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21 years Ago Today, Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire" Reached #1 (Video)
ChicoER Gate ^ | 12/9/10 | Chuck Wolk

Posted on 12/09/2010 12:42:36 PM PST by Tom Hawks

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I remember this song well. I have always been a big Joel fan. I especially like his ex wife.
1 posted on 12/09/2010 12:42:41 PM PST by Tom Hawks
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To: Tom Hawks

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray....


2 posted on 12/09/2010 12:44:23 PM PST by Blue Turtle
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To: Tom Hawks

Great song.


3 posted on 12/09/2010 12:45:22 PM PST by Personal Responsibility (The more the plans fail the more the planners plan - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Tom Hawks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g


4 posted on 12/09/2010 12:45:34 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: Tom Hawks

I love this song ! its the best !


5 posted on 12/09/2010 12:46:02 PM PST by se_ohio_young_conservative (Palin or 3rd party... no exceptions !)
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To: Blue Turtle

South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio.


6 posted on 12/09/2010 12:46:28 PM PST by Personal Responsibility (The more the plans fail the more the planners plan - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Tom Hawks
The best was the Rush/Shanklin parody of this, Clinton's Butt's on Fire. My guess is that there were copyright problems, because Rush never resurrects it from the Grooveyard of Forgotten Favorites.

ML/NJ

7 posted on 12/09/2010 12:49:55 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: Tom Hawks
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix ..."

Wait ... that's not it.

8 posted on 12/09/2010 12:49:55 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Tom Hawks

Zanzibar is my favorite B. Joel song. Would have LOVED to have seen him & Elton when they toured. :)


9 posted on 12/09/2010 12:49:58 PM PST by MissTed ( Do women in burqas have fun tagging each other in Facebook photos?)
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To: TomGuy

Posting the youtube source does not give you the historical background on the words. Sorry.

Unless you want to scour the web for that information, you still need to go to the site to read it.

If you just want to watch the video, then why didn’t you before clicking on the thread.

It amazes me how FReepers constantly undercut conservative bloggers.

I could have given the youtube link, but I figure I would rather help a fellow conservative instead.


10 posted on 12/09/2010 12:50:30 PM PST by Tom Hawks
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To: Tom Hawks
JFK
blown away
What else do I have to say?
11 posted on 12/09/2010 12:51:55 PM PST by circlecity
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To: ml/nj

Yea, when I saw this that is what i also thought of. kind of like the song. “Imagine”.

Every time I hear it, I think of the lyrics, “Imagine there’s no liberals”.


12 posted on 12/09/2010 12:52:25 PM PST by Tom Hawks
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To: ml/nj

“eenie meenie minee mo!”


13 posted on 12/09/2010 12:52:53 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Tom Hawks
On SNL Waynes World did a short bit about this song. They said it sounds sort of accusatory. Hey we didn't start the fire so you just shut up.
14 posted on 12/09/2010 12:53:04 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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I'm sure you know what you mean.

ML/NJ

15 posted on 12/09/2010 12:55:50 PM PST by ml/nj
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16 posted on 12/09/2010 12:57:56 PM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: MissTed

I saw him back in 2000 when supposedly he was having some issues with his voice, but not on the night I saw him, one of the best shows I’ve ever been to.


17 posted on 12/09/2010 12:58:23 PM PST by dfwgator (Congratulations to Josh Hamilton - AL MVP)
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To: Personal Responsibility

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studabaker, television, N Korea, S Korea, Marilyn Monroe


18 posted on 12/09/2010 12:59:41 PM PST by Blue Turtle
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To: MissTed

Mine is Rosalinda’s Eyes with Stilleto a close second, but Zanzibar is way up there.


19 posted on 12/09/2010 1:01:21 PM PST by chrisser (Starve the Monkeys!)
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To: dfwgator

Check out Billy Joel’s recent interview on Howard Stern....its in 6 parts and is amazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxw1WV_qmVk


20 posted on 12/09/2010 1:01:27 PM PST by Blue Turtle
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