Song Of The Day: April 8, 2018

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on April 8, 2018

Thought I’d close out Randy Newman Week with an illustration as to how demagogues operate.  BTW, didja know that Huey Long built his own full-scale replica of the White House down in Baton Rouge? Now you do:

 

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  1. Alby says:
    April 9, 2018 at 2:40 pm

    I meant to do this yesterday, but Newman also addressed how populist demagogues get elected — their voters get sick of being ignored:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGs2iLoDUYE

    The short version, for those who don’t know the history: New Orleans businessmen, fearing for the city, blew up the levee to the north. The city was spared; 400,000 rural folks were displaced. Yep, that’ll get a populist elected.

  2. Alby says:
    April 9, 2018 at 3:07 pm

    Also, too, we managed to spend a week on Randy Newman, on a political blog, without discussing his masterpiece.

    If there’s a better cover of it than Etta James’, I haven’t heard it. She was on this in 1973, the year after it came out.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwj1GJXkNm8

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