[Vision2020] One bad apple evidently spoils the whole bunch?
keely emerinemix
kjajmix1 at msn.com
Fri Nov 19 15:40:56 PST 2004
Bruce and Jean, AND YOU, CARL --
Thanks for corroborating my memory of early 70s screechy teen hits. Humility and a Catholic upbringing prevented me from arguing with Carl, even though I kinda sorta in a way knew I was, well, right, or at least less wrong than he was. Now that I'm vindicated, though, I plan to engage in a prolonged "neener, neener, neener," although I still think he's pretty cool.
Don't worry, Carl. I only remember Donny. I just never knew him the way you did, so you're still da man. Bruce and Jean, thank you. And as for "Billy, Don't Be a Hero," well . . . the true horror of war is that it allows for the proliferation of really bad pop songs in ways that no other political phenomena can touch. Please, let us not think it's just about violence, death, destruction and despair.
keely
----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce and Jean Livingston
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] One bad apple evidently spoils the whole bunch?
Carl, I'm glad you're tight with Donny, and maybe pre-weird Michael and the
J-Five really did do a version of "One Bad Apple," but my handy dandy copy
of Joel Whitburn's "The Billboard Top 40 Hits" reflects only that Donny
cracked the charts -- er, the Top Forty, anyway -- going all the way to
number one in January 1971 for five weeks and remaining in the Top Forty for
12 weeks.
Nary a mention of the Jackson Five doing that song. Maybe it was the flip
side of "ABC" or something.
But when talking about such pop atrocities, isn't charting necessary to even
be in the ball game?
Let's just hope this Iraq mess ends quickly, so "Billy, Don't Be a Hero"
doesn't come back to haunt us once again!
Bruce Livingston
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Westberg" <carlwestberg846 at hotmail.com>
To: <kjajmix1 at msn.com>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 7:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] One bad apple evidently spoils the whole bunch?
| Keely, Keely. Okay, you're a liberal elitist. So am I. Now I must
correct
| your correction. While, unbeknownst to me, Donny Osmond (who I believe I
| can call a very close personal friend of mine, since I interviewed him and
| Marie when I was working for a Pocatello radio station about 35,000 years
| ago) may have indeed done a cover version of "One Bad Apple", the real,
| bona-fida, honest to gosh original version was done by (pre-weird) Michael
| Jackson and the No Jive Jackson Five. I believe, as one liberal elitist
to
| another, you owe me a profound apology.
|
|
|
| Carl Westberg Jr.
|
| >From: "keely emerinemix" <kjajmix1 at msn.com>
| >To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>, "Carl Westberg"
<carlwestberg846 at hotmail.com>
| >Subject: Re: [Vision2020] One bad apple evidently spoils the whole bunch?
| >Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:40:29 -0800
| >
| >Carl, Carl. Call me a liberal elitist, but I must correct you: It
wasn't
| >Michael (as in Jackson) who sang "One Bad Apple." No, that distinction
| >belongs to Donny (as in Osmond). I know this because the song was, I'm
| >ashamed to say, one of the very first 45s that I ever purchased.
| >
| >But at least I feel really, really bad about it . . . and if Donny Osmond
| >posters were cluttering the lawns of Pullman, I would absolutely commit a
| >deliberate, vicious and spiteful act and pull 'em all up.
| >
| >
| >keely
| > ----- Original Message -----
| > From: Carl Westberg
| > To: vision2020 at moscow.com
| > Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 12:32 PM
| > Subject: [Vision2020] One bad apple evidently spoils the whole bunch?
| >
| >
| > >From a letter to the editor in the Daily News: "The nights preceding
| > Election Day saw the deliberate, vicious, spiteful desecration of
every
| > single strategically located Bush/Cheney campaign sign in Pullman. Now
| >then,
| > since no other collocated signs were disturbed we could deductively
| >conclude
| > that the perpetrators were in support of a competing party...." Are
we
| >to
| > intuit from this that this act, which may have been committed by one
or
| >two
| > miscreants acting entirely on their own, was sanctioned and approved
by
| > those supporting John Kerry? Nope. Sorry, not going to take the heat
| >for
| > this. That's painting a whole bunch of people with a VERY large
brush.
| >The
| > Democratic headquarters in Moscow was vandalized, also. If I'm to
apply
| >the
| > same logic, all Bush supporters sanctioned and approved that act. But
I
| > don't. Sing it, Michael...."One bad apple don't spoil the whole
| > bunch"......
| >
| >
| > Carl Westberg Jr.
| >
| >
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