…though since Twitter has been, for all intents and purposes, an arm of “Biden”, I’m not sure anyone should be expecting very much here…
Nonetheless, Musk is tenacious…and his dander is up.
(BTW, is there anyone else out there who believes that the iconic “She Loves You” is ENTIRELY sarcastic?)
Started off with “Running Bear”, one of my favorites. I turned 14 in Oct, 1960 so all the songs are familiar and remembered. Interesting to see the movement from 1960 to 1969, along with my memories of JH, HS, University, Marriage, and the Navy. JFK, RFK, MLK, Vietnam, Civil Rights. Yes those were turbulent times. I wonder if people thought then that the country was coming apart, like many of us do today. I know I didn’t then, but now not so sure.
In the 1950s I used to listen to your hit parade on the radio to keep up with popular music. I later developed a loathing for popular music after working in a top 40 radio station and having to listen to the top 40 all day.
Amazing…I had the video running in the background while doing other things and I was singing along perfectly to 99% of the songs. I was 8 in 1960, but I remember even at that age constantly listening to the radio. What a decade for music in all genres from rock, pop, country, to Broadway.
At some point, I figured it wasn’t until the late 70s that there were pop songs that I just hated.
Sure, there have always been songs that I don’t care for, but there really isn’t anything from before the late 70s that I would rush to change the station (and not a whole lot even then).
Perhaps, it has to do with what I grew up with (I’m 57), but there isn’t a song from this whole series that I dislike, and so many that I love. “Puppet On A String” was the only song I didn’t recognize (although now I know that Marillion was quoting this song on 1985’s “Misplaced Childhood”).
Not very impressed with the effort made by the creator… Should list off the songs and the month/year in text. If you’re going to do the effort to collect song snippets, you should make sure people know which ones they are and when.
Equally interesting is this list of Billboard #1 hits, presumably in order.
(BTW — the list of interesting articles listed each day there is such a valuable resource. Got to check Instapundit and Powerline every day. Sometimes lucianne. And sometimes realclearpolitics just to laugh at the diametrically opposite takes listed one after another.)
Gaslighting — we’ve been getting actively and relentlessly gaslighted by the left/Democrat/media/academy for 3 decades. It accelerated because the Clintons were so dishonest and so crooked. Especially after the Contract w/ America won the house in 1994. That really was the wake up moment for the media propagandists. They went from being effective in their biased coverage to being blatant in their partisanship and increasingly less effective. Trump’s greatest feat was exposing how dishonest the news media is. He would have been the most consequential and effective GOP leader since Reagan had he managed nothing else.
Footnote — my friend Tony Snow and his friend Andrew Ferguson were convinced back then that their buddies in the news media weren’t actively partisan. They contended that their friends just worked in a liberal bubble and weren’t aware of how biased they were. In college, Tony was “pretty damn pink” (in his own words). He had tons of very good friends who remained on the left. He worked as a newspaper journalist before his White House and Fox work. And, as those who knew him were aware, he was probably the nicest person around and certainly the nicest to ever work in DC. I sometimes wonder what he would think of the outrageous partisanship and blatant dishonesty of his old media friends.
Back to gaslighting — framing is key in communication. I wish GOP candidates could get together and consistently use “gaslighting” against the left. It would be as effective as Reagan’s “there you go again”.
And finally — imagine a fall campaign where GOP candidates effectively hammer on all the lies, corruption and criminality in their tv ads. Ordinarily, tv ads are a horrible waste of money (a mere million spent to support talented meme generators would win more votes). But this cycle, there will be a lot of people who simply have never been exposed to the truth from their normal news sources.
How sweet it was when boys were boys and girls were girls, and almost all the songs were love songs.
I wonder where this list comes from. It’s not until the later 60s that we hear the Beach Boys (Good Vibrations). Regional? But I knew almost all of these.
they succeeded with newt in 94, although the Senate contingent was kind of bland
as usual, in 2010, there was a similar wave, by the tea party which was suppressed almost from the beginning with the tucson incident,
“Trump’s greatest feat was exposing how dishonest the news media is.”
Stan,
Then you may like DeSantis’, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but effective campaign ad:
Kate, I have a book, “The Biilboard Book of Top 40 Hits” published in 1986. It goes back to the ‘50s and has very detailed information, eg it lists every Top 40 song by everyone who ever made it with the date it entered, number of weeks on the charts and top position. So you just flip to “Beach Boys” and find out exactly how they did. Prior to Good Vibrations they had 20 hits that made Billboard’s Top 40. 12 made Top 10 and two hit #1, I Get Around and Help Me Rhonda. Note that the video says however “most popular song of the month”, not week.
Thanks, FOAF.
Now I think I know the reasons for “discrepancies” – this is almost certainly based on English pop charts, not American. Early on, around September 1960, one of the songs is “Apache” which did not become a hit in the US until 1961. Furthermore and most tellingly it is the version by the Shadows, an English group, that never hit the top 40 at all in the US. The US version which clearly sounds different was by Danish guitarist Jorgen Ingman. There are several other instances that do not align with US charts, eg “Stranger on the Shore” by Mr. Acker BIlk who was from England was a US hit but much later than shown here.
Good laugh for my latent adolescent self. A wag passes this on. There’s a town on the coast of the Sea of Marmara. Wag suggests we pay the Turkish government to put up a statue of Kamala Harris there.
$28 billion class action claim lodged with the Uvalde School District. The claim will be rejected and then the lawsuit will be filed.
The school district will have to file BK.
Eventually, the taxpayers in that taxing district will have to pay. And the school district will ask the State of TX to help them.
The City of Beatrice and Gage County lost a multi-million dollar judgement for railroading some innocent people into prison. Google Beatrice Six. And due to a screw-up, they had no insurance.
BTW, has the police chief been fired? Or are they keeping him on so that he testifies for the school district?
OBloody:
From the comments to the video at YouTube I get the impression it used to have an actual video that went with it and that gave that information, but the video malfunctioned while the sound remained.
Did I miss Led Zeplin and the Who?
I keep seeing whiny posts about “banned books” in schools.
For any one of them, you can buy them on Amazon or at B&N. You can buy them on dead tree or as e-books. You can buy them new or used. You can buy them hardbound or paperback. You can buy them at any age, no questions asked. So what makes them “banned”?
Well… that was certainly a “blast from the past”
I easily recognized almost all of them but there were a few that raised no flag.
The first song that I can remember hearing on the radio for the first time was “The Purple People Eater” by Sheb Wooley (1958) I was 10 yrs old.
They arent formally assigned or sometimes they are as in florida where randi weingarten makes stuff up
What we have done to Ukraine should be an impeachable offense. Joe Biden temporarily halted a $200 million shipment of lethal aid to Ukraine in the fall of 2021, as part of a strategy to force Russia to withdraw troops on the border.
Apparently Slow Joe was very stern to Putin when he denied the weapons to Ukraine, threatening a much larger shipment if Putin went ahead and invaded Ukraine with Russian forces.
Remember when President Trump began shipping weapons to Ukraine early in his tenure, something the Obama/Biden administration had refused to do, even after Russia annexed Crimea and began arming separatists in eastern Ukraine.
What Obama and then Biden have done is despicable, but certainly in line with the equally despicable chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
What makes it even more shameful to America, is our reneging on the 1994 agreement by then President Clinton, promising aid to Ukraine should Russia take aggressive actions against Ukraine, in exchange for the approximately 2000 nuclear weapons left after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
What about the $40 billion aid package Congress passed in May?
“The Congressional Budget Office estimates that about $5 billion of the $40 billion will spend out in this fiscal year and the next (FY 2022 and FY 2023). However, $14 billion will spend out in FY 2026 and after, while some money will not be spent until FY 2031.”— according to a CSIS article.
There’s plenty of pork in there and the CBO acknowledges the “Christmas tree effect” where unrelated items are tacked onto a spending bill.
We were fortunate. It wasn’t just teen hormones, that was Good Music. It was the blossoming of a new music. And strong as such blossoms are.
_____________________________
To the historian accustomed to studying the growth of scientific or philosophical knowledge, the history of art presents a painful and disquieting spectacle, for it seems normally to proceed not forwards but backwards. In science and philosophy successive workers in the same field produce, if they work ordinarily well, an advance; and a retrograde movement always implies some breach of continuity. But in art, a school once established normally deteriorates as it goes on. It achieves perfection in its kind with a startling burst of energy, a gesture too quick for the historian’s eye to follow. He can never explain such a movement or tell us how exactly it happened. But once it is achieved, there is the melancholy certainty of a decline.
–R.G. Collingwood
_____________________________
In college I ran into this quote in Herbert Read’s “A Concise History Of Modern Painting.” Collingwood was neither an artist nor a critic. He was a philosopher, historian, and archaeologist.
But those words sounded so right, I never forgot them and they still seem to Explain So Much.
Of course, rock music has been a series of waves, each smaller than the last, until now it’s just a three-foot shorebreak.
And now for something else completely different…
I spent about three hours today relearning Oracle’s VirtualBox, which allows you to run old operating systems in their own isolated partition– technically a virtualization — on your real computer.
It’s pretty cool, though totally geek.
I’ve got some old Bible software which includes the “New Jerusalem Bible.”
The NJB is the official Roman Catholic Bible. Maybe they got me when I was young and impressionable, but next to the King James version (KJV), that’s my favorite Bible translation.
The NJB has majestic, clear language without sounding archaic. And hey! JRR Tolkien translated Jonah, a big OT fave of mine.
I guess the Catholic Church decided to limit digital access to the NJB and my old software was a careless deal they made back in Windows XP days.
So VirtualBox allows me to run Windows XP in a separate window and process. Through Oracle’s clever hacking I can copy quotes from the NJB on Window XP and paste them to this Windows 10 browser
__________________________
1. In the beginning God created heaven and earth.
2. Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, with a divine wind sweeping over the waters.
–Genesis (NJB) 1:1-2.
__________________________
I’m serious when I say, “Read the Bible!” (I also say, “Read the Quran!” for somewhat different reasons)
Virtualization software is pretty cool too.
My video player segued into “the SECOND most popular songs in the sixties,” and it does have a video of each cut, so I suppose that is what the first video originally had. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRYNwpGwN-I
Those were pretty good too – one thing that really struck me was how varied the choices were (in both videos). Even the Beatles were represented by very different-sounding songs. I think there was even one Sinatra track on the 1st, and I saw Andy Williams on the 2nd.
And everybody was wearing suits and nice dresses!
AND….we have A WINNER!!
“GRAND SLAM: Italian man tests positive for monkeypox, COVID and HIV at the same time.”— https://instapundit.com/538691/
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Another “best of”…
“Twitter Whistleblower Reveals Company Hid “Extreme, Egregious, Deficiencies”: Musk Subpoenas Dorsey & Ex-Security Chief”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/twitter-shares-drop-after-ex-security-head-reveals-company-hid-extreme-egregious
…though since Twitter has been, for all intents and purposes, an arm of “Biden”, I’m not sure anyone should be expecting very much here…
Nonetheless, Musk is tenacious…and his dander is up.
(BTW, is there anyone else out there who believes that the iconic “She Loves You” is ENTIRELY sarcastic?)
Started off with “Running Bear”, one of my favorites. I turned 14 in Oct, 1960 so all the songs are familiar and remembered. Interesting to see the movement from 1960 to 1969, along with my memories of JH, HS, University, Marriage, and the Navy. JFK, RFK, MLK, Vietnam, Civil Rights. Yes those were turbulent times. I wonder if people thought then that the country was coming apart, like many of us do today. I know I didn’t then, but now not so sure.
In the 1950s I used to listen to your hit parade on the radio to keep up with popular music. I later developed a loathing for popular music after working in a top 40 radio station and having to listen to the top 40 all day.
Amazing…I had the video running in the background while doing other things and I was singing along perfectly to 99% of the songs. I was 8 in 1960, but I remember even at that age constantly listening to the radio. What a decade for music in all genres from rock, pop, country, to Broadway.
At some point, I figured it wasn’t until the late 70s that there were pop songs that I just hated.
Sure, there have always been songs that I don’t care for, but there really isn’t anything from before the late 70s that I would rush to change the station (and not a whole lot even then).
Perhaps, it has to do with what I grew up with (I’m 57), but there isn’t a song from this whole series that I dislike, and so many that I love. “Puppet On A String” was the only song I didn’t recognize (although now I know that Marillion was quoting this song on 1985’s “Misplaced Childhood”).
Not very impressed with the effort made by the creator… Should list off the songs and the month/year in text. If you’re going to do the effort to collect song snippets, you should make sure people know which ones they are and when.
Equally interesting is this list of Billboard #1 hits, presumably in order.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2ZyzXbyN36tw5fB9IDafs6
Lots of songs this list skips over, including some nontrivial novelty songs like Alley Oop and Yellow polka dot bikini.
They also skipped The Twist.
I assume they are using total sales numbers or something.
This was listed at Powerlineblog. https://www.aei.org/op-eds/the-biden-gaslight/
(BTW — the list of interesting articles listed each day there is such a valuable resource. Got to check Instapundit and Powerline every day. Sometimes lucianne. And sometimes realclearpolitics just to laugh at the diametrically opposite takes listed one after another.)
Gaslighting — we’ve been getting actively and relentlessly gaslighted by the left/Democrat/media/academy for 3 decades. It accelerated because the Clintons were so dishonest and so crooked. Especially after the Contract w/ America won the house in 1994. That really was the wake up moment for the media propagandists. They went from being effective in their biased coverage to being blatant in their partisanship and increasingly less effective. Trump’s greatest feat was exposing how dishonest the news media is. He would have been the most consequential and effective GOP leader since Reagan had he managed nothing else.
Footnote — my friend Tony Snow and his friend Andrew Ferguson were convinced back then that their buddies in the news media weren’t actively partisan. They contended that their friends just worked in a liberal bubble and weren’t aware of how biased they were. In college, Tony was “pretty damn pink” (in his own words). He had tons of very good friends who remained on the left. He worked as a newspaper journalist before his White House and Fox work. And, as those who knew him were aware, he was probably the nicest person around and certainly the nicest to ever work in DC. I sometimes wonder what he would think of the outrageous partisanship and blatant dishonesty of his old media friends.
Back to gaslighting — framing is key in communication. I wish GOP candidates could get together and consistently use “gaslighting” against the left. It would be as effective as Reagan’s “there you go again”.
And finally — imagine a fall campaign where GOP candidates effectively hammer on all the lies, corruption and criminality in their tv ads. Ordinarily, tv ads are a horrible waste of money (a mere million spent to support talented meme generators would win more votes). But this cycle, there will be a lot of people who simply have never been exposed to the truth from their normal news sources.
How sweet it was when boys were boys and girls were girls, and almost all the songs were love songs.
I wonder where this list comes from. It’s not until the later 60s that we hear the Beach Boys (Good Vibrations). Regional? But I knew almost all of these.
they succeeded with newt in 94, although the Senate contingent was kind of bland
as usual, in 2010, there was a similar wave, by the tea party which was suppressed almost from the beginning with the tucson incident,
“Trump’s greatest feat was exposing how dishonest the news media is.”
Stan,
Then you may like DeSantis’, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but effective campaign ad:
https://rumble.com/v1h1l9b-top-gov-desantis-rips-liberal-journos-in-new-ad.html
Kate, I have a book, “The Biilboard Book of Top 40 Hits” published in 1986. It goes back to the ‘50s and has very detailed information, eg it lists every Top 40 song by everyone who ever made it with the date it entered, number of weeks on the charts and top position. So you just flip to “Beach Boys” and find out exactly how they did. Prior to Good Vibrations they had 20 hits that made Billboard’s Top 40. 12 made Top 10 and two hit #1, I Get Around and Help Me Rhonda. Note that the video says however “most popular song of the month”, not week.
Thanks, FOAF.
Now I think I know the reasons for “discrepancies” – this is almost certainly based on English pop charts, not American. Early on, around September 1960, one of the songs is “Apache” which did not become a hit in the US until 1961. Furthermore and most tellingly it is the version by the Shadows, an English group, that never hit the top 40 at all in the US. The US version which clearly sounds different was by Danish guitarist Jorgen Ingman. There are several other instances that do not align with US charts, eg “Stranger on the Shore” by Mr. Acker BIlk who was from England was a US hit but much later than shown here.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kumba%C4%9F,+S%C3%BCleymanpa%C5%9Fa%2FTekirda%C4%9F,+Turkey/@40.882099,27.4252206,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x14b466784cd36e81:0x306ee0f579c428b4!8m2!3d40.871947!4d27.458017
Good laugh for my latent adolescent self. A wag passes this on. There’s a town on the coast of the Sea of Marmara. Wag suggests we pay the Turkish government to put up a statue of Kamala Harris there.
$28 billion class action claim lodged with the Uvalde School District. The claim will be rejected and then the lawsuit will be filed.
The school district will have to file BK.
Eventually, the taxpayers in that taxing district will have to pay. And the school district will ask the State of TX to help them.
The City of Beatrice and Gage County lost a multi-million dollar judgement for railroading some innocent people into prison. Google Beatrice Six. And due to a screw-up, they had no insurance.
BTW, has the police chief been fired? Or are they keeping him on so that he testifies for the school district?
OBloody:
From the comments to the video at YouTube I get the impression it used to have an actual video that went with it and that gave that information, but the video malfunctioned while the sound remained.
Did I miss Led Zeplin and the Who?
I keep seeing whiny posts about “banned books” in schools.
For any one of them, you can buy them on Amazon or at B&N. You can buy them on dead tree or as e-books. You can buy them new or used. You can buy them hardbound or paperback. You can buy them at any age, no questions asked. So what makes them “banned”?
Well… that was certainly a “blast from the past”
I easily recognized almost all of them but there were a few that raised no flag.
The first song that I can remember hearing on the radio for the first time was “The Purple People Eater” by Sheb Wooley (1958) I was 10 yrs old.
They arent formally assigned or sometimes they are as in florida where randi weingarten makes stuff up
What we have done to Ukraine should be an impeachable offense. Joe Biden temporarily halted a $200 million shipment of lethal aid to Ukraine in the fall of 2021, as part of a strategy to force Russia to withdraw troops on the border.
Apparently Slow Joe was very stern to Putin when he denied the weapons to Ukraine, threatening a much larger shipment if Putin went ahead and invaded Ukraine with Russian forces.
Remember when President Trump began shipping weapons to Ukraine early in his tenure, something the Obama/Biden administration had refused to do, even after Russia annexed Crimea and began arming separatists in eastern Ukraine.
What Obama and then Biden have done is despicable, but certainly in line with the equally despicable chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
What makes it even more shameful to America, is our reneging on the 1994 agreement by then President Clinton, promising aid to Ukraine should Russia take aggressive actions against Ukraine, in exchange for the approximately 2000 nuclear weapons left after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
What about the $40 billion aid package Congress passed in May?
“The Congressional Budget Office estimates that about $5 billion of the $40 billion will spend out in this fiscal year and the next (FY 2022 and FY 2023). However, $14 billion will spend out in FY 2026 and after, while some money will not be spent until FY 2031.”— according to a CSIS article.
There’s plenty of pork in there and the CBO acknowledges the “Christmas tree effect” where unrelated items are tacked onto a spending bill.
Our government is a dysfunctional mess.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/appeals-ukraine-biden-admin-holds-back-additional-military-aid-kyiv-di-rcna8421
https://www.csis.org/analysis/what-does-40-billion-aid-ukraine-buy
Re: Popular 60s songs…
Smiles. A few tears.
We were fortunate. It wasn’t just teen hormones, that was Good Music. It was the blossoming of a new music. And strong as such blossoms are.
_____________________________
To the historian accustomed to studying the growth of scientific or philosophical knowledge, the history of art presents a painful and disquieting spectacle, for it seems normally to proceed not forwards but backwards. In science and philosophy successive workers in the same field produce, if they work ordinarily well, an advance; and a retrograde movement always implies some breach of continuity. But in art, a school once established normally deteriorates as it goes on. It achieves perfection in its kind with a startling burst of energy, a gesture too quick for the historian’s eye to follow. He can never explain such a movement or tell us how exactly it happened. But once it is achieved, there is the melancholy certainty of a decline.
–R.G. Collingwood
_____________________________
In college I ran into this quote in Herbert Read’s “A Concise History Of Modern Painting.” Collingwood was neither an artist nor a critic. He was a philosopher, historian, and archaeologist.
But those words sounded so right, I never forgot them and they still seem to Explain So Much.
Of course, rock music has been a series of waves, each smaller than the last, until now it’s just a three-foot shorebreak.
And now for something else completely different…
I spent about three hours today relearning Oracle’s VirtualBox, which allows you to run old operating systems in their own isolated partition– technically a virtualization — on your real computer.
It’s pretty cool, though totally geek.
I’ve got some old Bible software which includes the “New Jerusalem Bible.”
The NJB is the official Roman Catholic Bible. Maybe they got me when I was young and impressionable, but next to the King James version (KJV), that’s my favorite Bible translation.
The NJB has majestic, clear language without sounding archaic. And hey! JRR Tolkien translated Jonah, a big OT fave of mine.
I guess the Catholic Church decided to limit digital access to the NJB and my old software was a careless deal they made back in Windows XP days.
So VirtualBox allows me to run Windows XP in a separate window and process. Through Oracle’s clever hacking I can copy quotes from the NJB on Window XP and paste them to this Windows 10 browser
__________________________
1. In the beginning God created heaven and earth.
2. Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, with a divine wind sweeping over the waters.
–Genesis (NJB) 1:1-2.
__________________________
I’m serious when I say, “Read the Bible!” (I also say, “Read the Quran!” for somewhat different reasons)
Virtualization software is pretty cool too.
My video player segued into “the SECOND most popular songs in the sixties,” and it does have a video of each cut, so I suppose that is what the first video originally had.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRYNwpGwN-I
Those were pretty good too – one thing that really struck me was how varied the choices were (in both videos). Even the Beatles were represented by very different-sounding songs. I think there was even one Sinatra track on the 1st, and I saw Andy Williams on the 2nd.
And everybody was wearing suits and nice dresses!
AND….we have A WINNER!!
“GRAND SLAM: Italian man tests positive for monkeypox, COVID and HIV at the same time.”—
https://instapundit.com/538691/