Nixon expected "square entertainment " from the Ray Coniff singers at a White House gala celebrating the 50th anniversary of Reader's Digest magazine on 1/28/72. However, Carole Feraci, a singer, decided she wanted to give the Prez a lecture on Nam.
Ray Coniff apologized after the concert, and I'm guessing he didn't suspect this from his group.
Hey Carole, you knew the gig was square but you made it all about you.
June 7, 2025
“Some folks want their luck buttered.” Thomas Hardy, wrote in The Mayor of Casterbridge
June 15, 2025
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? " excerpt from Hemingway
Tragically Hip lyric: " Like boots or hearts, oh, when they start ,they really fall apart
July 1, 2025
I was about ten-years old when I first heard Don’t Step on the Grass, Sam by John Kay &
Steppenwolf. Gradually, I figured out it was about pot, not a lawn.
July 10, 2025
Just a reminder from Kerouac on the Beats:
"Oh the Beat generation was just a phrase I used in the 1951 written manuscript of On the Road to describe guys like Moriarty who run around the country in cars looking for odd jobs, girlfriends, kicks. It was thereafter picked up by West Coast Leftist groups and turned into a meaning like “Beat mutiny” and “Beat insurrection” and all that nonsense;"
July 19, 2025
In the late 1930s Neville Chamberlain, UK PM, referred to Czechoslovakia as “a far-away country of which we know nothing.” 🙄
July 25, 2025
John Kay lyrics for Tighten up your wig: "I'd like to mention Junior Wells, we stole his thing from him, and he from someone else"
July 28, 2025
Rachel Tucker , a star on West End ,credits her success to “came out of her mum’s belly singing”.🤔
She is playing Myrtle Wilson in The Great Gatsby musical at the London Coliseum.
August 23, 2025
“I saw a sign that said 'Drink Canada Dry'. So I did.” Brendan Behan
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