My Dad’s favorite singer, Eddy Arnold. Here he is before the super deep voice, although you’ll hear it coming in this clip. Think he had a higher range as a young man. Enjoy your Sunday. May the Jace be with you!
16 thoughts on “Sunday Country”
another eddie and another country in another time
and another another time
Louisville courier-journal:Â In McConnellâs boyhood town where his family owned slaves, the reparations debate thrives
ATHENS, Ala. â Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was born about 40 miles from his great-great-grandfathersâ Alabama cotton farms, worked by slaves a 100 years before.
Like so many long-standing Southern white families, McConnell’s forebearers built their wealth with free slave labor and cheap land. Two of his great-great-grandfathers owned more than a dozen slaves, census records reviewed by the USA TODAY Network show.
The Kentucky Republican has known of his family’s slave-owning past since at least 1994, when he wrote a letter to a Limestone County judge requesting information about his great-great-grandfather James McConnell, a slave owner, and the settlement of his ancestor’s estate.
But his 2016 memoir, âThe Long Game,â contains no mention that the “colorful McConnellsâ he wrote about owned slaves, NBC reported.Â
As a child during segregation, McConnell lived on the white side of Athens, where black residents were only allowed to visit for work and were typically paid very low wages.
While Kentucky’s senior senator has consistently condemned slavery and racism throughout his long political career, his vocal opposition to slavery reparations in any form has fueled the growing national debate about whether African Americans deserve restitution for enduring centuries of economic exploitation.
“I donât think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago when none of us currently living are responsible is a good idea,â McConnell said in June. âWeâve tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war, bypassing landmark civil rights legislation. Weâve elected an African American president.â
McConnellâs remarks, which made national headlines, came the day before a rare congressional hearing in which Democratic leaders and celebrities sought support for a bill that would establish a committee to âstudy and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations.â
McConnell did not respond this week to a USA TODAY Network request for additional comment about why he opposes reparations despite the lasting economic damages African Americans suffered from slavery and segregation.Â
[continues]
one of the best IMHO country albums ever put out was by Ray Charles. here’s what allmusic has to say about it:
When Ray Charles made Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music in 1962, he was operating from a position of power. Two years into his contract with ABC-Paramount, he had already become a fixture in the Top Ten with both his singles and his albums, winning a Grammy for his 1960 single “Georgia on My Mind.” Charles had freedom to do whatever he wanted, and he chose to record interpretations of 12 country songs, drawing almost equally from recent hits and older standards. The sly virtuosity within Charles‘ approach was to treat these tunes as a a songbook to be reinvented, not as songs that were tied to their rural roots. Later, Charles explained that he saw little difference between a country tune and a blues song — they draw from the same emotions and musical traditions — but the striking thing about his interpretations on Modern Sounds in Country and Western is that he’s not concentrating on the earthier elements of either genre. He’s fully focused on playing these songs as he’d play any other, grounding them in jazz and soul, then dressing them in arrangements designed to snag a crossover audience. To latter-day generations, those arrangements — thick with strings and backing vocals — may sound slightly schlocky, yet even in 1962 they were a sign of how Charles was as intent on appealing to a mainstream easy listening demographic as he was to his soul and jazz audience. That’s the brilliance of the project: it is thoroughly American pop music, blending seemingly disparate elements in a fashion that seems simultaneously universal and idiosyncratic.
Â
Audiences quickly embraced Modern Sounds in Country Music, which lead Charles and producer Sid Feller to record a sequel immediately, rushing it onto the marketplace of October 1962, just six months after the first hit the stars. Time has eroded the differences between the two LPs, and perhaps inevitably so: the two share the same sensibility and arrangers, with the difference being the second volume separates the big band tunes on one side, with the strings and choirs on the other. It’s a notable distinction, but the main difference between the two albums is that the first volume retains a sense of discovery, whereas the second is made with the confidence that this particular formula works. In either case, the two albums — whether heard individually or as a pair, as they so often are — aren’t so much complements but of a piece, music that changed the course of popular music and remains a testament to the genius of Ray Charles.
Â
here’s ray interpreting one that Eddie Arnold wrote, made a hit of but never sounded quite like this:
Being a super fan, I have been following the Hugh Jackman tour that features the Nomad Two Worlds aboriginal group. So how does this tie in with both country music and reparations? Â
Under his aboriginal name, Tjapanangka Payirntarri, posted on Facebook this morning about the Las Vegas stop and the thrill of playing and singing on the same stage as his childhood favorite singers: George Strait and Brooks & Dunn. Â
Under his English name, Clifton Bieundurry, paints truly amazing paintings based on aboriginal art as he works to bind the wounds of the aboriginal/white culture of Australia. His mother is Olive Knight who is with the show as well, is also a singer who as an elder was in the front row to hear the Prime Minister’s apology to all aboriginals.  Nomad Two Worlds is helping with the whole issue of reparations for all of the mistreatment of aboriginals and the recovery from the “stolen generations”. Â
correction on the writing by Eddie Arnold of that song from wiki:
“You Don’t Know Me” is a song written by Cindy Walker based on a title and storyline given to her by Eddy Arnold in 1955. “You Don’t Know Me” was first recorded by Arnold that year and released as a single on April 21, 1956 on RCA Victor. The first version of the song to make the Billboard charts was by Jerry Vale in 1956, peaking at #14 on the pop chart. Arnold’s version charted two months later, released as an RCA Victor single, 47-6502, backed with “The Rockin’ Mockin’ Bird”, which reached #1
Reading the Post this morning and couldnât resist this one.Â
July 12 at 9:41 PM
Should everything go according to plan, more than a half-million strangers will gather in a remote Nevada town in mid-September, united by a common goal: to raid Area 51 in the wee hours of the morning â using a strength-in-numbers approach to reveal any extraterrestrial treasures stashed within the notoriously clandestine government base.
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Or, put more simply: âLets see them aliens.âÂ
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By Friday evening, more than 540,000 people from around the world had signed up to attend the joke Facebook event: âStorm Area 51, They Canât Stop All of Usâ â and just as many had indicated they were âinterested.â Planned for Sept. 20 in Amargosa Valley, an hourâs drive from Las Vegas, the event page is filled with thousands of satirical posts and memes theorizing the best way to break into the top-secret facility.
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âWe will all meet up at the Area 51 Alien Center tourist attraction and coordinate our entry,â reads a brief description of the event, which was created by popular video game streamer SmyleeKun. âIf we naruto run, we can move faster than their bullets.â The latter part of the description references anime ninja Naruto Uzumaki, whose signature head-forward, arms-behind-the-back running technique has led some to believe it makes them run faster. (It doesnât.)
[continues in not less silly manner] ??
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BTW, the guy who started this also said:
âP.S. Hello U.S. government, this is a joke, and I do not actually intend to go ahead with this plan,â wrote user Jackson Barnes, following his rather descriptive proposed game plan. âI just thought it would be funny and get me some thumbsy uppies on the Internet. Iâm not responsible if people decide to actually storm area 51.â
President Donald Trump on Sunday called out progressive Democratic congresswomen in xenophobic terms, saying: âWhy donât they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.â
Trumpâs tweets were seemingly intended to exploit tensions with the House Democratic Caucus, though they drew a sharp rebuke from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has been at odds with some of the most liberal members of her caucus.
While the president didnât mention them by name in his tweets, it appears he was attacking Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a native of Somalia, and possibly Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), whose family is Palestinian. Both have been outspoken when it comes to Trumpâs administration and the conditions of migrant detention centers on the border.
âSo interesting to see ‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run,â the president wrote on Twitter.
Tlaib was born in the United States and Omar, whose family fled war-torn Somalia when she was a child, is an American citizen.
Why donât they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,â he added. âThen come back and show us how it is done. These places need your help badly, you canât leave fast enough. Iâm sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!â
[âŚ]
If Trumpâs Sunday comments were meant to exploit a schism in the Democratic caucus, it didnât seem to work: The House speaker stood with the members of her caucus.
âWhen @realDonaldTrump tells four American Congresswomen to go back to their countries, he reaffirms his plan to âMake America Great Againâ has always been about making America white again. Our diversity is our strength and our unity is our power,â she wrote on Twitter.
Pelosi added: âRather than attack Members of Congress, he should work with us for humane immigration policy that reflects American values.â
Others also denounced Trumpâs remarks.
âA racist tweet from a racist president,â tweeted New Mexico Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, the assistant speaker of the House.
Referring to xenophobia as âa very bad tradition,â New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said on CNNâs âState of the Union: âHere’s the bottom line on what Trump is doing with that tweet today. He said he would make America great again. What he’s trying to do is make America hate again.â
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Oh, I thought it was area 52……no wonder it was so deserted
The main thing to consider about the Trump tweets is that they were probably not written by the Racist In Chief or at least were expanded upon by someone else. There is no way the SFB ever used a term such as “country from which they came” or included it in a grammatically correct and coherent sentence.
One suspects his local white power advisor, Stephen Miller, of applying his heavy, hateful hand.Â
Jamie, could be, but I bet heâs got plenty of educated hateful young pricks to draft tweets for him.Â
Wow – oh wow. Go off the grid for a while and come back to find that the white supremacist in the WH tells American citizens to go back from where they came. At what point will Speaker Pelosi say the point has come to start impeachment proceedings? Many I have read say we passed that point a long way back. I tend to think it came in January 2017. But, now, it is time. SFB has been set up to be a dictator by the far right and “evangical” white supremacists. It has to stop.
and only a week ago, we were celebrating the declaration of independence in which is written about a despot:
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice….
sorta tongue-in-cheek by Richard Wolffe in today’s guardian piece “If there is an immigrant who has failed to integrate in America, it’s Donald Trump “:
[âŚ]
Trump is unfortunately correct when he says their government is âthe worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all).â
Because itâs his own government and it barely functions. Everyone in Washington â especially the poor British ambassador â has said as much.
âWhy donât they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done,â Trump tweeted on Sunday, apparently talking about a group of American members of Congress, including those who were born in the Bronx, Detroit and Cincinnati.
Thatâs the problem with immigrant families like the Trumps. They have no respect for our traditions and our elected representatives.
They hate our freedoms so much that they want to turn us into some kind of European dictatorship like they used to have back home. When they talk about our God-given Constitution, they sound like they havenât even bothered to read the Cliffâs Notes version.
[âŚ]
There was a time, before January 2017, when presidents and prime ministers celebrated immigrants and diversity as one of the defining strengths of their countries. Now our leaders pretend their own families have nothing to do with immigrants.
Soon weâre going to have to watch a German-American president playing footsie with a British prime minister who was born in New York, with Turkish and Russian roots, who is actually named Boris.
With all these immigrants around, it makes you wonder why we canât find any real white nationalists to play the racism card any more. All these foreigners are taking the jobs away from our pure-bred bigots. They ought to go back to where they came from.
another eddie and another country in another time
and another another time
Louisville courier-journal:Â In McConnellâs boyhood town where his family owned slaves, the reparations debate thrives
ATHENS, Ala. â Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was born about 40 miles from his great-great-grandfathersâ Alabama cotton farms, worked by slaves a 100 years before.
Like so many long-standing Southern white families, McConnell’s forebearers built their wealth with free slave labor and cheap land. Two of his great-great-grandfathers owned more than a dozen slaves, census records reviewed by the USA TODAY Network show.
The Kentucky Republican has known of his family’s slave-owning past since at least 1994, when he wrote a letter to a Limestone County judge requesting information about his great-great-grandfather James McConnell, a slave owner, and the settlement of his ancestor’s estate.
But his 2016 memoir, âThe Long Game,â contains no mention that the “colorful McConnellsâ he wrote about owned slaves, NBC reported.Â
As a child during segregation, McConnell lived on the white side of Athens, where black residents were only allowed to visit for work and were typically paid very low wages.
While Kentucky’s senior senator has consistently condemned slavery and racism throughout his long political career, his vocal opposition to slavery reparations in any form has fueled the growing national debate about whether African Americans deserve restitution for enduring centuries of economic exploitation.
“I donât think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago when none of us currently living are responsible is a good idea,â McConnell said in June. âWeâve tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war, bypassing landmark civil rights legislation. Weâve elected an African American president.â
McConnellâs remarks, which made national headlines, came the day before a rare congressional hearing in which Democratic leaders and celebrities sought support for a bill that would establish a committee to âstudy and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations.â
McConnell did not respond this week to a USA TODAY Network request for additional comment about why he opposes reparations despite the lasting economic damages African Americans suffered from slavery and segregation.Â
[continues]
one of the best IMHO country albums ever put out was by Ray Charles. here’s what allmusic has to say about it:
When Ray Charles made Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music in 1962, he was operating from a position of power. Two years into his contract with ABC-Paramount, he had already become a fixture in the Top Ten with both his singles and his albums, winning a Grammy for his 1960 single “Georgia on My Mind.” Charles had freedom to do whatever he wanted, and he chose to record interpretations of 12 country songs, drawing almost equally from recent hits and older standards. The sly virtuosity within Charles‘ approach was to treat these tunes as a a songbook to be reinvented, not as songs that were tied to their rural roots. Later, Charles explained that he saw little difference between a country tune and a blues song — they draw from the same emotions and musical traditions — but the striking thing about his interpretations on Modern Sounds in Country and Western is that he’s not concentrating on the earthier elements of either genre. He’s fully focused on playing these songs as he’d play any other, grounding them in jazz and soul, then dressing them in arrangements designed to snag a crossover audience. To latter-day generations, those arrangements — thick with strings and backing vocals — may sound slightly schlocky, yet even in 1962 they were a sign of how Charles was as intent on appealing to a mainstream easy listening demographic as he was to his soul and jazz audience. That’s the brilliance of the project: it is thoroughly American pop music, blending seemingly disparate elements in a fashion that seems simultaneously universal and idiosyncratic.
Audiences quickly embraced Modern Sounds in Country Music, which lead Charles and producer Sid Feller to record a sequel immediately, rushing it onto the marketplace of October 1962, just six months after the first hit the stars. Time has eroded the differences between the two LPs, and perhaps inevitably so: the two share the same sensibility and arrangers, with the difference being the second volume separates the big band tunes on one side, with the strings and choirs on the other. It’s a notable distinction, but the main difference between the two albums is that the first volume retains a sense of discovery, whereas the second is made with the confidence that this particular formula works. In either case, the two albums — whether heard individually or as a pair, as they so often are — aren’t so much complements but of a piece, music that changed the course of popular music and remains a testament to the genius of Ray Charles.
here’s ray interpreting one that Eddie Arnold wrote, made a hit of but never sounded quite like this:
Being a super fan, I have been following the Hugh Jackman tour that features the Nomad Two Worlds aboriginal group. So how does this tie in with both country music and reparations? Â
Under his aboriginal name, Tjapanangka Payirntarri, posted on Facebook this morning about the Las Vegas stop and the thrill of playing and singing on the same stage as his childhood favorite singers: George Strait and Brooks & Dunn. Â
Under his English name, Clifton Bieundurry, paints truly amazing paintings based on aboriginal art as he works to bind the wounds of the aboriginal/white culture of Australia. His mother is Olive Knight who is with the show as well, is also a singer who as an elder was in the front row to hear the Prime Minister’s apology to all aboriginals.  Nomad Two Worlds is helping with the whole issue of reparations for all of the mistreatment of aboriginals and the recovery from the “stolen generations”. Â
correction on the writing by Eddie Arnold of that song from wiki:
“You Don’t Know Me” is a song written by Cindy Walker based on a title and storyline given to her by Eddy Arnold in 1955. “You Don’t Know Me” was first recorded by Arnold that year and released as a single on April 21, 1956 on RCA Victor. The first version of the song to make the Billboard charts was by Jerry Vale in 1956, peaking at #14 on the pop chart. Arnold’s version charted two months later, released as an RCA Victor single, 47-6502, backed with “The Rockin’ Mockin’ Bird”, which reached #1
Reading the Post this morning and couldnât resist this one.Â
BTW, the guy who started this also said:
As if it could have been serious…
politico:
President Donald Trump on Sunday called out progressive Democratic congresswomen in xenophobic terms, saying: âWhy donât they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.â
Trumpâs tweets were seemingly intended to exploit tensions with the House Democratic Caucus, though they drew a sharp rebuke from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has been at odds with some of the most liberal members of her caucus.
While the president didnât mention them by name in his tweets, it appears he was attacking Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a native of Somalia, and possibly Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), whose family is Palestinian. Both have been outspoken when it comes to Trumpâs administration and the conditions of migrant detention centers on the border.
âSo interesting to see ‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run,â the president wrote on Twitter.
Tlaib was born in the United States and Omar, whose family fled war-torn Somalia when she was a child, is an American citizen.
Why donât they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,â he added. âThen come back and show us how it is done. These places need your help badly, you canât leave fast enough. Iâm sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!â
[âŚ]
If Trumpâs Sunday comments were meant to exploit a schism in the Democratic caucus, it didnât seem to work: The House speaker stood with the members of her caucus.
âWhen @realDonaldTrump tells four American Congresswomen to go back to their countries, he reaffirms his plan to âMake America Great Againâ has always been about making America white again. Our diversity is our strength and our unity is our power,â she wrote on Twitter.
Pelosi added: âRather than attack Members of Congress, he should work with us for humane immigration policy that reflects American values.â
Others also denounced Trumpâs remarks.
âA racist tweet from a racist president,â tweeted New Mexico Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, the assistant speaker of the House.
Referring to xenophobia as âa very bad tradition,â New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said on CNNâs âState of the Union: âHere’s the bottom line on what Trump is doing with that tweet today. He said he would make America great again. What he’s trying to do is make America hate again.â
[continues]
Oh, I thought it was area 52……no wonder it was so deserted
The main thing to consider about the Trump tweets is that they were probably not written by the Racist In Chief or at least were expanded upon by someone else. There is no way the SFB ever used a term such as “country from which they came” or included it in a grammatically correct and coherent sentence.
One suspects his local white power advisor, Stephen Miller, of applying his heavy, hateful hand.Â
Jamie, could be, but I bet heâs got plenty of educated hateful young pricks to draft tweets for him.Â
Wow – oh wow. Go off the grid for a while and come back to find that the white supremacist in the WH tells American citizens to go back from where they came. At what point will Speaker Pelosi say the point has come to start impeachment proceedings? Many I have read say we passed that point a long way back. I tend to think it came in January 2017. But, now, it is time. SFB has been set up to be a dictator by the far right and “evangical” white supremacists. It has to stop.
and only a week ago, we were celebrating the declaration of independence in which is written about a despot:
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice….
sorta tongue-in-cheek by Richard Wolffe in today’s guardian piece “If there is an immigrant who has failed to integrate in America, it’s Donald Trump “:
[âŚ]
Trump is unfortunately correct when he says their government is âthe worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all).â
Because itâs his own government and it barely functions. Everyone in Washington â especially the poor British ambassador â has said as much.
âWhy donât they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done,â Trump tweeted on Sunday, apparently talking about a group of American members of Congress, including those who were born in the Bronx, Detroit and Cincinnati.
Thatâs the problem with immigrant families like the Trumps. They have no respect for our traditions and our elected representatives.
They hate our freedoms so much that they want to turn us into some kind of European dictatorship like they used to have back home. When they talk about our God-given Constitution, they sound like they havenât even bothered to read the Cliffâs Notes version.
[âŚ]
There was a time, before January 2017, when presidents and prime ministers celebrated immigrants and diversity as one of the defining strengths of their countries. Now our leaders pretend their own families have nothing to do with immigrants.
Soon weâre going to have to watch a German-American president playing footsie with a British prime minister who was born in New York, with Turkish and Russian roots, who is actually named Boris.
With all these immigrants around, it makes you wonder why we canât find any real white nationalists to play the racism card any more. All these foreigners are taking the jobs away from our pure-bred bigots. They ought to go back to where they came from.
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