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As social media platforms have developed and provided a public outlet for once-private thoughts, bored soldiers in the U.S. military, with restless fingers and time on their hands, have turned to the internet as a means of expression. Often this results in viral dance videos set to pop songs that serve as inadvertent propaganda. But just as frequently, social media offers a space for the enlisted to express their frustration with the machine they find themselves employed by and subject to. I recently saw a TikTok filmed by an American infantryman in his barracks â the soldier making it walked around the bunks, asking the members of his platoon the same question: What would they tell their Army recruiter if they could talk to him now? The minute-long video is a compilation of one answer, delivered resolutely and repeatedly, by multiple soldiers: âFuck you.â
Bobby Darin
As Long As I m Singing
Sunday In New York
There s A Rainbow Round My Shoulder
Hello Dolly!
Charade
That Funny Feeling
I Wanna Be Around
Release Date: 6/8/1999
11/02/1999 (5 out of 5 stars) The very best in lounge music. Bobby makes every cut his own. His interpretation and style are truly original. Lots of brass and a great beat. Listening to this CD made me want to smoke a cigarette and drink something on the rocks (neither of which I do but it made me WANT to!)
The best Darin album available
Michael J. McVay (5 out of 5 stars) This is the swingin est Bobby Darin album on the market today. I usually try to avoid compilations, because I like to hear whole albums in their original forms, but this is a terrific collection of some of Darin s best from the Capitol years (1962-65). This CD keeps the momentum from beginning to end, and is reminiscent of Sinatra s exuberant swing albums, with Darin clearly enjoying himself on every single tra