Plenty of Nothing

Orchestral Greenock

Robert Murchie was born in Greenock (at 14 Lynedoch Street) in 1884 and went on to become lead flautist of the London Symphony, London Philharmonic and BBC Orchestra between the wars. Source.

Morton host Ayr United in a fixture postponed from January 2nd. Morton are fourth in the division with 41 points, Ayr fifth with 40. Morton are five games without a loss. Ayr are three without a win.

So far this season Ayr have a win and a draw against Morton in league play, but Morton knocked them out of the Challenge Cup.

Winner moves into third place.

Dougie Imrie is Championship Manager of the Month for February.

[Morton 1 - 3 Ayr. Goal by Robbie Crawford.]

Dunfermline (1st) and Falkirk (2nd) have a massive fixture this evening in League One, with attendance expected to exceed 8,700. [Dunfermline 2 - 0 Falkirk.]

Championship blowouts, 2022-23:

2022/10/1      Partick Thistle 5 - 1 Morton

2022/10/8      Morton 5 - 0 Hamilton Academical

2022/10/8      Ayr United 5 - 0 Queen's Park

2022/10/22    Partick Thistle 0 - 4 Queen's Park

2011/10/28    Morton 4 - 0 Inverness CT

2022/12/3      Queen's Park 4 - 0 Hamilton Academical

2022/12/23    Partick Thistle 5 - 1 Inverness CT

2023/1/2        Inverness CT 6 - 1 Cove Rangers

2023/1/7        Cove Rangers 0 - 6 Queen's Park

2023/1/27      Cove Rangers 0 - 5 Ayr United

Championship cup blowouts, 2022-23:

2022/7/13      Raith Rovers 6 - 0 Peterhead    League Cup GS

2022/7/19      Inverness CT 4 - 0 Albion Rovers    League Cup GS

2022/7/23      Dundee 5 - 1 Forfar    League Cup GS

2022/8/31      Motherwell 4 - 0 Inverness CT    League Cup R2

2022/11/26    Hamilton 4 - 0 East Kilbride    Scottish Cup R3

2022/11/26    Cove Rangers 7 - 0 Dunipace    Scottish Cup R3

2022/11/26    Dundee 6 - 2 Airdrieonians    Scottish Cup R3

2022/12/9      Arbroath 1 - 5 Dunfermline    Challenge Cup R4

2023/1/21      Celtic 5 - 0 Morton    Scottish Cup R4

East Stirlingshire vs Berwick Rangers since relegation:

2019/11/23    East Stirlingshire 3 - 1 Berwick Rangers    Lowland League

2020/2/8        Berwick Rangers 1 - 5 East Stirlingshire    Lowland League

2020/11/14    Berwick Rangers 1 - 3 East Stirlingshire    Lowland League

2021/7/27      Berwick Rangers 2 - 1 East Stirlingshire    Lowland League

2022/4/16      East Stirlingshire 2 - 1 Berwick Rangers    Lowland League

2022/8/13      Berwick Rangers 3 - 0 East Stirlingshire    Lowland League

2023/1/28      East Stirlingshire 1 - 4 Berwick Rangers    Lowland League

Berwick Rangers in the East of Scotland Qualifying Cup:

1905/8/26      R1    Berwick Rangers 4 - 1 Highland Light Infantry

1905/9/23      R2    Berwick Rangers 1 - 1 Adventurers

1905/9/30      R2    Berwick Rangers 2 - 1 Adventurers

1905/10/7      SF    Berwick Rangers 3 - 5 Broxburn

1906/9/8        R1    Berwick Rangers 5 - 2 Vale of Leithen

1906/9/15      R2    Berwick Rangers 1 - 3 Peebles Rovers

1907/8/31      R1    Berwick Rangers 4 - 2 Selkirk

                      R2    bye

1907/10/12    SF    Berwick Rangers 1 - 4 Broxburn Athletic

1908/8/19      R1    Berwick Rangers 1 - 2 Peebles Rovers

1909/8/28      R1    Berwick Rangers 3 - 1 Gala Fairydean

1909/10/16    R2    Berwick Rangers 5 - 0 Duns

1909/8/23      SF    Berwick Rangers 0 - 3 West Calder Swifts

1910/8/27      R1    Peebles Rovers 4 - 2 Berwick Rangers

1911/8/26      R1    Berwick Rangers 2 - 1 Selkirk

1911/9/16      R2    Berwick Rangers 0 - 2 Leith Amateurs

1912/8/31      R1    Gala Fairydean 5 - 2 Berwick Rangers

1913/8/30      R1    Berwick Rangers 3 - 2 Coldstream

1913/9/13      R2    Berwick Rangers 1 - 3 Peebles Rovers

1914/8           R1    Vale of Leithen scr/wo Berwick Rangers

1914/9           R2    Berwick Rangers wo/scr Armadale

1914/9/19      SF    Berwick Rangers 2 - 2 Leith Amateurs

1914/9/26      SF    Leith Amateurs 6 - 1 Berwick Rangers

1920/8/28      R1    Berwick Rangers 1 - 1 Coldstream

1920/9/11      R1    Berwick Rangers 2 - 1 Coldstream

1920/10/9      SF    Berwick Rangers 3 - 0 Gala Ex-Service United

1920/10/30      F    Vale of Leithen 1 - 1 Berwick Rangers

1920/11/6        F    Berwick Rangers 0 - 0 Vale of Leithen

1920/11/13      F    Vale of Leithen 2 - 1 Berwick Rangers

1921/8/27      R1    Vale of Leithen 2 - 1 Berwick Rangers

1922/9           R1    bye

1922/9/16      R2    Berwick Rangers 9 - 2 Civil Service Strollers

1922/10/14    SF    Berwick Rangers 10 - 0 Selkirk

1922/11/18      F    Peebles Rovers 3 - 1 Berwick Rangers

1923/8/25      R1    Berwick Rangers 1 - 1 Coldstream

1923/10/6      R1    Coldstream 0 - 1 Berwick Rangers

1923/10/20    R2    Civil Service Strollers 1 - 3 Berwick Rangers

1923/10         SF    bye?

1923/11/3        F    Berwick Rangers 1 - 0 Gala Fairydean    CUP

1924/8/30      R1    Selkirk 1 - 2 Berwick Rangers

1924/9/27      R2    Corstorphine 1 - 0 Berwick Rangers

1925/8/29      R1    Berwick Rangers 3 - 3 Coldstream

1925/9/12      R1    Coldstream 3 - 2 Berwick Rangers

1926/8/28      R1    Berwick Rangers 3 - 1 Coldstream

1926/9           R2    Clerwood W - L Berwick Rangers

1927/9/24      R2    Berwick Rangers 4 - 1 Clerwood

1927/10/8      SF    Berwick Rangers 4 - 3 Corstorphine

1927/10/22      F    Berwick Rangers 2 - 2 Gala Fairydean

1927/11/5        F    Berwick Rangers 2 - 1 Gala Fairydean    CUP

1928/8/25      R1    Berwick Rangers 4 - 0 Clerwood

1928/9/8        R2    Berwick Rangers 7 - 0 Hawick United

1928/9/22      SF    Berwick Rangers 2 - 3 Murrayfield

1929/8/31      R1    Berwick Rangers 3 - 1 Vale of Leithen

1929/9/14      R2    Murrayfield 3 - 0 Berwick Rangers

1930/8/30      R1    Berwick Rangers 4 - 2 Civil Service Strollers

1930/9/27      R2    Gala Fairydean 4 - 0 Berwick Rangers

1931/9/5        R1    Berwick Rangers 6 - 0 Leith Amateurs

1931/9/19      R2    Berwick Rangers 3 - 0 Murrayfield

1931/11/7      SF    Berwick Rangers 3 - 2 Vale of Leithen

1931/11/28      F    Berwick Rangers 5 - 5 Penicuik Athletic

1931/12/5        F    Penicuik Athletic 3 - 1 Berwick Rangers

1932/9/3        R1    Berwick Rangers 2 - 1 Selkirk

1932/9/17      R2    Berwick Rangers 5 - 0 Civil Service Strollers

1932/12/3      SF    Berwick Rangers 5 - 3 Penicuik Athletic

1932/12/10      F    Berwick Rangers 2 - 0 Murrayfield    CUP

1933/9/2        R1    Civil Service Strollers 2 - 4 Berwick Rangers

1933/9/23      R2    Gala Fairydean 0 - 4 Berwick Rangers

1933/9/30      SF    Duns 2 - 3 Berwick Rangers

1933/11/4        F    Berwick Rangers 2 - 0 Mossend Swifts    CUP

1934/9/1        R1    Berwick Rangers 4 - 4 Chirnside United

1934/10/20    R1    Chirnside United 4 - 2 Berwick Rangers

1935/8/31      R1    Berwick Rangers 2 - 1 Leith Amateurs

1935/9/28      R2    Duns 4 - 0 Berwick Rangers

1936/9/5        R1    Jedburgh Artisans 5 - 3 Berwick Rangers

1937/9/4        R1    Penicuik Athletic 3 - 2 Berwick Rangers

1938/9/3        R1    Duns 3 - 4 Berwick Rangers

1938/9/17      R2    Berwick Rangers 5 - 2 Gala Fairydean

1938/10/15    SF    Chirnside United 2 - 5 Berwick Rangers

1938/11/26      F    Berwick Rangers 2 - 1 Pencuik Athletic    CUP

2019/8/17      R1    Berwick Rangers 2 - 0 Spartans

2019/11/19    R2    Kelty Hearts 4 - 0 Berwick Rangers

2021/9/11      R2    West Calder United 2 - 3 Berwick Rangers

2022/1/22      R3    Hill of Beath Hawthorn 4 - 2 Berwick Rangers

2022/8/20      R2    Stoneyburn Juniors 2 - 1 Berwick Rangers

(Sources: SFHA for 1905 to 1938; Scottish Football Fixtures for 2019 to 2022.)

Christie MacDonald

Singing sensation Christie MacDonald was born in Pictou NS on this date in 1875. Source. Biog. "Sweethearts."

The Kick Inside

Kate Bush's first album The Kick Inside was released on this date in 1978. This is the Canadian album cover, one of six variants (two UK, one US, one Canadian, one Yugoslavian and, rarest of all, one Uruguayan). Listen to the album, and also an Italian fan's note-perfect cover of Ian Bairnson's guitar solo at the close of "Wuthering Heights".

Apple Records, Our First Four (1968)

Source. See also.

The Beatles

A: “Hey Jude"(Lennon and McCartney)

B: "Revolution" (Lennon and McCartney)

Mary Hopkin

A: "Those Were the Days" (Fomin, Raskin)

B: "Turn! Turn! Turn!" (Pete Seeger)

Jackie Lomax

A: "Sour Milk Sea" (George Harrison)

B: "The Eagle Laughs at You" (Jackie Lomax)

Black Dyke Mills Band

A: "Thingumybob" (Lennon and McCartney)

B: "Yellow Submarine" (Lennon and McCartney)

It turns out that "Thingumybob" is a sped-up orchestral version of an unrecorded song about Maureen Starkey.

Multi Pass!

The Fifth Element came out 25 years ago tomorrow. Source. Khaled, "N'ssi N'ssi."

NASA in the Time of Beatles

Jean Shrimpton and Paul in a Richard Avedon photo shoot for the April 1965 Harper's Bazaar. Source.

1957/3      John forms the Quarrymen

1957/7      Paul joins

1958/2      Explorer 1; George joins

1958/3      Vanguard 1; Explorer 3

1958/7      NASA formed; Explorer 4; "That'll Be the Day"/"In Spite of All Danger"

1959/8      Explorer 6

1959/10    Explorer 7

1960/3      Pioneer 5

1960/5      Silver Beetles

1960/8      Discoverer 13; Echo 1A; Beatles; Hamburg

1960/12    Mercury/Redstone 1A

1961/1      Mercury/Redstone 2 (Ham the Chimp)

1961/2      Mercury/Atlas 2

1961/3      Stuart Sutcliffe quits

1961/4      Hamburg again

1961/5      Mercury/Redstone 3 (Alan Shepherd)

1961/6      Tony Sheridan, "My Bonnie"

1961/7      Mercury/Redstone 4 (Gus Grissom)

1961/10    Apollo SA-1; Beatles, "My Bonnie"

1961/11    Mercury/Atlas 5 (Enos the Chimp); Brian Epstein

1962/1      Decca audition

1962/2      Mercury/Atlas 6 (John Glenn)

1962/3      Hamburg a third time

1962/5      Mercury/Atlas 7 (Scott Carpenter)

1962/6      The Beatles sign with Polydor

1962/8      Mariner 2; Pete Best is fired, Ringo hired; John marries Cynthia

1962/10    Mercury/Atlas 8 (Wally Schirra); "Love Me Do"/"P.S. I Love You"

1962/10    Hamburg a fourth time

1963/1      "Please Please Me"

1963/3      Please Please Me album

1963/5      Mercury/Atlas 9 (Gordon Cooper)

1963/8      "She Loves You"

1963/11    With the Beatles album

1964/2      Ed Sullivan

1964/4      Gemini 1

1964/5      Apollo AS-101

1964/7      A Hard Day's Night album

1964/12    Beatles For Sale album

1965/1      Gemini 2

1965/2      Ringo marries Maureen

1965/3      Gemini 3 (Grissom, Young)

1965/4      See above

1965/6      Gemini IV (McDivitt, White)

1965/8      Gemini V (Cooper, Conrad); Shea Stadium

1965/12    Gemini VII (Borman, Lovell), Gemini VI-A (Schirra, Stafford); Rubber Soul album

1966/1      George marries Patti

1966/2      Apollo AS-201

1966/3      Gemini VIII (Armstrong, Scott)

1966/5      Surveyor 1

1966/6      Gemini IX-A (Stafford, Cernan)

1966/7      Apollo AS-203, Gemini X (Young, Collins)

1966/8      Apollo AS-202; Revolver album

1966/9      Gemini XI (Conrad, Gordon)

1966/11    Gemini XII (Lovell, Aldrin); John meets Yoko

1967/2      Apollo 1 (Grissom, White, Chaffee); "Strawberry Fields Forever"/"Penny Lane"

1967/4      Apple Corps

1967/6      Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album

1967/11    Apollo 4; Magical Mystery Tour album

1968/1      Apollo 5; Surveyor 7

1968/2      Rishikesh

1968/3      "Lady Madonna"/"The Inner Light"

1968/4      Apollo 6

1968/7      Yellow Submarine film

1968/8      "Hey Jude"/"Revolution"

1968/10    Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele, Cunningham)

1968/11    The White Album

1968/12    Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell, Anders)

1969/1      Yellow Submarine album

1969/3      Apollo 9 (McDivitt, Scott, Schweickart); Paul marries Linda, John marries Yoko

1969/5      Apollo 10 (Stafford, Young, Cernan)

1969/7      Apollo 11 (Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins)

1969/9      Abbey Road album

1969/11    Apollo 12 (Conrad, Gordon, Bean)

1970/4      Apollo 13 (Lovell, Swigert, Haise); Paul quits

1970/5      Let It Be album and film

Motion Capture ABBA

Source.

Don Quixote by Gordon Lightfoot

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Radhe Shaam

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Hashikko Ensemble Sheet Music

Music publisher Ongaku No Tomo Sha Corp. tweeted a reminder that those are real songs in Hashikko Ensemble, and you can sing them too. Source.