Man oh man. There was a cover band that did a killer rendition of this at the old Eastown Saloon in Grand Rapids when I was in college, and we used to go cahrazy when they played it. I’m getting old. Obit here.
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She really was a treasure. Gotta’s post on Mr Hamlisch’s passing here. Via Boing Boing.
The Way We Were, which starred Barbra “Katie” Streisand and Robert “Hubble” Redford and was about “an outspoken Jewish girl with a big nose who goes to Hollywood with her beautiful blond husband and gets disgusted.” At least that’s how Gilda Radner told it when she performed “The Way We Were” in her show, Gilda Live. And I think it’s a sweet way to remember a man who wrote songs that could bring a deeply romantic geek to tears
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You know how certain songs immediately transport you back to wherever you heard them the first time? 1973 Melbourne, Florida. Sitting around with a bunch of newly made redneck friends, drinking 45′s and rocking out. Wow.
Rock star Jon Lord, who founded the band Deep Purple, died yesterday aged 71.
The keyboard player, who co-wrote many of the heavy rock band’s legendary songs including Smoke On The Water, had pancreatic cancer.
A statement posted on his website yesterday declared that Lord – who had said that writing music had been therapy through his illness – had passed ‘from Darkness to Light’.
The musician, who had enjoyed success in the last decade as a classical composer, suffered a fatal pulmonary embolism at a private clinic in London. His publicist said that he was surrounded by his family.
Lord founded Deep Purple in 1968 and it went on to be one of the world’s most successful rock bands, selling more than 100million albums.
Note- I swiped the headline from the article and never even noticed the discrepancy in names. Grassy to readers.
Willard Romney uses this “humorous” little memory to show how close he feels to the people of Wisconsin. Via JSOnline:
“One of most humorous I think relates to my father. You may remember my father, George Romney, was president of an automobile company called American Motors … They had a factory in Michigan, and they had a factory in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and another one in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,” said Romney. “And as the president of the company he decided to close the factory in Michigan and move all the production to Wisconsin. Now later he decided to run for governor of Michigan and so you can imagine that having closed the factory and moved all the production to Wisconsin was a very sensitive issue to him, for his campaign.”
Boy howdy, can we ever! What a knee slapper!
Romney said he recalled a parade in which the school band marching with his father’s campaign only knew the Wisconsin fight song, not the Michigan song.
“So every time they would start playing ‘On, Wisconsin, On, Wisconsin,’ my dad’s political people would jump up and down and try to get them to stop, because they didn’t want people in Michigan to be reminded that my dad had moved production to Wisconsin,” said Romney, laughing.
No, you can be sure they didn’t want people to be reminded of that… but they will be now. And, hey, what a coincidence, that reminds me of something else:
Bain Capital’s involvement in mass layoffs is likely to haunt Romney in a campaign focused on jobs.
As Rick Perry would say, “Oops.”
Talk about out. Of. Touch. Not to mention downright callous.
No wonder President Obama’s leading him by double digits in some polls.
Willard may not be affable, but he sure is gaffe-able (that link has some doozies).
At a Michigan tea party event, he was nostalgic as he could be about those sweet days of yesteryear when he was but a lad of four, specifically the day of the Golden Jubilee at which there was a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the American automobile. He remembered it fondly, because, after all, he was right there with his dad.
Why it was just as clear to him as if it were yesterday!
The Star nails it:
The Golden Jubilee described so vividly by Romney was indeed an epic moment in automotive lore. The parade included one of the last public appearances by an elderly Henry Ford.
And it took place June 1, 1946 — fully nine months before Romney was born.
Mitt really needs to stop talking, especially when there’s no teleprompter in sight.
It just boggles my mind that it’s been 10 years. In that time I love** lost my father, mother and older brother and my life has changed dramatically. All since a sunny Tuesday morning. I don’t remember if I ever mentioned it on the blog, but my mother and I had just returned from England and Scotland on Sunday after taking my grandmother’s ashes to spread at Hoggenfeld Loch in Scotland. When we got home, my mother was aghast to find that she had traveled back and forth to Europe with a crystal handled 9 inch (sharp) letter opener in the side of her purse. Two days later, 9/11. I still have that letter opener.
**Talk about a Freudian slip.
30 years ago today, I was in my friend Lynn’s Caddy (or was it a Lincoln?) on a ROAD TRIP! to Miami from our college in Michigan. We had with us my bf Marianne and some guy. We had left in the early morning hours on a drunken whim, but Lynn had a credit card and a car, so we were good to go. Somewhere in Tennetucky we had stopped, and when we got back in the car and turned the radio on, they were playing “Cats in the Cradle”. I’m pretty sure all of us had seen the concert when Harry Chapin had played at our college (He kissed me twice!) so we all sang along. Then “WOLD” came on right after, and we were all, “WTF? Did he die or something?” Yes he had.
Harry Chapin was a crusader against hunger before it was trendy. A husband, a father, a singer and a poet dedicated to somehow, some way helping those in need. His family has continued his work, you can visit the Harry Chapin Foundation here. I’m getting me some more t-shirts, ’cause my “Cheap Seats” one is long gone. He would have made a helluva Senator Chapin (D-NY)-
“Just to call him an inspiration would minimize his real impact. Harry Chapin, his life and his efforts, did an awful lot not only to stimulate the success of We Are the World, but its longevity,” said entertainer Harry Belafonte, a driving force behind the 1985 benefit that raised millions to fight starvation in Africa.
“It’s hard to overestimate the amount of good he did,” added Sen. Patrick Leahy, a close friend of Chapin’s who confessed he broke down in tears after he was summoned from the Senate floor on July 16, 1981, and told of the fatal crash. Speaking at Chapin’s memorial service, Leahy said, was one of the most difficult things he’s ever done.
“There are a huge number of people who probably have no idea who he is,” Leahy told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “All they know is they got fed because of him and they wouldn’t have otherwise, both in this country and abroad.”
The Vermont Democrat recalls a meeting with Carter in the White House, when Carter agreed to form a commission focusing on world hunger. Chapin’s tenacious spirit almost kyboshed the deal, Leahy said.
“We sat around the Cabinet room and he starts telling the president we should do this. And the president’s trying to say `I agree with you, Harry.’ And he’s just getting all wound up and excited. I finally said, `Harry, Harry, don’t talk him out of it.’ Everybody laughed, but he pushed for it and pushed so hard.”
ADDED- Another great site- Harry’s Friends
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