Lesley Gore, married to a classic Jeff Barry-Ellie Greenwich song, Quincy Jones's
production, and Claus Ogerman's arranging . . .
Lesley Gore, "Maybe I Know" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SYzcKXppLQ)
Ellie's best single on her own . . .
Ellie Greenwich, "You Don't Know" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FM21yRrXZ0)
I listened to more by this Esther Phillips, thanks for telling us about her, I did not really know about her.
@pookie18
Ellie Greenwich, that is good too.
She may not be a girl group but there are a number of girl groups I did not know about or barely, Velvelettes, some very good things and the Royalettes too, I think. For another day.
@EasyAce
I Think this is the right band stand on this one
Dick Dale – lead guitar
Glen Campbell – guitar
Ray Sambra – bass
Leon Russell – piano
Hal Blaine – drums
Jerry Brown – saxophone
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Alanis Morissette's meteoric rise to fame put her in need of someone who could
wisely invest her fortune for her future.
She thought she found that person in Jonathan Todd Schwartz, a money manager to the stars, who earned her
trust and assured her that her nest egg was secure and growing.
But even as she was repaying the favor by singing her hits at a benefit for a charity Schwartz founded, he was
pocketing royalties from her hit 1995 record "Jagged Little Pill" and other albums.
Schwartz was sentenced Wednesday to six years in federal prison for embezzling more than $7 million from
Morissette and others after the singer made a pitch for a lengthy and severe sentence saying he stole more than
her money — he stole her dreams.
"He did this in a long, systematic, drawn-out and sinister manner," Morissette said, adding it would have
bankrupted her within three years had the thefts continued.
Schwartz, 47, who blamed his gambling addiction for the thefts, wept and apologized at the hearing, saying he
took full responsibility for his "stupid" behavior and would live in shame because of it.
"I will spend the rest of my life asking for forgiveness," he said in seeking less than a year in prison.
Prosecutors sought just over five years in prison, but U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee said she thought Schwartz
deserved more time for the "sheer audaciousness of this conduct."
Gee noted that she has criticized federal sentencing guidelines as draconian, but said they weren't harsh
enough in this case. Schwartz's gambling addiction may explain the wire fraud and tax crimes, but didn't
excuse them, she said. She ordered him to pay $8.6 million in restitution.
Schwartz admitted stealing nearly $5 million from Morissette between May 2010 and January 2014 and more
than $2 million from five unnamed clients when he worked at GSO Business Management, a firm that touted
relationships with entertainers such as Katy Perry, 50 Cent and Tom Petty.
I like the Star Wars disco version.
Here is the version of "Can't get use to losing you" that was a hit.I always liked Andy Williams's version, but he didn't have Saxa. ;) (On the other hand, who'd have thunk Andy Williams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO_vKrVxGJM
Other music birthdays today:Not Mr. Ferguson's greatest hit, but IMO one of his best:
* Maynard Ferguson (jazz trumpeter)
* Randy Travis (country singer)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf_AIK9e6Hc
* Tyrone Davis (soul singer)An oft-overlooked hitmaker of the late 60s/early 70s. Here's one of his best and biggest, with a sound a few years ahead of its time:
@TomSea
Adele may be the most perfect "music package" of my lifetime. There are a FEW others who can sing as well as she can,but they don't write their own music.
Hard to believe she had her sights set on just being a song-writer,isn't it?
Just one question. I have searched this board and cannot find the answer.
How in the heck are videos posted in this code?
Stone cold Haggard:
Country singer Loretta Lynn hospitalized after suffering stroke
Country music singer Loretta Lynn was hospitalized after a suffering a stroke at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, her official website said Friday.
Lynn, 85, was admitted to a Nashville hospital on Thursday where she is "under medical care and is responsive and expected to make a full recovery," a statement on LorettaLynn.com said.
Continued: http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/country-singer-loretta-lynn-hospitalized-after-suffering-stroke/ar-BBANb5k?OCID=ansmsnnews11
Grant Green, "Alone Together" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOeDdS7Ic1Q)
Grant Green, very nice.
At the risk of coming off as kind of random, this one came on the radio yesterday and like most of Herb Alpert's stuff does, it got stuck.@jmyrlefuller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxsOXOPni0o
Well, I've up and done it---lucked into a bargain on a vintage Deegan vibraphone (Vibraharp Model 145,
with the bars replaced by the bars from a Deegan 1100; Model 145 last made in 1939) where the guy
wanting to sell was willing to swap me even-up for a Gibson Flying V guitar I didn't really need (not
with four Les Pauls I don't!), and now I can do one thing on my bucket list: teach myself to play vibes.
(http://www.mylespaul.com/attachments/dsc00681-jpg.243523/)
(http://www.mylespaul.com/attachments/dsc00682-jpg.243524/)
(http://www.mylespaul.com/attachments/dsc00685-jpg.243525/)
Here's the main guy who made me want to play vibes in the first place, and I've been a fan for decades,
but suddenly it really started to hit me:
Oh hell @TomSea D.O.A. that blows me away, never saw any Video before, I loved that song, what a trip and Jupiter @sneakypete tight little band never understood why they didn't go anywhere, drugs/management?
Think you'll like this song sneaky it's currently in rotation on my Americana station.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk8_ScLYenY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk8_ScLYenY)
My Rita, RIP
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(http://www.bellesbecanes.fr/media/norton_850_commando_2__019532700_1027_21052015.JPG)
Sonny Curtis penned "I fought the law", Sonny, one of the Crickets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4hQulqHJhU
Not into the Betty Page look, Page is an icon or the tattoos but here is an interesting modern video with a good back up band, out of AZ.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqi3CSGJnds
@sneakypete@sneakypete @TomSea
Fine story, well, we've been missing @EasyAce for a day or two. Probably just busy with other things. I thought we'd see posts from yesterday for Muddy Waters.
@pookie18
That's some great version, the original I gather of Anna. Thanks for that.
Arthur Alexander, great songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKqIHbTWR9o (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKqIHbTWR9o)Radney Foster had quite a few good ones.
@pookie18
That's some great version, the original I gather of Anna. Thanks for that.
Arthur Alexander, great songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKqIHbTWR9o (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKqIHbTWR9o)
@TomSea
Not even Gerry and the Pacemakers' lame cover could destroy the magnificence of this . . .
Arthur Alexander, "Where Have You Been All My Life" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DueRdyGO6mA)
Radney Foster had quite a few good ones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9HwkKw8TpU
Oh, I knew the Beatles did it but thanks for telling us what is garbage. Our tastes aren't as refined.Far as I know the Beatles played "Where Have You Been All My Life" during their 1961-62 sets
Radney Foster had quite a few good ones.
Well, if there is no objection, Hendrix or Brubeck, I listen to all nationalities, skin colors, ethnicities, not just one group.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZk5dmd5LJE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01oqzCY0DD4
And some of my favorites, even though, I know no one here has heard this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWh7JzXipvQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POaaw_x7gvQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POaaw_x7gvQ)Uh, not quite. I can think of two better. Joe Cocker did one of them . . .
Probably the greatest cover of a hit song by another artist or group in all of history.
Irving Berlin was born today, so was this guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-5SgRI-_KY
@TomSea
I always thought that Eric Burton was the guy Mick Jagger always wanted to be. Jagger was and is more successful because he is a "people person" and nice guy,while Eric Burton was and is a world-class butthole.
Most people have heard about Kris Kristofferson's early days in Nashville when he swept floors and moved microphones around the Columbia Recording Studios. But Billy has the dubious distinction of holding that job first, and he gave it to his friend Kris when he left.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elPwtbHmOJ4
http://www.rockabillyhall.com/SwanBilly1.html
1940, Born on this day, Norman Whitfield, American songwriter and producer, best known for his work with Berry Gordy's Motown. Collaborated with Barrett Strong on such hits as, 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine', ‘Ain't Too Proud to Beg’, ‘(I Know) I'm Losing You’, ‘Cloud Nine’, ‘War’, ‘Papa Was a Rolling Stone’ and ‘Car Wash’. He died on September 16, 2008. 1940, Born on this day, Norman Whitfield, American songwriter and producer, best known for his work with Berry Gordy's Motown. Collaborated with Barrett Strong on such hits as, 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine', ‘Ain't Too Proud to Beg’, ‘(I Know) I'm Losing You’, ‘Cloud Nine’, ‘War’, ‘Papa Was a Rolling Stone’ and ‘Car Wash’. He died on September 16, 2008.
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today
A couple songs I had on the headphones this morning; no rhyme or reason, just a couple of 70s one-hit wonders.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0CGy2ioSdQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGCKI51c4ZA
Obvious mega-hits here, he must have been a co-writer:He was indeed the co-writer, with Barrett Strong. Gladys Knight, to whom Whitfield first gave that song,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPnZZTVp_2A
I never wish to shortchange anyone.
When we got that song, it was nowhere near the song it ended up being. Norman approached
us with it and said, "I got a great song that I think will work for you guys. See what you think about it,
take it home." We lived with that song at home, on the road, we ate, slept, everything with it for two
months. We brought it back for Norman one day the way we had done it . . . He went into the studio
that minute, put Smokey [Robinson] out so we could go upstairs and record! We didn't have anything
to do with the writing, but the structure is so important in production. We tore it apart, we did all
the little things.
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http://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.php
Stevie Wonder, Richie Valens, Mary Wells, members of the Marshall Tucker band and Mott the Hoople are among others born today. Satisfaction was recorded, the Let It Be Beatles movie was released.
Willie Lewis' band had a concert in Switzerland in 1941, the US had not entered the war yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlJCWPY_dhY
We did Benny Goodman in jazz band back in HS! I remember that song!
And below is a hit from EasyAce's teenybopper days. @EasyAceJust how old do you think I am, smart@$$? :silly: 22222frying pan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2Z1DWIgfCs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2Z1DWIgfCs)
@pookie18
The Angels have a version of Java, they came up the other day in discussion. Java by Al Hirt is posted above.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iytywSptrGA
Looks like Little Caesar and the Romans and Little Anthony and the Imperials did this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aH7NsW5QfI
Little Caesar was LA doo wop.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Caesar_%26_the_Romans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24iMWfiKcDMI saw Starz way back in 1976, on Long Island, opening for Roxy Music who were touring on this album . . .
@EasyAce@TomSea
That's a nice story, I like "The End of the Line" by Bryan Ferry, Roxy Music. All of these videos seem to be taking a lot of power but that is a good one if anyone is interested.
There's a family Bible on the table
Its pages worn and hard to read
But the family Bible on the table
Will ever be my key to memories
At the end of day when work was over
And when the evening meal was done
Dad would read to us from the family Bible
And we'd count our many blessings one by one
I can see us sittin' round the table
When from the family Bible dad would read
And I can hear my mother softly singing
Rock of ages, rock of ages cleft for me
Now this old world of ours is filled with trouble
This old world would also better be
If we'd found more Bibles on the tables
And mothers singing, rock of ages cleft for me
I can see us sittin' round the table
When from the family Bible dad would read
And I can hear my mother softly singing
Rock of ages, rock of ages cleft for me
Rock of ages, rock of ages cleft for me
Songwriters: WILLIE NELSON
© Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, GLAD MUSIC CO.
For non-commercial use only.
Data From: LyricFind
Lenny Welch, the man who transformed Sedaka bubblegum pop into a smoky ballad, and inspired Neil Sedaka himself to do the sameAhhhhhhhhhhh, so he was the one! I must remember to thank him for that . . . not. ;)
I've been Seduced by Female Jazz Singers tonight.
My apologies. I hit the wrong button.
Viking Hunter Volume 1 Grab The Wolf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REmpPC9gPq0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REmpPC9gPq0)Priceless! Give that little angel a . . .
@EasyAce @TomSea @corbe
Not exactly music,but if the joy on this child's face and her actions don't make you smile,you ain't human.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnEQm8mVVZA
(and not the kind that gave Jelly Roll Morton, the man to whom Mingus pays tribute, his nickname!!)
@EasyAceHe actually preferred Charles, and on his albums he was usually billed as "Charles Mingus" or just
"CHARLES" Mingus??
I thought he was always called "Charlie" Mingus?
Love that song by Leonard Cohen @sneakypete
Best version of Hallelujah, Jeff Buckley, IMHO the whole album Grace is pretty damn good, Cohen was a Canadian Poet that transcended the POP world like very few could, remarkable Talent, Both, RIP.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIF4_Sm-rgQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIF4_Sm-rgQ)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS3XJQA6voE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m555n9q4Vk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxN-frB1UbI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N8pLTENCpI
@EasyAce
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StC5lwA2snM
Original by Main Ingredient.
The original written by Curtis Mayfield of The Impressions:That's a completely different song than Tim Buckley's of the same name, but I love the Impressions!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wd4tlX5t-Q
@EasyAceThe same kid who gave us . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StC5lwA2snM
Happy Birthday George Strait, born this day in Poteet, Texas 65 years ago.
His first #1, "Fool Hearted Memory" (1982):
His 30th #1, "The Big One" (1994):
His 60th #1, "Give it All We Got Tonight" (2012):
(Regarding his number of #1s, I took the above from a fan site, so I'm not sure how the #1s were counted. Wiki says he's had 45 #1s on the Billboard Country charts, but most everyone else who counts them says he's had 60 or 61 #1s. Must be counting other charts as well as Billboard Country, I don't know...)
It's surprising that someone would give that write up of George Strait and not even list his signature song "Amarillo By Morning". Sounds like someone just copied something from a list. "The Chair" is his signature song too. I wonder if some people have actually ever purchased any George Strait songs or are they just posting off the internet or newspaper.
@Ghost Bear
Let's just go with Wiki and say he has 45 more number1 hits than I do,ok?
@TomSea , don't worry, I learned my lesson. I won't bother trying to post here any more. *****rollingeyes*****
@Ghost Bear @TomSea
@TomSea and @sneakypete , since I can't respond on the thread where the conversation started as it's been locked, I'll respond here. All I will say is this: I obviously rub @TomSea the wrong way, so I'll refrain from posting on the music threads in the future. :seeya:Ghost, don't let one mishap spoil your fun.
As it just so happens, I was listening to some Who earlier this week:So was I . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV5-DaI5ULg
I will say, in this thread, vs. the Juke Box thread, I have moderator's rights and any impolite posts runs the risk of being deleted. I am sorry this thread is locked, I will not read rude posts too by the way. I think posting etiquette should be respect for others.
Then, too, the music that two people are posting is from Texas, fine... but then, out of that per country music, that dirty song was posted that got deleted. Kind of makes one wonder. And that song likely wasn't respectful of country music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gxwutvlTw8
Yesterday or today, one of the members of BST had a birthday. They had some good music. They remind me of Chicago, multi-instrumental band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecdvYjDOcS0Actually, Stevie Ray Vaughan is considered one of the giants of Texas blues. (So is Freddie
Pretty good, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Progenitor of Chicago Blues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLbfviLC09k@TomSea
Per other milestones, I see Ray Manzarek passed away on May 20th, 2013; so, they were quite a group.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEbosdwSgPw
Not a bad cover by Joe Perry, really a fine guitarist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGgaZZl_GVgHey, we put that on the terrorist-torture-music thread, too! ;)
Per the Beatles above and I'm no chronicler of their band-life, the instrumental "Cry For A Shadow" if one is interested, is worth a listen, considering everything, early Beatles, where it was recorded.@TomSea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcDvBEoP_gs
Willie Nelson singing Wabash Cannonball, so many have performed it, out of America's songbook, it would be shocking if anyone would criticize the song. *****rollingeyes*****Here's a Wabash Cannonball for you . . . heheheheheheh . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9g6-qNdeys
Now, because I think it's been around so long, maybe a century or more, even called a folk song.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabash_Cannonball
Sometimes it feels like this world is spinning faster
Than it did in the old days
So naturally, we have more natural disasters
From the strain of a fast pace
Sunday was a day of rest
Now, it's one more day for progress
And we can't slow down ?cause more is best
It's all an endless process
[Chorus]
(Well) I miss Mayberry
Sitting on the porch drinking ice-cold cherry Coke
Where everything is black and white
Picking on a six string
Where people pass by and you call them by their first name
Watching the clouds roll by
Bye, bye
Sometimes I can hear this old earth shouting
Through the trees as the wind blows
That's when I climb up here on this mountain
To look through God's window
Now I can't fly
But I got two feet that get me high up here
Above the noise and city streets
My worries disappear
[Chorus]
Sometimes I dream I'm driving down an old dirt road
Not even listed on a map
I pass a dad and son carrying a fishing pole
But I always wake up every time I try to turn back
[Chorus]
1958http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Huka4oLFm1o
Jerry Lee Lewis arrives in London, where he admits he's married his teenage cousin, Myra. He's booed offstage and forced to cancel 34 of his 37 scheduled concerts
http://www.cmt.com/news/this_day_in_country_music/index.jhtml
Elton John: MTV Era Produced Many Untalented Musicians
Leo Barraclough
Senior International Correspondent @LeoBarraclough
Elton John
REX/Shutterstock
May 22, 2017 | 07:03AM PT
Elton John told an audience at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday that the MTV generation had promoted many musicians who didn’t deserve the attention, but he also paid tribute to the positive role that music videos have played in the music business.
More: http://variety.com/2017/music/global/elton-john-mtv-musicians-1202439670/
Over 1000 artists have recorded "Hi-Heel Sneakers". These include Bill Haley & His Comets, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Ronnie Milsap, the Faces, Sting, Led Zeppelin, Carl Perkins (featured on Johnny Cash's 35th Anniversary album), Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Everly Brothers, Chuck Berry, Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, the Searchers (It's the Searchers album), the McCoys (Hang on Sloopy album), Sammy Davis Jr., Big Brother and the Holding Company,[3] Jose Feliciano, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells, Tom Jones, John Lee Hooker, the American Breed, Cleo Laine, Pharoah Sanders, Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead, Phish, Ramsey Lewis, Laura Nyro and George Thorogood. Tucker's version also features on the John Lennon's Jukebox LP.
Thanks for that. High Heeled Sneakers is really looked at as a classic I know by many.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-Heel_Sneakers
Rock bands from Manchester or the general area, off the top of my head, I know they are:This blues bandleader hailed from Manchester . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZEoKqjfvkw
Also, the Herman's Hermits and Davey Jones as well. I'm sure many other known names are.
Morrissey's statement is interesting...Say what you will about the ol' Moz but he isn't exactly renowned for pulling his punches.
https://m.facebook.com/Morrissey/posts/1349891061714098
At least he'll say "Islamic".
"Cathy's Clown" is a chart-topper for the Everly Brothers. 1960
The Beach Boys release their first #1 single, "I Get Around." 1964
The Beatles issue "Paperback Writer" in the U.K. John Lennon's "Rain" is on the B-side. 1966
It's Phil Selway's birthday. The Radiohead drummer is from Oxfordshire, England. 1967
The Who releases their Rock opera "Tommy." 1969
1970's
Iron Butterfly disband one month after "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" falls off the Album Chart, following a 138 week run. 1971
Peter Gabriel plays his final show with Genesis before going solo. It's in St. Etienne, France. 1975
More: http://rockintown.com/today-in-rock.html
2006 – Legendary songwriting and producing team Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, Kinks frontman Ray Davies, electro-rock outfit New Order and veteran pop siblings the Bee Gees are among the honorees at the 51st Ivor Novello Awards for songwriters.Gamble and Huff wrote some great songs, are to be reckoned with such as this one:
http://www.thisdayinrock.com/index.php/general/2006-legendary-songwriting-and-producing-team-ke/
In honor of one of country music's greatest raconteurs, Tom T. Hall (the T is meaningless), who turns 81 today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG5gWk-1m10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqV9NZSGIa4
And one written by Hall, then made famous by Alan Jackson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo2OIUpWznY
I loved/love Tom T. I just can't believe he's that old.
@EasyAce
Wow! I had never heard that cover of Walk on By by Issac Hayes!
He nailed that song.
"Shakin' All Over", I heard about the "Guess Who" version, of course, that was before the Guess Who.
It's pre-Guess Who, they would play that in concert too. I think that's clear, it's even written on that video "Guess Who?".
@EasyAce@austingirl
Gladys Knight "I heard it through the grapevine"- so many great versions of that song -Marvin and CCR come to mind. One of my favorite all time songs.
Birthday related:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36I9neyNCzA
Royal Teens with Al Kooper, Bob Gaudio on piano.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOfFB5QF4iQ
Royal Teens with Al Kooper, Bob Gaudio on piano.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOfFB5QF4iQ
Still play "Pictures of Matchstick Men" from time to time. ^-^@austingirl
Birthdays . . .
Francis Rossi (Status Quo) . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki5lZLQaoxA
Pictures of Matchstick men always struck me as being a vastly underappreciated piece of music. Off the beaten track in some respects,but pretty much perfect in every way. Music is supposed to move you and create paintings in your mind,and this song certainly does both.I wore out a copy of that single myself back in the year. The album (A Message from the Status Quo) wasn't
@austingirl
They changed almost completely not long after that, were huge in England, couldn't really
catch on again in the States, but their live album was a pretty good example of how they
became such big stars in England in the 1970s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw_dOPI7bFY
ROLF WALKS FREE Rolf Harris leaves court a free man after jury fails to reach a verdict on four indecent assault charges – and he won’t face a re-trial
The jury deliberated for just under five hours but were unable to come to a decision
By Hannah Crouch 30th May 2017, 2:00 pm Updated: 30th May 2017, 2:16 pm
ROLF Harris is a free man after a jury today failed to reach a verdict in his indecent assault trial.
The 87-year-old from Maidenhead, Berks, had been accused of indecently assaulting three teenage girls, the youngest of whom was 13, at public events between 1971 and 1983.
Continued: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3681011/rolf-harris-leaves-court-free-man-indecent-assault-charges-jury-fails-verdict/
It's a nice little song. Did they not find any wrongdoing ever that he did? I know he was in the news. It's good if they did not find him guilty, one is not sure what to make of these things, maybe his name was needlessly dragged through the mud.I've loosely been following the case. Back a few years ago, they discovered that quite a few UK media personalities were total creeps, and worse. Jimmy Savile is the most infamous example. Harris got caught up in that same dragnet.
2005 – The Salvation Army close Strawberry Field, a Liverpool children… — 2005 – The Salvation Army close Strawberry Field, a Liverpool children’s home which inspired the Beatles’ song, “Strawberry Fields Forever.”
1964 – Dave Clark Five makes the first of 12 appea… — 1964 – Dave Clark Five makes the first of 12 appearance on TV’s “Ed Sullivan Show.”
1961 – Chuck Berry opened an amusement called “Berry Park” near St Louis on This Day in Rock! — 1961 – Chuck Berry opened an amusement called “Berry Park” near St Louis on This Day in Rock! Featured in the park: A zoo, A golf course and A [...]
http://www.thisdayinrock.com/
Olivia Newton-John Reveals Her Breast Cancer Has Returned, Cancels Tour
http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/animals/olivia-newton-john-reveals-her-breast-cancer-has-returned-cancels-tour/vp-BBBJZlu
For the Grease generation, Olivia Newton-John's illness is hard to accept
The news that the Grease star's cancer has returned grips women of a certain age who grew up looking to her as something of a lodestar of our own happiness
I know it so well. Every frame of it. Even now, if I chance upon a screening of it on TV, or call up key moments on YouTube, the magic still remains.
A film critic once called Grease “an ode to young love that never gets old,” which is a pretty fair description. There is Olivia Newton-John playing a teenager (she was actually 29 at the time of filming) skipping across the school yard in that yellow cardigan, her knowing refrain (“He showed off, splashing around”) a hilarious counterpart to John Travolta’s braggadocio (“I saved her life, she nearly drowned”).
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/olivia-newton-john-cancer-tour-cancelled-grease-generation-hard-to-accept-a7765351.html