The Beatles @thebeatles
(11:00 AM ET ยท Nov 24, 2024):
"#OTD in 1967, the single for Hello Goodbye/I Am The Walrus was released in the UK. Can you tell which Beatle is which in this photograph?"
Scott Joplin, African-American composer and pianist, known as the "King of Ragtime", was born ca. Nov. 24, 1868 (d. 1917). #ScottJoplin
Chet Atkins - "The Entertainer" (Scott Joplin) (1975)
#Music #CoSoMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHtwF-gpluc
Scott Joplin, African-American composer and pianist, known as the "King of Ragtime", was born ca. Nov. 24, 1868 (d. 1917). #ScottJoplin
Kristen Mosca - "Peacherine Rag" (Scott Joplin) (2015)
#Music #CoSoMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU0rk-BK6m0
Scott Joplin, African-American composer and pianist, known as the "King of Ragtime", was born ca. Nov. 24, 1868 (d. 1917). #ScottJoplin
Dario Ronchi - "Maple Leaf Rag" (Scott Joplin) (2017)
#Music #CoSoMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCxLAr_bwpA
Scott Joplin, African-American composer and pianist, known as the "King of Ragtime", was born ca. Nov. 24, 1868 (d. 1917). #ScottJoplin
Scott Joplin - "The Entertainer" (Scott Joplin) (1902, from piano roll)
#Music #CoSoMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT9uOA1rexc
Beware of a party with "<country/region> first", "freedom", or "people's" in its name. Also, a party that has "socialist" or "worker" in its name could be fascist. See Germany 1920-1945: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers' Party).
Bruce Hornsby, American singer-songwriter and pianist, was born on November 23, 1954. #BruceHornsby
Bruce Hornsby and the Range - "The Way It Is" (Bruce Hornsby) (1986)
#Music #CoSoMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlRQjzltaMQ
Ruth Etting, American singer and actress of the 1920s and 1930s, who had over 60 hit recordings, was born on Nov. 23, 1896 (d. 1978). #RuthEtting
Ruth Etting - "Ten Cents a Dance" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) (1930)
#Music #CoSoMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK4YCwqfGWU
Ruth Etting, American singer and actress of the 1920s and 1930s, who had over 60 hit recordings and worked in stage, radio, and film, was born on Nov. 23, 1896 (d. 1978). #RuthEtting
Ruth Etting - "Exactly Like You" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) (1930)
#Music #CoSoMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9EzyCXOb8Q
"The U.S. Supreme Court ruling left ambiguous whether enforcement requires specific legislation, or whether Congress could refuse to certify Trumpโs election on Jan. 6, 2025, legal experts said."
Congress could try barring Trump from office under 14th Amendment, but it likely wonโt
(Caleb McCullough, November 7, 2024)
https://www.politifact.com/article/2024/nov/07/congress-could-try-barring-trump-from-office-under/
Mavis Staples' 2007 album 'We'll Never Turn Back'
#Music #CoSoMusic
https://mavisstaples.bandcamp.com/album/well-never-turn-back
Appropriate track and album titles for this time: We'll Never Turn Back".
Mavis Staples - "Eyes on the Prize" (based on the traditional song "Gospel Plow," lyrics by various (Alice Wine, Odetta, etc.)) (2007, from the album 'We'll Never Turn Back')
#Music #CoSoMusic
#CivilRights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZWdDI_fkns&rco=1
/nosanitize
Ontario
Sign the petition: Bring Back Rent Control https://www.chrisglovermpp.ca/rentcontrolpetition
Writing โEleanor Rigbyโ
How one of the Beatlesโ greatest songs came to be.
By Paul McCartney
October 18, 2021
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/25/paul-mccartney-writing-eleanor-rigby-beatles
Hope needs compassionate action. Best to be compassionate anyway.
Many self-avowed 'critical thinkers', especially on Twitter, seem to not think critically.