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@ghoststarstalk This is not correct. He was only married once, and that was to Crystal Zevon from 1974 to 1979.

Thank you very much for posting this - it's marvelous.

With regard to the lyrics, McKuen translated many Brel songs and they were apparently close friends. I doubt any changes McKuen made were ones Brel would have disapproved of. Also, Brel's own versions of this aren't consistent. I suspect that he wrote many verses and versions, and then selected d...

It'd be nice if you would change the title of the video, if that's possible. This song is "New Hard Times" not "One for One". (There's no Stone Poneys song named "One by One".)

@Gordon102554 Sorry... It's mislabeled as "One by One" not "One for One".

@insanemagicguy Metal usage came in the order copper, bronze, iron/steel. The subject is complex, but iron/steel wasn't widely available much prior to around 500 BCE; by then, bronze had been in use for 1500-2000 years. Which is stronger depends on how they're made and what "stronger" means (tens...

@Brigando100: The upload comments seem to give her name as Kazuki Kurashiku.

Yeah... absolutely great. Not only could he play like that with his hands, he could also play without the drums... look up "Unsquare Dance".

She didn't do a bad job. For one thing, as somebody below said, it *is* a cabaret song. Listen carefully to Melanie do it - she slides into a Piaf-like vocalization a couple of times, and not just when she's singing in French. And as somebody else said, I'm really pleased that anybody under 50 kn...

@vincentwu Actually, in 1988 Steve Davis beat Steve Miserak at straight pool. Miserak and Eva Mataya played a series of exhibition matches against Davis and Fisher, playing both snooker and pool. I don't remember the overall result exactly, but it wasn't good for the pool players. I believe two M...

@lakewebster People have been doing it like this for 180 years or so; it works just fine. I've been doing it for 50 years without a problem. Given the number of idiots with cue lathes who think they can work on cues, you're better off doing it yourself unless you're absolutely certain the cue rep...

@gamerahs No, not English. Got turned on to snooker when I was in England in 1987. While I was there, Steve Mizerak and a young Ewa (then Mataya) Laurence played a series of exhibition matches against Steve Davis and an even younger Allison Fisher. I've been a snooker fan ever since, though I'm n...

Thank you very much for posting these. I was in England while these matches were being played and got to see them on tv in a number of very pleasant free houses.... very fond memories.

It doesn't look like a ring game; it looks like McCready and Platis are partners playing against Ronnie Allen. The bank at 1:15 was probably intended to hit the dark ball (6?); the real point was to try to leave Allen a hard shot. It looks like Allen is playing every other shot one-handed, which ...