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Personally I like the line----- "Gee, I think you're swell."

I just watched this on youtube. (the bigger of the two productions) For what it's worth, I thought it was nicely staged. No goose bumps but nicely done. Nice arrangement.----beautiful individual vocal performances.-----lighting and costuming had a very soothing effect. Only thing I did not care for was the side to side movement. I found that a bit contrived and distracting. They might have been able to "wash" individuals with light or have them take a step or two downstage(or both) when they were featured, instead. But that's just a matter of my personal taste. Regarding the changing of the lyrics: What's the big deal? It's not like these lyrics are engraved on a Holy Tablet or something. It's just a song. What if it had been written that way to start with? Would there be a big push to change it to Jesus to make it "right on"? One thing that I really, really don't miss about TWI is having to always worry about whether this or that is "right on" according to TWI standards of the only true(cough) right dividing of The Word. Everything became focused on the mission of promoting TWI. No room for artistic license. Ever wonder why that early Way music knocked your socks off? It's because it came from what the artists themselves felt compelled to express. Once TWI stepped in and started dictating what needed to happen to make it "right on" it started to lose the emotional steam that drove it. That's my 2 cents.

We have a winner!!

Here's a little clue. The song is actually somewhat tongue in cheek. If you listen closely to the lyrics, you will find they are mildly poking fun at this particular genre. That becomes even clearer when you see the direction their careers took after this effort. Here's another snippet: "You're my pride and joy, etc."

What a great song! Written by Willie Nelson, BTW.

Sorry, Brush I never took the "New And Improved" series so I can't compare the two.

jeast The thread I referred to is in the "soap opera" forum. It's titled "All women belonged to VPW." (It's a long one!!)

Like music to the ears.

Hey!!! Itsn't that what WE did??

T-Birds ft. Kid Ramos

Re: This will potentially be harder than I thought "Your Honor, I present the "Just got back from church" thread as exhibit A."

I really think you're groovy. Let's go out to a movie. Whatta ya say now?

Fellow Laborers was a two year, in-rez. program in Ohio. The term "tour of duty" was used with a bit of tongue in cheek.

Ha!! Not me. I'm still a kid!!

Paging Cindy Roberts!! caseyqueen is looking for you

Ya know--- Something tells me you're gonna be just fine, kiddo. :)

William Wicherly----The Country Wife?????

Chronology is of the essence. This subject was discussed here about 8 or 9 months ago but I don't recall the thread title.

OK-- There's a bit of twisted irony here. This is from Steal This Album. Your name is Abi. There is a very famous book titled Steal This Book which was written by another Abbie. (Abbie Hoffman) Well, the gender is different but I chuckled about it anyway. :)

House Of The Rising Sun----(Traditional) as done by The Animals

Tommy Castro-----------------Nasty Habits

Time and Era First "tour of duty" was 1975-1977 Is that radically different?

Do I need to paste my post(#4 )or can I just direct your attention to it? Yeah, we had unstructured time-----from midnight to 5am. (And a little bit on the weekend for doing laundry, etc.) Doing laundry with a member of the opposite sex(instead of a car full of other FLO) was about as close to a "date" as you could hope to get most of the time. In regard to curriculum------------- it was almost nonexistent. There were maybe two TV's in the whole program and they were NOT for public usage. They were personal property. It wouldn't have mattered anyway because there was rarely a time you could have just sat and watched a ball game even if you wanted to.

Sorry. I thought someone would get that one right away. *Sigh* NEXT!

Fast forward to approx. 7:40 for the tongues sequence. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD2Hyiitpys