![Paul Simon - Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (Sesame Street, 1977) [Restored] @VideoFunForAll](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jfoBIVNntto/maxresdefault.jpg)
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"Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" is a song by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was the second single from his second, self-titled studio album (1972), released on Columbia Records.
The song is about two boys ("Me and Julio") who have broken a law, although the exact law that has been broken is not stated in the song. When "the mama pajama" finds out what they have done, she goes to the police station to report the crime. The individuals are later arrested, but released when a "radical priest" intervenes.
The meaning and references in the song have long provoked debate. In a July 20, 1972 interview for Rolling Stone, Jon Landau asked Simon: "What is it that the mama saw? The whole world wants to know." Simon replied "I have no idea what it is... Something sexual is what I imagine, but when I say 'something', I never bothered to figure out what it was. Didn't make any difference to me."
More recently, in October 2010, Simon described the song as "a bit of inscrutable doggerel", while the "radical priest" has been interpreted as a reference to Daniel Berrigan, who was featured on the cover of Time on January 25, 1971, near when the song was written.
The song mentions "Rosie, the queen of Corona", referring to a neighborhood in Queens near where Simon grew up.
"Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" is a song by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was the second single from his second, self-titled studio album (1972), released on Columbia Records.
The song is about two boys ("Me and Julio") who have broken a law, although the exact law that has been broken is not stated in the song. When "the mama pajama" finds out what they have done, she goes to the police station to report the crime. The individuals are later arrested, but released when a "radical priest" intervenes.
The meaning and references in the song have long provoked debate. In a July 20, 1972 interview for Rolling Stone, Jon Landau asked Simon: "What is it that the mama saw? The whole world wants to know." Simon replied "I have no idea what it is... Something sexual is what I imagine, but when I say 'something', I never bothered to figure out what it was. Didn't make any difference to me."
More recently, in October 2010, Simon described the song as "a bit of inscrutable doggerel", while the "radical priest" has been interpreted as a reference to Daniel Berrigan, who was featured on the cover of Time on January 25, 1971, near when the song was written.
The song mentions "Rosie, the queen of Corona", referring to a neighborhood in Queens near where Simon grew up.
![Paul Simon - Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (Sesame Street, 1977) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jfoBIVNntto/mqdefault.jpg "Paul Simon - Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (Sesame Street, 1977) [Restored]
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard is a song by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was the second single from his second, self-titled studio album (1972), released on Columbia Records.
The song is about two boys (Me and Julio) who have broken a law, although the exact law that has been broken is not stated in the song. When the mama pajama finds out what they have done, she goes to the police station to report the crime. The individuals are later arrested, but released when a radical priest intervenes.
The meaning and references in the song have long provoked debate. In a July 20, 1972 interview for Rolling Stone, Jon Landau asked Simon: What is it that the mama saw? The whole world wants to know. Simon replied I have no idea what it is... Something sexual is what I imagine, but when I say something, I never bothered to figure out what it was. Didnt make any difference to me.
More recently, in October 2010, Simon described the song as a bit of inscrutable doggerel, while the radical priest has been interpreted as a reference to Daniel Berrigan, who was featured on the cover of Time on January 25, 1971, near when the song was written.
The song mentions Rosie, the queen of Corona, referring to a neighborhood in Queens near where Simon grew up.")
![David Bowie – Space Oddity (1969) [HDR Mastered]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jlFtJNPuZoQ/mqdefault.jpg "David Bowie – Space Oddity (1969) [HDR Mastered]
Music: Space Oddity (1969) by David Bowie
Video: Solaris (1972) by Andrei Tarkovsky
Space Oddity is a song written and recorded by David Bowie. It was first released as a 7-inch single on 11 July 1969. It was also the opening track of his second studio album, David Bowie. It became one of Bowies signature songs and one of four of his songs to be included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fames 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
The song is about the launch of Major Tom, a fictional astronaut, and was released during a period of great interest in space flight. The United States Apollo 11 mission would launch five days later and would become the first manned moon landing another five days after that. The lyrics have also been seen to lampoon the British space programme, which was and still is an unmanned project. Bowie would later revisit his Major Tom character in the songs Ashes to Ashes, Hallo Spaceboy and possibly the music video for Blackstar.
Space Oddity was David Bowies first single to chart in the UK. It reached the top five on its initial release and received the 1970 Ivor Novello Special Award for Originality. His second album, originally released as David Bowie in the UK, was renamed after the track for its 1972 re-release by RCA Records and became known by this name. In 1975, upon re-release as part of a maxi-single, the song became Bowies first UK No. 1 single.
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![Peggy Mann / Larry Clinton & his Orchestra - Deep Purple (1943) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jq3RkIuc3RU/mqdefault.jpg "Peggy Mann / Larry Clinton & his Orchestra - Deep Purple (1943) [Restored]
Deep Purple was the biggest hit written by pianist Peter DeRose, who broadcast, 1923 to 1939, with May Singhi as The Sweethearts of the Air on the NBC radio network. Deep Purple was published in 1933 as a piano composition. The following year, Paul Whiteman had it scored for his suave big band orchestra that was making a lady out of jazz in Whitemans phrase. Deep Purple became so popular in sheet music sales that Mitchell Parish added lyrics in 1938.
Margaret Germano, better known as Peggy Mann (September 27, 1919 – summer 1988), was an American Big Band singer who was prominent in the 1930s and 1940s. She worked with the likes of Henry Halstead, Ben Pollack, Larry Clinton, and Teddy Powell, and also as a solo act, before retiring from the music industry in the early 1950s.")
![Γιαλό γιαλό (Seaside) - Greek song from The Guns of Navarone [Mastered for HDR]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kOaPyOGP1gQ/mqdefault.jpg "Γιαλό γιαλό (Seaside) - Greek song from The Guns of Navarone [Mastered for HDR]
Traditional Greek song Γιαλό γιαλό (Yalo Yalo) (Seaside) performed in the motion picture The Guns of Navarone.
Γιαλό γιαλό πηγαίναμε
κι όλο για σένα λέγαμε
γιαλό να πας γιαλό να ρθείς
τα λόγια μου να θυμηθείς")
![Sutherland Brothers and Quiver - Arms of Mary (1976) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/k_fP7ArICYk/mqdefault.jpg "Sutherland Brothers and Quiver - Arms of Mary (1976) [Restored]
Arms of Mary is a song written by Iain Sutherland of the band Sutherland Brothers and Quiver, being a 1976 international hit single release for the band: the Glasgow Herald in its obituary for Iain Sutherland described Arms of Mary as a plaintive and radio-friendly folk-rock ballad in which the narrator reminisces over the woman he first made love to.")
![Julien Clerc - This Melody (1975) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/l6P9xWKdV7s/mqdefault.jpg "Julien Clerc - This Melody (1975) [Restored]
Born in Paris, Clerc grew up listening to classical music in his father Paul Alain Clercs home, while his mother Evelyn Merlot introduced him to the music of such singers as Georges Brassens and Edith Piaf. He began to learn the piano at six, and by 13, started to play by ear everything he heard on the radio]
During his secondary school and university days, he met Maurice Vallet and Etienne Roda-Gil, two of his main songwriters, and began to compose his first songs. He changed his name to Julien Clerc upon signing a contract with Pathé Marconi, releasing his first album in May 1968.
Lyrics
This melody
Is a melody for you
Cette mélodie
Cest locéan entre nous
Cette mélodie
Deau salée et de mélancolie
Dans ton pays
Elle te revient parfois
Comme ça, voilà, comme ça
Le vent dici
Fait voler tous nos oiseaux
Les champs dici
Font ce quils peuvent pour les troupeaux
Les gens dici
Qui ne connaîtront pas dautre vie
Dans ce pays
Dont les fruits sont si beaux
Quon se contente des noyaux
This melody
Is a melody for you
Les gens dici ne sont pas plus grands
Plus fiers ou plus beaux
Seulement, ils sont dici, les gens dici,
Comme cette mélodie
Les gens dici ne sont pas plus grands
Plus fiers ou plus beaux
Seulement, ils sont dici, les gens dici,
Comme cette mélodie
Tu est partie
Mais ton rève reste au chaud
Ce vieux soleil
Etait trop fort pour ta peau
Cette mélodie
Qui reviendra parfois dans ta vie
Cette mélodie
Dans ta ville sest transformée en pluie, en pluie...
Thats why
This melody is a melody for you")
![The Carpenters - Jambalaya (On the Bayou) (Live, 1974) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lcF_N7dDgvU/mqdefault.jpg "The Carpenters - Jambalaya (On the Bayou) (Live, 1974) [Restored]
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) is a song written and recorded by American country music singer Hank Williams that was first released in July 1952. Named for a Creole and Cajun dish, jambalaya, it spawned numerous cover versions and has since achieved popularity in several different music genres.")
![Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier - Thrilla in Manilla, last round (October 1, 1975) [In Slow Motion]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lmaj4HO8oh4/mqdefault.jpg "Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier - Thrilla in Manilla, last round (October 1, 1975) [In Slow Motion]
Slow-motion of Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier - Thrilla in Manilla - The last round (October 1, 1975)")
![Lena Horne - Where or When (Words and Music 1948) [Digitally Enhanced]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nOWlumls8tg/mqdefault.jpg "Lena Horne - Where or When (Words and Music 1948) [Digitally Enhanced]
Where or When is a show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical Babes in Arms. It was first performed by Ray Heatherton and Mitzi Green. That same year, Hal Kemp recorded a popular version. It also appeared in the film version of Babes in Arms two years later.")
![Opus - Live is Life (1984) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nPynpDCWiYQ/mqdefault.jpg "Opus - Live is Life (1984) [Restored]
Live Is Life is a song originally recorded in 1984 by Austrian band Opus. It was a European number-one hit in the summer of 1985. The single also reached number one in Canada and was a top 40 hit in the US in 1986. It has been covered by many artists.")
