I can't even read his name without singing Rock Me Gently. Sounded like Neil Diamond to my young ears..
I'd love for a senator representing me to speak out about Menendez. Oh, wait, I don't ********ing get to have one of those. That's a real Democratic fail.
Just think- your elementary school years could have been filled with stuff like this, but you were born too late! Oh, I've posted that here on BigSoccer. The early 70s, mang. Sappy (or, for that matter, happy) wasn't "in", but it had a place in the radio rotation. It looks worse in the harsh light of our current 40 year affair with jadedness than it did back then.
??? Born in 1964. I remember hearing these on the radio all the freakin' time: Of course, there was also some absolutely fantastic music from the same time, which is why I have little patience with people who say "70's music sucks" or "today's music sucks". In any era, you can find fantastic music *and* music that makes you want to stick a fondue fork in your ears. You just gotta know how to look.
I learned two things: I always thought a female sang Seasons in the Sun (a song that drove me absolutely crazy back in the 70s - so irritating as it would stick in my mind). I also just noticed that famous Belgian singer Jacques Brel is credited as a writer (I always liked his Bruxelles song - not the English version, the original).
Okay, you're older than I thought you were. I'm a year ahead of you, or at least months. 70s music soars. I don't know where to look for good modern music. Yeah, those three are over the top Huh. This drove me back to YouTube, 'cause it's been decades since I head this one all the way thru. There are a lot of female voices backing him, but I don't know how you got a female out of the lead vox. Definitely sounds like a dude to me. damn, there's a line about starfish dying on the beach in the fade out. I'd never heard that part before, and it's cracking me up because way too melancholy EDIT: There may be a cover, I can't say.
I also thought Billy Joel was a woman when I first heard Piano Man. I grew up on Cher and in my mind Terry Jacks and Billy Joel had more feminine voices than Cher did, and their names were certainly non-gender specific names.
Okay, makes sense, if Cher was the point of reference. She had a deeper, beltier voice than most women I remember from that era.
See, this is the kind of stuff I lived and remember from 1972-75, because we were living out of town (in Silver Spring, to be exact) LOVED this half-decade or so. LOVED it, full stop.
I had to come back here on this one. I really had to dig into my musical memory. Billy Joel a more feminine voice than Cher? I can maybe see it if the default for you is a woman with Beatrice Arthur's or Barbara Stanwyck's speaking range, or one who sings in the Susan Boyle/Ethel Merman range (Cher fits there, now that I think of it). I don't claim even a basic grasp of any vocal anything, but IMO, Joel's a bog-standard male tenor, sounds like one of those guys who'd be in a musical singing the Umbrella song. Give me an example of some guy who doesn't have a more feminine voice than Cher (who I don't think sounds masculine at all, but I know that isn't what you said).
Sure. It's like I said earlier: you can find gold and dross in any era. What I was excited about hearing on the radio during the first half of the 70s was more like: https://youtu.be/rtp8WSAzrGw?si=g3dkNXRjVTI0I4MO https://youtu.be/htNVh54teaE?si=ok6XRqwVbNlJfL5H https://youtu.be/ooYExfw9lLY?si=WVmU-dKSG2j2WAzH I also listened to a lot more AOR than the other kids I hung with; but that was mainly because of my family. I had four siblings, all of whom were 10-15 years older than me. So shit would happen like my brother, under orders to babysit me, taking me with him and his friends to see the Guess Who live when I was just 5 years old.
Bill Brown, from (Billy Ward and) the Dominos. I don't have words for how much I love this song. A YouTube commenter posted "Our grandmas used to get railed to this."
I can understand the case for Schumer not turning on him just yet, but he also didn’t need to endorse his tenure.
I can't really understand it. Like Schumer, I also believe in due process and the presumption of innocence; but in this case, it feels like Schumer is appealing to those ideals when the prosecutors got photos of the accused with his dick stuck in an eight-year-old. I just can't fathom how this story can possibly be told in a way that says Menendez should still be a Senator.
What are the positives from slow walking this? I guess I could understand if they had assurances that he will announce his resignation at his presser today. But all indications I’ve read indicate he intends to be defiant. And it was the endorsement that really set me off.
In the end performative demands in the media that he resign don't achieve anything. The question is whether they have any leverage here because being a senator is about the only thing crooked bob has going for him right now so how do they persuade him to give it up?
He's dealing with a criminal who is probably desperate - who knows what crooked bob has threatened to do