buzzsawmonkey 11/3/2019 5:04:03 PM

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I Be Done Seen 'Bout Everything When I See a Elephant Fly

Cliff Edwards does the scat singing in this number as well as the lead vocal.

Kosh's Shadow 11/3/2019 5:04:11 PM

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THIRST!

And let's hear it for the Trump voter in this song

"Taconite, coke, and limestone fed my children, made my pay
Them smokestacks reachin' like the arms of G-d into a beautiful sky of soot and clay"

Wants his job at the steel mills back. Wants to make America great again

And the songwrite probably doesn't get it

buzzsawmonkey 11/3/2019 5:06:59 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 2:

Flag of Blue, White and Red

A rarity---an anti-union song from the coal country.

Kosh's Shadow 11/3/2019 5:24:19 PM

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doppelganglander 11/3/2019 5:25:03 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 1:

That's racist!

/obligatory

buzzsawmonkey 11/3/2019 5:25:16 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 4:

I got the link wrong?  Thanks for the fix!

Kosh's Shadow 11/3/2019 5:26:50 PM

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In #6 buzzsawmonkey said: I got the link wrong?  Thanks for the fix!

Somehow the link included part of this site's URL with the youtube one at the end

buzzsawmonkey 11/3/2019 5:29:15 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 5:

Not the only "racist" thing in "Dumbo"; the Song of the Roustabouts is clearly being sung by black men.

lucius septimius 11/3/2019 5:39:34 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 11/3/2019 5:50:49 PM

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In #8 buzzsawmonkey said: Not the only "racist" thing in "Dumbo"; the Song of the Roustabouts is clearly being sung by black men.

Another raaaacist one - "Niggers all work so the white man plays"

buzzsawmonkey 11/3/2019 5:51:00 PM

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In #9 lucius septimius said: From below -- Terry Teachout responded to me on Twitter tonight.  I'm walking on air ...

Cool.  Congratulations!  

I've read some stuff by him a while back, though not lately; looking at his Wiki profile, he seems to have a good knowledge of the culture of the same era which is dear to my heart.

Kosh's Shadow 11/3/2019 5:55:53 PM

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buzzsawmonkey 11/3/2019 5:57:26 PM

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In #10 Kosh's Shadow said: Another raaaacist one - "Niggers all work so the white man plays"

In its day, "Showboat," and songs like "Old Man River"---whether with The Enword, or the "d" word ("darkies")---was considered a groundbreaking and passionate plea for interracial understanding and equality.  The songs were meant to show the oppression of blacks in the Jim Crow era; there is the subplot where one of the singers is accused of being mixed-race, and as the sheriff is on his way to arrest her and her husband for miscegenation, the husband cuts her hand and drinks her blood so that "he now has black blood in him," and there is, therefore, no crime; Nola, the daughter of Captain Andy, becomes a success in a white venue by singing a supposedly-black song, "Can't Help Lovin' That Man." 

It may be condemned as "racist" today by our "woke" idiots, but it was something like the "Hamilton" of its own era.

lucius septimius 11/3/2019 5:58:43 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 11:

Back when I had a subscription to Commentary, I always looked forward to his essays. And Joseph Epstein's.

buzzsawmonkey 11/3/2019 5:59:15 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 12:

You breed six-ton teens, and what do you get?

Kids graduating high school who can't read yet

Try to find one that's employable, that's all but unknown

They can't look away from their damned iPhones

Kosh's Shadow 11/3/2019 7:50:07 PM

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About a month ago, I signed up for the free Hillsdale college course on WWII, by VDH

Today I had time to watch lecture 2.

And I get a media unavailable error. Emailed them. Glad I didn't give them a donation, because I'd want the class to work or the money back.

If I liked the next lecture or 2, they would have gotten a donation. They can fix it now, but won't get anything.