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Best way to quit is not to start.
Come on Lizzie, that's a little unreasonable
Best way to quit is not to start.
Want to see racism? In Chicago we've had what they are calling "flash mobs" groups of black youths that pick a spot to meet to attack white people. Of course the news media won't touch these incidents unless they're so blatant like the Milwaukee State Fair this last summer where 200 young black men blocked off the streets, jumped fences and just started beating on people. When it happened on Oak Street beach last summer, they said they closed the beach because "it was too hot" (what???) I was there, they closed it because about 50 young blacks were throwing frozen bottles of water at anyone who wasn't black. look it up on youtube, the videos are all there...
[video=youtube;U9NGB9c8rCA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9NGB9c8rCA[/video]
Because this thread is bringing me down, I thought I'd bring this happy clip back to the last page
You're video reminds me of the story of Pandora's Box. After all the evils were unleashed on the world, what was left in the box was a glimmer of hope.
Helpful in the sense that the real phobia is more "we take care of our own" as opposed to "we're against anything different"
if Lawrence Welk doing Celery Stalks at Midnight is our glimmer of hope, I say we're done.
He will always be my favorite. People mock his uptight persona, and his bubbly Champagne music; but you cannot deny the talent that his band had. He also managed to stay on television from 1955-1982. After he was cancelled during the 'rural purge' in 1971, he went on to have a hugely successful syndication run. His re-runs have been on PBS since 1987.
People in the modern era, raised with a rock/blues sensibility, generally have no experience all with the European musette orchestras of the '20s or the hotel dance bands of the '30s, so they find Welk's music incomprehensible. But he came out of the musette tradition, and very successfully combined that with an Americanized style of dance music -- and then went on to combine *that* with the sort of show band/stage band presentation that had been very popular in theatres.
Welk did what he did very well. People in the modern era, raised with a rock/blues sensibility, generally have no experience all with the European musette orchestras of the '20s or the hotel dance bands of the '30s, so they find Welk's music incomprehensible. But he came out of the musette tradition, and very successfully combined that with an Americanized style of dance music -- and then went on to combine *that* with the sort of show band/stage band presentation that had been very popular in theatres.
Welk gets a lot of grief from the hipper-than-thou crowd, but he wasn't a jazz musician, made no pretense of playing jazz, and there's no reason on earth other than a narrow-minded tunnel-vision view of music why he should be condemned for not playing jazz. He played what he played, he entertained a lot of people, and made a good living at it for a very long time. A lot of the self-proclaimed musical cognoscenti should be so talented.
That's another thing the modern era suffers from -- a smug conviction that any pre-baby-boomer popular culture was puerile, and thus beneath its respect. Nertz to that.
My main complaint about Lawrence Welk is that his style is a bit too sugary sweet for my taste. Now very early Lawrence Welk is another story.
Lawrence Welk's Novelty Orchestra
Doin' The New Lowdown (1928)
Spiked Beer (1928)
I didn't know that schools are now more segregated than ever. I attended a segregated public school until 1966, when I was in the sixth grade. That school, and all other public schools around here, now appear to be integrated. Our general statutes sure say they should be.
I didn't know that crime was more prevalent now than in past years. I guess it depends on which past years one is using as a bench mark, but I thought the US crime rate was still decreasing…like it has been for decades.
I didn’t know that the fifties and sixties was a better time to live than now. I wish that somebody had told me that, back in the fifties and sixties. I would have had even more fun than I did.
Guy Lombardo was Louis Armstrong's all-time favorite bandleader, and when he had his own orchestra in the thirties, he consciously modeled it on the Lombardo sound.
Nuf 'ced.
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Guy Lombardo, anyone?