In 1956, The Threepenny Opera debuted as a revival in NYC. Dick Hyman, the great piano stylist, had a hit instrumental version of The Theme From The Threepenny Opera. Louis Armstrong had had a vocal hit of it.
Enter Bobby Darin who in 1959 had his huge and definitive hit version of it. Bobby had had a sputtering career until the summer of 1958 when he had a Rock & Roll novelty hit in Splish Splash, which he co-wrote with DJ Murray Kaufman, who bet that Darin could not write a song that began with the words, "Splish splash, I was takin' a bath." It was a big hit. He later had another novelty Rock & Roll hit that he wrote, Queen of The Hop.
His first eponymously named album, Bobby Darin, had Splish, Splash, plus its B-side, a ditty called Judy, Judy, Don’t Be Moody, a bunch of songs written by Darin & Don Kirshner, the great Rock & Roll composer & impresario, and one standard, (I Found) A Million Dollar Baby In A Five Dime Store with some Frank Sinatra inflections. You could tell that although he was singing Rock & Roll, he wanted to move into the lounge type music of Sinatra, Dean Martin & Tony Bennett.
Even later in 1959, he had a hit of another song he wrote, Dream Lover, that was a big hit that never went to #1 but seemed to be in the top 5 for months and was one of the biggest hits of that year. It was very nice.
For his second album, entitled Bobby Darin: That’s All. He decided to turn to standards, against a manager’s recommendation. It had, among others, the title song, Sigmund Romberg’s Softly As In A Morning Sunrise, the Gershwin’s It Ain’t Necessarily So from Porgy Bess, Charles Trenet’s Beyond The Sea, Sophie Tucker’s theme, Some Of These Days, his own That’s The Way Love Is, a very standard like song and Mack The Knife. Later Mack The Knife was released as a single. It was a huge hit.
Darin’s career in lounge type music soared but he still ventured occasionally into rock & roll. He did a country album with a song, You’re The Reason I’m Living with a chorus straight out Ray Charles’ I Can’t Stop Loving You. Later still he had a hit with If I Were A Carpenter. He never stayed in one category.
He died on December 20, 1973 after surgery for complications from a damaged heart due to multiple episodes of rheumatic fever in his childhood. He was nominated for an Oscar for his performance in Captain Newman, M.D.
He wrote or co-wrote more than 200 songs.
Milosia2 wrote:
60,000 Kurds !
600,000 Americans for his ignoring the perils of the C***d p******c.
When Biden assumed Office , there were zero C***d protocols in place.
The v*****e makers , had complete v*****es , but the government had no idea how or where to send them , thanks to donald.
Biden took charge and started protocol’s.
When the facts aren't on your side, just make them up.
Ri-chard wrote:
There's a dark scheme in the works as yet ANOTHER conservative has had her account terminated by a major U.S. bank, and no reason is being given.
Independent journalist Christina Urso, known professionally as Radix Verum, has reported that Bank of America abruptly terminated her bank account. Urso, who has been critical in her reporting on various issues including the FBI’s involvement in the Governor Whitmer kidnapping case, took to social media platform X to voice her concerns and frustrations.
https://www.wnd.com/2024/05/now-no-funds-bank-terminates-account-conservative-no-reason/?utm_source=wnd-news-alerts.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=breaking-news-alert-5-14-2024-1
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Bank of America may terminate her account but it stil must give her her funds.l
American Vet wrote:
Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki circled back when caught falsely claiming in a new book that President Joe Biden never checked his watch during a ceremony for soldiers k**led during the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Axios reported Psaki, now a host on MSNBC, wrote in “Say More” that “the president looked at his watch only after the ceremony had ended. Moments later, he and the First Lady headed toward their car.” She also claimed that Biden’s critics engaged in “misinformation” and used the image of Biden checking his watch to make “him appear insensitive, concerned only about how much time had passed.”
Psaki denied that Biden checked his watch despite photo evidence, media fact-checks, and statements made by Gold Star parents of a U.S. service member k**led in the Kabul airport attack who were in attendance during the ceremony at Dover Air Force Base.
“I watched you disrespect us all 5 different times by checking your watch!!! What the f*** was so important that you had to keep looking at your watch????” said a Facebook post from Shana Chappell, mother of Marine Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui.
Mark Schmitz, father of Marine Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz, testified to Congress that “while I stood there on the tarmac watching you check your watch over and over again, all I wanted to do was shout out, ‘It’s two f***ing thirty, a**hole.'”
Psaki’s book also misattributed sentences taken from USA Today to The Washington Post to point out that Biden looked at his watch after the ceremony — even though the article said elsewhere that Biden checked his watch during the ceremony, too.
Axios received a statement from Psaki after its report was published, saying that the “detail in a few lines of the book about the exact number of times he looked at his watch will be removed in future reprints and the ebook.”
Psaki insisted her story was “really about the importance of delivering feedback even when it is difficult told through my own experience of telling President Biden that his own story of loss was not well received by the families who were grieving their sons and daughters.”
The book mishap drew blowback on social media.
“Jen Psaki lied in her book about an easily provable fact,” RealClearPolitics co-founder and president Tom Bevan said in a post to X.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/psaki-literally-rewrites-history-with-biden-watch-controversy-gets-caught
In another post to X, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) said, “Calling Gold Star families liars — even when there’s photographic proof — is a pathetic partisan attempt to defend your boss and a bad look.”
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Please American Vet, 'Democrat liar' is redundant. All Democrats are liars.
TJKMO wrote:
Such a sad situation.
She signed a statement that no assault ever happened. And any voluntary relations he may have had with her, it's better than rape as charged by Juanita Broadrick.
DJT has never been accused of showering with his daughter. None of his children has had to have counseling because of his actions. Maybe you don't regard that as less important than sex with a porno star but most huiman beings don't. Which raises a question.
And don't forget the homicide that Ted Kennedy was involved in yet your ilk re-elected him five or six times.
Why don't you get a life & grow up?
permafrost wrote:
Yes, when people like they are the good guys, it show how low the people of a once respectable party have become, so low they can walk under the belly of a snake.. expel them all... NK may take them in for lab rats..
Permafrost, once upon a time I had some respect for you. Now, I have only the respect that inheres to being a human being.
I don't have to wait for anyone to know what to think. I draw my own conclusions.
Tell Ben Wexler the same thing.
Milosia2 wrote:
You are not a patriot !!
You are a deluded fool. !
Trump said that .
What he meant was only if he wins .
The very small group of people contained as Maga ,
Is not a majority of our population.
Countries run by very small minorities ,rarely ,
if at all have survived.
We would not have survived 250 years if our government was representing only the minority.
If the majority has zero skin in the game with nothing to protect , how will that work ?
Will you and Donald force the majority to fight for Donald’s warped well being???
Catering to his every whim about Donald’s self absorbed idea that he is the only most important person on this planet?
What’s in it for you. ????
Blood and organ donors for trump make for
Terrible Citizens !!!!
Hitlers and Moussolinis N**Ionales party’s
Were Nationalists !
And it looks like you’ve found another phoney f**e propaganda site !!!!!
It’s probably all true ,
As far you know. !
Right. ?
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It's you who need the history lesson. Mussolini and Lenin were both admired by the progressives of their day. There was a junket of progressives of the early twentieth century who went to Moscow and came back gushing over what they saw. Lincoln Steffens and others went.
Hitler sent a letter of admiration to FDR.
I've forgotten a lot more. Your ignorance of history is appalling.
Smedley_buzk**l wrote:
My God. You really ARE that stupid. This had nothing to do with carrying guns in a courtroom. If your gnat-like IQ can grasp the concept, the judge forbade any mention of the Second Amendment in the courtroom.
I too was flabbergasted by this posting. That judge's could easily be extended to the right of trial, freedom of he press, religion, etc.
Stormy Daniels! Now Michael Cohen?
Michael Cohen is supposed to testify for the prosecution. He's a disbarred perjurer who has broken attorney-client privilege. With his background, he joins a porn star who testified for the prosecution. The porn star in turn, issued a signed that an assault by Donald J. Trump never happened
What fine, upstanding citizens to testify against a former president! Quick, someone notify Letitia James and Alvin Bragg that Jeffrey Dahmer isn't available. Oh, but then, they also have Riker's Island as another possible treasure trove of witnesses.
Don't be surprised!
Blade_Runner wrote:
Your hatred of the man has overwhelmed you, and only God knows for what reason.
If there is a cancer on our nation, it is gutter trash like you.
If that had been a rally for the great president Trump, and his supporters were inconsiderate enough to leave their trash, there would be at least one American f**g somewhere in that mess.
It's tragic that there is someone so ridden with hatred. He's a typical liberal. I've only known two in my lifetime who weren't.
Coos Bay Tom wrote:
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4656742-michael-cohen-stands-to-make-or-break-trump-hush-money-case/
The prosecution offers such a high class group to testify against Trump; a porn star & a disbarred perjurer.
PeterS wrote:
It's my first name and first initial of my last. Not all that original but I wasn't trying to be...
Oh, and I came here because I got kicked off of Conservative Underground because I said that F*****m was a Right-Wing ideology, which it is, and the Conservative f*****ts on the site took offense and blocked me permanently.
Your opinions are just that but you present them as inescapable conclusions. You are incapable of engaging in an exchange of ideas. You are a perfect example of William F. Buckley's observation that liberal intolerance is not just hostility to other opinions but astonishment that there even is another opinion. Your sanctimoniousness makes me want to throw up.
I've been blocked by liberals on Facebook for having the audacity to present facts that undermined their narratives.
Just this posting by you exemplifies my contention.
PeterS wrote:
"The anti-Christ, anti-morality, anti-biblical worldview-ers are applying a very old tactic to accomplish what years of protesting did not: Domination via intimidation"
You are backing a candidate who has no morals. He banged a porn star because she reminded him of his daughter.
He committed adultry on every wife he ever had and when asked if he ever asked forgiveness his reply was "I hope I don’t have to ask ‘for much forgiveness’ from God" When running for president, as an evangelical, he had no clue that repentance was a precondition for entrance into heaven. I mention this because you v**ed for a man who was very likely the most immoral and corrupt person ever to run for the office and you had no qualms about v****g for him. As a Christian you pretty much pissed all over your moral values for the sake of political power. Donald Trump is an authoritarian f*****t. If you think that's what your god wants for his chosen country then you've been worshiping the wrong god all along.
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It's not a question of his past behavior; it's a question of what his platform is. Your robot in the White House stands for unabridged murder of fetuses and unabridged communization of America. What about you? Or would you rather not answer that question?
And you're so perfect PeterS, that you're entitled to give us your sermons on our shortcomings. You're so sanctimonious that I want to go & throw up.
Let's have at it PeterS. I've been itching to have a full debate with you for a long time. You don't have the guts to do it.
AuntiE wrote:
Federal workers are unionized bozzo!
And FDR, the union boss' friend, was opposed to unionized federal workers.