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Listen @ http://wusb.fm Sun 1-3pm Eastern. Bsky for public policy, popular music, college radio, Christian faith. News analyst. Amateur Gmc linguist. #at40. #ELCA. Centrist w a twist.
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Oh: and neither lead actor could act. But then, did anyone else have the nerve to write this badly? Yet it caught its era so well.
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Love means *having* to say you’re sorry. Out loud. Sometimes so you or others can hear it.
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“Mama’s Pearl” would end J5’s string of 4 straight #1 discs. Such bitter sadness, alas! All it would get would be a mere 2 wks at #2, behind the Osmonds’ “One Bad Apple”. #at40
Their next single “Never Can Say Goodbye” would also get stuck at #2, for *3* weeks, behind 3 wks of “Joy To the World”.
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Jackie Moore would record several tracks for the disco dance floors, including this 1979 #1 Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play song “This Time Baby”, a cover of an O’Jays song from ‘78 (not #at40):
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fw3S...
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Yes.
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This was a heavily covered song in the ‘60s, but it goes all the way back to 1953, and guitar-god Les Paul and Mary Ford (#11 pop 1954) #at40: m.youtube.com/watch?v=GSK5...
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Another gospel singer turned soul, Taylor was Sam Cooke’s replacement in the Soul Stirrers, 1957-8. Then he left gospel and signed with Cooke’s record label, SAR, where he recorded several tracks, including this 1962 Cooke-Prudhomme composition (not #at40):
m.youtube.com/watch?v=WOhI...
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Joe Simon was in a gospel group that decided to go secular a la Sam Cooke. As the Golden Tones, they recorded a single, “Doreetha” b/w ‘Little Island Girl” in 1959 (not #at40 )(both songs on this recording):
m.youtube.com/watch?v=er2g...
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The fact that our government even *thinks* in those terms, much less publicly encourages it, is what’s wrong. And yes, while it’s not ‘force’ per se, a nation of our size and strength and media presence can ram it onto the other nations’ agenda using ‘soft power’. It’s still a thirst for power.
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He’s shown how he despises the military. But he still expects and demands that they do what he tells them to do, even if it’s done to US citizens.
Would you fire at your own people for a guy who thought so little of you?
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NY CD1 is like that. Since we elected Lee Zeldin, now continued by Nick LaLota, constituents have been left with only occasional photo-op events the public is only told about after the fact.
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We’re now imperialist colonists. Another example is Greenland, which also has unused resources that Trump wants to rip at.
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Soul-saving ≠ altar call. There are other ways to view it and to do it.
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Ok, folks. If there are any doubters left that this is a coup, that should be dismissed as Emperor Trump just replaced the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the head of the Navy, and second in command of the Air Force, and several others.
No one will stop it because he’s commander in chief.
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Please no….
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The one I remember from WHN Country was first hearing Don Williams’ “Amanda” there. I really thought that would cross over big. (But then, I was even surer about “Blood Red and Goin’ Down” from Tanya Tucker. Wrong again.) #at40
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Milsap & his co-producer stripped out so much country and added so much big-bang ending that it shot right through Charlie Rich into Barry Manilow I-write-the-song territory (literally). It really was almost-but-not-really. #at40
BTW: the lyrics were written by Hal David (as in Bacharach-and).
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… including my bandmates…. 🙄
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Butler was a friend and associate of Curtis Mayfield; their band, the Northern Jubilee Gospel Singers, morphed into The Impressions. Their first record, as Jerry Butler & The Impressions in 1958, became an early soul classic (#11 pop # 3 R&B) #at40
m.youtube.com/watch?v=P3N7...
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One of my favorites of Butler was 1962’s “Make It Easy On Yourself”, a Bacharach tune that got to #20 pop #18 R&B in 1962. The demo Butler was inspired by was by Dionne Warwick, who would herself hit with it in 1970: #37 pop, #2 Easy Listening (#at40) Here’s Butler:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=FLlB...
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I didn’t trust them in November. But they won. I sure as hell don’t trust them now.
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The CPAC Chainsaw Massacre?
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As a nation, long ago, we came to an understanding that there were not enough donors to cover the research that we needed to face the future. So we had our government do it too. The US was, and still is, a tech and a med generator of wonders. It works. But Mush doesn’t care about that.
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(4) is a good idea. It keeps Ukraine as the fighters, keeping them in charge, while Europe would be making a difference militarily where it would most count at this time, on the ground.
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The unidentified dead woman appears to be a Gazan. Neither Hamas nor IDF give a damn about her. She could’ve been killed by either.
Please care.
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What they put in, they should be able to get out.
Anything else is BS.
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(No, I will not post any of his videos.)
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Sorry folks, but it’s my job.
In case you don’t know French Montana, his name is Karim Karbouche, and here’s his Wiki page: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...
He has 4 #at40 hits, the largest of which was “Unforgettable” ft. Swae Lee, a #3 in 2017.
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Is that the Argentinian pres there?
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I would think Patel’s eyes would’ve scared them all enough. Kinda deer in headlights look.
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Kluwe didn’t punt on this.
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Never heard this before !
Thanks!
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It’s working beyond expectations.
So Trump says, “Stop it right now!”
It’s a state decision, not a federal one. STFU, Donald!
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You have to do much more than that, folks, to really get to him.
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Where in blue blazes did he get the authority to veto a state’s decision?
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For a union head, O’Brien has no hint of worker solidarity. Screw one of us, you screw us all.
Let there be no doubt about it: Trump *will* screw them all.
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Looks more like standard US cartoon animation to me.
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Musk operates through others. Designing several layers away from formal structure is one of the ways he has operated for years. DOGE itself was intentionally structured that way. He does this to avoid transparency and scrutiny. Those who would oppose would have no authority to do so.
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I was not just thinking of WW2, but also 1772-1795. History rhymes, but it’s a bitter chord.
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Like Germany and Russia splitting Poland.
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CNN keeps putting Miller on and Bri, as often as not, is stuck with handling the unhandlable. CNN directors and producers should be arrested for knowing damn well that Miller is a supernatural torture ghoul yet still putting viewers and interviewers through this.
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We put a bandage over our bondage… 🤔
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She’s much smarter than Homan. But his biggest problem isn’t smarts. It’s his raw foolishness.
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We need more consolidation like a hole in the head.
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Nor effective.
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Because a governor should only remove as a last resort, otherwise it could very well be done over politics. The political system has to develop its own guts to remove the mayor. It’s starting to happen. Let’s see if the system can bring this to completion. If he’s still there in 6 months, then do it
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Pete has consistently been the Dem’s best at presenting and explaining to the media. He’s simple and direct, but can go granular and philosophical when needed. (Frankly, he’s better at that than in the cabinet. Or *anyone* else in the party. He actually understands what he’s saying.)
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I’m 100% behind having a shadow cabinet. Each of those on it can be the party’s point persons on a specific set of policies. There would be fewer awkward public silences, more different fronts to be pushing on. And new potential presidential candidates would emerge, each w public recognition.
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Homan has impeed all over us.