"Sweet Little Sixteen
She’s got the grown-up blues"
Related material — Hollywood Easter
Sunday, July 15, 2018
Monday, August 14, 2017
Sound Track
Two songs by Chuck Berry on Chess Records in 1958 —
Sweet Little Sixteen and Sweet Little Rock and Roller .
She's 9 years old and sweet as she can be
All dressed up like a downtown Christmas tree
Dancin' and hummin' a rock-roll melody
For meditations on Sixteen , see Berry + Sixteen in this journal.
A meditation on Rock and Roller —
Related material — From the above post's date,
March 21, 2017, a memoir by one Siva Vaidhyanathan,
"Robertson Professor of Media Studies and Director of
the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia."
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Monday, February 16, 2015
Witch Ball
In memory of singer-songwriter Lesley Gore,
May 2, 1946 – February 16, 2015
“Her wall is filled with pictures…”
— Sweet Little Sixteen
Two posts from Gore’s birthday last year:
“It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to.” — Lesley Gore
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Saturday, September 27, 2014
Sweet Sixteen
Google celebrates its 16th birthday today.
Here are some family values found with its help.
The father-in-law of the late Thomas A. Tombrello
(previous post) was sociologist Robert K. Merton.
See a tribute to Merton by his daughter Stephanie,
Tombrello's widow. See also a Log24 post mentioning
Merton from Oct. 19, 2005. That post leads to a
post from the date of Merton's death, Feb. 23, 2003.
From that 2003 post:
“Her wall is filled with pictures,
She gets ‘em one by one.”
— “Sweet Little Sixteen,” by Chuck Berry
(Chess Records, January 1958)
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Monday, December 31, 2007
Monday December 31, 2007
Happy New Year
from Steven Priest
from Steven Priest
"… and the girl in the corner
is everyone's mourner…."
The Priest quotation appeared here
on Grammy Night 2003 with
another musical meditation:
"Her wall is filled with pictures,
She gets 'em one by one."
— "Sweet Little Sixteen,"
by Chuck Berry
(Chess Records, January 1958)
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Monday, November 19, 2007
Monday November 19, 2007
Lament for a DJ
In memory of Philadelphia DJ Hy Lit, who died on Saturday at 73:
"Chuck Berry didn't need prompting to insert, in his 'Sweet Little Sixteen,' the lines 'Well, they'll be rockin' on Bandstand, Philadelphia, P.A.' I remember 'Bandstand' before it was 'American…' It started in 1952, when Walter Annenberg, whose Triangle Publications owned the WFIL radio and television stations, suggested an afternoon TV dance party…."
— Richard Corliss, TIME magazine, July 14, 2001
Related material: Back to the Future (Log24 on Sunday)
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Monday, April 24, 2006
Monday April 24, 2006
Finis
Coronat
Opus
Coronat
Opus
continued from
Saturday, April 22
Finis
Opus
Sweet Little Sixteen
She's just got to have
About half a million
Famed autographs…
www.davidgregharth.com/press/article_38.html
Her wallet's filled with pictures
She gets 'em one by one
— After Chuck Berry, 1958
"We are all Paris Hilton now."
— Ana Marie Cox,
Sweet 16 and Spoiled Rotten,
in TIME Magazine,
the April 24 Opus Dei issue
Related material
in the Harvard Crimson:
The $500,000 sophomore’s
debut novel is on the shelf…
But is it a gift or a curse?
Publisher 'Certain' of
'Literal Copying' in
Sophomore's Novel
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Sunday, April 23, 2006
Sunday April 23, 2006
Hollywood Easter
Part 8
Part 8
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See also parts 1-7:
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| Sweet Little Sixteen She’s got the grown-up blues Tight dresses and lipstick She’s sportin’ high-heel shoes Oh but tomorrow morning She’ll have to change her trend And be sweet sixteen And back in class again — Chuck Berry, 1958 |
Back in
Sunday School Class:
“Send magazines!”–
Flora Poste in
Cold Comfort Farm
in today’s
New York Times:
“… a spate of sex magazines…
emerge on elite campuses….”
“We are all Paris Hilton now.”
— Ana Marie Cox,
Sweet 16 and Spoiled Rotten,
in TIME Magazine,
the April 24 Opus Dei issue
“Or perhaps not.”
— Flora Poste in
Cold Comfort Farm
Revisited
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Sunday, February 23, 2003
Sunday February 23, 2003
Grammy Night
Today's musical birthday: bassist Steven Priest of Sweet.
Today's back-to-the-future trip: See the article "Sweet Tunes…." on Chuck Berry at the top of today's New York Times website.
"Her wall is filled with pictures,
She gets 'em one by one."
— "Sweet Little Sixteen," by Chuck Berry
(Chess Records, January 1958)
Click on the above for the context.
"Are you ready, Steve? Aha….
And the girl in the corner is ev'ryone's mourner.
She could kill you with a wink of her eye."
— "Ballroom Blitz," by Sweet
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