and censored it--then a mere 10 or so years later, made it the Colorado State song. Hah!

Not an Independence Day song, you say? Well, it sure as hell was mine and just about every other Coloradoan's.

Certainly appropriate as kraznov keeps trying to create his own Viet Nam.

is stunning. It summarized the late 60s (68-72*) perfectly. The terror, the sarcasm, the grief, the plastic idolatry of the war machine, maybe the single most eloquent song ever. Played to an emptying woodstock, the ground littered with debris like a battlefield the day after, wounded stragglers retreating.

*the 60s started early and ended late. the following 70s were the lamest decade ever, with a very few exceptions. That song was the high water mark, as Thompson described in Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas.

say, The Clash, The B,52s, and more!

I saw them all! 🎸🎤🥁🔊🎵🎶🎵🎶👍
Great times!

Funny how THAT works!?

One of my favorite songs from one of my favorite Americans.

Tony Bennett

You're A Grand 'Ol Flag

So glad there’s a statue of him in the middle of Broadway in NYC. I mean, if Trump hasn’t taken it down yet.

Thanks for sharing. I try to watch this film every year and it always makes me smile.

He walks on walls with ease. So much talent. They used to show this movie on TCM each year but I haven't seen it for a few years. I hope they show it again soon.

I have rented Yankee doodle Dandy, every fourth of July on prime, and this year it said that it was no longer available. I had to get my fix just watching the two little short videos that you posted. Chopping onions, of course. I would think that most patriotic networks would be thrilled to show it for free on every patriotic holiday.

since I first watched with my dad.

Throughout the year. Two nights ago Segal was on Johnny Carson with Bob Newhart. George taught them to play the ukulele.

This appeared in 1968:

WHEN YOU RETURN THIS FALL...

Be funny, boys, but don't offend
The sponsor who's your network's friend
Be funny, boys, but compromise
With those who pay to advertise.
About commercials do not joke
And cut the coughing when you smoke.
Don't quip about computers, please,
Or ride the auto companies.
Don't laugh detergents down the drain,
Or jest about the aeroplane.
Don't kid the guy who wears cologne
And kid you not the telephone.
Don't pan the man who's bottle-tanned,
Omit the wit that bites the hand.

Be funny, boys, but don't offend
The viewers on whom we depend.
Be funny, boys, but do not twist
The nose of any chauvinist.
Don't tweak the beak of Bird-man's mate,
Or bait a certain Southern state.
Don't fool around with Uncle Sam,
And stay away from Vietnam.
Keep out of War or we are lost,
Avoid the draft at any cost.
Recruitment gags we don't allow,
Lay off the CIA and Dow.
Don't kid the Blacks, don't kid the Whites,
Cross out the Klan and civil rights...

Be funny, boys, but not too odd
For Heaven's sake, don't mention God.
Be funny, boys, but it's taboo,
To clown with Catholic or Jew.
You may not spoof, it's understood,
The sacredness of Motherhood.
Refrain from cracks that might compel
Such blasphemies as Damn or Hell.
Don't speak of sex in your routine
Remember you must keep it clean.
Refer to breast as chest instead,
And couch in other words, a bed.
When in the course of our employ,
No interjection like "Bolshoi!"

Aside from that, boys, do feel free
To knock 'em dead for old C.B.

The British began the name to mock Americans, but Americans embraced it and sang this song.

My violin teacher who was a professor at the college at the time, asked me to sit in with the orchestra for the experience. I was the concert mistress at my high school where I was a senior. I don’t remember too much other than the obvious privilege of being chosen.

video with Neil's song:

remake came out. Lucy Arnez played his manager and eventual love interest. Diamond played a cantor who had a pop/funk band on the side. They were supposed to play to a big club, Black-owned, Black clientele, with a record producer in attendance that night. Great music, but it doesn't quite go right:

I wasn't old enough for kindergarten in 1980 so I had no idea about this. Yikes!

the blackface because production was probably in 1979, and because the script has his fellow band-mates' characters apparently insisting upon it. It was probably another 3 or more years before the tide turned publicly on blackface.

don't remember too much of that.

In high school, we were shown the 1964 movie Black Like Me. That's the only time I remember seeing that.

I don't care that Sean Hannity misappropriated this song. I love it.

to the whole song, much less watched that video.

I saw it first a few weeks ago here, it's so powerful and moving. And she looks great in that video.

Watch it every year on TV, gives me goosebumps.

Jefferson Airplane

John Prine

starting my senior year in high school. Our class annual was atypically white, embossed with the shield, eagle, and Bicentennial date noted.

I still love that EJ song, like in my top 5 of his.

It gives me chill whenever I hear it!

Super Bowl, 1991

It has its own patriotism. Enjoy!

Enjoy!