Cartoons Friday, Plus: John & Yoko Film Debuts
And Bobby Darin on Broadway, "Trade Wars" movies and Tim Hardin.
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The new John Lennon/Yoko doc “One to One” opens today, with largely unseen footage from that 1972 benefit concert and etc. New York Times with a kind of mixed review today. Here’s the first video from it released, with John and band, sans Yoko, doing rocking “Well Well Well.”
From just a few years earlier: Never was a big Bobby Darin fan, though appreciated “Splish Splash” as a boy and his late-1960s turn to semi-folk protest. Now there’s a big Broadway play coming, starring the delightful King from the original “Hamilton,” Jonathan Groff. Bobby helped bring one of my favorites, Tim Hardin, to brief national prominence with his hit cover of “If I Were a Carpenter,” but I liked even his not as well known version of one of Tim’s best, “The Lady Came from Baltimore” (fun fact: Tim’s wife was named Susan Morss) here:
Moving right along, you may enjoy this collection of mock “Trade War Films” coming to TCM, including “The Thin Red Plunging Line.” Actually they could have picked any number of other films, such as “America: Home Alone,” “Trading Stasis” or “Gone With the Windbag.” Maybe “Don Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Next.” Or “No Country For Old Men (or Women).”
Today’s quote from Sen. Murphy:
Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
Loons & Toons
Bill Bramhall:
Tjeerd Royaards:
frightenong. We begin to look like Argentina.
Tim Hardin's only single to make the charts, "Sing A Simple Song Of Freedom," was written by Bobby Darin. Hardin was signed to Darin's publishing company.