YouTube Classics, Part Deux

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I just love this video! Many of the greatest singers from the 60s, 70s, and 80s all came together for a common cause. The cause was great but what a precious bit of performance history they left as well. I can't think of any other effort that brought so much talent together for one song. It is a breathtaking list with many of the greatest modern music artists from that time.

And how did Dan Aykroyd get in there?!?! LOL!

Conductor
• Quincy Jones

Soloists (in order of appearance)
• Lionel Richie
• Stevie Wonder
• Paul Simon
• Kenny Rogers
• James Ingram
• Tina Turner
• Billy Joel
• Michael Jackson
• Diana Ross
• Dionne Warwick
• Willie Nelson
• Al Jarreau
• Bruce Springsteen
• Kenny Loggins
• Steve Perry
• Daryl Hall
• Huey Lewis
• Cyndi Lauper
• Kim Carnes
• Bob Dylan
• Ray Charles

Chorus (alphabetically)
• Dan Aykroyd
• Harry Belafonte
• Lindsey Buckingham
• Mario Cipollina (of Huey Lewis and the News)
• Johnny Colla (of Huey Lewis and the News)
• Sheila E.
• Bob Geldof
• Bill Gibson (of Huey Lewis and the News)
• Chris Hayes (of Huey Lewis and the News)
• Sean Hopper (of Huey Lewis and the News)
• Jackie Jackson
• La Toya Jackson
• Marlon Jackson
• Randy Jackson
• Tito Jackson
• Waylon Jennings
• Bette Midler
• John Oates
• Jeffrey Osborne
• Anita Pointer (of The Pointer Sisters)
• June Pointer (of The Pointer Sisters)
• Ruth Pointer (of The Pointer Sisters)
• Smokey Robinson

Instrument players
• John Barnes – keyboards & arrangement
• David Paich – synthesizers
• Michael Boddicker – synthesizers, programming
• Ian Underwood - synthesizers, programming
• Paulinho da Costa – percussion
• Louis Johnson – synth bass
• Michael Omartian – keyboards
• Greg Phillinganes – keyboards
• John Robinson – drums

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_the_World

 

[Jarvis323]

Plasma Piano

 

[pinball1970]

Plasma Piano

Physics guys are nuts. Love it!

 

[DennisN]

More British humor (@pinball1970 and others)...

I saw a couple of my favorite sketches by Mitchell & Webb again. I probably have posted some of them before elsewhere on the forum a long time ago.

But I felt like sharing them here since I think they are hilarious .

Enjoy...!

"Who's the captain?" (four short ones)


"Evil Vicar"


"Are we the baddies?"


"Moon landing conspiracy"


...and...

"Stalin vs Hitler (arguing the moral toss)"

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[nsaspook]

 

[BillTre]

I just blundered upon this somewhere. Its pretty good.
Now you will know where IKEA came from.

 

[pinball1970]

I just blundered upon this somewhere. Its pretty good.
Now you will know where IKEA came from.

No one knows anything about Sweden

I know! I mean where even is it?

 

[nsaspook]

 

[hmmm27]

Apologies for insensitivity but the funniest part was the tire - not satisfied with causing the car to jump and flip ten feet in the air - comes around and hits it in the arse after it lands.

 

[Swamp Thing]

 

[Rive]

Anything can be science

 

[BillTre]

This guy is smooth:

 

[Swamp Thing]

This guy is smooth:

A baby crawls into a bar...

 

[Hornbein]

No one knows anything about Sweden

I know! I mean where even is it?

There is no such place. It's all a hoax to get you to buy their furniture. Like Häagen-Dazs® ice cream. That's what started it, when that was such a hit.

 

[BillTre]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Wait for it, wait...wait...



I had never considered that a typical umbrella [with a relatively pointed tip] makes a nice little lightning rod.

 

[nsaspook]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The new Sphere in Las Vegas.

 

[nsaspook]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Whhhhhhaaaaaaaaattttt?



One of the comments made me snort
"GET OFF YOUR HIGH HORSE FINLAND!"

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

LMAO!



Not what you would call a "big picture" person.

And not exactly in line with the Brookings Report. LOL!
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015003453936&view=1up&seq=5

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The Avian Guidance System

 

[Ivan Seeking]

LMAO!



Not what you would call a "big picture" person.

And not exactly in line with the Brookings Report. LOL!
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015003453936&view=1up&seq=5

PS. The Brookings Report {Produced by the Brookings Institute for NASA in 1961] mentioned the potential consequences were we to contact an alien race by radio telescope, and possibly eventually through a direct encounter. The report warns that historically, when relatively highly advanced civilizations come into contact with far less advanced ones, the less advanced societies are radically affected. The concerns about such an encounter with a highly advanced species are profound.

So it is quite funny to hear this young woman express her indifference to her perception that aliens are officially here. She already believes it but is more worried about the rent! This is not quite the deeply rooted emotional reaction, the collapse of authority, the death of religion, etc., etc, etc, that some people worry about were such a reality to be recognized. This made me laugh.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Just like brushing my kitty LOL!


PS. The Furminator is amazing!!! It made a HUGE difference in grooming my cat and totally ended her life-long hairball problem.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Genius!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

They are all dead!