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Turning the Page Back
“Turn the Page” was a very weak slogan for Kamela’s campaign, but considering the strength of Trump’s win, nothing she did or didn’t do could have kept him from returning to the scene of the crime.
I’m casting my blog brain back to the interesting month of October, 2011, during the halcyon years of Obama’s first term. You’ll have to ignore the dead links and formatting problems that I’m not going to bother fixing.
Gazing into the Past
With eighteen years behind me here, I occasionally pick a past month at random to review, trying to not care about the broken links and formatting problems from old WordPress themes. Some posts seem worth fixing up and re-posting. This one is from May, 2010.
Fright Night II — The Election
Will the criminal con man be sent back to the White House to complete his destruction of American democracy? To calm my nerves on this very scary night, instead of following the election results I’m doing what I did before Halloween, watching The Munsters on the Universal Monsters Channel.
Elec-tion-tricity
This is a first for me, posting with my phone over the cellular network. The power is off here, due to a long-delayed utility project in the center of town. Scheduling work on this election day shows some very poor judgment.
Update: I’m using my phone as a wi-fi hotspot for my laptop PC, which is something I have done before. The power is supposed to be on by 10 AM and it’s 8:30 now… and just a few minutes later it’s back.
You know how people get with giant lottery jackpots? “You can’t win if you don’t play” is their logic. But on election day those same people have the attitude, “Why bother? My vote doesn’t count.”
A Capitol Idea
More about Stu Phillips. In the Sixties he was behind the Hollyridge Strings series of albums.
I approached Karl Engemann at Capitol [Records] with a far-out idea of recording an album of Beatles songs in an orchestral setting geared toward easy listening. A sort of “Beatles for the older set.”
Phillips wasn’t the only one with that idea in 1964. Beatles producer George Martin produced instrumental versions of Beatles songs, starting with the A Hard Day’s Night soundtrack.
George Martin then released his Off the Beatle Track album. I checked Martin’s memoir, All You Need is Ears, and there’s no mention of the Hollyridge Strings records.
Music from the first Hollyridge album by Phillips is featured on the Capitol album The Beatles Story.