HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU. IT'S MY BIRTHDAY TOO!

It is 6:00 a.m. and dark out. It is 26.8 degrees and a dead calm. Junior and Patrick are undercover in his room.

On our tour of RCA's Studio B, the oldest active recording studio in Music City, were about ten Gators in full game regalia, out of the 24 person tour. We got to touch the Steinway, whose sweet melodies can be heard in the background of literally thousands of charted records for almost 50 years.

That grand piano, the keys of which I touched, was used and beloved by the late Elvis Presley, who used to play gospel music on it to warm up before each recording session.

It is here, that in a darkened studio, the King recorded Are You lonesome To-night? If you listen closely, according to our tour guide, you can hear the faint sound as Elvis bumped his head on the mic.

Elvis, who had the dough, tried to buy the piano, but studio boss Chet Atkins wouldn't sell at any price...So it goes.

Tickets to Vandy game $150

Motel and gas $300

Touching Elvis' Steinway Priceless!

Why the Hyphen in "To-Night"? A story for next time.

More Later.

OBAMA WATCH:

All the Rustlers and Malcontents who lunch around the Trading Post have vowed to keep a close watch on this Obama Fellah and report to you vigilently on his activities. This from the AP:

Congressman Warns of Obama Dictatorship

Monday, November 10, 2008 6:44 PM

WASHINGTON — A Republican congressman from Georgia said Monday he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist or fascist dictatorship. "... he's the one who proposed this national security force," Rep. Paul Broun said of Obama. "I'm just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may — may not, I hope not — but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism." Broun cited a July speech by Obama ... in which the then-Democratic presidential candidate called for a civilian force to take some of the national security burden off the military. "That's exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it's exactly what the Soviet Union did," Broun said. "When he's proposing to have a national security force that's answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he's showing me signs of being Marxist." "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set," Obama said in July. "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." Broun said he also believes Obama likely will move to ban gun ownership if he does build a national police force. Obama has said... he favors "common sense" gun laws. Gun rights advocates interpret that as meaning he'll at least enact curbs on ownership of assault weapons and concealed weapons. As an Illinois state lawmaker, Obama supported a ban on semiautomatic weapons and tighter restrictions on firearms generally. "We can't be lulled into complacency," Broun said. "You have to remember that Adolf Hitler was elected in a democratic Germany..." SOS ON GATORS: "I would say Florida has a better team this year than they had two years ago that won the national championship," he said. "They're a stronger team, it appears right now, than two years ago. Two years ago you felt like you had a chance and a lot of teams had chances. Certainly Florida won the close ones two years ago that led them all the way through to the national championship. Now they are sort of blowing out people pretty regularly." Spurrier's 1996 national title team at Florida is the only one in SEC history to win five straight conference games by 30 points or more. This Gator team fell just short of matching that accomplishment when the Commodores scored a late touchdown on Saturday. "Certainly Florida is very strong running the ball, throwing the ball," Spurrier said. "Their offense has really played well recently here and their defense is very good, also."

GO GATORS BEAT COCKS

GOD SAVE OUR REPUBLIC!