6000 years gone... "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." - Genesis 1:1 New American Standard Bible/The Amplified Bible/King James Version of the Bible parallel "
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." - The Gospel of Jesus according to the fisherman John, chapter 1, verse 1 NASB/AMP/KJV "
What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the Word of Life..." -1 John 1:1 NASB/AMP/KJV
Welcome to Tuesday and a very special edition of Tuesday's Musical Notes!!! Today is the day we have mentioned for the last few weeks and we are so excited that you decided to join in on the merriment! You see, on this date, exactly 10 years gone, Tuesday's Musical Notes launched into the internetosphere with rhythm, rhyme, relationships, and reason as a blog to bring you a unique perspective on life. Since that time 520 entries have found their way into the archives of Tuesday's Musical Notes and today we celebrate the more than 65,000 views of the blog. So what do we do? Of course, we have a countdown and recap of the last ten years gone...
4359 years gone... "
Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this generation." Genesis 7:1 NASB/AMP/KJV "
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened." - Genesis 7:11 NASB/AMP/KJV "
So He wiped out every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from mankind to animals, to crawling things, and the birds of the sky, and they were wiped out from the earth, and only Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark." - Genesis 7:23 NASB/AMP/KJV
According to Robert Plant, "Ten Years Gone" was a reflective song about a woman whom he had loved. The woman asked him to choose between her and his music. Fortunately for the popular music world, this woman didn't wind up as Mrs. Robert Plant.
"Ten Years Gone" was originally imagined as an instrumental by Jimmy Page. Recording the song in the studio provided the layers Page desired for the song, yet became somewhat prohibitive in live performances until guitar maker Andy Manson made a custom, triple-necked instrument with six and twelve-string guitars, a mandolin, and bass pedals. While this provided some of the nuances of the studio recording, it wasn't until Jimmy Page toured with The Black Crows that he was satisfied with a live performance. Can you imagine all those guitars?
"Ten Years Gone" was warmly received by critics and the Live At The Greek version from 2000 peaked at #33 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock charts.
Ten years gone is what we have seen here at Tuesday's Musical Notes as well. Today we celebrate those 520 posts and all the readers who have been a part of the last decade. New to Tuesday's Musical Notes? Check out the archive where you can find each blog by month, or use the search bar to find your favorite artist or song.
And now we are proud to present the Decade Edition of Tuesday's Musical Notes. Before we take a look at the most read Tuesday's Musical Notes of the decade, let's take a minute and recap each of the past ten year's #1s:
2012 - no countdown, it was our first year after all - some good blogs there, check out the archives
(okay, so for the first couple of years we used the most read since the inception of the blog...I promise it does get more diversified)
2022 - who knows...keep on reading and we'll find out in December!
4064 years gone... "Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country, And from your relatives And from your father’s house, To the land which I will show you And I will make you into a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing;" - Genesis 12:1 NASB/AMP/KJV
And now Tuesday's Musical Notes is pleased to present the most-read blogs of the decade! No really. We are going to start the countdown this time...Thanks to blogspot.com for keeping tabs on all of the stats for The Notes! Here we go!!!
Arkansas Razorback fans rejoice! One of your rallying themes is the #10 most-read blog of the decade. Stands to reason that this particular entry seems to get a pick-up in views during the college football and basketball seasons! Written by Rossini and performed by the Marching Razorback and Hogwild bands every year, this finale of the opera of the same name has served in all kinds of venues. Take a glance and see if your favorite memory of The William Tell Overture is mentioned! Oh and btw...GO HOGS!!!
Coming to us from one of our favorite soundtracks, The Greatest Showman, is this song from Hugh Jackman. Who knew Wolverine had pipes? This was the final blog in the series that was written from the only full album to get Tuesday's Musical Notes treatment. That's right! Each song from the motion picture soundtrack of The Greatest Showman was used on consecutive Tuesdays from January 9, 2018, to March 6, 2018. No other full album has to date been used for The Notes. We expect a Trivial Pursuit question is in there somewhere...Hasbro, we're waiting on your call...
The Greatest Showman soundtrack was a worldwide phenomenon and outperformed its expectations going all the way to #1 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart and finishing at #4 for the year on the same chart. Tuesday's Musical Notes is also a worldwide phenomenon as it is read all around the world each week. What countries read it the most? Let's find out in this Tuesday's Musical Notes extra:
#10 - The United Kingdom
#9 - Portugal
#8 - Canada
#7 - Poland
#6 - Ukraine (continuing to pray for your people and your independence...)
#5 - Unknown Region - not sure where you are reading this, but THANK YOU! Chances are you are at risk by reading this blog and we don't take that lightly...
#4 - Russia (continuing to pray for your people as well, protection for your soldiers, and wisdom for your leaders)
#3 - Germany
#2 - France
#1 - The United States - nice to see that The Notes are popular domestically! Thanks!!!
3634 years gone..."The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live; and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and no plague will come upon you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt." - Exodus 12:13 NASB/AMP/KJV " But Moses said to the people, “Do not fear! Stand by and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will perform for you today; for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will never see them again, ever." - Exodus 14:13 - NASB/AMP/KJV "Then God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before Me." - Exodus 20:1-3 NASB/AMP/KJV
And now on with the countdown...
#8...
Coming in at #8 in our recap of the most viewed Tuesday's Musical Notes is the song that served as the launch for the year 2018. It featured the band The Zombies and recalled passages from the prophets who were proclaiming the coming "new" things that would be experienced as the history of Israel continued.
Here at #8 is...Tuesday's Musical Notes - This Will Be Our Year" (The Zombies)
Christmas happens every year thank goodness!!! The seasonal celebration brings along with it time with family, gifts being exchanged, good food and treats to savor, and of course music. Each year here at The Notes we take the month of December and celebrate Christmas with our passion...music of the season. Each year these December Notes wind up being some of the favorite blogs of the year. 1 was read so much over the ten years gone, that it made our recap of the Decade's most read blogs. Que the jingle bells...
Thank you, Mr. McCartney! As you would imagine, the music of The Beatles is featured often in Tuesday's Musical Note land. How often? Keep reading. Another Tuesday's Musical Notes extra coming your way after we keep on counting them down...
3077 years gone..."So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him amid his brothers, and the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that day forward. " - 1 Samuel 16:13 NASB/AMP/KJV
2609 years gone..."Yet the Lord, the God of their fathers, sent word to them again and again by His messengers, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place; but they continually mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose against His people until there was no remedy" - 2 Chronicles 36:15-16 NASB/AMP/KJV "He took into exile those who had escaped from the sword to Babylon; and they were servants to him and to his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia, to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days of its desolation it kept the Sabbath until seventy years were complete." - 2 Chronicles 36:20-21 NASB/AMP/KJV 'For this is what the Lord says: ‘When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place.' - Jeremiah 29:10 NASB/AMP/KJV
Earlier in our decade recap, we listed the #1s from each year. Every year we select a song as a "countdown" song for our annual recap of the most viewed blogs of the year. One of the featured songs that we used to do our annual end-of-the-year countdown comes in at #6. It comes to us from 2017. Can you guess its name?
2539 years gone - "This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and He has appointed me to rebuild for Him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah" - Ezra 1:2 NASB/AMP/KJV "Then I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor before you, I request that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may rebuild it.” - Nehemiah 2:5 NASB/AMP/KJV "Then Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was standing above all the people; and when he opened it, all the people stood up" - Nehemiah 8:5 NASB/AMP/KJV
Earlier in the countdown, we came across the first of three songs from The Greatest Showman soundtrack. That's right! Three blogs based on songs from this album made it to our most read-in-the-decade list! The next to come in at #5 and #4 and just so happen to have been written back to back, just like on the record. We've elaborated at length on how special this particular soundtrack is to Tuesday's Musical Notes so...let's get on with the show. "Ladies and Gents this is the moment you've waited for..."
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#4 - Tuesday's Musical Notes - "A Million Dreams" (Ziv Zaifman, Michelle Williams, and Hugh Jackman)
Before we go on to the top 3 featured songs at Tuesday's Musical Notes for the decade, we'd like to take a moment for another Tuesday's Musical Notes extra. We eluded to how often bands like The Beatles might be showing up in Tuesday's Musical Notes. While we attempt to have a wide array of musical genres, As you would imagine, bands that are featured in Tuesday's Musical Notes universe tend to show the trends of our favorite artists. Any guesses as to who that might be? Well, friend, I'm glad you asked because as a Tuesday's Musical Notes extra, we'd like to give you the top ten acts that have the most songs featured on the blog. I can hardly wait...
#10 - Van Halen, The Moody Blues, Paul McCartney, Bing Crosby (actually there was a tie, all the way up to Vince Guaraldi, but we had to make it fit into our "10" theme right?)
#9 - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
#8 - Fleetwood Mac
#7 - Vince Guaraldi
#6 - Pentatonix
#5 - Styx
#4 - Genesis
#3 - Billy Joel
#2 - The Beatles (ok, so they tied for #1, but it's my blog so my #1 is of course...)
#1 - Chicago
Want to know which songs were used? Yup, you guessed it, shameless archive plug right here...
And now back to the countdown...
2300 years gone... We reach a time where prophecy comes to life even more vividly than when the prophets were originally preaching it. It is the time of the "Silent Years" or the Intertestamental period. Much history occurred, yet not anything considered inspired by God. We devoted a recent blog to the events of this time. Check it out: Tuesday's Musical Notes - "Stuck In The Middle With You" (Stealers Wheel)
2016 years gone..."She will give birth to a Son; and you shall name Him Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” - The Gospel of Jesus according to the tax collector Matthew, chapter 1, verse 21 NASB/AMP/KJV "And she gave birth to her firstborn son; and she wrapped Him in cloths, and laid Him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn." - The Gospel of Jesus according to the physician Luke, chapter 2, verse 7 NASB/AMP/KJV "And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us; and we saw His glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth." - John 1:14 NASB/AMP/KJV
This Petula Clark ode to the excitement of city life comes in as the #3 read blog of the decade. It is based on one of my favorite songs and continues to be used in media of all kinds. It speaks of the joy of discovery and bright lights that accompany a trip "Downtown". The blog eludes to the joy of discovery of another place that is very bright and joyful. We hope that with each Tuesday that there is an anticipation of the discovery that awaits you as Tuesday's Musical Notes appears on your favorite social media outlet. We enjoy writing it, we hope you enjoy reading it!!!
#2!!!
The tension builds as we round the corner for the final two entries in our look back at the first decade of Tuesday's Musical Notes! What will the top 2 songs be? Will they be a surprise? Will they be one of the blogs we've read?
At #2 comes the only Country song on the countdown. We again take great pride in featuring a diverse offering of featured songs and think that today's recap confirms that in a myriad of ways. Our Country offering comes via Bakersfield, California, and a gifted singer/songwriter who did some time in prison in his younger years. Later he would use that experience to write one of his biggest hits and it comes in as the 2nd most-read blog of the decade!
Ten years gone - "Welcome to Tuesday!!! "I can hear music, sweet, sweet music, the sounds of the city baby, seem to disappear..." Today's words of wisdom....."When you are the Top Gun and feel a little Over The Top, it is advisable on occasion to get a little Footloose down at the Caddy Shack...." - Thermopolis W.P. Suey Welcome to Tuesday!!!"
And that friend is the opening lines of the very first blog.
Tuesday's Musical Notes was conceived as a contribution to a church newsletter (Tuesday's Musical Notes - "Walk Like An Egyptian" (The Bangles)). Even though we didn't get a request for a follow-up article, we had the writing bug and decided to email a few of our friends our weekly thoughts about popular music and how that might apply to our Spiritual lives. Pretty soon, on the advice of a friend (thanks again Heath!) and some intense investigation on what the processes were, we jumped into the blogosphere with both feet and the rest spans over the past ten years gone. Our goal is simply to communicate the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world by using a different interpretation of our favorite music. I confess I have discovered some songs and artists along the way that I had never heard of but do like, and as you can see from the above lists, I have also stayed very true to the music of my formative years.
Tuesday's Musical Notes is an outlet for me to explore my passions for music and The Messiah. The "...Years gone" passages that have been scattered throughout today's blog serve as a recap of God's history. This history traces the family that God called to bring about the salvation of the world. In The Old Testament, that was Abraham and his descendants the Israelites. In the New Testament, you and I are given the opportunity through Jesus to be adopted into that very same family.
You see friend, this blog means nothing if you aren't encouraged to believe, given a pathway to belief, or challenged in your current belief. What belief might that be? The belief that Jesus came as the Holy Son of God to pay for the sins that separate God's creation, mankind, from Himself. God's plan is for man to spend eternity with Him and for that to occur a payment had to be made because of the separation caused by disobedience at the Garden of Eden. Jesus died one of the most horrific deaths known to mankind and paid that price. He was in a tomb for three days gone and rose to be seen by more than 500 eyewitnesses. Those that believe that Jesus did this for their restoration are called the Church, the Bride of Christ. Jesus now waits at God's right hand, awaiting the time that He can receive His bride and restore everything to the perfection of Eden.
So friend, what do you believe about Jesus? It is the most important question that you will ever face. Your eternity future depends on what you believe. It is Tuesday's Musical Note's goal to make sure that more people are restored to God and fewer people go to the place where God does not exist. Many of Tuesday's Musical Notes explore these topics and we hope and pray that we communicate them effectively and in an engaging manner. Thank you for taking the time (every week we hope!) to read Tuesday's Musical Notes.
And now for #1!!!
The featured song in the #1 slot is the oldest blog on our recap of Tuesday's Musical Notes decade. It speaks about love and how the singer desires to have his love permeate the relationship he is having with the one to which the song is sung. In the liner notes for a greatest hits package simply called Gold, the songwriter, even though he hasn't openly professed faith in Jesus as Lord and Savior, simply refers to this song as "Jesus Sings". It is a great song. Here is the blog based on Pete Townshend's "Let My Love Open The Door, the #1 viewed Tuesday's Musical Note of the Decade!
There ya have it. The ten most viewed blogs in the first ten years of Tuesday's Musical Notes! We hope that you make plans to be reading The Notes in the future and recommending the blog to friends as we embark on what we hope will be many decades to come. That journey into the decades begins next week as we continue our exploration through the great stories of the Bible. Next week we begin The New Testament!!!
If I can ever tell you more about Jesus, please leave a comment with your contact info and I will respond as soon as possible.
(So read this part really fast...)Tuesday's Musical Notes is a production of Cross and Kin Entertainment. All dates for Biblical events are approximations. Tabulations for Tuesday's Musical Notes Countdown of the Decade were provided by Google's blogspot.com. There were no animals injured in the making of this production.
Tuesday's Musical Notes will return...
'Til Tuesday,
Loving HIM by Loving You,
randy
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