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Front-Ranger:
THanks, Chuck. I also read in the New Yorker about his housing development for retirees in Florida. It was very interesting.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on September 03, 2023, 09:00:52 am ---THanks, Chuck. I also read in the New Yorker about his housing development for retirees in Florida. It was very interesting.
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I read that, too.
I never would have imagined that those first four songs went back that far. "Margaritaville" still gets airplay. I haven't heard the others in a while. I expect the others are getting airplay again right now.
I remember him making two guest appearances in the reboot of Hawai'i Five-0.
serious crayons:
I referred to "Changes in Latitudes" recently, before his death. I was trying to remember which are latitudes and which are longitudes, and I reasoned that Jimmy Buffet would have more reason to talk about latitudes than longitudes.
serious crayons:
Chuck, I thought about you today. I was watching one of those FB Reels that show a series of half-second video clips of certain stars over the years, starting in 1997 or whatever, accompanied by their age at that time, repeated year by year until the present. The soundtrack is a song whose words ("time goes by so slowly") and increasingly urgent beat seem to depict time moving slowly in one's youth, then speeding up as you get older. I've often been left with it in my head but didn't know what it was. I figured it was some recent pop song and decided to look it up.
It was this!
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(The featured stars themselves, of course, barely change between the first image and the final ones.)
CellarDweller:
Ah yes, "Hung Up".
That was a big song for Madonna. It was the lead single from her "Confessions on A Dance Floor" album. Her prior album ("American Life") was not a commercial success, and many were saying that Madonna's time as a hit maker were over.
"Hung Up" was massive, and it became a Guinness World Record setter as the song to hit #1 in the most countries, 41 in total.
It samples the Abba hit "Gimme Gimme Gimme", and Madonna had personally contacted Benny Andersson and Bj?rn Ulvaeus for permission to use it. This is one of the few times Andersson and Ulvaeus have given permission to sample one of their songs, following "Rumble in the Jungle" by the Fugees and "Fly With Me" by 98 Degrees.
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