Posted on 10/13/2016 3:13:44 PM PDT by mdittmar
This is mine.
Charlie Daniels - Late 1970's - In America
‘Elected’ 1972 by Alice Cooper. (First line: “I’m your top prime cut of meat, I’m your choice”)
Hair Of The Dog
Perfect...and we’ll keep on fighting to the end.
Sun coming' up over New York City
School bus driver in a traffic jam
Staring out at the faces in a rear view mirror
Lookin' at the promise of the Promised Land
One kid dreams of fame and fortune
One kid helps pay the rent
One could end up going to prison
One just might be president
Only in America
Dreamin' in red white and blue
Only in America
Where we dream as big as we want to
We all get a chance
Everybody gets to dance
Only in America
Sun goin' down on an LA freeway
Newly weds in the back of a limosine
A welder's son and a banker's daughter
All they want is every thing
She came out here to be an actress
He was a singer in a band
They might just go back to Oklahoma
And talk about the stars they could have been
Only in America
Dreamin' in red white and blue
Only…
Still debating the first one but I dang sure know which one will be second...
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/rollingstones/undermythumb.html
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Louis Armstrong
What a Wonderful World
Oh yes!
Ding dong the witch is dead.
The “Battle Hymn of the Republic” would be fitting, I believe.
“Happy Days Are Here Again”
If I’m not too wasted.
AGREE!!
Heil sei dem TagFidelio is an opera about political oppression. (I used to wonder how the Soviets could permit performances, if they did.) I couldn't find a good video from an actual operatic performance. This one is from a decent concert performance, and has subtitles. The scene begins just after the villain, Pissaro, has been exposed by Leonore, who has masqueraded as a male Fidelio, to work in the prison where her husband, Floristan, has been imprisoned. The prisoners have just been released, and they are being greeted by the townspeople.
This is an incredibly powerful opera, unfortunately neutered by a modernized production at the Metropolitan Opera which seldom performs it anymore because no one will go see it, and they don't have the decency to revive the previous acceptable production.
I realize that this operatic excerpt may be too long for some, but please, just start listening from the 12 minute mark for a minute and a half or so until it ends. Don't try to understand. Just listen and realize that this is an Ode to Freedom.
[The EMI Klemperer (audio) recording of Fidelio is considered by many, including maybe moi, to be the most perfect classical recording of all time.]
ML/NJ
Frank Sinatra - “ I did it my way”
James Brown - “I Feel Good!”
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