So it was mentioned last time by ye who have commented the fascinating way some Bible versions vary in translation. I want to bring up two related issues before we get back to business. One I will have touched upon in Sunday Message, that being that the more you come seeking in obedience, the more the Lord will open up for you. Second, I believe that these "extra translations" are no accident, but rather the way God takes you step by step to understanding . Which, as I've said, I am formulating into the yet untyped Sunday Message you'll be reading before this, so I just mention this by tying in.
Anyway, we go back to our path, which is in Romans this week. Part of what I am doing right now (again with the Sunday tie-in) is going through Psalms, and so I notice that Paul's lead-in to our verse is taken from the passage THAT I HAD JUST READ from Psalm 14:
Rom 3:9 What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, Rom 3:10 as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one; Rom 3:11 no one understands; no one seeks for God.
Paul follows up with a continuum of quotes from both Psalms and Isaiah:
Rom 3:12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one." Rom 3:13 "Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive." "The venom of asps is under their lips." Rom 3:14 "Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness." Rom 3:15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood;
And then, stepping past our verse, he continues:
Rom 3:17 and the way of peace they have not known."
Rom 3:18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes."
All of which I have taken from the ESV for the ease of reading. But now I'm going to switch to MKJV so you can get the gist of this, our verse, separated out for a reason:
Rom 3:16 destruction and misery are in their way,
I came to notice, as I looked through Paul's tour through OT quotes around it, that THIS VERSE ALONE, of all the verses from 10-18, was NOT a quote from Scripture. The JFB Commentary suggests that Paul added this as a "supplementary" verse, tied to the previous verse about feet, and pointing to " the mischief and misery which men scatter in their path, instead of that peace which, as strangers to it themselves, they cannot diffuse." But, as usual with our 16's, there's more to the story.
Both the Greek words translated as "destruction" (suntrimma) and "misery" (talaipōria) are used ONLY HERE in the NT. Paul intended this verse to be stressed, and thought about. But why? And what did they mean?
Suntrimma is formed from a series of words which denote, combined, destruction on a scale hard to imagine. Basically, it means to turn something- as literally as I can get it- into one complete gnawing wound, deep in its ruts. "Grinding to powder" comes to my mind.
Talaipōria is translated as utter wretchedness, but to break the word down you come up two concepts: to "bear the weight" of a test, and that test being "to be pierced through". These were quite possibly the strongest words that Paul could have used. So why add them?
First, look at the context. In the first part of this chapter, he's trying to get through to Gentiles that despite what Greek logic might tell them, their concept of sinning more to get more grace is wrong. The next part, he is trying to get through to Jews that they aren't any better off spiritually despite understanding that single concept better. So he goes through a set of quotes that they would recognize and understand- and then sets suntrimma and talaipōria in the midst of them. Why?
Speculation on my part: Just as he is teaching the Gentiles to let go of the self-righteousness they have in their "logic", he has to get the Jews to let go of the self-righteousness they have as possessors of "the Oracles of God", which he mentioned just upstream in v2. He could only do that by stressing that the end BOTH groups were headed for without Christ was an ending beyond their imaginations- and not reserved just for the enemies of the Hebrew nation. He had to get through to them a destruction so complete it could not be conceived as an earthly destruction that they could say in say, 2018, "that's nothing we haven't already been through".
And what does it say to us?
1- God has meaning in EVERY word he chooses.
2- God has meaning in EVERY story He tells.
3- We all have pre-conceived notions that we use like cookies for a webpage to skip past "givens" and aid us in understanding the world- and God wants us to ABANDON them. And what I am learning is without the deep digging, I'll never see what they are, and never get everything I need to out of life.
So Saturday the kids came over, filling Gampaw's heart with joy. For you non-Facebookers, here are some snaps of the festivities...
Kids got some outside time- muggy as crap, but before the deluge
"Stick 'em up, Old Man!"
Isaiah learned that Gampaw's chair spins...
Lily building the Great Tower
Sibling love? No, Lily keeping Aaron from destructing it. Isaiah did the job soon after...
"Hey? Am I chopped liver?"
Mr Photogenic
"I getta shoot Gampaw next!"
The deluge was actually still deluge-ing at this point, but we all came out to see the most massive rainbow I've seen in a long time. If you squint at the first pic, there's a faint double on the outside
Joh 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Joh 18:37 Then Pilate said to him, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world--to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice."
Joh 18:38 Pilate said to him, "What is truth?"
David Jeremiah is going through a series called Overcomer, and in it he talks about how truth, our spiritual belt, is not an offensive weapon, but that which ties all the rest together. And yet, I was a bit bemused when he said he didn't know if Pilate was being truthful or sarcastic when he said what he did. To me, the answer is simple- he was a veteran politician between a rock and a hard place. It was no sincere question. But as I have learned recently, mercy is a quality that needs worked on, so maybe I should cut Pilate some slack.
So am I about to give a defense on Pilate? No, actually, I am going to give an "attack" on Albert Einstein. While you cue up the "record scratch", allow me to explain.
The Big Bang theory (not the show) has been used for years by scientists to prove that there is no need for a God- that it could have happened somehow spontaneously. I have been reading , as I mentioned before on my blog, The Unknown Universe by Stuart Clark. This is, make no mistake, a science book, but it has given me great insights that fill me with confidence that science, when it does what it should, points to God. For example, there is one theory that postulates that when the solar system was young, the sun was still amping up to its present strength- and so, the earliest rocks should show evidence of having formed in an ice environment. However, findings showed the opposite- that the earliest rocks on earth found yet show that they had to have formed in a liquid water environment. Leading at least one major scientist to speculate that there must have been some form of "greenhouse effect" warming the earth at the time...
Gen 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Gen 1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
Gen 1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
But where I want to go is a man named Georges Lemaître. Lemaître was a an engineer, a math genius- and a Jesuit priest. He had taken Einstein's equations and deduced that you could run them backwards into a point where all of the universe collapsed into one point, which is where they would break down- in other words, he backtracked his way to discovering the big bang. As I have said, this is the widely accepted theory now, and scientists use it to claim that nature need no God. But then, Lemaître had to come begging to Einstein, because "established" science said Lemaître "was trying to force God upon science" WITH the theory.
Which is why I make fun of any clown that talks about "settled science."
For some of us, truth isn't something you mold to fit your agenda- an issue that Clark has in the background of most of his comments on "settled science"- but as Jeremiah explained, "Truth is a person, Jesus Christ. Pilate had truth before him; he put truth on trial; he had truth flogged, beaten, and crucified."
At the very conference Einstein was going to when Lemaître accosted him, he was to become so frustrated that he- and Niels Bohr in reply- prophesied without knowing it.
Einstein did it by saying, "God does not play dice with the universe!"
Which is very true, but not for the reasons Einstein intended. His theories of special and general relativity were coming under increasing attack by the newly hatched quantum theory, which was trying to explain the universe without having to include Einstein's calculus-fudging "cosmological constant" to make the equations work. It would force Einstein into accepting an evolving universe that seemed random at times- and he wasn't having it. Because he was convinced he was right, and his whole self-esteem was built into his theory- And for it to be wrong, HE would have to be wrong at a fundamental level. Plus, he was desperately trying to work out his theories without the CC, too- and his lack of progress frustrated him. He was EINSTEIN, after all. HE shouldn't have to factor God into any equation, because God built a mathematical universe, and it was Einstein's to understand.
Do you see here, the pride, the devotion to "your version" of the truth, that is so prevalent now?
Bohr's answer to him was equally frustrated: "Einstein, stop telling God what to do with the universe!"
Every theory that science trumpets to the media- like "dark matter" and "dark energy"- is not so much a discovery as a "cosmological constant" fudged in to make the universe "work according to theory". What you don't hear is the other side of the story- for instance, an experiment planned in 2028 or thereafter that might definitely prove that there IS no "dark matter"- and they'll be back to having to work out new theory to explain how God moves and orders the universe without including God. Or just Friday night, me reading an article that said what they had just discovered from observing microquasars (ask yourself if you really want to know) that indicated they might just have to throw out everything they think they know about black holes. But you won't hear this in the mainstream until they find a way to spin it into "contemporary theory", the PC sham that is media "science".
What do I believe? The Bible. Like Einstein believed in a general and a special relativity, I believe there was a general and a special Creation. Genesis 1:1-2 tells us the world was made FIRST- and I believe that to be true, how else to you explain all the various "Goldilocks zones" that had to be set up to make life possible on earth? And with the world made, then comes the Big Bang:
Gen 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Gen 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Gen 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
I believe that is the creation of spacetime as we know it. One last thing. Clark told the story of trying to "observe the Big Bang". That according to current theory, the BB should have created a temperature difference in the "cosmic background microwave radiation" in its original direction- but observation shows there IS no temp difference- it's uniform any way you look. I told Laurie that is spacetime is curved as Einstein theorized and everyone still believes, then there HAS to be a horizon beyond which we cannot see until we get there...
I just think scientists and Christians disagree on where that "there" really is...
We land in a really ugly time for France in October 5th, 1961. Today the chief of Paris police, Maurice Papon, declared a curfew for Muslims only in Paris, at the height of tensions with Algeria- which was at the time "part of metropolitan France." Algerians called for a protest, and the next day, Paris police killed- depending on who you want to believe- between 3 people (the original "official report") and 300. The "Paris Massacre of 1961" was downplayed by foreign media, covered up by France, subject to lawsuits by Papon years later when a historian reissued a letter by certain policemen who accused Papon of having Algerians clubbed unconscious and thrown into the Seine, and finally in 1998- 37 years later- the French government revised the death toll from 3 to "several dozen". I'm not supporting terrorism by any means, but keep this in mind the next time you hear a politician attach the words "without any reason" to a terror attack.
Thankfully, that's the end of the bum news this week, because it's time for Time Machine! This week, I remember to do the Label feature, Chubby Checker guests, three new songs by old friends hit the M10, and I give you not just a traditional 6D- not just a "cop-out composer" 6D, but BOTH! No curfews here, kids!
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With three debuts I have to start 'em out early! Without further ado, here's the one at #10. They took Come And Go to #1, and Zombies to #2- a big hand for Radiation City!
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Okay, everybody, here's Chubby Checker!
C'mon baby, Let's do the tw... hey, where's the band?
You're not singing, Chub, you're doing the Panel picks this week!
Not singing? But... but all I do is sing and dance...
Well, today, you get to do something different. I go through the songs voted #1 on various local charts, count up the votes, and that's how you got on the show, you won last week!
I won? Well, that's different, then! Let me see your list, my good man!
Sure thing. We had a much smaller list of 14 contestants from 37 stations this week, so here you go with the one-vote wonder list...
All righty, I see we have Troy Shondell, on the way up at #43 on Cashbox, with This Time. Oh, here's a great one! Lee Dorsey and Ya Ya at #33!
I played Laurie Steve Miller's remake of that, too!
Who's Steve Miller?
Spoilers, Chubby...
Uh-HUH. All right, next we have Johnny O'Keefe... now come on. Who's Johnny O'Keefe?
Well, I had an Australian chart in my mix, and he had a song called I'm Counting On You. He was the first native to make their national charts, and it was the third of four #1s for him Down Under.
But it never charted here?
'Fraid not.
You know this is all kinda silly, then, right?
More than you realize...
Okay, so next I have Elvis and (Marie's The Name Of) His Latest Flame at #32. Looks like ol' Hot Pants ain't doin' so good, huh?
Elvis: Now you listen here, you jumped-up jitterbugger, I'm gonna... CC: You're gonna what, Mama's Boy?
GENtlemen, could we cool off here? Let me put in that His Latest Flame was the b-side of that record, and it WAS on the way down...
E: So see, I'm gonna be up on the final's list, and then where you gon...
Um, sorry dude... Little Sister didn't get any votes...
E: That's okay, that means I'll be in that special 6D...
Sorry again, dude, you got beat out there, too...
CC: ExCUSE me, Mr Presley, I have things to do. Bobby Darin got a vote for You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby at #7... And the last of the one-vote wonders doesn't even debut until next week! That would be Jimmy Dean with Big Bad John, which comes into CB at #71 next week.
All right, great. Now, here are five also-rans that got 2 votes...
Wait... are we gon' do this all the way up the list?
Actually no. After we do these we are on to the finalists- two songs with 3 votes, and the one that clobbered everybody!
Gotcha. So with 2 votes, we have... The Dovells and Bristol Stomp at #16... Dick an' DeeDee with The Mountain's High at #4... Hayley Mills- you mean that skinny little kid on the Disney movies?
The very one...
..at #28 with Let's Get Together... ...Bobby Edwards and You're The Reason at #53... ...and finally, Roy Orbison and Crying at #2.
And that leaves you with the three finalists...
And they are-
My man Ray Charles at #9 with Hit The Road, Jack... Bobby Vee and Take Good Care Of My Baby at #1... and Dion with Runaround Sue at #20...
Thanks, Chubby, and I might note to the voters that Runaround Sue is our big mover this week- 50 notches from #70 last week! So make your picks while I give you our next M10 debut! She first hit #1 with Dent May on Across The Multiverse, came on solo with Jesse at #6, and this week returns at #9- Frankie Cosmos!!!
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It was a good week to be RCA in the Label Game this year! In 1961, RCA led the MusicVF top 100 for the year with seven songs... but the winner with 4 songs averaging position #19, was...
...RCA Victor!!!! They had 3 Elvis tunes- the aforementioned Little Sister (#16)/ His Latest Flame (#10) combo, as well as I Feel So Bad (#32)- along with Floyd Cramer's On The Rebound (#18). Funny thing is, they seem to alternate which label Elvis is released on- he had four of the seven for RCA as well! RCA leads our little list overall now with 28 songs since we started, with MGM running second at 21 and Mercury a distant third at 17.
So like I said, we're doing both versions of six degrees this week, and our composer du jour is Bob Crewe. Now, we all know that he was the major domo behind the Four Seasons, but I didn't realize the raft of top ten hits he composed for OTHER acts:
Silhouettes, which was taken top ten by three different acts- The Rays, the Diamonds, and Herman's Hermits;
A Lover's Concerto by the Toys;
the biggest hits of Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels- Devil With A Blue Dress, Jenny Take A Ride, and Sock It To Me Baby;
Going Out Of My Head/Can't Take My Eyes Off You by the Lettermen;
Jean by Oliver;
Lady Marmalade by LaBelle;
and Navy Blue by Diane Renay, which is where the "trad" 6D kicks in. See, this one was a co-write with one Eddie Rambeau, who was all lined up for a hit, that he was going to sing on ABC's American Bandstand, called Summertime Guy. But, at the last minute, he was told he would have to do the b-side. It seems that the writer of his hit worked for ABC- and the lawyers were worried about payola accusations. Thus, that song went nowhere- until the writer had it converted to an instrumental, where it became the theme for....
...The Newlywed Game! Which means the writer of said tune was Chuck Barris! Chuck also wrote an actual big hit- Freddie Cannon's Palisade Park. That song, I found, was covered by the Beach Boys on their mid-70's lp 15 Big Ones. That lp of mostly covers- the big hit was their version of Rock And Roll Music- was going to contain a cover of our 6D victim- but it got cut at the last minute, much like Eddie Rambeau's singing career. And that song, which was at #3 without Panel love- The Highwaymen with Michael.
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Highest debut time! This one is by the gents that brought us the #1 The Wrong Year and the #2 Severed... at #8, this is the Decemberists!
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Stat Pack Time!
So we had 3 songs at #100, and no bubble-under chart, so here we go. One of them was Jerry Fuller, who wrote Travellin' Man (first intended for Sam Cooke) for Rick Nelson, with Guilty Of Loving You, which would stall at #95; Then we have Bert Kaempfert's Now And Forever, which had already peaked at #59 and was on the way out; and finally we had Faron Young's #8 country hit Backtrack. The only debut of the three, it would hang at 100 for two weeks, fall off for two weeks, come back in for a third week at 100, move up at last- to #99- and disappear.
The number 61 in '61 was Connie Francis with Hollywood. This was the b-side to what was the only relative stinker in the latest CF hot streak, (He's My) Dreamboat. They charted 22/26 on CB, but 14/42 on Billboard, the only non- top ten a-side for Miss Connie in a 9-song, two year top ten streak starting with My Heart Has A Mind Of It's Own and ending with V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N. Of course, the bright side was that it was the only b-side in the streak to crack the top 40.
I knew 21 of 100 in the US and went a poor 5-of-50 in the UK, where the top song was the Shadows again with Kon-Tiki, and the only Panelist to make good was Crying at #28.
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Oh, and I almost forgot. There was a song on the Brit chart called Suku Suku- a Latin-style dance number- that was charted by FOUR different acts! The Laurie Johnson Orchestra was at #9; Nina and Frederick (A Danish/Dutch husband-wife act, and the one we listened to) at #23, the Heath Orchestra at #36, and Ping Ping and Al Verlaine- yes, Ping Ping- made #41.
Also playing the ol' switcheroo is Blackberry Smoke and Eleanor Friedberger, with One Horse Town slipping to 5 and Eleanor moving to #4 with Everything.
No longer #2- Vanessa Carlton slips to #3 with Lonely Girls.
As does Leon Bridges with Beyond to #2.
Which makes the new #1...
Anna Burch and What I Want!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the winner of the POTM, with a whopping 40.5% of the vote...
...Dion and Runaround Sue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All right, next time it's where were you in '62? I was I was approaching my 5 month birthday, so even Christine Ford can't pin nothing on me! See ya then!
Today we go to Luke 3:16- which is a bit earlier in the same story we had in Matthew. John the Baptist is preaching, and Jesus has not yet entered the water. The repentant have been asking John what they must do, and he has been answering; and by his great teaching, unknown in Israel for about 500 years, people are beginning to wonder if HE is the Christ, the messiah promised by Moses, promised since the Garden of Eden. And John knows it. A man NOT led by God might say, "Now here's my chance." But John, in the spirit and power of the Prophet Elijah, said this instead:
Luk 3:16 John answered, saying to all, `I indeed with water do baptise you, but he cometh who is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to loose the latchet of his sandals--he shall baptise you with the Holy Spirit and with fire;
Now, for me the teaching moment is the phrase, "and fire". What did he mean here? This is a question that the commentators debated as well.
First thing I did was look into the word "fire". The translation goes as follows:
A primary word; “fire” (literally or figuratively, specifically lightning): - fiery, fire.
And I wondered if there was a significance to the "lightning" aspect. So I thought of the Biblical incidences of God's fire: The flaming sword of the Cherubim at Eden, the covenant with Abraham, the destruction of Sodom, the Holy Spirit descending on the disciples, the aspect of Jesus who speaks to John in Revelation. And I found nothing- the NT version was standard, the OT was much the same, without the lightning part. The only one that was different- well, look at the list I gave you, and see if you catch which one was slightly different, and I'll bring it up at the end. But basically, we don't gain new insight from translation.
So I next turn to logical thinking. There are three ways one can take this, in my opinion. The first is that it is referring to the ASPECT of the Spirit at their Spirit-baptism in Acts, when "like unto flames" settled on their heads. In other words, he was prophesying the way the Spirit would baptize them. I really don't think that is what this is. For one thing, we don't see a whole lot of baptisms that feature the "like unto flame" anymore. That was a special gift to the early believers for their encouragement, so I don't think John would focus on that. Indeed, in the next verse, he uses a far different meaning for fire:
Luk 3:17 whose winnowing shovel is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather the wheat to his storehouse, and the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.'
Which leads me to a second interpretation. Knowing that he had both "sheep and goats" in his audience, he was giving you TWO kinds of people getting two kinds of Baptism. The repentant being baptized in the Spirit, and the evil being baptized in unquenchable flame. Now there is a certain sense to that, but I don't think that John was heading there, either. For one thing, a baptism is an immersion that one comes OUT of... and those John talked about in v17 weren't going to be coming out of anything.
And that brings us to the third, and I think John's meaning. We all know the term that comes from this verse, "baptism of fire". Which means you have to go through something bad to get to someplace better. The gift of the Holy Spirit promised by John is not one of protection FROM trials- it is strength and comfort both given and learned THROUGH trials. In fact, in Mark 10, Jesus addresses just that thing:
From the ERV: Mar 10:28 Peter said to Jesus, "We left everything to follow you!"
Mar 10:29 Jesus said, "I can promise that everyone who has left their home, brothers, sisters, mother, father, children, or farm for me and for the Good News about me
Mar 10:30 will get a hundred times more than they left. Here in this world they will get more homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and farms. And with these things they will have persecutions. But in the world that is coming they will also get the reward of eternal life.
And that is what we learn here- the same thing the Lord's brother James told us in his letter:
Jas 1:2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,
Jas 1:3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
Jas 1:4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
So you see, this is a very basic, easy- and a bit unpleasant- lesson.
Oh, and the different meaning? That was the flaming sword from Genesis. That definition could be poetically put as, "enwrapped in the supernatural." Hmmm...
All right, I'm flying blind here, hoping I find good stuff that we can all laugh at. To those of you just passing by, this is the post where I go to the front page of news sites and pick a picture and a headline that isn't quite the one that went with it, in hopes that I might fool someone into thinking it's funny. If it doesn't work, I might just leave in my spelling miscues instead (Like just spelling "it's" ti;).
1- FoxNews
The picture...
The headline....
University nixes ‘West Side Story’ after white students landed lead roles
It was even better with the graphic "What's the story" attached to the picture...
2- CNN
The picture...
The headline...
Hunt for Planet X turns up new solar system object
Prospective names for the planetoid include "MegaCholesterol18".... 3- BBC
I regret to say that the BBC had several promising headlines, but no good pictures to go with them. I may come back to this...
4- Moscow Times
The picture (and don't ask me to explain)...
The headline...
More Than 150 Russian Sailors Have Been Stranded in Ports Worldwide
Thank God they have something to drink, at least....
5- Xinhua
The picture...
The headline...
EU leaders need to get serious over Brexit: British Brexit secretary
But he really believes the tea and crumpets will help...
6- Xinhua again
The picture...
The headline...
Magic contest of China Acrobatics Golden Chrysanthemum Awards held in Shenzhen
And here special guest Novak Djokovic makes a tennis ball appear out of thin air!
7- The Copenhagen Post
The picture...
The headline...
MacDenmark: a shared history of trade, culture, beer and fighting the English
Shared bandages too, apparently...
8- Telegraph online
The picture...
The headline...
Boris Johnson: My plan for a better Brexit
"And the girls come with it, lads!"
In the meantime, the BBC front page changed ever so slightly, so...
9- BBC
The picture...
The headline...
These goats work for the government
Which tells you all you need to know about the current state of British government....
9- BBC again
The picture...
The headline...
How I survived a month without social media
Now there's a headline that makes sense...
Okay, so one thing I promised myself I'd do today is post the thing I forgot to put on the note-mess that was last week's Time Machine- and that was the Label Game for 1960! So far, we've had MGM and ABC-Paramount win in 1958 and 1959. So who took it for 1960?
Warner Brothers! They only had 6 to RCAs nine, but had them much more bunched at the top, with five of the six in the year's top 40- and even with tacking on #100, they ended with an average position of 39.5- edging MGM by less than 2 spots, though they killed RCA, who had 5 of their nine outside the top fifty of the year.
The songs that Warner won it with:
Cathy's Clown (#2), So Sad (#36), and its b-side Lucille (#100), and When Will I Be Loved (#40) by the Everly Brothers; Connie Francis's Sixteen Reasons (#28), and Bob Luman's Let's Think About Living (#33).
Hopefully, I'll remember to tuck 1961 into next week's show.
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And a perfect example is the fact that I just told Laurie this next story moments ago. Lately, Scrappy's only good for a (sorta) long walk about once every two weeks, so when I actually need some exercise, I have to go it alone, which I did last night after half the NASCAR playoff cars finished coagulating in one spot...
That "Alliant" would be the guy I bet against every week with a co-worker, Brad Keselowski. He's just run into the wall right after a 9-laps-to-go restart. Two other drivers did me the tremendous favor of pinning him there like a big Polish butterfly. If you look at bottom right and squint you can see that my guy was in 1st. Yeah, that didn't work out either.
And I took our once-normal route through the woods. I was going to cut through at one point, but just ahead of me...
They were just as calm as could be, let me take my pictures, and watched me go as I meandered around the long way. Next, I decided to go down the ravine trail....
I saw these two... possibly the same two. Certainly acted the same. One of them leisurely sauntered down the side of the ravine, the other was content to watch as I again backed out and took the long way to the river. I came through the trail to the river area (near that landing where I "witnessed a murder" last year), and what did I see?
Yep, there they were AGAIN! This time, just as I took the snap, a dude fishing on the landing just HAD to cast out and scared the one away... the other, she stood maybe 50 ft away, watching and munching once again. After that, I think they gave up their "close surveillance" of me. I wonder what kind of lies THEY'LL tell the Committee about me....
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