Let's remember Hands Across America

You betcha

And here is what it was like

Remember that terrible song???

What was the point of it and did it actually work?

According to wikipedia: Hands Across America raised $34 million. According to the New York Times, only about $15 million was distributed.

It was a big thing in Ohio.

We're there some areas that didn't have any hands?

The song was pretty good.

The "official route" was quite narrow but a lot of places off it had big things where you could go and hold hands. All the radio stations played the song simeultaneously.

Olivia Newton-John stood in front of her store, Koala Blue, on Melrose Avenue, along with her hubby Matt Lattanzi and her new baby, Chloe.

The route

In New York

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My hands are too small. I didn't participate.

You could go to NY and hold hands with Liza, Yoko ono and Sean Lennon.

Or you could go to LA and hold hands with Lorna Luft, Catherine Oxenburg and others.

I wonder if Joey Luft participated?

Seems like a big deal but nearly forgotten

And Oprah made a commercial

Why the hell did they dip down into Indianapolis instead of making a straight shot across northern Indiana into Ohio?

They hit five cities in Ohio- I think it was the most active state.

it didn't reach.

I was on Wilshire in Beverly Hills. I was so crushed and disillusioned as a kid because there weren't enough people. There were groups of people and then long blocks of emptiness. People came on buses and all but it still wasn't enough.

I love the song still. It makes me weep. My anonymous confession is that it's one of the biggest regrets in my life that I didn't participate, even though the line was only a short walk away from where I lived. I look at the map and see how most people would have been too far away to join and yet I was only a few blocks from it. Seriously, I want to rend my garments when I am reminded of this.

[quote] I was on Wilshire in Beverly Hills. I was so crushed and disillusioned as a kid because there weren't enough people. There were groups of people and then long blocks of emptiness. People came on buses and all but it still wasn't enough.

LOL. Leave it to LA, a city of millions, to be too cool for school to care.

[quote]I love the song still. It makes me weep. My anonymous confession is that it's one of the biggest regrets in my life that I didn't participate, even though the line was only a short walk away from where I lived. I look at the map and see how most people would have been too far away to join and yet I was only a few blocks from it. Seriously, I want to rend my garments when I am reminded of this.

They should reboot it but make it just women this time

They should reboot it but make it just men this time, cock to ass.

Only straight people were welcome.

Cocks across America

r24-hates men

This line makes me LOL!

[quote] The Los Angeles Times reported that there were huge gaps in the line in some of the dodgier sections of East LA, and volunteers’ efforts to recruit people from their front porches to join the chain didn’t generate any interest.

It seems so corny and naive. We can all make a difference by holding hands! It would never work now someone would get shot within five minutes.

I wish we could wave a wand and remove the people who echo Hillary's divisiveness and then have a unified country.

I wish we could wave a porn star's big, floppy cock and remove R31's corniness and then have a unified DL!

I was a kid but wished I had joined. I remember thinking about going, but figuring it would be a zoo. Amazing that there weren't enough people in LA.

LA's reaction to Hands Across America, apparently.

Uh, guys? The song is fucking awful. It was awful then and it worse now. Cheesy, corny, treacly sweet. The worst sort of pablum. It made "We are the World" sound like Beethoven. There is a reason you haven't heard it since 1986.

Who are you people praising the song? You must be over 70 at least.

R35, We must learn to love each other. See that man over there, he's my brother.

I was in Hollywood at the time and participated in "Hands across Raymond Burr"

No, people stink! Why do people come up with these STOOPID group activities. We had someone in my office who wanted everyone to take a candle and stand in their front yards at night after 9-11 so that the space station could see the lights. I complained to management about this sow and they told her to knock off the crap.

'Hand-jobs Across America' -- now that has a ring to it!

So many hateful divisive people here, they'd probably take their automatic guns and spray the line with bullets, today!

Honestly, who are you people who think this is a good song???

I love the song, the sentiment and the video. I like that it shows Middle America and real Americans. The Hollywood types in it mildly spoil it because of they are anti-American but the ordinary people make up for it.

You're trolling a bit too hard, R42. Dial it back, Daisy.

I was a smart enough kid to hate the song then, and realize it was an artificial concept because most people can't stand their neighbors.

Re: the video posted at R41...

Was that Alfonso Ribeiro (who looks like he is in between "Silver Spoons" and "Fresh Prince of Bel Air") standing with two white youngsters whom I didn't quite recognize at first glance?

I feel like they were trying to make Shari Belafonte and Nona Hendryx happen throughout the '80s - but those ladies never quite took off. I remember the "cameos" that they would make in various productions (i.e. Nona in the "Sun City" anti-Apartheid video, and also - interestingly - in Bobby Brown's "On Our Own" video) - but funny how I remember them more for their cameo appearances than from their actual (solo) work.

"Hands Across America" may seem hokey now - since we live in far more complicated (to put it overly-nicely) times. As Johnny Weir has indicated, things have simply become far less wholesome over time.

Hands Across America <<< Voices That Care

Cheesy flyover crap.

We lived right on the route/map so we did it. I remember being very underwhelmed.

Virtue signaling should never be encouraged.