BHS class of 1984

Reunion was a blast. Hope everyone had a great time and I will post more photos soon!

BLOOMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1984

Tomorrow RAIN or SHINE

Bloomsburg High School Class of 1984

Invites you to the 25th Reunion

Saturday, August 29, 2009 4:00pm till ?

Moore’s pond in Buckhorn, PA

115 Buckhorn RD., Bloomsburg, PA

Cost $25 per person/$45 couple

Casual-outside event

RSVP REQUIRED by Aug. 7th

Payment and info. Sheet sent, if not attending please provide address to: Tammy@570-204-0640 Tarbabee05@verizon.net

Agenda 4-5 pm

HAPPY HOUR 5-7 DINNER 7:00-till ?

DJ/dancing/mingling

Menu by Reicharts Mardigras

Pig Roast, BBQ Chicken and the worksBeer/wine coolers/soda/water

It's the big day tomorrow RAIN or SHINE!!

See you there!

Pictures will be posted sometime after the event.

Class of 1984 MISSING In Action

The following list from the Class of 1984 is AWOL and Missing in action.

Thomas Austin

Sharon Bason

Wendy Johnson

Theresa James

Bill Lutz

Robin Masteller

Susan Miller

Terri Ranier

Brian Rubenstein

Rich Welliver

Tina Wise

Alexandria Zimmerman

If your name is on the list or YOU know where we can contact them about our REUNION please PLEASE

Please contact-me by email @ Saylesforce@hotmail.com

or on facebook as AJ Drumheller or Tammy Swisher Tarlecky, also on facebook or

tarbabee05@verizon.net

THANKS

Bruce, Madonna, Prince 1984 was quite a year

Bruce, Madonna, Prince! 1984 was quite a year
25 years ago, three of the most important albums dropped
COMMENTARY
By Tony Sclafani
msnbc.com contributor
updated 2:31 p.m. ET, Mon., July 20, 2009

It's a long article for a blog post but interesting and worth your time. Rock on.

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Suppose one of the best years in pop music happened and nobody noticed.

A quarter of a century ago, in 1984, three of the most significant pop albums ever made came out. The year saw Bruce Springsteen’s landmark “Born in the U.S.A.” released June 4, Prince’s masterwork “Purple Rain” drop June 25 and Madonna’s classic “Like a Virgin” get unveiled Oct. 29. In other words, three of the most important albums ever were released within five months of each other.

Strangely enough, 1984 has gone almost unnoticed in pop history because there was no discernable trend that emerged that year, which is always a prerequisite for a “big” year in music (think the British Invasion of 1964, the punk revolution in 1977 or the grunge explosion of 1991). Yet 1984 was the year the artists who would largely define the 1980s made their definitive statements.

Another reason the year gets overlooked is that there’s no generational “hook” for the media to latch onto. Look back to 1964 and you think of Baby Boomers. Mention 1991 and Generation X comes to mind. The artists that dominated 1984 attracted people from a variety of demographics. If anyone represented a generation it was Madonna, but Baby Boomer-centric publications like Time magazine seemed too preoccupied with criticizing her to hang a name on the legions of teens that identified with her.

Because of all this, 1984 is still better known as a novel on societal dystopia than as a year of pop utopia. All of which is a shame. The aforementioned albums have gone down as classics, consistently making various “best of” lists. Songs like “Glory Days,” “Material Girl” and “Purple Rain” have maintained their power, plus you can still put on these records without having to endure those wince-inducing “what were we thinking?” moments that ruin so much old music.
Born to reign -The most unexpected new superstar of the year, of course, was Madonna. When the year began, only a handful of dance music buffs had heard of her. By the time the year ended, no one would forget her. Credit Cyndi Lauper for paving the way for Madonna. In early 1984, people’s acceptance of Lauper’s idiosyncratic vocal style and persona gave notice that the world would accept a new kind of female star. Madonna, meanwhile, had released her debut album in 1983 to slow sales.
After Lauper, though, Madonna’s high-pitched, proudly “girlish” vocal style suddenly became commercial and the unique look she sported in the “Lucky Star” and “Borderline” videos didn’t seem too weird for MTV.

Those singles became unexpectedly belated hits, and pushed back the release of “Like a Virgin.” When it finally came out, it went platinum and delivered four top five hits and one No 1.
Springsteen was already popular, but few people suspected “Born in the U.S.A.” would explode the way it did. Pop music in the early 1980s was dominated by British bands, which were making Springsteen’s roots rock seem somewhat quaint. But the Boss was prepared for this brave new world, and made the album’s lead off single the groove-heavy “Dancing in the Dark.” It unexpectedly became his biggest hit to date, rising to No. 2 and the song’s video made Springsteen a regular on MTV, where he was previously barely seen.
Before long, Springsteen was as popular as the rock critics who championed him always said he’d be. “Born in the U.S.A.” topped the charts for seven weeks and went 15 times platinum domestically. The Boss had always been a huge concert draw; now his album sales were matching his live reputation. Seven hit singles were pulled from the album.

Springsteen might have seemed destined to be a household name, but Prince certainly wasn’t. Three years earlier, he went over so badly as an opening act for the Rolling Stones that he left their tour after just two dates. Yet “1999,” from 1982, gave him a Top 10 album and a trio of hits. When “Purple Rain” came out as a film and a soundtrack, the public was finally ready, maybe because Michael Jackson had paved the way for an African-American to reign.
“Purple Rain” stayed at the top of the album charts for nearly half the year, selling 13 million copies and spawning four Top 10 hits. Two of those hits went to No. 1; one of them, “When Doves Cry,” was the year’s top single.

All over the place- Not only were the top artists of 1984 not classifiable by style, neither were some of the other artists who made significant musical contributions. Run-D.M.C. released their groundbreaking debut album, which gave rap a less kinder, gentler feel and changed the rules of the genre. The film “Beat Street” was then considered a “break-dancing movie,” but in retrospect brought New York hip hop to the mainstream (along with pioneering rappers Afrika Bambaataa and Kool Moe Dee).

The indie rock scene found hardcore favorites Hüsker Dü release not one but two of their best albums, “Zen Arcade” and “New Day Rising.” The Replacements showed the first signs of being seriously great with “Let it Be” and the Bangles and R.E.M. offered two releases that were arguably their strongest of the 1980s, “All Over the Place” and “Reckoning.”

There was also a lot of commercial music only moms and dads could stand, but if you couldn’t handle the syrupy Phil Collins and Lionel Richie stuff, you could rock out to Billy Idol and Van Halen, both of whom put out some of their best work. The year even ended on a high note with the charity single “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” by the all-star group Band Aid.
When 1984 began, critics feared the still-novel MTV might seriously damage pop music by popularizing musicians who were more about looks than talent. For a moment that year it seemed the video revolution might not be so bad after all. That moment passed, of course.
© 2009 msnbc.com.
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31948450/ns/entertainment-music/

25 years

I have been thinking and writing some about the 25 year reunion that is just around the corner and this song is stuc in my head.....25 years....25 years....

What's Up lyrics by Linda Perry of 4 non-blondes

Twenty-five years and my life is still

Trying to get up that great big hill of hope

For a destination

And I realized quickly when I knew

I should

That the world was made up of this brotherhood of man

For whatever that means

And so I cry sometimes

When I'm lying in bed

Just to get it all out

What's in my head

And I am feeling a little peculiar

And so I wake in the morning

And I step outside

And I take a deep breath

and I get real high

And I scream at the top of my lungs

What's going on?

And I say, hey hey hey hey

I said hey, what's going on?

ooh, ooh ooh and I try, oh my god do I try

I try all the time, in this institution

And I pray, oh my god do I pray

I pray every single day

For a revolution

And so I cry sometimes

When I'm lying in bed

Just to get it all out

What's in my head

And I am feeling a little peculiar

And so I wake in the morning

And I step outside

And I take a deep breath and I get real high

And I scream at the top of my lungs

What's going on?

And I say, hey hey hey hey I said hey, what's going on?

Twenty-five years and my life is still

Trying to get up that great big hill of hope

For a destination

Reunion Info. 25 years

Bloomsburg High School Class of
1984
Invites you to the 25th Reunion
Saturday, August 29, 2009
4:00pm till ?
Moore’s pond in Buckhorn, PA
115 Buckhorn RD., Bloomsburg, PA
Cost $25 per person/$45 couple
Casual-outside event
RSVP REQUIRED by Aug. 7th
Payment and info. Sheet sent if not please provide address to:Tammy@570-204-0640
Tarbabee05@verizon.net

Agenda
4-5 pm HAPPY HOUR
5-7 DINNER
7:00-till ? DJ/dancing/mingling

Menu by Reicharts Mardigras
Pig Roast, BBQ Chicken and the works
Beer/wine coolers/soda/water

Invites are in the mail

BHSclassof1984Reunion ---Invites are in the mail!! Snail mail. They should arrive this week.

Addresses needed 25 years REUNION NEWS

A Note from Tammy-

Hi All:

Getting ready to send out the invitations. Just want to make sure I have your current home mailing address on file. Please reply back so I have the right address for you all.

Look for the invites to come in the next couple weeks.

Thanks,
Tammy

Tammy Tarlecky (tarbabee05@verizon.net)

tarbabee05@verizon.net

The King of POP is dead

Michael Jackson, 1958-2009
June 26, 2009, 2:10 AM EST
The King of Pop is dead
By Jonathan Zwickel Special to MSN Music
The King of Pop is dead.

Michael Jackson, the world's most successful entertainer, died Thursday afternoon in Los Angeles of apparent cardiac arrest. He was 50 years old. (I think everyone in the world knows this by now....hey I've been busy with my job.)

There is no questioning the gifts Jackson gave millions of people around the world. His humanitarianism is well documented, going back decades. (In 2000, he made it into the Guinness Book of World Records for "Most Charities Supported By a Pop Star." The number was 39.) His sales figures -- records, videos, concert tours -- are unparalleled. He never underestimated his audience or lived to any standard higher than his own. His music was always joyful, even at its darkest, and smart, even at its most accessible. It was the pinnacle of populism, the source of his royal title.

Over the past decade, Jackson fell victim to America's orgiastic cult of celebrity -- a gutless opportunism he unwittingly helped spawn. Personal problems and public scrutiny overshadowed the image of pop genius he cultivated during the 1980s. For the last year or so, Jackson was a recluse and an invalid, shepherded via wheelchair by a phalanx of handlers, seemingly enlivened only by his three young children. But for all the exaggerated reports of weirdness and allegations of sexual deviance, Jackson, or at least the idea of him, remained magnetic. Earlier this year he sold out 50 concerts at London's O2 Arena -- some 1 million tickets -- in a matter of hours. Whatever the news, his fans believed him still capable of magic.
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In considering the meaning of MJ, the difficulty is that, over the course of one of history's most public lives, the individual became inseparable from the myth and the myth became inseparable from the media machine that fostered it. In this sense, Jackson's life is both a catalyst and mirror of American cultural habits over the last 30 years, fraught with all the associated triumph and dysfunction and isolation. An entire nation watched him grow up before a live studio audience, foreshadowing the voyeurism/narcissism hardwired into the age of Facebook.

His first No. 1 hit, "I Want You Back," came out on the Motown label in 1970 with his band of brothers, the Jackson 5. Michael was 11 at the time. He followed with several successful solo albums throughout the '70s, but it was 1979's "Off the Wall" that put him on an unmatchable ascent. From there, he achieved colossal stardom during the Golden Age of Pop -- an age he came to define. That Golden Age brought our other remaining pop icons, Madonna and Prince.

It also brought MTV, where his video for "Billie Jean" was one of the first by a black artist to air in regular rotation. From there, Jackson's rise coincided with the channel's, his big-budget, radically choreographed concepts like "Beat It," "Thriller," "Bad" -- which was directed by Martin Scorsese -- and "Smooth Criminal" forever elevating the production standards for music videos. Along the way, MJ let loose some of the baddest dance moves known to man.
The '80s were Jackson's heyday, and it's accurate to view the decade as a simpler time. Celebrity journalism hadn't devolved into the lowest-common-denominator turkey shoot it is now. Rumors of Jackson's eccentricity -- a pet chimpanzee, a hyperbaric chamber, the Elephant Man's bones -- were spread playfully by Jackson himself. During this period, pop was in its primacy and Jackson truly was the king. It's an overlooked fact that his music was effortlessly progressive: from the disco-pop doubletime of "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" to Eddie Van Halen's hard rock riffs on "Beat It" to the electro-goth of "Thriller" to the astro-soul of "Smooth Criminal." Now entwined in the pop music canon, these songs stood out as wildly innovative at their vintage.

Though Jackson still produced great music, videos, and concert performances through the mid-'90s, he never fully recovered from 1993 accusations of child molestation. He felt betrayed by the public -- his public -- and the greater his exposure, the deeper his reclusion. Music changed in the '90s: Alternative rock altered the perceptions of mainstream success, and gangsta rap offered criminality as entertainment. Culture in general changed, and we, as consumers, changed with it. By the time of Jackson's second child molestation trial, in 2005 -- which found the singer not guilty -- he had become a punch line. Oversaturated, underempathized, cynical, we were cowed by sensationalism and unproven allegations. Heedless to truth, we wanted the tabloid story, mainly because it was all that was offered. If we danced to his music, it was with an ironic wink. But we still danced.

Even his death is a reflection of our age. The news was first reported on tabloid-style gossip Web site TMZ.com; His name was his name instantly elevated to Twitter's top hash-tagged search item; capsule tributes were posted on blogs and Web sites minutes after his passing.
Last year, on the occasion of Jackson's 50th birthday, biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli wrote a heartbreaking piece for the British newspaper The Daily Mail. He quoted Jackson: "It all went by so fast, didn't it? I wish I could do it all over again, I really do."
Michael Jackson's music speaks for itself. It's some of the most infectious, ebullient pop music ever made. Michael Jackson, for whatever reason, failed to speak for himself. His legacy, greater than words or numbers can convey, is entangled within our own media-fed obsessions and assumptions. We will always celebrate his art, but we should also learn from his life.
Jonathan Zwickel writes about music for the Seattle Times and is working on a biography of the Beastie Boys.


http://music.msn.com/michael-jackson/story/feature/?gt1=28102

Prince's new music

What year is it? Prince's releases new music and we are having our 25th Year Class Reunion!!

Weird. Interesting article.

http://music-mix.ew.com/2009/03/prince-lotusflo.html

BHS 25th YEAR CLASS REUNION

BHS 25th Year Class of 1984 Reunion.....A blast from the Past!!

Class of 1984
Type: Party - Reunion
Network:Global
Start Time: Saturday, August 29, 2009 at 3:00pm
End Time:Sunday, August 30, 2009 at 12:00am
Location:Shane Moore's Picnic Area by the Pond
Phone: 5707847895
Email:
Tarbabee05@verizon.net

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