Simon and Garfunkel's SIlent Night/7 o'clock news:

[obreaslan]

I was just listending to this, and hearing the newscast in the background gave me the willies. Some of the stuff in the report sould easily be in a modern day newscast. Have we really made no progress in the last 40 years?

Here's the text of the newscast that is read behind S & G singing Silent Night:

This is the early evening edition of the news.

The recent fight in the House of Representatives was over the open housing section of the Civil Rights Bill. Brought traditional enemies together but it left the defenders of the measure without the votes of their strongest supporters. President Johnson originally proposed an outright ban covering discrimination by everyone for every type of housing but it had no chance from the start and everyone in Congress knew it. A compromise was painfully worked out in the House Judiciary Committee.

In Los Angeles today comedian Lenny Bruce died of what was believed to be an overdoes of narcotics. Bruce was 42 years old.

Dr. Martin Luther King says he does not intend to cancel plans for an open housing march Sunday into the Chicago suburb of Cicero. Cook County Sheriff Richard Ogleby asked King to call off the march and the police in Cicero said they would ask the National Guard to be called out if it is held. King, now in Atlanta, Georgia, plans to return to Chicago Tuesday.

In Chicago Richard Speck, accused murderer of nine student nurses, was brought before a grand jury today for indictment. The nurses were found stabbed an strangled in their Chicago apartment.

In Washington the atmosphere was tense today as a special subcommittee of the House Committee on Un-American activities continued its probe into anti-Viet nam war protests. Demonstrators were forcibly evicted from the hearings when they began chanting anti-war slogans. Former Vice-President Richard Nixon says that unless there is a substantial increase in the present war effort in Viet nam, the U.S. should look forward to five more years of war.

In a speech before the Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in New York, Nixon also said opposition to the war in this country is the greatest single weapon working against the U.S.

That's the 7 o'clock edition of the news, Goodnight.

:scared:

[mattclearing]

1. Yeah, this is/was brilliant.

S&G at the top of their game.

[No Mandate Here.]

2. Played it yesterday, and

it brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it.

(edited for spelling. a rogue B)

[MsAnthropy]

3. Goosebumps! Brings back a LOT of memories...

[distantearlywarning]

4. Sychronicity. I was just listening to this song last week

and was thinking to myself that they ought to do an updated version.

[gnofg]

5. politial

People forget hwe political music was and how the folk music of the day really had an impact on current events. Dylan once told the Beatles thah they sing about nothing. People believed they were going to change the world. Now we have Britney

[obreaslan]

6. Back then, you had Frankie Avalon & Annette Funachello (sp?)...

Basically a Britney, or a Nick & Jessica of those days. But the problem is, there are no Dylans, Simon and Garfunkels, Phil Ochs or Pete Seegers to balance out the inane pop-stars.

If a draft comes along, look for this to change, at least I hope it would change.

[mattclearing]

7. Labels don't want to deal with it.

And Clear Channel won't play it.

[gnofg]

8. correct

The folk movement was an intellectual movement. We have dumbed down society we now make fun of people who actually know something

[Beware the Beast Man]

11. See, now in the 80's, punk, hardcore, and some metal

Became the new protest music. I find that stuff more timely now than I did 20 years ago.

[obreaslan]

12. I have faith....

that it can and will happen again. Even if I have to do it myself.

It started small back then, in places not too theoretically different from this little community we have here. All it takes is some motivation, a free exchange of ideas, and a will to want to make change happen. I sing, play guitar, and I'm not afraid to make people think, so I'm willing.

[Trailrider1951]

9. Excuse me, Obie, but you need to take a listen to anything

by Steve Earle. Especially 'The Revolution Starts Now'. All recent, all topical, all in that protest vein. :loveya:

[obreaslan]

13. Yeah, absolutely...

I didn't forget about him. He does great work. I just meant you would see some of these bands today stop whining about how their childhood has made them depressed and actually start caring about others for once.

[cornermouse]

10. I've been thinking about that song a lot recently.

Highly appropriate.