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Tuesday, July 09, 2024
The ghost of the future sends U.S. voters a message from Paris
The ghost of the future sends U.S. voters a message from Paris: Leave it to the French to make things interesting. Two weeks ago, it appeared that the right would win. Today, God only knows what happens next.
This is how the AP describes the situation in France:
Election results show French…..
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— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) July 9, 2024
We remember Ed Ames (1927-2023)
Edmund Dantes Urick was born in Massachusetts on this day in 1927. He died in 2022.
We know him as Ed Ames. For many of us "baby boomers", Ed Ames was "Mingo' or Daniel Boone's sidekick in the very popular TV series.
Who knew that this guy could sing like this? I didn't know! I learned later that Ames had performed professionally with his brothers over the years.
In the spring of 1967, Ed Ames shook up the charts with "My cup runneth over", one of the most remarkable performances by a male vocalist ever!
It was popular enough to compete with the heavyweights in the charts: The Beatles' "Penny Lane", The Rolling Stones' "Ruby Tuesday" and The Turtles' "Happy together".
It was a great song.
Who knew that this guy could sing like this? I didn't know! I learned later that Ames had performed professionally with his brothers over the years.
In the spring of 1967, Ed Ames shook up the charts with "My cup runneth over", one of the most remarkable performances by a male vocalist ever!
It was popular enough to compete with the heavyweights in the charts: The Beatles' "Penny Lane", The Rolling Stones' "Ruby Tuesday" and The Turtles' "Happy together".
It was a great song.
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July 1967: Bee Gees "First" was a great debut LP
Let's look back at The Bee Gees and their "FIRST" LP released July 1967!
What did we learn from that debut LP?
For one thing, there were 5 Bee Gees back then. It was the 3 brothers and a couple of friends from Australia. Eventually, the friends dropped off and it was The Brothers Gibb the rest of the way.
Barry, and his late brothers Robin & Maurice Gibb, were great songwriters. It was the opening chapter for one of the greatest songwriting trios in modern pop music.
FIRST's songs were catchy, beautiful and always thoughtful.
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Summer 1967: The Beatles and "All you need is love" on the radio
This is a summary of "All you need is love", a Lennon-McCartney song that hit # 1 all over the world back in August 1967:
"It was first performed by The Beatles on Our World, the first live global television link. Broadcast to 26 countries and watched by 400 million, the programme was broadcast via satellite on June 25, 1967.
The BBC had commissioned the Beatles to write a song for the UK's contribution.
Rolling Stone magazine ranked it at #362 in their 500 greatest songs of all time."
Later, the song was added to the movie "Yellow submarine".
"All you need is love" was the first single released after the "Sgt Pepper's". It was eventually included in the US LP "Magical Mystery Tour" and the animated "Yellow submarine".
My favorite part of the song is the last minute when John & Paul go back and forth.
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1962: Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the wind"
Bob Dylan recorded "Blowin' in the wind" in July '62:
"Dylan's recording of "Blowin' In The Wind" would first be released nearly a full year later, on his breakthrough album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. This was not the version of the song that most people would first hear, however. That honor went to the cover version by Peter, Paul and Mary—a version that not only became a smash hit on the pop charts, but also transformed what Dylan would later call "just another song" into the unofficial anthem of the civil rights movement."
Dylan was a great songwriter but his recordings are OK. I am not one of those who pops a Dylan CD and enjoys the whole thing.
At the same time, no one does "Mr Tambourine Man" or "Like a rolling stone" like Dylan. I guess that "Positively 4th street" is pretty good too.
It is still a great song 50-plus years later specially when Peter, Paul & Mary sing it. It is the best version of the song but Joan Baez is a close second.
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