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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Calling

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:28 pm

IMAGE- Andy Griffith dead at 86 (Google News top story)

IMAGE- 'If you've got a message, call Western Union' --Clifford Odets, according to Harvard Crimson

IMAGE- Video: '1957 Face in the Crowd /message in movie'

—Rhodes, I want you to get to know people like that.
 I'd like to sort of take you under my wing and educate you.

—Shucks, General, I'm just a country boy.

Tuesday, July 15, 2003

Tuesday July 15, 2003

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:30 pm

Bishop and Saint

Today is the birthday of Clement Clarke Moore, author of “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” also known as “The Night Before Christmas.”

Here is a biography of Moore:

Clement C. Moore

Here is a related biography:

Bishop Paul Moore of New York

Here is an attack on Clement Moore:

A Plagiarist and a Creep 

Here is a defense of Clement Moore:

Yes, Virginia, Moore Did Write It.

It seems the real creep here is Greg Hill.

First runner-up creep: Gerald McDaniel, whose Cultural Calendar for today has the following entries:

  • On this day in 1779, a New York City clergyman and avocational poet Clement Moore was born. His only work of note is the poem “A Visit from Saint Nicholas,” which gave us so many holiday icons. It turns out that scholarship now indicates that Moore, either intentionally or unintentionally, plagiarized the work, which was originally written by a Dutch-New York humorist. A lawsuit* eventually gave the original author’s family proprietary rights.
  • On this day in 1789, the electors of Paris set up a Commune to live without the authority of the government.
  • The Marseillaise was officially adopted as the French national anthem on this day in 1795. “Allons, citoyens!”

    Actually, the Marseillaise has “Aux armes, citoyens!” not “Allons, citoyens” as the self-described liberal McDaniel claims.  The former phrase goes well with the populist song lyrics of Jimmie Rodgers:

    “I’m gonna buy myself a shotgun,
     one with a long shiny barrel.”

    For more on Rodgers and shotguns, see my July 8 entry on the pursuit of happiness in Meridian, Mississippi, A Face in the Crowd.

    * I can find no other mention of any such lawsuit on the Web.  It seems to be a figment of McDaniel’s liberal imagination.

    • Tuesday, July 8, 2003

    Tuesday July 8, 2003

    Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:04 pm

    A Face in the Crowd

    Six Dead in Mississippi Shooting 

    “I’m gonna buy myself a shotgun,
     one with a long shiny barrel”

    — Jimmie Rodgers,
       “Father of Country Music,”
       “T for Texas” lyrics

    Related material:

    Jimmie Rodgers Museum, Meridian, MS

    East Mississippi Insane Hospital, Meridian, MS

    Location of East Mississippi Insane Hospital

    “Peace is Hell” — TIME, issue dated July 14, 2003

    “Gen. Sherman: ‘Meridian no longer exists!’  Well, he was wrong.” — Meridian Public Library

    Wednesday, February 26, 2003

    Wednesday February 26, 2003

    Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:40 am

    He Ain’t Heavy

    Songwriter Tom Glazer, 88, died Friday, February 21, 2003.  From his New York Times obituary:

    “Tom Glazer occasionally speculated about meeting St. Peter at the Pearly Gates and being asked what he accomplished in music.”

    Glazer:

    From the official Department of Defense
    Korean War Commemoration website:

    Title

    Composer

    America the Beautiful

    W: Katherine Lee Baker,
    M: Samuel A. Ward

    The Battle Hymn
    of the Republic

    W: Julia Ward Howe,
    M: Traditional

    The Marine’s Hymn

    W: Anonymous,
    M: Jacques Offenbach

    My Country ‘Tis of Thee

    W: Samuel Francis Smith
    M: Traditional

    Old Soldiers Never Die

    Tom Glazer

    Sound Off

    Willie Lee Duckworth

    Stars and Stripes Forever

    John Philip Sousa

    Washington Post March

    John Philip Sousa

    West Point Suite

    Darius Milhand

    You’re a Grand Old Flag

    George M. Cohan

    Also from the New York Times:

    “In 1957 he composed songs and background music for ‘A Face in the Crowd,’ a film directed by Elia Kazan.”

    “His brother, who spelled his name Sidney Glazier, died in December. He produced the 1968 movie version of ‘The Producers.'”

    St. Peter: 

    Welcome to The Music Staff.

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