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Posted on 08/27/2013 8:04:25 AM PDT by bigbob
Fifty years after the March on Washington, mystical memories of that seminal moment in the civil-rights era are less likely to focus on movement politics than on the great poetry and great music.
The emotional uplift of the monumental march is a universe of time away from today's degrading rap music—filled with the n-word, bitches and "hoes"—that confuses and depresses race relations in America now.
The poetry of Aug. 28, 1963, is best on view when Martin Luther King Jr. went off his speech script and started using a musical, chanting reprise—"I have a dream." The transforming insight born of the power of the interracial gathering at that time of turmoil, combined with the power of the spoken word, created an emotional message that still grips the American mind.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
The "protest music" of the 60s was not only actual music, but it inspired and elevated the listener to do more, and to become more. When Curtis Mayfield urged "People Get Ready", it was a message of hope, reflecting a basic faith in God. When Sam Cooke yearned for change, it was based on faith, not hate. How many of us today could embrace these words, but in a far different context?
"Oh there been times that I thought I couldn't last for long.
But now I think I'm able to carry on.
It's been a long, a long time coming.
But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will"
The dream...
1963. Nat King Cole was singing “Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days Of Summer.”
It was about beaches and drive-ins, not protests.
The music was better... and Juan's right - there was Majesty to the dream - and the hope that came with it.
Yes, but Juan still cannot make the ideological connection. As soon as the Black community embraced the Socialism that its self-appointed leaders (and White liberals) espoused, with the Federal Government as a God or “Big Daddy” and substitute for family, and cultural race to the bottom, et al, they collapsed like a house of cards and as a result 50 years later, despite having advantages and opportunities their ancestors could only dream of, it’s worse now for them than it ever has been. Rather than take responsibility, they lash out in anger & violence in every imaginable direction.
As for Juan personaly:
The answer my friend is blowin’ out your end, the answer is blowin’ out your end.”
I could give a rats ass about VC loving MLK but Juan is right about his culture
its collapsed
shame he can’t see why
1. Sugar Shack, Jimmy Gilmer and The Fireballs [Amazon MP3]
1. Surfin’ U.S.A., The Beach Boys [Amazon MP3]
3. The End of the World, Skeeter Davis[Amazon MP3]
4. Rhythm Of The Rain, The Cascades [Amazon MP3]
5. He’s So Fine, The Chiffons [Amazon MP3]
6. Blue Velvet, Bobby Vinton [Amazon MP3]
7. Hey Paula, Paul and Paula [Amazon MP3]
8. Fingertips, Part 2, Little Stevie Wonder [Amazon MP3]
9. Washington Square, Village Stompers [Amazon MP3]
10. It’s All Right, The Impressions [Amazon MP3]
11. Can’t Get Used to Losing You, Andy Williams [Amazon MP3]
12. My Boyfriend’s Back, The Angels [Amazon MP3]
13. Sukiyaki, Kyu Sakamoto [Amazon MP3]
14. She’s a Fool, Lesley Gore [Amazon MP3]
15. So Much In Love, The Tymes [Amazon MP3]
16. Puff, the Magic Dragon, Peter, Paul and Mary [Amazon MP3]
17. Blowin’ In the Wind, Peter, Paul and Mary [Amazon MP3]
18. I’m Leaving It All Up to You, Dale and Grac [Amazon MP3]e
19. Deep Purple, Nino Tempo and April Stevens [Amazon MP3]
20. Wipe Out, The Surfaris [Amazon MP3]
21. I Love You Because, Al Martino [Amazon MP3]
22. Wild Weekend, The Rockin’ Rebels [Amazon MP3]d
23. You’re the Reason I’m Living, Bobby Darin [Amazon MP3]
24. Walk Like a Man, Four Seasons [Amazon MP3]
25. Mockingbird, Inez Foxx [Amazon MP3]
26. I Will Follow Him, Little Peggy March [Amazon MP3]
27. Pipeline, The Chantays [Amazon MP3]
28. Surf City, Jan and Dean [Amazon MP3]
29. It’s My Party, Lesley Gore [Amazon MP3]
30. Blame It On the Bossa Nova, Eydie Gorme [Amazon MP3]
31. You Can’t Sit Down, The Dovells [Amazon MP3]
32. Heat Wave, Martha and The Vandellas [Amazon MP3]
33. Denise, Randy and The Rainbows [Amazon MP3]
34. Walk Right In, The Rooftop Singers [Amazon MP3]
35. If You Wanna Be Happy, Jimmy Soul [Amazon MP3]
36. Surfer Girl, The Beach Boys [Amazon MP3]
37. If I Had a Hammer, Trini Lopez [Amazon MP3]
38. Everybody, Tommy Roe [Amazon MP3]
39. Easier Said Than Done, Essex [Amazon MP3]
40. Ruby Baby, Dion [Amazon MP3]
http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1963.htm
true...a few folkies sang that tripe in 63 but the real protest stuff like Volunteers and Almost Cut my Hair or Ohio was much later
All of the hits on that list are from 1963?
Wow!
It's time for blacks to wake up and let it go.
Get over it - End this maudlin obsession with the glory days of the so-called civil rights era.
Blacks who are so obsessed with the history of slavery eagerly keep themselves enslaved to the democrat party. Their ancestors escaped from one slave master but this generation volunteers as slaves to another.
The democrats play blacks like a fiddle with their constant reminders of the past and stirring up hatered as a means of keeping them on the new plantation.
It is time for blacks to let the past go and look to the future - to make something more of their lives than to be a herd of democrat cattle, living on government handouts and being milked for votes by democrats every two years.
The nation got over WWII.
It's time for blacks to get over MLK and Rosa Park's bus ride.
The music back then was indeed beautiful... it was soulful and heartfelt. Compare it to most of what pollutes the airwaves today... never mind.. there IS no comparison.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and will bash in the heads of the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. and get no approbation from the President or their community.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice EBT cards and bastard babies.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but and not by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. and beat them to a pulp on school buses.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley politician shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low exactly the same height by law, the rough places will be made plain like Detroit, and the crooked places will be made straight like Chicago, and the glory of the Lord The One shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
Follow the link for the full Top 100..........
“Tie Me Kangaroo Down”
Man, we sang that song all summer. It must have driven mom and dad nuts.
The country hits.
# Song Artist
001 Still Bill Anderson
002 Act Naturally Buck Owens
003 Ring Of Fire Johnny Cash
004 Out Of Our Minds Jones & Montgomery
005 Lonesome 7-7203 Hawkshaw Hawkins
006 Talk Back Trembling Lips Ernest Ashworth
007 Abilene George Hamilton IV
008 Don’t Let Me Cross Over Carl Butler
009 Six Days On The Road Dave Dudley
010 You Comb Her Hair George Jones
011 The End Of The World Skeeter Davis
012 Is This Me Jim Reeves
013 Second Hand Rose Roy Drusky
014 The Ballad Of Jed Clampett Flatt & Scruggs
015 Guilty Jim Reeves
016 Make The World Go Away Ray Price
017 From A Jack To A King Ned Miller
018 The Yellow Bandana Faron Young
019 Detroit City Bobby Bare
020 Not What I Had In Mind George Jones
021 8 X 10 Bill Anderson
022 Walk Me To The Door Ray Price
023 Sweet Dreams (Of You) Patsy Cline
024 T For Texas Grandpa Jones
025 I Take The Chance Ernest Ashworth
026 Ruby Ann Marty Robbins
027 Take A Letter, Miss Gray Justin Tubb
028 Roll Muddy River Wilburn Brothers
029 Leavin’ On Your Mind Patsy Cline
030 Faded Love Patsy Cline
031 Sands Of Gold Webb Pierce
032 You Took Her Off My Hands Ray Price
033 I’ve Enjoyed As Much As I Can Stand Porter Wagoner
034 I’m Saving My Love Skeeter Davis
035 Little Ole You Jim Reeves
036 Tips Of My Fingers Roy Clark
037 Does He Mean That Much To You Eddy Arnold
038 Sing A Little Song Of Heartache Rose Maddox
039 The Minute You’re Gone Sonny James
040 Pearl Pearl Pearl Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
041 Happy To Be Unhappy Gary Buck
042 The Man Who Robbed The Bank Hank Snow
043 Old Showboat Stonewall Jackson
044 Mountain Of Love David Houston
045 You’re For Me Buck Owens
046 Can’t Hang Up The Phone Stonewall Jackson
047 Thanks A Lot Ernest Tubb
048 Tell Her So Wilburn Brothers
Man, ain’t that the list! Just about the time I got my first little 6 transistor portable radio, age 12, nothing sounded finer in life!
50 years ago, blacks told the world that they were ready to take their place as full citizens and that it was only segregation that held them back. Republicans agreed and backed them. Democrats stated that blacks were simply inferior and not fit to share common space. Democrats said that blacks were lazy, unserious, and of low moral character.
LBJ baited the trap with welfare, and black culture quickly descended into attempting to prove the Democrats right on every count. Of course, Democrats don’t say “boy” in the open any more, they just say “youth” or “teenager”.
MLK Jr. would cry if he saw black American today.
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