Jessie's Girl Jessie is a friend, Yeah, I know he's been a good friend of mine But lately something's changed It ain't hard to define Jessie's got himself a girl and I want to make her mine And she's watching him with those eyes And she's lovin' him with that body, I just know it! And he's holding her in his arms late, late at night You know I wish that I had Jessie's girl I wish that I had Jessie's girl Where can I find a woman like that? I play along with the charade That doesn't seem to be
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During the 1950’s African American migrated over to the United States to get jobs. Because we lived so close we picked up their style of music and mashed ours with theirs. Rock and Roll was born in the 1950’s by the overlapping of blues and rhythm. During the 1950’s many parents did not allow their children to listen to Rock and Roll because they thought it was going to cause teen rebellion. But because their parents did not want their kids listening to it, it only made them want to listen to it
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the river. The narrator knew it's a big bass because of the splash it made in the river . He also knew it was big because of how it had hit his lure. . The narrator figured it was a old bass because a young one probably wouldn't have known that the rocks were where it was headed to . He also figured it was an old bass because the way it trailed his lure. A reason why he might choose sheila is because
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of this subgenre included Jim Reeves, Jimmy Dean, Johnny Horton, and Eddie Arnold. The grittier counterpart to the Nashville sound movement was the Bakersfield Sound movement. This also originated in the 1950s/1960s, but took on a distinctly more rock and roll sound with guitars and drums. Merle Haggard, Webb Pierce, and Buck Owens were the greatest contributors to the Bakersfield Sound. Buck Owens recorded “Act Naturally” which was re-recorded later by the Beatles and is often called the Baron
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I think it is common knowledge to say that when you enter the lifestyle of an artist, there are one of two areas of which you will exist in: the bright side and the dark side. In the bright side is where artist feel the joy of their craft, blissed in the creative flow they are experiencing. And on the dark side is where reality crashes upon you, leaving only fear and bleakness. One example of the idea of these concepts, arguably, is the timeline of music created by the Beatle. Their songs during
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First of all, Michael Jackson and James Brown were two of the biggest music stars in there era. James Brown was one of the hardest working men in the music industry and it always showed when he came out with new music. People loved James Brown music because it puts them in a good mood. Music is what he loved to do and you could tell by the way he put so much effort and hard work into making music for everyone to listen too. His song “Say It Loud─ I’m Black and I’m Proud” had an impact on the whole
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Modern American music is one of the greatest contribution to the arts in the United States’ history, but it wasn’t developed overnight. The origin story of modern American music, and all of its genres, is a long one filled with tragedy, exploration, and a fusion of cultures. While many of people have a particular genre of music they like more than the others, it’s appalling that they don’t know how these pieces of art were constructed for their enjoyment. Before people can learn about the development
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Most igneous rocks contain the third element on the periodic table, lithium. Discovered in 1817, and in multiple alloys, it is the first metal on the periodic table. It is the least reactive metal when it comes to water, but also the lightest alkali metal. When in its pure form it is soft enough even a butter knife could cut it. Lithium was first discovered in the ore petalite by the chemist Johan Arfvedson in the 1817’s. The mineral petalite has a crimson flame which led Johan to believe that this
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Do what you wanna do! “It’s your thing, do what you want to do! It is Crazy how this quote could truly describe the 1965-1975 era in so many ways. Around this time many things were happening like African American trying to earn true inequality in civil rights movements, free spirited hippie era and the closing of the Vietnam War. Many of those events that happened in that decade has been prolific in are day in age now and the strides in development in our country today. The cultural arts in this
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There are not enough words in the dictionary to explain the impact that you have had on my life. Even since Kindergarten, when we would travel to the fourth grade hallway to sing with your acoustic guitar, you have been one of the greatest role models I could ever possibly ask for. I remember singing that grey squirrel song, or the one where you scared everyone at the end, and countless other silly songs. No matter how crazy they seemed at the time, that was just the beginning of the role that you
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