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    >   Cyberpope wrote --   
      
    > > Al Jolson    
      
    >   I really like Jolson.  He has a bad rep now (blackface and all that)    
   but   
    > he was a major player in the day.   
      
   Yup; It seems unfair to condemn a man based on laws & mores that didn't    
   exist until yeard later.. .   
      
   True, the attitudes sucked back then & most knew better, but blackface was    
   the leat of the ills American blacks went through.   
      
   Chris Rock speakls of how young blacks today comnplain, "I can't get a taxi   
   because I'mn black" & Chris says, "Listen you, back then we WERE the taxi.   
   Fat white businessman would jump onto your back & say, "Hey, n****r, take    
   me to the post office up on third street."   
      
   Sure happy things have changed, mostly, & for the better. . .   
      
   As a disabled person, I experience prejudice in my job search, but then I    
   also get a disability cheque each month that covers my rent & then some, so   
   overall, my life is good. I don't need to look far to see people getting it    
   a lot worse.   
      
   So I say I understand the plight of today's bLacks, but not the pre-1964   
   blacks, noo way would I attempt that claim!   
      
   In Canada blacks are treated well, but our first nations, not so much. :(    
      
   Even recently a native man was asleep in his pickup truck & a nearby farmer   
   shot him dwead & claimed self defense & the local judge & jury acquitted    
   him completely..  Despicable!   
      
   They say if we had time travel, whites could go to any time or culture in    
   the past & do well enough, but maybe not a good plan to go into the future.   
      
      
      
      
    > > In 1971 (more of us around then?) the #1 song was "Joy To The World"    
   by   
    > > Three Dog Night   
      
    >   Of course you know the story of how Eskimo's judge a cold night?   
    >   A regular cold night is a one dog night.  A colder night is a two dog   
    > night.  A really cold night is a three dog night.   
    >     
    > > I have the vinyl LP (& hundreds of others from '70s & late '60s, &    
   some   
    > > early '80s. . .)   
      
    >   I have a lot of old LP's in the closet.     
    >   For some years I had no record player.   
    >   Being of old time radio fan I bought a retro radio/phonograph and    
   planned   
    > on ripping the LP's to .mp3.  Basically my favourite tracks. That has    
   never   
    > happened, years later.   
    >   One time I collected 78s and an extensive collection of early Frank   
    > Sinatra.  Those all disappeared over the years.  Some broke, nost lost.   
    >   I could buy 78s at the Salvation Army thrift store in the '60s for a   
    > nickel each.  No one wanted them at that time.   
      
    > > What are your musical memories?   
      
    > > I love the era from '67 to '86 best   
      
    >    Mine are from the early 20th C. up to about 1980.  I am particularly   
    > fond of the '20s, '30s and '40s.   
    >    Joe   
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   Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM   
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