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I PROMISED OLDIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD, NOT ONLY THOSE WELL KNOWN SONGS THAT WERE RADIO HITS IN THE U.S.A. THIS ONE IS FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE EUROPEAN POR MUSIC. CHARLES AZNAVOUR, FROM FRANCE, SINGS ONE OF HIS HIT SONGS OF THE 1960s: 'ET POURTAUNT'. MOST EUROPEAN SPEAK MORE THAN ONE LANGUAGE AND AZNAVOUR COULD SING IN LANGUAGES OTHER THAN FRENCH. HERE WE INCLUDE HIS SPANISH VERSION OF THE SAM,E SONG.
THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST BANNED CARTOONS EVER. IT'S A PARODY OF "SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS", FEATURING "COAL BLACK". THE REASON FOR BANNING IT? RACIAL STEREOTYPES, OF COURSE.
HECKLE AND JECKLE WERE AMONG THE FUNNIEST CARTOON CHARACTERS OF THE PAST BUT MOSTLY FORGOTTEN TODAY, BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T COMO FROM THE BIG PRODUCERS LIKE DISNEY OR WARNER BROS.
JUST THINK ABOUT IT: A POPULAR SONG, A RADIO HIT, WITH LYRICS TALKING ABOUT GOD, THE CREATION STORY, ADAM AND EVE, LOVE AMONG 1 MAN AND 1 WOMAN... THAT IS UNTHINKABLE IN TODAY'S WOKE CULTURE WITH CENSORSHIP EVERYWHERE BUT IT WAS POSSIBLE MORE THAN 6 DECADES AGO. THESE OLDIES CAN BE LIKE HISTORY LESSONS, BRINGING BACK HOW THE WORLD WAS MORE THAN 60 YEARS AGO.
THIS CARTOON WAS BANNED BECAUSE IT SHOWS "RACIAL STEREOTYPES", HOWEVER, I ONLY SEE NEW ORLEANS CULTURE. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO 'MARDI GRAS'?
MI RECORDS COLLECTION, STARTING IN THE 1950s, BY THE 1990s, I WAS ALREADY TAKING A ROOM FULL OF RECORDS BUT SINCE I STILL COULDN'T HAVE ALL THE MUSIC I WANTED, I USED TO RECORD FROM OLDIES STATIONS IN CASSETTE TAPES, WITH THE ADVANTAGE THAT I COULD PLAY TAPES IN MY CAR. BUT "PROGRESS" NEVER STOPS. CASSETE TAPES BECAME OBSOLETE, CARS DIDN'T COME WITH CASSETTE PLAYER ANYMORE. BY THE EARLY 2000s, WE STILL HAD A LEGENDARY OLDIES STATION IN THE NEW YORK CITY AREA, REACHING NEW JERSEY, LONG ISLAND AND CONNECTICUT: IT WAS 101.1 CBS FM BUT ONE MORNING I TUNED IN AND IT HAD DISSAPEARED WITHOUT PREVIOUS NOTICE. I WAS GETTING OLD, I RETIRED AND MOVED TO THE U.S. TERRITORY OF PUERTO RICO IN THE CARIBBEAN. I COULDN'T BRING MY RECORDS COLLECTION BUT I BROUGHT MY CASSETTES AND DIGITIZED SOME OF THAT MUSIC. IT WAS A BIG TASK BUT HERE IS ONE SAMPLE FROM 101.1 CBS FM.
ONCE UPON A TIME, CARTOONS WERE NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT - ANOTHER CLASSIC TOON WITH ROAD RUNNER AND WILE E COYOTE.
A CLASSIC OLDIE FROM THE 1950s IN 3 VERSIONS: BONY MORONIE, ORIGHINAL BY LARRY WILLIAMS, A COVER VERSION BY DOUG FOWLKES AND THE AIREDALES BUT THE MOST INTERSTING ONE WAS RECORDED LIVE IN MEXICO IN 2023 BY A REUNION OF OLD RETIRED MEXICAN ROCKANDROLLERS, REMEMBERING THOSE GOOD OLD TIMES. ENJOY ALL 3 IN THE SAME TRACK.
ANOTHER CLASSIC TOON WITH FUNNY DROOPY
SUNNY BY BOBBY HEBB WAS A HIT OF THE 1960s DECADE AND LATER CAME DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE SONG IN MEXICO BY 'LOS YAKI', ALSO A VERY DIFFERENT ONE IN ITALY AND IN THE DISCO ERA CAME A DISCO VERSION OF SUNNY BY BONEY M FROM JAMAICA.
ANOTHER CLASSIC CARTOON FROM TIMES WHEN CARTOONS WERE NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT.
3 IN 1 TRACK: BLUE MOON, SLOW ORIGINAL VERSION, THE ROCK AND ROLL ERA VERSION BY THE MARCELLS AND THE MEXICAN VERSION BY MANOLO MUNOZ
ANOTHER CLASSIC FROM THE MASTER OF CLASSIC CARTOONS: TEX AVERY.
EVERYBODY REMEMBERS 'WOODSTOCK', 3 DAYS OF PEACE,LOVE AND MUSIC IN A FARM OF UPSTATE NEW YORK IN 1969, BUT FEW REMEMBER 'MAR Y SOL' FESTIVAL FEW DAYS OF PEACE, LOVE AND MUSIC BY THE BEACH IN PUERTO RICO, WITH ARTISTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD IN 1972. BACK THEN, ARTIST FROM AFRICA WERE ENTERING THE AMERICAN MUSIC MARKET. THIS IS OSIBISA, FROM AFRICA, PERFGORMING LIVE AT 'MAR Y SOL'.
ONCE UPON A TIME, CARTOONS WERE NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT - MISTER MAGOO CHARACTER DIDN'T LAS LONG, IT WAS BANNED BECAUSE IT WAS CONSIDERED "OFFENSIVE" TO BLIND PEOPLE. "VISION IMPAIRED" IN POLITICALLY CORRECT LANGUAGE.
THE LATE 1950s AND THE EARLY 1960s WAS THE AGE OF THE TEENAGE IDOLS, FRANKIE AVALON WAS ONE OF THEM. HERE IS A SONG BY FRANKIE AVALON (A BOY WITHOUT A GIRL) AND THE VERSION IN SPANISH BY LUIS BRAVO FROM CUBA.
ONCE UPON A TIME, CARTOONS WERE NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT - BETTY BOOP IS CINDERELLA.
SINCE THE BIRTH OF ROCK AND ROLL, MOST AMERICAN MUSIC HITS HAVE HAD VERSIONS IN OTHER LANGUAGES AND OTHER COUNTRIES - TODAY'S OLDIE IS NOT AN EXCEPTION. HERE IT IS WITH THE MEXICAN VERSION.
CLASSIC AND BANNED CARTOONS FROM TIMES WHEN CARTOONS WERE NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT.
ANOTHER LITTLE RICHARD'S SONG "STOLEN" BY ELVIS AND BROUGHT BACK TO US FROM BRITAIN BY THE BEATLES IN 1964.