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Off topic: VIDEO: “Sesame Street: Billy Joel And Marlee Matlin Sing Just The Way You Are.”

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From season 20, 1989. Two comments: 1. Maybe because Marlee Matlin is deaf, captioning at one point having Oscar as “[INAUDIBLE]” seems oddly funny. 2. I wonder if she originated the “dark-frame glasses make a girl really hot” phenomenon.  Yep. Hot in the specs.

Home defense hierarchy.

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ANOTHER NOT PRECISELY ON TOPIC, YET… Ellie Goulding’s “Burn” — Original versus Postmodern Jukebox cover.

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I  will say right off that I definitely prefer the PMJ cover. Sara Neimeitz  (center lead in PMJ version) is something of a fave of mine. She was also in the PMJ cover of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin ’.”   She actually got her start at age 4, when she got a chance to sing with BJ Thomas on stage . She actually knew the words to “Hooked on a Feeling.” Seventeen years later they reunited to record the song as a duet, and the year later they performed it on the Opry . ( A live performance here. ) ORIGINAL: PMJ COVER: LYRICS HERE.