I don't know if you're joking or not, but southwestern, western Montana and northern Idaho are extremely mountainous and heavily forested, being part of the Grand Teton's and Rocky Mountains. There are several world-class ski resorts located there.
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I don't know if you're joking or not, but southwestern, western Montana and northern Idaho are extremely mountainous and heavily forested, being part of the Grand Teton's and Rocky Mountains. There are several world-class ski resorts located there.
Yeah, the name literally means "mountain".
Back to 1967 with two from The Who. (There are two other clips from this performance, but they overdubbed the studio version on top of the visuals. Maybe problems with the audio?)
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55 Years Ago This Week
August 20 – Three men in a car strafed the U.S. Embassy in London with machine gun fire, shattering glass doors and windows, but causing no injuries because the attack was timed for 11:30 at night. A note, signed by a group calling itself the Revolutionary Solidarity Committee, contained the warning "Stop: Criminal murders by the American army. Solidarity with all people battling against Yankee fascism all over the world! Racism! Freedom for American Negroes!"
August 21
August 22 – Officials in New York City announced that the 47-story Singer Building, which had briefly been the tallest building in the world in 1908 and 1909, would be torn down.
August 24
August 25
August 26
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:
Leaving the chart:
New on the chart:
"Purple Haze," The Jimi Hendrix Experience
(#65 US; #3 UK; #17 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time [2004])
"Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon)," The Mamas & The Papas
(#20 US)
"I Make a Fool of Myself," Frankie Valli
(#18 US)
"Gettin' Together," Tommy James & The Shondells
(#18 US)
"Never My Love," The Association
(#2 US)
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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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August 20 – Three men in a car strafed the U.S. Embassy in London with machine gun fire, shattering glass doors and windows, but causing no injuries because the attack was timed for 11:30 at night. A note, signed by a group calling itself the Revolutionary Solidarity Committee, contained the warning "Stop: Criminal murders by the American army. Solidarity with all people battling against Yankee fascism all over the world! Racism! Freedom for American Negroes!"
August 21
- A truce is declared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Two U.S. Navy A-6A Intruder jets were shot down over the People's Republic of China after straying into Chinese airspace while attempting an attack on North Vietnam. A U.S. Defense Department spokesman said that the two planes were part of a group from the aircraft carrier USS Constellation while on a bombing run of the Duc Noi railroad yard northeast of Hanoi, and conceded that they had inadvertently crossed into Chinese territory. Radio Peking announced that it had captured one of the men alive; Lt. Robert J. Flynn would remain in a Chinese prison camp until March 15, 1973.
August 22 – Officials in New York City announced that the 47-story Singer Building, which had briefly been the tallest building in the world in 1908 and 1909, would be torn down.
August 24
- At a meeting of the UN's Eighteen Nation Committee on Disarmament, the United States and the Soviet Union submitted "two separate but identically worded draft treaties" that would form the basis for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
- John and Cynthia Lennon, Paul McCartney, Jane Asher, George Harrison, and Pattie Boyd see a lecture on Transcendental Meditation, given by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in the ballroom of the Hilton Hotel, London.
August 25
- U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara testified before a U.S. Senate subcommittee that the bombing of North Vietnam, the policy advocated by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, would not bring about peace negotiations and that "enemy operations in the south cannot, on the basis of reports I have seen, be stopped by air bombardment".
- West Germany became only the fourth nation in the world to have color television broadcasting (after the U.S., Canada and the UK). Foreign Minister and future Chancellor Willy Brandt pressed a button to inaugurate the network service at the 25th annual Great German Expedition.
- Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, who had commanded the armed forces of Egypt during the Six-Day War and was fired after the defeat by Israel, was arrested along with 50 other senior officers and civilians and charged with plotting to overthrow President Nasser. Marshal Amer would die on September 14 while under house arrest, in what was reported to be a suicide. Shams Badran, who had been dismissed as Defense Minister in the aftermath of the war, would be arrested later and, like Marshal Amer, charged with "attempting to stage a military comeback" in the recovery of his former job.
- The government of Israel opened the Golan Heights, captured nearly three months earlier from Syria, to civilian settlers.
- The Big Mac, signature sandwich for the McDonald's hamburger restaurant chain, was introduced at a franchise owned by Jim Delligatti, and located in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, selling for US$0.45 (equivalent to $3.66 in 2021) at the Uniontown Shopping Center.
- Died: George Lincoln Rockwell, 49, "Fuehrer" of the American Nazi Party, was shot and killed by a sniper while leaving the Dominion Hills Shopping Center at 6015 Wilson Boulevard in Arlington, Virginia, near the party's headquarters. Rockwell had gone to the Econowash, a coin-operated laundry, and was backing his 1958 Chevrolet out of a parking space when two bullets came through the windshield and struck him in the chest. The sniper was John Patler, whom Rockwell had fired a few months earlier. Patler would be convicted of the murder in December and would be sentenced to 20 years in prison, but would be paroled in 1975.
- All of the Beatles, with Jane and Pattie, take the train from Euston Station in London, to Bangor, North Wales, to attend a weekend seminar given by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Bangor's Normal College. Cynthia misses the train by seconds and has to travel on later.
August 26
- Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba broke with the leaders of other Arab nations and said that they should recognize the legitimacy of the nation of Israel.
- U.S. Air Force Major George E. Day was shot down while flying a mission over North Vietnam. After being captured, he would escape from North Vietnam, be recaptured in South Vietnam by Viet Cong guerrillas, and remain a prisoner of war for five years and seven months, finally being released on March 14, 1973. On March 4, 1976, Day (promoted to Colonel) would be awarded the Medal of Honor. The citation would note that "His personal bravery in the face of deadly enemy pressure was significant in saving the lives of fellow aviators who were still flying against the enemy."
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:
Leaving the chart:
- "Glory of Love," Otis Redding (4 weeks)
- "Make Me Yours," Bettye Swann (14 weeks)
- "Up, Up and Away," The 5th Dimension (12 weeks)
- "You Only Live Twice," Nancy Sinatra (9 weeks)
New on the chart:
"Purple Haze," The Jimi Hendrix Experience
(#65 US; #3 UK; #17 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time [2004])
"Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon)," The Mamas & The Papas
(#20 US)
"I Make a Fool of Myself," Frankie Valli
(#18 US)
"Gettin' Together," Tommy James & The Shondells
(#18 US)
"Never My Love," The Association
(#2 US)
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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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I had to look up how old Lou was--he was in his 30s, but he looks like a kid there!
Or let them eat ice cream out of his mouth.
The foggy Frisco set loses a lot of its character IN COLOR!
I wasn't clear how involved Cap'n Pawnstar was with the gang.So the random pawn shop has a trap door and a pit. This means that either every building in the Old West has a trap door and a pit, or the Marquis's minions worked overtime before Jim got back.
Yeah, it didn't have the retro tech vibe to it, it was pure sci fi.
It was a pretty slow torpedo, FWIW...but yeah, Jim swimming after one was eyeroll inducing.That's totally nuts, but cool.
Siegfried with a stolen sub.
Yeah, but Little Big Horn isn't a mountain. I never thought of grizzlies as wandering the prairie. But I suppose it would be appealing, since that's where the deer and the antelope play.Yeah, the name literally means "mountain".
Most of the time I prefer to listen to studio versions, but I do like to watch The Who live.
Attempts to cross the border quadrupled overnight.
Foreshadowing.
I'm not usually a big Jimi fan, but this definitely has that nostalgic sound now.
Not one of their more distinctive songs.
Not bad, but not great.
Not great.
Now here's an Oldies Radio Classic.
That would have been fantastic.
They probably colored it green or something. Gotta take advantage of that new technology.
Ah, right. Forgot about that.
Let's see. Get Smart, 1966. "Maxwell's Silver Hammer," 1969. The Beatles watched Get Smart!
They used to range from Alaska to Mexico and as far east as the Hudson Bay. Human encroachment severely shrunken their range.Yeah, but Little Big Horn isn't a mountain. I never thought of grizzlies as wandering the prairie. But I suppose it would be appealing, since that's where the deer and the antelope play.
When is this thread going to cover Grizzly Adams?
50 Years Ago This Week
August 20 – Wattstax, a concert at the Los Angeles Coliseum, attracted 100,000 black citizens, each of whom paid $1 per ticket to watch the Bar-Kays, the Staple Singers, Isaac Hayes and other performers.
August 21
August 22 – On a hot August afternoon in Brooklyn, three men robbed a branch of the Chase Manhattan Bank....John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturale robbed the bank and found that they had arrived after most of the cash had gone out on an armored car that morning, then were surprised by the police just as they were planning to get away. The crisis, which ended the next morning with Naturile being killed by an FBI agent and Wojtowicz's arrest, was later dramatized in the film Dog Day Afternoon, with Al Pacino as Sonny Wojtowicz.
August 24 – Hot August Night, Neil Diamond's double platinum album, was recorded live at the Greek Theatre (Los Angeles).
August 25 – Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. first began trading on the New York Stock Exchange. On its opening day, the price closed at $33 per share. Although the value of the stock dropped 77% in the first two years, an investment of $1,000 would have grown to $870,000 from 1972 to 2008.
August 26
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:
Leaving the chart:
New on the chart:
"From the Beginning," Emerson, Lake & Palmer
(#39 US)
"You Wear It Well," Rod Stewart
(#13 US)
"Why," Donny Osmond
(#13 US; #19 AC; #3 UK)
"Tight Rope," Leon Russell
(#11 US)
"Use Me," Bill Withers
(#2 US; #14 AC; #2 R&B)
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Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki pages for the month or year.
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August 20 – Wattstax, a concert at the Los Angeles Coliseum, attracted 100,000 black citizens, each of whom paid $1 per ticket to watch the Bar-Kays, the Staple Singers, Isaac Hayes and other performers.
August 21
- The Copernicus satellite, originally called "Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 3", was launched into orbit. Carrying an 80 cm UV telescope and spectrometers, the Copernicus satellite would transmit data until 1979 and provided detailed information about the stars upon which it was aimed. Astronomer Lyman Spitzer discovered, the day before the launch, that an error had been made in the calculations of the optimum focus for one of the mirrors, and was able to have the problem corrected before Copernicus went into orbit.
- The Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida renominates U.S. President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew for a second term.
August 22 – On a hot August afternoon in Brooklyn, three men robbed a branch of the Chase Manhattan Bank....John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturale robbed the bank and found that they had arrived after most of the cash had gone out on an armored car that morning, then were surprised by the police just as they were planning to get away. The crisis, which ended the next morning with Naturile being killed by an FBI agent and Wojtowicz's arrest, was later dramatized in the film Dog Day Afternoon, with Al Pacino as Sonny Wojtowicz.
August 24 – Hot August Night, Neil Diamond's double platinum album, was recorded live at the Greek Theatre (Los Angeles).
August 25 – Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. first began trading on the New York Stock Exchange. On its opening day, the price closed at $33 per share. Although the value of the stock dropped 77% in the first two years, an investment of $1,000 would have grown to $870,000 from 1972 to 2008.
August 26
- The 1972 Summer Olympics opened in Munich, West Germany, with the parade starting at 3:00 local time, and were declared open at 4:25 in the afternoon. The games featured 8,005 athletes from 122 nations. Gunter Zahn lit the torch.
- In Alaska, Japanese mountaineer Naomi Uemura made the first solo ascent of Mount McKinley (which had first been climbed by Sourdough Expedition on April 3, 1910).
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:
Leaving the chart:
- "Conquistador," Procol Harum (13 weeks)
- "Day by Day," Godspell (14 weeks)
- "Layla," Derek & The Dominos (25 weeks total; 15 weeks this run)
New on the chart:
"From the Beginning," Emerson, Lake & Palmer
(#39 US)
"You Wear It Well," Rod Stewart
(#13 US)
"Why," Donny Osmond
(#13 US; #19 AC; #3 UK)
"Tight Rope," Leon Russell
(#11 US)
"Use Me," Bill Withers
(#2 US; #14 AC; #2 R&B)
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Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki pages for the month or year.
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That's how the moment tends to get played up in people's books.
Jimi exists on his own plane of awesomeness. The album, Are You Experienced, also charts this week. Its representative tracks will be most welcome additions to the weekly shuffle.
I've always liked it...it's got a nice sound.
I liked it better the first time, when it was called "Can't Take My Eyes Off You". A particularly egregious example of the soundalike sequel single.
But good enough for Tommy's Sunday night Sirius show to be named after it.
And very pretty.
Alas, I deleted the episode so I can't get a screenshot. As I recall, it was pretty much the same as the lighting in that sub--toss in a little of everything.They probably colored it green or something. Gotta take advantage of that new technology.
The movie's '74; TV series is '77-'78. I wasn't planning to cover either, but you're welcome to.When is this thread going to cover Grizzly Adams?
"Christmas Dragnet" is a holiday favorite, but I'd never heard this one before.
Eh, I thought it was a reasonably good parody of the song.Yeah, you're right, that sounds like an embarrassing drunk.
Well, four out of five ain't bad.
I had planned on posting another artist from 1972 Beat Club, but this performance is so damn good I decided to go with this instead; and I'm not even a big fan of Chicago.
A common reaction to Donny when I was a kid.
Donny covering Frankie Avalon? Nothing to see here, folks.
The feedback solo was cool, but Pete only threatening to smash his guitar was a letdown.
One of my college roommates and I, were huge Chicago fans. We used to blast the studio version of “Man” on weekend mornings, much to our neighbor’s anger and frustration. But, god help their asses if we’d had this version.
Straight, fire.
Amazing. I had no idea there were grizzlies in Mexico.
And a later space telescope was named after him.
Which neither will finish.
I love the sound of ELP. Beautiful Art Rock.
Probably my favorite of his early work. Overall not one of my favorite artists.
Why did I listen to that?
Good one. I remember it mostly from Lost 45s.
Oldies Radio Classic.
It was kind of an easy shot.
Yeah, it's just a matter of personal taste.
A logical choice, I guess.
Yeah, they really made the most of color once they got it.
I got a kick out of him fidgeting and fussing with the equipment.
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55th Anniversary Viewing That Died at Bitter Creek
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So here's the deal with INSP's Branded schedule: They finished the "Call to Glory" 3-parter, then skipped the next episode, "The Ghost of Murietta" (March 20, 1966), and are now on the following two-parter...after which they're for some reason going back into the middle of Season 1, also leaving us short the last three episodes of the series. So I'll just be keeping an eye open for whenever they might get back to the four remaining late Season 2 episodes.
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Branded
"The Assassins: Part 1"
Originally aired March 27, 1966
A telegram summons Jason to Washington under the pretense that his grandfather, General Joshua McCord (John Carradine reprising his role from last season's three-parter, "The Mission"). But when Jason reunites to find the old man as feisty as ever, he learns that the message was sent by a secret guest at the McCord home--President Grant, who believes that somebody's out to assassinate him, but doesn't know who. For those of us who might be getting our shows mixed up, he quickly dismisses the idea of using a couple of other leading characters...
Parties of interest include those against Grant's intention to support Cuban revolutionaries; and gold-hungry potential land-grabbers who want the Sioux driven from the Black Hills. He assigns Jason to check out a pair of visitors of the latter variety, bearing a doctored survey of the hills, and encourages Jason to feign a grudge against him...
First Jason pays a call on a wealthy old flame who also appeared in "The Mission," though I'd have to go back to refresh my memory...Laurette Lansing (Kamala Devi), who, after a smoochy reunion, drops the bomb that she got tired of waiting and tied the knot with Senator Keith Ashley, whom she insists Jason meet...
"Jason, do you like moving pictures about gladiators?"
The senator, it turns out, is both a colleague of one of the men Jason's been assigned to get in with, James Swaney, and is also hosting Cuban freedom activist Dr. Felix Cueverra and his sister Socorro (Carlos Rivas and Margarita Cordova). Ashley expresses his belief in taking the Black Hills from the Sioux, and invites Jason to a boarding house where ex-president and current Tennessee senator Andrew Johnson (who's probably on the IMDb list as one of several uncredited actors listed as "Senator") holds court to a group of anti-Grant DC power brokers. (Johnson's current job places this episode between March and July of 1875.) There Ashley introduces Jason to James Swaney (Jim Davis) and the other person of interest, Lou Carlisle (also potentially an uncredited "Senator"). Swaney discusses an interest in getting the VP promoted to where he can be of use in their Black Hills scheme, and when Jason starts waving his survey around, offers him a job as his surveyor. The man Swaney already had lined up, Jim Randall (uncredited Michael Ross), brings up Jason's reputation and is promptly pummeled. The job is Jason's, and Swaney promises that their mutual nemesis Grant won't be in office much longer.
Jason returns home to report to Grant over a game of pool. Grant offers Jason a ride in his coach, and outside they're jumped by three men, two of them masked, and fight them off--Grant employing his cane, and Jason cutting one of them in the hand with his own knife before the two masked men run. The coach driver has been killed, and Jason notes that the knife seems too fancy for the Black Hills conspirators.
INSP is running the end credits, as superimposed text at the bottom of the screen, in lieu of the original sequence.
ETA: I just went back and watched the commercials...the ones that they're playing on Branded all seem pretty benign and typical of retro TV channels: AARP, a weight loss program, a nutrition supplement, a nebulizer, a Lifetime commercial that seemed to be inserted by Frndly in place of something else, William Shatner about a Medicare helpline, CashNetUSA, a blood sugar medication.
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55th Anniversary Viewing That Died at Bitter Creek
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So here's the deal with INSP's Branded schedule: They finished the "Call to Glory" 3-parter, then skipped the next episode, "The Ghost of Murietta" (March 20, 1966), and are now on the following two-parter...after which they're for some reason going back into the middle of Season 1, also leaving us short the last three episodes of the series. So I'll just be keeping an eye open for whenever they might get back to the four remaining late Season 2 episodes.
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Branded
"The Assassins: Part 1"
Originally aired March 27, 1966
Frndly said:
A telegram summons Jason to Washington under the pretense that his grandfather, General Joshua McCord (John Carradine reprising his role from last season's three-parter, "The Mission"). But when Jason reunites to find the old man as feisty as ever, he learns that the message was sent by a secret guest at the McCord home--President Grant, who believes that somebody's out to assassinate him, but doesn't know who. For those of us who might be getting our shows mixed up, he quickly dismisses the idea of using a couple of other leading characters...
Jason: Well, sir, if there is a plot against your life, isn't that the responsibility of the new Secret Service agency?
Grant: They belong to the Treasury! They guard important things like dollar bills.
Grant: They belong to the Treasury! They guard important things like dollar bills.
Parties of interest include those against Grant's intention to support Cuban revolutionaries; and gold-hungry potential land-grabbers who want the Sioux driven from the Black Hills. He assigns Jason to check out a pair of visitors of the latter variety, bearing a doctored survey of the hills, and encourages Jason to feign a grudge against him...
Grant: It's good to know there's a man who hates me I can trust.
First Jason pays a call on a wealthy old flame who also appeared in "The Mission," though I'd have to go back to refresh my memory...Laurette Lansing (Kamala Devi), who, after a smoochy reunion, drops the bomb that she got tired of waiting and tied the knot with Senator Keith Ashley, whom she insists Jason meet...
"Jason, do you like moving pictures about gladiators?"
The senator, it turns out, is both a colleague of one of the men Jason's been assigned to get in with, James Swaney, and is also hosting Cuban freedom activist Dr. Felix Cueverra and his sister Socorro (Carlos Rivas and Margarita Cordova). Ashley expresses his belief in taking the Black Hills from the Sioux, and invites Jason to a boarding house where ex-president and current Tennessee senator Andrew Johnson (who's probably on the IMDb list as one of several uncredited actors listed as "Senator") holds court to a group of anti-Grant DC power brokers. (Johnson's current job places this episode between March and July of 1875.) There Ashley introduces Jason to James Swaney (Jim Davis) and the other person of interest, Lou Carlisle (also potentially an uncredited "Senator"). Swaney discusses an interest in getting the VP promoted to where he can be of use in their Black Hills scheme, and when Jason starts waving his survey around, offers him a job as his surveyor. The man Swaney already had lined up, Jim Randall (uncredited Michael Ross), brings up Jason's reputation and is promptly pummeled. The job is Jason's, and Swaney promises that their mutual nemesis Grant won't be in office much longer.
Jason returns home to report to Grant over a game of pool. Grant offers Jason a ride in his coach, and outside they're jumped by three men, two of them masked, and fight them off--Grant employing his cane, and Jason cutting one of them in the hand with his own knife before the two masked men run. The coach driver has been killed, and Jason notes that the knife seems too fancy for the Black Hills conspirators.
INSP is running the end credits, as superimposed text at the bottom of the screen, in lieu of the original sequence.
ETA: I just went back and watched the commercials...the ones that they're playing on Branded all seem pretty benign and typical of retro TV channels: AARP, a weight loss program, a nutrition supplement, a nebulizer, a Lifetime commercial that seemed to be inserted by Frndly in place of something else, William Shatner about a Medicare helpline, CashNetUSA, a blood sugar medication.
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True.
It sounds nice, but isn't terribly memorable.
This is sort of the generic Rod Stewart song.
Morbid fascination with how low the early '70s can go?Why did I listen to that?
This one I didn't have. I'll probably end up getting it, but I've got a backlog of singles I'd been intending to get.
Decent but pretty low-key.
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And the subject of a terrific part-concert, part-documentary movie the next year.
(Warning: NSFW offensive language)
Who's the guy talking about power shakes at 1:47? He looks very familiar but I'm not placing him.
That's Ted Lange, Issac from 'The Love Boat'.
Richard Matheson's novel 'I Am Legend' published in 1954, but set in 1976, has the protagonist, Robert Neville, driving through Watts and Compton hunting and killing vampires.
While I doubt it was intentional on the part of Richard Matheson, knowing the ethnic and racial makeup of Watts and Compton in the 1970s vs the 1950s when the book was written, now takes on a different tone.