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bobbie-robron · 7 days

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Edna reckons more Dingles have descended on the dales.

Oh, they’ll take over this village one day and then it REALLY will be time to up the stakes.

Val and Paul show off the new drapes in the Sugden home. Edna, Pearl and Betty are in fine form gossiping about the new Dingle baby and Edna (MVP of the episode) is very spot on about things. Hearing all the gossiping from the trio, Jack PROUDLY announces Andy is the dad and he’s thrilled (Robert is far from that),

13-Jun-2005

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bones-n-bookles · 8 months

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The Big Cats and their fossil relatives, by Alan Turner, illustrated by Mauricio Antón, 1997

Bought new at the La Brea Tar Pits museum, an excellent book on the history of big cats! I really need to reread this book, though I know it's obviously dated in some areas as new research has come out

#my library #The Big Cats and their fossil relatives #Alan Turner #Mauricio Antón #1997 #1990s #big cats #paleontology #big cat book #paleontology book #fossils

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terminusantequem · 1 year

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Alan Turner (British, b.1939), Yellow Influx, 1969. Oil on canvas, 189 x 168 cm

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emmerdale-character-bracket · 11 months

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Round 1

#emmerdale #poll #Katie Sugden #Alan Turner

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musickickztoo · 5 months

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Just some of the many musicians we lost in 2023

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williamfriedle · 5 months

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Boy Meets World (1993-2000) ⇀ Christmas in front of the tree

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coastalwind · 4 months

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Based on who I saw the most on my dash this month

RB for larger sample size yadda yadda

#tumblr polls #polls #white boy of the month #shawn mendes #ross lynch #alan ritchson #callum turner #dominic sessa #paul mescal #jonathan bailey #tom holland #jack champion #zach tinker #jacob elordi #barry keoghan

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texaschainsawmascara · 5 months

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TCM’s In Memoriam 2023

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thymbyll · 24 days

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THE DARK PRINCE: SEVERUS SNAPE

THE MALFOY PARENTS

THE LESBIAN: ANDROMEDA BLACK

THE LORD OF COIN: PETYR BAELISH

THE LANNISTERS TWINS

THE CROSSOVER LESBIAN: MORGANA PENDRAGON

THE EMPATHIC BOYFRIEND: WILL GRAHAM

THE DOCTORS: HANNIBAL LECTER & BEDELIA DU MAURIER

THE LESBIAN ASSASIN NEXT-DOOR

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rhapsodynew · 1 month

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For most people, House of the Rising Sun evokes memories of the 1964 hit The Animals. The song itself, however, has a hidden and shockingly extensive history that began much earlier than the mid-1960s.

The melody itself is a traditional English ballad, but it has become popular as an African American folk song. It was recorded by Texas Alexander in the 1920s, then by a number of other performers, including Ledbelly, Woody Guthrie, Josh White and later Nina Simone.

But it was Nina's version that The Animals heard.

No one can claim the rights to the song, which means that it can be recorded and sold without royalties. But many bands made covers of it after it became a hit with The Animals.

Historians have not been able to definitively identify what the "House of the Rising Sun" is, but here are two of the most popular theories:

1.This song is about a brothel in New Orleans. The House Of The Rising Sun was named after its owner, Madame Marianne Le Soleil Levant (which means "Rising Sun" in French). The brothel operated from 1862 to 1874, and then closed due to complaints from neighbors.

2.We are talking about a women's prison in New Orleans called the Orleans Parish Women's Prison, the entrance gates of which were decorated with paintings of the rising sun. This could explain the phrase from the song "ball and chain".

Ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax recorded his version of the song in 1937 with a 16-year-old girl named Georgia Turner. In this context, the song is sung in the first person in the present tense, when the singer laments how the House of the Rising Sun destroyed her life. In this traditional folk version, the main character is either a prostitute or a prisoner. The Animals changed the character to a gambling enthusiast to make their version more suitable for radio.

In 1964, this folk song became a worldwide hit for The Animals. Their version reached number one in the UK on July 9, and in America on September 5.

Animals vocalist Eric Burdon explained in a 2010 interview for Songfacts:

House of the Rising Sun is a song that I was just destined to perform. She was made for me, and I was made for her. It was a great song to tour with Chuck Berry because it became a way to reach the audience without copying Chuck Berry himself. It was a great trick, and it worked. In fact, not only a trick, but also a great record.

Bob Dylan included this song on his first album in 1962 with a folk arrangement like that of American folk singer Dave Van Ronk. When The Animals recorded it two years later, it transformed Dylan. The musician realized that he could apply a rock rhythm to a folk song. Bob bought an electric guitar and started playing it, which made him famous at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, where he performed an electric set for the first time.

The Animals recorded the song in the studio in just one take, as they honed it by constantly performing on tour. John Steele, the band's drummer, recalled this.:

On May 17, 1964, we played in Liverpool, and then went to London, where Mickey Most booked a studio for the ITV show Ready Steady Go! Because of the reaction we got to Rising Sun, we asked to record this song as well, to which he said, "OK, we'll do it in the same session." We tuned in, played a few bars for the sound engineer – it was mono without overdubs – and recorded it only once. After listening, Mickey said: "That's it, it's a finished single." The sound engineer said that the song came out too long, but instead of shortening it a little, Mickey plucked up the courage and said, "Now we live in a microgrove world, we'll release it." A few weeks later, the song became No. 1 worldwide. When we knocked the Beatles off the top in America, they sent us a telegram that read: "Congratulations from The Beatles (band)."

Producer Mickey Most added:

Everything was in the right place, the planets were in the right place, the stars were in the right place, and the wind was blowing in the right direction. It took only 15 minutes to record, so I can't take much credit for producing it. It was just an incident that captured the atmosphere in the studio.

My old collection of cover version

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bobbie-robron · 8 months

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I just sat up all night praying that he won’t die.

Danny offers himself as help to Andy on the farm. It’s a new day and DI Keysell is once again keeping an eagle’s eye on Andy and Robert. Alan and Rodney check on Jack via Robert who is clearly exhausted at this point but Rodney manages to lighten the mood at least temporarily. Jack’s doctor easily persuades Keysell to leave the room post haste. Jack begins to stir.