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— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) February 10, 2026
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
We remember Roberta Flack. (1937-2025)
We say happy birthday Roberta Flack who was born on this day in 1937 in North Carolina. She died in 2025.
As a young woman, Roberta Flack loved classical piano and won a music scholarship to Howard University. She became a music teacher after graduation and sang at a club to make a little extra money. Eventually, someone heard her lovely voice and the rest is music history.
Her first hit was "The first time ever I saw your face", an absolutely amazing vocal performance. Intense and lovely!
Her second song was "Killing me softly" in 1973.
Her first hit was "The first time ever I saw your face", an absolutely amazing vocal performance. Intense and lovely!
Her second song was "Killing me softly" in 1973.
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We remember Laura Ingalls Wilder who died in 1957
We remember Laura Ingalls Wilder who died on this day in 1957.
We know Laura from "The Little House in the Prairie" TV series.
In real life, Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in Wisconsin back in 1867. She lived in Kansas, Iowa and Minnesota with her family: Charles her father, Caroline her mother & sisters. Eventually, Laura became a school teacher and married Alonzo Wilder.
In 1932, she wrote her family story in "The Little House" series. It became a TV series in 1974.
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Monday, February 09, 2026
Super Bowl, Bad Bunny, Monkey-Hitler & politics. Crockett leading Talarico in latest poll. The Beatles Ed Sullivan 1964.
Super Bowl, Bad Bunny, Monkey-Hitler & politics. Crockett leading Talarico in latest poll. The Beatles Ed Sullivan 1964.
Keep the monkey and Hitler out of our politics
Keep the monkey and Hitler out of our politics
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So, it was stupidity all around. What else can we say? Keep monkey and Hitler out of politics.https://t.co/6hes95NzzB
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) February 9, 2026
Happy # 84 Carole King
We say happy birthday to Carole King, who was born in New York City on this day in 1942.
In the 1960's, Carole King and her husband Gerry Goffin wrote one hit after another: “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” for the Shirelles, “Take Good Care Of My Baby” (Bobby Vee, 1961), “The Loco-Motion” (Little Eva, 1962), “Up On The Roof” (The Drifters, 1962), “Chains” (The Cookies, 1962; The Beatles, 1963), “One Fine Day” (The Chiffons, 1963), “Hey Girl” (Freddie Scott, 1963), “I’m Into Something Good” (Herman’s Hermits, 1964), “Just Once In My Life” (with Phil Spector for The Righteous Brothers, 1965), and “Don’t Bring Me Down” (The Animals, 1966).
In 1971, she went solo with her LP "Tapestry" and it became a huge smash.
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Happy # 83 Barbara Lewis
Some of her big hits were "Baby, I'm Yours", "Hello Stranger", and "I'll Make Him Love Me". I saw on the Internet that they've released a collection of her hits!
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The Beatles that we didn't get to hear in Cuba
The world is celebrating another anniversary of The Beatles landing at JFK Airport and appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show.
It was one of those events that changed music, radio playlists and the length of our hair. My mom used to call them "los bitles" or her "Cuban accented" pronunciation. It was also her disapproval of the hair or my desire to look like that.
However, I did not know a thing about Beatlemania until our family got here. 50 years ago we were in Cuba but The Beatles in New York, or Ed Sullivan, was nothing we knew a thing about.
The Castro dictatorship censored The Beatles and their music was not heard on local radio. The "ban" came from the to the top:
"Fidel Castro's government frowned on Western music as a 'decadent' influence in the decades after his 1959 Cuban Revolution. Many Cubans recall being harassed for wearing long hair or listening to rock and pop music from Europe or the United States."Eventually, the Castro regime liberalized rules so Cubans finally got their taste of The Beatles. It was 40 years late.
We arrived in the US in September '64 and all of those Cuban kids in Miami were singing their songs. I remember "A Hard Day's Night" movie signs everywhere.
In a few days, I heard that it was a British group and a girl showed me her copy of "Meet the Beatles." It was the first time that I had seen a picture of the group or heard their music.
A few years ago, I spoke with a 50-something Cuban who left the island recently. We spoke about the repression, censorship of the press and the food shortages.
Then he said this: "You know one more thing I hate the Castro dictatorship....they denied me The Beatles"....I never got to enjoy it like you did in the US"
Thank God for freedom was all I could say! All of a sudden I realized that freedom is "a free press" and my copy of "Abbey Road."
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Sunday, February 08, 2026
A chat with George Rodriguez, South Texas conservative
A chat with George Rodriguez, South Texas conservative
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James Talarico talks about the pro-choice angel and billionaires
We’ve been watching the Texas primary battle between two Democrats: Rep. Jamine Crockett and Texas state Rep. James Talarico. To refresh your memory, Rep. Talarico is the one who quotes the Bible more often than a Sunday preacher. If he were a GOP candidate, they’d call him a religious fanatic.
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We’ve been watching the Texas primary battle between two Democrats: Rep. Jamine Crockett and Texas state Rep. James Talarico. To refresh your memory, Rep. Talarico is the one who quotes the Bible more often than a Sunday preacher. If he were a GOP candidate, they’d call him a…
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) February 8, 2026
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