President Barack Obama, in my opinion, has grown into the visionary leader he is by living both sides,

the white and the [“colored”].  The country finally is getting its respect back as Mr. Obama works tirelessly:

1) not to blame the international and economic fiasco he was handed in every possible way on those that allowed it;

2) In not wasting time in playing blame games, the calm, cool, educated, teaching the nation by his own and the first family in general a fearless example of a Presidency set a course to make himself the best in United States history. The power to lead is the power to destroy.  The power to lead is conversely to power to *create community*.  Republicans can be a jealous of Secretary Clinton as they want, but they run on this very issue: it DOES take a village.  Where would the 1% be without our their golf and country clubs – oops I was living in a fantasy world for a moment – how unlike me!  Plus I got to use the crossout feature online for the first time since May 2005.

This aspect of Mr. Obama’s upbringing, as influenced by the two most important women in his life.  First, his mother, Ann Dunham who provided a meticulous education which began with the significant discipline of waking each day at 4 AM to study the basics on index cards to know the lesson once at school.  This allowed the young “Barry” to extend the horizon of what others has seen before.

Michelle Obama – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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I ask you to ask yourself: if your mom was a [white] woman from Illinois and your dad was a [black] man from Africa, throwing the obscenely irrelevant issue of the longitude or latitude of when the late Ms. Dunham gave birth, would you be inclined to run for and serve as the Commander In Chief of the United States?  Me neither.

The whole issue reminds me of the song by Judy Collins, a noted New York City fixture in Carnegie Hill: Joni MItchell’s BOTH SIDES NOW.  I had the wish, as my websites show, to know exactly how fast the song was – as I was grooving on Judy – and I wanted to create a loop in my iTunes player for mood uplifting reasons.  If you are reading this far – I know you do this, and if you don’t, try it and if you have any problems don’t hesitate to write me at njfreeschool@gmail.com – I am lucky to pass on good news.

I went on the internet to find what the exact tempo of the song was – I could not find any type of objective or even guessed at real number or speed, as one would find on a metronome, anywhere.  Below my signature is the list of sites that were secondary the clear thing I was looking for – the exact speed of the song.

“Clouds” has inspired essays full of adjectives, synonyms and shared meaning elements.  Objectively the recording was measured as

meanspeed®-Carlton Speed Summary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Dunham

File Kind=AAC audio file

Size=7.5 MB

Bit Rate=256 kbps

Sample Rate=44.100 kHz

Volume=-3.2 dB

Channels=stereo

extension=mp3

average time per beat=~0.49342 seconds

corresponding tonal frequency=518.8 Hertz

median expected tempo/meanspeed=121.6 beats per minute

file type=mp3

I thereby took it upon myself to map the tempo out myself.

Songs within 1% of the speed of Both Sides Now

Cover Me, Bruce Springsteen

Papa Was A Rolling Stone, The Temptations

Some Kind Of Wonderful, The Drifters

Stuck With You, Huey Lewis and the News

Bad Girls, Donna Summer

Louie, Louie, John Belushi in ‘Animal House’

Thanks, as always, for your time!

Ian Andrew Schneider

meanspeed® music therapy

March 12, 2012

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  Joni Mitchell

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Joni Mitchell – Clouds – Ladies Of The Canyon – Blue – For The Roses – Court And …. Already a well-known songwriter with hits for Judy Collins and Tom Rush, she …. Plus the record ends on a great gag: an up-tempo cover of the humorous …

  Both Sides Now in the style of Judy Collins Karaoke Version …
► 0:31► 0:31	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQs0KyUFLTMNov 30, 2011 – 31 sec – Uploaded by alphakaraoke Both Sides Now in the style of Judy Collins Karaoke Version … Graphics, Supreme Audio Quality …

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Aug 26, 2011 – … John Denver – I’m Sorry Judy Collins – Send In The Clowns Melissa Manchester – Through The Eyes Of Love Nino Tempo and April Stevens …

  Amazon.com: Judith: Judy Collins: Music

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The folk singer-songwriter Judy Collins was born in Seattle, Washington in 1939. She studied …. “Angel, Spread Your Wings” has a lighter tempo, a bit ethereal. One is lulled a little …. MP3s & Cloud Player; MP3 Music Store. Shop 19 million …

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“Touch Me” also had fellow Elektra artist Judy Collins’s own late 1968 biggie “Both … [And the seismic shift down in tempo in “Carpet Ride” done, of course, in the … part mentioned above regarding the mixing of “Both Sides Now“/Judy Collins …

  Judy Collins performs at the Craterian | MailTribune.com

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Jan 20, 2012 – Sixties folk icon Judy Collins will reprise her 50-year career … “Turn, Turn, Turn,” “Bring in the Clowns,” “Both Sides Now” and others — as she …

  Judy Collins at the Iron Horse | masslive.com

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Dec 22, 2011 – The tempo and tone of the performance was consistently subdued until … Collins saved “Both Sides Now,” for her set closer and then encored …

  Free Oldies Music – 50s & 60s Folk Music

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Judy Collins & Theodore Bikel – The Greenland Whale Fisheries. Judy Collins – Both Sides Now. Judy Collins … Limeliters – Generic Up –Tempo Folk Song …

  Judy Collins Both Sides Now

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• ·  Billboard – Nov 9, 1968 – Google Books Result

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Rick Hughes, Fort Wayne, WLYV, BP: “Both Sides Now,” Judy Collins, Elektra, and BH: “Love Child,” D. … Deep Purple — Nino Tempo & April Stevens (Atco) 3.
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“Both Sides Now” – Judy Collins, #8, 11-68. Judy Collins’s haunting voice and summersky blue eyes make this an … Tom-toms tattoo “Peggy Sue” tempo.

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… to use her voice like a jazz instrument, with abrupt shifts of tempo, octave, mood and volume. … Note: unable to find a recording of this song with those exact lyrics. ….. He would soon record Both Sides Now, renaming it Clouds, retrofitting its … Even though it was the middle of the night, he decided to call Judy Collins and …

• ·  Billboard – Jul 24, 1971 – Google Books Result

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• ·  The Foundations of Rock

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We’ll refer to Judy Collins’s “Both Sides Now,” with full unspoken knowledge that … will allow the reader to identify the exact spot at which a musical event appears. … Chapter 12 isolates rhythm, and here we cover all matters of tempo, rhythm, …

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‘Both Sides Now‘, written by Joni and then a hit for Judy, lured me to attend the latter’s. I would say “mistake’, but to be fair, Judy Collins was great that night, …

• ·  Billboard – Oct 26, 1968 – Google Books Result

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First is an up-tempo, driving version of the much-recorded ballad, while the flip is an easy … Phil-L.A. of Soul 320 *JUDY COLLINS–BOTH SIDES NOW (Prod.
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Judy Collins – So Early, Early in the Spring
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Judy Collins – Bohemian (Wildflower) ….. casually introduces strange and violent shifts in tempo and rhythm alongside deliberate and …… is identical, the CDs reproduce the exact sequence of the gig (between-song anecdotes and ….. Get My Baby Out Of Jail, 19th century broadside ballad Wait Till The Clouds Roll By, and, …

• ·  Covers of L. Cohen

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Feb 18, 2012 – Collins, Judy, A thousand kisses deep, Democracy: Judy Collins sings Leonard …… Lalli, Famous Blue Raincoat, Tempo di Vento, Italy 1998, Ita, mc-7 …… Herft, Suzette, If it be your will, Both sides now, USA 2009, Eng, mc-30 …

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Oct 30, 2009 – The two best known versions are arguably Mitchell’s own recording of the song, which appeared on her 1969 album Clouds, and Judy Collins‘ …

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… who wants to know the exact purpose of every single process running in you …. Cheap Trick – If You Want My Love, Cream – N.S.U., Dave & Ansel Collins – Double Barrel ….. Joe Maphis & Larry Collins – Hurricane ….. Judy Collins – Both Sides Now … Ronnie Love – Chills and Fever, Lulu – The Boat That I Row, Nino Tempo …

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Judy Collins can be fairly claimed to be “Folk Royalty”, from her earliest albums … The single encore was “Both Sides Now“, another of her signature songs. ….. above, the tempo changes to the following Jig ‘Space to Breathe’ and the Slow Air …

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Judy Collins and Rhonda Vincent) Rows and floes of angel hair And ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons ev’rywhere I’ve looked at clouds that way …

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Sep 20, 2004 – I think that clouds mean both positive and negative things. …. I don’t like Judy Collins’s version very much. …. while the famous closer ‘Both Sides Now‘ is a mid-tempo folk standard with a pretty melody and pleasant guitar.

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