bq. Well, the first thing I want to say is.”Mandate my ass!”
The demise of Ronald Reagan made me dust off my copy of the magnificent Gil Scott-Heron’s B-Movie/R-Ron (double-A-side-single). I’ve not managed to find even the lyrics to Re-Ron anywhere on the web, but B-movie is “here”:http://olrajtovics.atw.hu/nujazz.html (right sidebar) and you can download the music too (with what legality I can’t say).
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q 06.08.04 at 2:32 pm
Reagan won the U.S. presidential election in 1980.
This Ronald Reagan story is Crooked Timber story 1980 (001980.html).
Spooky!
(I hope story 001984.html is about him too!)
Jeremy 06.08.04 at 3:43 pm
That’s a great song, but in the version I have the lyrics are a bit different (I have a cassette copy of a live version from the “Tales of Gil Scott Heron” album — simply awesome). I’ll try to track that cassette down (then see if I still have a cassette player to play it on) and reproduce the lyrics here.
Kenny Easwaran 06.09.04 at 3:00 am
Is Crooked Timber the clearinghouse for everything Hungarian on the web?
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