LAST WEEKEND there was the Northern New England seacoast meet-up of Cheers & Jeers .... with the great lunch in Portsmouth, New Hampshire (followed-up by the little ice cream) with about 12-14 attendees. Bill & Michael have been you do well, as great as you saw the little of the Usual Suspects as great as the little newer faces.
Bill's important 'kiddie pool' (non-inflated) was brought, in box any the single hadn't had the possibility to designation it prior to ... nonetheless it would have taken an 18-wheeler to move his infamous 'Snark Tank' along. Add to that excellent continue all day (albeit the tad hot outdoors in approach sunlight, upon the cloudless day) .... well, as the 'Wayne's World' guys would contend .... "Goooood call!"
MONDAY's CHILDREN are in between some-more than 700 rescue cats that the lady has taken in (from around the world) during her 12-acre California cat sanctuary.
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THE RATHER BLUNT conservative mayor of Toronto, Ontario had the rather standard week: that began with Rob Ford offering cryptic responses to allegations that he flipped-off a lady who told him to stop articulate upon his cellphone while driving. Then after his consultants advised shutting library branches to save income - as great as the iconic Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood sought to convene citizens against the plan - the mayor's brother told her to run for bureau if she wants to change policy.
ART NOTES - the preference of Dutch paintings - as great as most prominently Frans Hals - have been during New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art by Oct 10th.
JUST IN CASE he has the urge: the bar where my pal Silvio Berlusconi used to sing adore songs (half the century ago) has offering him his pursuit behind when he retires as Italy's prime apportion successive year (and he also sang upon cruise ships).
SPORTING NOTES - nonetheless perhaps most appropriate great known as the pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, Bill 'The Spacema! n' Lee finished his career with the Montreal Expos. And he was there recently to scout locations for the movie about his life's journey: with the excellent book Have Glove, Will Travel as the source as great as film's title. I saw him during the 2005 Vermont book signing (along with Jim Bouton) as great as during Q&A someone asked them about drug testing. "Ladies as great as gentlemen, we have tested only about all of them" was how Bill's response began.
TUESDAY's CHILD is Luminus the Cat - the British preserve kitteh who was carrying difficulties anticipating the home ...
.... all since she fell in to the category of felines nicknamed Kitler - yet (mercifully) perceived countless offers of adoption after her story became public.
POLITICAL NOTES - currently she heads the World Bank, yet behind in 1974 as an exchange student from France:Christine Lagarde served the valuable duty for the freshman congressman Bill Cohen (R-ME, as great as after Bill Clinton's defense secretary) - responding French-Canadian basic mail, anguished pro/con over the tentative impeachment of President Nixon.
HISTORY NOTES - in 1959, months after he fled to! the Dom inican Republic when forces led by Fidel Castro overthrew his regime: Cuban General Fulgencio Batista sought haven in Argentina, Spain ... Ireland: as great as the US supervision done grave (and informal) approaches to have him staid there.
SEPARATED during BIRTH - maestro singers Barry Manilow and Rod Stewart.
MY FAVORITE TV SHOW has prolonged been the CBS Sunday Morning program. Last weekend, they re-ran the shred they filmed in 1988, of couples registering as great as removing married during the City Clerk's bureau in New York City ... along with, as Charles Osgood put it in this 10-min video - 'a post-script' for 2011.
ART NOTES - photographs of Mexico taken from 1932-34 (as great as in 1966) by Paul Strand are during the El Paso, Texas Museum of Art by September 4th.
TRANSPORTATION NOTES - in 2017 the longest hovel in the universe is due to open, great known as the Gotthard Base Tunnel - the centerpiece of the programmed AlpTransit rail network that will speed cargo underneath the Alps, mending links in between northern as great as southern Europe as great as reducing lorry trade upon mountain passes - yet the German widen of railway stuff oneself the hovel is underneath monetary threat, as great as might not be accomplished by the time the hovel is ready for rail traffic.
WEDNESDAY's CHILD is Shadow the Cat - the Chicagoland hero cat who has donated red blood multiform times for the benefit of alternative pets.
HISTORY NOTES - an repository of letters purchased by the National Library of Ireland indicates that presidentTheodore Roosevelt - who had both Dutch as great as Irish roots - voiced the keen interest in Irish history, literature as great as Celtic mythology - as great as was remarkably wakeful of developments in pre-Independence Ireland.
MOTHER-DAUGHTER? - the Canadian country singer Sh! ania Twa in .....
.... and Selena Gomez - the singer as great as TV star.
THIS PAST MONDAY was the inhabitant holiday in Switzerland and, in honor: the brand new apple class named theGalmac - the cranky in between the Gala as great as Jerseymac apples (designed to revoke imports, as it ripens earlier) - debuted as the nod to William Tell's mythical apple-shot that (indirectly) led to Swiss independence.
ART NOTES - books as great as catalogues by the legendary German design school Bauhaus are during the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. to Oct 28th.
POLITICAL NOTES - the supervision of Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has done governance the prime issue as great as has the little formula to show: swell upon vital infrastructure projects, the brand new constitution is demanding aloft standards, politicians have been some-more publicly accountable, people in high places suspected of drug running have been underneath scrutiny ..... as great as the debate is underneath way to shame parliamentarians! in to p rofitable taxes.
BOOK NOTES - news reports have prolonged claimed that there is an unprepared fourth-novel publishing by the late, best-selling Swedish author Stieg Larsson - yet his long-time lover considers it to be the small intro, not the manuscript.
THURSDAY's CHILD is Otto the Cat - the 35-lb kitteh who - after the program of reduction food as great as some-more practice - is right away underneath 30 lbs.
LEGAL NOTES - The Constitutional Court of Chile heard arguments that Article 102 of the Civil Codethe law banning same-sex marriageshould be ruled unconstitutional. And interestingly: conservative President Sebastin Piera was outspoken in his support of polite unions during his presidential campaign, yet members of his bloc have (thus far) prevented the presidents bills from passing.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE NOTES - destiny offenders who have been ordered to perform community service in the Netherlands will have to wear the vest with the text "At work for society" and the logo of the probation as great as after-care service.
SEPARATED during BIRTH - CNBCs Squawk Box anchor Becky Quick ......
.... as great as the Canadian TV star Sarah Chalke ("Scrubs", "How we Met Your Mother").
POLITICAL NOTES - our opponents indicate that enacting carbon taxes have been political suicide: yet the supervision of the Canadian province of British Columbia did. And not only is the economy you do improved than the little others: the taxation is renouned as great as the Liberal premier who introduced it won the provincial election the following year (with successive problems heading to resignation not attributed to this tax).
FRIDAY's CHILD is Edward the Cat - an upstate New York kitteh who went missing, causing his family to place countless posters of him around the neighborhood, including during the local newspaper. Five weeks after it worked: when someone came to the journal bureau to find the job, he saw the poster as great as knew it was the cat his family had been stuff oneself for about the week.
......and finally, for a song of the week ............... as the Feb, 2009 paper that the Guardian journal wrote upon the 50th anniversary of the craft pile-up that took the reason up of Buddy Holly and three others: "It was not really, as the strain after claimed, the day the strain died. It was not even the finish of rock'n'roll yet it was, arguably, the finish of the beginning". For that pile-up completed the cycle of the initial call of stone stars who possibly left the strain business (or it left them, during least temporarily). Elvis Presley was drafted in to the US Army. Little Richard left strain to become the minister. Chuck Berry was in jail. Jerry Lee Lewis saw his career fall when he married his 13 year-old cousin. Carl Perkins saw his career stall after the bad automobile accident. Bo Diddley was criminialized from the Ed Sullivan Show as great as was out of the limelight.
For the 5 years from that craft pile-up (Feb, 1959) until the attainment of the Beatles in the US (Feb, 1964) when the strain universe was remade the universe of renouned as great as stone strain was right away in transition. (The interregnum as we call it). Songs that had difficulty charting prior to or after suddenly became popular. Not everything changed, of course as great as there was the little great strain that emerged (especially soul music). Its not possible in this short the space to comprehensively report it, yet an overview of this epoch wouldnt be out of place.
The jot down business was changing the payola scandal broke in early 1960 (taking down Alan Freed) as great as the big jot down labels were dynamic to wring control of their strain from DJs as great as indie labels. And also tame down rock.
They staid upon a t! wo-prong ed approach - for the comparison teens/college students, the labels emphasized sadness or jazz (especially upon albums) as great as increasingly folk strain (with the increasing social conscience). Think Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, Tom Paxton, Carolyn Hester as great as Peter, Paul & Mary, all of whom have been worth the diary in-and-of-itself.
But for younger teens: Teen Idols - with squeaky-clean images (such as Fabian, Frankie Avalon as great as Bobby Vee) became all the fury as great as the movie attention pitched in, with films starring these individuals. In addition, this was the heyday of doo-wop music - that still exists currently as partial of the oldies circuit.
As partial of the attention changes, the famous Brill Building in New York (with the professional songwriting teams) as great as key producers such as Phil Spector began to take precedence over particular songwriters. Indeed, generally with the lady groups: particular singers were thought of as replaceable, generally if someone left to start the family, or longed for too most money.
And then there were the dance crazes led, of course by American Bandstand - as great as this was the single way to concentration upon strain that avoided the overt sexuality of only the couple of years prior. we recall cartoons from those days, where someone would drop something upon their foot, bound around in agony as great as then (at least upon these cartoons) the brand new dance craze was pronounced (yuk, yuk).
The All-Music Guides Richie Unterberger also records an brand new off-shoot of the pop singer: the melodramaticsinger. They differed from the teenager idols in that they mostly wrote their own songs, had their own bandmates, were involved in their own productions. Most of all, their songs had most some-more dramatic storylines, really emotional vocals as great as elaborate productions. This would embody Roy Orbison, Gene Pitney, Del Shannon as great as dual survivors from rocks initial era: Rick Nelson as great as the Everly Brothers.
Although R&B strain continued it altered in to some-more of a sweeter sound. Singers such as Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Sam Cooke as great as others were featured upon songs with reduction sexuality as great as grit, yet instead with some-more universal lyrics as great as mostly with full orchestral backing. Those who worked with producers such as Leiber & Stoller used sophisticated melodies as great as fill-in singers, the single reason because R&B songs from that epoch reason up rather great today, compared to alternative music.
And this time duration paved the way for Berry Gordys Motown tag (which began with Tamla in 1959 as great as the Motown tag itself in 1960). He wasnt solely looking African-American listeners: he billed the tag as theSound of Young America as great as this was an ideal time to break in, capturing the wide swath of American youth. He built upon the foundation that Leiber & Stoller used, along with coaches for his performers: all of that done them most some-more excusable to white America than might have been otherwise. It began to look antiquated by the finish of the 1960s after strain altered dramatically: yet Berry Gordy was in the great position during the interregnum th! e single reason because his tag was able to tarry the British Invasion intact. In fact, Motown saw groups such as the Beatles as great as Stones as their true competition, not pop singers.
The the single vital rope that could be called stone to arise during this duration was the Beach Boys who also survived the British Invasion (unlike surfs initial vital performer Dick Dale, plus January as great as Dean). Surf music has never indeed gone out of style, yet it has fallen in-and-out of mass appeal.
Meanwhile, early British stone music had not progressed most beyond Lonnie Donegans skiffle music; singers such as Cliff Richard as great as Billy Fury were treading in comparison character American music. Two exceptions were Johnny Kidd & the Pirates (whose Shaking All Over was covered memorably by The Who upon their "Live during Leeds" album) and Dave 'Screaming Lord' Sutch - who was not most of the singer as great as was some-more colorful during his after try in to politics. But he had the character (on tunes such as Jack the Ripper from 1963) as great as he did introduce destiny stars such as Nicky Hopkins as great as Ritchie Blackmore). Instead, the sadness is what most immature British musicians were incubating .... ready to raze upon the scene.
Three alternative 1959-1963 themes to discuss: instrumental, newness and foreign language songs.
Instrumental (or scarcely so) songs had been an important partial of the big rope era, that carried in to early rocknroll yet by the finish of the 1950s, instrumentals were increasingly seen as newness songs. The interregnum would be their final stand, with tunes such as "Yakety Sax", "Wipe Out", Alley Cat,Rawhide andSleep Walk. Just to illustrate: the final instrumental strain to strech #1 in the Billboard charts was the Theme from Miami Vice by January Hammer from 1985.
Novelty songs may not have fared so great during the Elvis/Buddy Holly era, yet in this period, the margin was wide open for them. Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini, Hello Muddah as great as "Monster Mash were the little examples of the genre that completed vital chart success.
And during this period, songs from alternative countries (and generally in alternative languages) had the single brief impulse in the sun. Lonnie Donegan had the little success in the US charts with Rock Island Line as great as Does Your Chewing Gum Lose the Flavor upon the Bedpost Overnight? Rolf Harris saw his balance Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport become the best-selling strain in the US by an Australian during the time as great as the initial British balance ever to strech #1 in the Billboard Hot 100 list was the May, 1962 instrumental Stranger upon the Shore by the clarinetistMr. Acker Bilk ! for who m the immature Ginger Baker played drums the couple of years earlier. A couple of months later, the instrumental song Telstar by the Tornados repetitious the feat.
Two songs alternative than in English stand-out during this time as carrying reached #1 in the Billboard pop charts in 1963: Dominque (in French) by the Singing Nun, Jeanine Deckers (aka Sister Smile) the only strain by the Belgian artist ever to strech #1 as great as the song Sukiyaki (in Japanese) by Kyu Sakamoto. Both were in the right place during the right time.
At the commencement of 1964, multiform changes had already been receiving place: as some-more musicians began writing their own material, the Brill Building began to lose change as the writers went independent perhaps not distinct the old movie studio system when it broke down. But everything altered after the Invasion. Pre-1964, comparatively couple of British acts could have it in to the US Top 100 (with Stranger upon the Shore as great as Telstar as exceptions). After Feb 1964 well, it took until April, 2002 for there to be the single week without the British act in the Top 100.
For my preference this week? Well, given that this was the finish of the golden age of rock instrumentals .. it couldn't harm to have my the ! one pref erred instrumental from the epoch featured. And from the rope in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as well. But for the attempted murder of drummer Al Jackson in 1975, the classical line-up of Booker T & the M.G.'swould still be alive today.
Green Onions sounds as fresh currently as it did then. At this link is the strange 1962 chronicle - or (even yet it's from 1967) .. below is the live version.
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