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12/19/2020 5:50:01 PM
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Thirst! JUKEBOX
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12/19/2020 6:09:38 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 2:
Hats of to Neil Diamond, what a prolific songwriter. I think he’s sold more records than anybody else, well he’s way up there that’s for sure.
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12/19/2020 6:13:03 PM
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Reply to turn in 3:
He’s sold over 100 million records! LINK
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Kosh's Shadow
12/19/2020 6:18:37 PM
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In #3 turn said: Hats of to Neil Diamond, what a prolific songwriter. I think he’s sold more records than anybody else, well he’s way up there that’s for sure. Look at the ages of the audience in the video - 20's to at least 60's. Hard to have such a wide range of an audience
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12/19/2020 6:23:32 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 5:
Cracklin’ Rosie Oldie but a goodie ...
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Kosh's Shadow
12/19/2020 6:26:15 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 7: That does have the explanation - and sometimes I think that because he did not look down on people for having religion, but understood them, G-d helped him to have a great career.
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Kosh's Shadow
12/19/2020 6:30:32 PM
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In #8 turn said: Cracklin’ Rosie
Oldie but a goodie ... I do have to say I don't have a good meaning for "Store-bought woman"
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12/19/2020 6:30:37 PM
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In #7 Kosh's Shadow said: I don't think this one has the explanation; can't find it now It does, starting about the 2 min mark. Neat story, didn’t know that about him.
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12/19/2020 6:35:13 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 10:
I never bothered to look for an explanation until now... it looks like he’s talking about a bottle of cheap wine! Via wiki: The stories about how Diamond was inspired to write the song are apocryphal. "Crackling Rosé" is the name of an inexpensive sparkling wine once produced by Andres Wines of British Columbia, Canada, which was popular among the indigent population. One story suggests that Diamond heard a story about a native Canadian tribe while doing an interview in Toronto, Canada—the tribe had more men than women, so the lonely men of the tribe would sit around the fire and drink their wine together—which inspired him to write the song.[2]
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Kosh's Shadow
12/19/2020 6:36:26 PM
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And for someone who had imaginary friends when he was young, I give you Shilo
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buzzsawmonkey
12/19/2020 6:38:24 PM
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Notes on the film "White Christmas"
In the film, the principals arrive in Vermont to find there’s no snow, the temperature is in the 60s, and the inn run by their former general is failing. They try to help the inn, and later do something nice for the general—tzedakah (charity), if you will—and in the last scene of the film their “snow prayer” is answered with a heavy snowfall. Interesting Jewish subtext to this Christmas movie.
The song “Sisters” contains the line, “When a certain gentleman arrived from Rome, she wore the dress, and I stayed home.” This appears to imply that Sister A permitted Sister B to wear the “good dress” owned between them to go out on a date, but it ALSO implies that Sister B wore “the dress” to leave the apartment while Sister A entertained the “gentleman from Rome” in a rather more intimate way.
The Louis Jordan song “Open the Door, Richard” contains the line, “I know he’s in there, because I got on the clothes.” Back in the days when people would pawn their clothing—suits, overcoats, etc.—when hard up, roommates would share what was left. “Open the Door, Richard” is seven years older than “White Christmas”; the more-risque implication in "Sisters" would have been wholly understandable to the audience.
BTW, another note on "White Christmas”: there’s the “Minstrel Show” number (NOT done in blackface here), which segues into “Mandy” (originally a blackface number, not done in blackface here); later, in one of the rehearsal scenes, there’s a dance number unaccompanied by vocal which is Berlin’s song “Abraham,” the lyrics to which are in praise of Abraham Lincoln.
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Kosh's Shadow
12/19/2020 6:49:01 PM
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I have been learning the computer language Rust. That is what Firefox is written in. Apparently, programmers who use Rust are called Rustaceans. I think I'm old enough to be a Rusticle. And years ago, I knew someone who, if he is still around today and programming in Rust, would be a Rustafarian. (Back when I was around 25 his wife wrote him a song "The 40 year old hippie". Well, he had been on a destroyer in the Cuban Missile Crisis, so he did his part.
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buzzsawmonkey
12/19/2020 7:05:15 PM
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In #15 Kosh's Shadow said: I have been learning the computer language Rust. It is my understanding that Rust never sleeps.
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Kosh's Shadow
12/19/2020 7:06:48 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 15: Sea stories from the old sailor - when the new sailors were seasick, the old salts would eat pork chops in front of them. He was trying to fix a tube radio or radar in bad seas with the ship rocking, while some officer was yelling at him.
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Kosh's Shadow
12/19/2020 7:24:40 PM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 14: I'd have to go back and watch the movie again. Only saw it once. We'll probably be watching Deadliest Catch during the holidays. Well, we will probably see some Sandy Claws
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buzzsawmonkey
12/19/2020 8:12:25 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 18: It's an interesting movie. For one thing, the costumes (and the lighting/color backgrounds) show how, in that period, the filmmakers used Technicolor as a palate to accent or de-accent the actors and the action. "White Christmas" is one with "The Bandwagon" and "Funny Face" in this regard. For another, Berlin was famous for re-licensing/re-purposing his songs. Heck, he rewrote "Puttin' on the Ritz" to take it from its original meaning and intent, poking fun at black domestics whooping it up in Harlem on Thursdays (the traditional domestics' day off) to be a paean to smartly-dressed Park Avenue swells. I'd bet that he put in the "Minstrel Show/Mandy" numbers specifically for the purpose of de-associating himself with blackface and as a subtle signal, in the unvocalized "Abraham" number, that he really wasn't anti-black. Regarding "Puttin' on the Ritz," I'd bet that the original opening line onstage was "Have you seen the well-to-do jigaboos...?" but even in its first early-sound performance it says "well-to-do," which makes no sense in context.
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Kosh's Shadow
12/19/2020 8:15:11 PM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 19: I agree it is an interesting movie, but I don't know when I will watch it again. And you make an interesting comment about going from black face to white snow,
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buzzsawmonkey
12/20/2020 7:36:03 AM
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WHAR SHE BLOWS???? Where's that Sunday thread?
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Kosh's Shadow
12/20/2020 8:46:45 AM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 21: JCM slept late but put the thread up now
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