“Eleanor Rigby” is a Beatles song from 1966.
The media can’t kick their Trump addiction.
He’s crack from them. By comparison, Biden is boring. The media should cover Trump a lot less now since he is no longer president. Coverage of the 2024 election should begin in 2023. They helped him in 2016 with excessive coverage and it seems like they haven’t learned anything.
Covers: Rag Mop
I remember “Rag Mop” from my childhood. It was originally recorded by Western swing artist Johnnie Lee Wills and his band in 1949. It was based on a 1946 record by Henry “Red” Allen, “Get the Mop”. I like the Joe Liggins 1950 version which is a stop on the way from jazz and big band to the beginnings of R&B. It has even been covered by the Muppets, Beany and Cecil and the Wiggles!
Covers: Mack the Knife
“Mack the Knife” was written by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill for their 1928 play The Threepenny Opera. It was a very unlikely pop hit in 1959 for Bobby Darin. The original performer was Lotte Lenya who was Brecht’s wife.
Widespread support for Biden’s American Rescue Plan
Once again, Republicans are voting strictly on party lines to hurt Biden instead of doing something even the majority of their voters want.
Great thread on classical music in cartoons
In addition to these, I remember old black and white cartoons on TV that had no dialogue but had classical musical as the audio part. They must have been silent films.
Baltimore Salt Boxes update 3/3/21
Covers: Truck Drivin’ Man
“Truck Drivin’ Man” is a country song recorded and written by Terry Fell in 1954. There are lots of covers including a loud alt-country version by Uncle Tupelo from 1993. It’s a bonus cut on the expanded version of their album Anodyne. It was originally on the promo-only The Long Cut + Five Live EP. It was recorded at the Vic in Chicago.
Saturday Night Live’s vaccine game show
Saturday Night Live (2/27/21) opened with a skit of a game show where participants try to get the COVID-19 vaccine. This is not the first satirical game show about diseases. The Firesign Theatre had a comedy routine on their 1968 album Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him called :”Beat the Reaper”. Participants in the game show had to guess what disease they had in order to get the antidote.
Terry Southern‘s 1958 novel Flash and Filigree included a game show called “What’s My Disease?”. My copy is packed up but here are links to descriptions. The show is also mentioned in the film The Loved One (1966) which was co-written by Southern. The one on Southern’s archives states that he wrote a screenplay based on Nathanael West’s A Cool Million. I would love to see a film of that. I think it would be best as a Tim Burton-style animated film.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/03/18/the-genius-of-terry-southern/
The Right-wing lies blaming the riot on Antifa
Why would left-wing supporters want to overturn the election? This conspiracy theory makes no sense.
Sad! 