NEARLY 70 years ago, in the early days of TV, children in households across the country suddenly found their love affair with the new medium being interrupted each week by a program their parents wanted to watch. “You kids really ought to see this, too,” they were often told as the family set was preempted. The big event was a documentary film series called “Victory at Sea,” a sort of grand morality tale and symphonic saga about the worldwide war that had disrupted and, in many cases, shattered the lives of a generation.
“Victory at Sea” won big prizes in its time. It was unabashedly patriotic — reverential toward America and its allies, filled with the soaring music of Richard Rodgers, and given to portraying the war as a struggle between good and evil. Perhaps it wouldn’t play to such critical acclaim in our own Age of Irony, but in those times it answered the desire for meaning to be found in a horribly destructive conflict that cost so many lives — the number literally countless but in the scores of millions.
Today it serves our need for memory, as do other powerful documentary films of our most recent awful global war and, one hopes, our final one — though of course thousands have given their lives in harrowing warfare since then, and thousands continue to put their lives at risk for the country today. What gets to the viewer, more than any Memorial Day speech or parade could, more even than names engraved in stone, are the living faces of young soldiers in small landing craft trying to appear brave and resolute as they approach some strange and frightening shore, then advancing over a ruined landscape, tense with fear at every building or cave they approach, moving ahead under fire, scrambling for cover.
One of the more poignant episodes in “Victory at Sea” shows many such faces in extremis. It is called “Return of the Allies ” and gives a dramatic film account of the liberation of Manila from Japanese occupation: troops wading ashore, relieved to find little or no opposition. The explosion of violence as they reach the Philippine capital, which has been turned into a hellish fortress to be taken building by building. A grievously wounded soldier, his comrades working feverishly to save him while one holds a helmet above his face to protect it from the rain. The people of the Philippines fleeing the violence that took so many of their fellow citizens’ lives — and exulting in the liberation. A helmeted GI gently tending to an injured boy. A lone U.S. soldier trudging past Filipinos, who rush out to touch him, grab his hand, pat him on the back. A ragtag band parading with every kind of horn they can lay their hands on in raucous celebration.
Most of the faces are gone now; some did not live out the year 1945. In a way, these films are our most emotional memorials to them. They’re readily available on the Internet. Perhaps this would be a good day to say, “You kids really ought to see this.”
Watched Victory at Sea, have the albums (vinyl) back then. My grand-father was in the Navy. My great-uncle was in the Navy during WWI. He is forever in the Navy after the ship he was serving on was sunk by a German submarine, September 16, 1918. Today is the day, every year, we honor him and all others lost in enemy action. It is the day we used to call Decoration Day, and the day we did go to cemeteries to stand before the gravestones of those who died and were buried.
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Marilla Cushman led a tour of the Women’s Memorial in Arlington, Virginia, covering women who served in the Revolutionary War through World War II. This was the first of a two-part program.
Retired Lt. Col. Marilla Cushman led a tour of the Women’s Memorial in Arlington, Virginia, covering women who served in the Korean War through the War on Terror. This is the second of a two-part program.
The teacher for my 8th grade music appreciation class brought in the Victory At Sea records. To this day the beautiful tango “Beneath The Southern Cross” is my favorite even if Rogers did steal the melody that with lyrics became the hit song “No Other Love” from the musical Me & Juliet.
quote from the hill story North Korea labels Bolton a ‘war monger’ and ‘defective human product’
[…]
“It will be fit to call Bolton not a security adviser striving for security but a security-destroying adviser who is wrecking peace and security,” the spokesman added, according to The Associated Press. “It is not at all strange that perverse words always come out from the mouth of a structurally defective guy, and such a human defect deserves an earlier vanishing.”
regarding war memorials, this in today’s NYTimes story about flagging funds for female veterans’ memorial and others:
[…]
The perpetual move to build large war memorials in a universe of finite space and money raises broader questions about just how many entanglements the nation should commemorate in its most famous public spaces. Nearly a dozen memorials are in the works on or near the National Mall, a reflection of two decades of wars and a surge of civilian support, at least symbolically, to honor veterans, as well as a drive to recognize forgotten soldiers of prior conflicts.
There are memorials planned to honor Native American and black veterans, gulf war veterans, and mothers of the dead. There is a memorial intended for the war against global terrorism, which needed special congressional approval because it is a continuing conflict, and another for emergency medical workers.
“We have had a significant number of new memorials built over the last quarter of a century while at the same time Congress allocates less and less for their upkeep,” said Beth Meyer, a landscape architecture professor at the University of Virginia and member of the federal Commission of Fine Arts, which reviews designs for the major public spaces in Washington.
Ms. Meyer has been a critic of the constant expanse of memorials, which she believes reduces the story of the United States to its war history.
[…]
“The women’s memorial is one of whole numbers of memorial projects that were part of the late 20th-century boom,” Mr. Savage said. “But it would be hard for me not to think that it was a response to the proliferation of war memorials to men.”
“Women and people of color are disproportionately not represented in the monument landscape in Washington,” he added, noting that this was not lost on female tourists, especially young ones, who traipse through the capital each year in search of their history “If you don’t see yourself there as a legitimate part of this country, that’s a problem, and that’s what makes the women’s monument stand out.”
The quest to maintain the women’s memorial also underscores broader themes of marginalization of female veterans. Although they are the fastest group of an otherwise shrinking universe of American veterans, they make far less use of the Department of Veterans Affairs for their health care and other services, and unlike their male counterparts, they often subordinate their service as part of their broader identity.
“Partly there has been this stigma around women in the military,” General McWilliams said. “Most women don’t walk into a bar and say, ‘Hey, I am just back from the war,’ the way a man might.”
Above all, that is what the memorial seeks to address, she said: “We want to positively preserve the memories of women who served this country. It’s a part of our history that had been ignored.”
Citing an opinion piece in the New York Times that is harshly critical of President Donald Trump, the husband of trusted presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway continued his war with his wife’s boss by calling him out for being a liar and a fraud. And “crazy.”
In a series of Tweets on Sunday morning — while the president is overseas — conservative attorney George Conway highlighted passages from the column that he apparently feels Americans need to be aware of.
One such passage, states, “Pelosi ‘hit on something that is core to his con. His whole life is about the cover-up. He has covered up his academic record, his health reports, his dalliances with women, his finances, his family history.’”
Another reads, “‘One of the biggest motivating factors in Trump’s life — other than food, greed, sex and revenge — is mythmaking. Deep down, he knows he’s a pathological liar and he’s not the person he says he is. But any time anyone pierces that veil, it sends him into a rage.’”
It should be noted that the Times column that drew his attention, written by Maureen Dowd, is headlined: “Crazy is as Crazy Does.”
Well, it’s almost time to go outside and raise Old Glory to the pinnacle of her staff. As an aside, I would have puked if SFB had uttered the well chosen words of the speech just finished by our VP at Arlington.
We are having a Memorial Day very small fete at our neighbors — pulled pork, potato salad, coleslaw with a hint of blue cheese and red bell pepper, and ice cream sundaes for dessert. I think we have it covered.
As for drinks –local red wine, coca cola and maybe a special cocktail — we haven’t gotten that far yet –still open to suggestions.
KGC, how about Scotland, I meant scotch, on the rocks?
the guardian quoting he SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon:
There will be another Scottish independence referendum and I will make a prediction today that Scotland will vote for independence and we will become an independent country just like Ireland, and the strong relationship between our two countries now will become even stronger soon.
I want to see Scotland having the choice of independence within this term of the Scottish parliament, which ends in May 2021, so towards the latter half of next year would be when I think is the right time for that choice.
She criticised the UK government for treating Scotland with “utter contempt” over Brexit during the visit.
We voted over 60% to remain, we have tried very hard in the wake of the UK-wide Brexit vote to find compromises and protect our interests, and we have worked hard across party lines to try to prevent the worst impact of Brexit, and we have been ignored.
Scotland has been treated with contempt by Westminster and people are contrasting that with Ireland, that has been shown real solidarity and support from the European Union.
Suddenly, this idea of being a small independent country in the European Union, we only have to look at Ireland to see the benefits of that and many people are having their eyes opened.
Sturg
I hadn’t had sloe gin since I was 18 and of drinking age in NY State where I was working as a waitress at the Chautauqua Society
And we were at a restaurant last week where they had a sloe gin coctail on the menu
All I can say is yikes
Kg when I was a teen-Ager playing in hard joints….we did all those goofy old drinks: Tom Collins, whiskey sour, side-car, old fashioned, manhattans, etc etc but for somehow in one of those joints we got on a slow gin fizz and SS kick…..it went on for weeks……
My son likes to ask for a Hemingway Daiquiri. It usually sends the bartender running for the book. They usually return sheepishly to say, “We don’t have any Maraschino liqueur”. Since he doesn’t particularly like daiquiris, this isn’t a bother at all.
Pour 1 1/4 cups of champagne into an ice tray and freeze into cubes. Pour crème de cassis into a metal bowl and freeze it until it is very thick. (The crème de cassis will not freeze solid.) The liquids may be prepared up to this point 8 hours in advance.
In a blender, blend frozen champagne and 1 cup cracked ice with the crème de cassis, scraping down the sides occasionally, and the remaining champagne until the mixture is smooth but still frozen. Divide mixture between 2 stemmed glasses.
In one of those Kenneth Roberts book he gives a great recipe for a tub of hot buttered rum. Might be NORTHWEST PASSAGE…..
might be a little late in the year for that one, might be gooder time for Cold Buttered Rum
Good grief – what y’all been drinking today? Dr. Beam and Daniels are surprised. My sons “enjoyed” the Hairy Buffalo, pour what you bring into a tub and drinkit. My generation was a bit less concerned, drink what you brought. For those caring, we drank straight booze, mixed drinks such as Singapore Slings, rum and coke, Harvey Wall Bangers, Grasshopper, Tom Collins, white russian, Gibson, Manhattan and a zombie. There are many more, but hard booze was losing to beer (and something called weed or marijuana) .
I get PO listening to those making SFB normal. The guy hates anyone in the military. He hates anyone KIA or MIA. He hates us because he does not have the guts to die for America.
When I was growing up this time of year was not just celebrating war, Decoration day was a remembrance of all who had went before. As a result as I went with my dad to the cemetery and place flowers on the graves, I also got to listen to stories from people who knew the people who survived the civil war. Not just those who fought but also the victims of war.
Too often we praise those in combat but for get the victims of war. From Mrs Eng who brought her 4 teenage daughters through the killing fields to Mrs. Lipski who with her brother were forced into slave labor by the Nazis. She saw her brother shot for the crime of smoking a cigarette,
For me this is a time of remembrance and today of course that is Sherry.
Jack
I cooked some tid bits that Sherry and I both liked for supper with a bottle of her favorite white wine. Set a place for her and poured a bit of wine in her glass just in case she stopped by.
I think I may make it a tradition.
I’m now sipping on Preacher Craig’s finest and getting mellow
There are estimated to be about 1,100 wild cows roaming the streets of Hong Kong. That’s according to the territory’s Agriculture, Fisheries, and Conservation Department, who recently published a report acknowledging the difficulties of “ensuring that they coexist with local residents in harmony.” For the most part, the feral cattle are tolerated so as long as they don’t disrupt traffic, shit in the streets, or help themselves to fruit and vegetables in supermarkets.
But earlier this month, four cows shattered that peace agreement when they stormed the aisles of a local supermarket and raided the fresh produce section. Local newspaper Ming Pao reported that the wild animals entered the Fusion grocery store in Mui Wo at about 8 PM, headed straight for the fruit and vegetable shelves, and treating themselves to a feast. Footage posted to Facebook shows shoppers standing around awkwardly as the invaders ate up the supermarket’s supply of greens.
My first direct encounter with a cow was on a school visit to a farm that was a small farm with a few cows, chickens and pigs – probably in 2nd grade, but it could have been 3rd. It was hot, I was in shorts and sandals, and while I was petting a cow at the gate into the barnyard the damn thing stepped and stood on my foot. Couldn’t get the Bossie to move for a few seconds. I yelled, pushed and hit her, but she just stood there chewing her cud. My foot swelled up like a balloon and turned black and blue and hurt like a bastard for a couple of weeks. I never had any inclination to be a farmer. Can’t figure out why. Cows…
Jack, Angel from Montgomery, One Way Out & Old Folks Boogie – terrific songs and definitive recordings of them. Thanks for posting them. And the two other Prine songs, just wonderful. And Mabus’ Touch a Name on the Wall- beautiful and sad as hell. Perfect Memorial Day selection.
by the editorial board of wapo:
NEARLY 70 years ago, in the early days of TV, children in households across the country suddenly found their love affair with the new medium being interrupted each week by a program their parents wanted to watch. “You kids really ought to see this, too,” they were often told as the family set was preempted. The big event was a documentary film series called “Victory at Sea,” a sort of grand morality tale and symphonic saga about the worldwide war that had disrupted and, in many cases, shattered the lives of a generation.
“Victory at Sea” won big prizes in its time. It was unabashedly patriotic — reverential toward America and its allies, filled with the soaring music of Richard Rodgers, and given to portraying the war as a struggle between good and evil. Perhaps it wouldn’t play to such critical acclaim in our own Age of Irony, but in those times it answered the desire for meaning to be found in a horribly destructive conflict that cost so many lives — the number literally countless but in the scores of millions.
Today it serves our need for memory, as do other powerful documentary films of our most recent awful global war and, one hopes, our final one — though of course thousands have given their lives in harrowing warfare since then, and thousands continue to put their lives at risk for the country today. What gets to the viewer, more than any Memorial Day speech or parade could, more even than names engraved in stone, are the living faces of young soldiers in small landing craft trying to appear brave and resolute as they approach some strange and frightening shore, then advancing over a ruined landscape, tense with fear at every building or cave they approach, moving ahead under fire, scrambling for cover.
One of the more poignant episodes in “Victory at Sea” shows many such faces in extremis. It is called “Return of the Allies ” and gives a dramatic film account of the liberation of Manila from Japanese occupation: troops wading ashore, relieved to find little or no opposition. The explosion of violence as they reach the Philippine capital, which has been turned into a hellish fortress to be taken building by building. A grievously wounded soldier, his comrades working feverishly to save him while one holds a helmet above his face to protect it from the rain. The people of the Philippines fleeing the violence that took so many of their fellow citizens’ lives — and exulting in the liberation. A helmeted GI gently tending to an injured boy. A lone U.S. soldier trudging past Filipinos, who rush out to touch him, grab his hand, pat him on the back. A ragtag band parading with every kind of horn they can lay their hands on in raucous celebration.
Most of the faces are gone now; some did not live out the year 1945. In a way, these films are our most emotional memorials to them. They’re readily available on the Internet. Perhaps this would be a good day to say, “You kids really ought to see this.”
Watched Victory at Sea, have the albums (vinyl) back then. My grand-father was in the Navy. My great-uncle was in the Navy during WWI. He is forever in the Navy after the ship he was serving on was sunk by a German submarine, September 16, 1918. Today is the day, every year, we honor him and all others lost in enemy action. It is the day we used to call Decoration Day, and the day we did go to cemeteries to stand before the gravestones of those who died and were buried.
women who served in Korean war
the above videos were just segments. if you want to watch the entire C-SPAN program, here are the links
The Women’s Memorial, Part 1
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Marilla Cushman led a tour of the Women’s Memorial in Arlington, Virginia, covering women who served in the Revolutionary War through World War II. This was the first of a two-part program.
and
The Women’s Memorial, Part 2
Retired Lt. Col. Marilla Cushman led a tour of the Women’s Memorial in Arlington, Virginia, covering women who served in the Korean War through the War on Terror. This is the second of a two-part program.
i still need to see this:
The teacher for my 8th grade music appreciation class brought in the Victory At Sea records. To this day the beautiful tango “Beneath The Southern Cross” is my favorite even if Rogers did steal the melody that with lyrics became the hit song “No Other Love” from the musical Me & Juliet.
bink, this one too
and on another front today
quote from the hill story North Korea labels Bolton a ‘war monger’ and ‘defective human product’
[…]
“It will be fit to call Bolton not a security adviser striving for security but a security-destroying adviser who is wrecking peace and security,” the spokesman added, according to The Associated Press. “It is not at all strange that perverse words always come out from the mouth of a structurally defective guy, and such a human defect deserves an earlier vanishing.”
[continues]
regarding war memorials, this in today’s NYTimes story about flagging funds for female veterans’ memorial and others:
[…]
The perpetual move to build large war memorials in a universe of finite space and money raises broader questions about just how many entanglements the nation should commemorate in its most famous public spaces. Nearly a dozen memorials are in the works on or near the National Mall, a reflection of two decades of wars and a surge of civilian support, at least symbolically, to honor veterans, as well as a drive to recognize forgotten soldiers of prior conflicts.
There are memorials planned to honor Native American and black veterans, gulf war veterans, and mothers of the dead. There is a memorial intended for the war against global terrorism, which needed special congressional approval because it is a continuing conflict, and another for emergency medical workers.
“We have had a significant number of new memorials built over the last quarter of a century while at the same time Congress allocates less and less for their upkeep,” said Beth Meyer, a landscape architecture professor at the University of Virginia and member of the federal Commission of Fine Arts, which reviews designs for the major public spaces in Washington.
Ms. Meyer has been a critic of the constant expanse of memorials, which she believes reduces the story of the United States to its war history.
[…]
“The women’s memorial is one of whole numbers of memorial projects that were part of the late 20th-century boom,” Mr. Savage said. “But it would be hard for me not to think that it was a response to the proliferation of war memorials to men.”
“Women and people of color are disproportionately not represented in the monument landscape in Washington,” he added, noting that this was not lost on female tourists, especially young ones, who traipse through the capital each year in search of their history “If you don’t see yourself there as a legitimate part of this country, that’s a problem, and that’s what makes the women’s monument stand out.”
The quest to maintain the women’s memorial also underscores broader themes of marginalization of female veterans. Although they are the fastest group of an otherwise shrinking universe of American veterans, they make far less use of the Department of Veterans Affairs for their health care and other services, and unlike their male counterparts, they often subordinate their service as part of their broader identity.
“Partly there has been this stigma around women in the military,” General McWilliams said. “Most women don’t walk into a bar and say, ‘Hey, I am just back from the war,’ the way a man might.”
Above all, that is what the memorial seeks to address, she said: “We want to positively preserve the memories of women who served this country. It’s a part of our history that had been ignored.”
Blood on the risers
by George, from raw story:
Citing an opinion piece in the New York Times that is harshly critical of President Donald Trump, the husband of trusted presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway continued his war with his wife’s boss by calling him out for being a liar and a fraud. And “crazy.”
In a series of Tweets on Sunday morning — while the president is overseas — conservative attorney George Conway highlighted passages from the column that he apparently feels Americans need to be aware of.
One such passage, states, “Pelosi ‘hit on something that is core to his con. His whole life is about the cover-up. He has covered up his academic record, his health reports, his dalliances with women, his finances, his family history.’”
Another reads, “‘One of the biggest motivating factors in Trump’s life — other than food, greed, sex and revenge — is mythmaking. Deep down, he knows he’s a pathological liar and he’s not the person he says he is. But any time anyone pierces that veil, it sends him into a rage.’”
It should be noted that the Times column that drew his attention, written by Maureen Dowd, is headlined: “Crazy is as Crazy Does.”
realclearpolitics interesting look at lizzie/donald latest
Polling Data
All General Election: Trump vs. Warren Polling Data
Jamie
thanks for mentioning the music of Victory at Sea. For unknown reasons I loved that show and watched it everyweek. Still can hear the music
Well, it’s almost time to go outside and raise Old Glory to the pinnacle of her staff. As an aside, I would have puked if SFB had uttered the well chosen words of the speech just finished by our VP at Arlington.
I loved victory at sea as a kid. Watched it with dad – a WWII navy man.
We are having a Memorial Day very small fete at our neighbors — pulled pork, potato salad, coleslaw with a hint of blue cheese and red bell pepper, and ice cream sundaes for dessert. I think we have it covered.
As for drinks –local red wine, coca cola and maybe a special cocktail — we haven’t gotten that far yet –still open to suggestions.
Cocktail: Sloe Gin fizzes
or Singapore Slings.
KGC, how about Scotland, I meant scotch, on the rocks?
She criticised the UK government for treating Scotland with “utter contempt” over Brexit during the visit.
I invented a cocktail oncet…..”The Blue Nose Blue Tick Hound”
But ended up just drank all the blue liquor and never actually came up with a recipe.
Sometime ‘e be’s like dat
Okay, Warren can beat trump. They all can. But, can Warren generate long coattails ? I wonder.
Corporate media…….pah!
Sturg
I hadn’t had sloe gin since I was 18 and of drinking age in NY State where I was working as a waitress at the Chautauqua Society
And we were at a restaurant last week where they had a sloe gin coctail on the menu
All I can say is yikes
Setting heat records in old Caroline.
With the current climate, a Moscow Mule seems appropriate
Kg when I was a teen-Ager playing in hard joints….we did all those goofy old drinks: Tom Collins, whiskey sour, side-car, old fashioned, manhattans, etc etc but for somehow in one of those joints we got on a slow gin fizz and SS kick…..it went on for weeks……
Or Moscow mole
Every now and then just to be a putz I’ll ax a bartender for one of those just to see if he has to go for the book.
My favorite, though, was the “Stinger”
lawd hab mussy.
a lotta fruit and ice
frozen daiquiris and margaritas, plantation punch, sangria or best yet
Um……….there’s always “Purple Jesus”
My son likes to ask for a Hemingway Daiquiri. It usually sends the bartender running for the book. They usually return sheepishly to say, “We don’t have any Maraschino liqueur”. Since he doesn’t particularly like daiquiris, this isn’t a bother at all.
One quart ginger ale, one quart grape juice, one quart vodka, one quart 190 proof grain alcohol.
Ahh, sweet bird of yoot.
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.” Mark Twain
Frozen Kir Royale per epicurious
Serves 2
Ingredients
Preparation
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/frozen-kir-royale-200713
“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs…..then you ain’t drinking Purple Jesus”.
In one of those Kenneth Roberts book he gives a great recipe for a tub of hot buttered rum. Might be NORTHWEST PASSAGE…..
might be a little late in the year for that one, might be gooder time for Cold Buttered Rum
Just leave out the butter.
hmmmm too late for the frozen kir royale but it sounds like it could be a summer time drink
Good grief – what y’all been drinking today? Dr. Beam and Daniels are surprised. My sons “enjoyed” the Hairy Buffalo, pour what you bring into a tub and drinkit. My generation was a bit less concerned, drink what you brought. For those caring, we drank straight booze, mixed drinks such as Singapore Slings, rum and coke, Harvey Wall Bangers, Grasshopper, Tom Collins, white russian, Gibson, Manhattan and a zombie. There are many more, but hard booze was losing to beer (and something called weed or marijuana) .
I get PO listening to those making SFB normal. The guy hates anyone in the military. He hates anyone KIA or MIA. He hates us because he does not have the guts to die for America.
okay if you and the young lady were drinking sloe gin you probably can’t run for public office
Just sayin’
File that one under the “candy is dandy but liquor is quicker” column
Jack
When I was growing up this time of year was not just celebrating war, Decoration day was a remembrance of all who had went before. As a result as I went with my dad to the cemetery and place flowers on the graves, I also got to listen to stories from people who knew the people who survived the civil war. Not just those who fought but also the victims of war.
Too often we praise those in combat but for get the victims of war. From Mrs Eng who brought her 4 teenage daughters through the killing fields to Mrs. Lipski who with her brother were forced into slave labor by the Nazis. She saw her brother shot for the crime of smoking a cigarette,
For me this is a time of remembrance and today of course that is Sherry.
Jack
I cooked some tid bits that Sherry and I both liked for supper with a bottle of her favorite white wine. Set a place for her and poured a bit of wine in her glass just in case she stopped by.
I think I may make it a tradition.
I’m now sipping on Preacher Craig’s finest and getting mellow
Jack
https://youtu.be/nw1NwGp35Pw
https://youtu.be/yJ9twEldw_M
Just for that hippy chick.
https://youtu.be/ZSWnclFYbrU
Just another Cow
My first direct encounter with a cow was on a school visit to a farm that was a small farm with a few cows, chickens and pigs – probably in 2nd grade, but it could have been 3rd. It was hot, I was in shorts and sandals, and while I was petting a cow at the gate into the barnyard the damn thing stepped and stood on my foot. Couldn’t get the Bossie to move for a few seconds. I yelled, pushed and hit her, but she just stood there chewing her cud. My foot swelled up like a balloon and turned black and blue and hurt like a bastard for a couple of weeks. I never had any inclination to be a farmer. Can’t figure out why. Cows…
Jack, Angel from Montgomery, One Way Out & Old Folks Boogie – terrific songs and definitive recordings of them. Thanks for posting them. And the two other Prine songs, just wonderful. And Mabus’ Touch a Name on the Wall- beautiful and sad as hell. Perfect Memorial Day selection.
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