Cartoons Friday!

A dozen political shots, plus music by Sam Cooke, Muhammad Ali and the Sir Douglas Quintet.

With the four nights of the epic Ken Burns take on Muhammad Ali this week, not to mention One Night in Miami, here’s the boxer in his prime with the great Sam Cooke, unveiling a little song they had just recorded (Sam would be dead within months). Below that, after his stunning win over Sonny Liston, Ali calls Sam into the ring. Enjoy, then subscribe, it’s still free.

Cry Day, In Their Minds

Film

Reminder that that my doc, Atomic Cover-up, is currently streaming at four film festivals (Boston, Oakland, Global Peace and Breck), with four more coming, links here.

Song Pick of the Day

Okay, get up and dance. 1965 was so great, “She’s About a Mover” by Sir Doug, Augie and gang was only maybe the 50th best song that year. Here with Beatles cuts and introduced by Trini Lopez on wacky set….Enjoy….

Greg Mitchell is the author of a dozen books, including the bestseller The Tunnels, the current The Beginning or the End, and The Campaign of the Century, which was recently picked by the Wall St. Journal as one of five greatest books ever about an election. For all of the 1970s he was the #2 editor at the legendary Crawdaddy. Later he won more than a dozen awards as editor of Editor & Publisher magazine. He recently co-produced a film about Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and now has written and directed his first feature, Atomic Cover-up, which will have its American premiere at a festival this spring.