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@#4 ... much earlier origins ...
Good Morning, School Girl
en.wikipedia.org
... "Good Morning, School Girl" is a blues standard that has been identified as an influential part of the blues canon.[1] Pre-war Chicago blues vocalist and harmonica pioneer John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson first recorded it in 1937. Subsequently, a variety of artists have recorded versions of the song, usually calling it "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl".[2]
Original song
Sonny Boy Williamson I recorded "Good Morning, School Girl" in 1937 during his first recording session for Bluebird Records.[1] The song is an uptempo blues with an irregular number of bars.[3] Although identified with Chicago blues, a write-up in the Blues Hall of Fame notes "it was a product of Sonny Boy's west Tennessee roots and his pre-Chicago ensemble work".[1] The melody has been traced to "Back and Side Blues", a 1934 blues song recorded by Son Bonds. "Good Morning, School Girl" features Williamson's vocal and harmonica with accompaniment by Big Joe Williams and Robert Lee McCoy (also known as Robert Nighthawk) on guitars.
Blues renditions
In October 1948, Leroy Dallas recorded a version of the song, titled "Good Morning Blues".[4] Texas bluesman Smokey Hogg recorded his version, calling it "Little School Girl". In 1950, the song reached number nine on the Billboard Best-Selling Retail Rhythm & Blues Records chart[5] and number five on the magazine's Most Played Juke Box R&B chart.[6] Memphis one-man-band Joe Hill Louis recorded an electric version titled "Good Morning Little Angel" in February or March 1953.[7]
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, several versions of "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" were recorded as acoustic country-style blues, including versions by John Lee Hooker, Lightnin' Hopkins, Mississippi Fred McDowell,
Muddy Waters, and Doctor Ross. In 1965, Junior Wells with Buddy Guy recorded it as a Chicago blues, with a distinctive guitar and bass line, for their influential Hoodoo Man Blues album.[8] McDowell included a 1971 performance on Live in New York and in 1978, Muddy Waters recorded an updated rendition for I'm Ready. ...
A song from the 70's, but one that has much earlier origins ,,,
Ten Years After - Good Morning Little School Girl (1975)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
...
Good morning little schoolgirl
Can I go home, home with you?
Good morning little schoolgirl
Can I go home, home with you?
Tell your mama and your papa
Big be schoolboy, too
I won't bore you, yeah
Baby, I won't bore you all night long
Yes, I do
Baby, I wanna ball you
I wanna ball you all night long
Tell your mama and your papa
Baby, baby, doing nothing wrong, child
I'm doing nothing wrong, yeah
I won't bore you, yea, yea, huh
Baby, I wanna ball you all night long
Yes, I do, child
I won't bore you, darling, yea
I won't bore you all night long
Tell your mama and your papa
Baby, baby, we're gonna do nothing wrong
Wrong , wrong, wrong
Baby, I wanna ball you every night
Oh, yeah, come on now
...
Arctic tundra becoming source of carbon dioxide emissions: 2024 Arctic Report Card released (December 2024)
globalocean.noaa.gov
... After storing carbon dioxide in frozen soil for millennia, the Arctic tundra is being transformed by frequent wildfires into an overall source of carbon to the atmosphere, which is already absorbing record levels of heat-trapping fossil fuel pollution.
The transition of the Arctic from a carbon sink to a carbon source is one of the dramatic changes in the Arctic that are documented in NOAA's 2024 Arctic Report Card. Climatic shifts are forcing plants, wildlife and the people that depend on them to rapidly adapt to a warmer, wetter and less certain world. ...
@#22
For example ...
BrowserLeaks
browserleaks.com
... BrowserLeaks is a suite of tools that offers a range of tests to evaluate the security and privacy of your web browser. These tests focus on identifying ways in which websites may leak your real IP address, collect information about your device, and perform a browser fingerprinting. ...
Ohio (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song)
en.wikipedia.org(Crosby,_Stills,_Nash_%26_Young_song)
... "Ohio" is a song written by Neil Young in reaction to the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970, and performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.[3] ...
"Tin soldiers and Nixon coming" refers to the May 4, 1970 Kent State shootings, where Ohio National Guard officers shot and killed four students during a protest against the Vietnam War. The shootings happened following several days of protests and clashes, including the arson of a building on campus.[10] Crosby once stated that Young keeping Nixon's name in the lyrics was "the bravest thing I ever heard." The American counterculture of the 1960s responded positively to the song and saw the musicians as spokespersons for their ideas.[11] The lyrics help evoke a mood of horror, outrage, and shock in the wake of the shootings, especially the line "four dead in Ohio", repeated throughout the song.
Based on opinion polling the day after the shooting, a majority of the American public placed the greatest blame for the violence on protestors rather than National Guard members.[12] After the single's release, it was banned from some AM radio stations including in the state of Ohio,[13] but received airplay on underground FM stations in larger cities and college towns. More recently, the song has received regular airplay on classic rock stations.
The song was selected as the 395th Greatest Song of All Time by Rolling Stone in 2010.[14] In 2009, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[15]
An article in The Guardian in 2010 describes the song as the "greatest protest record" and "the pinnacle of a very 1960s genre", while also saying "The revolution never came."[16] President Richard Nixon, who is criticized in the song, won a landslide reelection in 1972, which included winning the 1972 United States presidential election in Ohio by a margin of over 21%. ...
@#124 ... What I've noticed today is those labels are being blurred, and I think some people are misusing the transgender label in ways that didn't used to be. ...
OK, labels aside.
My view is that there are two parts to every person, the mind and the body.
For the most part, and with most people, God aligns those two parts with the same sex.
But, sometimes, for whatever reason, God creates a person with a mind of one sex and a body of another sex.
Was God wrong for doing that? That's not for me to judge. But, there it is.
So, the question then seems to become, how does the person with a mind (i.e., the person's being) deal with such a mismatch of the body?
Should that not be up to each person to decide?