Can You Guess The Number Of Chocolates In The Jar?
I'm sure you have some questions, and I'm here to answer them! If you're wondering...
OK, some specifics. Here is the jar!
The jar is approximately eight inches high and four inches wide. It curves in around the middle.
OK, are you ready to make your guess? Answer in the comments below. The first one to get it correct will be sent a real-life prize pack! You have until August 3rd at 5:00 P.M. EST to guess, and this post will be updated the following day with a winner (and the right answer)!
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Her most popular recording, 'Don't Touch Me,' reached No. 2 on the Billboard country chart and crossed over to the mainstream Hot 100 in 1966. A sensual ballad whose lyrics stress emotional commitment over sexual gratification, the song has been covered by numerous artists, including folk singer Carolyn Hester, reggae artist Nicky Thomas, and soul music pioneer Etta James. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up The song won Ms. Seely the Grammy Award for best female country vocal performance in 1967. The record's less-is-more arrangement — slip-note piano, sympathetic background singers and sighing steel guitar — was vintage Nashville Sound on the cusp of 'countrypolitan,' its pop-inflected successor. Advertisement 'Don't open the door to heaven if I can't come in/Don't touch me if you don't love me,' Ms. Seely admonishes her lover, her voice abounding with unfulfilled desire. 'To have you, then lose you, wouldn't be smart on my part,' she sings in the final stanza. She tortures the word 'part' for two measures until her voice breaks and, with it, it seems, her heart. Advertisement Written by Hank Cochran, who would become Ms. Seely's husband, 'Don't Touch Me' anticipated Sammi Smith's breathtakingly intimate version of Kris Kristofferson's 'Help Me Make It Through the Night,' which was released four years later. 'Don't Touch Me,' critic Robert Christgau wrote, 'took country women's sexuality from the honky-tonk into the bedroom.' Ms. Seely blazed a trail for women in country music for the candor of her songs, and for wearing miniskirts and go-go boots on the Opry stage, bucking the gingham-and-calico dress code embraced by some of her more matronly predecessors like Kitty Wells and Dottie West. In the 1980s, she also became the first woman to host her own segment on the typically conservative and patriarchal Opry. 'I was the main woman that kept kicking on that door to get to host the Opry segments,' Ms. Seely told the Nashville Scene newspaper in 2005. 'I used to say to my former manager Hal Durham, 'Tell me again why is it women can't host on the Opry?' He'd rock on his toes and jingle his change and say, 'It's tradition, Jeannie.' And I'd say, 'Oh, that's right. It's tradition. It just smells like discrimination.'" Ms. Seely worked with top-tier Nashville session players who were attuned to the soulful sounds in Memphis, Tenn., and Muscle Shoals, Ala., to build a career around recordings that plumbed themes of infidelity, heartbreak and female emancipation. The titles of some of her singles spoke volumes: 'All Right (I'll Sign the Papers)' (1971), about the ravages of divorce; 'Welcome Home to Nothing' (1968), about a marriage gone cold; and 'Take Me to Bed' (1978). Her unflinching vocals told the rest of the story. 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So, here's how this is going to work. I filled a jar with Almond M&Ms, and you are going to comment on how many you think are in the jar. The first person to guess the correct answer will be mailed a real-life treat: A BuzzFeed Prize pack! I'm sure you have some questions, and I'm here to answer them! If you're wondering... OK, some specifics. Here is the jar! The jar is approximately eight inches high and four inches wide. It curves in around the middle. OK, are you ready to make your guess? Answer in the comments below. The first one to get it correct will be sent a real-life prize pack! You have until August 3rd at 5:00 P.M. EST to guess, and this post will be updated the following day with a winner (and the right answer)!
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