|
Post by stoney on Aug 29, 2008 14:54:57 GMT -5
I remember the Screaming Eagles, Wilum. I lived in Ilion at the time & they used to perform in parades in Utica in the 60s, as you said. I had never seen a black person before that. They didn't exist in Ilion.
They were good. They were rapping before rap became rap.
|
|
|
Post by frankcor on Aug 29, 2008 15:57:44 GMT -5
Rent the "Drumline" movie and watch it with your daughter, wilum. It'll give your daughter a small flavor of what the Screaming Eagles were all about.
|
|
|
Post by wilum47 on Aug 29, 2008 23:09:36 GMT -5
Rent the "Drumline" movie and watch it with your daughter, wilum. It'll give your daughter a small flavor of what the Screaming Eagles were all about. Funny you mentioned that. Her and I watched it last night on VH1. As a matter of fact that is how the discussion cameup.
|
|
|
Post by frankcor on Sept 4, 2008 13:47:04 GMT -5
Okay, then tell her "the Screaming Eagles were just like that, but with a lot more soul."
|
|
|
Post by Clipper on Sept 4, 2008 16:03:32 GMT -5
The days of the "Screaming Eagles" and the "Magnificent Yankees", were the days when kids had ambition, physical fitness, and a desire to do something with pride. Today, pride is being able to beat your buddy in video game or roll a joint with one hand.
Be proud of your kids if they participate in athletics or music or whatever. As long as they are off the couch and doing something productive, they are forming a responsible personality that will carry them to success in life. If they are stuck to the sofa like they had velcro on their ass, peel them loose, because they are headed for a life of obesity, lack of productivity, and probably drugs, crime, or just plain lack of usefullness.
When I was a kid, my brother loved the 3 stooges, and we all liked mickey mouse club on television. We were allowed to watch 3 stooges only occasionally, and we watched mickey mouse club, AND THEN WERE CHASED OUT OF THE HOUSE TO GET SOME EXCERCISE, either riding our bikes, playing ball, or simply walking to a friends house for a while, we moved about and took interest in something besides TV. To us, games were for rainy days when we could not go outside, and the games were monopoly, clue, and games that did not include killing anyone or anything to win.
We played baseball and basketball in summer, and football in fall. We ice skated and played hockey in winter, OUTDOORS. We rollerskated and went to athletic events at school, or played in athletics at the school. We went to the Y to swim or play basketball in winter also. Bowling was another outlet for physical energy, and to have fun with friends. We went to boy scouts, and all of our friends were scouts too. We went to camp in the summer, and went on hikes with a backpack and a sandwich on summer days. We used to bowl at the Palace, which was the only bowling alley I was ever in where their was an upstairs. We sang in choruses and choirs, we played instruments, and we marched in bands and drum corps (not me, I could not carry a tune on a bugle or trumpet if my life depended on it, haha)
I remember the screaming eagles. I remember, and can envision the leaders face in my mind and memory. He was a little guy, but like that damned energizer bunny. It was a great show. to watch them march or do their routine.
PS: We also had chores to do, because my parents both worked. We washed, ironed, made beds and folded laundry. God save our asses if the chores were not done when mom and dad got home! Yep, CHORES! Yep, PHYSICAL LABOR! I know that is a concept that would shock and scare kids today!
|
|
|
Post by rickolney on Sept 7, 2008 20:31:25 GMT -5
We (the neighborhood pals of mine and myself) gathered at my house each Saturday to stretch out on our family room living room rug in front of the television for Monster Movie Matinee. Then it was back outside to play ball or go exploring until somebody invented girls.
You're right about most kids today though...
Makes a person wonder what will be happening in America 50 years from now, doesn't it?
Cornhill will probably be a corn field again.
|
|
|
Post by Clipper on Sept 7, 2008 21:26:18 GMT -5
Yep, played ball until they invented girls. It was shortly after I noticed those bumps developing in girls sweaters, and kissed a couple of girls on the lips, that my brain turned to mashed potatoes and has been that way ever since, haha!
|
|
|
Post by stoney on Sept 9, 2008 15:18:00 GMT -5
Their sweaters were pilling?
|
|