Our Top 10 Songs from the band The Association takes a look at so many of the legendary band’s big 1960s hits. Before we go one step further, we must mention that the Association like many other bands of the 1960s and early including The Grass Roots, Paul Revere & The Raiders, The Beach Boys, Sonny & Cher, and others utilized the legendary Wrecking Crew on their recordings. For those unfamiliar with The Wrecking Crew, the name identifies a group of brilliant studio musicians who played the parts on so many 1960s hits. However, that’s an entire story in itself. The post Top 10 Songs From The Association appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

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Desperation time? The front page of Thursday’s New York Times bluntly blamed sexism for Kamala Harris’s campaign woes. Reporters Lisa Lerer and Katie Glueck bitterly lamented “The Quiet, Stubborn Aversion To Putting a Woman in Power.” With less than two weeks left before Election Day, a big question is looming over the campaign for the White House, and it has nothing to do with the economy or the barrage of attacks between former President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris over judgment, character and mental fitness. It is gender. The paper will go where Harris herself has not really tread, claiming opposition to Harris isn’t based on her wandering way of speaking, her lack of policy detail, or her obsession with abortion. It’s because she’s a woman! Never mind that Democratic Party presidential prospects rose when she unilaterally replaced Joe Biden on the top of the 2024 ticket. The fact that her numbers returned to earth after voters got to know her somehow speaks of a sexist American society that just can’t handle a woman leader. The issue is rarely directly addressed by either of the candidates. Yet the matter of Ms. Harris’s gender -- and her potential to make history as the country’s first female president -- is defining the campaign, creating a contest that is, in ways overt and subtle, a referendum on the role of women in American life. Pro-Harris stickers plastered on bathroom stalls offer reminders, “woman to woman,” that their vote is private. Trump aides use sexualized epithets to deride liberal men as weak and effeminate. In poll after poll, a difference in voting patterns based on gender pervades every demographic group. And in quiet conversations, some female Harris supporters can’t shake the uneasy feeling that men in their lives are struggling to support a woman – especially a Black and South Asian woman – even if they don’t want to admit it. .... Those who have studied voting patterns for decades say they have never before seen a presidential race where gender is so central to the electoral prospects of each candidate -- even in 2016, when Hillary Clinton became the first woman to capture a major party nomination. They cite a series of factors: Mr. Trump’s well-documented denigration of women, Ms. Harris’s barrier-breaking potential, longstanding sexist views about women in power and, perhaps most centrally, the Supreme Court’s overturning of a constitutional right to abortion two years ago. If your candidate is behind, don’t blame her verbal incoherence or lack of a plan – just cry “sexism.” Democrats believe Ms. Harris is facing a deep-rooted strain of sexism that looks different from the attacks of the past, when female leaders were openly questioned on the basis of their gender and described in classic tropes of being either too aggressive or too emotional -- and sometimes both. The country has shifted since 2016, with more women rising to win positions of political power including Ms. Harris, who is the first female vice president. But in contrast to 2016, when liberals reveled in the prospect of the first female president, anxious Democrats now have little doubt about the persistent power of sexism in the minds of some voters. Aside: The sort of statement in bold below -- which suggests that one can reliably identify a female adult by sight, and not be what their perceived “gender identity” is -- is actually controversial at the Times and other media outlets. Sometimes it's just more helpful not to notice. “People can see with their own eyes -- she’s a woman,” said Senator Laphonza Butler, Democrat of California and a close friend of Ms. Harris…. It wouldn’t be the Times without a liberal lecture. Some Democrats believe that voters are reaching for euphemisms about Ms. Harris’s policies and vision to paper over their discomfort with supporting a woman -- an argument former President Barack Obama recently made from the campaign trail. Will the paper’s front-page whining about sexism serve to guilt undecided voters into pulling Harris across the finish line?

Being the media-anointed presidential candidate has its downsides. Ace a few fawning interviews with Pravda and it's easy to get overconfident. Fox News? They're not ready for Momala! It’s the rare straight man who can hold his own in the longhouse. How else to explain Kamala Harris’ recent ill-considered decision to sit down with Bret Baier, who took all of five minutes to dismantle Madam Vice President’s heretofore unchallenged campaign strategy of nimbly unburdening herself from what has been? Contrast this with her visit to "The View" last week, in which she gamely sat for an utterly forgettable hour of softball questions. A View to a Shill It was Harris’ seventh visit to the gyneocratic gabfest, which has long been a friendly stopover for Democrat luminaries. Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden top out at 10 appearances; Barack Obama and Al Gore each have two, alongside a who’s who of Beltway Bolsheviks, like AOC (three), Pete Buttigieg (12), and Bernie Sanders (12 — so that’s why he misses all those floor votes). Depending on who you ask, "The View" is either America’s “most important political TV show” (New York Times) or its “biggest source of misinformation" (New York Post). Unsurprisingly, the “women of different generations, backgrounds, and views” the show purports to represent all tend to be Times readers. “Diversity is our strength! Wait, not that diversity!” Get Donald But any — occasional! — slips in ideological balance might be counterbalanced by the startling fact that, at the time of writing, Donald J. Trump remains the show's most frequent political guest, being warmly received no less than 18 times since it debuted in 1997. That all changed, of course, on November 6, 2016. Presiding over her more somber than usual gaggle, Joy Behar pledged to resist the new regime: “The only checks and balances we have are us, 'The View,' that’s it!” Given the ladies’ morally vexed record of idly gossiping with the same would-be dictator they now opposed, such dissident posturing was a touch unconvincing. Easier to believe was a later, still more chilling threat: “We’re not going anywhere; we’re going to stay right here and talk.” Tongue-tied Lesser men than Trump have found themselves summarily routed by women talking. Even the most intrepid "The View" guest can find himself ill prepared for the show’s volatile female climes — which can shift in an instant from the pleasant summer breeze of flirtatious chitchat to the Category 5 hurricane of an HR-mandated disciplinary hearing. Just watch Whoopi Goldberg and Behar storm off the stage after Bill O’Reilly launches a gratuitous blitz of statistics! Or Donald Trump Jr. shrink before Goldberg’s concierge call bell and Meghan McCain’s crocodile tears, or Matt Gaetz quietly despair as his reasonably sound arguments bounce off the panel's impenetrable carapace of self-righteousness. Even Blaze Media's own Glenn Beck admitted the whole thing made him nervous. So one must concede respect for lionhearted types like Trump, who has shown a willingness to charge into this most hostile of environments time after time — and no doubt would even now, should the ladies deign to have him back. Queen of Queens It’s true that the 45th president performs better on the hot seat than in an echo chamber; a combative atmosphere trims the flab of his digressions (what his fans now call “the Weave”). But another reason Trump feels right at home on "The View" is that he is a ladies’ man. Not a womanizer (though he is that), but a man who thrives in the chatty, gossipy, and cutthroat milieu of women. In other words, he’s a Gemini. Astrology aside, Trump is constitutionally a libertine: urbane, morally permissive, and, if you’ll allow me to be irreverent, a little gay. He blows kisses to Hulk Hogan, weighs in on Fashion Week (“used to be so glamorous and exciting! No stars, no fun—just boring”), and his rivalry with lesbian Rosie O’Donnell remains a gem of the catty naughties social feuds. “I said to her at the theater, ‘congratulations on your failed magazine,'" he breathlessly recounted to a cackling radio host. And who could forget his love of Andrew Lloyd Webber? Brag hags But Trump’s rightful status as a camp icon has been obscured by the dogged efforts to smear him as a bitter misogynist. One of our culture’s great misunderstandings is the inability to distinguish between a hater of women and a male chauvinist. Trump is the latter. Nobody probes female psychology as keenly, if indecorously, as does an authentic chauvinist. He loves women for their nature, red in tooth and claw. “There’s nothing I love more than women,” Trump once riffed, sounding downstream of Camille Paglia, “but they're really a lot different than portrayed. They are far worse than men, far more aggressive, and boy, can they be smart!" Gay men used to inhabit the cultural archetype of the b****y antagonist to the fairer sex, playfully puncturing their delusions, but today one mostly hears robotic “Yas Queens” from those coconut-perfumed quarters. If anything, it’s the physique-obsessed, self-styled Hellene manosphere crowd that has assumed that function, and they revere Trump as one of their own. It’s the rare straight man who can hold his own in the longhouse. Can you name any other Republican who could kiss Barbara on the cheek and coax Whoopi into admitting that she loves him? Yes, sentiments have since chilled, but as with all of Trump’s feuds, his beef with the viragos of "The View" plays out with a certain kayfabe-like knowingness. Like many gays, Trump is a skillful dramatist, obsessed with details of staging, performance, and aesthetics. Yet his theatrics are not in the service of conjuring unreality, but undermining our unreal pieties at every turn. The trickster's flair is what makes you laugh in spite of yourself.

Hollywood has been crumbling for years, but people are noticing that this collapse seems to be speeding up. What is causing this collapse, and why is it accelerating? Could it be wokeness, the proliferation of AI, a combination of the two, or something else? On “Zero Hour,” Matthew Marsden — actor, singer, and producer — sat down with James Poulos to discuss the state of Hollywood, its imminent collapse, and the emerging role of artificial intelligence in the industry. Early in the episode, Marsden described the increasing presence of AI in movie production, especially for actors. In some places, like India, AI can render an actor’s image for the screen, making the actor's work largely obsolete. This may not be a viable option for American actors: “These actors are OK with it as long as they get paid. I’m sure Hollywood wouldn’t want to pay. They would want to use the images and keep using them.”They moved on to the crumbling state of Hollywood and the public perception of it: “It’s really difficult for the general public to really give a damn about what’s going on in Hollywood. ... They’ve treated their fans with contempt.” Marsden mainly refers to Disney and the multiple franchises it owns, such as Lucasfilm and Marvel. They also discussed AI’s generative script-writing capabilities. The emergence of AI threatens actors’ jobs and the creative process as a whole: “You’d hope that you can’t take the human element out of Hollywood, but eventually, it will happen.”To hear more about what Matthew Marsden had to say about Hollywood, AI, wokeness, and more, watch the full episode of “Zero Hour” with James Poulos. America was convinced tech would complete our mastery of the world. Instead, we got catastrophe — constant crises from politics and the economy down to the spiritual fiber of our being. Time’s up for the era we grew up in. How do we pick ourselves up and begin again? To find out, visionary author and media theorist James Poulos cracks open the minds — and hearts — of today’s top figures in politics, tech, ideas, and culture on "Zero Hour" on BlazeTV.

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