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...Disco didn't really cross over until '77, when the BeeGees made it safe for the multititudes with the breakout tracks on "Saturday Night Fever". But by '76, here's what they were asking for in the dance clubs: Vickie Sue Robinson's "Turn the Beat Around"; Silver Convention's "Get Up and Boogie"; Donna Summer's "Love Trilogy" (an LP, and every cut was getting played); The Trammps' "That's Where the Happy People Go"; and the fabulous Andrea True's "More More More" (a tune that will never be removed from my desert-island jukebox...
...This time it was all about authenticity—if we were going to get “The Weakest Link,” we were going to get every last bit of it, even if it meant enduring unpleasant tongue-lashings from that most terrifying of dragonladies, Anne Robinson. The effect, of course, is wonderfully comical. Robinson’s sneers, biting barbs, and unmerciful teasing seems to suggest that we’re back to pre-1776 America (Oh, this is totally random, but I once heard of a porn movie called Seventeen-Seventy-Sex: The Declaration...
...Koren Robinson...
...Players: Leonard Davis, OT, Texas Deuce McAllister, RB, Ole Miss Justin Smith, DE, Missouri Koren Robinson, WR, N.C. State David Terrell, WR, Michigan LaDainian Tomlinson, RB, TCU Michael Vick, QB, Virginia Teach Kenyatta Walker, OT, Florida Gerrard Warren, DT, Florida
Those who point to the history behind these names must realize that the past alone doesn't make something right. Had the Brooklyn Dodgers changed their name to the New York Negroes after Jackie Robinson's signing and the resulting "Negromania" in the stands among converted white fans been enough to keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn, I'd still be both perplexed and offended if the name stuck-despite anyone's best "intentions...