Posts Tagged ‘Elvis Presley’
“The sound must seem an echo to the sense”*…
As devices once common fall out of use, we stop hearing the sounds that they made…
“Conserve the sound” is an online archive for disappearing sounds. The sounds of a rotary dial phone, a Walkman, an analog typewriter, a pay phone, a 56k modem, a nuclear power plant or even a mobile phone keyboard have partly disappeared or are just disappearing from everyday life. In addition, people have their say in text and video interviews and deepen their view into the world of disappearing sounds…”
The signature sounds of the items above and so many more: “Conserve the sound,” a project of CHUNDERKSEN.
Apposite: “Google Translate for the zoo? How humans might talk to animals,” a review of Karen Bakker‘s The Sounds of Life.
And. of course, 32 Sounds.
* Alexander Pope
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As we listen in, we might recall that it was on this date in 1986, in Cleveland, that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted it’s first class of members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Alan Freed, John Hammond, Buddy Holly, Robert Johnson, Jerry Lee Lewis, San Phillips, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Jimmie Rodgers, and Jimmy Yancey. The I. M. Pei designed museum opened on June 7, 1993.
As we prepare for Holiday travel…
“Pilots and co-pilots on many airlines are required to eat different meals to minimize the effects of food poisoning if it should occur…” Says it all.
[TotH to DoobyBrain]
As we unwrap the food that we carried on, we might recall that it was on this date in 1970 that The President met The King: Richard M. Nixon welcomed Elvis Presley into the Oval Office. Two days after meeting Vice President Spiro Agnew in Palm Springs, Presley flew to D.C., and headed unannounced to the White House (with two bodyguards), where he presented the Marine guard with a hand-written letter to Nixon offering his services in the War on Drugs. The leatherneck got permission to admit The King, but having recognized him, apparently didn’t search him: on meeting Nixon, Presley pulled out an antique Colt .45 which he presented to the President as a token of his commitment to the cause. Some weeks later, Nixon offered Presley an official position in the Administration’s anti-drug campaign.
Six and a half years later, Presley died of heart failure, attributed by the coroner’s report to “undetermined causes.” It’s widely believed, however, that his death was caused by a lethal mix of a variety of prescription drugs and obesity.
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