The YouTube algorithm keeps suggesting reaction video. Clueless yout's
listen to popular music from decades ago and can't believe -- before
autotune ruined everything -- that singers could truly sing.
These two put on the 5th Dimension. Marilyn McCoo had a glorious voice,
and the harmony was spectacular. She's got the opposite of a
show-business personality and said all she needed to say by performing.
They're playing "Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In" on first hearing.
"Oh! The song has two names!"
No; it's a medley.
They have no idea that they are listening to covers of two show tunes
from the 1968 musical Hair. At least the girl remembered what the age of Aquarius meant.
I wanna hear them discover Bach. Who knew there was music in the 18th century?
Here's an opera singer reacting to a performance of "One Less Bell to
Answer" from Soul Train. The opera singer has a bit of trouble imitating Marilyn's technique!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygtFBrK2PS0
bonk
The same two from the first video are listening to Lulu sing "To Sir,
With Love", the theme from the movie. They talk about this actor who
just passed away, without saying Sidney Poitier. She says he was the
first black actor in Hollywood. I want to cry.
Neither has seen him in a movie. He's at the peak of his career; they
have no clue. She knew he won the Oscar but they've never heard of
Lilies of the Field (1963). It's a buddy comedy with Lilia Skala.
*IMPROVISED* in just two takes - what's on the album is a blending of
the two takes - and then sung by that same singer on the first tour or
two. Later tours used as many as four singers to do that one song.
The same two from the first video are listening to Lulu sing "To Sir,
With Love", the theme from the movie. They talk about this actor who
just passed away, without saying Sidney Poitier. She says he was the
first black actor in Hollywood. I want to cry.
Neither has seen him in a movie. He's at the peak of his career; they
have no clue. She knew he won the Oscar but they've never heard of
Lilies of the Field (1963). It's a buddy comedy with Lilia Skala.
Poitier wasn't even the first black to win an Oscar. Wasn't that Hattie McDaniel in Gone With the Wind?
On 2026-05-24 12:46 a.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:
. . .
The same two from the first video are listening to Lulu sing "To Sir,
With Love", the theme from the movie. They talk about this actor who
just passed away, without saying Sidney Poitier. She says he was the
first black actor in Hollywood. I want to cry.
Neither has seen him in a movie. He's at the peak of his career; they
have no clue. She knew he won the Oscar but they've never heard of
Lilies of the Field (1963). It's a buddy comedy with Lilia Skala.
Poitier wasn't even the first black to win an Oscar. Wasn't that Hattie >McDaniel in Gone With the Wind?
The YouTube algorithm keeps suggesting reaction video. Clueless yout's
listen to popular music from decades ago and can't believe -- before
autotune ruined everything -- that singers could truly sing.
These two put on the 5th Dimension. Marilyn McCoo had a glorious voice,
and the harmony was spectacular. She's got the opposite of a
show-business personality and said all she needed to say by performing.
They're playing "Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In" on first hearing.
"Oh! The song has two names!"
No; it's a medley.
They have no idea that they are listening to covers of two show tunes
from the 1968 musical Hair. At least the girl remembered what the age of Aquarius meant.
I wanna hear them discover Bach. Who knew there was music in the 18th century?
Here's an opera singer reacting to a performance of "One Less Bell to
Answer" from Soul Train. The opera singer has a bit of trouble imitating Marilyn's technique!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygtFBrK2PS0
bonk
The same two from the first video are listening to Lulu sing "To Sir,
With Love", the theme from the movie. They talk about this actor who
just passed away, without saying Sidney Poitier. She says he was the
first black actor in Hollywood. I want to cry.
Neither has seen him in a movie. He's at the peak of his career; they
have no clue. She knew he won the Oscar but they've never heard of
Lilies of the Field (1963). It's a buddy comedy with Lilia Skala.
Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
On 2026-05-24 12:46 a.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:
. . .
The same two from the first video are listening to Lulu sing "To Sir,
With Love", the theme from the movie. They talk about this actor who
just passed away, without saying Sidney Poitier. She says he was the
first black actor in Hollywood. I want to cry.
Neither has seen him in a movie. He's at the peak of his career; they
have no clue. She knew he won the Oscar but they've never heard of
Lilies of the Field (1963). It's a buddy comedy with Lilia Skala.
Poitier wasn't even the first black to win an Oscar. Wasn't that Hattie
McDaniel in Gone With the Wind?
She kept saying things that were obviously wrong without correcting
herself, like not limiting her comments to lead actors. Obviously, yes,
there were several actors who performed all the black servant roles who
made a nice living for two decades or so. Among them, Hattie McDaniel is
the only one who won best supporting actress.
Harry Belafonte had a leading role in Carmen Jones (1954) with Dorothy Dandridge before Poitier. But Poitier is not important because he won the first Oscar for a black actor in a leading role only, but because he was
so very commercially successful. He starred in a lot of movies that found
an audience. Before Poitier, Hollywood never believed a black actor could find an audience. Where his movies were booked into theaters in the South
by the late '60s, white moviegoers bought tickets.
May 24, 2026 at 10:04:33 AM PDT, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
. . .
Harry Belafonte had a leading role in Carmen Jones (1954) with Dorothy >>Dandridge before Poitier. But Poitier is not important because he won the >>first Oscar for a black actor in a leading role only, but because he was
so very commercially successful. He starred in a lot of movies that found >>an audience. Before Poitier, Hollywood never believed a black actor could >>find an audience. Where his movies were booked into theaters in the South >>by the late '60s, white moviegoers bought tickets.
And now we've gone full 180 and you can't win an Oscar now unless your movie >has black people in it, even if it means casting absurdities, like a black >Helen of Troy.
May 23, 2026 at 9:46:49 PM PDT, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
The YouTube algorithm keeps suggesting reaction video. Clueless yout's >>listen to popular music from decades ago and can't believe -- before >>autotune ruined everything -- that singers could truly sing.
I watch the videos of clueless youts reacting to "old" movies-- like DIE HARD, >ALIEN, PREDATOR, and the STAR WARS saga. Seems like something that wouldn't be >very entertaining-- watching someone else watch a movie-- but they're >strangely mesmerizing.
One thing that struck me is that at some point almost every one of them makes >some comment along the lines of, "These old movies were really good, and the >special effects look so much more real than they do these days. Why don't they >make movie like this anymore?"
Well, because back then, they didn't have the crutch of CGI (and now Chat GPT) >to rely on and they had to actually write engaging stories, creative plots, >and have good actors to sell the movie.
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On May 24, 2026 at 10:04:33 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
On 2026-05-24 12:46 a.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:
. . .
The same two from the first video are listening to Lulu sing "To Sir,
With Love", the theme from the movie. They talk about this actor who
just passed away, without saying Sidney Poitier. She says he was the
first black actor in Hollywood. I want to cry.
Neither has seen him in a movie. He's at the peak of his career; they
have no clue. She knew he won the Oscar but they've never heard of
Lilies of the Field (1963). It's a buddy comedy with Lilia Skala.
Poitier wasn't even the first black to win an Oscar. Wasn't that Hattie
McDaniel in Gone With the Wind?
She kept saying things that were obviously wrong without correcting
herself, like not limiting her comments to lead actors. Obviously, yes,
there were several actors who performed all the black servant roles who
made a nice living for two decades or so. Among them, Hattie McDaniel is
the only one who won best supporting actress.
Harry Belafonte had a leading role in Carmen Jones (1954) with Dorothy
Dandridge before Poitier. But Poitier is not important because he won the
first Oscar for a black actor in a leading role only, but because he was
so very commercially successful. He starred in a lot of movies that found
an audience. Before Poitier, Hollywood never believed a black actor could
find an audience. Where his movies were booked into theaters in the South
by the late '60s, white moviegoers bought tickets.
And now we've gone full 180 and you can't win an Oscar now unless your movie has black people in it, even if it means casting absurdities, like a black Helen of Troy.
. . .
Sounds like more billion dollar presidential lawsuit bait to me, white >actors were treated [doing my best Trump] "very very unfairly."
..."There was the time I was up for the lead in American Gangster and
Denzel Washington got the role...people were saying I was born for that >role..."
super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
. . .
Sounds like more billion dollar presidential lawsuit bait to me, white
actors were treated [doing my best Trump] "very very unfairly."
..."There was the time I was up for the lead in American Gangster and
Denzel Washington got the role...people were saying I was born for that
role..."
Would super70s be so kind as to shove a rusty pole so far up his ass it
comes out his mouth? He drags Trump into every thread he participates
in, guaranteeing its ruin.
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