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 ...
Just about the time I got my first little 6 transistor portable radio, age 12, and took it apart to see how it worked.........it didn’t work very well after that.......
King plagiarized the “I Have A Dream” speech from one given at the Republican Convention in 1952 given by Archibald J. Carey, Jr., an an African-American lawyer, judge, alderman, diplomat and clergyman from the south side of Chicago.
Another great list! I didn’t listen to much country per se, at age 12-13, but lots of those songs were on the Top 40 or got played anyway. Everyone could sing every word of the Beverley Hillbillies theme, and I have vivid recollections of a Boy Scout Summer camp and “Ring of Fire”, probably related to Taco Night ;-)
Always loved hearing Bill Anderson host a segment of the Grand Ole Opry. And had a chance to spend most of an evening with George Hamilton IV back in the 90s. A true Christian gentleman in ever way.
But...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-2He8cNHdw
I Know Where I’ve Been—Queen Latifah from Hairspray (2007)
Cause just to sit still would be a sin
I know where I’m going but Lord knows
I know where I’ve been
How about
Allan Sherman - Hello Muddah Hello Faddah (1963)
Pepino the Italian Mouse - Lou Monte - 1963
Martian Hop - The Ran-Dells - 1963
Harry the Hairy Ape - Ray Stevens - 1963
Puff the Magic Dragon (Peter, Paul and Mary, 1963)
I’ve Lost My Mummy (Rolf Harris, 1963)
Lol, that’s what happened to my previous 2 transistor “boys radio”, except it never worked much in the first place!
We may not have been the greatest generation, but we damn sure had the greatest music.
I miss the ‘Motown Sound’ something fierce...............
no twerking going on in those videos. fairly benin lyrics, which you could actually understand, no derisciveness....it was indeed a different time.
most of these performers, when on tv, wore suits or dresses. hardly any skin was shown. Shindig might have been pushing it for back in the day, but overall, you’d let you’re kids watch or listen to 90% of these songs.
puff the magic dragon might be the only questionable song on the list due to the nature of the lyrics. but other than that, pretty much good to go.
how far we’ve fallen.
http://tropicalglen.com/Jukebox/1963Top/Channel1963.html Play em yourself.
Juan’s a liberal - but within that choice he’s a good man.
Me too. If you haven’t, be sure to search out all the great “Funk Brothers” recordings on youtube. And “Standing in the Shadows of Motown” is just fantastic. The music of the 60s had more to do with bridging the racial divide than anyone knew. Now it is used to dispense hatred and vile disrespect.
The dream of Martin Luther King was about the individual being accepted by the content of his character not the color of his skin. King was a Republican.
His dream got hijacked by the LEFT. Blacks live on an urban plantation constructed and maintained by RATS. Eventually, even the low-information crowd will figure this out. They will discover that, contrary to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, some white guy planting corn in Indiana or hunting in Western PA, is not responsible for the destruction of the black family and the degradation of their entire society.
I read this article this morning in the WSJ and I fully agreed with him.
Granted, all of society has been sinking in its behavioral standards, but now the trend-setters are the rappers, who have brought it to about the lowest it has ever been: full of hatred, violence, and cruelty. And they get invited to the White House by our evil wanna-be black president.
“If I Had A Hammer” is a Communist theme song written by Pete Seeger (and avowed Communist) and Lee Hays (another one)...........
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Had_a_Hammer
Didn't Prep H use this song in an ad?
“Guantanamera” was written by commie-lover Pete Seeger. He called Castro’s Cuba the “Island of Freedom”.
Yuk.....
His dream got hijacked by the LEFT. Blacks live on an urban plantation constructed and maintained by RATS.
You are absolutely right !!!
I am not a great fan of MLK but know that he would be apalled to see what the liberals and black "leaders" have done to blacks since his time.
In general, blacks before the "War On Poverty" were more responsible, more self reliant, more reverent, better citizens and better parents than the moocher class blacks of today.
Blame It On the Bossa Nova, Eydie Gorme - Compare that to whatever Miley Cyrus was doing.
Juan’s an idiot but even a blind squirrel finds a nut occasionally. Love the website. I was 11 in 1963 so that is the music of my childhood. Many of those songs are still on my iPod today.
A couple of non-PC tunes from the era (1962 actually):
Speedy Gonzales - Pat Boone
Ahab the Arab - Ray Stevens
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