The Classic/Retro Pop Culture Thread

The Old Mixer · Jun 13, 2022

RJDiogenes said:
Speaking of Watergate.

My thoughts exactly.

Those were the days.

Our long national nightmare begins...

Well. Cute.

DarrenTR1970 said:
Poor Denny Seiwell and Henry McCullough; asked to join Paul McCartney's new band and they got stuck recording this as their second single. Better stuff is around the corner though.

Paul's not doing his post-Beatles rock cred any favors here, but in his favor, Wings' surrounding singles were both banned in the UK.

RJDiogenes said:
Ah, now this is a great 70s Rocker.

A former Zombie brings rock cred to spare with this classic rock radio staple.

Good one. Now cheer up.

Yeah, sounds like this guy could use some help...and kinda similar to the Bee Gees of the period.

Another good one. I remember thinking for a while that it was Neil Diamond. It suffered from severe overplaying back in the 80s.

The singer's voice doesn't sound like Diamond to me at all. An oldies radio staple and enjoyably evocative story song, which is on my Summer! playlist for the sailing/sea theme.

RJDiogenes · Jun 14, 2022

The Old Mixer said:
A former Zombie brings rock cred to spare with this classic rock radio staple.

I did not know about the Zombie connection. The Zombies were great.

Yeah, sounds like this guy could use some help...and kinda similar to the Bee Gees of the period.

That's true.

The singer's voice doesn't sound like Diamond to me at all.

I figured it out pretty quickly, but I still see it. I was hearing a lot of Neil Diamond in those days, thanks to my Mother's obsession, and it seems to fit right in.

The Old Mixer · Jun 14, 2022

Here's an act you're not likely to mistake for Neil Diamond...

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50th Anniversary Album Spotlight

Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin
Released November 8, 1971
Chart debut: November 27, 1971
Chart peak: #2 (December 18, 1971)
#66 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2003)

Wiki said:
The untitled fourth studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, commonly known as Led Zeppelin IV, was released on 8 November 1971 by Atlantic Records. It was produced by guitarist Jimmy Page and recorded between December 1970 and February 1971, mostly in the country house Headley Grange. The album is notable for featuring "Stairway to Heaven", which has been described as the band's signature song.

The informal setting at Headley Grange inspired the band, and allowed them to try different arrangements of material and create songs in a variety of styles. After the band's previous album Led Zeppelin III received lukewarm reviews from critics, they decided their fourth album would officially be untitled, and would be represented instead by four symbols chosen by each band member, without featuring the name or any other details on the cover. Unlike the prior two albums, the band was joined by some guest musicians, such as vocalist Sandy Denny on "The Battle of Evermore", and pianist Ian Stewart on "Rock and Roll". As with prior albums, most of the material was written by the band, though there was one cover song, a hard rock re-interpretation of the Memphis Minnie blues song "When the Levee Breaks".

The album was a commercial and critical success and is Led Zeppelin's best-selling, shipping over 37 million copies worldwide. It is one of the best-selling albums in the US, while critics have regularly placed it highly on lists of the greatest albums of all time.

This is an album from which nearly every song got classic rock radio airplay, and it was an easy favorite among people I hung out with in my late teens. It opens with one of its more recognizable among many recognizable tracks, blues-rocking lead single "Black Dog" (charted Jan. 1, 1972; #15 US; #294 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time [2004]):

"Black Dog" was named after a dog that hung around Headley Grange during recording. The riff was written by Page and [John Paul] Jones, while the a cappella section was influenced by Fleetwood Mac's "Oh Well". Vocalist Robert Plant wrote the lyrics, and later sang portions of the song during solo concerts. The guitar solos on the outro were recorded directly into the desk, without using an amplifier.

The front-heaviness continues with the album's second single and maybe third best-known track, "Rock and Roll" (charted Mar. 18, 1972; #47 US):

"Rock and Roll" was a collaboration with Stewart that came out of a jam early in the recording sessions at Headley Grange. Drummer John Bonham wrote the introduction, which came from jamming around the intro to Little Richard's "Keep A-Knockin'". The track became a live favourite in concert, being performed as the opening number or an encore. It was released as a promotional single in the US, with stereo and mono mixes on either side of the disc.

In 1972 Robert Christgau called it "simply the most dynamic hard-rock song in the music."

The first side takes a slightly more obscure interlude between definitive uber-classics with "The Battle of Evermore," which still got airplay as I recall.

"The Battle of Evermore" was written by Page on the mandolin, borrowed from Jones. Plant added lyrics inspired by a book he was reading about the Scottish Independence Wars. The track features a duet between Plant and Fairport Convention's Sandy Denny, who provides the only female voice to be heard on a Led Zeppelin recording. Plant played the role of narrator in the song, describing events, while Denny sang the part of the town crier representing the people.

The song, like Led Zeppelin's "Ramble On" and "Misty Mountain Hop", makes references to The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, with "The Dark Lord rides in force tonight and time will tell us all" in line 4, "The drums will shake the castle wall, the Ringwraiths ride in black" in line 18, and mentions of war and swords (line 13), shooting with a bow (line 19), magic runes (line 20) and "the dragon of darkness" in line 24.

The first side closes with headbanger nirvana...the band's signature number and the album's longest track...the epic anthem that you either love or hate...a song that needs no introduction, but here I am giving it one anyway...ladies and gentlemen, "Stairway to Heaven" (#31 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time [2004]):

"Stairway to Heaven" was mostly written by Page, and the bulk of the chord sequence was already worked out when recording started at Basing Street Studios. The lyrics were written by Plant at Headley Grange, about a woman who "took everything without giving anything back". The final take of the song was recorded at Island Studios after the Headley Grange session. The basic backing track featured Bonham on drums, Jones on electric piano and Page on acoustic guitar. The whole group contributed to the arrangement, such as Jones playing recorders on the introduction, and Bonham's distinctive drum entry halfway through the piece. Page played the guitar solo using a Fender Telecaster he had received from Jeff Beck and been his main guitar on the group's first album and early live shows. He put down three different takes of the solo and picked the best to put on the album.

It was the most requested song on FM radio stations in the United States in the 1970s, despite never having been commercially released as a single there.

A song over seven minutes in length with gradually escalating instrumentation? I should've schooled my old headbanger pals regarding who did that first...

Side two opens with the B-side of "Black Dog" and another of the album's more frequently played tracks, straight-up hard rocker "Misty Mountain Hop":

"Misty Mountain Hop" was written at Headley Grange and featured Jones playing electric piano....The title comes from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.

The lyrics refer to the events of the 7 July 1968 "Legalise Pot Rally" in Hyde Park, London, in which police made arrests for marijuana possession.

What's it like to be the most obscure track on an extremely popular album? Ask "Four Sticks," which served as the B-side of "Rock and Roll".

"Four Sticks" took its title from Bonham playing the drum pattern that runs throughout the song with four drum sticks, and Jones played analog synth. The track was difficult to record compared to the other material on the album, requiring numerous takes.

The gentle, atmospheric "Going to California" actually ranks as the third most popular of the album's tracks on iTunes:

"Going to California" is a quiet acoustic number. It was written by Page and Plant about Californian earthquakes, and trying to find the perfect woman. The music was inspired by Joni Mitchell, of whom both Plant and Page were fans. The track was originally titled "Guide To California"; the final title comes from the trip to Los Angeles to mix the album.

The album closes with its second-longest track and only cover, "When the Levee Breaks".

"When the Levee Breaks" comes from a blues song recorded by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy in 1929. The track opens with Bonham's heavy unaccompanied drumming, which was recorded in the lobby of Headley Grange using two Beyerdynamic M 160 microphones which were hung up a flight of stairs; output from these were passed to a limiter. A Binson Echorec, a delay effects unit, was also used. Page recalled he had tried to record the track at early sessions, but it had sounded flat. The unusual locations around the lobby gave the ideal ambience for the drum sound. This introduction was later extensively sampled for hip hop music in the 1980s.

Some cite this as the album's greatest achievement, but I find it to be the album's least memorable track, and, along with "Four Sticks," the one I'd be most likely to skip when relistening. Cut those two out and it plays like a hits collection.

This album's popularity is so great that it's proven to be something of an albatross. I was reading about how there are two unwritten rules among fans and critics: to never say that IV is your favorite Led Zeppelin album, and to always name a song from side two as your favorite track from the album. Likewise, those who don't consider themselves true Zep fans are likely to want to dismiss this album given its fanbase...but it proves to be hard not to like, because it's just a damned good record in its own right.

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RJDiogenes · Jun 15, 2022

The Old Mixer said:
Here's an act you're not likely to mistake for Neil Diamond...

You mean he didn't write for Led Zep like he did for the Monkees?

It opens with one of its more recognizable among many recognizable tracks, blues-rocking lead single "Black Dog"

This one has acquired a bit of a nostalgic sound at this point.

The front-heaviness continues with the album's second single and maybe third best-known track, "Rock and Roll"

Same, but my mind kind of wanders after the first iteration or so.

The first side closes with headbanger nirvana...the band's signature number and the album's longest track...the epic anthem that you either love or hate...

Yup, that's true. :rommie:

The gentle, atmospheric "Going to California" actually ranks as the third most popular of the album's tracks on iTunes:

I do like this one.

Likewise, those who don't consider themselves true Zep fans are likely to want to dismiss this album given its fanbase...

I would not dismiss music because of its fanbase... however, I do strongly associate Led Zep with the biggest losers in junior high and high school. Especially "Stairway to Heaven," which I don't even want to listen to. :rommie:

but it proves to be hard not to like, because it's just a damned good record in its own right.

Sadly, I must depart from the majority opinion when it comes to this album and the band in general. Not that I don't like some of their stuff, but just not much.

The Old Mixer · Jun 15, 2022

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Really Big Anniversary Viewing

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The Ed Sullivan Show
Season 18, episode 31
Originally aired April 17, 1966

Had a little more luck with this one, though I had to dig a little deeper because the clips were consistently misdated.

Performances listed on Metacritic:

The Animals - "Shake" & "Don't Bring Me Down."

Petula Clark - "A Sign of the Times" & "Just Say Good Bye."

Jimmy Durante & Sonny King - "We're Going Home" (and "Don't Talk").
Jimmy Durante (playing piano) - "The Piano Player (Always Gets the Girls)," "When The Saints Go Marching In" (with Sonny King) & "Inka-Dinka-Doo."

Jimmy Durante - "One of Those Songs."
Dorothy Kirsten & Franco Corelli - duet from Act One of Puccini's "La Boheme."
Myron Cohen (stand-up comedian)
Lawrence and Carroll (dance team)
Gitta Morelly (contortionist)
Jose Cole (balancer) - balances himself on two bottle necks joined on top of each other. Then he balances himself on a cane with one arm twirling 5 rings.

All of these clips are listed on YouTube as being from August 14, which was during the rerun season.

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RJDiogenes said:
I would not dismiss music because of its fanbase... however, I do strongly associate Led Zep with the biggest losers in junior high and high school.

For the record, I was speaking as much for myself as anyone else (though definitely informed by your previously expressed opinions on the matter, which jibe to some extent with my own experience). There's still a part of me that wanted to roll inner eyes at this album coming up, but I've gained a great deal of respect for Led Zep and what they brought to the table in immersive retro context. My old stoner work/school pals could have had much worse taste in music.

Any opinion on "Misty Mountain Hop"?

RJDiogenes · Jun 16, 2022

The Old Mixer said:
Had a little more luck with this one, though I had to dig a little deeper because the clips were consistently misdated.

I wonder what's behind that.

Petula Clark - "A Sign of the Times" & "Just Say Good Bye."

And a bunch of cool cars.

Jimmy Durante & Sonny King - "We're Going Home" (and "Don't Talk").
Jimmy Durante (playing piano) - "The Piano Player (Always Gets the Girls)," "When The Saints Go Marching In" (with Sonny King) & "Inka-Dinka-Doo."
Jimmy Durante - "One of Those Songs."

Lots of Jimmy Durante. I'd like to see that episode.

Jose Cole (balancer) - balances himself on two bottle necks joined on top of each other. Then he balances himself on a cane with one arm twirling 5 rings.

"Hold my beer. Wait, on second thought...."

For the record, I was speaking as much for myself as anyone else (though definitely informed by your previously expressed opinions on the matter, which jibe to some extent with my own experience). There's still a part of me that wanted to roll inner eyes at this album coming up, but I've gained a great deal of respect for Led Zep and what they brought to the table in immersive retro context. My old stoner work/school pals could have had much worse taste in music.

I've definitely mellowed on them. My siblings have advocated for years to get me to like them. :rommie:

Any opinion on "Misty Mountain Hop"?

About the same as "Rock and Roll." Its got a nostalgic feel now, but not so much as "Black Dog."

The Old Mixer · Jun 16, 2022

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Really Big Anniversary Viewing

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The Ed Sullivan Show
Season 18, episode 32
Originally aired April 24, 1966

Performances listed on Metacritic:

Dave Clark Five - "Catch Us If You Can"
On tape: Dave Clark - "Try Too Hard"
Roberta Peters - "Una Voce Poca Fa"

Roberta Peters & Allan Sherman - "Here's To The Crab-Grass"
Steve Sanders (Gospel singer, accompanied by his piano playing father) - medley
Kessler Twins - "Two By Two"
Alan Sherman (comedian) - sings "Second Hand Rose," "Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda," & "Mononucleosis"

Shelley Berman (comedian)
Topo Gigio (Italian mouse puppet)
Jose Greco (Flamenco dancer, with other dancers)
Brascia & Tybee (modern ballet pas de deux)
John Moehring (magician)

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RJDiogenes said:
I wonder what's behind that.

One possibility is that the Metacritic source is going by listings, and the original broadcast was preempted.

And a bunch of cool cars.

Ah, yes--an Aston Martin and '60s Jag in the same shot! Can't say I care for either in red, especially the Aston.

"Hold my beer. Wait, on second thought...."

Very impressive. Makes me wonder if we'll ever get a clip of that spider guy who appeared on the show back in '62...

My siblings have advocated for years to get me to like them.

They could also have worse taste in music.

RJDiogenes · Jun 17, 2022

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Ah, live TV. :rommie:

That's cool, though. I don't think I knew about the sequel to "Camp Granada." Back in the 60s, there was actually a Camp Granada board game that we had.

Topo Gigio (Italian mouse puppet)

Oh, but he's so much more than that.

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Another live TV oopsie. :rommie:

Very impressive. Makes me wonder if we'll ever get a clip of that spider guy who appeared on the show back in '62...

Now that you mention it, somebody could probably stitch some clips together to make that happen. :rommie:

They could also have worse taste in music.

Yeah, they generally have good taste in music. Except they all have this weird loathing for Bob Seger that kind of creeps me out.

The Old Mixer · Jun 17, 2022

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50th Anniversary Viewing

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Emergency!
"Hang-Up"
Originally aired April 8, 1972

Wiki said:
Johnny makes his best effort to find out the end of an Adam-12 episode, he missed while responding to a thief trapped in an air-conditioning duct. Dixie also listens in on Johnny's situation, about his favorite television show, prior to taking that call with Roy. Two battered men continue their brawl in the hospital. A man ruins his cast by going surfing. Dr. Brackett treats a woman with a neurological disorder. Dixie is tired of all the nonsense happening in the hospital and taking advantage of anybody's emergencies someplace else. Radioactivity impedes the rescue of a lab worker.

We're back, baby!

Calling into question all previous continuity between the Mark VII shows, the episode opens with the gang at the station watching Adam-12...specifically "Ambush," which aired on November 10, 1971. After Reed gets himself taken hostage and Malloy's listening to the ambushers' demands while taking cover behind a tree with William Campbell, the station gets a call about a man trapped in an air conditioning duct. A deputy played by Vince Howard takes the firemen to where the burglar can be heard pounding for help, and Gage pops into a ceiling panel to establish vocal contact. After the firemen locate the section of duct that he's trapped in, DeSoto cuts it loose with the K-12 and he's brought down in it...kinda like that M:I episode in which Willy smuggled Eartha Kitt into an air conditioning shaft via a piece of duct she was hiding in. As the burglar (Mort Sahl), bleeding from an injury, is being ambulanced to Rampart, he laments how his previous success led him to gain weight by eating too good.

Afterward Johnny starts to obsess over learning how the episode turned out. After the paramedics leave, Rampart gets two new walk-in patients who come in separately...uncredited men who were involved in a brawl at their workplace. Brackett and Early each work on one of the men, getting conflicting stories. Later the doctors compare notes and deduce that they've been working on two ends of the same case. Meanwhile, back at the station, Johnny proves so distracted that Roy tries calling his wife to find out how the show went, but she missed the end as well because their son Chris fell out of bed. Later, Johnny keeps the other firemen awake fretting over the situation.

Rampart gets another patient--a belligerent dude (Shelly Novak) complaining about pain from an existing leg cast that he damaged, he reluctantly admits to, while trying to surf with it. This one proves to be to put Dix over the edge about how many frivolous patients they get in the emergency room. Meanwhile, the two men see each other in the corridor and resume their fight, undoing the 82 stitches that Brackett took pride in putting in one of them. Rampart subsequently gets a visit from one of the usual fakers who tends to be after medication, a woman named Karen Wilson (Savannah Bentley), but Kel diagnoses that her head pain is real this time and performs a spinal tap to learn the cause--an aneurysm, for which he assigns her to a neurologist.

The firemen are woken from their bunks by a call for a fire at a lab that uses radioactive materials, and the chief learns from a security guard (Don Ross) that a Doctor Duncan is still inside. After using a Geiger counter to locate him trapped under some rubble, the firemen take turns working in pairs to free him while limiting their exposure. DeSoto and Gage end up staying in past the timer figuring out how to free the scientist's leg. At Rampart, Brackett and Early get to work on Duncan in an isolated ward wearing protective suits that still expose their faces. It's determined that Johnny got a large enough dose that he has to be kept overnight for observation, and he resolves in his hospital bed to catch the summer rerun of Adam-12...kinda like I'm doing here with Emergency!

Maybe Johnny can blame Adam-12 for keeping him from noticing that Ellen's still working at Rampart. Captain Hammer, originally played by Dick Hammer, has now been recast with a John Smith.

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RJDiogenes said:
Ah, live TV.

He played it well.

Another live TV oopsie.

Is that what was happening? I was thinking that he started out so smoothly, then went on with the salt-pouring thing way too long.

Now that you mention it, somebody could probably stitch some clips together to make that happen.

That got me thinking...if Spidey originally made his costume to appear on black and white TV, shouldn't it have been brown and gray...?

Yeah, they generally have good taste in music. Except they all have this weird loathing for Bob Seger that kind of creeps me out.

Ah, that's a shame. He did some good stuff.

ETA: I was reminded that today is the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in--the History channel is actually playing history stuff!

RJDiogenes · Jun 18, 2022

The Old Mixer said:
Calling into question all previous continuity between the Mark VII shows, the episode opens with the gang at the station watching Adam-12...

"Didn't those guys used to be real people?"

"That's just the Mandela Effect."

"The Mandela Effect won't even be a thing for thirty years."

"How do you know that?"

"How did you know that?"

Cue Twilight Zone theme.

...kinda like that M:I episode in which Willy smuggled Eartha Kitt into an air conditioning shaft via a piece of duct she was hiding in.

Jim established the "No Girls After Curfew" rule just to keep them in practice.

he laments how his previous success led him to gain weight by eating too good.

PSA!

Roy tries calling his wife to find out how the show went, but she missed the end as well because their son Chris fell out of bed.

And she didn't call the station?!

This one proves to be to put Dix over the edge about how many frivolous patients they get in the emergency room.

Wow, Dix is a time bomb. "She was always so quiet and nice," said one co-worker.

undoing the 82 stitches that Brackett took pride in putting in one of them.

Now you're going to see somebody go over the edge. :rommie:

but Kel diagnoses that her head pain is real this time and performs a spinal tap to learn the cause--an aneurysm, for which he assigns her to a neurologist.

Maybe it's always been real and they never caught it.

After using a Geiger counter to locate him trapped under some rubble

You know it's bad when they need a Geiger counter to locate you.

DeSoto and Gage end up staying in past the timer figuring out how to free the scientist's leg. At Rampart, Brackett and Early get to work on Duncan in an isolated ward wearing protective suits that still expose their faces.

Total new superheroes: Five.

Maybe Johnny can blame Adam-12 for keeping him from noticing that Ellen's still working at Rampart.

It's those unauthorized clone experiments in the restricted sub-basement again.

He played it well.

Yeah, he just turned it into part of the comedy. I once saw a live Jim Croce performance where he broke a string in the middle of a song and replaced it while continuing to perform, and didn't miss a beat. These guys are pros! :rommie:

Is that what was happening? I was thinking that he started out so smoothly, then went on with the salt-pouring thing way too long.

There was a part earlier where he accidentally knocked his hat on the floor, but I did wonder about the salt thing too.

That got me thinking...if Spidey originally made his costume to appear on black and white TV, shouldn't it have been brown and gray...?

Didn't he perform live wrestling, too?

Ah, that's a shame. He did some good stuff.

Yeah, it's pretty random and weird.

ETA: I was reminded that today is the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in--the History channel is actually playing history stuff!

Now we're really in the Twilight Zone!

The Old Mixer · Jun 19, 2022

55 Years Ago This Week

June 18

American rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix made his American debut, appearing on the final day of the Monterey Pop Festival, after finding success in the United Kingdom.

["I was unconscious in a drug-induced stupor when Jimi burned his guitar at Monterey!"]

The Who played their first concert in the United States, appearing at the Monterey Pop Festival.

June 19

Soviet Union Premier Alexei Kosygin, who was in New York City on his first visit to the United States, turned down an invitation by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson for a meeting at the White House to discuss world issues. Through diplomatic channels, Kosygin passed the word that his visit was solely to attend the special session of the UN General Assembly and not for a summit with the President. On the same day, Kosygin addressed the General Assembly and accused the U.S. of promoting an "incitement campaign against the Arab states and their leaders." Kosygin reconsidered the invitation days later and agreed to meet Johnson in Glassboro, New Jersey.
Former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion suggested that an autonomous Palestinian Arab state be formed by Israel within the recently captured West Bank. Under Ben-Gurion's vision, "the state could be linked in an economic treaty with Israel, have guaranteed access to the Mediterranean Sea, and be protected by Israeli troops". He suggested also that Israel should offer to conclude a treaty that would allow Jordan an outlet on the Mediterranean, but added that the recently acquired city of Jerusalem should not be given back to Jordan. "We will never discuss this with any party," he wrote. "Jerusalem has been the capital of Israel since the days of King David, and so it shall remain forever and ever."
In a secret meeting, Israel's cabinet of ministers approved its Resolution 563, approving the eventual return of the captured Sinai Peninsula to Egypt if diplomatic relations could be established and if Egypt recognized Israel's right to exist as a Jewish nation. The same condition of a return to pre-war borders would be offered to Syria, but not to the West Bank or to the Gaza Strip.
Egypt's Prime Minister Zakaria Mohieddin resigned along with his government at the request of President Nasser, who then formed a ministry on his own.
Paul McCartney reluctantly confirms on television what he has already admitted to in a Life magazine interview: that he has taken the drug LSD. Uproar around the world follows.

June 20

Muhammad Ali, recently stripped of his title as world heavyweight boxing champion, was found guilty of draft evasion by a federal jury in Houston after 20 minutes of deliberation. After the verdict, Ali asked for the sentence to be pronounced immediately, and U.S. District Judge Joe Ingraham sentenced him to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine, the maximum penalty for the felony conviction. The next day, Ali's lawyers filed an appeal. Ali remained free on a $5,000 bond pending the outcome of the review of the case. Though barred from boxing professionally, Ali would spend the next three years on the lecture circuit at colleges, and would be an actor on film and even in a Broadway musical (Big Time Buck White) before the United States Supreme Court would reverse the conviction on June 28, 1970.
The American Independent Party, a new political party that was organized to prepare for former Alabama Governor George C. Wallace to run as a third-party candidate for President of the United States, announced its plans to get on the ballot of all 50 states in time for the 1968 U.S. presidential election.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted, 385-16, to approve a bill to make the burning of the American flag a federal crime— then discovered that they had passed a bill that had left out the word "burning". Congressman Cornelius E. Gallagher of New Jersey commented, "I suggest perhaps we have a bill-burning." The members left it to the U.S. Senate to correct the wording.

June 21

Ruhi al-Khatib, the Arab mayor of the formerly Jordanian East Jerusalem, raised the flag of Israel over the town hall, in a ceremony attended by Teddy Kollek, the Mayor of Israeli Jerusalem. Mayor Kahtib, who had been a civil servant in British Palestine, shook hands with Mayor Kollek and said, "All of us love Jerusalem. We will do our best for Jerusalem", while Mayor Kollek said "Now we are again citizens of united Jerusalem. We shall both have to adjust ourselves." Only eight days later, the Israeli government dissolved the Palestinian municipal government of East Jerusalem and fired Khatib.
Soviet Union head of state Nikolai V. Podgorny arrived for a state visit to Cairo and arranged for the replacement of Egyptian Air Force planes that had been destroyed during the Six Day War. By July 15, the new aircraft would be delivered, thousands of Soviet military advisers arrived in Egypt, and Soviet ships arrived at Egyptian ports at the request of President Nasser. "For a leader who had once struggled to rid Egypt of any foreign military presence," a historian would write later, "the Soviet presence was a humiliating symbol of Egypt's plight." Over three weeks, the Egyptian arsenal was replenished with 93 MiG-17 jet fighters, 71 MiG-21 supersonic fighter-interceptors, 38 Sukhoi aircraft and 100 tanks.
Although the name "Summer of Love" would later be used to describe an entire social movement during the spring and summer of 1967, the event that originally employed the name began before dawn in front of the Twin Peaks near the center of San Francisco, where the celebration by thousands of American hippies of the summer solstice took place as planned by an underground newspaper, the San Francisco Oracle.

June 23

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson met with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey, for the 3-day Glassboro Summit Conference. The town of only 10,000 people was chosen because it was approximately midway between New York City and Washington and "mutually convenient" to the leaders' schedules. The meeting was held at 11:00 in the morning on the campus of Glassboro State College at the home of the college's president, Thomas Robinson. Kosygin informed Johnson that there would be no discussions about halting the arms race between the two superpowers until the Vietnam War ended.
Johnson flew to Los Angeles after the summit in Glassboro, and encountered a large protest rally outside the Century Plaza Hotel, where he was addressing a $500-a-person fundraising dinner. At least 10,000 antiwar demonstrators were gathered outside the hotel when members of the Los Angeles Police Department gave two warnings to disperse. The protesters chose to ignore the warnings and the police were forced to deal with the unruly mob. One historian would later note that "Los Angeles became the first city in the country to break up an antiwar march with violence."
At a track and field meet in Bakersfield, California, two world athletic records were broken on the same day. Paul Wilson cleared the pole vault at 17 feet, 8 inches, breaking the record of 17'7" set by Bob Seagran. Jim Ryun ran one mile in 3 minutes, 51.1 seconds, breaking his previous world record of 3:51.3.

June 24

The British nuclear submarine HMS Dreadnought torpedoed the wreckage of the West German tanker Essberger Chemist in order to remove a shipping hazard near the Azores Islands. Despite being struck by three bombs, the tanker failed to sink immediately and had to be finished off by gunfire from the Royal Navy frigate HMS Salisbury. The ship had exploded on June 2, but all 39 crew had been rescued, unharmed, by the Norwegian freighter Tomar and the Greek tugboat Nisos Zakinthos.
Chuck Norris of Redondo Beach, California, won his first major karate championship in competition at the All-American Open Karate Championship at Madison Square Garden in New York. Norris defeated karate champion Julio LaSalle in the final.

Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:

1. "Groovin'," The Young Rascals
2. "Respect," Aretha Franklin
3. "She'd Rather Be with Me," The Turtles
4. "Windy," The Association
5. "Little Bit o' Soul," The Music Explosion
6. "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)," Scott McKenzie
7. "Somebody to Love," Jefferson Airplane
8. "Can't Take My Eyes Off You," Frankie Valli
9. "Sunday Will Never Be the Same," Spanky & Our Gang
10. "Let's Live for Today," The Grass Roots
11. "Come on Down to My Boat," Every Mother's Son
12. "Release Me (and Let Me Love Again)," Engelbert Humperdinck
13. "The Tracks of My Tears," Johnny Rivers
14. "7 Rooms of Gloom," Four Tops
15. "Ding, Dong! The Witch Is Dead," The Fifth Estate
16. "New York Mining Disaster 1941 (Have You Seen My Wife, Mr. Jones)," Bee Gees
17. "Alfie," Dionne Warwick
18. "Do It Again a Little Bit Slower," Jon & Robin & The In Crowd
19. "All I Need," The Temptations
20. "Don't Sleep in the Subway," Petula Clark
21. "Up, Up and Away," The 5th Dimension
22. "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
23. "Here We Go Again," Ray Charles
24. "Light My Fire," The Doors
25. "Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)," Janis Ian
26. "Tramp," Otis & Carla
27. "Mirage," Tommy James & The Shondells
28. "C'mon Marianne," The Four Seasons
29. "I Got Rhythm," The Happenings

31. "For Your Precious Love," Oscar Toney, Jr.
32. "Him or Me, What's It Gonna Be?," Paul Revere & The Raiders
33. "I Was Made to Love Her," Stevie Wonder
34. "The Oogum Boogum Song," Brenton Wood
35. "Pay You Back with Interest," The Hollies

39. "Here Comes My Baby," The Tremeloes
40. "Creeque Alley," The Mamas & The Papas
41. "Soul Finger," The Bar-Kays
42. "When You're Young and in Love," The Marvelettes

46. "Make Me Yours," Bettye Swann
47. "Shake," Otis Redding

49. "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy," The Buckinghams
50. "White Rabbit," Jefferson Airplane
51. "I Take It Back," Sandy Posey
52. "More Love," Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
53. "Step Out of Your Mind," The American Breed

55. "Carrie-Anne," The Hollies
56. "For Your Love," Peaches & Herb

76. "Silence Is Golden," The Tremeloes

80. "A Whiter Shade of Pale," Procol Harum
81. "Don't Go Out into the Rain (You're Going to Melt)," Herman's Hermits
82. "You Only Live Twice," Nancy Sinatra
83. "Have You Seen Her Face," The Byrds

94. "My World Fell Down," Sagittarius

96. "Hypnotized," Linda Jones

99. "Let the Good Times Roll & Feel So Good," Bunny Sigler

Leaving the chart:

"Friday on My Mind," The Easybeats (14 weeks)
"Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon," Neil Diamond (11 weeks)
"The Happening," The Supremes (11 weeks)
"On a Carousel," The Hollies (14 weeks)
"Six O'Clock," The Lovin' Spoonful (8 weeks)
"Sweet Soul Music," Arthur Conley (15 weeks)

New on the chart:

"Don't Go Out into the Rain (You're Going to Melt)," Herman's Hermits
(#18 US)

"White Rabbit," Jefferson Airplane
(#8 US; #55 UK; #478 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time [2004])

"A Whiter Shade of Pale," Procol Harum
(#5 US; #22 R&B; #1 UK; #57 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time [2004])

And new on the boob tube:

The Ed Sullivan Show, Season 19, episode 39
The Saint, "Little Girl Lost"

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Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki pages for the month or year and Mark Lewisohn's The Beatles Day by Day, with minor editing as needed.

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RJDiogenes said:
Now you're going to see somebody go over the edge.

He got pretty tough with the surfer dude.

Maybe it's always been real and they never caught it.

Not how it was played...Brackett had seen her before.

Total new superheroes: Five.

Johnny, at least, had potential.

It's those unauthorized clone experiments in the restricted sub-basement again.

We've found out where the Virginia Greggs come from!

Didn't he perform live wrestling, too?

A one-time thing in street clothes and a stocking mask, which is what got him noticed by a talent agent.

:beer:

A belated Happy 80th to Sir Paul! :beer:

This week is also the 55th anniversary of when Pepper entered the album chart at #8, to quickly displace one-week topper Headquarters, breaking the domination of the #1 spot that the Monkees had enjoyed almost uninterrupted since November. It's kind of amazing that Paul spearheaded the Greatest Album of All Time when he was still only 24!

DarrenTR1970 · Jun 19, 2022

The Old Mixer said:
"A Whiter Shade of Pale," Procol Harum

The Old Mixer said:
(#5 US; #22 R&B; #1 UK; #57 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time [2004])

I don't think that there is any more that can be added to this that isn't already known. Based loosely on Bach's "Air On A G String", "Sleepers Awake" by Bach, and "O Man, Lament Your Sin So Great" by Bach; as well as "When A Man Loves A Woman" by Percy Sledge.

The version that ended up being the single was recorded by Gary Brooker (piano and vocals), Matthew Fisher (organ) and session musicians Roy Royer (guitar), David Knights (bass) and Bill Eyden (drums) on 29-March-1967 at Olympic Studio.

A second attempt at recording was done on 19-April-1967 at Advision with the new drummer Bobby Harrison. This version was rejected. (It appears as a bonus track on the Deluxe reissue.)

Other songs considered for Procol Harum's debut single were "Something Following Me", "Salad Days (Are Here Again)" and "Conquistador". All would eventually be recorded for Procol's debut album.

Also recorded during this time was Procol's debut album, which was scrapped when Brooker and Fisher agreed that the session musicians being employed weren't working out the way they had hoped; so, they were let go. (Some of the rejected tracks from the debut album appear as bonus tracks on the Deluxe edition.)

Gary Brooker called upon his former The Paramounts bandmates Robin Trower (guitar) and Barrie (B.J.) Wilson to fill the void.

Thus, with the line-up stabilized around Brooker, Fisher, Trower, Wilson, and Knights, Procol's debut album was recorded over two 12-hour nights in July at Advision Studio, starting at 7pm and ending at 7am; each song being given only six takes to record and perfect.

The album was released on 16-January-1968.

DarrenTR1970 · Jun 20, 2022

The Old Mixer said:
June 16 – The three day Monterey Pop Festival began in Monterey, California, at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. One historian opined that it "ushered in the era of the major music festival and helped launch the careers of several major rock artists." The musicians who performed on the first evening were The Association, Lou Rawls, Johnny Rivers, Eric Burdon & The Animals and Simon & Garfunkel. The non-profit Festival attracted 50,000 paid admissions and a crowd of 125,000 unpaid spectators, and grossed more than half a million dollars.

The Beach Boys were scheduled to play on the second day, as the headlining act, but pulled out of the festival.

Conflicting accounts have been given for the reason for their no-show . . . Brian's struggles with drugs and his obsession/inability to complete the album "SMiLE", Carl's ongoing dispute with being drafted into the army due to his conscientious objector status, the possibility that they might being seen as "unhip" by the audience, as well as the fact that they had no new material to present to the crowd (except "Good Vibrations", which was 9 months old at that point) and were unable to recreate Brian's intricate and increasingly experimental works/songs.

Another theory I've read that also might have some truth behind it, is that in February of that year, The Beach Boys launched a lawsuit against Capitol Records claiming the label owed them $225,000 in unpaid royalties.

A side effect of this suit was that if The Beach Boys recorded/released any new material while the lawsuit was ongoing, Capitol could theoretically seize the songs as part of a breach of contract; meaning work on "SMiLE" all but ground to a halt and Brian held up the release of the next single "Heroes and Villains".

If The Beach Boys performed any "SMiLE" material at Monterey, Capitol could use that against them.

The Beach Boys failure to appear led to a decline in fortunes from which they would never really recover until the early/mid-1970s with a string of critically (if not commercially) successful albums as well as a reputation as a great live touring band.

If you want to hear how The Beach Boys may have sounded had they appeared at The Monterey Pop Festival, I would recommend the concert recorded in Hawaii in August 1967 for possible live release "Lei'd In Hawaii" which has been bootlegged several times, receiving an official release as part of the "Sunshine Tomorrow" box set. (In a word "Stoned".)

Also, the lawsuit having been settled with Capitol, The Beach Boys set up their own subsidiary label "Brother Records" and were now free to perform material from the now abandoned "SMiLE" album, re-recorded and released as "Smiley Smile" as well as the upcoming album "Wild Honey".

RJDiogenes · Jun 20, 2022

The Old Mixer said:
American rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix made his American debut, appearing on the final day of the Monterey Pop Festival, after finding success in the United Kingdom.

That was pretty good.

["I was unconscious in a drug-induced stupor when Jimi burned his guitar at Monterey!"]

Is that a quote from the girl at 6:30? :rommie:

The Who played their first concert in the United States, appearing at the Monterey Pop Festival.

They copied their instrument smashing from Jimi?

Paul McCartney reluctantly confirms on television what he has already admitted to in a Life magazine interview: that he has taken the drug LSD.

Also sodium pentothal, apparently.

Muhammad Ali, recently stripped of his title as world heavyweight boxing champion, was found guilty of draft evasion by a federal jury in Houston after 20 minutes of deliberation. After the verdict, Ali asked for the sentence to be pronounced immediately, and U.S. District Judge Joe Ingraham sentenced him to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine, the maximum penalty for the felony conviction. The next day, Ali's lawyers filed an appeal. Ali remained free on a $5,000 bond pending the outcome of the review of the case. Though barred from boxing professionally, Ali would spend the next three years on the lecture circuit at colleges, and would be an actor on film and even in a Broadway musical (Big Time Buck White) before the United States Supreme Court would reverse the conviction on June 28, 1970.

This is why he was the Greatest.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted, 385-16, to approve a bill to make the burning of the American flag a federal crime— then discovered that they had passed a bill that had left out the word "burning".

So they banned the flag instead? :rommie:

We'll call that phenomenon "Freudian Legislation."

Although the name "Summer of Love" would later be used to describe an entire social movement during the spring and summer of 1967

I use it pretty much to describe a decade. :rommie:

The British nuclear submarine HMS Dreadnought torpedoed the wreckage of the West German tanker Essberger Chemist in order to remove a shipping hazard near the Azores Islands. Despite being struck by three bombs, the tanker failed to sink immediately and had to be finished off by gunfire from the Royal Navy frigate HMS Salisbury.

Way to hang in there.

"Don't Go Out into the Rain (You're Going to Melt)," Herman's Hermits

Cute. My Grandmother used to say the opposite to me: "So what if it's raining? You're not going to melt!" :rommie:

"White Rabbit," Jefferson Airplane

Stoned Cold Classic. Hah. See what I did there?

"A Whiter Shade of Pale," Procol Harum

Stone Cold Classic.

He got pretty tough with the surfer dude.

Brackett's a hardass.

We've found out where the Virginia Greggs come from!

Maybe we can order some.

A one-time thing in street clothes and a stocking mask, which is what got him noticed by a talent agent.

Ah, right, now I remember. I wonder if they ever did a follow up with the talent agent like they did with the burglar. Theoretically, the talent agent would know, or could figure out, who he is.

A belated Happy 80th to Sir Paul!

Window panes all around!

It's kind of amazing that Paul spearheaded the Greatest Album of All Time when he was still only 24!

And they didn't really get as messed up as much as other young celebrities did.

The Old Mixer · Jun 20, 2022

50 Years Ago This Week

June 18

In the worst air disaster in Britain up to that time, all 118 people aboard British European Airways Flight 548 were killed when the Trident jetliner crashed at 5:29 p.m., shortly after takeoff from Heathrow.
The first Libertarian Party convention closed in Denver, with the 100 delegates nominating Professor John Hospers as president, and Theodora Nathalia Nathan as his running mate. The Hospers-Nathan third party ticket would receive one electoral vote, from Nixon elector Roger MacBride of Virginia.

June 19

Bringing an end to an era of secret wiretapping by the U.S. Justice Department, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled, 8–0, in United States v. U.S. District Court (407 U.S. 297), that the American government did not have the authority to spy, without a warrant, upon private citizens within the United States. On the same day, the Supreme Court upheld professional baseball's antitrust law exemption, in Flood v. Kuhn.
Airline pilots launched a worldwide 24-hour strike to protest hijacking, but only three U.S. carriers were grounded and one of those resumed flights at midmorning.

June 20

From 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 pm, on their first day back at the White House after the Watergate break-in, President Nixon and Chief of Staff Haldeman met at the Oval Office. When the tape recording of their conversation was subpoenaed later by a special prosecutor, it was found that 18½ minutes of the tape had been erased.
The Tallahatchie Bridge mentioned in Billie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe" collapsed after having burned. The fire was attributed to vandalism.

June 22

MCI (Microwave Communications, Inc.), which would successfully fight the monopoly held by AT&T on American telephone service, went public, offering 40 percent (3.3 million) of its shares for sale at ten dollars per share. The offering sold out immediately, and MCI's valuation was over $120,000,000.
The 1,000,000th Ford Thunderbird was produced, rolling off of an assembly line in Los Angeles. The car was first produced in 1955.

June 23

U.S. President Richard Nixon and his Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman, had three conversations, where the President directed that the FBI should be told to stop further investigation of the Watergate burglary. All Oval Office conversations were recorded by a voice-activated system, and when the transcript of the "smoking gun" tape was released on August 5, 1974, Nixon would resign at the end of the week.
The Omnibus Education Bill, providing, for the first time, direct federal aid to private and public colleges and universities, was signed into law by President Nixon. Title IX of the law said in part, "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance". Those words fueled the growth of women's college sports, as the schools had to provide athletic programs for women as well as for men. As federal school funding expanded, so did opportunities for girls at the primary and secondary school level.
Hurricane Agnes had been downgraded to a tropical storm after reaching Florida on June 19, but combined with existing storm systems in the northeast U.S. to produce record-breaking rainfalls and floods. Ultimately, 118 people died, and 370,000 were left homeless. Five states—New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and Florida—were declared disaster areas.

June 24

Helen Reddy's song "I Am Woman" entered the Billboard Top 100 at No. 99, but dropped back out after three weeks. In September, it re-entered at No. 87, then made a gradual climb, hitting No. 1 on December 9.
Skyjacker Martin Joseph McNally hijacked American Airlines Flight 119 as it flew from St. Louis to Tulsa. At St. Louis, he received a suitcase with $502,200 ransom money and parachutes, but the jetliner was rammed by a car that crashed through an airport fence and raced down the runway. Moving to another plane, he then made plans to bail out with the suitcase, but needed instructions on how to parachute safely. The $502,200 suitcase was swept out of McNally's hands by the airstream left by the jet. Having lost his money, McNally safely reached the ground, and was arrested near Detroit on June 28.

Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:

1. "The Candy Man," Sammy Davis, Jr. w/ The Mike Curb Congregation
2. "Song Sung Blue," Neil Diamond
3. "Outa-Space," Billy Preston
4. "Nice to Be with You," Gallery
5. "I'll Take You There," The Staple Singers
6. "Troglodyte (Cave Man)," The Jimmy Castor Bunch
7. "Lean on Me," Bill Withers
8. "(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All," The 5th Dimension
9. "Oh Girl," The Chi-Lites
10. "Too Late to Turn Back Now," Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
11. "Sylvia's Mother," Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show
12. "Amazing Grace," The Pipes & Drums & Military Band of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
13. "I Need You," America
14. "Rocket Man," Elton John
15. "Daddy, Don't You Walk So Fast," Wayne Newton
16. "I Saw the Light," Todd Rundgren
17. "Morning Has Broken," Cat Stevens
18. "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," Roberta Flack
19. "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right," Luther Ingram
20. "Diary," Bread
21. "Walkin' in the Rain with the One I Love," Love Unlimited
22. "Living in a House Divided," Cher
23. "Layla," Derek & The Dominos
24. "Tumbling Dice," The Rolling Stones
25. "It's Going to Take Some Time," Carpenters

27. "I Wanna Be Where You Are," Michael Jackson
28. "Too Young," Donny Osmond
29. "How Do You Do?," Mouth & MacNeal

31. "Hot Rod Lincoln," Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen
32. "All The King's Horses," Aretha Franklin
33. "Where Is the Love," Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway
34. "Conquistador," Procol Harum
35. "Take It Easy," Eagles

37. "Day by Day," Godspell
38. "Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You)," Stevie Wonder
39. "Isn't Life Strange," The Moody Blues
40. "School's Out," Alice Cooper
41. "Someday Never Comes," Creedence Clearwater Revival

45. "Brandy," Looking Glass
46. "Taxi," Harry Chapin

49. "Coconut," Harry Nilsson

52. "The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A.," Donna Fargo

56. "Sealed with a Kiss," Bobby Vinton

58. "Mary Had a Little Lamb," Wings
59. "Alone Again (Naturally)," Gilbert O'Sullivan

66. "Hold Your Head Up," Argent

68. "Old Man," Neil Young

75. "Long Cool Woman (in a Black Dress)," The Hollies

90. "Beautiful Sunday," Daniel Boone

99. "I Am Woman," Helen Reddy

Leaving the chart:

"Little Bitty Pretty One," Jackson 5 (9 weeks)
"Look What You Done for Me," Al Green (12 weeks)
"Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard," Paul Simon (11 weeks)
"Slippin' into Darkness," War (22 weeks)
"Woman Is the N***** of the World," John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band w/ Elephant's Memory & The Invisible Strings (5 weeks)

New on the chart:

"Long Cool Woman (in a Black Dress)," The Hollies
(#2 US; #32 UK)

"I Am Woman," Helen Reddy
(#1 US the week of December 9, 1972; #2 AC)

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Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki pages for the month or year.

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55 Years Ago This Week Overflow Special

Also recent and new on the chart the week of June 24, 1967:

"Have You Seen Her Face," The Byrds
(June 10; #74 US)

"You Only Live Twice," Nancy Sinatra
(#44 US; #3 AC; #11 UK)

"For Your Love," Peaches & Herb
(#20 US; #10 R&B)

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RJDiogenes said:
Is that a quote from the girl at 6:30?

Yep.

They copied their instrument smashing from Jimi?

Not sure offhand when the Who started doing it, but I'd be surprised if they weren't already.

My Grandmother used to say the opposite to me: "So what if it's raining? You're not going to melt!"

I associate the saying more with my mom, but yeah. Peter Noone was ahead of his time in forecasting the dangers of acid rain.

Stoned Cold Classic. Hah. See what I did there?

Stone Cold Classic.

These two certainly make for a good kick-off into the Summer of Love.

Ah, right, now I remember. I wonder if they ever did a follow up with the talent agent like they did with the burglar. Theoretically, the talent agent would know, or could figure out, who he is.

Apparently he maintained the secret of his identity even under those circumstances and was paid only in cash, as it was later revealed that he had trouble cashing a check in costume.

Window panes all around!

Beg pardon?

RJDiogenes · Jun 21, 2022

The Old Mixer said:
The Hospers-Nathan third party ticket would receive one electoral vote, from Nixon elector Roger MacBride of Virginia.

They should have that bronzed or something. :rommie:

Bringing an end to an era of secret wiretapping by the U.S. Justice Department, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled, 8–0, in United States v. U.S. District Court (407 U.S. 297), that the American government did not have the authority to spy, without a warrant, upon private citizens within the United States.

The FBI immediately set up wiretaps on all eight Justices to find their Commie connections.

When the tape recording of their conversation was subpoenaed later by a special prosecutor, it was found that 18½ minutes of the tape had been erased.

Is it worse that the leader of the free world is a crook, or that he's so incompetent at it? :rommie:

Skyjacker Martin Joseph McNally hijacked American Airlines Flight 119 as it flew from St. Louis to Tulsa. At St. Louis, he received a suitcase with $502,200 ransom money and parachutes, but the jetliner was rammed by a car that crashed through an airport fence and raced down the runway. Moving to another plane, he then made plans to bail out with the suitcase, but needed instructions on how to parachute safely. The $502,200 suitcase was swept out of McNally's hands by the airstream left by the jet. Having lost his money, McNally safely reached the ground, and was arrested near Detroit on June 28.

Are you sure this isn't an episode of Adam-12 or something? What's the story with that car? Was that an attempt to stop him, or was it just an all-around bad day for hijackers?

"Woman Is the N***** of the World," John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

Five stars.

"Long Cool Woman (in a Black Dress)," The Hollies

Classic Rocker.

"I Am Woman," Helen Reddy

Very sign-o-the-timesey.

"Have You Seen Her Face," The Byrds

They always sound nice, but this is not one of their biggies.

"You Only Live Twice," Nancy Sinatra

Best Bond theme ever. Not.

"For Your Love," Peaches & Herb

It occurs to me that they sound kind of like their names would taste.

I associate the saying more with my mom, but yeah. Peter Noone was ahead of his time in forecasting the dangers of acid rain.

Apparently he maintained the secret of his identity even under those circumstances and was paid only in cash, as it was later revealed that he had trouble cashing a check in costume.

Ah, right, the check incident. I wonder how they spin that in the latest revisions. PayPal? Venmo?

Beg pardon?

It's slang for LSD, or was. :rommie:

J.T.B. · Jun 21, 2022

RJDiogenes said:
What's the story with that car? Was that an attempt to stop him, or was it just an all-around bad day for hijackers?

Yes, it was an attempt to stop the plane, IIRC by a pissed-off local at the airport. He was seriously injured and his new Cadillac was destroyed. I believe that American went after him for the damage to their aircraft, too.

The Old Mixer · Jun 22, 2022

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50th Anniversary Viewing

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Emergency!
"Crash"
Originally aired April 15, 1972
Season finale

Wiki said:
John and Roy bring in a football player who was tackled too hard. A burglar has a heart attack. John wants Roy to apologize for calling him "some kind of nut." Dixie and Dr. Early treat a hypochondriac. A babysitter brings in a child who had swallowed some pills, and Dixie talks to her about this. Roy and John rescue the occupants of a light plane that had crashed in a tree.

The episode opens with the paramedics bringing junior high student Tim Johnson (Eric Laneuville), who was injured playing football, into Rampart. His hysterical mother (Cicely Tyson) has to be escorted out of the emergency room, and outside blames her husband (Edmund Cambridge) for encouraging him to play. The boy comes to and Brackett diagnoses a mild concussion. Afterward, Dix learns that Johnny's being taciturn Roy for unknown reasons.

Squad 51 is then called to a home where a man identified as Joseph Remson lies unconscious in his living room. A woman who says she's his wife, Betty (Francine York), seems to be hiding something, while a plumber who escorted the paramedics in, Sam (William Bramley), stays by her side. Johnny notices some suitcases nearby. Then the real Joseph Remson (Don Matheson) comes home, a sheriff opens the suitcases to find silver, fingering the woman and unconscious man as a couple of burglars. Back at Rampart, Johnny displays his attitude in front of Early as well, dropping the term "stupid nut" in a defensive way.

Outside Roy confronts Johnny, who accuses his partner of having put him down and wants an apology, but won't elaborate. Back inside, an older female patient named Katie (Jeff Donnell) insists on seeing Dr. Early. Her medical book-toting husband, Reggie (Buddy Lester), insists that she's suffering complications from having her appendix out fourteen years prior, but Early diagnoses that they've been eating Mexican food...again...and gives her something for her stomach.

A distraught babysitter (Ronne Troup) carries a young boy into the hospital, indicating that he took a bottle of phenobarbital. Brackett works to stimulate the boy's heart and is ultimately successful. The girl blames herself, but Dix insists that she did the right things, including bringing the bottle.

Back at the station, with some prodding Chet testifies that he'd mentioned to Johnny that Roy told Chet that Johnny was a nut. Roy apologizes and the squad gets a call about a downed plane in a mountain area. They join up with Tom Wheeler (Gary Crosby), his partner, and four members of the Sierra Madre Search and Rescue Team for a ride to the scene in a chopper. The plane is stuck in a tree and the pilot doesn't want to risk blowing it out, so he sets them down two miles away and the crew hike to the spot with their equipment. The men make contact with a woman passenger (Sandy de Bruin) and climb trees to form a cradle of lines to support the plane. Johnny makes it up to an unconvincing set of the plane to find the woman has an unconscious husband and injured son in the precarious perch, and has equipment roped up. The woman has a fractured leg and the boy a broken arm, so all of the passengers have to be roped down diagonally on Stokes stretchers. Johnny ends up having to slide down one of the lines to free an obstruction, and Wheeler takes a short fall, caught by his line. Roy compliments Johnny afterward, and Johnny doesn't remember having been mad at him.

Ellen Bart (Chris Forbes) will finally be leaving Rampart for real after this episode, and Sharon Walters (Patricia Mickey) makes her third appearance, but it looks like she'll be back for a couple more in the coming season.

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RJDiogenes said:
They should have that bronzed or something.

They were ahead of the curve with that one.

Is it worse that the leader of the free world is a crook, or that he's so incompetent at it?

He thought he had an executive privilege safety net.

Classic Rocker.

Are you sure you didn't mean to put another word beginning with "C" in there? Notable for sounding very much like Fogerty and the gang with the serial numbers filed off.

Very sign-o-the-timesey.

Which is the only reason I'm conflicted about potentially getting this. The catchphrase is iconic, but the song itself does nothing for me as a song; and hobgoblin-wise, taking the plunge would be committing myself to getting at least Reddy's other two chart-toppers.

They always sound nice, but this is not one of their biggies.

Yeah.

Best Bond theme ever. Not.

[Insert plug for five-year-old cinematic special post here.]

It occurs to me that they sound kind of like their names would taste.

I guess...which is apparently pretty bleh.

Ah, right, the check incident. I wonder how they spin that in the latest revisions. PayPal? Venmo?

As I recall, in his Spider-Man: Chapter One retcon series, Byrne added an incident that showed how Spidey originally had himself set up to use a bank without formal ID, but got cleaned out when the Chameleon impersonated him.

It's slang for LSD, or was.

Ah.

RJDiogenes · Jun 22, 2022

J.T.B. said:
Yes, it was an attempt to stop the plane, IIRC by a pissed-off local at the airport. He was seriously injured and his new Cadillac was destroyed. I believe that American went after him for the damage to their aircraft, too.

That's completely insane. I love it. :rommie:

The Old Mixer said:
The boy comes to and Brackett diagnoses a mild concussion.

That's just the beginning, kid.

Then the real Joseph Remson (Don Matheson) comes home, a sheriff opens the suitcases to find silver, fingering the woman and unconscious man as a couple of burglars.

What was the plumber there for? Wiretapping?

Early diagnoses that they've been eating Mexican food...again...and gives her something for her stomach.

"h/o spice abuse"

Johnny makes it up to an unconvincing set of the plane to find the woman has an unconscious husband and injured son in the precarious perch

Later, it turns out that they stole the plane.

Roy compliments Johnny afterward, and Johnny doesn't remember having been mad at him.

What a nut.

Are you sure you didn't mean to put another word beginning with "C" in there? Notable for sounding very much like Fogerty and the gang with the serial numbers filed off.

Interesting. I don't notice the resemblance.

Which is the only reason I'm conflicted about potentially getting this. The catchphrase is iconic, but the song itself does nothing for me as a song; and hobgoblin-wise, taking the plunge would be committing myself to getting at least Reddy's other two chart-toppers.

It's a bit clunky lyrically, but it is iconic and is also one of the most upbeat protest songs ever. :rommie:

As I recall, in his Spider-Man: Chapter One retcon series, Byrne added an incident that showed how Spidey originally had himself set up to use a bank without formal ID, but got cleaned out when the Chameleon impersonated him.

I suppose face ID is out.

The Old Mixer · Jun 23, 2022

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Really Big Anniversary Viewing

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The Ed Sullivan Show
Season 18, episode 33
Originally aired May 1, 1966

Performances listed on Metacritic:

The Supremes - "Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart" & "More"

James Brown - medley of hits: "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag," "I Got You (I Feel Good)," "Ain't That A Groove?" "It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World" and "Please, Please, Please"

Nancy Ames (singer) - medley of Latin tunes (in Spanish & English) including "Shadow of Your Smile" & "Besame Mucho"
London Lee (stand-up) - talks about a muscle man stealing his date, and his lack of childhood friends
Billy Baxter (British comedian) - routine with Ed
Robert Joffrey Ballet Troupe (14 dancers) - "Viva Vivaldi" dance
Les Mortales (acrobats from Poland) - do pyramids and tumbling

Mark Reed Jr. (gun tricks) - fast draw and quick shooting
ASCAP Salute (five composers, each at his own piano, perform excerpts of their songs)
Burton Lane - songs include "How About You" & "What Did I Have That I Don't Have"
Jimmy McHugh - "On The Sunny Side Of The Street" excerpt
Ray Henderson - "Button Up Your Overcoat" & "The Best Things In Life Are Free" excerpts
Arthur Schwartz - "Something To Remember You By & Dancing In The Dark" excerpts
Harold Arlen - "Stormy Weather" & "Over The Rainbow" excerpts

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RJDiogenes said:
What was the plumber there for? Wiretapping?

Heh...he said he was just a passerby whom she solicited for help...which I guess he was...they confused me a bit on that, but I guess her partner was the guy lying unconscious.

Interesting. I don't notice the resemblance.

I don't know how you couldn't.

It's a bit clunky lyrically, but it is iconic and is also one of the most upbeat protest songs ever.

I'd feel kind of justified skipping it based on how it didn't make much of an impression upon initial release, and how I have no recollection of it having gotten oldies radio airplay. OTOH, maybe I need to get it for karmic balance, having gotten "Stand by Your Man"...but at least "Stand by Your Man" has a melody to speak of. Also, having "Beautiful Sunday" in my playlist really lowers the bar. Yeah, I'm probably gonna get it and worry about her other singles later. Maybe I could make a "noteworthy enough to appear as a Wiki news item" exception.

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