Notify me of new comments via email. Cancel Report. Create a new account. Log In. Select another language:. Please enter your email address: Submit. Powered by CITE. Know another quote from Just Married? Don't let people miss on a great quote from the "Just Married" movie - add it here! But Tony Orlando, who gets separate billing for the first time, had a gift for selling that very thing. Dawn had bigger hits, but few that were more purely joyful.
Fifty years later, Fanny is the subject of a new documentary that reveals just how much ground they broke, not just as women in a male-dominated business but as Filipina Americans in a racist society. In an era with fewer signals for listeners to choose from, mass appeal was not only possible, it was the goal.
The fall of is less purely magical than the fall of ; September to December will always be a liminal space to me, a wondrous passageway that pointed the little boy I was toward the person I am now. One year later, I had listened through a full procession of the seasons and discovered a powerful link between music and time.
But represented another passageway, another space between. I never wanted to be a farmer like Dad when I grew up, not for a minute. Like many boys, I wanted to be a pro football player for a while. But by the fall of , I had lived a year with the radio in my head. I loved the music, but I was also fascinated with how the music and the jingles and the newscasts and the commercials weaved together to create a complete, enormous thing, orchestrated by the jocks, who seemed like the coolest people in the world to me.
Hungry for some comfort food the other day, I pulled out the American Top 40 show from October 19, Read the lyrics. Weatherly speaks candidly of how he feels as a man, and how he intends to achieve the fullness of his being. Such openness was a relatively new concept in , after the social upheavals of the 60s and early 70s.
As Weatherly demonstrates, a man of the 70s could speak honestly about his feelings without shame; it was not necessary to keep them hidden until he drifted into alcoholism or died of a coronary, as a man of the 50s might have done.
But now read it again, or listen to it. Do not expect me to be what I am not, or to become what I refuse to be. Committing to a man so unbendingly invested in the maintenance of a fixed identity seems like a prescription for eventual trouble.
Every single person in the public eye—musicians, actors, athletes, authors—is curating themselves as a brand that might have little or nothing to do with their true selves. It feels like the only way to make sense of anything is to maintain ironic distance from everything: assume that everything and everyone is lying or joking or selling something—trying to get over on us in some way—and calibrate our own perception of reality based on those assumptions.
I have written many times about the autumns of and , which seem in memory like very warm, secure, and happy family times even though it is likely that they were not. What could fit better into that landscape of memory than a singalong ballad about the pleasures of being at home? Part of my brand is to doubt my entire premise in the end. I might be completely wrong. Skip to content. Embed from Getty Images Pictured: record producer Mickie Most in with a Teac A tape machine, once a fixture in radio stations and recording studios.
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