ROTTEN TOMATOES ON EMMY WINNERS

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From Worldometer:

           DAY USA   WORLD   Brazil      India   South Africa

June      9    1093    4732        1185       246          82

July     19      412    4606          715       675          85

           22     1205    7128       1293     1120        572

Aug      1    1462     6429       1191       765        193

          10       534     4813         593     1013        198
          12     1504     6556       1242       835        130

          30       369     4182         398       960          47
Sept     3     1094     5886          830    1083        174
            6       432     4129          456    1008        110
            9     1208     6222        1136    1168          82
           13      392     3905          389    1140          20
           14      480     4374          454    1054          52
           15    1197     6001        1090    1283        142

           16    1012     6085          967    1139          64

           17      879     5568          857    1174          67

           18      958     5464          826    1221          85

           19      657     5141          708    1149          83

           20      294     3891          330    1135          13  

Summary: Monday figures are usually low.

Succession (outstanding drama), Schitt's Creek (four acting) and Watchmen took the major Emmy awards last night.  

                                             Rotten Tomatoes          Location

                                          Reviewers  Audiences

Watchmen                               95              55             HBO

I Know This Much is True      73              89            HBO

Mrs. America                           96              67             Hulu

Schitt's Creek                           92              96             Netflix

Succession                               92              89               HBO

Euphoria                                   82              85              Netflix

The Morning Show                   61              93              Apple+

Ozark                                          81              92             Netflix

Outstanding lead actress in a drama series winner was Zendaya from Euphoria:

Today, I begin to count down my 100 favorite songs.  A whole genre, novelty, occupies position #100:

• Cocktails for Two  Spike Jones
• The Flying Saucer 1&2  Buchanan and Goodman--the first mash-up
• Surfing Bird  The Trashmen--in 1963, a San Jose radio station played only this on their final day
• Monster Mash  Bobby Boris Picket
• Purple People Eater  Sheb Wooley
• Alley Oop  The Hollywood Argyles
• Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah  Allan Sherman
• Does the Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor  Lonnie Donegan
• Tip Toe Thru' the Tulips with Me  Tiny Tim--actually I truly hate this song
• Snoopy Versus the Red Baron  The Royal Guardsmen
• The Name Game Shirley Ellis
• Stranded in the Jungle  The Cadets
• Gregorian Chant  Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos

It came down to two:  Monster Mash (1962) and Gregorian Chant.  Love MM, but GC prevailed, for one major reason.  In my senior year at Stanford's annual singing contest, which draws a crowd of thousands, El Capitan, my eating club, wore hair shirts and sung a Gregorian Chant.  WE WON!!!  The monks first released their compilation in 1972, but did not gain popularity until 1994.  We should have put out an album, for our award came in 1962.  Thus, Gregorian Chant is #100.

The monks live in a Spanish abbey that dates back to the 7th century.  They originally sang a Mozarabic chant, but switched to Gregorian in the 11th century. Their album reached #3 on Billboard in 1994.  You can visit their home in northern Spain, located 131 miles south of Bilbao.

I've always wanted to visit that part of the world, where at one time was the best restaurant in the world, El Bulli, now closed, but the creator of molecular gastronomy.  San Sebastian, now the cuisine capital, is 58 miles away from Bilbao, home of the Guggenheim Museum.

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