The Fish Rots From the Head in Chicago
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Why aren’t President Obama and Hillary Clinton demanding Rahm Emanuel’s head?
President Obama needs to mail Rahm Emanuel a dead fish in a box. Hillary Clinton should deliver it. For the integrity of the party that represents a vast majority of black voters, Democratic leaders everywhere need to send the Chicago mayor a message: You’re dead to us.
A longtime lieutenant for the Clinton family and former chief of staff in the Obama White House, Emanuel never hesitated to muscle weak or disloyal Democrats out of power. It’s time to flip the script on the enforcer nicknamed “Rahmbo.”
Emanuel once sent a pollster who was late delivering a survey result a dead fish in a box. The night Bill Clinton won the 1992 presidential election, his aides were celebrating around a picnic table when Emanuel picked up a knife and shouted the names of politicians who had “f****ed us.” After each name, Emanuel declared, “Dead man!”
I’ve got nothing against Emanuel. I’ve known him since 1992 and benefited from his strategic leaks in the Clinton White House. And I know this: Emanuel epitomizes a brand of politics that puts loyalty and electoral success above all else. He was educated in the school of Clinton, where the ends justify the means, and ruled the Obama White House when it capitulated to the culture of Washington that his boss had vowed to fight.
And then off he went to Chicago, a historically corrupt city with a police department known for hiding misconduct and brutality.
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The world is watching, too, and wondering whether the party that represents most blacks and most big cities can clean its own house. Lord knows there would be howls from the Left had a GOP mayor been so “willfully ignorant,” so tone deaf and morally corrupt in the death of a black teenager. And they would be justified.
A Chicago cop killed a teenager and Emanuel administration f***ed with the evidence. Pick up the rhetorical knife, Democrats, and aim it at Rahmbo: dead man.
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"What's this old world coming to, things just ain't the same, any time the hunter get's captured by the game."
Cooley High School class of 1966.
So Motown is what I grew up with. The Marvelettes were aptly named. Plus, this was obviously recorded at Hitsville, USA, on West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, Motown headquarters during their hey day.
Hitsville, in the day:
Sadly, for decades it has only been a museum instead of a musical tour de force.
On Saturday afternoons, Berry Gordy would rent out the Fox Theater in downtown Detroit and present all sorts of Detroit music, and especially Motown stars. That is where an artist named Little Stevie Wonder premiered and recorded his first single before a live audience. It lept to the top of the charts in Detroit. It was entitled "Fingertips" (parts one and two). And he is still making awesome music.
Here is part of that:
He was 12 years old when he first played this live.
Growing up in Detroit was pretty awesome.
on edit: another poster responded here with a correction. Fingertips was not recorded at the Fox in Detroit. Sorry for my poor memory.
performed (and I didn't know it was recorded there) "Fingertips part 2". The only thing I remember about that night was Stevie singing and Mary Wells (she didn't sound that good to me) singing 'Bye bye baby'. But most of all I remember Smokey Robinson and the Miracles performing 'Who's loving you,' WOW 
OMG it was wonderful!
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=436
This was the first live recording to hit #1 in the US, and it has quite a story behind it. Stevie Wonder, just 12 years old, was part of a Motown package tour called "The Motortown Revue," and was thrilling crowds with his high-energy performances. On March 10, 1963, the Revue came to the Regal Theatre in Chicago, where Wonder's performance was recorded. On this night, he played a highly improvised version of his song "Fingertips," which went on for about 10 minutes as the crowd went absolutely nuts and the stage manager, concerned because the show was running late, tried to get him off so the next act could perform. Wonder fed off the crowd and kept going, even doing a little bit of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on his harmonica. When Wonder ends the song (about 2:05 in), the band starts to clear the stage, and the band for the next act, The Marvelettes, hustles on. At this point, Wonder starts playing again, at which point you can hear the Marvelettes bass player Joe Swift ask "What key?" and the performance picks up again with a little encore played by at least some members of the new band.
Motown released the last 3 minutes of this performance as "Fingertips (Part 2)," as the B-side of a different performance of the first part of "Fingertips." Part 2 became the hit, and the single was quickly reissued with Part 2 as the A-side. The song spent 3 weeks at #1 in the summer of 1963 and launched Wonder to stardom.
An instrumental studio version of "Fingertips" was included on Wonder's first album, The Jazz Soul Of Little Stevie, in September, 1962. The song was written by the Motown writers Hank Cosby and Clarence Paul. This version of the song is much more mellow, jazzier and flute-heavy than the famous live version, which plays up the horns and harmonica.
http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-exterior-of-the-regal-theater-with-the-marquee-for-the-motortown-picture-id181747678
Was there no way Emanuel could have discussed it with the people of the city so that it wouldn't look as though he was hiding something? 