Replies: 64 Unseemly Comments
Was one of those dogs Luckie?
Posted by Phil @ 04/04/2003 08:31 AM PST
How romantic. "How did you meet?" "Well nature is funny..."
In my CD player, a couple of Canadian radio interviews. Separate interviews from February, 1960, with Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.
Very interesting to hear them talk.
DVD - Kino's version of Lon Chaney's PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.
VHS - TITANIC from 1953 with Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck
Posted by Jrand52 @ 04/04/2003 08:41 AM PST
CD -- Jason Robert Brown's
The Last 5 Years.
DVD -- French and Saunders
compilations
Both are brilliant stuff and may
stay in their respective
machines for some time.
Posted by Kurt @ 04/04/2003 08:46 AM PST
Kurt - Who are French and Saunders?
DVD - I suppose we'll watch another Godzilla this weekend and some more episodes of M*A*S*H
VHS - We never got to THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY last week. Maybe we'll have time this weekend although we are going to NYCO's CARMEN tomorrow
CD - Just got a package from P&S that I want to listen to - The Maurey Yeston with BB and others, LaChiusa's "First Lady Suite" and a CD by Darrius DeHass, a singer I had heard of but never heard until the last "Broadway By The Year" and who I really liked.
Cassette (remember them) - Some great old Bob Hope radio shows with guests ranging from Judy to Lucy to Crosby and everyone in between. This stuff is funnier than anything that passes as comedy today.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 04/04/2003 08:58 AM PST
How did I miss "Ask BK" this week? WAS there an "Ask BK" this week?
I'm stunned, I'm telling you, stunned! I'm not speechless, Oh! No! Never speechless.
Well, No! Not Never! But today, I'm not speechless!
I've won something on eBay so awesome to me -- so incredible to me -- that I remain stunned, and I don't have it in my hot little hands, but I'm nearly breathless in anticipation.
Oh! Yes! NEARLY breathless, but, as you will have noticed, NOT nearly breathless ENOUGH! Oh! No! NOT nearly breathless ENOUGH!
"What," you may have asked, "is Ron raving about NOW?" And well you SHOULD ask! Yes, Indeedy.
I do some odd searches from time to time because you NEVER know what will turn up -- or how things will be advertised -- you just NEVER KNOW.
I was simply searching eBay under "20th Century-Fox," hoping I'd find another of their in-house publications (called "Dynamo") which details all their product and stars/directors/writers for any given year.
I didn't find one of those THIS time. Oh! No! Not this time!
What I found was a listing for "20th Century Fox Bausch and Lomb 1956."
Doesn't that seem intriguing? For those "into" films, you'd probably guess it was a Fox lens for CinemaScope or something. Or, maybe, one of the brochures Fox issued for CinemaScope when it was launched in 1953.
BUT, the subject line had 1956 in it!
So, I had to look!
And what -- yes, WHAT??? -- do you think it was?
Ohhhh, this is going to be sooo anticlimactic for sooooo many of you -- but one or two of you...oooohhh, you're going to be amazed!
The item was an official Academy Awards Citation to 20th Century Fox and Bausch & Lomb for CinemaScope Lens Development. As this was the era of CinemaScope 55 (used in "Oklahoma!", "Carousel" and "The King and I"), I'm "guessing" that's the lens.
BUT...this certificate has the Oscar imprint, an Academy seal and ribbon AND it is signed by then-Academy president George Seaton and then-Academy secretary EDWARD B. POWELL!!!!
For me, getting this citation for 20th-Fox, from a year in which Fox made two of the great musicals of all time ("Carousel" and "King and I"), on which Alfred Newman was musical director (as he was for Fox), and both musicals were orchestrated :(as, indeed, were Newman's dramatic and comedy scores) by the SAME EDWARD B. POWELL -- why! Why!! It's like that Kevin Bacon-degrees-of-separation thing -- it's the next best thing to having obtained one of Alfred Newman's very own Oscars.
Actually, it's what it is...an OFFICIAL Academy citation given to a studio and manufacturer for technical achievement in a given year and signed by a great director and the greatest film music ORCHESTRATOR of all time (the same Edward B. Powell).
For those who are saying "Feh!" Trust me! It's quite a find!
I'll be agog for days!
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 04/04/2003 09:13 AM PST
WEL (with apologies to Kurt...hope you don't mind my answering WEL's question): French and Saunders are a British comedy duo. They are two women who did stand-up together, and also had their own sketch comedy show for a few years. Dawn French has also had a couple of successful series of her own, "The Vicar of Dibley" and "Murder Most Horrid." Jennifer Saunders is best known as Edina on "Absolutely Fabulous."
I love "What's in your VCR/DVD/CD player Day" here at HHW. Everybody's choices reveal them to be interesting people of rare taste, distinction, and refinement.
DVD: Snow White Super Duper Extra Special Edition (will watch it tonight, or tomorrow at the latest).
VCR: Broadway Melody (1929).
CD: Vertigo soundtrack.
Posted by Lulu @ 04/04/2003 09:16 AM PST
LOL - French and Saunders...LOL.
Such funny stuff.
Ron - congratulations, what a great find! I love EBAY. Stuff with history. And who would have guessed such a thing would end up where it has? EBAY has certainly and will continue to make Estate Sales and Garage Sales much more interesting as the years go by.
Lulu - Snow White is okay...but my favorite is still Sleeping Beauty, a Disney CinemaScope feature. Done in 'scope when they were still doing their live action features in old time ratio.
What was the first Disney widescreen live action feature?
Posted by Jrand52 @ 04/04/2003 09:24 AM PST
DVD player: Cabaret
VHS player: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
CD player: Threepenny Opera
Anyone want to guess what I'm teaching my kids about next week?
Posted by dlevy @ 04/04/2003 09:26 AM PST
Click on my name for an interesting story.
Posted by Gypsy Rose Lee @ 04/04/2003 09:32 AM PST
The first Disney live action film (not counting films that were part live/part animated) was "Treasure Island".
SLEEPING BEAUTY is being released on DVD in September in a deluxe 2 disc set. I assume it will be the full letter-boxed version. I remember when the film came out there were no stereo radios or tvs. On the "Disneyland" tv series (which was still on Wednesdays in those days) they wanted to show off the stereo from "Sleeping Beauty" so viewers were instructed to turn their AM radio to a specific station and place it to the left of the television and their FM radio to another specific station and place it to the right of the radio... the first home 3-channel stereo system.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 04/04/2003 09:39 AM PST
Jrand: Oh, so Snow White is "okay," is it? And so what is Pinocchio, chopped liver? ;)
I'll be getting Sleeping Beauty in September, too...
Posted by Lulu @ 04/04/2003 09:55 AM PST
Jrand: I LOVE that version of Titanic. Oh, it makes me cry.
CD at work: National Theatre production of Carousel and then I will switch to the BBC directly to listen to Stage and Screen on BBC3 and then over to BBC Radio Wales for Showtime w/Beverly Humphries
CD at home: An English import (I feel so British today) consisting of Jelly Roll Morton performances, Paris 90 w/Cornelia Otis Skinner (words and music by Kay Swift except for one or two songs) and another English import with performances by the lovely Deanna Durbin.
VCR: Taped from Turner a few weeks ago, one of the early Hollywood Revues.
Ms. Rose Lee, thanks for the information. Sounds like quite a time will be had on Broadway in the next few weeks.
Posted by Ben @ 04/04/2003 10:05 AM PST
Well I'm happy that ice cream day is over. Just like BK, I was so tempted to get in the car to drive to get some. But I resisited.
Bad news weather wise. I thought Spring was here. But apparently they are forecasting a mega-snow storm for tonight and tomorrow. I'm not sure how much of the east coast it will hit. But in Montreal they say 15-25 cms (i think that is about 6-10 inches). Yuck. The snow here has almost all melted. I had no idea there would be more. Double yuck.
Jennifer
Posted by Jennifer @ 04/04/2003 10:18 AM PST
Ben, let me guess...Hollywood Revue of 1929? I taped that one off TCM, too. It's really silly -- you'll like it. :)
Posted by Lulu @ 04/04/2003 10:31 AM PST
Me too, Ben. Barbara Stanwyck can say a volume with a look.
Thanks, Bill. Wow - technology isn't as advanced as we think...it's all been done before. I knew about Treasure Island...I was asking which Disney live action was the first Widescreen release?
Lulu - Sleeping Beauty is just my favorite. Pinocchio and Sleeping Beauty and the others just don't do it for me. Could be the music, but I am not sure. The way it's drawn is just very interesting to me.
dlevy...just a guess...Germany?
Rose Louise, thanks for the link. I had read ABOUT the story but hadn't read it. Of course the original production was NOT in 1964, but why should Reidel want to nickel and dime us to death with facts. 8-D
Posted by Jrand52 @ 04/04/2003 10:51 AM PST
For the 2nd Sleeping Beauty in my post above read Snow White.
Posted by Jrand52 @ 04/04/2003 10:52 AM PST
A certain dear reader from France will be very upset with any anti-Snow White remarks.
Posted by WARNING @ 04/04/2003 10:59 AM PST
It is better to have loved a short, than never to have love a tall.
Posted by Snow White @ 04/04/2003 11:02 AM PST
Message to Joan Crawford--care to clarify your little missal from yesterday, darling? I clicked and you are still online, much to my dismay. Am I missing something?
Posted by Bette D. @ 04/04/2003 11:07 AM PST
Ms. White: From a man who stands tall at 5' 3" I say Huzzah! Just ask my partner, Anthony, another Selected Short at 5' 4"
Posted by Ben @ 04/04/2003 11:09 AM PST
Just last Tuesday my ever-lovin' der Brucer and I picked up four DVDs. We got two versions of "Stargate," and two versions of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." This seems to be one of those marketing gimmicks, like getting two, two, two mints in one. In the case of "Stargate," we're treated to the Director's Cut and the Theatrical Cut. By Director's cut, they mean there's a few added scenes, not that we the viewers get part of the director's paycheck. As far as I can tell, there isn't much difference between the two versions, but they both have Kurt Russell acting butch, James Spader acting less butch, and serve as an excellent lead-in to the television series currently running on the Sci-Fi Channel (a der Brucer favorite).
I'm not as happy with the Roger Rabbit two-disc set. Disc One is listed as "Family Friendly," and includes all three Roger Rabbit shorts and a full-screen version of the film. Disc Two is for the "Enthusiast," has some very nice documentary stuff and the Widescreen version of the film. This bothers me: since when is the hack and slice of the full-screen version automatically "family friendly?" Widescreen isn't family friendly? Widescreen doesn't know how to "play well with others?" We can no longer take families to the theaters, because all they ever show is the widescreen release of the films? P'tooey is what I say. Der Brucer and I fully intend to take the grandchildren to see the widescreen versions of films in the theaters, provided all decapitations are done in a manner appropriate for a G rating (or PG, when the boys get older).
Posted by S. Woody White @ 04/04/2003 11:11 AM PST
DVD: THE RULING CLASS - I've loved the play & movie for years, now on to the commentaries.
CD: Squirrel Nut Zippers (HOT), Philip Glass (ITAIPU) and The Chad Mitchell Trio (AT THE BITTER END).
Posted by Drumm @ 04/04/2003 11:23 AM PST
Darling Bette,
I am deeply touched by your concern about the wonderful website (one of many) devoted to me, www.joancrawfordonline.com. If you had attempted to visit it yesterday afternoon, you would have been brutally re-routed to some sort of horrible Wisconsin farm equipment webpage. Thank heavens, it was just a mistake.
Again, a thousand thanks for your concern, and say hello to hubby Gary Merrill, darling. I don't care what other people say -- I don't think he looks so *very* much like a chimpanzee.
Posted by Lulu @ 04/04/2003 11:31 AM PST
CURSES!!! Foiled AGAIN! LOL!
Posted by Lulu @ 04/04/2003 11:32 AM PST
The MAIN difference between the two cuts of "Stargate" may be that the Director's Cut has DTS and the other may not (I could be mistaken).
If your DVD player and your reciever are not DTS-ready, it won't matter to you one whit...but for those of us who know the overwhelming difference DTS can make...well, it alters the home video experience as we used to know it.
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 04/04/2003 11:33 AM PST
Lulu!
Oh, my!
Are you saying someone might have been routed directly through a threshing machine yesterday?
That would have been rude.
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 04/04/2003 11:35 AM PST
Oh Drumm....hearing The Chad Mitchell Trio do "Hang On the Bell, Lizzie" is one of the highlights of my folk song period.
Anybody heard anything about 'The Big Wind' - Christopher Guest's new movie about just such a group as The New Christy Minstrels and/or The Back Porch Majority? I am impatient...
Posted by Jrand52 @ 04/04/2003 11:44 AM PST
Joan, you and Bette can brag all you want...but you NEVER did the Rhumba on ice skates, neither one of you. So there.
Posted by Vera Hruba Ralston @ 04/04/2003 11:45 AM PST
Joan? Bette? Vera?
HHW is becoming the seance of the internet.
I hear dead people!
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 04/04/2003 11:55 AM PST
Infinitely better than seeing dead flying things!
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 04/04/2003 11:59 AM PST
Jrand: It's "A Mighty Wind." :)
Here's a link to the trailer:
http://amightywindonline.warnerbros.com/index.php
It opens Wednesday, April 16, in extremely limited release (nowhere near me). :( Hopefully it will open wider soon. I LOVE Chris Guest/Eugene Levy fillms!
Posted by Lulu @ 04/04/2003 12:24 PM PST
DVD's West Side Story, bought mine of sale and very disappointed with it. 1st complaint: The chapter indexing is crap! You can't even skip to the beginning of the music numbers. 2nd complaint I would have loved to have a commentary track or even a music isolation track as well. 3rd complaint. They teased us with behind the scene film footage shot by one of the actor/dancers from the Jets. It would have been great if we could have seen it all.
4th The documemtary was really a puff piece. Where was George Chakiris? Or any of the other surviving actors. It was nice to see snippets of Natalie Wood's originally vocal tracks, but why not show them in their entirity?
Richard Beymer sounded like someone who
putting the blame on others who are not around to defend hemselves instead of acknowledging his own shortcomings in the role.
The French tracks had the songs in English, but when I lived in Montreal, Quebec I saw it in a french dubb where the songs were also sung in french!
While on the other hand I also in the process of watching Dogma. I caught the tail end of it on Comedy central. It was edited and dubbed for commercial tv. A wacked out comedy (like Blazing Saddles) that loses so much when it is shown in a "clean" version. So far I have watched the extras on this special edition and started to watch the film and so far like what I see.
CD: Alison Frasers A New York Romance.
Car CD: The Lord of th Rings: The Return of the King.
VHS: Apple Dumpling Gang for Bruce's two sequences.
CDC#2: Elegies
Posted by Michael Shayne @ 04/04/2003 12:48 PM PST
Oh, come on...did you *really* watch The Apple Dumpling Gang just "for Bruce's two sequences?" What about the part where Don Knotts is lifted up off his feet by Tim Conway (a rope is around his midsection...they were trying to break into the bank) and he dangles in mid-air whilst trying to make casual conversation with Bill Bixby? Now THAT is some good comedy.
What about the heart-stopping runaway minecar sequence? What about the tender romance between Bixby and pre-"Webster" Susan Clark? What about the running gag with the little girl saying in a tiny voice, "Mr. Donovan, I gotta go" (and believe me, it gets funnier EVERY time she says it)??
A masterpiece like The Apple Dumpling Gang simply must be viewed (and relished) in its entirety. Now go back and watch the whole thing. March.
Posted by Lulu @ 04/04/2003 01:04 PM PST
Michael---
Is that a recording of the William Finn "elegies" or something else with that title?
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 04/04/2003 01:05 PM PST
In the car CD player: Son has my car today. I hope he doesn't blow out the speakers like he did in his own car.
In the VCR: moot point. The tv went to Silicon Heaven this week.
Posted by Laura @ 04/04/2003 01:43 PM PST
On my harddrive I currently have 300 CDs. Right now I'm listening to "She's Leaving Home". Paul could sing maudlin with the best of them. When this song ends, I'll click to "A Day In The Life". This is my all-time favorite pop song.
I read the news today
oh boy...
About a luckie man
Who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well I just had to laugh
When "A Day In The Life" ends, I shall listen to a song from the Blade Runner soundtrack -- "Memories of Green". I could say more about this soundtrack, but the things I could say would open a "can of worms" and who am I to open a can of worms?
Posted by The Fugitive @ 04/04/2003 01:57 PM PST
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-Beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Posted by Roy Batty @ 04/04/2003 02:14 PM PST
Cds: Carly Simon "Anthology, Harry Nilsson "Legendary",Linda Ronstadt "Feels Like home" & M "Pop Music - the Best of".
DVD: not able to tell as Allan may read this!
VCR: this week's episode of "The Office". I think it is #8 and I have only watched the first one so far. I suspect only Allan will know the show.(or is is on cable?) As an ex Business Management teacher, I really think this is a great piece of writing.
Posted by Tom from Oz @ 04/04/2003 02:17 PM PST
Good Friday! -Oh, that's two weeks from now...
My VCR is the only played with anything in it right now: tapes of the So Graham Norton shows this week from NYC, and tapes of Queer As Folk and Six Feet Under.
Other than that... A pretty good day. Starting to cloud up now, but the sun was out again today. And I did get some laundry done, and scrubbed the tub too! Ah, domestic life!
Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 04/04/2003 02:36 PM PST
DVD - Waiting for Guffman
(can hardly wait for The Mighty
Wind!)
CDs - recordings of the
recitals I did last year as a
scholarship project... 3 full
recitals of Sondheim
Posted by Jed @ 04/04/2003 02:37 PM PST
What a dump!
Posted by Rosa Moline @ 04/04/2003 03:04 PM PST
Quelle dump!
Posted by Belle Poitrine @ 04/04/2003 03:04 PM PST
I believe 20,000 Leagues
Under The Sea was the first
Disney wide screen live action
feature........
"A Life On The Ocean
Waves..."
Posted by François @ 04/04/2003 03:23 PM PST
Oh, no, Belle Poitrine !
You would say :
" Quel dépotoir ! "
Posted by François @ 04/04/2003 03:40 PM PST
Quel dépotoir!
P-tah!
Posted by La Belle Poitrine @ 04/04/2003 04:12 PM PST
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was the first Disney feature filmed in Cinemascope.
I know, picky picky picky.
Posted by S. Woody White @ 04/04/2003 04:26 PM PST
All right, so what is the first
WIDE SCREEN one ??????
Some True Life Adventure, or
SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON
????
I don't have my books at the
hotel and my search on the
web has been in vain so far.....
Could it be "Grand Canyon",
shown as a "first part" to
Sleeping Beauty ???
So many questions......
Posted by François @ 04/04/2003 04:54 PM PST
In the DVD player:
West Side Story, Disc Two
. . . Which, to me, begs an "Ask BK" question:
Stephen Sondheim and Russ Tamblyn -- separated at birth?
Posted by Sigerson Holmes @ 04/04/2003 05:29 PM PST
VCR...
LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME - What a wonderful actor was Cagney. Another side of Doris, although I felt her performance lacked an arc. A solid performance by Cameron Mitchell. Good script.
HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE - Such stylishness and another good script. The performances were well-modulated throughout and Marilyn was endearing and funny. Cameron Mitchell in another good turn. Music by Alfred Newman. I'd forgotten about the overture at the beginning. Too bad I couldn't view this in letterbox. :-(
GODS AND MONSTERS - Will look at tonight.
PS TO LULU: Thanks for the link to a good site about Joan.
Posted by Donna @ 04/04/2003 05:36 PM PST
Lulu - thanks, yes A Mighty Wind....and I am sure it will be.
Well, I meant Disney film in widescreen/CinemaScope or any such process, so of course 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Thanks, Francois and S Woody.
What a lovely bunch of lyrics. Rain, thunder, and lightning here. But better than snow!
Cameron Mitchell Jr (not to be confused with John Cameron Mitchell) is also an actor and recently did a show in LA. I forget the title. He has said that his father was mentioned for James Dean's role in GIANT (George Stevens Jr told him) and also the John Garfield part in THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE.
Cameron Mitchell did a LOT of good work onstage and in movies. Chip looks uncannily like his father and if he didn't have all the money in the world, he might be more interested in acting...LOL. But he is a great guy!
Posted by Jrand52 @ 04/04/2003 06:11 PM PST
In my CD player at work: nothing. I'm not at work and I didn't listen to anything all day.
In my VCR: a tape to tape tonight's episode of "Mr. Sterling." I still have the last two episodes to watch before I can get to tonight's.
In my DVD player (in approximate order):
Far From Heaven
Carmen Jones
Futurama, Season 1
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
I have absolutely NO plans for this weekend. I will relax and watch DVDs! Well, that's the plan. We'll see if it actually happens that way.
Posted by George @ 04/04/2003 06:31 PM PST
In my cd player is some kind of
an odd thing I got recently: a cd
compilation, from UK, titled
"Liza Minnelli : The Capitol
Years", with loads of tracks I
had never heard before of a
very young Liza, who sounded
terrific then, with, will you hate
me for saying that ?, what I find
, shades of young Barbra S......
Now, what is also odd, is that
the people who put that
compilation -- a grabbag of
tracks from albums "Liza,
Liza", "Maybe This Time", "It
Amazes Me" and "There Is A
Time", well, those people
could NOT identify the
composers of "Wait Till You
See Him" and printed
"unknown".........to THEM but
not to US, right ???
Posted by François @ 04/04/2003 07:08 PM PST
Rodgers and Hart....right?
Posted by Jrand52 @ 04/04/2003 07:21 PM PST
Right !
You won't believe it
You can't conceive it
You won't believe your eyes
Wait till you see him
See how he looks
Wait till you see him laugh
Painters of paintings
Writers of books
Never could tell the half
Wait till you feel the warmth of
his glance
Pensive and sweet and wise
All of it lovely
All of it thrilling
I'll never be willing to free him
When you see him
You won't believe your eyes
Painters of paintings
Writers of books
Never could tell the half
Wait till you feel the warmth of
his glance
Pensive and sweet and wise
All of it lovely
All of it thrilling
I'll never be willing to free him
When you see him
You won't believe your eyes
Posted by François @ 04/04/2003 07:32 PM PST
Jrand: Chris Guest's MIGHTY WIND group, "The Folksmen," are scheduled to appear on Letterman next week, Tuesday 4/8. And anybody who appreciates the CM Trio, the Christys and the BP Majority is A-OK in my book!
Posted by Drumm @ 04/04/2003 08:32 PM PST
George---
When you view your "Mr. Sterling" tape you'll find a junior version of The Major Bowes Amateur Hour. The "season finale" (and most likely "series finale") ran a few weeks ago. It was supposed to be two hours but at the last minute was changed to one hour which means that at least one episode was never shown and probably won't be. At least that frees up Audra to return to Broadway if she can find a producer who won't mind if she only does four or five performances a week and has a good understudy for the rest.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 04/04/2003 09:28 PM PST
Drumm -- welcome from the land of lurkdom. Don't be a stranger any longer. Please post frequently.
Posted by Laura @ 04/04/2003 09:40 PM PST
Drumm - thanks for the heads up re:The Folksmen. LOL. I also like The Brothers Four of course and now and then you see them on tv in those 1960's movies such as Hootenanny Hoot. Or am I the only one who went to see that?
After these posts, I had to get out my LP's and listen to the BPJ do their versions of Rock Island Line and Rolling Down the Ohio. OMG - none of them could get into a recording studio today without a mop and bucket. LOL
Posted by Jrand52 @ 04/05/2003 04:26 AM PST
There have been a number of recent developments which you are not yet privvy to. Once you are made aware of these developments, you will finally understand reality.
Posted by Reality @ 04/05/2003 06:03 AM PST
Jrand: I'm a total 50s/60s folk group freak (Thanks, Mom!); RAMBLIN' (TNCM) was the first album I ever bought. The Christys are my favorites (up until the Sid Garris regime, of course), and I'm nuts about the CM3, B4, K3, Limelighters, etc. Dd you see the recent PBS folk reunion special during the most recent pledge drive? It was severely truncated, but great fun to see Lou Gottlieb, Randy Sparks, Barry McGuire, et al.
I was in Hootenanny Heaven (a very good place to be)!
Laura: Thanks for the welcome! I've been lurking for a spell, catching up on the Archives. BK himself invited me over after the recent spate of nastiness over on the musicals ng we both frequent. In fact, it was BK his own self who taught me how to quote using my newly-acquired WebTV on said ng several years ago, so I'm in his debt (as well as being an admirer).
Sorry for the prattling; I'm happy to be here.
Posted by Drumm @ 04/05/2003 06:05 AM PST
Jrand: I'm a total 50s/60s folk group freak (Thanks, Mom!); RAMBLIN' (TNCM) was the first album I ever bought. The Christys are my favorites (up until the Sid Garris regime, of course), and I'm nuts about the CM3, B4, K3, Limelighters, etc. Dd you see the recent PBS folk reunion special during the most recent pledge drive? It was severely truncated, but great fun to see Lou Gottlieb, Randy Sparks, Barry McGuire, et al.
I was in Hootenanny Heaven (a very good place to be)!
Laura: Thanks for the welcome! I've been lurking for a spell, catching up on the Archives. BK himself invited me over after the recent spate of nastiness over on the musicals ng we both frequent. In fact, it was BK his own self who taught me how to quote using my newly-acquired WebTV on said ng several years ago, so I'm in his debt (as well as being an admirer).
Sorry for the prattling; I'm happy to be here.
Posted by Drumm @ 04/05/2003 06:05 AM PST
Ooops...a typo -- spelling "privy" as "privvy". BTW, I have created a new word for typos that occur on HHW. Wait 'til you learn what that word is. It's a 4-letter-word which, as it just so happens, I entered into your Search Box earlier this morning.
Posted by Reality @ 04/05/2003 06:07 AM PST
Yeeeeks ---- my apologies for the double-post. (He hung his head and, reddened with remorse, slunk sullenly off in search of comfort food . . .)
Posted by Drumm @ 04/05/2003 06:57 AM PST
I had a double yesterday, Drumm.
Do you remember Randy Sparks singing and "acting" in COLLEGE CONFIDENTIAL? From your list, how could I forget The Kingston Trio and the Limelighters. Collectors Choice Music is doing a great job releasing all of this music on CD!
The PBS special was very enjoyable. Wish Ed Sullivan would release a collection of folk performances!
On this Saturday morning Reality is even more mysterious than usual.
Posted by Jrand52 @ 04/05/2003 07:04 AM PST
