The Next Big Thing
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Comment from Jasmine Girl
I grew up in Beijing, China so I didn't know about the Beatles until I'm here. I grew up listening classical music, believe it or not.
As for the next big thing, it's already here and it's just distributed differently.
I'm a big Elon Musk fan and a Tesla expert. His invention is beyond the electric cars like Tesla. Austin has the biggest Gigi factory. I can't wait to get my Cyber Truck soon. His invention includes reusable spaceships, Starlink Satellites to provide internet, boring machines to dig tunnels to divert traffic and putting a chip in brain to cure seizure and to help blind people to see again through Neurolink company. He is getting ready to send people to Mars and become a multi planetary specie.
I can go on and on about Elon Musk.
Exellent
reply by the author on 08-Dec-2022
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I grew up in Beijing, China so I didn't know about the Beatles until I'm here. I grew up listening classical music, believe it or not.
As for the next big thing, it's already here and it's just distributed differently.
I'm a big Elon Musk fan and a Tesla expert. His invention is beyond the electric cars like Tesla. Austin has the biggest Gigi factory. I can't wait to get my Cyber Truck soon. His invention includes reusable spaceships, Starlink Satellites to provide internet, boring machines to dig tunnels to divert traffic and putting a chip in brain to cure seizure and to help blind people to see again through Neurolink company. He is getting ready to send people to Mars and become a multi planetary specie.
I can go on and on about Elon Musk.
Exellent
Comment Written 07-Dec-2022
reply by the author on 08-Dec-2022
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Thank you for the six stars. There is no question Elon is an innovator. I am not sure about Twitter, but everything you mention is very interesting. Thanks, Terry.
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He will fix Twitter and will turn it into a smart app for Tesla cars. Just wait.
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that would be cool.
Comment from John Ciarmello
Sensational, Terry. I'm going to say it...wait for it....wait... I'm not as OLD as you, but I remember the Beetles and Elvis. The Monkees were my favorites. I can still sing the theme song, and now, of course, it's stuck in my head, lol. I was three when JFK was assassinated- not so much with that one! But I enjoyed going back with you- as far as I could, anyway. :)) best, JohnC
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Sensational, Terry. I'm going to say it...wait for it....wait... I'm not as OLD as you, but I remember the Beetles and Elvis. The Monkees were my favorites. I can still sing the theme song, and now, of course, it's stuck in my head, lol. I was three when JFK was assassinated- not so much with that one! But I enjoyed going back with you- as far as I could, anyway. :)) best, JohnC
Comment Written 07-Dec-2022
reply by the author on 08-Dec-2022
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John, LOL, okay so you are just a kid...I guess I will have to wait for you to grow up...just kidding, great memories. Terry.
Comment from lyenochka
Thanks for the nostalgia moment shared by you and Bryce! I think it's beautiful that you marveled about the progress in history. I don't see a lot of marveling among today's youth. So many are disenchanted and take the progress for granted. Loved the recall of the bands and thank you, Santa Terry for promoting Karenina's post!!
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Thanks for the nostalgia moment shared by you and Bryce! I think it's beautiful that you marveled about the progress in history. I don't see a lot of marveling among today's youth. So many are disenchanted and take the progress for granted. Loved the recall of the bands and thank you, Santa Terry for promoting Karenina's post!!
Comment Written 07-Dec-2022
reply by the author on 08-Dec-2022
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Helen, thank you for reading. As far as Karenina is concerned. She wrote a great story, and I was proud of her for posting it. I think it will be very well received. Terry.
Comment from GWHARGIS
My memories were of the mainstreaming of punk rock, Ronal Reagan and the Iran hostage situation. Funny how your piece triggered my memories of something entirely different. This was a freat piece. But then I knew that going in. Gretchen
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My memories were of the mainstreaming of punk rock, Ronal Reagan and the Iran hostage situation. Funny how your piece triggered my memories of something entirely different. This was a freat piece. But then I knew that going in. Gretchen
Comment Written 07-Dec-2022
reply by the author on 08-Dec-2022
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Gretchen, thank you for the six stars! I could not get into punk, by then I was into country. Thank you for reading. Terry.
Comment from Rachelle Allen
Wow! What a fun trip down Memory Lane this was, Terry! I hopped on board at the time the Beatles arrived. I was nine and watched them in my pajamas on the Ed Sullivan Show. My sister was a teenage and I couldn't believe how MESMERIZED she was. It escaped me. Fortunately, before they were done being famous, I caught on.
Thanks for a really well-written documentary. It was fun going back and remembering!!
reply by the author on 08-Dec-2022
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Wow! What a fun trip down Memory Lane this was, Terry! I hopped on board at the time the Beatles arrived. I was nine and watched them in my pajamas on the Ed Sullivan Show. My sister was a teenage and I couldn't believe how MESMERIZED she was. It escaped me. Fortunately, before they were done being famous, I caught on.
Thanks for a really well-written documentary. It was fun going back and remembering!!
Comment Written 07-Dec-2022
reply by the author on 08-Dec-2022
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Rachelle, thank you reading and walking down memory lane. Terry.
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Now, Terry, that's like thanking me for eating ice cream! xo
Comment from Mary Shifman
How well I remember all the things you've mentioned in your post! I loved the Beatles. I wanted a Beatles shirt but we couldn't afford it so I wrote their names on a blouse and embroidered them. I found the shirt the other day when I was sorting things to keep or toss. Thanks, I enjoyed the walk down Memory Lane.
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How well I remember all the things you've mentioned in your post! I loved the Beatles. I wanted a Beatles shirt but we couldn't afford it so I wrote their names on a blouse and embroidered them. I found the shirt the other day when I was sorting things to keep or toss. Thanks, I enjoyed the walk down Memory Lane.
Comment Written 07-Dec-2022
reply by the author on 08-Dec-2022
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Mary, thank you for the wonderful review and for sharing your memories, I am sure you will hang on to that shirt forever. Terry.
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You are very welcome.
Comment from Wendy G
Great reflection on the past and its music, and also a thought about the present. Yes, music (and all things) change their styles and fashions, but people are still trying to be creative and innovative, and although there have been many things bigger than the Beatles and their revolutionary style of music since that time, there is still a spirit of creativity within many.
Wendy
reply by the author on 08-Dec-2022
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Great reflection on the past and its music, and also a thought about the present. Yes, music (and all things) change their styles and fashions, but people are still trying to be creative and innovative, and although there have been many things bigger than the Beatles and their revolutionary style of music since that time, there is still a spirit of creativity within many.
Wendy
Comment Written 07-Dec-2022
reply by the author on 08-Dec-2022
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Wendy, thank you for reading and for your insightful review. Terry.
Comment from nomi338
So much of what you wrote affected me but in a much different way. My best friend and I rejected an audition with Motown in 1960. He went into the Army and I went into the Air Force. I was guarding a missile site in Okinawa during the Cuban missile crisis. I was guarding a B52 in North Dakota when JFK was killed. I never did audition for Motown, I instead, turned my song lyrics into poems, some of which I have posted on FanStory.
reply by the author on 08-Dec-2022
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So much of what you wrote affected me but in a much different way. My best friend and I rejected an audition with Motown in 1960. He went into the Army and I went into the Air Force. I was guarding a missile site in Okinawa during the Cuban missile crisis. I was guarding a B52 in North Dakota when JFK was killed. I never did audition for Motown, I instead, turned my song lyrics into poems, some of which I have posted on FanStory.
Comment Written 07-Dec-2022
reply by the author on 08-Dec-2022
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Nomi, thank you for reading and sharing your interesting history. What could have been yours if only...Terry.
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Thank you. No tears, no regrets. I might never have met and gained the friendship of the awesome FS family. I win. Yay!
Comment from Tom Horonzy
Memory Lane is alive and well. I cannot see where anyone can argue the Beatles were the cat's miaow for a long time. Didn't take to the lads in high school, as I was forever going to dances in many metro areas ner Philly, dancing the Dog, Mash potatoes, line dances, stop, slop and dozens of others. Best time ever I would argue but then so would the kids from Benny's age.
reply by the author on 07-Dec-2022
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Memory Lane is alive and well. I cannot see where anyone can argue the Beatles were the cat's miaow for a long time. Didn't take to the lads in high school, as I was forever going to dances in many metro areas ner Philly, dancing the Dog, Mash potatoes, line dances, stop, slop and dozens of others. Best time ever I would argue but then so would the kids from Benny's age.
Comment Written 07-Dec-2022
reply by the author on 07-Dec-2022
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Tom, thank you for reading, and right you are! Terry.
Comment from karenina
Terry! You're singing my song! The soundtrack of my young life! I'm a wee bit younger...enough that when we relocated from NY to CT and I entered a new (Public!) school, in fifth grade, the first question I was asked by all the "popular girls" was WHICH BEATLE I liked best!
Alas, I'd come from a Catholic school and a home where the Beatles had not yet passed the parental guidance system... But I loved Elvis! (I flunked the popular girl quiz ~ no surprise there!
Soon after, of course, I would have had to live in a cave in the hills not to know who the Beatles were. While my FIRST LP was (no judging!) Gary Lewis and the Playboys because... "Who Wants to Buy this Diamond Ring?" -- and "Everybody Loves a Clown."
Thereafter the Beatles became the phenomenon for me as I progressed through fifth, sixth and into Junior High.
My dad (Marine--with an admonition from him to NEVER call him a FORMER Marine) thought the Beatle's hair was so long! My poor brothers sported buzz cuts for years, just to prove dad's point!
(I, thankfully, was spared)
My mom had seen Elvis in Vegas ~ and cherished one of those scarves he'd pull from his neck while on stage and toss into the audience, which gave her the "vapors" whatever those were!
A few years into Beatlemania, my dad was traveling for business and found himself in the same airport as the Beatles.
HUGE props to this WWII Vet, for standing in line for an inordinate amount of time in order to secure an autograph from one of the four, for his beloved daughter. (ME!)
They'd spread out into four lines and Dad didn't know a Ringo from a Paul...he picked a line and stayed there.
And that is how I came to possess an autograph "John Lennon."
One of the few things I have left to remind me my dad was a hero...always a hero in my eyes!
Gosh: You've taken me back!
Paul Revere and the Raiders
The Association (Who doesn't love CHERISH?)
The Turtles
And yes, oh yes I fell hook line and sinker for those madcap Monkees!
(Mickey Dolenz was always my favorite and I still find myself singing "I'm a Believer" ~ because I am!
These were ALL big things for us!
As was the end of innocence.
The Dallas shots that rang out... our President assassinated.
I think music is often synced as a timeline of our life.
Somehow, we've made it through...
From "Love me Tender" through "Yesterday" beyond "The Eve of Destruction" leaping to Simon and Garfunkel -- "Hello Darkness my old friend..."
The first song I ever danced to with a real live boy ~~ "Earth Angel"
I'm hop-skipping around, as we tend to do as we think back on our "next big things..."
My introduction to technology (beyond the amazing transformation from Black and white to color television) was the Christmas I got my very own bright red, hand size, battery operated TRANSISTOR RADIO!
Holy Cow!
We'd reached the limits of modern day!
Music I would listen to while pedaling my Schwinn!
CLEARLY your essay has triggered a slew of memories and nostalgia.
I'm (yes, I know, I say it a lot) -- OUT of sixes...
Will you accept that you've tapped into a wonderful series of memories and tunes and images?
Can you see my smile clear to Texas?
I can't begin to imagine the changes my grandchildren will see, long after I've gone...
I hope when they look back on their lives they have as many wonderful memories as possible to help them through the inevitable heartbreaks.
May they always find time to sit on "The Dock of the Bay" and be "Daydream Believers..."
May we all remember, this Christmas and all the year of our lives to
thank GOD for the "Amazing Grace" in our lives!
Bravo, Terry!
Karenina
reply by the author on 07-Dec-2022
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Terry! You're singing my song! The soundtrack of my young life! I'm a wee bit younger...enough that when we relocated from NY to CT and I entered a new (Public!) school, in fifth grade, the first question I was asked by all the "popular girls" was WHICH BEATLE I liked best!
Alas, I'd come from a Catholic school and a home where the Beatles had not yet passed the parental guidance system... But I loved Elvis! (I flunked the popular girl quiz ~ no surprise there!
Soon after, of course, I would have had to live in a cave in the hills not to know who the Beatles were. While my FIRST LP was (no judging!) Gary Lewis and the Playboys because... "Who Wants to Buy this Diamond Ring?" -- and "Everybody Loves a Clown."
Thereafter the Beatles became the phenomenon for me as I progressed through fifth, sixth and into Junior High.
My dad (Marine--with an admonition from him to NEVER call him a FORMER Marine) thought the Beatle's hair was so long! My poor brothers sported buzz cuts for years, just to prove dad's point!
(I, thankfully, was spared)
My mom had seen Elvis in Vegas ~ and cherished one of those scarves he'd pull from his neck while on stage and toss into the audience, which gave her the "vapors" whatever those were!
A few years into Beatlemania, my dad was traveling for business and found himself in the same airport as the Beatles.
HUGE props to this WWII Vet, for standing in line for an inordinate amount of time in order to secure an autograph from one of the four, for his beloved daughter. (ME!)
They'd spread out into four lines and Dad didn't know a Ringo from a Paul...he picked a line and stayed there.
And that is how I came to possess an autograph "John Lennon."
One of the few things I have left to remind me my dad was a hero...always a hero in my eyes!
Gosh: You've taken me back!
Paul Revere and the Raiders
The Association (Who doesn't love CHERISH?)
The Turtles
And yes, oh yes I fell hook line and sinker for those madcap Monkees!
(Mickey Dolenz was always my favorite and I still find myself singing "I'm a Believer" ~ because I am!
These were ALL big things for us!
As was the end of innocence.
The Dallas shots that rang out... our President assassinated.
I think music is often synced as a timeline of our life.
Somehow, we've made it through...
From "Love me Tender" through "Yesterday" beyond "The Eve of Destruction" leaping to Simon and Garfunkel -- "Hello Darkness my old friend..."
The first song I ever danced to with a real live boy ~~ "Earth Angel"
I'm hop-skipping around, as we tend to do as we think back on our "next big things..."
My introduction to technology (beyond the amazing transformation from Black and white to color television) was the Christmas I got my very own bright red, hand size, battery operated TRANSISTOR RADIO!
Holy Cow!
We'd reached the limits of modern day!
Music I would listen to while pedaling my Schwinn!
CLEARLY your essay has triggered a slew of memories and nostalgia.
I'm (yes, I know, I say it a lot) -- OUT of sixes...
Will you accept that you've tapped into a wonderful series of memories and tunes and images?
Can you see my smile clear to Texas?
I can't begin to imagine the changes my grandchildren will see, long after I've gone...
I hope when they look back on their lives they have as many wonderful memories as possible to help them through the inevitable heartbreaks.
May they always find time to sit on "The Dock of the Bay" and be "Daydream Believers..."
May we all remember, this Christmas and all the year of our lives to
thank GOD for the "Amazing Grace" in our lives!
Bravo, Terry!
Karenina
Comment Written 07-Dec-2022
reply by the author on 07-Dec-2022
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Karenina, I will be happy when you POST THIS REVIEW AS A STORY! Your review is better than my story. Please post it. Titled it something like the SoundTrack of my Life. Terry.
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Terry~
I'm allergic to prose. It's anaphylactic, I think! And I've spent every cent or my member dollars promoting the late, great, Michael Bell to the front page...
But for YOU, I promise, I will post it next week!
Maybe, for me, the secret to prose is to just write it from the heart!
Amazing!
I never thought of getting out of my own way!
LOVED your post!
It'll happen, because you asked for it!
Merry Christmas to YOU!
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I was very sorry to read about Mike, I reviewed a poem of his today without knowing he died. So sad, he was too young.
Here come some Merry Christmas member dollars for you to promote the story! Terry.
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Hello Santa, er Terry. Where do you park your sleigh in Texas? Not much snow there! Okay! I jumped in! No swimmies on my arms! How totally selfless of you! You're the best Merry Christman Elf ever! I see the shadow; you show me light. Nice..
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Shhhhaking in my little prose writer's mittens. But it's up! Hope I did not disappoint!