Open thread 4/7/21
This was a big hit for Eddie Holman in 1969-1970, one of the most memorable falsetto songs ever. And here he is in 2012 (age 66), still wowing them in a tour de force:
The prototype:
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He can still wow them 40 years later.
I’m really missing the daily PowerLine Chauvin trial summary. Has anyone got a link to a site that’s still doing honest reporting on the trial, in a written form? I just can’t sit through videos of talking heads. Legal Insurrection has some analysis, I know.
Texan, check out Andrew Branca’s coverage on Legalinsurrection. Better coverage than Powerline’s.
Holman had a couple of disco themed hits in the late 70s, too, that I remember well.
The Lonely Girl/Boy song was also covered by another singer with an increbible range- Robert John.
Thought you might find this interesting…
https://www.dailywire.com/news/leaked-teacher-training-video-shows-how-cultish-critical-race-theory-is-being-pushed-on-virginia-teachers
Texan:
Go to Legal Insurrection.
It looks like ChicagoBoyz has been taken down. I mention it here because I know one of the front-page authors sometimes reads your blog. If you see this Mike K., what’s up with ChicagoBoyz?
Second Yanceys recommendation of Andrew Branca’s coverage of the Chauvin trial at Legal Insurrection and that it is superior to PowerLine that has now dropped daily coverage. PL was hypercritical of Chauvin’s lawyer Eric Nelson but Branca shows that yesterday he devastated prosecution witnesses on cross-examination. In fact he now plans to call one of them for the defense! Whether this will save Chauvin from a jury that is now being publicly intimidated by BLM is another matter.
Can anyone think of a female falsetto hit? I can only think of one female falsetto note, Linda Ronstadt on the last syllable of “Blue Bayou.”
Minnie Ripperton. Lovin’ You has female falsetto in it
If I ever write my memoirs from the 60’s and 70’s it will be titled “Back When Black Guys Sang Love Songs.”
Yancey, are you going to join us at the Discord? mis placed pants at proton mail dot com
Neo, I love your music posts.
y81:
Have a listen.
If I ever write my memoirs from the 60’s and 70’s it will be titled “Back When Black Guys Sang Love Songs.”
I have the sad thought every time I listen to one of my very favorites (“Just My Imagination”) that it’s been a very long time since pop songs featured a guy daydreaming about “soon we’ll be married and raise a family …. a cozy little home in the country, with two children, maybe three”
FOAF:
Barnes at Viva Frei (I put up a video of theirs in a post today) also have discussed Nelson. Barnes, who is a trial lawyer, didn’t think he did well on his opening statements, but says he’s a masterful cross-examiner. He also says the prosecution is presenting a case based on solely on emotion, which can work well with juries, and the defense is very fact- and logic-based. He says this latter approach can sometimes appeal to jurors, too, if the counsel makes it clear that a really smart and superior jury relies on rationality rather than emotion. This appeals to their desire to be smart.
Are mis placed pants found near “The Wrong Trousers”?
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7ub14w 🙂
I Have Misplaced My Pants:
If you watch reaction videos at YouTube, there are a lot of young black men doing reactions to old songs from the 50s through 80s who seem quite regretful that love songs are no longer the thing in the black community or even elsewhere. They express quite a bit of yearning for those times when men could sing about love without irony or overt sex being part of it.
BTW — I’ll probably repost this tomorrow in the open thread then, too:
Latest mortality stats on Covid:
50-64 years 81,654
65-74 years 118,850
75-84 years 149,814
85 years and over 165,653
All Ages 539,723
Results:
95.6% — 50+
80.5% — 65+
Hot Take: If you aren’t over 50, you should be more concerned with dying in an auto accident than covid
CDC:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm
neo, I suspect Nelson’s strategy is to emphasize facts because if he tries to compete on emotion/feelings he is going to lose. Though of course facts are what should decide the case regardless. If Nelson makes a good case and the jury still finds Chauvin guilty he will be second-guessed endlessly, but it may simply be that there was no possibility this jury would not convict regardless of what was presented in the courtroom. It is very relevant that BLM is now publicly threatening riots if Chauvin is not convicted.
https://alphanewsmn.com/all-hell-will-break-loose-if-chauvin-isnt-convicted-blm-activist-threatens/
OBH, I saw the same thing in statistics from my county, Santa Clara in CA aka Silicon Valley. 70% of the cases were people under 50 but only about 5% of the fatalities. Furthermore half the overall fatalities were people in “long-term care facilities” ie nursing homes whose prognosis was likely poor regardless of covid. So even for older people the risk isn’t that bad if you are otherwise healthy. Though higher which is why I got the vaccination.
OBloodyHell. Last summer I would point out that the average age of death here in MA was 82 and nearly 100% had two or more underlying conditions. The life expectancy from all causes is 80. These make Covid a nothing burger for everyone except the elderly, especially those in long term care. I only convinced a few people that the right course of action is to protect the elderly and let the WuHan flu just run its course in the rest of the population.
It looks like the European Medicines Agency (EU drug regulator) is now stating that the AstraZeneca vaccine is probably responsible for a very low likelihood side effect of blood clots. We’re talking about several dozen cases out of 25 million doses administered, which primarily hit women under the age of 60.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/04/07/uk-to-offer-under-30s-alternative-coronavirus-vaccine-to-astrazeneca-jab/
While not well describe in the above article, I’ve heard that the nature of the blood clot events are very unusual and tend not to comport with the random blood clot event in the population at large.
Hmmm… Karen-attrition doubleplusgood but not even an F for such shockingly poor efficacy. Talk about straining to give birth to a gnat!
When you said “1970” I thought it was a few years earlier but a little research proved that is correct. Then I remembered the name of another song Holman did, “This Can’t Be True”, a lesser hit that came out in 1965-66 when he was still in his teens. Not quite as good a song or production but it still shows off that amazing falsetto.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_33uW8ODeU
On women falsettos, I immediately thought of an overplayed saccharine “Loving You” by Minnie Riperton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_xIBfrdxQU
I was hoping the Falsetto video would include it and let me know what the high notes were. Don’t mean to give Neo more Let’s Look It Up work –
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100318131636AAta5II
F#6, but had been recorded an octave higher at F#7.
Most whistle register singing are the “ahh” breaking glass high sound. Even in the Falsetto video. Riperton was nearly unique in singing words, musically, in those C6 and above registers.
But I don’t much like these, not any of them. “Lonely Boy” was better. The men in falsetto singing love songs, both Black and White (like 4 Seasons Frankie Valli), I like their stuff more.
“Let’s talk about Sex” – Salt-N-Pepa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8CISk43LYg
Everbody should be making love
Come on, how many guys you know make love?
You can only “make love” with somebody who you DO love – and that means commitment. You ain’t committed? You ain’t neither of you makin’ love.
Not married — not really committed.
70+% of Black kids are being raised with parents not married to each other.
Systemic promiscuity is the big cultural problem, not racism. Promiscuity is also a major source of pleasure, so pleasure loving Americans don’t want to lose that. It’s unlikely to come up in the Chauvin trial, but lack of marriage in the Black community is the primary reason for lack of money, resources, and even child development in that low-marriage community.
I chose Robert Barnes as my #15 Fantasy Intellectual (Neo is #14), so I’m listening to more of his stuff — as I make lunch, for instance. I much prefer transcripts, tho. Here’s 90 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdk48L_HzE4&t=4123s
This with George Szamuely. My guess is that he’ll make similar points on the trial in both places.
At about min 56:, Barnes talks about how Trump has been fairly lousy, and especially not learning from his mistakes, since the election. Choosing lousy people. Excellent point about how Trump is now complaining about people he could have, but did not, fire; or even put in. Notes how the Deep State hit against Flynn also got a list of people Flynn wanted, and they got rid of all of them.
While I’m making lunch, my Professor of ethics wife, an MD, is recommending NOT using the AstraZeneca vaccine. This, despite its benefits (faster immunity), due to real, tho really really small, risk to otherwise healthy, low risk people. Important, decisive issue is the fact that there are alternatives.
I suggested it was a Trolley Car problem, but using a different Trolley. She thought it was more a third alternative in the one Trolley.
(Kind of hard work to make a good comment with Neo – since she does SO MUCH good work. Yet it’s also quite satisfying to make one. Like a lot of good work is both hard and then satisfying afterwards. Even love.)
On women falsettos, I immediately thought of an overplayed saccharine “Loving You” by Minnie Riperton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_xIBfrdxQU
I was hoping the Falsetto video would include it and let me know what the high notes were. Don’t mean to give Neo more Let’s Look It Up work –
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100318131636AAta5II
F#6, but she had been recorded an octave higher at F#7.
Most whistle register singing are the “ahh” breaking glass high sound. Even in the Falsetto video. Riperton was nearly unique in singing words, musically, in those C6 and above registers.
But I don’t much like these, not any of them. “Lonely Boy” was better. The men in falsetto singing love songs, both Black and White (like 4 Seasons Frankie Valli), I like their stuff more.
“Let’s talk about Sex” – Salt-N-Pepa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8CISk43LYg
Everbody should be making love
Come on, how many guys you know make love?
You can only “make love” with somebody who you DO love – and that means commitment. You ain’t committed? You ain’t neither of you makin’ love.
Not married — not really committed. [This is my biggest post-college “change” philosophically. No longer do I believe in “responsible promiscuity”, even between consenting adults, as good.]
70+% of Black kids are being raised with parents not married to each other.
Systemic promiscuity is the big cultural problem, not racism. Promiscuity is also a major source of pleasure, so pleasure loving Americans don’t want to lose that. It’s unlikely to come up in the Chauvin trial, but lack of marriage in the Black community is the primary reason for lack of money, resources, and even child development in that low-marriage community.
I chose Robert Barnes as my #15 Fantasy Intellectual (Neo is #14), so I’m listening to more of his stuff — as I make lunch, for instance. I much prefer transcripts, tho. Here’s 90 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdk48L_HzE4&t=4123s
This with George Szamuely. My guess is that he’ll make similar points on the trial in both places.
At about min 56:, Barnes talks about how Trump has been fairly lousy, and especially not learning from his mistakes, since the election. Choosing lousy people. Excellent point about how Trump is now complaining about people he could have, but did not, fire; or even put in. Notes how the Deep State hit against Flynn also got a list of people Flynn wanted, and they got rid of all of them.
While I’m making lunch, my Professor of ethics wife, an MD, is recommending NOT using the AstraZeneca vaccine. This, despite its benefits (faster immunity), due to real, tho really really small, risk to otherwise healthy, low risk people. Important, decisive issue is the fact that there are alternatives.
I suggested it was a Trolley Car problem, but using a different Trolley. She thought it was more a third alternative in the one Trolley.
(Kind of hard work to make a good comment with Neo – since she does SO MUCH good work. Yet it’s also quite satisfying to make one. Like a lot of good work is both hard and then satisfying afterwards. Even love.)
Yes, the point had been noted before, but part of the matter, to me, is that it has sustained itself through the entire last year — it didn’t just “hit old people first” because they were the weakest — in only hits old people.
That’s a particularly relevant point which the merdia (correct spelling, these days) has repeatedly ignored it.