Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on July 16, 2016, 12:21:54 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes came full circle, and now it is time for you to post until the full circle cows come home.
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And the word of the day: CAESURA!
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First post after BK!
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T.O.D.
Without a doubt, the soundtrack of BEN HUR. I remember a school Christmas concert (when you could call it that), where the choir sang "Star of Bethlehem." I couldn't for the life of me, figure out where I had heard that song before. Once I got the soundtrack, it joined the OBC rotation. It was the only soundtrack to get that honor until the LION IN WINTER soundtrack was released.
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BTW, I prefer BEN HUR over KING OF KINGS anytime. BEN HUR was my very favorite Blblical film until Franco Zeffirelli' mini-series JESUS OF NAZARETH was released.
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BTW, I prefer BEN HUR over KING OF KINGS anytime. BEN HUR was my very favorite Blblical film until Franco Zeffirelli' mini-series JESUS OF NAZARETH was released.
My sister loves the Heston version of BEN HUR.
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BTW, I prefer BEN HUR over KING OF KINGS anytime. BEN HUR was my very favorite Blblical film until Franco Zeffirelli' mini-series JESUS OF NAZARETH was released.
My sister loves the Heston version of BEN HUR.
Has the new version been released?
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BTW, I prefer BEN HUR over KING OF KINGS anytime. BEN HUR was my very favorite Blblical film until Franco Zeffirelli' mini-series JESUS OF NAZARETH was released.
My sister loves the Heston version of BEN HUR.
Has the new version been released?
You mean the one with Morgan Freeman (not playing Ben Hur)? That'll be released next month. Here's the IMDb link:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2638144/reference
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Thank you. Was there some story that Morgan Freeman was going to play Ben Hur?
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I saw Morgan Freeman in HELLO, DOLLY!
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Thank you. Was there some story that Morgan Freeman was going to play Ben Hur?
No, but by referencing him, I just didn't want to imply that he was.
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I saw Morgan Freeman in HELLO, DOLLY!
That would be cool!
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Good night, George.
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Good night,Tom.
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First post in the daylight morning!
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Whatever that means.
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Thanks, TCB and JohnG, for the late-night comments last night.
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TOD: First movie soundtrack that i ever bought by myself was South Pacific.
The first movie soundtrack that i recall being so fascinated with that i played it over and over was Thoroughly Modern Millie. i was a big Julie Andrews fan, especially her take on the Jewish Wedding Dance. (I was a Yeshivah boy, after all.)
And do the Partridge Family TV songs count as a "soundtrack" - just wondering.
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I also recall a fascination with Rod McKuen, and really enjoying (and wearing out in spots) the "A Boy named Charlie Brown" and "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" soundtracks.
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Many cast albums bought all through the years, but those are my memories of soundtracks.
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Good morning to all
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TOD
I think it would be Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music. Played them to death.
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TOD part 2
My favorite instrumental soundtrack is John Barry's Somewhere in Time
He also uses Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini to great effect.
And many years later Don Black added lyrics to the main theme and it as used in the Las Vegas show EFX
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The Mary Poppins version we had was a studio recording which featured Marni Nixon as Mary Poppins. I'm not sure why we never bought the soundtrack when I was a kid.
I do recall seeing the movie with my cousin Lucille and her kids.
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Tod
I shall have to think on this...the first thing that came to mind was West Side Story. But actually that was my Dads LP and he who played it all the time
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I discovered last night that Netflix now has the original British House of Cards series... It is wonderful and I urge all of you to check it out
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Good morning, all.
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Today is a soup kitchen day
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At book sale.
Great notes. Must post later. Cheers! Vibes to all!
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Good morning, all!
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I need to vacuum this morning. Badly.
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!! 2 !!
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I had one doozy of a dream that I cannot put together now: something with the idiot Man From Philadelphia, closing the office, finding an apartment, and discovering that I had been deceived and other people were also living there, I was on the phone with the broker when I woke.
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Today, I have to tackle Sky's trip to Havana with Sister Sarah, the longest thing in the first act. I'd like to finish it by tomorrow night.
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DR CHAS SMITH was Footloose last night and now he is at ANOTHER Book sale.
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Soundtracks:
I really like Rozsa, and in high school, I played BEN-HUR, KING OF KINGS to death, along with that first Warner Brothers recording of the GWTW score. I also played DOUTH PACIFIC, KING & I, GYPSY, BYE BYE BIRDIE.
These days, hen I listen to a soundtrack, it's JULIET OF THE SPIRITS for Grandpa's elopement with the ballerina circus music, NORTH BY NORTHWEST, or PSYCHO, since Herrmann is so fantastic.
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We had a good audience last night. In fact, audience reaction added five minutes to our run time.
Things were better cue wise and entrance wise, so that is a good thing.
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I always liked the film KING OF KINGS, more than BEN-HUR. I did enjoy the BBC mini-series of B-H and I like the silent film version. There were several sequences in the mini-series that were not in the film, and I kept thinking, was that in the book? I read the book fifty years ago, so I bought another copy last year. I'll get to it.
Speaking of Rozsa, it's time for a good recording of THE THIEF OF BAGDAD score.
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TOD:
Valley of the Dolls
Star Wars
Harlow (Carroll Baker version....Neal Hefti)
The Ten Commandments
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TOD:
Valley of the Dolls
Star Wars
Harlow (Carroll Baker version....Neal Hefti)
The Ten Commandments
Yep! In the 1970s, I played STAR WARS to death.
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Saturday morning greetings! I skipped a trip to the busy northern Cincinnati 'burbs for an art supply demo this morning, because I was #5 on the waiting list for a seat. Didn't want to gamble that 9 people would be no-shows and decided to stay home and play with the art supplies I already have.
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The floor is vacuumed. I listened to the new cast recording of TUCK EVERLASTING, which I liked more than I expected. My friend John Clancy's orchestrations are quite lovely.
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TOD:
Growing up, we had the albums for the movies, "West Side Story" and "Sound of Music", which we played over and over for many years. But since those were Broadway musicals first, they really don't count.
I got the soundtrack to the Woody Allen movie, "Manhattan", which is all Gershwin music, but I hardly played it.
I also got the soundtrack for one of the "Batman" movies because it had a couple songs on it I liked, including "Kiss From a Rose" by Seal, but didn't play it much.
So, I guess there aren't any soundtrack albums I played a lot.
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Back -- with just a handful of things that I wouldn't exactly call Treasure (and neither would you), but good stuff at great prices. Not a bad haul for only browsing a couple of sections.
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It's amazing that with all of BK's early exposure and access to things, that we run nearly parallel on KING OF KINGS and BEN-HUR and their scores.
It was a little bit serendipitous that I fell in love with KING OF KINGS like I did. We were in one of our temporary houses in Fort Lauderdale prior to buying one, and for a year, we were renting a small but charming house ten blocks from the very center of town. And though small, it was still a bustling downtown then. I was ten or eleven and permitted to walk hither and yon, and it was no more than a 12-block walk to either of the two main downtown theaters. I don't remember what first got me to seeing KING OF KINGS -- quite possibly the family went -- but a junior high school friend and I found we were both quite taken with it, and its music, and we walked to it more than a few times.
Just about this time my dad and mom bought their first real stereo (a floor model console), and one of the first new records I got for myself was that wonderful blue MGM box set. And did I wear that record out? You better believe it. The copy I still have now is easily my third or fourth.
So, BEN-HUR as a film had completely passed me by because I simply wasn't of an age then to be interested in it. I don't remember how long it was before I finally saw it, or where, but I could never quite love it -- and I hate to say it, even Rozsa's score -- as much as KoK. Even now, I still feel I owe it a fair shake, and the big box Blu-ray set is sitting here waiting for me.
Someone mentioned the silent version, and I've really become interested in silents these past few years, so I very much look forward to getting to know both that and the Heston. I also have the silent KING OF KINGS, an old Criterion release, that I have yet to properly watch.
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So just to split this up a little bit (if I did it right we'd be on page 103 by now)...
To me, for years, Miklos Rozsa meant Biblical epics, and KING OF KINGS was so thoroughly in my bloodstream that none of the others have managed to made a dent. Of course now I admire him for many other films than these, but for a number of years these were it.
In 1977 or thereabouts I attended a small series of film seminars, all very informal, and one of those evenings was dedicated to Rozsa who was there to talk to us. They always showed a movie and then had their guest speak and take questions, but I don't remember what the movie was. It wasn't one of the epics, though. Anyway, the thing I always remembered him telling us, which was shocking even then, was that at some point they wanted to re-record all of his "epic" scores...and the scores themselves had been lost or destroyed, so he (and possibly others) sat down with the damn soundtrack records and the films and started transcribing as best they could. I believe the recordings got made, and these reconstructions might be what anyone who does these now is playing from.
I hope I'm not misremembering any crucial facts there, but I suppose it can be checked out pretty easily now.
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I have a PDF of the entire BEN-HUR condensed score, and I've always wanted to find one for KING OF KINGS. I was surprised to find this piano selections book had existed, because I surely would have bought it back in the day. I at least have a PDF of it now. (Making a JPEG of it to post here.)
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I need to vacuum this morning. Badly.
Reminded of the quip from the play MONEY TALKS: "Nature abhors a vacuum, and so does my cleaning lady."
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Ben-Hur certainly has a great pre-curtain opening statement.
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Finally (do I hear a sigh of relief?), a couple of lifelong favorite themes:
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And the word of the day: CAESURA!
Might even be a few of those in there if we look hard enough.
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I'm up, I'm up after about nine hours of sleep.
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TOD - I have a question about the term "soundtrack." Is there a difference between the soundtrack for a musical - essentially the cast recording for a movie - and the predominantly instrumental soundtrack for a drama or comedy? In the first category, my earliest recollection of a purchase is probably FUNNY GIRL on LP. In the second, it would be BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID, also on LP.
One of my favorites from the second category is the soundtrack from CHOCOLAT, which I have on CD and my iPod.
And what about the recordings from movies like THE BIG CHILL and OH, BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? that are comprised of previously written/recorded music? Whatever those are, I like 'em both. In Nashville, we passed the studio where OH, BROTHER... was recorded.
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I just finished watching SAN ANDREAS on HBO.
My only comment:
If you live in California: MOVE!
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TOD:
RUN OF THE ARROW (Victor Young) was an early soundtrack I bought.
In recent years, I've probably listened to ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA more than any other soundtrack album.
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There was a little more excitement than necessary at the soup kitchen today
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But 81 were served and 80 were grateful
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But 81 were served and 80 were grateful
There's always one...
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Ain't it the truth DR GINNY. We usually have ONE at each performance.
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I shall soon be on my way to Performance Number Three of ON GOLDEN POND.....
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Hello, everyone.
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DR Jeanne, good to see you here. Where have you been lately? Things okay?
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It was a strange week. I put aside some time, intending to catch up on many things. But life seemed to conspire against me and little was done. Sigh.
I continue to feel saddened and disturbed by world events. I haven't felt very sociable.
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Thanks, Larry. The usual challenges, but I feel stuck in molasses.
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I watched JOY last night. I felt it could have been a better, tighter movie.
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I haven't caught up on the posts, but I did see that your reading, Larry, is cast or close to it. Congrats! The young girl singer was wonderful. She'll be in it?
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I discovered last night that Netflix now has the original British House of Cards series... It is wonderful and I urge all of you to check it out
I loved it, too, Vixmom. I couldn't get into the American version, because, to me, HOUSE OF CARDS is the British version.
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Congrats to the Vixter. It sounds like she'll have fun working there.
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Last night was my third night in a row with little sleep. I'm entering the zombie stage. Must try to get something done today.
Have a good weekend, everyone.
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We had a good audience last night. In fact, audience reaction added five minutes to our run time.
Things were better cue wise and entrance wise, so that is a good thing.
That is a good thing, Jrand. :)
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Well, Ttoday is going to be a day. First, I need to take a shower and get dressed, then I need to mail packages to DRs TCB and ArnoldMBrockman.
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Then, I want to go to downtown Olympia to the annual madness known as Capitol Lakefair (http://www.lakefair.org). Gotta get my Demo burger! Then, I need to check the mail of a friend who, with his wife, is on the east coast visiting her family and their friends.
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Then finally, my niece and I are going to the drive-in! We're going to see Ghostbusters and Finding Dori. My niece hasn't been to a movie in any cinema in about four years because of her hearing condition, but since you use your own radio for the sound, she can control the volume and finally see something on a REALLY big screen. :D
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Have a good day, all!
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I've been trying to think of other first soundtrack albums, to round out the KING OF KINGS picture. It's funny, but that could very likely have been my first. Prior to 1961, I can't think of any records my parents or I had that had anything to do with movies. In the year or so thereafter, I can picture having a few from the Rodgers & Hammerstein films, the PORGY AND BESS soundtrack, and finally the WEST SIDE STORY one. After that, all hell breaks loose, but this was the start of it.
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I haven't caught up on the posts, but I did see that your reading, Larry, is cast or close to it. Congrats! The young girl singer was wonderful. She'll be in it?
She's my choice, and I think she has the best pitch, but we are seeing four little girls on Monday afternoon. I hope we get a good little boy who can sing beautifully.
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Last night was my third night in a row with little sleep. I'm entering the zombie stage. Must try to get something done today.
Have a good weekend, everyone.
I hope this sleep situation passes, DR Jeanne!
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I continue to feel saddened and disturbed by world events. I haven't felt very sociable.
I just saw this cartoon on Facebook and thought about your comment, DR Jeanne!
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Then finally, my niece and I are going to the drive-in! We're going to see Ghostbusters and Finding Dori. My niece hasn't been to a movie in any cinema in about four years because of her hearing condition, but since you use your own radio for the sound, she can control the volume and finally see something on a REALLY big screen. :D
I am curious at a regular movie theatre is the sound too loud or not loud enough? The drive-in sounds fun.
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Sleep-well vibe for Jeanne!
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Back from a jog. Three hours to food.
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Good evening, all.
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It's been a full family day.
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I managed to find a little time to do some shopping for foodie gifts to take back to San Antonio.
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I think the funniest thing I found was chili powder made in Louisville. Funny, because the first commercially produced chili powder, Gebhardt's, was made in San Antonio. So, maybe it's like taking ice to the eskimos.
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Got no reading done. But didn't expect to.
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My parents and I played dominoes.
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And I snuck in a visit to White Castle for some sliders.
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They had a couple of new items, including deep-fried blue box mac-n-cheese bites and something called corn dog bites made from 100 percent chicken. The corn dog bites, well, bit.
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Let's move on.
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Four!
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TOD 1:
Mary Poppins was the first soundtrack that I owned and I was a precious 3-year-old spelling supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and talking about a man having dreams of walking with giants and carving his niche in the edifice of time.
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TOD 1.5:
The family had The Sound of Music soundtrack but it was never as popular with me, largely because I loathed (and still do) "Sixteen Going on Seventeen."
I thought Edie Brickell had a fun take on that deathless song in Bright Star called Whoa, Mama.
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TOD 2:
The soundtracks for Hello, Dolly! (given to us by someone in Germany and without a dust jacket) and Finian's Rainbow.
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TOD 3:
At Long Last Love. Made me a Cole Porter fan, even if the singing isn't the world's greatest. The music and those songs sold me.
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TOD 4:
The soundtrack to New York, New York. I still know every sax note Georgie Auld hit in those jam sessions. He dubbed the playing for De Niro and it's delirious. Much better to listen to than to watch
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There are most likely many others, but I can't think of any right now. I still have New York, New York on my iTunes list.
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David is running late (very typical) so I had to change the reservation to twenty minutes later - I'm starving but I guess twenty minutes won't make too much of a difference.
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Sleep vibes for DR Jeanne.
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Then finally, my niece and I are going to the drive-in! We're going to see Ghostbusters and Finding Dori. My niece hasn't been to a movie in any cinema in about four years because of her hearing condition, but since you use your own radio for the sound, she can control the volume and finally see something on a REALLY big screen. :D
I am curious at a regular movie theatre is the sound too loud or not loud enough? The drive-in sounds fun.
It's usually too loud, but that's not the only problem. She has hyperacusis where certain frequencies can also be painful.
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Topic of the Day: I don't remember the first soundtracks that I owned, but the earliest that I can remember my family having were "My Fair Lady" and "The Sound of Music."
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I'm at my sister's and my niece and I are about to leave for the drive-in.
Be back later...and not before tomorrow.
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Have fun at the movies, George.
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Good night, all.
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Back from a really fun birthday dinner with the Wechter. I had my filet, we split a small Caesar and a shrimp cocktail, and we split a baked potato and I was super good about the amount of butter, so I think all in maybe around 1200 calories, but even if it was 1500 I still jogged off two hundred so I'm fine.
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Page four? Really?
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Good evening!
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Sleep vibes to DR Jeanne.
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I tried to think of any other soundtracks I had growing up.
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For some reason, I had the soundtrack of SOUTH PACIFIC, rather than the OBC.
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I always loved Mary Martin, so don't know how I ended up with the movie.
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I gotta tell you.
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Actually, I have never owned the OBC of SOUTH PACIFIC.
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I can't remember if I had the soundtrack recording of MARY POPPINS, or if that was one my mom had in her classroom.
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My mom taught vocal music in a junior high school.
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The same junior high that I attended.
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So, I played in the orchestra and the concert band.
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And I would sing in the choir for concerts because she always needed tenors.
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I remember the Price / Warfield PORGY AND BESS belonged to her classroom, but it spent a great deal of time in my bedroom.
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One more to go.
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Five
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I remember listening to MARY POPPINS in her classroom, but don't remember playing it at home, so it was probably property of Tacoma Public Schools.
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Those, along with BEN HUR, are the only soundtracks I remember having when I was growing up.
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I did have a lot of OBC recordings, but that wasn't the Topic of the Day.
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I also had a lot of non-musical albums.
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I was a huge fan of the Supremes, later Diana Ross and the Supremes.
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I had every album that the Supremes released.
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My favorite album was probably I HEAR A SYMPHONY, but I had a personal affection for the soundtrack of their TV special titled "TCB"
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Hey, think how excited I was when I learned that Elvis wore a TCB ring.
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Greetings, 1 Guest!
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Who was your favorite girl group?
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I also had every Barbra Streisand album, probably through THE WAY WE WERE (the album, not the soundtrack).
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Okay, actually I had both.
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I scared away our one guest.
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Or they didn't like girl groups.
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I just finished watching SAN ANDREAS on HBO.
My only comment:
If you live in California: MOVE!
We are suposed to get hit even worse than So. California
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It was a strange week. I put aside some time, intending to catch up on many things. But life seemed to conspire against me and little was done. Sigh.
I continue to feel saddened and disturbed by world events. I haven't felt very sociable.
Fortunately for us we have been very distracted having fun with our friends.
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I have been watching the NITRO WORLD GAMES. That shows how exciting Saturday night television can be.
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Then finally, my niece and I are going to the drive-in! We're going to see Ghostbusters and Finding Dori. My niece hasn't been to a movie in any cinema in about four years because of her hearing condition, but since you use your own radio for the sound, she can control the volume and finally see something on a REALLY big screen. :D
I am curious at a regular movie theatre is the sound too loud or not loud enough? The drive-in sounds fun.
I have to take my hearing aids out during previews as the sound is too loud. The theater we go to has a pretty good sound system so I do fairly well without subtitles which we usually use at home. Sometimes I do need to turn the sound up on my hearing aids.
George can your niece wear hearing aids with her condition. I seem to recall that she can't.
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Sleep vibes for DR Jeanne.
DITTO!
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I need to read and hope my book puts me to sleep. I didn't sleep well last night and have to be up early tomorrow.
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I need to change computers.
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I also need to take my medications.
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'night
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'night
Good night, Jane.
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Hello, 1 Guest.
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Were you here earlier?
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I was here earlier, too.
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I was also a big Mamas and the Papas fan.
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One post more!
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Six
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I guess I should probably stop.
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Good night