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Released on Novemberย 22, 1968, the Beatles album colloquially known as the White Album "is recognised for its fragmentary style and diverse range of genres, including folk, British blues, ska, music hall, pre-heavy metal and the avant-garde. It has since been viewed by some critics ...as one of the greatest albums of all time." (Wikipedia)

Tina Weymouth, American musician, singer, songwriter, and a founding member and bassist of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club, was born on November 22, 1950.

Talking Heads - "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" (David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth) (1984, Stop Making Sense)

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Tina Weymouth, American musician, singer, songwriter, and a founding member and bassist of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club, was born on November 22, 1950.

Talking Heads - "And She Was" (David Byrne) (1985)

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Jesse Colin Young [Perry Miller], American singer and songwriter, a founding member and lead singer of the Youngbloods, was born on November 22, 1941.

"You hold the key to love and fear / All in your trembling hand / Just one key unlocks them both / It's there at your command"

The Youngbloods - "Get Together" (Chet Powers) (1969)

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Hoagy Carmichael, American songwriter, musician, actor, singer, and attorney, composer of "Stardust", "Georgia on My Mind" and "The Nearness of You", was born on Nov. 22, 1899 (d. 1981).

Harry James w/ Helen Forrest - "Skylark" (Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer) (1941)

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Hoagy Carmichael, American songwriter, musician, actor, singer, and attorney, composer of "Stardust", "Georgia on My Mind" and "The Nearness of You", was born on Nov. 22, 1899 (d. 1981).

Bea Wain, Larry Clinton - "Heart and Soul" (Hoagy Carmichael, Frank Loesser) (1939)

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Hoagy Carmichael, American songwriter, musician, actor, singer, and attorney, composer of "Stardust", "Georgia on My Mind" and "The Nearness of You", was born on Nov. 22, 1899 (d. 1981).

Sarah Vaughan - "The Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington)

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Hoagy Carmichael, American songwriter, musician, actor, singer, and attorney, composer of "Stardust", "Georgia on My Mind" and "The Nearness of You", was born on Nov. 22, 1899 (d. 1981).

Ray Charles - "Georgia on My Mind" (Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell) (1997)

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Hoagy Carmichael, American songwriter, musician, actor, singer, and attorney, composer of "Stardust", "Georgia on My Mind" and "The Nearness of You", was born on Nov. 22, 1899 (d. 1981).

Hoagy Carmichael - "Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish)

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The 2 big record stores in downtown Toronto, both long gone. Adjacent, on the left, is another one, the Vinyl Museum.

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Do you feel it's better to fight with all of your being for a single cause or spread your energy to support several causes?

Yes.

I mean, yes, we will fight with all our being for a single cause. And, yes, we will also spread our energy to support several causes. Is one better than the other? I donโ€™t know, and quite frankly I donโ€™t care.

buttondown.com/monteiro/archiv

Singers: George Washington, John Adams, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay

Music by Don McLean ("American Pie")

"The Day Democracy Died" Sung by Founders Sing (Feb 6, 2020)

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In his Third Inaugural Address on January 20, 1941, Roosevelt declared:

"We know [democracy] cannot dieโ€”because it is built on the unhampered initiative of individual men and women joined together in a common enterpriseโ€”an enterprise undertaken and carried through by the free expression of a free majority."

presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/

Although FDR was supported by African Americans in the North, he was supported by segregationists in the South. Yet, he was a great president. With an isolationist in the Oval Office, the non-democratic countries might have obliterated enough democracies that the United States might have been alone in the end.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin

Many supporters of the U.S. president-elect are some of the angriest winners we've seen. Not surprising.

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