Saturday9: Get on Your Feet

Saturday 9: GET ON YOUR FEET (1989)

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) In this song, Gloria Estefan encourages us to stand up and make it happen. What's something you want to accomplish this fine Saturday? 

I want to sew in all the yarn ends to the sf gloves I made for DH.

2) She sings that we've all been through some nasty weather. How has winter 2021/22 treated you thus far (weather wise)?   

Weather wise We have been lucky.  It's been hot but not a lot of fire activity here, and just enough snow to keep the little kids happy.

3) Best known as a recording artist, Gloria is also a best-selling author of children's books. When you were a kid, were you a big reader?

I was always very big on reading.  A Three year old couldn't have a card of their own in the early 40's but you could choose your books.  Reading has probably saved my sanity more than once in the intervening years. 

Grade Schools had libraries, too. And librarians. It was wonderful. 

I could live in this Place!

 4) In addition to music and writing, she's a linguist. As a college student, she supported herself as an English/French/Spanish translator at Miami International Airport. When were you most recently at an airport? Were you traveling yourself, or picking someone up/dropping them off?  I was dropping off the twins who had flown in for a visit. That has to have been in the 1980's I think.

5) Gloria made her acting debut in 1999's Music of the Heart, a Meryl Streep movie about music teachers in Harlem. Did you have music classes in school? Have you ever taken private lessons?  I've never had any music lessons from a classroom.  I wanted to learn to play the Tuba in 6th grade but my parents were too poor to pay the rent on one, so too bad, so sad.... Tuba was the only thing left to play in the JR High school band.
 
6) Today Gloria is one of the celebrity residents of Star Island, a man-made island in Biscayne Bay. Star Island is connected to the mainland by MacArthur Causeway, named for General Douglas MacArthur. Tell us about a street in your neighborhood, and who it's named for.  This whole area is called the Lake District, because just about every street is named for a lake.  It's a huge area and goes from Lake Murray (a reservoir) all the way into La Mesa.

7) 1989, the year "Get on Your Feet" was popular, was the year of the first HDTV broadcast. By 1998, high-def shows and TVs were dominant. How many TVs are in your home? Do you watch shows on your computer or phone?  There is only one Television in the house, and I don't watch anything on my computer or the phone.

8) Also in 1989, The Simpsons premiered. It's now the longest-running prime-time TV show ever. Are you a fan?
Sorry, I'm not a fan.

9) Random question: Should husbands wear their wedding rings? They should do what they like. Or, even if they might want to wear a band, if they work around electricity or climb poles for the telephone company, they should not wear them at work.

Thanks so much for joining us again at Saturday: 9. As always, feel free to come back, see who has participated and comment on their posts. In fact sometimes, if you want to read & comment on everyone's responses, you might want to check back again tomorrow. But it is not a rule. We haven’t any rules here. Join us on next Saturday for another version of Saturday: 9, "Just A Silly Meme on a Saturday!" Enjoy your weekend!

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