OUR PHOTOBUCKET SLIDE SHOW - IS IT R.I.P? WHAT HAPPENED TO MEEZ AVATAR?

We haven't run a slideshow since March 2013.  We had a Photobucket account which allowed us to design the slideshows we used and use; the blocks you still see running are from Photobucket (but you can't make one like it.)  Then, I went to take down the seasonal Valentines I'd put up on it and discovered that removing them had broken the code forever!  Photobucket had also discontinued slide shows, a huge mistake in my humble free-bee-snatching opinion.  Watching that slideshow used to be one of Wes' favorite things to do when we got together to talk blog.  I think we need one.

At that point I went in search of new slideshow opportunities.  I actually have a KIZOA account and uploaded a lot of pictures, but so far, no go because their slideshow templates do not fit the design/ template of the blog. 

The Meez Avatar you may've seen from time to time on WES BRYAN - MY LIFE IN MUSIC, Wes' second favorite thing to view because he says it actually looks like him, is still available but we're having glitches.  A librarian friend of mine has explained that hackers have used Meez Avatars and JAVA as a new way of screwing things up for other people and so security is really tight on that.   I've looked at other Avatars but still think that Meez is the finest.  Let me explain just how bad the glitch is...  Sometimes the animated Avatar appears without a head!

Christine

C's CHECKED and EDDIE COCHRAN on the TOWN HALL SHOW

We know! It looked like we were at the end of the alphabet. Well, when we started updating the A-B-C list, we ran into all sorts of glitches, so we're back there. 

In the C's we found that the Perry Como listings needed an update. Enjoy this Historical Music Video, thanks to a YouTuber!

WES BRYAN MY LIFE IN MUSIC - TECHNOLOGY UPDATE - STATS and CTNWB OUR YOUTUBE STATION!

It's April 2014 and we're slowly updating this Google Blog, which has been written since  August 2007 and in that time has gotten a number of expired links, YouTube videos, and so on.  Eventually we will replace all expired videos with new ones that have no commercials, as possible and rethink our CTNWB station.  (Someone else has a YouTube station called WES BRYAN - MY LIFE IN MUSIC which has no relationship with us.)

We take pride in this project, know that some of you use it for research, and want it to stand as a useful, informative, and beautiful Blog! 

In summer 2009 Google installed a simple stat's function on all Bloggers, and since then we give it a look once in a while.  As of April 8 2014 Google is reporting that we've enjoyed 63,703 hits. 

One of the things that's come up is that from time to time some other stats company shows up or sneaks up and broadcasts its take on our stats as well its take on the selling price of the blog - which isn't for sale! These are commercial enterprises that we have no relationship with.

And we would never agree that the total value of a blog is all about hits anyway!  How can you put a price on a teenager reading about Eddie Cochran for the first time or evaluate the treasure of a free paper doll of Elvis Presley from Dover Publications or the connection an old friend has made?

Never once since it's happened that a strange stats company has reported stats to the world have they been equal to the stats Google Blogger reports, which is always many more hits to the blog.  Of course, we never did write just to get stats.  But we trust Google over these other stat companies.

We've stayed to our subject pretty much with is EARLY ROCK AND ROLL, ROCKABILLY, THE COVER TUNE ERA, THE SINGER SONGWRITER SCENE, THE BRITISH INVASION of AMERICA and the AMERICAN INVASION OF BRITAIN.  We've never intended to cover the entire history of Rock and Roll!  Just like the title says this is WES BRYAN - MY LIFE IN MUSIC!

We notice hits from a variety of countries and on which posts seem to be the most interesting to our readers and it is fascinating to know that someone on a computer from some lesser known location of the world reads us - thus the THANK YOU to our READERSHIP posts.  We never post a country that Google hasn't shown us to be reading.  So even as we do this update, we've got about 1500 hits a month... on older posts and newer.

AND WE THANK YOU for READING WES BRYAN - MY LIFE IN MUSIC!

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Here is a partial list of countries from which readers make it to our site!

First the top 10 as of today...

United States
Russia
Germany
United Kingdom
Canada
France
Netherlands
Ukraine
Spain
Australia

WE NOTE THAT THE READERSHIP FROM SPAIN IS MUCH MORE RECENT!

We are also enjoying hits from:
China
Brazil
India
Sweden
Italy
Malaysia
Finland
Portugal
Algeria
Malta
United Arab Emerits
South Korea
New Zealand
Argentina
Bulgaria
Poland...

and many other countries!

R LINKS UPDATED and MARTY ROBBINS

OK - so we pick a video, and then it gets taken down over at YouTube... So we're replacing the one we posted a month ago with this one!

P LINKS UPDATED AND P.J. PROBY (HE'S 75 and STILL TOURING!)

New Link for drummer EARL PALMER - ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME... DITTO LES PAUL ... lots of updates in the blog for CARL PERKINS...

To Celebrate!  PJ PROBY

PJ PROBY 2014 TOUR DATES

OK ON THIS VIDEO, I, Christine, could not resist posting the video below because I've been reading some newish rock and roll books including one on Jimmy Page, who is one of my favorites guitarist, and well, here is PJ with Jimmy Page, who I've learned first made it onto British TV at 15 and was a session guitarist before Led Zeppelin...

O LINKS UPDATED and ROY ORBISON from BLACK AND WHITE NIGHT

Roy Orbison - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and New Official Site - updated along with early post about Roy in our Archive.



FROM A FULL LENGTH ALBUM/ VIDEO called BLACK AND WHITE NIGHT which is featuring as background artists JAMES BURTON, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, James Burton, Glen D. Hardin, Tom Waits, kd lang, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, JD Souther, T Bone Burnett, Steven Soles, and Jennifer Warnes. (Recorded September 30, 1987).

J-K-L LINKS UPDATED and BRENDA LEE

The Little Richard and Darlene Love ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME Inductee links have been updated!

To Celebrate!  BRENDA LEE!



USE THE SEARCH FEATURE EMBEDDED IN THE SIDEBAR TO BRING UP OUR POSTS ON BRENDA, Little Richard, or Darlene Love!

G- H- I LINKS CHECKED AND UPDATED and ERSEL HICKEY

In G- H-I we found that the  HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME LINK NEEDED AN UPDATE...  and we added THE GLARK GABLE FOUNDATION site!  GRAMMY ORG also needed an update...

TO CELEBRATE : ERSEL HICKEY!



USE THE SEARCH FEATURE EMBEDDED IN THE SIDEBAR TO BRING UP OUR POSTS ON HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME, Clark Cable, Grammy, or Ersel Hickey!

D-E-F LINKS CHECKED and TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD

Just completed checking all our side bar links under the D - E - F group and they are all working fine!

REVISITED! 

Bobby Denton in the Alabama Music Hall of Fame...

Jackie DeShannon in the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame...
      

And to celebrate : TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD!


USE THE SEARCH FEATURE EMBEDDED IN THE SIDEBAR TO BRING UP OUR POSTS ON Bobby Denton, Jackie De Shannon, or TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD!

DOWN TIME OR TAKE YOU ALONG IN OUR TECH PROCESS? ENJOY OUR OLDER POSTS AND LINKS IN THE MEAN TIME?

Christine here.  As some of you who also read my blog CHRISTINE TRZYNA- WRITERLY LIFE know, I've removed my personal blog from the Internet, don't know for how long, but at least until I've got the stuff you don't see fixed. 

WES BRYAN - MY LIFE IN MUSIC  blog also needs work on its innards. 

So we planned down time for this blog too... But well, my personal blog and this blog are of a different nature.  My personal blog is more like a literary diary.  This one has value as a memoir and music history publication and we receive thousands of hits every month on older posts because it's still useful and interesting "as is,"  so I'm going to try to attend to technology issues, etc, and take you along in the process...  

(I know this can be deadly BORING for the reader... what a decision!)  

We feel responsible for keeping links and videos as fresh as possible and since we've been blogging since 2007 a lot of things have changed.  Many out of our control, some frustrating, all which need attention ; We used to post a technology update PAGE and one day it just went POOF!

Just the other day I checked on all the links in our extensive list on the side bar under A-B-C and found four that need replacement along with corresponding posts which takes an hour or two - so you have some idea of what's ahead.  We take pride in knowing that anyone interested in our subject can link to other writers, other sites.

Please be patient!

There will be musical intermissions!

THANKS FOR READING WES BRYAN - MY LIFE IN MUSIC!

OUR ELVIS PRESLEY BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION - 2014!

When we began blogging in 2007, we dedicated this effort to ELVIS PRESLEY. 

And every year we having Blogger Celebration focused on Elvis for his birthday.  Elvis was born January 8, 1935.  He'd be 79 years old if he were alive today.

This year the nature of our celebration is different because of the YouTube videos that have been posted by people who have somehow gotten their hands on HOME RECORDINGS.  Now these people may have been there (or maybe their parents were since so many of us from the early rock and roll era are senior citizens now or have passed on).  We don't know, but we think they're authentic.

We want to let you know that we're planning some Down Time in 2014.  This blog is experiencing a lot of glitches - some mystifying - that need to be resolved that will take some time and focus, as well as updating of videos and links, and we haven't given up on a good slideshow to replace the one that went down with changes at Photobucket.  (Some of our pages and posts just went poof!)

But for now relax and enjoy, and let the year begin on Elvis!

This popular publicity photo of Elvis is one of my favorites.

KEEP ON HANGING ON WITH US AS WE CHANGE THE DESIGN OF OUR BLOG

Hello Loyal Fans!  We had a technology glitch the other day that wiped out one of our Pages, and now we're trying to make some design changes. Keep on Hanging on with us!  Thanks!

PS: We'd love some feedback...  The design is set for MEDIUM text and Zoom at 100%.  Changing either factor may result in seeing the blog a different way.  If your settings are on MEDIUM text and Zoom at 100% and it still looks odd, please leave a comment and LET US KNOW WHAT BROWSER YOU'RE USING!  
Thanks!

GOOGLE READER CANCELS FREE RSS READER SERVICE

MAC OBSERVER : GOOGLE GIVES USERS WHAT THEY PAY FOR  link to full article!

Google is going to stop providing the RSS Feed Reader Service that a few of you are using to read Wes Bryan - My Life in Music.

Quote, "Google Reader is the company's online service for managing and viewing RSS feeds. RSS, or Real Simple Syndication, is a system that lets websites and podcasts push content to users instead of requiring them to visit sites to check for updated news and other content. Reader gave users a way to manage their feeds and easily sync those feeds between multiple devices."

Several other Google products are mentioned in this article as also being cancelled as well as some option suggestions.

In previous articles on the net, from various sources, it has been noted that people are reconsidering their Internet Time.  We understand.  We are also limited when it comes to the amount of time we can spend on the Internet so we are honored to know how many of you do visit a post or two of our Google Blogger. 

Thanks Again for Reading WES BRYAN - MY LIFE IN MUSIC!

CHANGE IN PUBLISHING TIMES - WES BRYAN - MY LIFE IN MUSIC

We will be publishing any posts that appear on Saturday or Sunday and some Holidays at 1:09 Pacific Coast Time and will continue to publish posts that appear on weekdays at 7:09 PM except for the rare occasions when we run a "Celebration" of a particular artist and want to post throughout the day on him or her or them!

Let's give it a try!

Christine and Wes

IT'S THE HOLIDAYS and WE WILL SEE YOU IN 2012!

It's that time, time to take a break, think back on this past year, and plan for 2012. Couple of the things we'll be talking about is posting days and times, if we want to give up on our embedded player or not and perhaps substitute links to our three playlists on Youtube. We have enjoyed working on this blog and hope to continue to do so. If you have any suggestions for us, please leave a comment!

Wes Bryan and Christine Trzyna

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN? (WE TKB to MAKE THIS BLOG EVEN BETTER!)

"GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN?" "That's the title of a song I wrote!" Wes

Friends, we have been Blogging here on GOOGLE since August 2007 and technology has changed, demanding that we upgrade and fix technology glitches IF WE INTEND TO HAVE THIS BLOG UP on the WONDERFUL WORLD WIDE WEB - The Internet - AS AN INTERESTING, READABLE STORY, A GREAT RESEARCH TOOL, and A LASTING TESTAMENT TO THE EARLY ROCK AND ROLL, ROCKABILLY, and COVER TUNE ERA.

WHILE WE TKB (TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS : That's ELVIS talk!) please use the Google search feature to read old posts, leave comments, questions, and ideas or e-mail us.

We have all sorts of things to repair and update and so that's just what we're going to do:

We're going to try to get that RSS feed unstuck without loosing it all over.

Many of our videos need replacement, so we are going to start with the earliest and go from there. Some of these videos have expired and others simply need to be replaced with new code so you can read and listen ON YOUR CELL PHONE! Youtube has also gotten rid of the color frames for embedded videos and so our blog needs a more consistant look...

SPEAKING OF DESIGN, also, we are sitting on the fence at this minute about upgrading along with Google templates and editors knowing the day is coming when we won't have a choice.

We're getting reports like "your title is across your picture" (thanks Cousin!) but that's on a cell phone or an older browser. Some people are reporting problems with our Flash Banner or our Streaming Video. We know that everyone doesn't have the latest computers and upgrades to view our blog.

Christine looked at this blog on several different terminals - different sized screens - etc - and cell phones and saw various views. And we're trying to make it work for everyone but are concerned that if we go all the way with an upgrade some of you might find things less functional rather than more enjoyable.

Again, your feedback is welcome!

Christine Trzyna and Wes Bryan

UPDATE AS OF MARCH 2011 we have the first 150 posts of this blog updated, including new code for video so you can listen on your cell phone.

JANUARY 2011 is an ELVIS PRESLEY CELEBRATION on WES BRYAN - MY LIFE IN MUSIC

Friends, we are going to be celebrating my old friend Elvis Presley on this blog from his January 8th birthday until January 16th, 2011.  Then we are going to take a break from musical posts till about February 18, 2011 - about a month, because we have so many updates we've got to do to keep the promise of this blog, which is that you can read it like a book.


Besides that stuck feed problem, we need to upgrade or replace ALL our Youtube videos so that they can be heard on cell phones... well, you get the idea...


Since we work on WES BRYAN - MY LIFE IN MUSIC steadily but in labor of love time, you may come back to read us and find the visuals on this site incomplete or in some stage of development. We realize that this may take more time than a month, but WE WILL KEEP YOU POSTED ON OUR PROGRESS!


We will still be picking up e-mail and comments while we work on this upgrade, and are not disappearing from the Internet. So we hope you won't forget about us... 

This will be a great time to read our older posts!


We will post all update information on PAGES!

Christine Trzyna and Wes Bryan

STATISTICS - WES BRYAN MY LIFE IN MUSIC

This blog is a labor of love and so we have not been too concerned with statistics or having a ticker tally all the hits to our site. (However, we are concerned and stymied about our stuck feed which makes it more difficult for some of you to read us!)

But today we were looking at the new statistics feature that comes with GOOGLE BLOGGER. As we say goodbye to 2010 and move into 2011, we think of all our new Internet friends who have come by to read some small part of Wes Bryan, My Life in Music, and we want to report to you the countries, in order of hits, that this blog has been read in! This is exciting for us, because until now we really did not know that we were being read in other countries outside the United States though we did install the TRANSLATOR to help friends who don't read in American English.

The GOOGLE STATISTICS feature began in May of 2010 (and reported from June 2010 on.)

Friends in the United States are our number one readers by far, as we expected.

What we didn't know was that we are also being read (in order of hits) by friends in:

Netherlands
United Kingdom
Russia
Canada
Germany
Spain
Denmark
Luxenbourg
Slovenia

Additionally, Internet Explorer was by far the most common browser used to read us.

Followed by:
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Apple-PubSub
Chrome
Java
UP.Browser
Netscape
NS*

(We've looked at our blog on various browsers and know that it looks great on Internet Explorer but is not intact on all browsers. This and a template upgrade are of concern to us. If you are not getting an intact website please let us know what browser you use!)

We also have some cell phone fans:
iPhone
Blackberry
iPad
IPod
Linux
BREW
(Currently we cannot install the "cell phone view" feature unless we upgrade and change templates and we like the design we have! hmmm.)

We thank all our new friends again, and hope to hear from you in the new year!

Wes Bryan and Christine Trzyna

OUR TECHNORATI BLOG LINK IS BACK!

Technorati has gone through some changes as a small search engine, and for a while we seemed to be missing in action. Recently we found that our Technorati link is back up on the net. Back in 2007 we first contacted Technorati and told them we wanted to be part of their search engine. Since that time they have eliminated the need to "ping" to remind them that we're around. If you have a moment check out the link!

We're working to make WES BRYAN - MY LIFE IN MUSIC and even better visual experience!

Please bear with us as we experiment with this wonderful Google Blogger and a whole lot of HTML !