Back in my day, Neil Diamond was a very popular artist (’60s-’80s) but in fact, this 70-year-old Jewish boy from New York is still popular around the word! In 2001 he held an outdoor concert in Dublin, Ireland, and included his own 1981 composition, “Coming To America“, his expression of patriotism and pride in the USA. As you watch the video notice the response of the thousands of people there. From Wikipedia, “The…
Filthiness – in all forms; dialog, expressions & gestures, etc. seem to have taken over our society. The latest is action from another of our highest persons in this Nation, a member of Congress! (The HONORABLE – ??) Maxine Waters, Representative from California, in a speech in Inglewood, CA, remarked that the Tea Party can “go straight to Hell”. Here are her words, “I’m not afraid of anybody. This is a tough game. You can’t…
Red Skelton was one of the top “slapstick” comedians from 1937 to 1971 (he died in 1997 at age 84). Skelton’s show business career began in his teens as a circus clown and went on to vaudeville, Broadway, films, radio, TV, night clubs and casinos, all while pursuing another career as a painter. He played many characters and made many of us laugh during the wars and the hard times of the “cold war”…
In early 1940, before WWII, Kate Smith, a fiercely patriotic American and the biggest star on radio, was deeply worried about her country. She asked Irving Berlin if he could give her a song that would re-ignite the spirit of American patriotism and faith. He said he had a song that he had written in 1917, but had never used it. He told her she could have it – - –
