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1968 (Forty years later...)
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Elle on August 23, 2008, 01:41:13 pm ---Yeah, but yours has turned out very differently. Who knew you would be breezily posting away again now? I for one thank every available star for your return. :-*
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Elle! More than 'Thanks,' but--thanks. (Sniff.)
--- Quote from: Lynne on August 23, 2008, 05:40:50 pm ---Elle also said I should post here to say that I'm one of the good things that happened in 1968. ::) :)
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Lynne: Quite right! Good for you! 1968 was/is a GREAT year. LOVE '68!
--- Quote from: loneleeb3 on August 23, 2008, 09:17:05 pm ---I see so many old favorites of mine in there! Really takes me back!! ; 8)
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Thanks! Me too! Except I have to go waaaaaaay back! ;D
Believe it or not (see below), I loved this silly piece of nonsense, hilariously stupid as it was; I was 25 years old--what did I know! Odd useless fact: I worked in an old, dowdy dowager of a building on 42nd Street, just East of Broadway; my office was later torn down and replaced by the much more glamorous Condé Nast Building. I might have been sitting in Anna Wintour's exact chair thirty years earlier! Well, I could have.
MTV's first day, August 1, 1981:
33. "I Wanna Be a Lifeguard" by Blotto (1979)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMlyqKa1p78&feature=related[/youtube]
Now, the following is quite different--I really, really loved this:
MTV's first day, August 1, 1981:
26. "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty (1978)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1UOIO38Ghs[/youtube]
Winding you way down on Baker Street
light in your head and dead on your feet
well another crazy day
you'll drink the night away
and forget about everything
This city's desert makes you feel so cold
it's got so many people that it's got no soul
and its taking you so long
to find out you were wrong
when you thought it held everything
You used to think that it was so easy
you used to say that it was so easy
but you're trying, you're trying now
Another year and then you'll be happy
just one more year and then you'll be happy
but you're crying, you're crying now
Way down the street there's a lad in his place
he opens the door
and he's got that look on his face
and he asks you were you've been
you tell him who you've seen
and you talk about everything
He's got this dream about buying some land
he's gonna give up the booze and the one night stands
and then he'll settle down
in some quiet little town
and forget about everything
But you know he'll always keep moving
you know he's never gonna stop moving
cause he's rolling, he's a rolling stone
When you wake up it's a new morning
the sun is shining it's a new morning
you're goin', you're goin' home
LOVE all the wiki-info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Street_(song)
The song was featured in The Simpsons episode "Lisa's Sax", with Lisa Simpson playing the familiar saxophone solo at the end of the show. It was also featured in the pilot episode of the Comedy Central series Stella. Rafferty's original version (more precisely, the opening riff, before any lyrics are sung) is also used as the theme music of The Dave Ramsey Show, a well-known American personal finance talk radio show. It was also featured in the 2006 film A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, and the 2007 film Zodiac. The similar title appears also in the Good Will Hunting movie. The saxophone riff is also used in the original amphibious cars episode of Top Gear.
The saxophone riff is heard on the radio of Gerry Standing's car in series 5 episode 6 of the BBC series New Tricks.
But then, uh-oh:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Rafferty
"Rafferty had checked himself into St Thomas' Hospital hospital for liver problems. However, he disappeared on August 1, 2008, leaving his belongings behind. The hospital filed a missing persons report."
Sigh. We hope you're ok, Mr. Rafferty.
:(
Front-Ranger:
So much excellent music that has stood the test of time...still hummable after 40 years! And so many wonderful movies and good art, plays, musicals, and comedy. We thought it would be that way for the rest of our lives. Then, what happened? What changed to degrade the quality of our art and culture? I'm mystified. . .
Katie77:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on August 24, 2008, 11:17:49 am ---So much excellent music that has stood the test of time...still hummable after 40 years! And so many wonderful movies and good art, plays, musicals, and comedy. We thought it would be that way for the rest of our lives. Then, what happened? What changed to degrade the quality of our art and culture? I'm mystified. . .
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Its just progression and normal change.
My parents thought the Beatles and a lot of the groups of the sixties, were "long haired hoodlums"...
Just as those who called Elvis a sex crazed swivel hipped anti-Christian.
Its what is called.......The Generation Gap.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
Now I'm in my dotage, I'll really take out the stops (it's in the 60's, alright--(late) 1964--I was ten and a half--):
shirley ellis - the name game (1964)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MJLi5_dyn0[/youtube]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Name_Game
The Name Game
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(....)
Shirley Ellis told Melody Maker magazine that the song was based on a game she played as a child. Children can often be seen chanting this rhyme:
Using the name Jack as an example, the song follows this pattern:
Jack, Jack, bo-back,
Banana-fana fo-fack
Fee-fi-mo-mack
Jack!
A verse can be created for any name, with X as the name and (X−1) as the name without the first consonant sound, as follows:
(X), (X), bo-b(X−1)
Banana-fana fo-f(X−1)
Fee-fi-mo-m(X−1)
X!
And if the name starts with a b, f, or m, that sound simply is not repeated. (For example: Billy becomes "Billy Billy bo-illy"; Fred becomes "banana fana fo-red"; Marsha becomes "fee fi mo-arsha".)
Playing the game with names such as Alice, Tucker, Chuck, Buck, Huck, Bart, Art, Mitch, Rich or Richie results in profanity.
;D
Meryl:
Yay! John, John bo-bon, banana-fana fo-fon, fe-fi-mo-mon, JOHN! :-*
I heard this in the grocery store today and remembered how I loved it. Corey Hart, 1985, Never Surrender:
[youtube=425,350]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>[/youtube]
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