quarta-feira, 24 de dezembro de 2014

Simon and Garfunkel - 7 O'Clock News/Silent Night

Em mais um regresso ao baú das memórias vamos de encontro a Simon and Garfunkel, referência obrigatória na música popular dos anos 60. Em 1966 gravam o álbum "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme", cuja faixa final é "7 O'Clock News/Silent Night".




Em 1970 o programa "Em Órbita", passou todos dias, do mês de Dezembro, este tema, e claro marcou-me para sempre.
Quando foi gravado era um protesto à guerra do Vietname, hoje mantém-se actual como protesto a todas as guerras
Ficamos pois com esta bela canção de Natal.


Simon and Garfunkel - 7 O'Clock News/Silent Night

(O texto lido é um “7 O'Clock News” ficcionado com as notícias de 3 de Agosto de 1966, ei-lo:

 This is the early evening edition of the news. The recent fight in the House of Representatives was over the open housing section of the Civil Rights Bill. Brought traditional enemies together but it left the defenders of the measure without the votes of their strongest supporters. President Johnson originally proposed an outright ban covering discrimination by everyone for every type of housing, but it had no chance from the start and everyone in Congress knew it. A compromise was painfully worked out in the House Judiciary Committee.

In Los Angeles today comedian Lenny Bruce died of what was believed to be an overdose of narcotics. Bruce was 42 years old.

Dr. Martin Luther King says he does not intend to cancel plans for an open housing march sunday into the Chicago suburb of Cicero. Cook county sheriff Richard Ogleby asked King to call off the march and the police in Cicero said they would ask the National Guard to be called out if it is held. King, now in Atlanta, Georgia, plans to return to Chicago tuesday.

In Chicago, Richard Speck, accused murderer of nine student nurses, was brought before a grand jury today for indictment. The nurses were found stabbed an strangled in their Chicago apartment.

In Washington the atmosphere was tense today as a special subcommittee of the House committee on un-american activities continued its probe into anti-Vietnam war protests. Demonstrators were forcibly evicted from the hearings when they began chanting anti-war slogans.
Former vice-president Richard Nixon says that unless there is a substantial increase in the present war effort in Vietnam, the U.S. should look forward to five more years of war. In a speech before the Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in New York, Nixon also said opposition to the war in this country is the greatest single weapon working against the U.S.

That's the 7 o' clock edition of the news, Good Night.)

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