15 April 2011: it's... '70s chartbusters

[RGMike]

Crapton lays down John Salley. Or something.

Usually I defend Clapton, but this one does nothing for me.  Might as well join the Gratefull Dead if you want to play crap like this.

Bwahahaha! Best Comment of Set, easily.

BOS4 Suzi & Chris, stumblin' into a hit.

damn, that was a short set.  But the looong ending of "Stumblin' In" FTW!

[Tinka Cat]

Dunno if AL will ask for suggestions but she hinted that she is indeed doing a Tax set. Unless she waits until Monday (deadline was extended, y'know).
ETA: when AL found out the deadline is extended, she decided to do the Tax set on Monday.

Although the federal tax filing deadline is extended to Monday due to a local holiday in D.C. today, CA state tax still needs to be filed by tonight.  1040 Blues o' you is Busted by the Taxman!

DC has a local holiday today? Boy, is there a lazy teabagger joke in waiting!

and it's a "black" holiday, no less: Emancipation day, the day Lincoln freed slaves in DC, nine months before he freed them in the rest of the country.

Interesting.  I only found out about Juneteeth a few years ago, which commemorates the day in 1865 -- June 19 -- when fed troops arrived in Confederate Galveston, Texas to enforce Lincoln's Emancipation order, which was signed in 1862.  It's not an official holiday, but it turned into a party at my old workplace as many people brought in some tasty southern cooking.  I think that was the first time I ever tried collard greens and ham hocks.

[RGMike]

Interesting.  I only found out about Juneteeth a few years ago, which commemorates the day in 1865 -- June 19 -- when fed troops arrived in Confederate Galveston, Texas to enforce Lincoln's Emancipation order, which was signed in 1862.  It's not an official holiday, but it turned into a party at my old workplace as many people brought in some tasty southern cooking.  I think that was the first time I ever tried collard greens and ham hocks.

yeah, I'd never heard of Juneteenth until I moved here -- listening to the late great KDIA in the early '90s, they always made a big deal of it.

[RGMike]

4/15/11- Friday!! 70's Chartbusters! Rolling Through The Decade with... One Top 10 Tune from this very week in each year!
 
   1.  1970- Badfinger- Come and Get It
   2.  1971- Paul McCartney- Another Day
(Ad: Barbie Surpise )
  3.  1972-  Aretha Franklin- Day Dreaming
  4.  1973-  Four Tops- Ain't No Woman (Like The One I Got)
(TV: Mary Tyler Moore)
  5.  1974-  Grank Funk Railroad- The Loco-Motion
(Ad: Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs)
  6.  1975- Ringo Starr- No No Song (Skokiaan)
(Gerald Ford-Bicentennial)
  7.  1976- Peter Frampton- Show Me The Way
(Movie: Annie Hall)
  8.  1977-  Hall and Oates- Rich Girl (BOS!)
  9.  1978-  Eric Clapton- Lay Down Sally
(Movie: The Jerk-Thermos song)
 10.  1979- Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman- Stumblin' In