Open thread 9/20/22
What a distinctive voice lead singer Gladys Horton had in this song, which was the first Motown offering to reach #1. Here’s the story of The Marvelettes:
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What a distinctive voice lead singer Gladys Horton had in this song, which was the first Motown offering to reach #1. Here’s the story of The Marvelettes:
I always preferred the Beatles version, personally.
See ya and raise ya.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5XbumTCxL8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwZNL7QVJjE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIlKBr9Nr8A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njO4y1KYZzE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQLMFNC2Awo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7MdtsfvjGc
Courtesy the Grand Duke of Las Vegas, age 19.
Today’s Democrat party is the Dunning-Kruger Effect on steroids.
White folks was so “square,” so up-tight, in 1961. Just look at them, sitting (with good posture) and clapping their hands in unison . . .
“I always preferred the Beatles version….”
Related?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYiEesMbe2I
CapnRusty– I liked the white socks and “flood” pants. I’d go further but that might be tatamont to plugging my coordinates into the fire mission. 🙂
Looks like Rehoboth Beach may be next after all, as Captain Obvious predicted.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/09/20/ron-desantis-may-have-a-special-delivery-for-joe-biden-in-delaware-n630180
Om, interesting flightaware report on that plane heading to Delaware. We have friends who have a house in Rehoboth Beach and have been there several times. Nice community and really nothing at all like MV. While it has its more wealthy areas, there’s lots of middle class there, and more middle class housing being built. So, I doubt the reaction there will be anything like the pearl clutching reaction in MV. I predict, like the illegals dropped off at the VP residence, Biden and his staff will just ignore the whole situation.
Things like this make me despair.
https://twitter.com/AndrewCMcCarthy
Andrew McCarthy’s last Twitter post from Monday was a link to his NY Post column on Durham exposing the FBI’s misdeeds regarding the Steele Dossier. His first Twitter post from Tuesday is a link to his National Review column where he treats the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago documents investigation AS THOUGH IT WERE A PERFECTLY ABOVE BOARD AND LEGITIMATE INQUIRY.
I know McCarthy’s not a bomb-throwing firebrand but the denial on display here is psychopathic.
Mike
its like ground hog day, and he’s the weatherman, remember when he bought the stalkery assistant, who claimed hijinks with the beast, pepperidge farm remembers,
om and physicsguy: Make of this report what you will: https://nypost.com/2022/09/20/desantis-apparently-sending-migrants-to-bidens-summer-home/
The operative word is “apparently”– “‘We have received word of the flights,’ White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during a Tuesday afternoon briefing.”
At 1:22PM Eastern time today, the three judge panel at the DC Federal Court of Appeals has delivered a hostile rebuke to the Pelosi Whitchunt Committee, tossing out countermoves by them and Ruling for the RNC.
The Committee’s “subpoena sought various documents held by Salesforce.com, an RNC vendor, regarding fundraising emails sent by the RNC to its supporters. The RNC claimed that disclosure of these documents would reveal sensitive information about its digital strategy, so it sued to prevent the disclosure. The RNC argued that the Committee was not lawfully constituted and that the subpoena violated the First Amendment. The District Court disagreed.
“In this [at the Court of Appeals], the Committee has taken various positions on whether and when it needs the subpoenaed RNC documents. On May 24, 2022, the Committee urged us to deny an injunction pending appeal because even a modest delay in accessing the RNC’s documents would deprive it of ‘key information’ relevant to an investigation that had already reached a ‘critical stage.’
The Court of Appeals goes on to trace the Pelosi Committee’s dance moves, and then tartly says they took them at their word and are now holding it against them!
“We granted the motion and set oral argument for September 23. In due course, the Committee filed its merits brief, which asserted a ‘compelling’ need to determine ‘how RNC’s emails gave rise to an attempted coup….’
‘But on September 2, the Committee reversed course. It withdrew the subpoena….”
The Court of Appeals continues and orders the previous rubber stamp of the Trump-hating Pelosi Committee by the lower Court vacated for “avoidance of constitutional questions” they later realised they could not win. Namely, they “deprived us of the ability to review…important and unsettled constitutional questions….”
“Despite its earlier statements, we take the Committee at its word. Based on the express representations made in the September 2 motion, we conclude that the RNC’s appeal has become moot. Because the Committee caused the mootness and thereby deprived us of the ability to review the district court’s decision, and given the important and unsettled constitutional questions that the appeal would have presented, we vacate the district court’s judgment.”
In short, the Pelosi’s Democrats were too cute and like evil Leftists do, they overreached. And instead of permitting us to slam them with gross Constitutional violations, we’re reversing the lower Court and dispatching this matter…tout court. Touché!
John Solomon’s version is more neutral than mine, but also helpfully links to the Court of Appeals ruling, from which I extract, above.
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/federal-appeals-court-reverses-ruling-jan-6-subpoena-rnc-dismisses-case
There has been little good news from offical Federal level for too long. So I hope this bit of sunshine brightens everyone’s day.
that was an era, when they cared about the lyrics, the rhyme and the presentation,
i know it’s low hanging fruit,
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/09/20/omg-she-went-there-royal-commentator-tears-don-lemon-a-new-one-after-he-claims-royal-family-should-pay-reparations-watch/
“A letter? What the heck is that? You mean an e-mail? Or a text message?”
😀
Remember, Floppy disks, like Jesus, died to become the icon of saving.
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well whats a little creative borrowing, remember the controversy between huey lewis and ray parker jr over ghostbusters,
I think it’s the weakest of the three, but
The Carpenters…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcLbS0yxzdk
And a live Beatles version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQHG6dJ3lPQ
I do love that Hit The Road Jack.
As long as we’re on some oldies
Telstar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhahIwhql_E
Notable because it was the first British song to hit #1 on the US charts.
Interestingly, there’s an oddball little movie about the song, and one of the main guys behind it, Joe Meek.
Telstar: The Joe Meek Story
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1068669/
The Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmPXX6JEdVY
physicsguy and PA+Cat:
When I and my siblings were mere army brats (sergeant spawn) Rehoboth Beach was a special place, but not as nice or as interesting as Chincoteague/Assateague Island, VA or the Outer Banks, NC. We were far too poor to be near Martha’s Vineyard.
But wait, there’s more:
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2022/09/20/things-take-an-unexpected-turn-as-some-marthas-vineyard-residents-applaud-desantis-bash-biden-n630323
For a “seasoned” politician—and a senator from WV at that—Joe Manchin seems more than a tad naive…(or maybe Covid has addled his thought processes—as in, “Look Ma, no consequences!”?)
“Sen. Manchin Alleges ‘Political Revenge’ For Energy Permitting Bill Opposition”—
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/manchin-cornyn-pelosi/2022/09/20/id/1088315/
(I guess he genuinely feels that the GOP should support him for having helped “Biden” along the road to realizing “his” I-have-a-dream of total power, destroying all political enemies…and destroying the country….)
Biden’s hate speech has got a body count. In North Dakota, a middle aged man pursued a younger man and killed him with his vehicle—then ran away. “He told the (police) dispatcher that (the younger man named) Ellingson was part of a ‘Republican extremist group.’ ”
Story from the Independent Sentinal (via Free Republic).
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4094839/posts
A few years back, my stepson was a teacher at a dance studio. There was a demand for the kids to learn Riverdance style Irish step dancing, so teach them he did. But the kids couldn’t really get into the typical Irish deedle-deedle music, so he had them step dancing to Please Mr Postman and other Motown songs with a similar rhythm. It was very effective, and I wish I still had the videos.
The documentary “Hitsville: The Making of Motown” is well worth watching. Berry Gordy was one of the most remarkable entrepreneurs of the 20th century. He didn’t care about politics, race, religion, he just wanted to make a product that would sell widely, and devoted a lot of resources to grooming his musicians so that they’d appeal to white audiences. One of many memorable scenes involves an elderly black lady, Maxine Powell, reminiscent of Aunt Esther from Sanford & Son, head of the in-house “finishing school” for female performers, saying how she wanted everything done in a “classy way.” She would tell the young ladies, “I don’t want you ever to lean forward. You do not protrude the buttocks.” Times have changed, and not for the better.
“Please Mr. Postman” may have also been the first record to bring to the attention of the recording industry Motown’s explosive studio band the Funk Brothers, especially the highly influential bassist James Jamerson. PMP was ripped off almost note-for-note a few months later in Dee Dee Sharp’s “Mashed Potato Time”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD9nbH9ujww
Eventually the Please Mr. Postman songwriters got writing credit for Mashed Potato.