Jay Leno's Jay Walking perhaps?Originally Posted by mrblanche
If I recall correctly, some event cause Joel to be annoyed that so many people today have no idea how we got here and the roots of our current politics.
I remember everything from 1957 on, and I remember having heard about a lot of the things before that. Of course, I used to get stuck with teaching History, too.
I understand what you're saying. Everything becomes a blur in the song, but that's the point. I'm glad this version actually had the words at the bottom because now I want to research the things I hadn't heard of. I don't think of it as an educational song...just a song about what has happened in the past years. And, it really does have a good beat!Originally Posted by binkyhoo
I know of all of the events, as for remembering? Its hard to tell since we watch so much History programs on the TV. As for the song...I will be unpopular and say I did not like it much. I found it rambling insessently and hook laden to my ear. Besides, I like my entertainment uneducational! (If that is a word.) Maybe I am writing stupidly.
I remember when that song came out, the video was played a lot. As for Leno, was he even filling for Carson's absences, yet? I know he was on there at least a couple years before Carson quit.Originally Posted by AddieBee
Jay Leno's Jay Walking perhaps?
Well, some of these references are to sports and I don't follow sports. And I'm not as much up on history as you are and while I know most of what they the song is talking about there are some I still am clueless about about, and I have do to my own research.Originally Posted by strange_wings
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I find it odd that people that have been through at least high school couldn't get these references now.
I'm not "up on history".Originally Posted by calico2222
Well, some of these references are to sports and I don't follow sports. And I'm not as much up on history as you are and while I know most of what they the song is talking about there are some I still am clueless about about, and I have do to my own research.
I've heard of DiMaggio and Mantle, but it's the boxing ones that I don't know anything about because I'm not a big sports fan. I'm not sure what the '55 world series is about, but that another thing I have to research.Originally Posted by strange_wings
I'm not "up on history".As for the sports, I don't even remotely care for any sports and have never followed any sort of history of them, but DiMaggio, Mantle, and the '55 world series have worked into pop culture and get referenced so much that it would be impossible to have never heard of them. That can be said for most of the things mentioned, in fact.
Some probably also remember, but he was married to Marilyn Monroe for a short while. He was jealous of the attention she got, they fought a lot, and the marriage didn't even last a year.Originally Posted by ut0pia
the only one from the sports ones that I've heard of is DiMaggio and that is vaguely, I just know he was a baseball player...