Author: DOuG pRATt

Dewey defeats Truman again

In this online age, when a headline can be published instantly, how could CNN get it 100%, 180 degrees wrong, about the Supreme Court’s decision on the health care mandate?

CNN Breaking News BreakingNews@mail.cnn.com via ema3lsv06.turner.com
10:09 AM (28 minutes ago)
The Supreme Court has struck down the individual mandate for health care – the legislation that requires all to have health insurance.

The Scotusblog got it right…

10:08 Amy Howe: The individual mandate survives as a tax.

… and it was another ten minutes before CNN corrected itself.

CNN Breaking News BreakingNews@mail.cnn.com via ema3lsv06.turner.com
10:18 AM (18 minutes ago)
Correction: The Supreme Court backs all parts of President Obama?s signature health care law, including the individual mandate that requires all to have health insurance.

Boomer radio goes boom

The Boston radio landscape continues to undergo upheaval. WODS — aka Oldies 103 — has stuck to its format, more or less, for almost 25 years. Some years back it dropped 50’s songs and added the 80’s, but that must not have been enough to keep the money boys at CBS happy.

Tomorrow, the oldies are being moved to the secondary HD Radio slot, and online, so that 103.3 MHz in Boston will be called AMP and play the latest hits. Let’s face it, Baby Boomers, as the most desirable consumer demographic of all time, our day is done.

Hallelujah, K3!

It’s been four years since a Flemish friend got me started on K3 (we Americans hear it pronounced as “kah-tree”). Much has changed since then both professionally and personally for the ladies, but they continue to be popular and ply their trade in music, TV shows, and movies. K3 fan Mia told me the new single from their upcoming movie, Where Are The Angels?, has been posted on YouTube. Lately, some of the K3 videos I’ve embedded from YouTube have been pulled, so I extracted the MP3 audio. I really like this one.

[audio:https://s3.amazonaws.com/dogratcom/Audio/2012/06/K3-WhereAreTheAngels.mp3|titles=K3 – Where Are The Angels?]

Mia explains the premise for the movie.

K3 has to be nice for 24 hours or they are in big trouble when they get kidnapped by angels.. but in these 24 hours their 3 annoying nieces arrive and they are everything but nice little troublemakers can K3 stay nice? The short teaser trailer is really funny! 😀 It shows K3 thinking they are slim as always but actually they are fat as hell, which is a side effect when you lie or when they are mean.. kinda like a curse.

With all of the overweight and obese kids in America, I wonder how well this idea would work here?

Sixties on Sunday

I think those guys in the white suits were more interested in watching Andy Williams than the girls.

The song Music to Watch Girls By was also an instrumental hit, and when I was a kid I thought it was by Herb Alpert, but it was done by Frankie Valli’s producer Bob Crewe. The influence of the “Bond, James Bond” theme is also apparent.

The tune actually started as a Diet Pepsi commercial, written by Sidney Ramin, with words for the vocal version by Anthony Velona.

http://youtu.be/G1RXYEr4O_g

My confusion about Bob Crewe’s recording was understandable, because of this Sixties TV commercial.

The Teaberry Shuffle was Herb Alpert’s Mexican Shuffle.

Which brings me to my point, that watching the past two seasons of Mad Men didn’t give me a feeling of the Sixties as I knew them, starting in 1965. The series nailed the short-lived Kennedy Camelot era, but as a period piece it seems to have had trouble leaving it behind.

Look! Up in the sky! Listen! Up in the Fresh Air!

Terry Gross on Fresh Air interviews Larry Tye, author of a new book about Superman and the men who created the character.

Tye apparently isn’t essentially a comic book fan, which is perhaps a good thing. I don’t know yet how he portrays Siegel and Shuster, the creators of Superman. In recent years it’s become apparent that there was a lot to not like about writer Jerry Siegel the man, and Joe Shuster drew sleazy fetish illustrations, perhaps out of financial necessity and/or an interest in the genre. There’s a Fresh Air segment about that, too.