Original music produced and arranged by Walter Afanasieff & Kenny G
This is a traditional song for the New Year, usually sung at midnight. It's origin is Scottish and Northern English. It translates as "old long ago (days)," or, in modern usage, "the good old times." Probably more than anyone would want to know about the song
The audio collage contains a variety of excerpts from the news with an emphasis on politics and entertainment. It focuses on the American experience of the 20th century.
The "transcript" is enclosed in quotes.
The speaker follows in upper case letters.
My comments follow (in parentheses).
AULD LANG SYNE (THE MILLENNIUM MIX)
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"The first words I spoke in the original phonograph, 'Mary had a little lamb. It's fleece was white as snow. And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go.'" - THOMAS EDISON
(reciting a familiar nursery rhyme. He invented the phonograph, the light bulb, the motion picture projector, the stock market ticker, the alkaline storage battery and hundreds of other things.)
"The Distinguished Flying Cross upon Colonel Charles A. Lindberg"
(He made the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20, 1927. He took off from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York and landed near Paris, France. The flight took thirty three and a half hours. Of course, he had to be awake the entire time, and alert enough to pilot a plane.)
"Today, paniced investors ordered their brokers to sell at whatever the price in the stock market crashed."
(In October, 1929, an over-valued stock market, with many owning shares purchased "on margin" or with borrowed money, crashed. Numerous men committed suicide rather than face bankruptcy. In response, the U.S. Government imposed stringent rules on the buying and selling of stocks. These make it less likely that a similar catastrophic devaluation could occur now. The insurance companies began to exclude suicide as an acceptable cau
