tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post2633581236721445753..comments2024-03-26T11:07:03.496-04:00Comments on Ed Notes Online: RAVITCH ROCKS @AFTConv12ed notes onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-42076157510989642252012-07-29T14:53:25.702-04:002012-07-29T14:53:25.702-04:00Amen, brother.
Amen.Amen, brother.<br /><br />Amen.reality-based educatorhttp://perdidostreetschool.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-15421536614843859522012-07-29T11:36:51.173-04:002012-07-29T11:36:51.173-04:00I don't trust Randi. When she hosted a book p...I don't trust Randi. When she hosted a book party for Brill, it was because he was nice to her in the book. It made no difference to Randi that he horribly criticized Ravitch (Randi's friend).<br /><br />People at the AFT convention are really hiding their heads in the sand on this one. Did they forget about Gates so quickly? Did they forget how Randi embraced Ron Paige, Arnie Duncan, Bloomberg, Joel Klien, and Eli Broad??? This woman has blood on her hands.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-48161633669760623642012-07-29T10:31:44.791-04:002012-07-29T10:31:44.791-04:00Randi's wrong - "Respect" isn't ...Randi's wrong - "Respect" isn't a Motown song - Otis Redding wrote it in 1965. Redding was a Stax recording artist. Stax Records was located in Memphis, Tennessee and had a much more freewheeling and authentic soul style than Motown. Supposedly the title and refrain for "Respect" came from a comment made by Booker T. and the MG's drummer Al Jackson when Redding complained about all the touring they were doing: "What are you griping about? You're on the road all the time. All you can look for is a little respect when you come home."<br /><br />Jerry Wexler of Atlantic Records brought the song to Aretha Franklin in 1967. Franklin recorded it in NYC with the "famed" Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, adding the "Sock it to me..." part to the original for Atlantic.<br /><br />Neither Otis Redding nor Aretha Franklin recorded for Motown, though Franklin was from Detroit.<br /><br />And thank god for that - Motown Records, as run by Berry Gordy, was an authoritarian corporatist nightmare - musicians were exploited, art was sublimated to commercial crossover appeal (with a "white" audience in mind always), and individuals were dehumanized into machine cogs. Motown was quite successful, of course, but few people shared in that financial success. Berry Gordy, ruthless, ambitious and greedy, made sure of that.<br /><br />Frankly, Motown is a terrific analogue for the corporatist time we live in now, where individuals are dehumanized into machine cogs (or data points) and the work all comes from the people at the bottom but the money all goes to the guys at the top.<br /><br />I prefer Stax Records to Motown any day.reality-based educatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.com