Free To Be.... You And Me - Rosey Grier Performs 'It's Alright To Cry'

[bleever]

Run time: 02:22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqFuhCfb3Fk   Posted on YouTube: June 09, 2009 By YouTube Member: lamaladietropicale Views on YouTube: 28601   Posted on DU: January 06, 2011 By DU Member: bleever Views on DU: 466

 
"Raindrops from your eyes..."

Blast from ye olde past, in honor of John Boehner and his very large gavel.



It makes me cry, too.

[bleever]

1. Just to be clear, when I watched this in the living room with my dad

I thought (at the age of 10 or 11) that it was pretty cool for a football player to be letting boys know that their feelings were okay to have.

My dad (one of the nicest and most sensitive guys I've ever known) laughed at it while I sat there with him in the living room, and it gave me an indelible sense of how men have been taught, through the generations, to deal with their feelings.


Nonetheless, I think Boehner's displays show something other than being the master of his emotional domain.

[EFerrari]

2. Is this a Sesame Street song? Because I know it

and can't think where else I could have learned it.

[bleever]

3. It's been done on Sesame Street, but was written originally

for "Free to Be...You and Me", conceived by Marlo Thomas (who graced TV as "That Girl", with a fabulous sixties' apartment and wardrobe).

It was a pretty groundbreaking program at the time:

Free to Be… You and Me, a project of the Ms. Foundation for Women, is a record album, and illustrated book first released in November 1972, featuring songs and stories from many current celebrities of the day (credited as "Marlo Thomas and Friends") such as Alan Alda, Rosey Grier, Cicely Tyson, Carol Channing, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross, among others. An ABC Afterschool Special using poetry, songs, and sketches, followed two years later in March 1974. The basic concept is to encourage a post-60's gender neutrality, while saluting values such as individuality, tolerance, and happiness with one's identity. A major thematic message is that anyone, whether a boy or a girl, can achieve anything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_to_Be..._You_and_Me

[rasputin1952]

4. Rosey Grier is quite the man...

had a great football career, was there when RFK was shot, he is involved with all kinds of things for kids, and he crochets.

Another football great that does a ton of stuff for kids and others is "Mean Joe" Greene; off the field, there is not an iota of "mean" in the man.