Dick Clark wants to hear "Misty" for 2000...you know where

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If ABC goes through with its planned marathon coverage of the rollover in various foreign counties while it's still December 31st here in the U.S....

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0015ic

...I don't think many people will be showing up in Times Square for that annual tradition with Dick Clark:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990919/wr/clark_4.html

And I'd hate to be working in a convenience store or supermarket on December 31st. It'll be hectic, and the situation could become quite tense. Have you thought about where you'll be the morning of the 31st?

But "Misty" has class. What a great song...

-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), September 19, 1999

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Sunday September 19 12:36 AM ET

Dick Clark Wants To Hear 'Misty' For 2000

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Dick Clark, who presided over four decades of pop music as host of ``American Bandstand,'' has always declined to name his favorite song, but this week he came close.

The seemingly ageless TV personality and producer revealed a special affinity for the classic ballad ``Misty'' while promoting a Y2K song contest Thursday co-sponsored by Internet music company Tunes.com (http://www.tunes.com) and Philips Electronics.

The contest calls for entrants to submit a list of the 10 songs they believe would make the best collection for the upcoming New Year's celebration.

Asked which tunes might go on his own top-10 list of music for ringing in 2000, Clark insisted, as he always has, that he does not have a favorite song, then said, in a telephone interview with Reuters, ``There's only one song I would include. It's not my favorite song, but it's been with me since high school ... 'Misty.' ... It's one of those classics.''

Clark, 69, said the popular love song, recorded by the likes of Sarah Vaughn, Nat ``King'' Cole and jazz pianist Erroll Garner, had special nostalgic appeal for him, taking him back to his ``jazz phase in high school.'' He added, ``It's one of the most recorded songs of all time.''

As he has done annually since Dec. 31, 1972, Clark will usher in 2000 by hosting ``Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve'' broadcast from New York's Times Square, capped by the descent of a giant, illuminated ball.

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-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), September 19, 1999.


sure hope it,s not anthrax mist.- i prefer''delete me not my DAAARLIN''

-- puppy-power. (dogs@zianet.com), September 20, 1999.

Play it boys.... :-)



-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), September 20, 1999.


One more time, if you please...

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), September 20, 1999.

they,ll be singing>''LORD HELP ME JESUS, I,VE WASTED IT'SO HELP ME JESUS''

-- i,ll bet a stack of donut,s. (dogs@zianet.com), September 20, 1999.


Meanwhile... according to the Sunday London Times.. plans for the Millennial Bash include setting up a giant morgue in a sports stadium. Note the reference to suicidal cults. You know... those survivalist suicidal whackos. (or is it suicidal survivalist whackos?) :

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/99/09/19/s tinwenws01029.html?999

September 19 1999 BRITAIN

Giant morgue prepared for New Year disasters

Maurice Chittenden

A SPORTS centre with room for up to 1,000 bodies has been set aside as a makeshift mortuary in case of a disaster in London on millennium night.

More than 2m people are expected to line the banks of the Thames to celebrate the arrival of the 21st century. Emergency planners fear many could end up in the river, on purpose or by accident.

One reason the river event, known as Big Time, is being staged is to help divert crowds from Trafalgar Square, the traditional place of celebration.

But the waterside setting has raised safety concerns. Police, fire and ambulance services are to stage a disaster exercise using life-sized dummies in preparation.

Council officers will be paid up to #500 each to be on standby to open the Queen Mother Sports Centre in Victoria as a morgue. In the event of a major civil emergency, bodies will be laid across five badminton courts in the sports hall.

The government is considering closing some of the busiest Thames bridges, or allowing only police, fire engines and ambulances access.

The bridges will be among the best vantage points to see the promised "river of fire" show, a 15-minute firework display just after midnight launched from barges on the Thames. A control centre at Westminster city hall will monitor the crowds using closed circuit television.

Police have been trying to reduce the New Year crowds in Trafalgar Square since 1982, when two women were crushed to death and 193 people injured. In recent years the crowd has dropped from a peak of 120,000 to 70,000. The "river of fire" is intended to attract people away from the square to the Thames embankment.

Nick Raynsford, the minister for London, said: "I want to make it clear that in planning this event safety has been our prime concern."

A spokesman for the Port of London Authority, which will control boats on the Thames, said: "We have to assume the worst, which means not just the expectation that a number of people will be depressed and try to commit suicide or that cults may stage mass suicides, but that far greater numbers of people, sparked by exuberance and too much drink, will jump in for a laugh, not realising how much trouble they can get into."

-- Linda (lwmb@psln.com), September 20, 1999.


"Ahh yess... "I've wasted it so,,," and enjoyed every minute of it.

Misty is a wonderful song, but the movie with Clint Eastwood was verrry scary.

Gayla, thanks for the music; you're such a good girl. If Y2K doesn't crash everything, I'm going to learn HTML next year. Every now and then, I go over to Frugal Squirrel's site just so I can hear Silent Running. Interesting site BTW, espcially for gun nuts and conspiracy theory folks.

-- gilda (jess@listbot.com), September 20, 1999.


Wasn't there a song called "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" or something close to that? That would be appropriate.

-- enough is (enough@enough.com), September 20, 1999.

Thanks for the music--although I must say I HATE IT!!! If they expect mass deaths, why not cancel the celebrations? No, I guess not--too police state...

-- Mara Wayne (MaraWayne@aol.com), September 20, 1999.

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