I have heard of her but I'm not sure she's ever been so mega-successful that I could name one of her songs. I think I heard a poppy one a few years ago and felt it was so-so. Still, an enjoyable bit of marketing I guess.

I did karoake once in Cyprus. After 18 southern comfort and cokes. It was not pretty.


>> ^Sagemind:

Jewel Kilcher (born May 23, 1974), professionally known simply as Jewel, is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actress, and poet. She has received three Grammy Award nominations and has sold twenty-seven million albums worldwide, and almost twenty million in the United States alone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_%28singer%29
Jewel's Official website: http://www.jeweljk.com/
Cheers!
>> ^shogunkai:
yarly
>> ^Sagemind:
Really? - REALLY?
>> ^shogunkai:
Who is Jewel?

Jewel Kilcher (born May 23, 1974), professionally known simply as Jewel, is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actress, and poet. She has received three Grammy Award nominations and has sold twenty-seven million albums worldwide, and almost twenty million in the United States alone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_%28singer%29

Jewel's Official website: http://www.jeweljk.com/

Cheers!

>> ^shogunkai:

yarly
>> ^Sagemind:
Really? - REALLY?
>> ^shogunkai:
Who is Jewel?

I had this exact reaction to a black light poster in 1974.

The first concert I went to. 1974 at Portland Intrnational Speedway. Bachman-Turner Overdrive was the headliner, But Areosmith was up first and stole the show. They came out and rocked non stop their whole set, I liked them before, and have been a big fan ever since.
On a side note: A band called Journey was the warm-up, They got shouted off the stage with"BTO..BTO" and "AREOSMITH!!!" over and over. I thought they really sucked ass. Turns out they really do . oh sherry..:/

Thanks!

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Nice post. This is my kind of music.

>> ^shuac:

You know that Black Belt Jones is one baaaad mutha...


SHUT YOUR MOUTH!

In the late fall of 1974, at some point Jon Voight had sex with Marcheline Bertrand.

This is about the only contribution to humanity I can come up with.

Context via Neatorama!

The man singing is Edward Hill, also known as Eduard Khil’, or, better yet, [Cyrillic redacted -- ed.]. According to his Russian Wikipedia page, Hill was born in Smolensk in 1934, and finished his studies at the Leningrad Conservatory in 1960. By 1974 he had been named a People’s Artist of the USSR, and in 1981 he was awarded the Order of the Friendship of Peoples. He is best known for his interpretations of the songs of the Soviet composer, Arkadii Ostrovskii. As for the peculiar name, I could find no information, but imagine that he is descended from the English elite that had established itself in western Russian cities by the 17th century. He is not a defector of the Lee Harvey Oswald generation. He is entirely Russian.

The song he is interpreting, “I Am So Happy to Finally Be Back Home,” is an Ostrovskii composition, and it is meant to be sung in the vokaliz style, that is to say sung, but without words. I have seen a number of comments online, ever since a flurry of interest in Hill began just a few days ago, to the effect that this routine must have been meant as a critique of Soviet censorship, but in fact vokaliz was a well established genre, one that seems close in certain respects to pantomime.

Context via Neatorama!

The man singing is Edward Hill, also known as Eduard Khil’, or, better yet, [Cyrillic redacted -- ed.]. According to his Russian Wikipedia page, Hill was born in Smolensk in 1934, and finished his studies at the Leningrad Conservatory in 1960. By 1974 he had been named a People’s Artist of the USSR, and in 1981 he was awarded the Order of the Friendship of Peoples. He is best known for his interpretations of the songs of the Soviet composer, Arkadii Ostrovskii. As for the peculiar name, I could find no information, but imagine that he is descended from the English elite that had established itself in western Russian cities by the 17th century. He is not a defector of the Lee Harvey Oswald generation. He is entirely Russian.

The song he is interpreting, “I Am So Happy to Finally Be Back Home,” is an Ostrovskii composition, and it is meant to be sung in the vokaliz style, that is to say sung, but without words. I have seen a number of comments online, ever since a flurry of interest in Hill began just a few days ago, to the effect that this routine must have been meant as a critique of Soviet censorship, but in fact vokaliz was a well established genre, one that seems close in certain respects to pantomime.

I think this was from 1974.

Name: Tyler
Birth: 3/28/1974

From: A suburb of Toledo, Ohio
Current: Los Angeles, California

Background: Artist in video games for a while, took some time off after the company I was working at was failing and I had released only 2 crappy games out of about 7 that I worked on. That ended up being like 5 years and counting. Oops! Living as frugally as possible off of a small trust while procrastinating to my doom, largely thanks to Videosift. Jack of all trades nerd which gives me the knowledge to hold conversations with, or make fun of bigger nerds while maintaining the appearance of a somewhat normal social life. Spend a lot of time at trance and house clubs in LA, usually intoxicated. That's about it.

>> ^rougy:
>> ^chilaxe:
>> ^rougy:
^ Not following that, Chilaxe.
Real wages have fallen significantly for the working class since 1973.

1. It doesn't seem intellectually honest for public intellectuals to not speak of compensation, and instead speak only of the part of compensation that shows what we wanted to hear.

Although wages have fallen behind inflation for over a generation now, other nonwage components of worker compensation, particularly health care benefits, have grown more quickly than inflation. The graph below shows that in fact total compensation shows a steady long-term upward trend relative to inflation that has if anything accelerated in recent years. [Total compensation is up around 50% since 1974.] http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2005/12/declining_real.html

I'll take a 50% raise any day, even if I prefer to spend that money mostly on better medical treatment.
2. It doesn't seem intellectually honest for public intellectuals to NOT calculate the changes for the working class since 1973; we're instead making calculations that are significantly about imported low-wage workers. Society deciding to give folks from abroad opportunities is great, and their standard of living has increased relative to THEIR country of origin in 1973, but to keep our minds as adapted to reality as we can get, we need to be committed to statistical honesty .

Not only have wages fallen in "real" terms, but compensation--such as health care, vacation time, average expected raises, employment security, and retirement benefits--have all been cut across the board, slashed as if by a psychopath.
By no significant measure have things gotten better for the working class in the past forty years.
But things have gotten significantly, and measurably, much better for the upper class.
"The average compensation of a CEO in 1980 was about 40 times that of the average worker in his company. Today it is more than 500 times! If your pay had kept up with his, you would be making more than $200,000 this year."
(source)


Thank you for the discussion, but I don't understand what you mean. Compensation appears to be up 50%.

...Nonwage components of worker compensation, particularly health care benefits, have grown more quickly than inflation. The graph below shows that in fact total compensation shows a steady long-term upward trend relative to inflation that has if anything accelerated in recent years. [Total compensation is up around 50% since 1974.] http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2005/12/declining_real.html

>> ^chilaxe:
>> ^rougy:
^ Not following that, Chilaxe.
Real wages have fallen significantly for the working class since 1973.

1. It doesn't seem intellectually honest for public intellectuals to not speak of compensation, and instead speak only of the part of compensation that shows what we wanted to hear.

Although wages have fallen behind inflation for over a generation now, other nonwage components of worker compensation, particularly health care benefits, have grown more quickly than inflation. The graph below shows that in fact total compensation shows a steady long-term upward trend relative to inflation that has if anything accelerated in recent years. [Total compensation is up around 50% since 1974.] http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2005/12/declining_real.html

I'll take a 50% raise any day, even if I prefer to spend that money mostly on better medical treatment.
2. It doesn't seem intellectually honest for public intellectuals to NOT calculate the changes for the working class since 1973; we're instead making calculations that are significantly about imported low-wage workers. Society deciding to give folks from abroad opportunities is great, and their standard of living has increased relative to THEIR country of origin in 1973, but to keep our minds as adapted to reality as we can get, we need to be committed to statistical honesty .


Not only have wages fallen in "real" terms, but compensation--such as health care, vacation time, average expected raises, employment security, and retirement benefits--have all been cut across the board, slashed as if by a psychopath.

By no significant measure have things gotten better for the working class in the past forty years.

But things have gotten significantly, and measurably, much better for the upper class.

"The average compensation of a CEO in 1980 was about 40 times that of the average worker in his company. Today it is more than 500 times! If your pay had kept up with his, you would be making more than $200,000 this year."
(source)

>> ^rougy:
^ Not following that, Chilaxe.
Real wages have fallen significantly for the working class since 1973.


1. It doesn't seem intellectually honest for public intellectuals to not speak of compensation, and instead speak only of the part of compensation that shows what we wanted to hear.

Although wages have fallen behind inflation for over a generation now, other nonwage components of worker compensation, particularly health care benefits, have grown more quickly than inflation. The graph below shows that in fact total compensation shows a steady long-term upward trend relative to inflation that has if anything accelerated in recent years. [Total compensation is up around 50% since 1974.] http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2005/12/declining_real.html

I'll take a 50% raise any day, even if I prefer to spend that money mostly on better medical treatment.

2. It doesn't seem intellectually honest for public intellectuals to NOT calculate the changes for the working class since 1973; we're instead making calculations that are significantly about imported low-wage workers. Society deciding to give folks from abroad opportunities is great, and their standard of living has increased relative to THEIR country of origin in 1973, but to keep our minds as adapted to reality as we can get, we need to be committed to statistical honesty .

Yay for lysdexia, ty.>> ^Sarzy:
Classic. Oh, and FYI, this is from 1947, not 1974.