Friday, November 12, 2021

November 12 - Jo Stafford; Neil Young (The Musical Birthday Series, 3rd Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for November 12th are here: Richard Whiting; Alexander Borodin (2019) and Gustav Nottebohm (2020)

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Jo Stafford (12 November 1917 – 16 July 2008) was an American singer and actress, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s.  



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And Your Alter Ego Too

She and her husband developed a comedy routine in which they assumed the identity of an incompetent lounge act named Jonathan and Darlene Edwards. -- adapted from Wikipedia

Jo Stafford, sadly now the late,

Has earned her place among the great;

It’s also true the aforesaid words

Can be said of Darlene Edwards.

 

 

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Neil Young (b. 12 November 1945) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, musician, and activist.  

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Teach Your Children Well

As a group, they recorded Ohio" in response to the the shooting of four students at Kent State University, calling out Richard Nixon by name and voicing the counterculture's rage and despair at the events. -- adapted from Wikipedia

Crosby, Stills, Nash and

Young were impassioned

About politics in

The case against Nixon.

 

 

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