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Murray, your yard has always been beautiful, and you found a way to make it more beautiful. And you did it yourself. Thanks for the video tour. The reason The Town cleaned up that area is you made The Town look bad. Good for you to get The Town to clean it up. What an inspiration you have always been for The Town and all who have crossed paths with you. Take care , Murray! Jerry Di Carlo

Awesome job Uncle Murray!

You still got it!

Thank you for this, I was born at Prince George in 1970🕊️🤍🕊️🤍🌻🌻

Very impressive 👏👏

Nice!

Wow! Murray you can JAM!

Love it! Very inspiring

I am a veteran of the Vietnam war you my fellow drummer are outstanding from the word go you have so much buddy rich in your blood boom

Magic

Love it, Murray! You make me smile! Thanks for posting. Jerry

Hi Murray! That house you pointed out is not Mt. Hope, on Cheverly Circle. It is behind the house where the carved tree is, up on top of the hill. Where Cheverly Ave and Euclid Street meet and you made the left on Euclid Street, the entrance drive way to Mt Hope is across Cheverly Avenue from Euclid St. I know this because I went to school with Bill Gast who lived there , and had been to his house a few times . That was in the 1950s. The elementary school classes all took field trips to Mt Hope. It had an ice house or well, and I remember it was an old house, while all the other houses in Cheverly, were newer. I'm not criticizing, only correcting . Changing the official seal of Cheverly, is changing history. Because who will care where the original landowner's house was located or what it looked like? It was a mansion, they claimed was a plantation. .How about a farm, that sold wood, grew corn and tobacco or produce and supported the local economy. I don't know. I wasn't around then. The image offended the new mayor , I was told. Google; " Mt. Hope, Cheverly, Md." Your love of Cheverly is obvious, Murray. Nice narration, nice music, you are a great guy for documenting these rides through Cheverly. Keep 'em coming. I think I'll go watch a Murray Green Drumming video now. Love YOU! Jerry

You're an inspiration to many younger drummers….. Thank you!

Ini macam sir 👍

Very nice 👍🥁🥁

HISTORY OF 6301 KILMER STREET PARK ...1895 Magruder family ownership 10 acres 1910 Transfer to Richard Scott, Black truck farmer 10.1 acres 1936 Transfer to Leon Rosenkrans - 10.1 acres 1953-54 Property subdivided. 1.75 to ac development, 5.9 acres to elementary school 1990 Remaining 2.3 acres transferred to James Bowen 2015 Mortgage default, purchased by Town of Cheverly 2015 Resident polling to solicit ideas for “Future of 6301 Kilmer” 2017 House removed 2017 Food forest plantings along 63rd Avenue edge 2019 Arborist inventory & Phase 1 tree plantings

Thank you for showing my family's old house at 6218 Kilmer St., That Kilmer street park is where the Rosencrants lived ( spelling?) Next to Happy Acres

Nice tour of Cheverly, glad I still live there ;-)

Your 92????

Love the music, Mr. Green!

Beautiful town, great place to grow up!

Good job, Murray, making this for all of us, and narrating it, also. I can add that before Rt. 50 was built, there was two narrow bridges, single file, known locally as The Twin Bridges, ( barely wide enough for one car in each direction) that went to Columbia Park Rd ., past where the Metro is, and past South Cheverly. Where the 7/11 is now, was a gravel lot with a barber shop . Then across from the elementary school on Tuxedo Rd., was Sam's DGS ( District Grocery Store), with old wood floor and the smell of old meat ( he had a Deli case and butchered cuts of meat in the back room) . Down Tuxedo Road on the right was Johnson's TV Repair Shop ( Hi Pat!). Further down on the left side of Tuxedo Road was the ESSO gas station, where Roy Clark of Hee Haw jammed with Smokey, the gas station owner, on Friday nights, (as I was told). On the same side was a Wonder Bread Distributor. Next to that was The Variety Fair , then The Friendly Inn was built next to that after the old fire house was torn down and the new one built. Across the street from the firehouse was a dry cleaner business that burned down in the 1950s, and on the right of that was a Sinclair gas station, that later became a bus parking lot as Tuxedo "progressed" away from being a tiny town. If you kept going towards Kenilworth on Tuxedo Road , the road didn't go under the train bridge , it went over the freight train tracks on a steep incline. And on the right was the green houses that R. Pierce mentioned in his comment, ( Hi, Roger . and , Thanks for your Tribute video to Bladensburg Class of '68). I had to write this, for those my age, who grew up here. I still live in Cheverly . It will be 70 years in May 2023. I played in the hole that was dug to build the Cheverly pool. And I played in the woods before Rt . 50 was built and watched the machines build that highway. A lot of fun growing up here and being here this long. I was 2 years old when my parents moved in 1953. Hello, everybody! Hope you are all doing well....... Thanks again , Murray! Jerry Di Carlo

Interesting trip into the past! You went by my parent's old house on Crest Avenue. There were plenty of places to sled, one was Forest Road (very steep) and up at the hospital, anywhere with a slight hill was open as long as the road wasn't busy. Tuexdo sure has changed!

Two points I'd like to make, one about the train line that was there long before Metro, and the other about Tuxedo. So about the train line, the trains running between Baltimore and DC went by Cheverly, and a commuter train would stop at Cheverly to pick up government workers before 8am, and drop them off at the end of the day, after 5pm. There was no station along the tracks at Cheverly. There was a bridge leading to South Cheverly, over the tracks, that the train would stop under. My father was one of those people who rode the commuter train on weekdays. He'd walk from our house on Carlyle Street to catch the train to Union Station, and get off the train to walk to the Library of Congress. If the weather was rainy, my mother might pick him up in our car at the end of the day. That was in the late 40s, the 50s and 60s. (She also worked at the Library before they were married, and lived in apartments in DC, before buying a new house in Cheverly.) Dozens of other men took the train into DC. My parents moved to Cheverly in 1948, and left in 1992 (they hated to leave). During the Depression years, DC attracted a lot of young people looking for work from all over the country. My father came from Massachusetts, and my mother from North Dakota. About Tuxedo, there used to be a number of glass greenhouses there that grew bedding plants and tomato starts commercially. As a 1950s kid, one of my best friends lived in an old Victorian style home in Tuxedo that had a good sized greenhouse attached to the south side of the house, and had formerly been a commercial operation. Across the street was another glass greenhouse where you could still buy plants in the 1950s. The greenhouses were torn down and replaced by other commercial busineses sometime in the 1960s. . . . and thanks for the drive around Cheverly, even though the view out the window could have been better in focus.

I think your camera is fooled by the raindrops.

Fantastic! Love the energy and vitality! Bravo

I also hope to reach your age and play with the same determination!

Ha ha! Love this guy! Great ending. Does not look 91 either, that's for sure.

Great Job Uncle Murray, Lilah loves it too!

yeah man! Still Swingin'!!!!!!! Loved it!

Fantastic video.

Great job!

Very nice 🥰

Murray... what is this witchcraft?? You look younger at 91 than you did in you video at 88!

This is fantastic in every sense of the word.

you be swinging, GGD

Wonderful performance, I take it with me to practice tonight. Johan

Thank you for the inspiration. You really know how to drive a big band!

Fantastic and hope for my future

2 things - 1. I hope I make it to 88, and 2. I hope I can still play anything close to what is in this video.

Still got it.... great job!

Yes!

I'm a 74 year old drummer, and I look forward to more years of swinging it, like you have done Murray!

Murray thanks for Your Service and Sacrifice my Dad was in Korean War as well God Bless you for Sharing this I’m Sure Buddy would appreciate this Performance the Snare Hits are Snapping all the Right Notes too bad the edit cuts Part of your Solo I subscribed to see more Later

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Impressive!

Murray what a fine fine drummer you are. You mentioned you could not read music? So what Buddy could not read and you hear how great he sounds. You are my friend a most definite creative drummer. I can not believe you are the age of 85. You do more than one thousand drummers out there today. A gift and a treasure belongs to you. Oh by the way see if you agree with me? Dug the living hell out of Buddy Rich doing Surry with the Fringe on Top 1960 circa at Birdland. oh man that was the first time I heard our idol Buddy Rich. I was in high school at the time playing in the symphonic orchestra Big Band and marching band and then after Viet Nam played in a Senior Drum and Bugle corps but but but Buddy did so much more in drumming. Murray you are a dedicated musician and keep on playing that Buddy Rich style. your Buddy BOOM

Great job Uncle Murray!

I am a fellow veteran fellow drummer who is a Buddy Rich fan from the word go. I served in Vietnam circa 1967/ your drumming is so fantastic its hard to explain. You must have studied drumming at a very young age? i first started listening to gene krupa when I was a kid. and of course Louie Bellson Jack Sperling and Shelly Manne and the list goes on and on. I really dig and admire you keep that Buddy Rich drive going on and on and your ride cymbal and bass drum and technique are really something. I first heard Buddy in 1960 when he had Mike Maneri and Sam Most on vibes. That chart surrey with the fringe on top really made me get into admiring Buddy so so so much. Saw Buddy and his Band in Atlanta Georgia 1968 and man besides West Side he did Diabolus. a bunch of guys from the Army Band were there and I saw their heads turn around completely when Buddy did Diabolus. any way you are a fine fine fine tremendous drummer. Did you ever play in a drum and bugle corps? I did for ten years and learned new rudiments besides the 26. Cheese a diddles Wind Mills and Mary Janes. all those new ones,. But our Buddy did all those and did not know what they were called? thanks for drumming and I am a fan of yours Murray Green. your buddy BOOM

love it