Where were you? I was a junior at a third-rate Catholic prep school in New Jersey that had pretensions to being first-rate. But it was the year I earned my first dollar, although not in the way anyone would have approved.
The assignment was to write analyses of political cartoons. I’d just finished my virgin political effort with the Goldwater campaign, and my political defloration on Election Day 1964 was as painful as anything I had yet experienced – ROTC boot camp was yet five years in the future. I knew the major cartoonists, their political agendas, and I could interpret anything to the depth required. I could even go into detail on the work of the brilliant but obnoxiously liberal Herbert Block of the Washington Post. Most of my classmates couldn’t, and they turned to me for help. I charged them. I charged even more when they asked me to write up the interpretation for them. I probably would have been expelled had I been caught, but I knew how to disguise my writing style, and my work earned me a couple hundred dollars. This is called putting conservative principles to work in a liberal manner.
So what were you up to?
Cue the Rockumentary theme!
This band was Motown’s Funk Brothers backed with pickup musicians from the Detroit Symphony.
Roger was the caffeine addicted genius of Country music, and he was one of the great entertainers of the genre. Ask anybody about Roger’s output, and this is the first song everyone names.
More good stuff! Yippeeeeee! :)
Thanks, Publius, for the Rockumentary for March 1, 1965. ((HUGS))
Roger Miller was a favorite.