Hello Everyone,
This podcast is an experiment for a friend of mine, Mr. Thomas Serafin. Tom’s the president of the International Crusade for Holy Relics. If you ever want to know something about the earthen vessel of the saints or things they touched, used, or wore, Tom is your man. There is a nifty PDF that goes along with the podcast if you like you should be able to download it by clicking here. Enjoy!
Michael A. Barone
What do you have that you can give to the world?
What if you do not have the most money? What if you are not talented enough? What if you’re not brilliant, or good looking, or any of the other excuses we all use to keep quietly to ourselves? This podcast talks about what you can do even if you’re not the most gifted person in the world. Sit back and enjoy it. Life is about doing what you can do, not fearing what you can’t do!
Michael A. Barone
This podcast deals with the idea of Totality. Really it goes deeper than most of my basic podcasts to show a bit of where my theology comes from. I try to give an example (which worked well for many years with my teens) of how to teach teens and young adults about the Teaching Authority of the Church, Papal Infallibility, and “Letting go …to let God†perfect you and make you holy. I hope you enjoy it!
Michael A. Barone
Yo! Yo! Yo! Word up to your Blessed Mother!
Ok, Ok! So Fr. Stan Fortuna has got nothing to worry about from this podcaster. This was a fun project I was asked to help with. In just 48 hours I had to turn a set of lyrics for a Catholic VBS program intoa full fledged Catholic Rap Song. Yeah dats right homey! So take a listen and sweeten your ears with this honey of a rap riff: St. John Vianney Rap
Ok, so I’m not down with it or straight up or whatever it should be. This was fun. I hope you enjoy it. Pray for all the little kiddies at the VBS too.
Michael A. Barone
You talk about what you know or what you are learning in life. So this podcast is all about House Hunting and the Catholic aspects there-in, enjoy!
Michael A. Barone
Hi folks,
I’m back at my post now. I’ve been all over the country lately interviewing for employment as a DRE or Catholic Youth Minister.
This podcast deals with some of what I found while I was out there. I’m having a good time being back with my family too, which basically means I’ve been babysitting the younger two children while my wife got out of the house for a while.
You can hear my youngest son David Joseph chiming in on the podcast in a few places, but hey, that’s not an interruption by an 11 month old, that’s the clarion cry of the children of God. And hey! At least his parents are Pro-Life enough to have had him and welcomed him into this world!
Anyway, I hope you enjoy this humorous piece of my latest Podcasting efforts. I’ll be posting more soon.
God bless you all!
Michael A. Barone
This podcast is my remembrance of a special moment when Pope John Paul II gave me a blessing which I was in turn able to share with the whole world. If you would like the blessing too just listen to the podcast and then click on Pope’s Blessing to see the video of his blessing for you. May God Bless this great and Holy man. May he rest in peace and intercede for us!
Michael A. Barone
This podcast is a reflection on my life as I stand at a new set of crossroads. I find myself here after a recent move, a personal friendship crisis of sorts, and a seemingly fruitless job search.
In life there is a time to blow your own horn, to accentuate the positive, and maybe even allow folks to think you are something more than you are. There is also a time for mortification of the ego and severe humility regardless of whatever seeming greatness looms in your not so distant past. I find myself alternately experiencing both of these things at the same time.
Since I want to present myself in the best light while job hunting, I have to blow my own horn so to say. I mean who else is going to do that for me?
However, since I realize it all depends on God and everything good including a good job ultimately must come from Him; I can see the need for self recollection and a humble malleable heart.
This may also help any of you who always think the grass is greener just over the fence.
All my life I wanted to achieve greatness, but I find God is just now starting to teach me what greatness is all about.
I hope you find this humorous look at the inner workings of my mind…well…humorous!
God bless you!
Michael A. Barone
It’s late Saturday night and early morning Sunday as I recorded this podcast. Terri has been without food and water for many hours now…Our emotions and our hopes keep going up and down.
Now I hear about our inept elected officials screwing around on the job. Between the Senate and the Congress, they have passed two separate but different bills to save Terri and in doing so they have lost valuable time. Who was asleep at the wheel while this happened? A few minutes ago they said that they have finally fixed the two bills into one which will need passing on Monday.
My guess is they would have damned well written and passed one correct bill the first time, if it was their loved one’s life on the line.
I don’t mean to complain about the very people who are working so hard to save Terri’s life, but for those of us who elected them, we’re starting to get a little worried that our best and brightest are …well…neither ! God help them as they try to help Terri! But for us, it is very frustrating to be depending on someone else to right this situation and save Terri.
I’m sorry, but this has become personal to me, and I think to you as well. I had to blow off a little steam. Don’t play this podcast for small children either, I get a little heated.
Pray for these folks! Offer today’s (Sunday March 20th ) mass intentions for them and Terri.
God Bless you all!
Michael A. Barone
OK! Here is how we are going to do this. I am going to post tunes by Oswald And The Herringbones to this blog page. ( I have also posted them on their own page here on the site!) They are going to be scattered versions scanning our many years. Some will be very poorly recorded, that is to say the quality was not all that great but they will be here anyway to give you some idea of the depth and changes for the span of years we played.
I will add tunes here every now and then. It is going to take me a few months to post all our tunes because we have around 300. So bear with me. The songs will not be in cronological order. They are just going to be posted in what ever order I can get them here. The id3 tags will give the dates of the recordings where ever I can get them edited.
Feel free to snag the tunes for your ipods and get into the band. We have great fun doing this for you so have great fun listening too. One thing to remember; if you do not like something by us, go to the next tune. They will rarely sound the same. We do all kinds of styles and genres so don’t run out on us if you don’t like a certain style or song. Just go to the next one! Happy Listening!
Michael A. Barone
Oswald And The Herringbones
Here are the songs:
My Father Didn’t Fight In The War (Bethel Rd. Studio Version)
My Father Didn’t Fight In The War (Norm’s Basement Version)
Running Drag (Delashmut Rd. Studio Version)
Running Drag (Delashmut Rd. Studio Pre-Album Version)
Running Drag (Final Album Cut)
Dishwasher Blues (Neal’s basement)
I Think She Knows I’m Lethal (Delashmut Rd. Studio Worktape)
Rain (1982 Recording Workshop Studio)
I Love You Baby ( What’s The Matter With You?)
My Friends Have Become Wolves (( By the way, this is true now more than ever!))
Ok! This is all I have had time to post as of 3-17-05 I will be posting more tunes soon. If you get crazy for more Click Here
There are 19 more songs by us that you can get as well.
Post to you soon!
Michael A. Barone
Oswald And The Herringbones
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OK,
These are add-ons. April 18th 2005.
I got a very nice email from Brian Smith stating that he had “in a fit of nostalgia†done a search on the internet to see if he could find some Oswald And The Herringbones tunes. Little did he know that he would stumble across this minor goldmine plethora of OATH songs. Never doubt the power of the World Wide Web.
Apparently Brian’s wife and his friends are big OATH fans too. They have requested a tune called Cross-town Shuffle.
This song was a hoot to play…literally since I played the sax on it! There are all kinds of hidden meanings in the lyrics, see if you can find some meaning for yourself. We used to challenge everyone at our concerts to try to dance all the way through the song. Most of these versions of it are around 10 minutes long, but occasionally we went for the gold and made it really long for a Jane Fonda Workout version (Our record was 22 minutes one night).
The first version I’m posting is one from the house studio at Bethel Rd. Mark Merchant and Tom Boyer were engineering it and Tom was also playing bass of course. Cross-town Shuffle Bethal Rd. studio version. (1982-84)
When we finished with the tracks after days of mixing down we decided to add the traffic sounds which we created by setting one microphone up in our extensive driveway and driving all our cars and my motorcycle around in circles while we yelled back and forth at each other.
The last thing You can hear is Tom saying is “you Joker!†But since we were fading the traffic track out in the mix down, it sounds like an obscenity, but it really is the word “Joker†not the “F-bomb†as the teens like to call it now.
Tom caught a lot of flack for it from the rest of the band. Mainly because we knew what he really said, but we always acted like we were disgusted with him for cussing, and (to this very day) we never cut him any slack for it. (By the way if he reads this, I’ll deny I wrote it!)
This first version is shorter and fades with the traffic sounds. Neal is playing most of the leads with Tom on bass. The next 3 versions
A) (Cross-town Shuffle from “Oswald And The Herringbones – Live At Presley’sâ€)
B) Cross-town Shuffle from “Oswald And The Herringbones – Victory Party Live At The Newport1985″)
C) (Cross-town Shuffle from “Oswald And The Herringbones – Live At Chelsea’s IIâ€)
of it are the live dance mixes with various leads by Neal and Andy.
I hope Brian and His Family and friends like them still, and I hope the rest of you find a new gem or two as well. Thanks for caring enough to check back and listen!
Michael A. Barone