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Open thread 7/19/2025

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One of my favorite Nina Simone songs. I had this record in high school, one of the first I ever bought:

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Open thread 7/19/2025 — 19 Comments

  1. Nina Simone was a treasure. I noticed that her piano playing on one of her songs was very Bach-like. I investigated and found out she had extensive training in classical piano, so Bach-like was par for the course.

  2. RIP Connie Francis, a few days ago.

    I was too young for Francis in her heyday, but decades later I caught on. She was special and she sold more records — over 100 million — than I realized.

    “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool” tells a deeper truth than most pop love songs of that era.

    But it was “Where the Boys Are” which really won me over. I associated it with the raucous comedy of the first spring break movie of the same name. However, “Where the Boys Are,” the song, is gentle, wistful and heartbreakingly romantic.
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    Where the boys are
    Someone waits for me.

    –Connie Francis, “Where The Boys Are” (1961)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiJTUzk0unA

  6. The new Billy Joel documentary which debuted its first half last night on HBO is really good. The first half was all about his early life and career and ended with motorcycle accident that ended his first marriage and featured his first wife who I have never seen interviewed before. Really interesting stuff about his life, career and songs.

  7. In high school…Oh, Neo and all these years I thought you were younger than me. It’s okay though; I’ve always been enamored of older women.

    Thank you sincerely for everything you’ve done for Gerard’s memory.

  9. “If you were wondering…”

    That was what Trudeau the Younger’s Liberal Party attempted several years back to do to the anti-mask convoy protesters up in Canada, but the sordid attempt was ultimately stymied by the Canadian Senate, IIRC.

    Nonetheless, Trudeau Jr., may be “thanked” for exposing the ambitious plans of the WEF/WTF—those unrepentant CPC lovers—and its gang of awful acolytes…for anyone who was paying attention….

    Very scary stuff.

  10. Re huxley on Connie Frances, etc — the NewNeo’s resident observer-in-chief, and a Great…Soul.

    Thank you. Well said.

  11. Nina Simone grew up in a very small ‘hood in Tryon, NC. (Western NC). It was locally called Black Bottom. I lived right next door way back when. I can still hear her singing, “You can have him, I don’t want him. I don’t love him anymore”. Incredible voice.

  15. Cicero:

    Yes, that’s a great song too. If I’m not mistaken, it was on the same album as “Rags and Old Iron.”

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