The Hindenburg disaster is an incredible story. It was before WWII. It was only being used as Europe to America transportation, with a lot of passengers. But the song doesn't have anything to do with the video really. The video is actually distracting to the real meaning of the song. The song is a cover of an old blues song about The Great Flood of 1927 in several states in the Mississippi River delta. 500 people died, and it affected the lives of over a half million people. In any case, it's a great blues song.
I met Robert Plant a couple of years ago in a Gelato store. Such a nice man. He walked away and then came back and said something like: Thank you man for not hassling me. for not wanting my autograph. ( I actually did but I knew it was so uncool to ask). He then said. " Have a nice day, friend.' and he was gone. I then became the local hero for a few days..🤣🤣
John Popper from Blues Traveler is another amazing singer/harmonica player. If you haven't heard them look them up, top songs are, Hook and Run Around.
@@emilyalice1 A great memory for you ! I have met him and seen him play numerous times over the last 40 years , as I was a member of the same Rock Club as him - JB's Dudley. He has a home a few miles away from where I live and he is a director of my local football club = Wolverhampton Wanderers. But he would not have given you his autograph. neither would Page. I also believe Paul M has also stopped signing autographs. All for the same reason. People can sell them on e bay for hundreds of pounds. Paul M 's presently sells for around £400. I would imagine Robert Plant's go's for less. Ditto JP. So that is why he came back to you . People hassle him all the time.
When blues musical duo Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie wrote "When the Levee Breaks", the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was still fresh in people's memories. The flooding affected 26,000 square miles of the Mississippi Delta - hundreds were killed and hundreds of thousands of residents were forced to evacuate.
The Song is actually about a levee ( Dam) that broke and flooded an area of the Mississippi in 1927. It was Zeppelins version of an original song from 1929 by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe MCcoy.
The band named themselves Led Zeppelin because when they were first forming drummer Keith Moon from the Who said they would go down like a lead balloon, that’s why all the Hindenburg imagery on their album and this fan- made video 👍
@@myownchannel247 actually it was before Led Zeppelin, Page suggested Keith & a few other & himself, create a super group. Keith or some other musician said they’d go down like a Led Balloon, my guess to many egos. Zeppelin didn’t have the ego issues, they were all equal partners in the band, even though Page found all the members etc.
The Hindenburg blew up when attempting to land at Lakehurst, New Jersey, on May 6, 1937. It used hydrogen instead of helium as part of the restrictions of the Versailles Treaty. 13 of 36 passengers perished, as did 22 of 61 crew. It took about 30 seconds for the airship to be consumed in flames.
A stylized picture of the Hindenberg burning was on the cover of Zep's first album. That's why footage of it flying to NYC, then going up in flames at Lakehurst was added as the background of this video.
Congratulations on 70k Maddy! You still haven't listened to the studio recording of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven. Although I love their entire catalogue, their quintessential recording is the studio recording of Stairway to Heaven. I remember last year begging you to check out the studio recordings of "Stairway to Heaven" and "Since I've Been Loving You", because you had only heard the live MSG versions at that point. You eventually listened to Since I've Been Loving You, and it turned out to be one of your favorite reaction videos. The same will be true of the studio recording of Stairway. No doubt, it will touch your soul. I hope you read this, and I hope you check it out. I'm sure almost everyone would love to see your reaction to that masterpiece recording, which is one of the greatest achievements in audio recording history. Peace
When the Levee Breaks is a country blues song written and first recorded by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy in 1929. The lyrics reflect experiences during the upheaval caused by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.
It’s known as a Zeppelin hence the reference to the band name. Also shown on their album cover Mothership. Congratulations and nice pick from the greatest band ever.
To elaborate on why it is a cool band name, there was a saying at the time where you usually at least half jokingly talked about why something wouldn't work, especially a topic in conversation or an idea to bring forward, and you would roll your eyes and say, oh yeah man, that'll go over like a lead balloon. Meaning, a balloon that wouldn't float. So, couple that with the Hindenburg disaster, which was a flagship aviation unveiling introduced to the world at the time, and yet in the end when it was tethering to the very tall pole, much as any hot balloon at the time would do to sort of ground structure, static electricity ignited it, and unlike a hot air balloon, this thing was so huge and carrying passengers, a precursor to modern airline flight, and all of the heated gases inside it exploded. It was based on a big giant balloon actually used in WWI and maybe some in WWII, also known as a dirigible, and now in terms of flying over football games as a blimp, Led Zeppelin chose their name because it echoed the phrase, like a lead balloon, like a Led Zeppelin 😅
@@tomroome4118 While talking about their upcoming tour in America, Entwistle commented that the New Yardbirds would take to the air like a lead balloon. Keith came back with Lead Zeppelin. Their producer shortened it to Led.
@@bettyrose959 Not quite true Entwistle and Moon were toying with the idea of leaving The Who and starting their own band. After several more drinks they came out with the comments you mentioned but they were talking about their own possible future band. The table next to them contained members of the Yardbirds entourage who decided it would make a great name.
The Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst, New Jersey on May 6, 1937 brought an end to the age of the rigid airship. The disaster killed 35 persons on the airship, and one member of the ground crew, but miraculously 62 of the 97 passengers and crew survived.
Your so welcome! You earned it. People like you who wear their Hearts on their sleeves are successful! Can get hurt easily too, but its worth it in the end. Honesty pays off!👍🏼❤️🎉🎂
a song is a product of its time, and when enough time has passed, it becomes a tool to spur historical curiosity. in researching the song, one learns not only the surface topic, but also contextual events surrounding it.
Congratulations on 70k🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉💖💖💖💖💖💖💖🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 It's a pretty interesting story about this song and how they recorded it. It's a banger Robert plant on harmonica
Yes!!!! Finally someone is reacting to this song playing the right video! Everyone ends up playing a video that is just a picture while listening to audio. No one has ever done, that I've seen yet, of playing the video with it. Thank You.
nice congrats Maddy you deserve it and 100k you always bring laughter and joy. sometimes its get to have some lighthearted and sometimes heavy videos after a long day!!! keep it up.
They toured as the New Yardbirds for a short time. When Keith Moon of The Who heard them he commented they'd go over like a lead balloon. That's where they came up with name Led Zeppelin. The cover of their first album is a picture of the Hindenburg exploding. A great metaphor as they exploded on scene and became one of the greatest bands EVER!
Best band ever. The echo in the snare sound was "mainly" due to the binson echo machine used during the recording of the song. Glen Jones surely used the ambience sound of tht Hedley Grange house to capture some of the sound as mostly are aware of, however the snare soudn is def. from a binson, and of course Bonzo drum is stellar!!
Can I just say how great you look in that "new" shirt! You are a beauty and that shirt enhances that! Also, so glad you found this classic...Led Zeppelin is one of my favorites!
If you care, a zeppelin is an airship with a rigid frame, known as a dirigible. The Hindenburg was a German airship that caught fire when porting in New Jersey. The photo of the disaster is iconic. On Led Zeppelins first album cover is a representation of that photo. Blimps, on the other hand, are airships with no frame. As a bit of history, the United States would not sell helium to Germany because of Hitler. This forced the Germans to fill the envelope with hydrogen, which is flammable.
That balloon or blimp is called a zeppelin. When Led Zeppelin first came on the scene in 1968, there were jokes or perhaps critics that said they would go down like a lead zeppelin. That's how they got the name.
The song is actually about a levee that broke, & flooded the Mississippi area in 1927, killing so many & destroying homes & businesses. Yes the Hindenburg actually sadly exploded too, kill many too. A camera man was there to record the famous arrival of the Hindenburg, & filmed the tragedy. You can Google both disasters for more information. Some of my favorite Led Zeppelin songs are studio version of You Shook Me. Live at Earls Court the May 25,1975 version of In My Time Of Dying, that date is the best visual & audio. Both are very soulful Blues songs, watching them perform the last one is absolutely amazing.
I love that you shout out the bass guitar, but always keep in mind that with that rhythm section in that man, it is so intertwined with John Bonham on the drums. Dang, you are looking fine as always, and I also love how you let it play for a while while you really give yourself a chance to get into, and then your comments are always so thoughtful.
"On May 6, 1937, while landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, on the second of its scheduled 1937 transatlantic crossings, the Hindenburg burst into flames and was completely destroyed. Of the 97 persons aboard, 35 were killed. One member of the ground crew also perished."
"...we hit 70K!! Woo-woo! Confetti!!" Maddy, in that new top, you ARE the confetti! :D.....Congrats on the latest milestone! It's cool to see you coming so far as a one-woman army, keep up the hustle!
When Jimmy Page , left the Yardbirds, in mid sixties, after replacing Eric Clapton, who left to form Cream...he wanted to form a blues band, yet embrace the experimental sounds of the sixties...so he got Robert, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham....formed a band...but with no name, so a prominent Superstar in a band in that era made a flippant comment to a reporter in the trade magazine's, saying yea that Band will go down like a Led Zeppelin.( Lead Balloon) . Jimmy saw that , and said hmmm? ....Led Zeppelin. The rest is music history. ❤
Well, especially since the band was originally going to be "The New Yardbirds." I get why he'd go for that, but glad they settled on a name Keith Moon joked about.
At 7:26, that’s drummer Keith moon from The Who on the tambourine. He was drunk and walked onstage when they were in LA and Bonham and hi are the percussion section!
To piggyback on glass2467, "When the Levee Breaks" is a country blues song written and first recorded by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy in 1929. The lyrics reflect experiences during the upheaval caused by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. Led Zepplin covered it; it is the last song on their untitled 4th album released in 1971
Now Keith Moon (drummer for The Who) upon hearing the band for the first time said "this will go over like a Lead Zeppelin". They dropped the a hence led zeppelin was born. The Hindenburg was a blimp/zeppelin/derrigable. Before airlines you travelled by ocean liner or train. The trans Atlantic flight took place with Blimps. They were kept aloft by hydrogen gas. I'm sure you can figure the rest out.
The 1930s, when my parents were born, that was smack dab in between World War 1 and World War ii. But it was the great depression. Equally devastating definitely more devastating than World War 1 but World War II just kind of extended it, because now there was a threat of a single dictator or an alliance of dictators taking over the entire world with new technology. A lot of dark clouds but I do feel like a lot of people all over the world came together.
a fantastic interpretation of a 1929 classic ( v=W5VmVvsjyKw if interested ) By 1970 Memphis Minnie had a few strokes, was in a nursing home, and her social security benefits were no longer paying her bills. A magazine wrote an article about her issue and donations began pouring in. Then in 1970-71 this was recorded and the album released, and she began getting writer royalties for this song off each sale. Granted, it was only pennies. But one million pennies is $10,000 which was a LOT of money in the early 70's and this album sold MULTIPLE millions of copies before she died in 1973. I don't know if that was their intent for putting this concert fave on the album, but I like to think it was. Wholesome AF.
@@leighclarke269 if true, that doesn't just lend credibility to my suspicion if that's true as well it makes it so much more special. Going completely out of their way to help out a suffering, exploited, and long forgotten idol. Thanks! Such a great and thoroughly decadent group of guys.
Led Zeppelin were already established as a supergroup after LZ 1,2 & 3; but the release of this (LZ 4) took everything to a whole knew dimension. This is when everyone realized that Led Zeppelin were a "once in a lifetime" phenomenon.
Congrats on the 70K subscribers - the sky's the limit - -hope you only sail higher and higher - and i hope you never crash n burn. Like a lead balloon. Thanks for posting this one.
In 1973 the Mississippi was at one of it's all time highs. We would drive down River Road @ night and watch the ocean going ships going up river about a story above us, listening to this song. Fortunately, the modern control structures spared the region another 1927 style flood.
YAY! Congratulations Maddie! 100k l bet is right around the corner. Your very honest and transparent! Your a breath of fresh air and no I'm not flirting! Again congrats!!👍🏼🛡️❤️🙏🏼 🎉😁
Haha I'm not 'Wiser! David lol I'm grateful to have found your channel a few months ago. I subscribed but was too busy at the time go get into it. Now look! YAY
Legend has it that Led Zeppelins name is attributed to something that The Who's drummer , Keith Moon had said about their "sound" when they had to fulfill some contractually obligated concerts as "The New Yardbirds" saying that their music goes over like a Lead Balloon . Some creative spelling / word play later .... 😎
When my father was 6, my grandfather took him outside to see it fly by. (grew up in Southampton NY). The live audio recording from the day it burned up sticks with you.
Hey, Maddy. Congratulations on the 7ok. Love the new shirt. You should start planning ahead for 1ook. The Hindenburg disaster is actually on the cover of Led Zeppelin's first album. I'm surprised it wasn't prompted when you chose this song. Now, I'm interested as to whether you want to experience a psychedelic music trip with the guys. MISTY MOUNTAIN HOP is the way to go. I think you should also react to Robert Plant solo. Try these songs in your headphones. BIG LOG, TALL COOL ONE, and HURTIN' KIND (I'VE GOT MY EYES ON YOU). I really think you'll like these songs. Keep going and enjoy the music.
The Hindenburg was s passenger vessel and did in fact crash and explode May 6, 1937. You may have heard the phrase "Oh, the humanity". It was spoken by the reporter who filmed it
@MaddyReactions Very sad, indeed 😔 On a more positive note, you look absolutely radiant! Thanks for the awesome content and putting in the hard work, congrats again on 70k!
In Santa Clara, I was raised. We fished in 3 lakes (man made.) The Levy did break one fine day and we all went swimming! But the water was only a foot deep!
LZ used the Hindenberg as an album cover, but the name coms from when Keith Moon (drummer for the Who) first heard the idea for the band and said it would go over like a lead zeppelin. They dripped the "a" in "Lead" bercause they were, well, dropping another kind of "A"
The band's name was not a reference to the Hindenburg "going down", but the Hindenburg on fire was the cover of their first album. The song itself was and old blues sing. Think a levee on the Mississippi delta breaking. It's very powerful imagery.
I highly recommend the Playing For Change version which features Zepplin bassist John Paul Jones with video of the Katrina flooding which shadows the lyrics more closely.
Long story short, when Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones said they were going to form a band, Keith Moon (the drummer in The Who) famously said, "That band will go over like a lead balloon." So they named the band Led Zeppelin.
The masterful bass of John Paul Jones, he was an officianado on the bass. CHeck out the song Out on the Tiles from Led Zeppelin 3 if you want some great bass work. Also Ramble On and What is and What Should Never Be are great bass songs.
Hey Maddie, one of My favourite tracks from one of my favourite bands.. Travelling Riverside Blues is my favourite Led Zeppelin track, I might have to add that to my maddyreactions ko-fi list.. 😉 I’ve read a lot of comments on how Led Zeppelin got their name.. direct from Alice Cooper Jimmy Page ex Yardbirds when forming his new band wanted to call it the “New Yardbirds” and Keith (the loon) Moon said that’ll go over like a Led Zeppelin.. it had nothing to do with the band failing but the original name.. congratulations 🎊 🎉 on 70K subscribers.. Dave, your faithful Aussie minion..
It's a cool video for a Led Zeppelin song but being that this is a song (Cover song from 1929) about a real flood in 1927 Mississippi you would think they would have used flood footage for it instead like the John Paul Jones version with "playing for change" which is my second favorite version of this song. They did a FANTASTIC job with the international musicians all personally picked by JPJ I hear! Including Stephen Perkins on drums from Janes Addiction.
The Hidenburg design is much like that of the Goodyear blimp, although with a rigid frame. Notice that the blimp has a quite small passenger space beneath a large balloon. It's using helium, a noble gas that won't react with anything. Hydrogen is lighter and would create more lift thus the capacity to carry more people, but it loves to join oxygen in a reaction we call "fire".
"OH, THE HUMANITY..." Lakehurst, New Jersey, May 6, 1937... Naval Air Station in Manchester Township... ** ** ** ** The song has nothing to do with the catastrophe, not the airship catastrophe anyway, but a different, and much, much worse catastrophe that occurred a decade earlier.... >>>>>>-------..... "When the Levee Breaks" is a country blues song written and first recorded by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy in 1929. The lyrics reflect experiences during the upheaval caused by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. "When the Levee Breaks" was re-worked by English rock group Led Zeppelin as the last song on their untitled fourth album. Singer Robert Plant used many of the original lyrics and the songwriting is credited to Memphis Minnie and the individual members of Led Zeppelin.[1] Many other artists have performed and recorded versions of the song. ----****---- ----****---- .... Background and lyrics .... ----****---- ----****---- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. When blues musical duo Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie wrote "When the Levee Breaks", the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was still fresh in people's memories.[2] The flooding affected 26,000 square miles of the Mississippi Delta - hundreds were killed and hundreds of thousands of residents were forced to evacuate.[3] The event is the subject of several blues songs, the most popular being "Backwater Blues" by Bessie Smith (1927) and "Mississippi Heavy Water Blues" by Barbecue Bob (1928).[4] Ethel Douglas, Minnie's sister-in-law, recalled that Minnie was living with her family near Walls, Mississippi, when the levee broke in 1927.[2] The song's lyrics recount the personal toll on a man who lost his home and family. Despite the tragedy, biographers also see in it a statement of rebirth.[5] >>>>>>>>>>>>> ----- ..... But wait, that was just the overture, misdirecting your attention until the show starts..... headline.... "The House of Cards Burns Down and Sets the Earth on Fire".............................. The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, Crash of '29, or Black Tuesday,[1] was a major American stock market crash that occurred in late 1929. It began in September with a sharp decline in share prices on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), and ended in mid-November. The pivotal role of the 1920s' high-flying bull market and the subsequent catastrophic collapse of the NYSE in late 1929 is often highlighted in explanations of the causes of the worldwide Great Depression. Did you really think only a small fraction of one region of one country was only going to hafta pivot and then everything would be alright? Silly Rabbit, Trix are for kids........ It was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its aftereffects.[2] The Great Crash is mostly associated with October 24, 1929, called Black Thursday, the day of the largest sell-off of shares in U.S. history,[3][4] and October 29, 1929, called Black Tuesday, when investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day.[5] The crash, which followed the London Stock Exchange's crash of September, signaled the beginning of the Great Depression. ---------------------------------- next.... 1937... ten years later... half a continent east.... ----------------------------------- Herbert Morrison (journalist) Morrison and engineer Charlie Nehlsen[3] had been assigned by station WLS in Chicago to cover the arrival of the Hindenburg in New Jersey for delayed broadcast.[4] At the time, radio network policy forbade the use of any recorded material other than that used for sound effects, and Morrison and Nehlsen had no facilities for live broadcast. Even so, the results still became the prototype for news broadcasting in the years that followed. The event had no effect on this policy, and recordings were not regularly used until after the end of World War II. Morrison's description began routinely, but changed instantly as the airship burst into flames:[5] "It's starting to rain again; it's... the rain had (oh) slacked up a little bit. The back motors of the ship are just holding it (uh) just enough to keep it from...It's burst into flames! Get this, Charlie; get this, Charlie! It's fire, and it's crashing! It's crashing, terrible! Oh, my! Get out of the way, please! It's burning, bursting into flames and the... and it's falling on the mooring mast and all the folks between it. This is terrible, this is one of the worst catastrophes in the world. Oh it's... [unintelligible] its flames... Crashing, oh! Four- or five-hundred feet into the sky and it... it's a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. It's smoke, and it's flames now; and the frame is crashing to the ground, not quite to the mooring mast. Oh, the humanity, all the passengers. screaming around here. I told you: it... I can't even talk to people, their friends are on there! Ah! It's... it... it's a... ah! I... I can't talk, ladies and gentlemen. Honest: it's just laying there, mass of smoking wreckage. Ah! And everybody can hardly breathe and talk and the screaming, lady, I... I... I'm sorry. Honest, I... I can hardly breathe. I... I'm going to step inside, where I cannot see it. Charlie, that's terrible. Ah, ah... I can't, I... Listen, folks: I... I'm gonna have to stop for a minute because I've lost my voice. This is the worst thing I've ever witnessed."
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The Hindenburg disaster is an incredible story. It was before WWII. It was only being used as Europe to America transportation, with a lot of passengers. But the song doesn't have anything to do with the video really. The video is actually distracting to the real meaning of the song. The song is a cover of an old blues song about The Great Flood of 1927 in several states in the Mississippi River delta. 500 people died, and it affected the lives of over a half million people. In any case, it's a great blues song.
Well said.
Superb commentary and accurate historical analysis.
@@_tgwilson_ you said analy sis! cool!!! heh, heh....
Original was a great blues song. This, however is a Great Blues-Rock song! Heavy and Zeppified of course.
@@danmoc13 "Shut up, Beavis!"
It's amazing that someone who can sing like that can also play harmonica like that. Da goats
I met Robert Plant a couple of years ago in a Gelato store. Such a nice man. He walked away and then came back and said something like: Thank you man for not hassling me. for not wanting my autograph. ( I actually did but I knew it was so uncool to ask). He then said. " Have a nice day, friend.' and he was gone. I then became the local hero for a few days..🤣🤣
This and Nobody`s Fault But Mine contains some of the most stunning harmonica playing I`ve ever heard.
@@emilyalice1 Great story. He always struck me as a genuinely happy person.
John Popper from Blues Traveler is another amazing singer/harmonica player. If you haven't heard them look them up, top songs are, Hook and Run Around.
@@emilyalice1 A great memory for you !
I have met him and seen him play numerous times over the last 40 years , as I was a member of the same Rock Club as him - JB's Dudley.
He has a home a few miles away from where I live and he is a director of my local football club = Wolverhampton Wanderers. But he would not have given you his autograph. neither would Page. I also believe Paul M has also stopped signing autographs. All for the same reason. People can sell them on e bay for hundreds of pounds. Paul M 's presently sells for around £400. I would imagine Robert Plant's go's for less. Ditto JP.
So that is why he came back to you . People hassle him all the time.
When blues musical duo Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie wrote "When the Levee Breaks", the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was still fresh in people's memories. The flooding affected 26,000 square miles of the Mississippi Delta - hundreds were killed and hundreds of thousands of residents were forced to evacuate.
Exactly this! I'm not sure why the Hindenburg is in the video at all, it is completely and utterly irrelevant
This is by far my favorite Led Zeppelin song, Just greatness
The Song is actually about a levee ( Dam) that broke and flooded an area of the Mississippi in 1927. It was Zeppelins version of an original song from 1929 by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe MCcoy.
Oh wow!
The band named themselves Led Zeppelin because when they were first forming drummer Keith Moon from the Who said they would go down like a lead balloon, that’s why all the Hindenburg imagery on their album and this fan- made video 👍
So cool!
@@myownchannel247 actually it was before Led Zeppelin, Page suggested Keith & a few other & himself, create a super group. Keith or some other musician said they’d go down like a Led Balloon, my guess to many egos. Zeppelin didn’t have the ego issues, they were all equal partners in the band, even though Page found all the members etc.
@@sicotshit7068And this was years before that band that became Led Zeppelin actually formed in 1968.
@@josephkellard6432 yes that’s what I pretty much said.
The Hindenburg blew up when attempting to land at Lakehurst, New Jersey, on May 6, 1937. It used hydrogen instead of helium as part of the restrictions of the Versailles Treaty. 13 of 36 passengers perished, as did 22 of 61 crew. It took about 30 seconds for the airship to be consumed in flames.
A stylized picture of the Hindenberg burning was on the cover of Zep's first album. That's why footage of it flying to NYC, then going up in flames at Lakehurst was added as the background of this video.
Finally....some one hears and comments on how great the bass is in all zeppelin's songs!!!
Good choice, can't go wrong Led Zeppelin, love the new shirt looking gorgous as always 👍✌️💜
Thanks so much 🩷
was lucky enough to have seen them in the mid 70s. they were fantastic.
Thanks so much for more Zeppelin
You bet!
This is my dad's favourite song, he's 73 , so soulful and rock song... amazing 🤩
I concur with your dad! I just turned 73 !! In 1969 I went to my first concert and saw Led Zeppelin.
Congratulations on 70k Maddy! You still haven't listened to the studio recording of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven. Although I love their entire catalogue, their quintessential recording is the studio recording of Stairway to Heaven. I remember last year begging you to check out the studio recordings of "Stairway to Heaven" and "Since I've Been Loving You", because you had only heard the live MSG versions at that point. You eventually listened to Since I've Been Loving You, and it turned out to be one of your favorite reaction videos. The same will be true of the studio recording of Stairway. No doubt, it will touch your soul. I hope you read this, and I hope you check it out. I'm sure almost everyone would love to see your reaction to that masterpiece recording, which is one of the greatest achievements in audio recording history.
Peace
Ooohh!! Thank you 💕
When the Levee Breaks is a country blues song written and first recorded by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy in 1929. The lyrics reflect experiences during the upheaval caused by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.
It’s known as a Zeppelin hence the reference to the band name. Also shown on their album cover Mothership. Congratulations and nice pick from the greatest band ever.
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To elaborate on why it is a cool band name, there was a saying at the time where you usually at least half jokingly talked about why something wouldn't work, especially a topic in conversation or an idea to bring forward, and you would roll your eyes and say, oh yeah man, that'll go over like a lead balloon. Meaning, a balloon that wouldn't float.
So, couple that with the Hindenburg disaster, which was a flagship aviation unveiling introduced to the world at the time, and yet in the end when it was tethering to the very tall pole, much as any hot balloon at the time would do to sort of ground structure, static electricity ignited it, and unlike a hot air balloon, this thing was so huge and carrying passengers, a precursor to modern airline flight, and all of the heated gases inside it exploded.
It was based on a big giant balloon actually used in WWI and maybe some in WWII, also known as a dirigible, and now in terms of flying over football games as a blimp, Led Zeppelin chose their name because it echoed the phrase, like a lead balloon, like a Led Zeppelin 😅
@@stevedahlberg8680 from what I heard it was Keith Moon, The Who's drummer, who said the band would go down like a lead balloon.
@@tomroome4118 While talking about their upcoming tour in America, Entwistle commented that the New Yardbirds would take to the air like a lead balloon. Keith came back with Lead Zeppelin. Their producer shortened it to Led.
@@bettyrose959 Not quite true Entwistle and Moon were toying with the idea of leaving The Who and starting their own band. After several more drinks they came out with the comments you mentioned but they were talking about their own possible future band. The table next to them contained members of the Yardbirds entourage who decided it would make a great name.
The Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst, New Jersey on May 6, 1937 brought an end to the age of the rigid airship.
The disaster killed 35 persons on the airship, and one member of the ground crew, but miraculously 62 of the 97 passengers and crew survived.
If ya dig Led Zep ja may want to check out Rez Band Live Where Roses Grow and pretty Groovy
Looking forward to it big time! You'll love this song!
Yay
I have never heard Groovy, Yummy , and balloon ever in a Led jam... your a treasure ❤❤❤
So good!
Most excellent choice to celebrate. Congrats again!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Your so welcome! You earned it. People like you who wear their Hearts on their sleeves are successful! Can get hurt easily too, but its worth it in the end. Honesty pays off!👍🏼❤️🎉🎂
So true!
You were into it. Enough said!~ Saw them several times - so fortunate.
a song is a product of its time, and when enough time has passed, it becomes a tool to spur historical curiosity. in researching the song, one learns not only the surface topic, but also contextual events surrounding it.
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It's a pretty interesting story about this song and how they recorded it. It's a banger Robert plant on harmonica
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Yes!!!! Finally someone is reacting to this song playing the right video!
Everyone ends up playing a video that is just a picture while listening to audio. No one has ever done, that I've seen yet, of playing the video with it.
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The Hindenburg photo of the explosion is on their very first self titled first album
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nice congrats Maddy you deserve it and 100k you always bring laughter and joy. sometimes its get to have some lighthearted and sometimes heavy videos after a long day!!! keep it up.
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Maybe the most famous live radio broadcast ever..."oh, the humanity!"
That one phrase is still etched into modern society almost 100 years later.
They toured as the New Yardbirds for a short time. When Keith Moon of The Who heard them he commented they'd go over like a lead balloon. That's where they came up with name Led Zeppelin. The cover of their first album is a picture of the Hindenburg exploding. A great metaphor as they exploded on scene and became one of the greatest bands EVER!
The Drums & Harmonica are absolutely HYPNOTIZING! LED ZEP are thee GOAT no Equal, None even Close!!
Best band ever. The echo in the snare sound was "mainly" due to the binson echo machine used during the recording of the song. Glen Jones surely used the ambience sound of tht Hedley Grange house to capture some of the sound as mostly are aware of, however the snare soudn is def. from a binson, and of course Bonzo drum is stellar!!
The drum kit was in a tall, round (I believe round) stairwell at Hedley Grange. Bonzo got that insane echo/reverb/monster sound there, and only there.
Can I just say how great you look in that "new" shirt! You are a beauty and that shirt enhances that! Also, so glad you found this classic...Led Zeppelin is one of my favorites!
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If you care, a zeppelin is an airship with a rigid frame, known as a dirigible. The Hindenburg was a German airship that caught fire when porting in New Jersey. The photo of the disaster is iconic. On Led Zeppelins first album cover is a representation of that photo. Blimps, on the other hand, are airships with no frame. As a bit of history, the United States would not sell helium to Germany because of Hitler. This forced the Germans to fill the envelope with hydrogen, which is flammable.
Ha ha! Good on us. ❤
That balloon or blimp is called a zeppelin. When Led Zeppelin first came on the scene in 1968, there were jokes or perhaps critics that said they would go down like a lead zeppelin. That's how they got the name.
Keith Moon from The Who said they would go down like a led balloon.
The song is actually about a levee that broke, & flooded the Mississippi area in 1927, killing so many & destroying homes & businesses. Yes the Hindenburg actually sadly exploded too, kill many too. A camera man was there to record the famous arrival of the Hindenburg, & filmed the tragedy. You can Google both disasters for more information. Some of my favorite Led Zeppelin songs are studio version of You Shook Me. Live at Earls Court the May 25,1975 version of In My Time Of Dying, that date is the best visual & audio. Both are very soulful Blues songs, watching them perform the last one is absolutely amazing.
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I love that you shout out the bass guitar, but always keep in mind that with that rhythm section in that man, it is so intertwined with John Bonham on the drums.
Dang, you are looking fine as always, and I also love how you let it play for a while while you really give yourself a chance to get into, and then your comments are always so thoughtful.
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"On May 6, 1937, while landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, on the second of its scheduled 1937 transatlantic crossings, the Hindenburg burst into flames and was completely destroyed. Of the 97 persons aboard, 35 were killed. One member of the ground crew also perished."
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Maddy, in that new top, you ARE the confetti! :D.....Congrats on the latest milestone! It's cool to see you coming so far as a one-woman army, keep up the hustle!
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All these comments are great. so many people on the ball. love it.
Thank you!! 🙏🙏 Nobody ever seems to give John Paul Jones recognition. He is top 5 bassist and for sure a legendary musician.
He is sooo good!!!
SO TRUE!!!
Maddy is absolutely gorgeous it's unreal she is pretty thank you for the upload 😊
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The drums & harmonica are awesome. One of the most sampled songs ever. You can listen to the radio broadcast of the crash of the Zeppelin on YT.
Oh no way?!?
When Jimmy Page , left the Yardbirds, in mid sixties, after replacing Eric Clapton, who left to form Cream...he wanted to form a blues band, yet embrace the experimental sounds of the sixties...so he got Robert, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham....formed a band...but with no name, so a prominent Superstar in a band in that era made a flippant comment to a reporter in the trade magazine's, saying yea that Band will go down like a Led Zeppelin.( Lead Balloon) .
Jimmy saw that , and said hmmm? ....Led Zeppelin.
The rest is music history. ❤
I think it was hippers. Dream machine to turn around the spy approach. Weather for the day NB. A tourist attraction.
Well, especially since the band was originally going to be "The New Yardbirds." I get why he'd go for that, but glad they settled on a name Keith Moon joked about.
At 7:26, that’s drummer Keith moon from The Who on the tambourine. He was drunk and walked onstage when they were in LA and Bonham and hi are the percussion section!
To piggyback on glass2467, "When the Levee Breaks" is a country blues song written and first recorded by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy in 1929. The lyrics reflect experiences during the upheaval caused by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. Led Zepplin covered it; it is the last song on their untitled 4th album released in 1971
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Now Keith Moon (drummer for The Who) upon hearing the band for the first time said "this will go over like a Lead Zeppelin". They dropped the a hence led zeppelin was born. The Hindenburg was a blimp/zeppelin/derrigable. Before airlines you travelled by ocean liner or train. The trans Atlantic flight took place with Blimps. They were kept aloft by hydrogen gas. I'm sure you can figure the rest out.
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intelligent and thoughtful reactions from such a naturally beautiful person!
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The 1930s, when my parents were born, that was smack dab in between World War 1 and World War ii. But it was the great depression. Equally devastating definitely more devastating than World War 1 but World War II just kind of extended it, because now there was a threat of a single dictator or an alliance of dictators taking over the entire world with new technology. A lot of dark clouds but I do feel like a lot of people all over the world came together.
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Congratulations Maddy on hitting that 70k and love the new top! ❤🎉
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Their first two album covers for Led Zeppelin 1 and 2 have the Hindenburg on the front. Great reaction Maddy, love the new outfit!
Awesome thank you!
This a true next step in music!🌿🌸
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You look so amazing Maddie! I’m in love! 😍🥰😍🥰
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a fantastic interpretation of a 1929 classic ( v=W5VmVvsjyKw if interested )
By 1970 Memphis Minnie had a few strokes, was in a nursing home, and her social security benefits were no longer paying her bills. A magazine wrote an article about her issue and donations began pouring in. Then in 1970-71 this was recorded and the album released, and she began getting writer royalties for this song off each sale.
Granted, it was only pennies. But one million pennies is $10,000 which was a LOT of money in the early 70's and this album sold MULTIPLE millions of copies before she died in 1973.
I don't know if that was their intent for putting this concert fave on the album, but I like to think it was.
Wholesome AF.
Wow!
fyi they didn't play this live much at all
@@leighclarke269 if true, that doesn't just lend credibility to my suspicion if that's true as well it makes it so much more special. Going completely out of their way to help out a suffering, exploited, and long forgotten idol.
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Such a great and thoroughly decadent group of guys.
Led Zeppelin were already established as a supergroup after LZ 1,2 & 3; but the release of this (LZ 4) took everything
to a whole knew dimension. This is when everyone realized that Led Zeppelin were a "once in a lifetime" phenomenon.
Maddy, I love your new top !!! ( and the way it fits you !!!! )
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Yes ma'am I'm 68 years old the first time I saw Zeppelin was 1969 and all the shows at Madison square garden was a lot more.
Congrats on the 70K subscribers - the sky's the limit - -hope you only sail higher and higher - and i hope you never crash n burn. Like a lead balloon. Thanks for posting this one.
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In 1973 the Mississippi was at one of it's all time highs. We would drive down River Road @ night and watch the ocean going ships going up river about a story above us, listening to this song. Fortunately, the modern control structures spared the region another 1927 style flood.
What a beautiful way to start the day!
Morning!
YAY! Congratulations Maddie! 100k l bet is right around the corner. Your very honest and transparent!
Your a breath of fresh air and no I'm not flirting! Again congrats!!👍🏼🛡️❤️🙏🏼 🎉😁
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Haha I'm not 'Wiser! David lol I'm grateful to have found your channel a few months ago. I subscribed but was too busy at the time go get into it. Now look! YAY
Legend has it that Led Zeppelins name is attributed to something that The Who's drummer , Keith Moon had said about their "sound" when they had to fulfill some contractually obligated concerts as "The New Yardbirds" saying that their music goes over like a Lead Balloon . Some creative spelling / word play later .... 😎
When my father was 6, my grandfather took him outside to see it fly by.
(grew up in Southampton NY). The live audio recording from the day it burned up sticks with you.
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New shirt, Woot Woot Woot! 🎉.., giggle. ❤😂
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Hello Maddy, I’m a big zeppelin fanatic, keep them coming!! Maybe do “ babe I’m gonna leave you” next!
Hey, Maddy.
Congratulations on the 7ok.
Love the new shirt. You should start planning ahead for 1ook. The Hindenburg disaster is actually on the cover of Led Zeppelin's first album. I'm surprised it wasn't prompted when you chose this song.
Now, I'm interested as to whether you want to experience a psychedelic music trip with the guys. MISTY MOUNTAIN HOP is the way to go.
I think you should also react to Robert Plant solo. Try these songs in your headphones.
BIG LOG,
TALL COOL ONE,
and HURTIN' KIND (I'VE GOT MY EYES ON YOU).
I really think you'll like these songs. Keep going and enjoy the music.
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Oh, the humanity! Lakehurst, NJ. It was carrying passengers from Europe to the USA
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The Hindenburg was s passenger vessel and did in fact crash and explode May 6, 1937. You may have heard the phrase "Oh, the humanity". It was spoken by the reporter who filmed it
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@MaddyReactions Very sad, indeed 😔 On a more positive note, you look absolutely radiant! Thanks for the awesome content and putting in the hard work, congrats again on 70k!
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However this song is an old blues song about the flooding on the Mississippi River from the early 20th century.
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Worth checking out "playing for change" When the levee breaks, JPJ version with other artists, it is awesome!!!
I saw your Bill Burr reaction yesterday and subbed. You were at 70k, and today you're already at 71k. You'll be at 100k in no time.
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In Santa Clara, I was raised. We fished in 3 lakes (man made.) The Levy did break one fine day and we all went swimming! But the water was only a foot deep!
LZ used the Hindenberg as an album cover, but the name coms from when Keith Moon (drummer for the Who) first heard the idea for the band and said it would go over like a lead zeppelin. They dripped the "a" in "Lead" bercause they were, well, dropping another kind of "A"
The band's name was not a reference to the Hindenburg "going down", but the Hindenburg on fire was the cover of their first album. The song itself was and old blues sing. Think a levee on the Mississippi delta breaking. It's very powerful imagery.
It was a passenger balloon. Lots of people got off believe it or not. Google it. Great song. Great band.
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I highly recommend the Playing For Change version which features Zepplin bassist John Paul Jones with video of the Katrina flooding which shadows the lyrics more closely.
Long story short, when Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones said they were going to form a band, Keith Moon (the drummer in The Who) famously said, "That band will go over like a lead balloon." So they named the band Led Zeppelin.
Keith Moon, the drummer for The Who, gave Led Zeppelin their name per Jimmy Page. Looking even more Awesome than usual Maddy - love the new shirt!
OMG 😍 Numero 1 fan here.. Hi from Australia!! Awesome vid..
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Hey smiley...love your shirt...love your reaction. xxx
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Wowwww, school has really Changed, I learned about THE HINDENBURG in grade school, 70's and 80's
Yes, my school never brought this up
The masterful bass of John Paul Jones, he was an officianado on the bass. CHeck out the song Out on the Tiles from Led Zeppelin 3 if you want some great bass work. Also Ramble On and What is and What Should Never Be are great bass songs.
The harmonica is the most incredible part
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Your new shirt fits you very well.
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Babe ~ that shirt is epic! Thank you for wearing & sharing.
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Loved this reaction!!
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Hey Maddie, one of
My favourite tracks from one of my favourite bands..
Travelling Riverside Blues is my favourite Led Zeppelin track, I might have to add that to my maddyreactions ko-fi list.. 😉
I’ve read a lot of comments on how Led Zeppelin got their name.. direct from Alice Cooper
Jimmy Page ex Yardbirds when forming his new band wanted to call it the “New Yardbirds” and Keith (the loon) Moon said that’ll go over like a Led Zeppelin..
it had nothing to do with the band failing but the original name..
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Dave, your faithful Aussie minion..
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Oh, love the top as well.
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Oops sorry got a twofer! Lol 😂 got me all excited!
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🎊 yay on 70 k Maddy.
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It's a cool video for a Led Zeppelin song but being that this is a song (Cover song from 1929) about a real flood in 1927 Mississippi you would think they would have used flood footage for it instead like the John Paul Jones version with "playing for change" which is my second favorite version of this song. They did a FANTASTIC job with the international musicians all personally picked by JPJ I hear! Including Stephen Perkins on drums from Janes Addiction.
The Hidenburg design is much like that of the Goodyear blimp, although with a rigid frame. Notice that the blimp has a quite small passenger space beneath a large balloon. It's using helium, a noble gas that won't react with anything. Hydrogen is lighter and would create more lift thus the capacity to carry more people, but it loves to join oxygen in a reaction we call "fire".
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There has many covers of this song. My favorite two are W.A.S.P and Buckwheat Zydeco with B.B. King
"OH, THE HUMANITY..."
Lakehurst, New Jersey, May 6, 1937... Naval Air Station in Manchester Township...
** ** ** ** The song has nothing to do with the catastrophe, not the airship catastrophe anyway, but a different, and much, much worse
catastrophe that occurred a decade earlier....
>>>>>>-------..... "When the Levee Breaks" is a country blues song written and first recorded by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy in 1929. The lyrics reflect experiences during the upheaval caused by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.
"When the Levee Breaks" was re-worked by English rock group Led Zeppelin as the last song on their untitled fourth album. Singer Robert Plant used many of the original lyrics and the songwriting is credited to Memphis Minnie and the individual members of Led Zeppelin.[1] Many other artists have performed and recorded versions of the song.
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When blues musical duo Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie wrote "When the Levee Breaks", the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was still fresh in people's memories.[2] The flooding affected 26,000 square miles of the Mississippi Delta - hundreds were killed and hundreds of thousands of residents were forced to evacuate.[3] The event is the subject of several blues songs, the most popular being "Backwater Blues" by Bessie Smith (1927) and "Mississippi Heavy Water Blues" by Barbecue Bob (1928).[4]
Ethel Douglas, Minnie's sister-in-law, recalled that Minnie was living with her family near Walls, Mississippi, when the levee broke in 1927.[2] The song's lyrics recount the personal toll on a man who lost his home and family. Despite the tragedy, biographers also see in it a statement of rebirth.[5]
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headline.... "The House of Cards Burns Down and Sets the Earth on Fire"..............................
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, Crash of '29, or Black Tuesday,[1] was a major American stock market crash that occurred in late 1929. It began in September with a sharp decline in share prices on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), and ended in mid-November. The pivotal role of the 1920s' high-flying bull market and the subsequent catastrophic collapse of the NYSE in late 1929 is often highlighted in explanations of the causes of the worldwide Great Depression.
Did you really think only a small fraction of one region of one country was only going to hafta pivot and then everything would be alright?
Silly Rabbit, Trix are for kids........
It was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its aftereffects.[2] The Great Crash is mostly associated with October 24, 1929, called Black Thursday, the day of the largest sell-off of shares in U.S. history,[3][4] and October 29, 1929, called Black Tuesday, when investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day.[5] The crash, which followed the London Stock Exchange's crash of September, signaled the beginning of the Great Depression.
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Herbert Morrison (journalist)
Morrison and engineer Charlie Nehlsen[3] had been assigned by station WLS in Chicago to cover the arrival of the Hindenburg in New Jersey for delayed broadcast.[4]
At the time, radio network policy forbade the use of any recorded material other than that used for sound effects, and Morrison and Nehlsen had no facilities for live broadcast. Even so, the results still became the prototype for news broadcasting in the years that followed. The event had no effect on this policy, and recordings were not regularly used until after the end of World War II.
Morrison's description began routinely, but changed instantly as the airship burst into flames:[5]
"It's starting to rain again; it's... the rain had (oh) slacked up a little bit. The back motors of the ship are just holding it (uh) just enough to keep it from...It's burst into flames! Get this, Charlie; get this, Charlie! It's fire, and it's crashing! It's crashing, terrible! Oh, my! Get out of the way, please! It's burning, bursting into flames and the... and it's falling on the mooring mast and all the folks between it. This is terrible, this is one of the worst catastrophes in the world. Oh it's... [unintelligible] its flames... Crashing, oh! Four- or five-hundred feet into the sky and it... it's a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. It's smoke, and it's flames now; and the frame is crashing to the ground, not quite to the mooring mast. Oh, the humanity, all the passengers. screaming around here. I told you: it... I can't even talk to people, their friends are on there! Ah! It's... it... it's a... ah! I... I can't talk, ladies and gentlemen. Honest: it's just laying there, mass of smoking wreckage. Ah! And everybody can hardly breathe and talk and the screaming, lady, I... I... I'm sorry. Honest, I... I can hardly breathe. I... I'm going to step inside, where I cannot see it. Charlie, that's terrible. Ah, ah... I can't, I... Listen, folks: I... I'm gonna have to stop for a minute because I've lost my voice. This is the worst thing I've ever witnessed."