotten to Capestrano a year earlier.  

Life is very slow in Capestrano.  For me it was like growing up on the North Side of Iron Mountain...very slow paced...and people enjoying the small, simple things in life.  Like having a glass of wine, conversations, and good food.

It was a great experience.

I may share more photos later to give you an idea of what it was like.  Some of you have been there already, but if you haven't, I encourage you to go.  If you go spring or fall would be the best when the flowers are in bloom, weather is warmer and the national parks are open. When we were there the temps at night were in the mid 20s and daytime highs only around 40 degrees....not too bad.

Arrivederci, 

Joe