An older gentleman with white hair and always dressed in a white suit is summoned to various households in order to save housewives from their domestically challenged spouses. In the 1960s, he was known as the "Man From _____?_____"
Released in October 1978, this song was ranked #1 in VH1's list of the 100 greatest dance songs in 2000, and in 2016 the Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Recording Registry. What is the title of this February 1980 Grammy-winning hit?
"I Will Survive" is a hit song first performed by American singer Gloria Gaynor, released in October 1978. It was written by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris. A top-selling song after its initial release, it sold 14 million copies worldwide (within first two years of release alone, not counting the numerous re-recordings and 200+ cover versions released in 20+ different languages world-wide) and has remained a popular disco anthem, as well as being certified platinum by the RIAA.
The song's lyrics describe the narrator's discovery of personal strength following an initially devastating breakup. It received heavy airplay in 1979, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and on the UK Singles Chart on consecutive weeks. The song is also frequently recalled as a symbol of female empowerment. In 2016, the Library of Congress deemed Gaynor's original recording to be "culturally, historically, or artistically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Recording Registry.
The song received the Grammy Award for Best Disco Recording in 1980, the only year the award was given. It is ranked #492 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", and ranked at #97 on Billboard magazine's "All-Time Hot 100". In 2000, the song was ranked #1 in VH1's list of the 100 greatest dance songs.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
I Will Survive ~Gloria Gaynor.
Daniel in The City said:
I Will Survive
Alan J answered:
I Will Survive.
Randall wrote:
I Will Survive
zorch responded:
I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor.
Dave replied:
I Will Survive. DJ's must have played the shit out of this song in the '80's discos. The record company didn't know what they had and in 1978, released I Will Survive on the b side on the non-hit Substitute single from Gloria's Love Tracks album. Incredulous radio DJ Jack King of Boston started playing the flip side instead and loudly promoted the song, and the record company eventually corrected the error and flipped them, putting the good song as the a side. I Will Survive nailed down the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1979. First mainstream hit for Gloria Gaynor (winning her the 1980 Grammy for Best Disco Recording), and she's still active today at age 76.
Deborah wrote:
Initial searches show a couple different songs so I'm going with Sister Sledge's "We Are Family". just because.
Some rain showers blew through yesterday, and more promised today. Just enough to keep the garden too wet for planting, and the streets too wet for a bike ride. Perhaps today will be on the sunnier side.
David of Moon Valley said:
i'll go with Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive"…and these days?! Hoo boy…all of the the Very Best to all of you out in BartLand….especially to you Marty…thanks for helping to keep us informed and outraged…..with a sense of humor….
and if I may…we watched Sea Gypsies last night on Amazon video…we would highly recommend it! and talk about putting the world into perspective long about now…a crew of 16 sails a 120ft hand-built sailing ketch, with no insurance and on a shoe-string budget, from New Zealand to Patagonia with a stop in Antarctica along the way…shot in HD with a well-selected soundtrack, they manage to make one a part of their crew and you get a sense of what this voyage was like….watch it in the dark with the sound up if you can, you will feel the iciness of the water, the wind in the sails, and the precariousness of the voyage….a very well-spent
Cal in Vermont replied:
What A Fool Believes. Now fools will believe anything at all. And somehow win high office.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
gloria Gaynor - I will survive
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) said:
I will survive by Gloria Gaynor. Appropriate.
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• Even after releasing the single "It's Like That" in March of 1983, the members of the rap group Run-D.M.C. weren't sure that their music career would continue, so they enrolled in college. Jay "Jam Master Jay" Mizell later explained, "Everyone said rap was a fad. I knew death wasn't a fad, so I majored in mortuary science."
• Ludwig van Beethoven died during a tremendous thunderstorm. A lightning bolt flashed across Vienna at 5:45 p.m. on March 26, 1827, and thunder rocked the air. Lying on his deathbed, Beethoven opened his eyes, clenched his fist, shook it at the heavens, and died.
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• At age 13, William F. Buckley was sent to an English boarding school, where his piano teacher offered to teach him the first movement of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata." However, William's old piano teacher had warned him that playing the "Moonlight Sonata" before one was ready was simply wrong; therefore, he wrote her for permission to learn to play its first movement. Quickly, he received a letter from her in reply, and she did not give him permission to learn the first movement. She explained that if one was unable to learn the difficult third movement, and then one should not learn the first movement. She also explained that the first movement required a "maturity" that William was too young to have acquired. Mr. Buckley writes that this letter helped teach him that "good music is a very serious business."
• Trey Reely, the band director of Paragould High School in Paragould, Arkansas, follows a tradition of punishing students by telling them to get a pinecone when they do something wrong. Pine trees line the band practice field, and the naughty student runs to the side of the field, picks up a pinecone, and then brings it back. Once, Mr. Reely told the band that he would not keep them late one practice, but he did keep them late; therefore, after practice his students made him get a pinecone.
• A mother once asked George Bernard Shaw what musical instrument her son should learn to play, adding that she hoped that Shaw could specify an instrument which would save her the discomfort of the early learning stage during which her son would not have mastered the instrument. Shaw suggested that her son learn to play the bagpipes, saying they sound exactly the same whether or not the musician knows how to play them.
• As a student, comic singer Anna Russell was so bored with her history lessons that she transformed her notes into jingles, set them to music, and began singing them. When other students found out what she was doing, they also asked for copies of her jingles, and soon the jingles were being sung all over the school. That year's graduating class was noisy, but it achieved the school's all-time high scores in history.
• Woody Allen largely taught himself how to play jazz trumpet by listening to and imitating the records of jazz great George Lewis. After Mr. Allen recorded the soundtrack for his movie Sleeper with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the New Orleans Funeral and Ragtime Orchestra, trombonist Jim Robinson said to him, "Did anyone ever tell you that you sound like my friend George Lewis?"
• When she was young, Mariah Carey had an unsupportive teacher. Mariah told her teacher that she wanted to be a singer when she grew up, and the teacher snapped, "There are millions of people out there who can sing. What makes you any different? Don't get your hopes up." Fortunately, her mother told her to follow her dreams, and Ms. Carey recorded five Number One hits in a row.
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'Young Sheldon', followed by another RERUN'Young Sheldon', then a RERUN'Mom', followed by a RERUN'The Neighborhood', then a RERUN'FBI: Most Wanted'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 9/17/19) are Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Barry Williams, Maureen McCormick, Christopher Knight, Eve Plumb, Mike Lookinland, and Susan Olsen.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 10/22/19) are Joel Edgerton, Harry Connick Jr., and Noah Cyrus.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Superstore', followed by a FRESH'Brooklyn Nine-Nine', then a FRESH'Indebted', followed by another FRESH'Indebted', then a FRESH'L&O: SVU'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Alec Baldwin and Best of Fallon.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (R 9/11/19) are Jennifer Lopez, Michael Sheen, Mika, and Terri Lyne Carrington.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 12/12/19) is Deepak Chopra.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Station 19', followed by a FRESH'Grey's Anatomy', then a FRESH'A Million Little Things'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 3/11/20) are David Spade, Eiza González, and Grace VanderWaal.
The CW offers a FRESH'Katy Keene', followed by a FRESH'Legacies'.
Faux has a FRESH'Last Man Standing', followed by a FRESH'Outmatched', then a FRESH'Deputy'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: CI', followed by another old 'L&O: CI'.
A&E has 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Live PD: Wanted', followed by a FRESH'60 Days In'.
AMC offers the movie 'Rambo: First Blood Part II', followed by the movie 'Gone In 60 Seconds', then the movie 'Under Siege'.
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[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Unification II
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - A Matter of Time
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - New Ground
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Hero Worship
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Violations
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Masterpiece Society
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Conundrum
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Power Play
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Ethics
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Outcast
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Cause and Effect
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The First Duty
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Cost of Living
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Perfect Mate
[8:00PM] GLADIATOR
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[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Cause and Effect
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Bravo has 'Below Deck', another 'Below Deck', 'Top Chef', followed by a FRESH'Top Chef', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
FX has the movie 'The Fate Of The Furious', followed by the movie 'Jurassic World', then a FRESH'Better Things', and 'Breeders'.
History has 'Swamp People', another 'Swamp People', followed by a FRESH'Swamp People', then a FRESH'Swamp People: Serpent Invasion'.
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[6:15A] The Devil's Rejects
[8:45A] The Mist
[11:30A] Anaconda
[1:30P] Predator 2
[4:00P] Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
[6:00P] AVP: Alien vs. Predator
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[3:30A] Brockmire - Three Year Contract
[4:00A] Year of the Rabbit - Framed Rabbit
[4:33A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Rainy Day
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[8:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
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[9:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:30am] Sleepless in Seattle
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[5:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:30am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Harry Potter & The Chamber Of Secrets', followed by the movie 'Harry Potter & The Prisoner Of Azkaban'.
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On a RERUNConan (from 12/10/19) are Valerie Tosi and Rory Scovel.
With the new coronavirus going around, it's not the best idea to stay at the Y.M.C.A., but that didn't prevent the Library of Congress from inducting the signature tune from Village People into the National Recording Registry.
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has named "Y.M.C.A." and 24 other aural treasures as worthy of preservation this year, picked because of their cultural, historical and aesthetic importance to the USA's recorded sound heritage, it was announced Wednesday.
Also making the playlist are such albums as Cheap Trick at Budokan, a classic live import; Tina Turner's liberating Private Dancer; The Chronic, the seminal hip-hop effort from Dr. Dre; the original Broadway cast recording of Fiddler on the Roof; Dusty in Memphis,from Dusty Springfield; Selena's Tejano breakthrough Ven Conmigo; Concert in the Garden, from jazz composer Maria Schneider; and Colin Currie's kinetic Percussion Concerto, the newest recording named.
Song selections include Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman"; Whitney Houston's rendition of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You"; "Me and My Chauffeur Blues," from country blues icon Memphis Minnie; "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh," the sleepaway-camp song from comedian Allan Sherman; 21 tunes performed by that great warbler, Mister Rogers; and a tune whose title seems to have particular relevance today, Eddy Arnold's "Make the World Go Away."
But wait, there's more: Russ Hodges' call of Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'Round the World," which gave the New York Giants the 1951 National League Pennant with one swing of the bat; Puccini's Tosca, performed by opera great Maria Callas; "Whispering," a huge hit from Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra in 1920; songs written in the 12th century; hours of traditional Afghan music; a 1939 horror radio program; and the announcement of the assassination of President Kennedy made by a Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor during a live performance.
The lights in late night continue to come back on. CBS' The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the first late-night show to start daily online videos following the industry-wide production shutdown, is the first broadcast late-night talker to resume airing original episodes starting on Monday, March 30. Colbert just made the announcement on Twitter.
"I'm staying at home and so is everybody who works for me, but thanks to some amazing work by my staff and the CBS broadcasting folks, we will be back on Monday with new Late Shows," he wrote. "Until then-Stay Strong!"
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert aired a fresh, shot-from-home monologue at the top of repeats on television Monday-Wednesday last week before the program went on planned 10-day hiatus for what was supposed to be March Madness coverage on CBS before the NCAA basketball tournament was canceled because of the growing health crisis. The monologues stayed close to Colbert's in-studio openers with sharp political humor and extensive use of video clips and graphics.
During the break, conversations started about The Late Show returning with full, hourlong original episodes featuring Colbert, his staff and his crew working remotely from home, and the logistics necessary to make that happen. (Ironically, Colbert's longtime Twitter handle is @StephenAtHome.)
HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and Real Time with Bill Maher have set return dates for new episodes as the coronavirus health crisis continues.
Last Week Tonight will air a new episode this Sunday, March 29 at 11 PM, and Real Time with come back Friday, April 3 at 10 PM. Both hosts will be taping the shows from their homes.
The two HBO shows, along with all other late-night talkers, halted production due to the coronavirus pandemic after the March 13-15 airings.
Unlike other late-night shows, which returned almost immediately with online videos before migrating to television, Last Week Tonight and Real Time had stayed quiet for the past 10 days.
The two HBO series are joining Comedy Central's The Daily Show, which started airing new episodes generated from home Monday. TBS' Full Frontal With Samantha Bee and Conan also announced that they would resume airing original episodes shot in home environment.
James Corden is to present a primetime Late Late Show special after production on the CBS talkshow was shut down earlier this month due to the coronavirus crisis.
The entertainer is hosting Homefest: James Corden's Late Late Show Special on Monday March 30 at 10pm. It will feature the Brit in his garage, chatting with stars including David Blaine and Will Ferrell as well as musical performance by K-Pop sensations BTS from South Korea, Andrea Bocelli in Italy, Dua Lipa in London, and Billie Eilish with Finneas and John Legend in Los Angeles.
All of the guests will be featured from the safety of their homes as the Coronavirus epidemic continues.
Corden had been the only late-night show host not posting videos from his home, apart from an emotional appearance to introduce a repeat of his first ever performance on the fifth anniversary of the show. The likes of Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert have also been producing home-based clips over the last week.
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to conduct a full environmental review of the Dakota Access pipeline, nearly three years after it began carrying oil despite protests by people who gathered in North Dakota for more than a year.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg wrote that the easement approval for the pipeline remains "highly controversial" under federal environmental law, and a more extensive review is necessary than the environmental assessment that was done.
Standing Rock Chairman Mike Faith called it a "significant legal win" and said it's humbling that the protests continue to "inspire national conversations" about the environment.
"Perhaps in the wake of this court ruling the federal government will begin to catch on, too, starting by actually listening to us when we voice our concerns," Faith said in a statement.
Ministers of the G7 - the "Group of 7" intergovernmental economic group including the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan - haven't been able to issue a joint statement because the US insists on calling the coronavirus the "Wuhan Virus."
The group was scheduled to meet in Pittsburgh this week, but cancelled its summit due to the coronavirus pandemic. Rather than cancel outright, the organisation planned to hold a four hour video conference on Wednesday, but US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (R-Dominionist)'s insistence on calling the coronavirus the "Wuhan Virus" caused issues for the group.
Germany newspaper Der Spiegel reported the other members of the G7 wanted to use the term 'Covid-19,' which is the term the World Health Organisation uses.
Apparently discussion about the virus at-all has been an issue for the group. France suggested the organisation discuss the virus during its meeting, while Mr Pompeo refused. The State Department argued that heads of state had already discussed and dealt with the issue, so the organisation shouldn't make a statement.
He eventually gave in to pressure from the other ministers and agreed to discuss the virus, but then insisted it be called the "Wuhan Virus."
A woman called Matilda McCrear has been identified as the last known survivor of the transatlantic slave trade.
Dr Hannah Durkin of Newcastle University discovered Matilda to be the latest survivor of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to arrive in the US in 1860.
Ms McCrear died in 1940, aged either 81 or 82, three years after Sally 'Redoshi' Smith, who was previously understood to be the last survivor of the slave ship.
Her 83-year-old grandson, Johnny Crear, had no idea about his grandmother's history until it was discovered by Dr Durkin.
Matilda was captured by slave traders in West Africa when she was just two years old, and was transported to the US with her mother Gracie, her three elder sisters and the man who would go on to be her stepfather.
An NPR station in Seattle said that it no longer will carry live coverage of President Donald Trump (R-Liar)'s coronavirus briefings because of concerns that they feature unchecked misleading or false information.
"KUOW is monitoring White House briefings for the latest news on the coronavirus - and we will continue to share all news relevant to Washington State with our listeners," the station tweeted. "However, we will not be airing the briefings live due
Most recently, Trump has called for lifting of social distancing guidelines in the near future, perhaps by Easter, even though public health professionals are still grappling with the spread of the virus. He also has made false claims about the availability of tests, the timeline for finding a vaccine and the potential benefits of a treatment that includes the ingredient chloroquine. While there is some promising study of its potential use, it has not it has not been approved for treatment. NBC News reported on one Arizona man who died after ingesting chloroquine phosphate, and his wife said that they learned about its use after watching a briefing.
Deputy White House Press Secretary Judd Deere (R-Sock Puppet) criticized the channels for the decision as"disgraceful," but an MSNBC spokesperson said that "after airing the press conference for over an hour we cut away because the information no longer appeared to be valuable to the important ongoing discussion around public health." A spokeswoman for CNN said, "If the White House wants to ask for time on the network, they should make an official request. Otherwise we will make our own editorial decisions."
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