Well here we are looking back at things from August in the past and this song was being played on the radio in August of 1966 Brian Hyland singing "The Joker Went Wild".....
"THE JOKER WENT WILD"-BRIAN HYLAND
"HALF-BREED"-CHER
"PEOPLE GOT TO BE FREE"THE RASCALS
It was the Number One song from The Rascals this day in 1968 "People Want To Be Free" and that notion seemed to gaining stream in Czechoslovakia but the USSR sent the Red Army and forces from the other Communist East European countries some 500-thousand troops in. The invasion started in the late evening of August 20th and I recall the "NBC News Special Report" late that night and the next evening I watched the coverage of the invasion on the "Huntley-Brinkley Report" as presented by Chet Huntley.
SOVIET INVASION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA AUGUST 1968 HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY NBC
HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REPORT NBC AUGUST 21ST, 1968
Freedom of course remains for us to consider in 2020 and in Virginia the top health official preaching his "Soviet line"
NEWSDUMP UPDATE DICTATORSHIP OF COVID 19: TOP VIRGINIA HEALTH OFFICIAL WANTS MANDATORY VACCINATION
VIRGINIA HEALTH CHIEF SAYS HE WILL MANDATE CORONAVIRUS VACCINE, 'STRONGLY OPPOSES' EXEMPTIONS
NEWSDUMP UPDATE: DICTATORSHIP OF COVID-19 ISRAEL'S CORONAVIRUS CZAR WANTS UKRAINE TO BAN RELIGIOUS PILGRIMAGE
YNET NEWS ISRAEL
NEWSDUMP UPDATE: JEFFREY EPSTEIN CASE FEDERAL GRAND JURY STILL PROBING EPSTEIN, MAXWELL ACTIVITIES
Federal prosecutors have filed documents indicating that their probe continues and suggesting the possibility of new charges related to the allegations of sex abuse and trafficking related to the late Jeffrey Epstein.
MIAMI HERALD
NEWSDUMP UPDATE: PORTLAND PROTEST AT NORTH POLICE PRECINCT DECLARED A RIOT
Police resorting to smoke, flash bangs and even targeted arrests early on during a Friday night protest in Portland at a police precinct, but then going on the attack early today. "OregonLive" summarizes with a chronology of events in a story published this morning........
RIOT OUTSIDE NORTHEAST PORTLAND POLICE PRECINCT FOLLOWED WARNINGS REQUESTS, 'TARGETED' ARRESTS FRIDAY: KEY TAKEAWAYS
Pro-police protesters rallying in Portland today. Last Saturday's pro-police protest led to the arrest of one pro-police protester who fired two shots from the window of a vehicle at the other side.
To the music and Paul McCartney with a hit from August of 1975......
"LISTEN TO WHAT THE MAN SAID"-PAUL MCCARTNEY
"HOW SWEET IT IS (TO BE LOVED BY YOU)"-JAMES TAYLOR
"AT SEVENTEEN"-JANIS IAN
And a full set of hits from August of 1975 including Janis Ian's "At Seventeen" a song for all of us hurt and wounded and alienated from the world around us back then. When I listened to this song I wanted to find something wrong with it. I listened to country music back then but heard about the song from the mainstream media stirring up controversy. Then when I listened I could not argue with what she sang. It connected with me.
Here a Wikipedia article on Janis Ian.......JANIS IAN-WIKIPEDIA
Janis Ian is posting on Facebook nowadays......JANIS IAN PAGE FACEBOOK
ROSE MCGOWAN AND TARA READE RAIN ON JOE BIDEN'S PARADE
The Democrat trolls of show biz ran up against Rose McGowan on Twitter in recent days and there to help her among others Tara Reade repeating that she was sexually assaulted by Joe Biden and noting that Biden acolyte Alyssa Milano was an "enabler of rape".....
RT STORY: 'DRONE BOMB ME': ROSE MCGOWAN CLASHES WITH ALYSSA MILANO AND OTHER LIBS OVER DEM PARTY 'MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE'
Back to August of 1963 a time when racial protest had engulfed the nation following Bull Connor's decision to use dogs and water cannon in Birmingham in May of 1963. The month of the "March on Washington" from Dr. Martin Luther King who was at this point a political threat to the President of the United States John F. Kennedy.
The "March on Washington" this week no doubt will be when it materializes Friday will be a stage show for the political machine that wants to shut down anarchist violence and turn it into a "Vote Democrat" movement.
I doubt they can do it. Just guessing out loud but before we get back to August 1963 this.
THE JESSE JACKSON, AL SHARPTON AND THE LIST GOES ON TO KAMALA HARRIS TYPE OF POLITICAL MACHINE, BIG BUSINESS BACKED PERSONALITY CLAIMING TO REPRESENT "PEOPLE OF COLOR" OR BEING PROMOTED BY THE MEDIA AS REPRESENTATIVES OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS ETC. ETC. REMIND US OF HOW FAR WE HAVE STRAYED FROM THE OUTSIDER DAYS OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
ITS REFRESHING TO REMEMBER THAT THE LAST WOMAN TO RUN FOR VICE-PRESIDENT EARNED HER OUTSIDER CREDENTIALS IN ALASKA CALLING OUT THE CRONYISM OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WITH THE ENERGY INDUSTRY. GOD BLESS SARAH PALIN.
Back to August 1963 and I was listening to an aircheck of WABC radio from August 7th.
The "ReelRadio" home page is where you can find out how you can join up and donate to gain access to the airchecks of great radio from the past all kinds of DJ's famous and not so famous....
I can get a link to work right but can get there by going to reelradio.com.
What great hit music on that aircheck like this one from a group of singing Marines.......
"EASIER SAID THAN DONE"-THE ESSEX
"FINGERTIPS"-STEVIE WONDER
"JUDY'S TURN TO CRY"-LESLEY GORE
There they are some of the hit songs from August of 1963 and in August of 1980 this is what New York City looked like a short clip of famous sights in the Big Apple........
FILM OF NEW YORK CITY AUGUST 1980
NEWSDUMP UPDATE: FEDERAL JUDGE LIFTS RESTRAINING ORDER THAT KEPT NYPD DISCIPLINARY RECORDS PRIVATE
A federal judge deciding Friday to let the barn door wide open to public scrutiny of police disciplinary records in New York City. Unions had tried to keep the records under wraps.......
ABC NEWS: JUDGE LIFTS VEIL ON NEW YORK CITY POLICE DISCIPLINE RECORDS
PRESIDENT TRUMP TWEETS THAT "DEEP STATE, OR WHOEVER" AT THE FDA IS DELAYING A CORONAVIRUS VACCINE
PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP TWEET ON FDA 8/22/2020
"SAY ANYTHING SATURDAY"
as usual for the President of the United States. This and many other tweets today. God Bless President Donald J. Trump he is my President not my Higher Power.
More August 1963 hit music.........
"WIPEOUT"-THE SURFARIS
"DENISE"-RANDY AND THE RAINBOWS
"HEY GIRL"-FREDDIE SCOTT
Wow some great hit songs from August 57 years ago and another hit this month was a novelty song by
Allan Sherman who sings it live on television in this clip........
"HELLO MUDDAH, HELLO FADDAH"-ALLAN SHERMAN
PORTLAND PROTEST UPDATE: RALLIES DUEL IN THE CITY TODAY
OREGONLIVE
ISRAEL: HEADED FOR ELECTIONS WITH BUDGET TRIGGER LOOMING
If there's no budget by Monday in Israel, the parliament automatically dissolves setting the stage for Israel's fourth election in less than two years. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a window to create a scenario for a new mix of political parties and a new government before his corruption trial moves into high gear in December.
Current coalition partner Defense Minister Benny Gantz sees trouble ahead with some pretty strong words:
"civil war"
mixed into his comments tonight..........ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
And on August 1, 1966 mass murder in Austin, Texas at the University of Texas with the tower shooter. One of the people who helped to take down shooter Charles Whitman was Ramiro "Ray" Martinez then an Austin police officer, later a Texas Ranger........RETIRED TEXAS RANGER RELIVES UT TOWER SHOOTING
Back to those hits from August 1963........
"MORE"-KAI WINDIG
"SO MUCH IN LOVE"-THE TYMES
"DEVIL IN DISGUISE"-ELVIS PRESLEY
REPUBLICAN CONTROLLED IDAHO DOING SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE SESSION UNDER THE COVER OF THE GOP CONVENTION TO RAM THROUGH AUTHORITARIAN CORONAVIRUS LAWS
That is the story that people in Idaho are trying to warn citizens about with a special legislative session and laws designed to force business compliance with the "Dictatorship of COVID-19".....
HEALTH FREEDOM IDAHO
"Health Freedom Idaho" trying to get the word out via their Facebook page.......
HEALTHFREEDOMIDAHO FACEBOOK
And the common sense continues with Peter Hitchens column this weekend asking questions to the coronavirus fear mongers in the UK government.......
PETER HITCHENS: WERE HOLIDAY-WRECKING QUARANTINES WORTH IT? EVEN THE GOVERNMENT HAVEN'T A CLUE!
A few more items here first the Yellow Vests post for today with a march in Paris and a Yellow Vests event in France with a very special guest 85-year old Brigitte Bardot. Some of us remember her without her clothes on but today we get to see her fully clothed but with a politically incorrect naked face in the "DC 19" era.....FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 93: BRIGITTE BARDOT MAKES APPEARANCE
And a final event from the past to note in August Sirius XM made a reference to it last Thursday (August 20th). On August 20, 1920 the first broadcast of WWJ Radio in Detroit.
A book was published about the station and its early days in 1922 and here is a link to it on the "World Radio History" website........
WWJ-THE DETROIT NEWS BOOK PDF FILE
Its time to say goodnight.......Good Night and God Bless to All.......Closing with more hit sounds from August of 1963 pop and country.......
"IF I HAD A HAMMER"-TRINI LOPEZ (LIVE)
"ABILENE"-GEORGE HAMILTON IV (LIVE)
"DETROIT CITY"-BOBBY BARE
"SURFER GIRL"-BEACH BOYS
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