Notable Quote #10

“There is no act, no crime, no petty deceit which he would not commit, and which would not be at once represented on the lips of those about him as a great deed.”

 

From Tolstoy’s War And Peace, by way of a column in this morning’s Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-finished-war-and-peace--and-now-im-over-pandemic-self-improvement/2020/05/19/28ca2384-99e9-11ea-a282-386f56d579e6_story.html

 

Note – Tolstoy was referring to Napoleon.

Music and politics

https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/196680/coleman-insights-study-reveals-sharp-musical-divid

 

The overall conclusion is fairly obvious, but some of the details are quite entertaining.

Sports without spectators will be fun. I promise!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-sports-without-fans-could-be-even-better-than-before/2020/05/15/eb964906-96c4-11ea-82b4-c8db161ff6e5_story.html

 

Some advantages and opportunities of fan-less sports.

LP #33 Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On (1971)

Mother, mother

There's too many of you crying

Brother, brother, brother

There's far too many of you dying

 

Motown turned out classic hit singles by the truckload in the 1960s and beyond. This is arguably the first really significant Motown album. “What’s Going On” and “Inner City Blues”, the opening and closing tracks, are as relevant now, almost 50 years later, as they were when the record was released.

 

Favorite tracks:

 

What’s Going On 

Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

What’s Happening Brother

Mercy Mercy Me

Save The Children

Lyric Of The Day #13 (May 11, 2020)

Got to be closer to you

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlQ70TNDLUA 

 

Not a brand-new pandemic song, but one from the 1987 movie The Big Easy. Who knew Dennis Quaid could both sing and write songs???

Little Richard

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/little-richard-incendiary-spirit-of-early-rock-and-roll-dies-at-87/2020/05/09/4c0b038a-9201-11ea-a0bc-4e9ad4866d21_story.html

 

A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-wop-bam-boom!

 

Interesting trivia item from the Post’s obituary: In 1992, he recorded a children’s album, “Shake It All About,” which included a freewheeling version of “The Hokey Pokey” and other kindergarten classics.

 

Favorite songs:

Rip It Up 

Tutti Frutti

Good Golly Miss Molly

Long Tall Sally

Lucille

Keep A Knockin’

Jenny, Jenny

Slippin’ And Slidin’

Great Gosh A’Mighty

The Girl Can’t Help It

LP #32 Linda Ronstadt – Hasten Down The Wind (1976)

The two familiar tracks here are “That’ll Be The Day” and “Crazy”, but even better are Ronstadt’s outstanding versions of lesser-known songs, most notably including three by Karla Bonoff and one by Warren Zevon.

 

Favorite tracks:

 

Someone To Lay Down Beside Me 

Hasten Down The Wind

The Tattler

Lose Again

Give One Heart

Try Me Again

Notable Quotes #9

Headline in this morning’s Washington Post (print edition only, unfortunately): “Norwegian Cruise Line warns it may not be able to stay afloat”

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/05/norwegian-cruise-going-concern-coronavirus/

Lyric Of The Day #12 (May 6, 2020)

Spent all afternoon sanitizing my hand sanitizer

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH6wxVujq0w

 

And it’s for a good cause, too!

Shuffle #132 (May 3, 2020)

Step Off – Kacey Musgraves

Galileo – Indigo Girls

Credit – Meghan Trainor

Living For The City – Stevie Wonder

Manic Monday – The Bangles

Smackwater Jack – Carole King

I Wish It Would Rain – The Temptations

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes – Patti Austin

Fall On Me – R.E.M.

If I Were Smart – Shelby Lynne