RIP Melanie:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/a...anie-dead.html
It's amazing that gospel-tinged numbers like "Lay Down" would perform so well on the pop charts. I personally love the Edwin Hawkins Singers and I am thrilled that such a great song got so much airplay back in the day. Singing over the Edwin Hawkins singers ain’t no easy task and Melanie easily held her own with them.
That would never happen today.
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Cuban Olympian judoka Maricet Espinosa Gonzalez has passed away.
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"I can't complain. I got to be Jim Morrison for the first half of my life, and Ward Cleaver for the second half." - Warren Zevon.
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Arno A. Penzias, who shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics for his co-discovery of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, died on Jan. 22 at the age of 90. In 1964 Dr. Penzias and his collaborator Robert W. Wilson, both researchers at Bell Laboratories, conducted an exhaustive investigation of background radiation that could interfere with satellite communications in the microwave band, but after eliminating all sources for which they could account, there remained an excess "antenna temperature" (radiative energy) that corresponded to no apparent source. Rather than emanating from discrete points in space such as neutron stars or galactic nuclei, this background radiation was coming from... everywhere. It had the same 2.72 degrees Kelvin blackbody thermal structure no mater in what direction of the sky Penzias's and Wilson's radio telescope was pointed. Other scientists concluded that this radiation had been emitted from every point in space when the universe was only about 400,000 years old and had cooled to the point that electrons and nuclei could combine into atoms, and the photons from the resulting "flash" have been traveling through space for the over 13 billion years since then. This is regarded as one of the landmark discoveries of 20th century science, since it provides direct observational evidence of the "Big Bang" origin of the universe.
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CBS News Sunday Morning will be broadcasting a tribute to Charles Osgood tomorrow:
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Oh, I'm not an old fogey when it comes to new music at all (though I despise anything with Auto-Tune, FWIW) or believe everything was great back "in the old days" (we had Feelings - 'nuff said!)
I do think it's funny that my nephews and niece prefer a lot of the older stuff compared to what's big today, though. Yes, I loved the music of the '50s and '60s as a kid during the '70s, but I loved what was on the charts then, too. Maybe it's just hard reinventing the wheel once again.
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