Friday, July 26, 2024
Move over Michael, Joe is singing your song
Move over Michael, Joe is singing your song: On one hand, it was sad to see a defeated man forced to read a speech he never planned to read. What happened this weekend? Did Nancy and the gang threaten to pull the curtain on the family scandals? On the other hand, this is what ...
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— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) July 26, 2024
Happy # 81 Mick Jagger
We say happy to Mick Jagger, one of the greats of rock. He was born on this day in 1943.
Mick, along with Keith Richards, turned The Rolling Stones into one of the greatest rock bands ever.
Rolling Stone magazine, no connection to the rock group, has Jagger at # 16 of the top vocalists ever.
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1965: The Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction" was # 1 this week
Mick Jagger got a big gift for his 22nd birthday in 1965, or the # 1 song on Billboard USA. It was also the song that turned The Rolling Stones into huge rock superstars.
"Satisfaction" was released on the "Out of our heads" LP. It was also included in various compilations LP's, specially "The singles".
It is not my favorite song by The Rolling Stones. Frankly, I'd rather hear "Jumpin' Jack Flash". Nevertheless, "Satisfaction" was huge.
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1775: Happy birthday to the US Post Office
Wonder what it cost to post a letter in 1775?
The Post Office changed the country in many ways, from commerce to personal correspondence to the distribution of political ideas.
Say hello to your postman today!
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July 26, 1953 turned out to be an ugly day for Cuba
Growing up in a Cuban-American home acquainted me with a lot of the island of Cuba's history.
I guess that's normal in immigrant homes, but my parents were the type committed to teaching us how communism destroyed what they lovingly called "la patria" or homeland.
Conversations at our family dinners were always about Cuba. My parents would often warn us about leftists by saying "cuidado" or "be careful" because they always tell you what you want to hear.
Every time a Third World politician came on TV preaching "injustice," my parents would say one of their favorite lines about the movie that they saw already and didn't end well.
Once a year, the topic would be about what they would refer to as Moncada. On this day, July 26, 1953, Fidel Castro and his followers attacked the Moncada Barracks in eastern Cuba.
The attack was a disaster since more than 60 of the 185 "rebels" involved were killed. Castro and the survivors escaped and were eventually discovered and captured. Castro was tried a few months later and sentenced to fifteen years in prison. He defended himself and turned it into a book.
While imprisoned on Isla de Pinos, he wrote letters and continued to plot the Batista regime’s overthrow.
After having served less than two years, he was released in May 1955 due to a general amnesty. After that, he carried on with his "revolution."
My guess is that Batista regretted that amnesty to the end of his life.
Castro left Cuba and went to Mexico, met Che Guevara from Argentina, and the rest is the history that we are all too familiar with.
Our family conversations about Moncada would often try to answer one question: Why did Batista release him?
My parents felt that it was a PR move and a bit naive. At the same time, my father said that no one thought that Castro would harm anyone.
I guess that most people thought that the talk of revolution was finished and the Cuban economy was booming with prosperity.
A few years later, my father said that it would have been better if Batista had left, too, and the country could have been put back on a democratic track.
Today, Cuba is a dictatorship: Thousands of executions, millions have taken flight and no one knows for sure how many died leaving the country in leaky rafts, while many are still sitting in political prisons.
The Castro regime never allowed fair trials, free elections or had a general amnesty to empty the prisons.
In short, Castro devastated a beautiful country and a prosperous island.
What are Cuba’s political prisons like? Read Armando Valladares “Against all Hope”. You will learn all you need to know about the legacy of July 26.
By the way, you will read that Armando spent years in Villa Maristas, or the name of the political prison that used to be the Catholic school that my brother and I went to.
Turning a Catholic school into a political prison to torture political prisoners? What else do you need to know about that regime?
In retrospect, July 26 turned out to be a very bad day for Cuba.
A word about The Rolling Stones!
McCartney had a great solo career. Lennon did OK and was killed just as he was coming back to the charts. Harrison and Starr had limited solo careers.
The Rolling Stones are a different story. They are still going.
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts are still in the band. Bill Wyman retired a couple of years ago. Brian Jones died in 1969. He was replaced by Ron Wood and Mick Taylor.
Bottom line: The Rolling Stones are the longest running band of the rock era.
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Thursday, July 25, 2024
But Josh is pro-Israel
But Josh is pro-Israel: The VP short list includes a few interesting names like Governor Josh Shapiro. I don't live in Pennsylvania but they tell me that the governor is popular. I hear that he could deliver that important state to the Democrats.
But why would the…
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— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) July 25, 2024
July 25, 1956: Roberto Clemente inside the park walk off grand slam!
Roberto Clemente was one of the greatest players in major league history.
Clemente broke with the Pirates in 1955 and was killed in a plane crash at the end of 1972. He was travelling to Nicaragua to deliver supplies for the victims of a terrible earthquake.
Clemente won 3 batting titles and left the game with 3,000 hits and a .317 career average,
On this day in 1956, Clemente hit the only walk off inside-the-park grand slam in the history of Major League Baseball.
According to news reports, the fans at Forbes Field went crazy. No one had ever seen this before or since.
Amazing Clemente!
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Clemente broke with the Pirates in 1955 and was killed in a plane crash at the end of 1972. He was travelling to Nicaragua to deliver supplies for the victims of a terrible earthquake.
Clemente won 3 batting titles and left the game with 3,000 hits and a .317 career average,
On this day in 1956, Clemente hit the only walk off inside-the-park grand slam in the history of Major League Baseball.
According to news reports, the fans at Forbes Field went crazy. No one had ever seen this before or since.
Amazing Clemente!
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"Brief encounter" is intense but very nice
It is the story of a married woman who meets a doctor at a train station. It's a chance meeting and they begin to see each other. She is Celia Johnson and he is Trevor Howard.
I had no idea that the movie is considered a romantic classic.
Also, the movie's soundtrack is fabulous, or Rachmaninoff's second piano concerto exquisitely dropped in at different moments of the story.
Very nice movie. What happened to the married woman and the doctor? Watch the movie and find out!
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1978: Rose reached # 38 on the way to 44!
Pete Rose’s streak made it 38 games on this day in 1978. He got 3 hits off Craig Swan of the Mets.
The streak started on June 14 and turned into the second longest in major league history. The streak was a huge national story with hundreds of reporters following Pete & the Reds from game to game.
1978 also turned out to be his last year with the Reds: .302 average, 198 hits and 51 doubles. He signed a huge free agent contract with the Phillies and led them to a World Series victory in 1980. He also won two titles with the Reds in 1975 & 1976.
Last, but not least, Pete got his 3000th hit that year, too. The pitcher was Steve Rogers of the Expos.
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The streak started on June 14 and turned into the second longest in major league history. The streak was a huge national story with hundreds of reporters following Pete & the Reds from game to game.
1978 also turned out to be his last year with the Reds: .302 average, 198 hits and 51 doubles. He signed a huge free agent contract with the Phillies and led them to a World Series victory in 1980. He also won two titles with the Reds in 1975 & 1976.
Last, but not least, Pete got his 3000th hit that year, too. The pitcher was Steve Rogers of the Expos.
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July 1965: Dylan from acoustic to electric guitar
On this day in 1965, Dylan put down the acoustic and played an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival.
Maybe we can say that Dylan moved rock and folk music closer together by going electric.
P.S. You can listen to my show. If you like our posts, please look for ”Donate” on the right column of the blog page.Maybe we can say that Dylan moved rock and folk music closer together by going electric.
“Like a rolling stone” and “Queen Jane approximately“, from the LP “Highway 61 Revisited“, were early examples of Dylan going electric.
At about the same time, The Byrds released their electric version of “Mr. Tambourine Man“. The group's LP also included “All I really want to do“, another Dylan song.
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Kamala you have some ‘splainin’ to do
Kamala you have some ‘splainin’ to do: Maybe a reporter will ask VP Harris about the 25th Amendment and President Biden. After all, all we’ve heard about the ailing president is a phone call and a memo retiring from the election. Is it too much to ask about the president...
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— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) July 24, 2024
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