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1997

1997 (check out the world events below the song index)

Song #270   |   Fifty Thousand Footsteps [Uriah Hill School Songwriting Residency]

Song #271   |   Coin Song [Uriah Hill School Songwriting Residency]

Song #272   |   I Like to Eat! [Uriah Hill School Songwriting Residency]

Song #273   |   I know Lots of Animals [Uriah Hill School Songwriting Residency]

Song #274   |   Temporary Tattoo Blues [Uriah Hill School Songwriting Residency]

Song #275   |   Keep Your Hands to Your Self! [Uriah Hill School Songwriting Residency]

Song #276   |   I’m Thinking [Uriah Hill School Songwriting Residency]

Song #277   |   I like to Move, I like To Groove [Uriah Hill School Songwriting Residency]

Song #278   |   The Rain Forest [Uriah Hill School Songwriting Residency]

Song #279   |   I Am The Humpback Whale   |   Breathing Underwater CD [Uriah Hill School Songwriting Residency]

Song #280   |   Navigate   |  Breathing Underwater CD [Uriah Hill School Songwriting Residency]

Song #281   |   I Didn’t Do It!   |   DrumSongStory Live! CD [Uriah Hill School Songwriting Residency]

Song #282   |   Purest Form of Trance   |   Purest Form of Trance CD

Song #283   |   Candle In The Window

Song #284   |   Waltz of the Dancing Granola Bars

Song #285 Best Day of Your Life   |   Thirsty For The Sky CD

Song #286   |   Light Over Your Shoulder

Song #287   |   Paying Attention (version 1)

Song #288   |   Ancient of Days

Song #289   |   Shifting Shape

Song #290   |   I Appreciate Your Company

Song #291   |   I Wreck My Soul (version 3)

Song #292   |   Season of Light

Song #293   |   Alleluia (Light of Light Come Fill)

 

Just in case you forgot, here’s a little bit of what was going on in the world in 1997:

World Events

World Statistics

Population: 4.378 billion

population by decade

Nobel Peace Prize: International Campaign to Ban Landmines and Jody Williams (US)

More World Statistics…

  • Hebron agreement signed; Israel gives up large part of West Bank city of Hebron (Jan. 16). Israeli government approves establishment of Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem, a setback in Middle East peace process (Feb. 26). Background: Middle East Peace Negotiations
  • US, UK, and France agree to freeze Nazis‘ gold loot (Feb. 3).
  • Hong Kong returns to Chinese rule (June 30).
  • Khmer Rouge hold trial of longtime leader Pol Pot (July 25).
  • Swiss plan first payment to Holocaust victims (Sept. 17).
  • European Union plans to admit six nations (Dec. 13).

U.S. Events

U.S. Statistics

President: William J. Clinton
Vice President: Albert Gore, Jr.
Population: 267,743,595

More U.S. Statistics…

  • US shuttle joins Russian space station (Jan. 17).
  • O. J. Simpson found liable in civil suit (Feb. 5).
  • Heaven’s Gate cult members commit mass suicide in California (March 27).
  • US Appeals Court upholds California ban on affirmative action (April 8).
  • Clinton exercises new line-item veto (Aug. 11).
  • Timothy J. McVeigh sentenced to death for Oklahoma City bombing (Aug. 14).
  • Two convicted in New York Trade Center bombing (Nov. 12).

Economics

US GDP (1998 dollars): $8,110.90 billion
Federal spending: $1635.33 billion
Federal debt $5498.9 billion
Median Household Income(current dollars): $37,005 billion
Consumer Price Index: $160.5
Unemployment: 4.9%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.32

 

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