40 years ago this week, "Hold Me" by #Menudo entered the #Top100 at 85. It peaked at 62 on 15 Jun 1985. I was surprised to see that this was the band's only trip up the US charts, since I remember them performing on TV a lot. Ricky Martin had just joined the group the previous year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPU0LlpraM0 #1980s #MusicHistory #MusicVideo

40 years ago this week, "Meeting In The Ladies Room" by #Klymaxx entered the #Top100 at 89. It peaked at 59 on 15 Jun 1985. Perhaps most notable as an early role for Vivica A. Fox, visible at 2:34 in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_odTlZaoLCA #1980s #MusicHistory #MusicVideo

 You said you’d never compromise
 With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
 He’s not selling any alibis
 As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
 And ask him do you want to make a deal?
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Song: “Like a Rolling Stone”
Album: Highway 61 Revisited
First played: 1965-07-25
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/rolling-stone/
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 Like Louie and Jimmy and Buddy and all of the rest
 It might not be the thing to do
 But I’m stickin’ with you through and through
 Down in the flatlands - way down in Key West
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Song: “Key West (Philosopher Pirate)”
Album: Rough and Rowdy Ways
First played: 2021-11-02
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/key-west-philosopher-pirate/
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 Can’t you hear that rooster crowin’?
 Rabbit runnin’ down across the road
 Underneath the bridge where the water flowed through
 So happy just to see you smile
 Underneath the sky of blue
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Song: “New Morning”
Album: New Morning
First played: 1991-04-19
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/new-morning/
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 You say you’re sorry
 For tellin’ stories
 That you know I believe are true
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Song: “Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)”
Album: Blonde on Blonde
First played: 1974-01-03
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/most-likely-you-go-your-way-and-ill-go-mine/
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 Down over the window
 Comes the dazzling sunlit rays
 Through the back alleys—through the blinds
 Another one of them endless days
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Song: “Floater (Too Much to Ask)”
Album: Love and Theft
First played: 2001-10-23
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/floater-too-much-ask/
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 Can’t you feel that sun a-shinin’?
 Groundhog runnin’ by the country stream
 This must be the day that all of my dreams come true
 So happy just to be alive
 Underneath the sky of blue
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Song: “New Morning”
Album: New Morning
First played: 1991-04-19
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/new-morning/
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I registered for this talk .. Jascha Nemtsov is one of the only people writing in English about the fascinating history of Jewish art music in the interwar years. Shall have to read his new book at some point too from @harrassowitzverlag

https://yivo.org/New-Jewish-School

now that I'm back at home I'm trying to finish researching my blog post about old Jewish cimbalom players of NY (although I'm still not sure if Kun was Jewish) and came across this reference to his 1922 composition Scenic Distortions which sounds metal af... (from The Film Daily, January 20 1922)

no trace of it on google, I wonder if any of his descendants have his old musical scores...

 I get blood from a cactus - make gunpowder from ice
 I don’t gamble with cards and I don’t shoot no dice
 Can you look in my face with your sightless eye
 Can you cross your heart and hope to die
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Song: “My Own Version of You”
Album: Rough and Rowdy Ways
First played: 2021-11-02
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/my-own-version-of-you/
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 One of these days and it won't be long
 Going down in the valley and sing my song
 I will sing it loud and sing it strong
 Let the echo decide if I was right or wrong
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Song: “Silvio”
Album: Down in the Groove
First played: 1988-06-21
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/silvio/
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 I’m falling in love with Calliope
 She doesn’t belong to anybody - why not give her to me
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Song: “Mother of Muses”
Album: Rough and Rowdy Ways
First played: 2021-11-02
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/mother-of-muses/
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 Living in the Land of Nod
 Trustin’ their fate to the hands of God
 They pass by so silently
 Tweedle-dee Dum and Tweedle-dee Dee
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Song: “Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum”
Album: Love and Theft
First played: 2001-10-05
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tweedle-dee-tweedle-dum/
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 People tell me that I’m truly blessed
 Bougainvillea bloomin’ in the summer and spring
 Winter here is an unknown thing
 Down the flatlands - way down in Key West
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Song: “Key West (Philosopher Pirate)”
Album: Rough and Rowdy Ways
First played: 2021-11-02
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/key-west-philosopher-pirate/
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 In harmony with the cosmic sea
 True love needs no company
 It can cure the soul, it can make it whole
 If dogs run free
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Song: “If Dogs Run Free”
Album: New Morning
First played: 2000-10-01
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/if-dogs-run-free/
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 A worried man with a worried mind
 No one in front of me and nothing behind
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Song: “Things Have Changed”
Album: The Essential Bob Dylan
First played: 2000-03-10
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/things-have-changed/
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 There was an old man and he lived in the moon
 One summer’s day he came passing by
 There was an old man and he lived in the moon
 And one day he came passing by
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Song: “Under the Red Sky”
Album: Under the Red Sky
First played: 1990-10-11
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/under-red-sky/
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40 years ago this week, "Smooth Operator" by #Sade entered the #Top10 at 10. It peaked at 5 on 18 May 1985. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TYv2PhG89A #1980s #MusicHistory #MusicVideo