Haines His Way
Archives => Archive 3 => Topic started by: bk on June 08, 2005, 12:06:36 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, you've found the notes both unkempt and kempt, and now it is time to post until the kempt kows kome home.
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And the word of the day is: FLANGE!
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As an actor, I like scenes with two actors and speeches both. As a director you can tell how well an actor works with another actor in a dialogue scene. With a speech, you can see how an actor holds the stage when he's out there on his own. Of course, sometimes auditioning with another actor can hurt you, if the other actor is incompetent. Then you have to quickly decide whether you can work with them or you have to work around them. Sometimes working with a bad actor makes you look all the better. I hate actor's who feel they have to do all the action in the script like grabbing you or miming a kiss. Just hold your script and read the words and make eye contact occasionally...this is an audition, not opening night..
Records of my parents that influenced me...I raided my father's 78's at an early age. He also had a record of Louis Jordan that I loved. I think the first stage album was probably MY FAIR LADY. They also had these BIG BAND record sets from Readers' Digest that were just great and I used to play a lot when I was alone in the house. A child's record we had called Gossamer Wump narrated by Frank Morgan was a treat. And Stan Freberg Discovers America...or whatever it was called was seminal...Another comedy album I remember was The First Family by Vaughn Meader. I also remember being fond of Dvorack's (is that spelt right?) New World Symphony and Gershwin's Rhasody In Blue.
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We had the usual South Pacific (which I was enamored of) and My Fair Lady (less so), and my father liked those Ed Sullivan knock-off records of shows, which he bought and which I liked, too.
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My parents had neither record player nor records.
First LPs purchased (jointly with my sister) were:
The Buddy Holly Story
Carousel - Soundtrack
Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs - Marty Robbins
Johnny's Greatest Hits - Johnny Mathis
Conniff Meet Butterfield.
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We also had several Danny Kaye LPs, which I played endlessly. We, too, had 78s, although I don't really remember too much about them. I do think that's how we had South Pacific. Once 45s came in, I used to get tons of free ones - all the cast-offs from the jukeboxes in my father's bars and restaurants.
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The speeches in this play are not monologues - they happen with another character on stage listening - but a couple of them are more than two pages long. I think that would be good to read for an actor. And I agree, simpler/better, in terms of trying to give an opening night performance in a reading. Another thing that drives me crazy is when actor's stick in a bunch of "you knows" and "wells" and "I means". If I want them in I write them, and I don't need any extra help. Even Tammy was doing it and I told her to stop it.
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FLANGE, baby, FLANGE. And I'm not kiddin'.
And now - Dino at the piano.
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Of course, we had the soundtrack to Around the World in Eighty Days - everyone did.
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My dad used to have an album by Barney Peters (from Canada, I think) but he was Irish. I don't remember the name of it, but the whole album was Irish songs. My sister and I used to listen to that all the time. Another album that we had was "The Wandering Minstrels" by the New Christy Minstrels. I mentioned it not too long ago and DR Rodzinski mentioned that he also liked and wanted it. I ordered the CD from deepdiscountcd.com and got an e-mail message on June 3rd that it was shipped. I still haven't received it yet. Also, I looked at my account at deepdiscountcd.com and it shows "0" shipped!! How rude!
Okay, mini-rant here: A couple of days after I ordered the NCM CD, I ordered three other CDs, the original Broadway cast recordings of Dreamgirls, Shenandoah and Two's Company, the last with Bette Davis. Dreamgirls was shipped with no problem, but when I received it, I went on-line to check on the status of the other two CDs. Shenandoah was listed as "backordered" and Two's Company was listed as cancelled! I never received an e-mail notice that it was cancelled! Then just today, I did receive an e-mail about Shenandoah saying that "The order was cancelled per your request" (I didn't cancel this!) and that "This item has been discontinued." I instantly went to amazon.com and ordered Shenandoah from there. This is not the first time deepdiscountcd.com has done this. I don't think I'll be ordering from them again any time soon. :P
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The cable man brought me a new modem yesterday, and now my computer is zipping along. The new modem is compact and its four lights all sparkle and flash, which is more than the old one did. I am very happy this morning.
My mother's family was all musical, and I learned to read from record labels in the late 1940s; my favorite was Khatchaturian's "Sabre Dance," recorded by the Boston Pops. While my parents liked music, they never listened to it except on tv and radion, mostly in the car. My brother and I had portable 78 player and tons of Little Golden Records, mostly of Disney film songs, and then strange items like Rosemary and Betty Clooney doing songs like "Eggbert the Easter Egg." I also remember a Little Golden Record of SWAN LAKE's "Dance of the Little Swans." My first LP was the soundtrack to THE KING & I after seeing the movie, and my first stereo recording was the BYE BYE BIRDIE original cast recording, a Christmas gift, along with my first portable stereo player.
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DR JED was confused yesterday.
When I said I was the host of a cable Academy Award Show I presumed people would understand it was like a Ebert and Roper go to the oscars where they review the nominations that year.
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Aside from our Christmas albums, I honestly don't remember being the least bit interested in my parents' record collection. I know they had albums by Dean Martin, Andy Williams, Ray Charles, Kay Starr--along with a lot of big band recordings. But such stuff didn't pull my fancy then.
I was sort of interested in my sisters' music, though right now all I remember is the Beatles' LPs and a couple of those teen party records.
My early record collection consisted of the Mary Poppins soundtrack, a knock-off of the Mary Poppins soundtrack (bought by mistake), Snoopy and the Red Baron, and a Charlie Brown and Lucy comedy album voiced by Kaye Ballard and Arthur Siegel.
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Our parents' LPs? How young do you think we are. My mother had 78s which was where I first heard Carmen Miranda. She also had some Garland, Crosby and many other pop singers and big bands from the 30s.
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La da DAH dee dah dah - a GYPSY reference.
Well - records...WELL!! Everytime we visited relatives, if they had records and a record player, that's what I DID! I played everything. And it got so I knew everyone's collection and knew what my favorite records were at which cousin's house.
We also had the ED SULLIVAN show LP's, I still have a few of them. And they were okay.
I got my OWN record player for my birthday when I was 12.
At that time I was buying mostly 45's - my first two purchased on my own with my baby-sitting earnings were ROSES ARE RED by Bobby Vinton and VACATION by Connie Francis, both played thousands of times!
Then I went to the dime store to get another record - and guess what? They had some cut out LP's for 88 cents! I looked and looked at the few in the bin and finally decided that 12 songs for 88 cents was better than two songs for 98 cents. I bought THE KIRBY STONE FOUR, which looked interesting and had some songs I knew on it.
I loved that album. TKSF imitated other singers, sang some songs straight, and were generally a fine, fine group. I had that LP for many years. Started my collection with it.
Show tunes - my first introduction to show music was an album my aunt gave me called JOHNNY MATHIS ON BROADWAY. He sang "Small World" and "You Are Beautiful" and "If I Had My Druthers" and I loved them all! Under each title on the label was a "from LI'L ABNER" or "from GYPSY" - and of course I started choreographing my own routines IMMEDIATELY!!
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But enough about me.
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At the age of 3 I was learning how to use our family record player and my favorite music was an LP of NUTCRACKER SUITE and SWAN LAKE. Other first favorites were my parent's album of GRAND CANYON SUITE and my LP of BAMBI.
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Some of my parents' records that were favorites included Fiddler (OBC)and the soundtrack to My Fair Lady. Also 1776, and The Rothschilds, which I know was in the house before I started purchasing records.
They also had a compilation released by Columbia, called "Broadway's Best" It was one record as I recall, but might have been two because it was in a gatefold album, with production photos and little blurbs about each of the shows inside. I remember the cover had little Hirschfeld's of all of the performers in the shows featured on the album. I specifically recall "The Party's Over" and "I Enjoy Being a Girl" being on the album, and a number from So. Pacific (I am pretty sure it was "Some Enchanted Evening"), but right now don't recall the others. Maybe "Rain in Spain"
My father, when he was still living at home, was big on Readers Digest collections, of light classical music. (His taste has become more discerning since then, as his second wife is much more of a heavy-duty classical music lover.) That is how I recall being introduced to the Boston Pops and Tchaikowsky, and orchestral music in general. Which I still much prefer to chamber, instrumental recitals, or classical vocals. In music, as with much of life, bigger is better in my book. :)
I think I have mentioned it before, but the first album I ever purchased with my own money was the OBC of MAME, bought at the Korvette's in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.
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Okay, it's all coming back to me...as if a veil has been lifted from my eyes...
I had a LOT of 45's as a kid. Many of them were Disney mini soundtracks, each with about four songs from movies such as Bambi, Pinnochio, Cinderella, etc. I had things like Fred Flintstone singing "Pebble's Lullabye" and Popeye and Olive Oly singing songs of the sea. One of my treasured 45's was a Kelloggs send-a-way which was a mini soundtrack to Hey, There, It's Yogi Bear.
I also remember enjoying one of my friends' 45's, which included Steve Allen's Be-Bop Fairy Tales.
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My father built his own stereo system when I was about 4 or 5.... he used to play West Side Story and Alan Sherman - My Son the Folksinger and Camelot all the time
When I was 5 I got my own record player (one of those in a box, with a handle that you can carry around with you) I have a distinct memory of lying on my bedroon floor listening to Bing Crosby singing "Swinging on a Star" Also the first reciord I bought with mny own money when I was about 6 was a Beatles 45 a "Hard Day;s Night" though I ended up preferring the "B" side "I Should Have Known Better"
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My first record purchase :D
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My father was a Sinatra fan so the first LP I can remember seeing around the house was Sinatra's "Come Fly With Me." But, being older, there were lots of 78s but not in albums. Just stacks of them with people like Kay Starr and Vaughn Monroe and the Decastro Sisters and Dean Martin.
The only show album I can remember them having (before I started buying every one I could get my hands on) was the soundtrack to SOUTH PACIFIC with Mitzi Gaynor and Rosanno Brazzi on the cover.
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DR George, Amazon will be able to get you TWO'S COMPANY. I got mine from them, and if you've never heard it before, I think the quality of the score will really surprise and impress you. I've had the LP for years but hadn't played it in awhile, and I had forgotten how lovely this score really is. Quite underrated, I think.
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[sigh] NIGHTMARE ALLEY came today (hooray!) but not ADVISE AND CONSENT or BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (darn!).
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I loved the record player we had when I was a youngen. It was a combo TV/radio/record player. The record player was in a drawer at the bottom that played four different speeds (has anyone ever had a record that played at 16 rpms?) Sometimes, the best fun was to be had by playing records at the wrong speed.
"Mmmmmoooooooonnnnnn.....Rrrriiiivvvvverrrrrrr..."
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Also the OCRs of LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA and SPELLING BEE came today. I may listen to LIGHT on the way to the theater tonight.
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I loved the record player we had when I was a youngen. It was a combo TV/radio/record player. The record player was in a drawer at the bottom that played four different speeds (has anyone ever had a record that played at 16 rpms?) Sometimes, the best fun was to be had by playing records at the wrong speed.
My grandmother had a couple of old records that played at 16rpms. They were thick rather than the thinner records like 78s and 33s.
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Another favorite 45:
DR Stuart reminded me that on one trip to Korvette's, my sister and I pestered my mom into buying the 45 of "My Grandfather's Clock". The singer was Larry Hooper (a Lawrence Welk Show regular), who bared an uncanny resemblance to our Uncle Henny. Uncle Henny would disappear for weeks at a time, and we were convinced that he was actually sneaking off to Hollywood to do his Welk appearances.
On the flip side of this 45 was Welk's "Calcutta". Both of these songs were hee-larious to play at 78 rpms.
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A fellow has a website where he is posting a different kids album each week from the golden age of kiddie records.
basichip.com
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You know what, I didn't have very many kiddie albums, but I sure do love the covers for them...the artwork is a lot of fun!
My parents evidently figured since I was listening to their LPs there was no reason to spend money on any kiddie ones...although I did have a whole line of the Magic Mirror Disney ones from the early 60s which might have been purchased by my grandparents.
Here is the Bambi one, which is the only one I ever listened to regularly.
(http://home.comcast.net/~hnbender/05dlpdBambi1.jpg)
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Gosh, I love records. It's fun to hear everyone talk about their formative ones.
Don't even get me started on the Kirby Stone Four, JRand, I absolutely love those guys! I'm guessing the LP you have is this cheapie that came out on a couple different labels and has them singing "How Deep Is the Ocean" imitating all kinds of vocalists.
THE GO SOUND and BAUBLES BANGLES AND BEADS are just wonderful albums.
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At the same time, I grateful to Warner Bros. for giving us so many great DVD collections, but I could throttle them for choosing so poorly. Why, oh, why, of all the Bette Davis movies they have at their disposal, would they choose THE STAR to include in their new package? Why not THE CORN IS GREEN or THE OLD MAID or ALL THIS AND HEAVEN TOO or A STOLEN LIFE or JUNE BRIDE or PAYMENT ON DEMAND or THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER? Just because she got an Oscar nomination for it doesn't make it a good picture.
And, of course, they're including NOW VOYAGER and DARK VICTORY in the box, too, even though they've been released previously though DARK VICTORY is supposed to be a new transfer. Still, I think I'll just buy MR. SKEFFINGTON separately and be done with it.
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As a tribute to the Kirby Stone Four, the page two dance is The Buck Dance, from their LP THE GO SOUND.
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You know what, I didn't have very many kiddie albums, but I sure do love the covers for them...the artwork is a lot of fun!
My parents evidently figured since I was listening to their LPs there was no reason to spend money on any kiddie ones...although I did have a whole line of the Magic Mirror Disney ones from the early 60s which might have been purchased by my grandparents.
Here is the Bambi one, which is the only one I ever listened to regularly.
(http://home.comcast.net/~hnbender/05dlpdBambi1.jpg)
I had the SNOW WHITE and PETER PAN ones in that same series. I was so thrilled because many of the songs on these LPs were taken from the soundtracks, and at the time, the soundtracks themselves weren't available except on these storybook LPs.
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Yeah, I'm still looking for a ROBIN HOOD soundtrack that has the actual songs on it. I have one with a chorus of children singing, but I want Roger Miller.
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When I was in second grade I kept seeing an advertisement on TV for a two record set which featured singers like Doris Day, Judy Garland, Kay Starr, Dean Martin, Sarah Vaughn, Vaughn Monroe, etc. I begged my parents to send for it, which they did, and I played those records to death! All old pop standards like THE MAN THAT GOT AWAY, HOW MUCH IS THAT DOGGIE IN THE WINDOW, KISS OF FIRE, BUTTONS AND BOWS....my friend Theresa and I would put on puppet shows to some of the songs!
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This funny tidbit was in the Montreal paper today. It is titled "Brooke Shields strikes back!":
You saw the item about Tom Cruise dissing her for having become dependent on Paxil, and writing about it.
Now Shields, who is appearing in a London production of the musical CHICAGO, chose to respond by commenting on tom's new love katie holmes.
"If he wants to see CHICAGO, I've left him two tickets - one adult and one child."
Tom is 42, Katie is 26. Brooke just turned 40.
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I don't think I bought any records for myself until I was in 7th grade, and the first one I recall was a record I ordered through Starlog magazine. It was of music from various 1950s/60s B films composed by Albert Glasser...things like BUCKSKIN LADY, AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN, BEGINNING OF THE END, BOY AND THE PIRATES, and others...I loved that LP!
I was so disappointed, however, that there was no music from ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE on the album and I wrote to Starlog to see if they might do a second album. They never did another one, but they did forward the letter to Albert Glasser and he was nice enough to transfer his original tapes of PUPPET PEOPLE music, including the outtakes, onto tape for me... something which I treasure (and recently had transferred to CD).
Mr. Glasser later sent me tapes of music from a number of his other B films!
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As for stuff from my folks, well my mom had a box of 45s, and I would go down in the basement and play "radio station" doing countdowns of those on a little kiddie record player. She had some Elvis but was sort of a pre-Rock and Roll gal, and this box might explain my eclectic tastes. "Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White" was a big hit on my charts, and a song called "Sugar Lump" by the Prophets, "Dance Me Loose" by Arthur Godfrey, "Heywood's Bounce" by Eddie Heywood.
Then my dad had a Perez Prado LP called DILO (UGH) which blew me away. The WEST SIDE STORY cast LP. Voices of Walter Schumann, just a few of the things I got (and still have) from my folks.
The first LP I bought myself was by the rock band Journey.
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This is for DR STUART, and any other LOST fans.
Re: yesterday's announcement that Michelle Rodriguez would be joining the cast next year.
This is what it says about her appearance in the finale:
In a flashback scene on the season finale, Rodriguez played a passenger on doomed Oceanic flight No. 815 who flirted with Jack (Matthew Fox) at an airport bar in Sydney.
ABC didn't specify what Rodriguez's role would be, but some fans of the show believe passengers in the back of the plane are alive and haven't been discovered.
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Cool!
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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes--now there's a romance that's straight out of a storybook!
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The first LP I bought by myself with my own money was The Beatles' Yellow Submarine soundtrack. I got it at Shop-Rite for $3.98.
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DR Rodz, the kiddie album website is terrifically fun. Aside from the album covers, you can actually download the albums, themselves, as MP3 files. iPod fodder!
Got to wonder what's the story behind this cover, though...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/WandaDuck/RH.jpg)
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Rodzinski, PEREZ PARADO is wonderful!
Have you ever picked up any of those wonderful ULTRA LOUNGE cds, or the TV DINNER cds...they are so much fun!
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The first LP I bought for myself was MY FAIR LADY in stereo (the London cast). I had seen the show on Broadway (but with Sally Ann Howes and Edward Mulhare), and this was the edition that my local record store had once I found out that Broadway shows had their songs on LPs! I was SO thrilled.
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There are quite a few Tom Cruise movies that I like, but the public persona he presents to us is about as loathesome as I can imagine anyone being. I find him so plastic, phony, and pretentious.
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The new Joan Crawford boxed DVD set also contains previously released movies (MILDRED PIERCE, THE WOMEN), but Amazon's price puts the movies at less than $7 apiece. I'll give my snapper case PIERCE and WOMEN to a friend who's trying to build a DVD collection, and keep the new Amray cases for myself.
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DR George, Amazon will be able to get you TWO'S COMPANY. I got mine from them, and if you've never heard it before, I think the quality of the score will really surprise and impress you. I've had the LP for years but hadn't played it in awhile, and I had forgotten how lovely this score really is. Quite underrated, I think.
Thanks. Even though I have a bout 30 items in my "Saved for Later" section on amazon.com, Two's Company will be my next purchase. ;D
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I loved the record player we had when I was a youngen. It was a combo TV/radio/record player. The record player was in a drawer at the bottom that played four different speeds (has anyone ever had a record that played at 16 rpms?) Sometimes, the best fun was to be had by playing records at the wrong speed.
"Mmmmmoooooooonnnnnn.....Rrrriiiivvvvverrrrrrr..."
Yes! When we lived in Germany (I was about 4-7 years old), my parents had a (rather large) portable record player that had four speeds. We never knew what the 16 rpm speed was for.
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This funny tidbit was in the Montreal paper today. It is titled "Brooke Shields strikes back!":
You saw the item about Tom Cruise dissing her for having become dependent on Paxil, and writing about it.
Now Shields, who is appearing in a London production of the musical CHICAGO, chose to respond by commenting on tom's new love katie holmes.
"If he wants to see CHICAGO, I've left him two tickets - one adult and one child."
Tom is 42, Katie is 26. Brooke just turned 40.
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;D ROTFLMAO!!! ;D
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I'm up, I'm up. Already getting panicked phone calls - apparently, two sets of notes for the ATB booklet were never sent to my designer, as I was told they were. Now, people on the East Coast are trying to find them (they were purportedly sent via e-mail, and if that's the case they have to be somewhere on someone's computer).
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Waking up to a panic can never be a good thing.
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You know what, I didn't have very many kiddie albums, but I sure do love the covers for them...the artwork is a lot of fun!
I don't recall oodles of kiddie albums, but I remember having a few. For me, what was more exciting than cover art was that some of them were different colors! I remember a yellow one that was opaque (I think that one was "Tubby the Tuba", but I recall a translucent red one, possibly "Peter and the Wolf," as read by Boris Karloff.) Or maybe I have them mixed up. But I definitely remember having color LPs.
I was never much into 45s. My brothers were, to some degree.
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Vinnie will be bringing me the mastered ATB CD at eleven, so that's one less drive I have to do.
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... he used to play ... West Side Story and Alan Sherman - My Son the Folksinger ...
Yes! How could I forget these! Unfortunately, my introduction to WSS was the soundtrack album. (I was grateful to find to discover the OBC while still in my early teens.) I remember laying on the living room floor looking at the glossy shot of Wood and Beymer on the back cover.
And my parents seemed to have the whole Allan Sherman catalogue. Still makes me laugh!
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BK: Are there any shows on the horizon that you are actively now pursuing to record, or do you prefer to see and hear the staged show first?
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Good Morning!
It's another scorcher here in the DC Metro area today. It was already 90 degrees by 10:30 at National Airport! And in true DC summer weather fashion, the humidity is up there too.
*Of course, this weather hasn't seemed to stop my Dad from pruning and trimming the tree in the front yard - he basically cut it in half! - and taking down the window screens. "Are you drinking enough water?"
And that's the weather report... for now...
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My parents had quite a nice record collection while I was growing up. Lots of those Reader's Digest Boxes, as well as those Columbia Treasury ones too. -I would play the Reader's Digest Christmas box year-round since it had a bunch of Christmas-friendly orchestral music on it too.
The records and songs/performance that come to mind right now...
Johnny Mathis - Lots of Johnny Mathis. I liked his version of "Little Green Apples".
Barbra Steisand singing "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'" and Eydie Gorme singing "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" - There were part of some really cool Columbia box. Maroon/magenta cover.
The Beatles - "Hard Day's Night"
Horowitz Plays Liszt - Especially the 2nd Hungarian Rhapsody.
Van Cliburn - My Favorite Chopin
101 Strings, Montovani Strings - Various boxed sets. -But I seem to remember playing some instrumental version of "Hey Jude" over and over again.
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Of course, being the curious child that I was, the big "game" was always figuring out exactly how many LPs I could stack onto the changer at once.
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There are a couple of things on the horizon - I'm moving very slowly.
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I believe the first records "I" bought was some K-Tel collection. "Mellow Gold", I believe.
That also happened to coincide with how I found out what the term "C.O.D." meant. -Well, at least how my parents found out.
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We had a bunch of kids LPs - Sesame Street, Alvin & The Chipmunks, Golden Books/Records.
I think the one that got the most turntable time was "The Little Drummer Boy".
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Of course, being the curious child that I was, the big "game" was always figuring out exactly how many LPs I could stack onto the changer at once.
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I think my record was 4, with the fifth on the turntable. As much as I enjoyed watching those 4 records balance precariously on that spindle, I didn't take into account that the "tonearm" (how's that for a blast from the past!?) wouldn't necessarily lift itself high enough to clear the top of the fifth platter once it dropped down.
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OH!!
Of course, I had the two LP set for "Saturday Night Fever"... And my cousin, Althea, and I would set up a disco in my parents' basement. We would line the walls with strips of aluminum foil, place strings of Christmas lights on them - some blinking, some not. We choreographed some pretty elaborate routines too! Very dramatic at times.
*Of course, since we were both just 10 or 11 at the time, we had not actually seen the movie of "Saturday Night Fever". -But we did hear about it from some of our "lucky" friends who got to see it. And, come to think of it, I don't I've actually seen it all the way through to this day. Hmm...
The soundtrack to "Grease".
And about eight Billy Joel LPs - courtesy of the Columbia Record & Tape Club.
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I think my record was 4, with the fifth on the turntable. As much as I enjoyed watching those 4 records balance precariously on that spindle, I didn't take into account that the "tonearm" (how's that for a blast from the past!?) wouldn't necessarily lift itself high enough to clear the top of the fifth platter once it dropped down.
And then there were the times when two records would drop at the same time... DAMN!
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We had a bunch of kids LPs - Sesame Street, Alvin & The Chipmunks, Golden Books/Records.
I think the one that got the most turntable time was "The Little Drummer Boy".
How could I forget Alvin & the Chipmunks!!
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First 45s...
Chic - "Le Freak", "Good Times"
Peaches & Herb - "Reunited"
Blondie - "Heart of Glass"
All purchased at Caldor's in New London, CT. *Which also always seemed to have origami books in stock.
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OOOHH...
And the trip down memory lane continues...
On a related note...
I was also a big cassette buyer...
My most memorable purchases:
The soundtrack to "Close Encounters" - I did like John Williams' score, but I mainly listened to the disco version of the theme.
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And Barry Manilow's "This One's For You" - What a great collection of songs. I would play "Jump Shout Boogie" over and over again. -No wonder I still love "Weekend In New England".
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First 45s...
Chic - "Le Freak", "Good Times"
Peaches & Herb - "Reunited"
Blondie - "Heart of Glass"
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Oh dear I am beginning to feel my age... I was already in my first "on my own" apartment when these came out
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Peaches & Herb - "Reunited"
Did anyone else have a Peaches record store in their area?
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Oh dear I am beginning to feel my age... I was already in my first "on my own" apartment when these came out
Well, at least I didn't say 8-Tracks!
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Did anyone else have a Peaches record store in their area?
Yes!
I remember seeing the commercials for them all the time when we lived in Seattle. However, I don't I ever went to one while we lived there.
When I started school in Richmond, there was still a Peaches out on West Broad. Of course, by this time, they no longer carried records/LPs - it was all CDs and a few cassettes. It closed up shop a couple of years ago, and I believe it was one of the last stores in the franchise. -There were two locations in Richmond, actually. Both very identifiable by the box-like building with the dark wood trim - like a peaches crate - and those big paintings of various artists on the side of the building. The Midlothian location eventually became another music store, but the West Broad location is still sitting there... And those awful renderings of Cher, Garth Brooks and Madonna still look down at the passing traffic.
*Oh, and it's not "related", but the store on Midlothian is now called "BK Music". -I'm not sure who this BK is, but it's a homegrown operation, and they have a very loyal following - and some homey, well-done TV spots.
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BK,I also get driven crazy when actors add all those hems and haws and wells and you knows into speeches. I craft dialogue meticulously, I read it aloud and change it until it rolls off the tongue like I want it to...I don't actors "improving" the dialogue with what they think our realistic hitches in speech. I think it's part of that Lee Strasberg perversion of The Method that as Stella Adler said when he died, "It will take the theatre another hundred years to get rid of...all those mannerisms and verbal adornments that naive actors...or not very good actors...think are naturalistic.
"Acting is not about being real, but about being credible." Sir Peter Hall
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I was given Chic's "Le Freak" 45 by one of my sisters who really just wanted it herself.
Defunct Record Chains that I once knew:
Record Bar
Turtle's
Record Land
Camelot (does that still exist?)
Sam Goody (in death throes here)
Coconuts (same thing)
HMV
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I think the actors get used to doing it in TV - certainly it's not part of most theater training. It's lazy and silly and never helps. I think the playwright who wrote that thing about Harpo Marx that I read a year ago, was astonished that I didn't do that, since all the other actors who were reading, did do it.
It never helps, and it often dissipates the language that the writer has crafted. I was surprised Tammy was doing it and I asked her why, and she said it just happens until she actually learns the lines. But, I also know she's taken acting classes where actors do it, and you just get in the habit - I told her to break the habit now, because I wasn't interested in hearing any extra "wells" "I means" "uhs" or "you knows". I've written the ones I want to hear.
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Vinnie has dropped by the mastered ATB CD, which I have to listen to soon. I like to proof in the car, so I'll have to go out shortly and drive around.
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I'm very excited - there is a new four CD Michel Legrand compilation from Universal France which has just come out - all his film music themes, and it includes some incredibly rare stuff. I'd ordered it from amazon France, but they also have it here in the US, so I changed and ordered it from here, and I'll have it Thursday or Friday.
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Blue, orange, and yellow rayon short sleeved button down shirt.
Tan, flat front khakis.
brown Skechers with tan socks.
...and I have a craving for fried chicken.
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I'm curious, did anybody else see the promo for the RENT movie last night on Access Hollywood? It happened so fast that it's hard to know what to think. I know I love the show and cannot wait to see the movie. Hopefully it will be good. I really like the poster (or what i assume will be their poster). It has all the lead players standing in black and white in a line.
I thought the movie was supposed to open at Christmas. But apparently it said November 11th.
One thing that caught my eye was Adam Pascal had longish hair. Very different from how I remember him in the stage version.
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Blue, orange, and yellow rayon short sleeved button down shirt.
Tan, flat front khakis.
brown Skechers with tan socks.
...and I have a craving for fried chicken.
Sapphire blue knit blouse,
black, knee length, A-line skirt with sapphire blue and brown flowers patterned on it,
stockings, black high heeled slingbacks
and I just finished a cup of Baskin & Robbins ice cream, two scoops... Jamoca Almond Fudge and Caramel Praline
before that I had my Swanson TV dinner, fried white meat chicken, corn, masjhed potaoes and chocolate brownie
no dinner or dessert for me tonight!!
If I keep eating like this not only won't I fit into my bathing suit, I may not even fit into the pool
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I thought the movie was supposed to open at Christmas. But apparently it said November 11th.
These days November 11th is Christmas :D, in fact these days as for as the retailers are concerned Ocotber 11th is Christmas!! ;D
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I love fried chicken. I must have some soon, but not while I'm on my current diet. Yesterday's diet consisted of one egg, two pancakes, two strips of bacon, and later, one California Roll (four pieces) and some low-fat Wheat Thins. Not bad.
Not sure what diet I'll be on today, but it will NOT include eggs or any type of breakfast.
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Tan, flat front khakis.
Oh, to be able to wear flat front pants.
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I'm curious, did anybody else see the promo for the RENT movie last night on Access Hollywood? It happened so fast that it's hard to know what to think. I know I love the show and cannot wait to see the movie. Hopefully it will be good. I really like the poster (or what i assume will be their poster). It has all the lead players standing in black and white in a line.
I thought the movie was supposed to open at Christmas. But apparently it said November 11th.
One thing that caught my eye was Adam Pascal had longish hair. Very different from how I remember him in the stage version.
I did see part of it while making dinner last night. About this subject I will say this:
Though I ABHORED this show, the trailer actually intrigued me, and made the property seem more palatable than I remember it.
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DR RODZINSKI - I found a copy of my first KSF album at the Goodwill store, bought it, and that title sounds right. I will check sooner or later. It's a fun album.
We didn't have PEACHES stores in Indy. We did and still have KARMA and MUSIC GO ROUND (gone), SAM GOODY'S, and a couple I don't remember the names of. I still remember walking into the store and ALL of the racks of LP's were in the back and the new CD was being featured in the front. That's when I decided I needed to get with the times....
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How did I miss the source of the acting discussion? Did it start in the notes? What am I not reading?
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My parents PHONO was one I discussed here before....tv-radio-phono combo.
Still not sure why we had the WSS album in mono...
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Dockers blue/black/olive green vertical striped shorts. White short sleeved polo shirt, white socks. No shoes! Indiana, you know.
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I think I'm gonna settle in for the next 5 hours and watch Das Boot.
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Good Afternoon!
Well, since I started catching on the posts when I got out of the shower, I decided to wait a few, so..
White socks
Jeans
Belt
Blue Old Navy "Ringer" Tee - ah, the joys of disposable clothing. ;)
And when I head out later, White and Blue New Balance Cross Trainers.
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Ok, JRand54 and Rodzinksi, you guys have piqued my interestes with this KIRBY STONE FOUR group...so I went to Amazon.com and listened to some of their songs...I put the CD THE GO SOUND/KIRBY STONE TOUCH into my wish list for the next time I order from Amazon!
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..Hmmm... Or maybe I'm in Indiana too and didn't know it?!?!?
;D
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In other news...
I saw some clips on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night of the "Jury Countdown Clock" for the Michael Jackson Trial...
WHAT THE !@#$%$#@!?!?!?!?!
There were actually announcing the elapsed time so far for the jury deliberations.
Isn't there a war still going on in Iraq?
Isn't Congress still doing it's "thing"?
-Did I really need to know it's been 36 hours, 48 minutes and 12 seconds since the jury started deliberating!?!?!?
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...As for the La Cage closing... If it the show was being produced by the Weisslers, then maybe they would retract the closing notice, however...
The show has been playing to less than stellar crowds since it's opening. And Mr. Goulet's addition didn't really cause that much of a continual spike in attendance. -And that Marquis is one BIG theatre.
Again, there's Brooklyn... so...
And I'm guessing the choice of June 26 as a closing date is not so arbitrary. Coincides with the end of Pride Week in New York City.
;)
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WOW!!
The things you find out when you IM people you haven't spoken to in a while...
My friend, Mark, from Richmond... Who kept losing jobs - companies closing up... Car got totalled... Ex-wife getting married and moving to West Virginia with their kids... -Well, I knew all of that... Well...
He's now in New Mexico! He went out to visit his sort of estranged Mom, ended up having lunch with some old friends and co-workers, and then ended up getting a great job offer. So... He's living out in Albuquerque now.
WOW!
And I thought my "train of work" was weird?!?!?!
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I had lots of cast albums in mono because sometimes I just didn't have the extra dollar for the stereo edition of an LP. Also, for the longest time, we used the stereo console in our living room to play albums, and since both speakers were located in basically the same place in the cabinet, we couldn't hear that much difference between mono and stereo records. Once I got a REAL stereo that had speaker far apart, you could hear very well the difference.
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My first in-car stereo system was an 8-track player, and I had about a dozen 8-track tapes including the soundtracks to STAR! and HELLO DOLLY. Only a few cast 8-tracks: MAME, SWEET CHARITY, 1776.
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After I finished HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN today, I put in the latest special edition of RAGING BULL and watched the first few chapters of it.
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I'm saving NIGHTMARE ALLEY probably for Sunday so I can have time to savor it. Have shows the next few nights which means a busy afternoon doing regular chores in preparation of being gone at night.
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I believe the Kirby Stone Four once guested on THE JUDY GARLAND SHOW. Seems like I remember them on one of the shows - maybe the one with Chita Rivera and Louis Nye? Been a while since I watched any of the Garland shows, so I could be wrong.
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..Hmmm... Or maybe I'm in Indiana too and didn't know it?!?!?
;D
Is everyone driving a pick 'em up truck? ;D
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I think you will like the KSF, DR MBARNUM.
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Did anyone else have a Peaches record store in their area?
Around 1976, I worked part-time in the Classical Dept of Peaches in Cincinnati. The store was about two buildings from a White Castle, called White Death by my co-workers. Every Saturday night, I'd take several hundred burgers home to my family. I don't think I was trying to kill them; it was their request.
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Taupe (I think it's taupe) Dockers, light blue long sleeve Polo shirt (which has coffee stains on the sleeve), black socks, black loafers, Hai Karate.
My first CD was Peter Gabriel's So.
DR Jennifer, did you watch Fire Me Please last night? I caught only the last twnety minutes or so, but I was laughing my butt off the sofa. Now there's a reality show that I would love to be a contestant on.
Joke to read out loud:
Did you hear about the whale at the aquarium that had to be circumsized?
They sent down four skindivers.
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:o :-[ ;D
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We did not have Peaches store in Charlotte, but we did have Camelot Music.
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I don't remember a Peaches or a Camelot, but we a had a local privately owned record store which closed down in the late 70's...actually the Vixter's dance studio is now in that location.. (that just occurred to me after 8 years of her attending it!)
I have no idea what it's name was.
And then when I was able to drive (1974!) I started going to this place http://www.whirlindisc.com/cd'sh-m.htm... which is still going strong I see!
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Hai Karate :o
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Just heard the rather sad news that Footlight Records is closing its doors and becoming an Internet-only store. Once that happens, I think they will not be able to compete with other net stores, which offer much bigger discounts than Footlight. When I began that other label, I predicted that the handful of mom and pop specialty shops like Footlight would soon close their doors and go Internet - it took a bit longer than I thought, but it's happening now. I always liked Footlight, especially their employee Arnold, and the other owner besides Ron. Ron has always been peculiar to me - never know how to read the guy, and he was actually offensive when I was last in the store, and I haven't returned since.
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Gee that IS bad news.
And the guy who played Pseudelus when I was in FORUM works there.
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MBarnum- You'll dig the Kirby Stone Four, I bet. I didn't even know they had anything out on CD. That's great news.
I don't have any of those lounge compilations you mentioned. I do have a lot of vinyl that would probably be classified as lounge nowadays.
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I haven't been feeling to well of late and now I know why: I'm sick. I'm going home to sleep.
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Twinkle twinkle stars are in the sky
Time to sing a lullaby....
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Yes, there are at least 2 different KSF CDs out...double album CDs no less! I am surprised that I had never heard of them....but BAUBLES, BANGLES, AND BEADS I have heard on one our local oldies stations (the one that caters to 70 and 80 year olds...and me).
You should pick up one of the ULTRA LOUNGE SAMPLERS. You would love it.
And those TV DINNER cds are just so wonderful...I think I sent JRand54 some samples of them once....all instrumental, wacky, 1950s and 60s stuff.
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Get some rest Rodzinksi, and hope you will be feeling better tomorrow.
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I guess my perpetual visits to Footlight didn't help to keep them open. Oh, how sad. But at least my CD addiction will be curbed because as much as I go to Academy, they don't have the broad theatre stock that Footlight has/had.
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I actually thought something was up at Footlight. The last few times I was there it just seemed like something was going on. All the sales and the hundreds of cassettes for $3 a piece and the general condition of the store made me think something like this was going to happen.
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I haven't been feeling to well of late and now I know why: I'm sick. I'm going home to sleep.
You probably shouldn't have sat in Rupert's ice cream freezer last night. Now you've caught a cold. Feel Better!!!
http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/exclusives/wahoo/
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Are we having an afternoon lull, yes or no?
I have got my seats for the Sondheim Hollywood Bowl bash. I had my choice - free seats, what they call Super Seats, which are in front of the benches, and are real seats, or I could pay a bit and get Terrace Box Seats, which is what I chose. That way it enables me to also get a preferred parking pass, and then I can bring a nice picnic basket and get there a couple of hours early and enjoy the late-afternoon.
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FLANGE, baby, FLANGE. What do you think, I'm doing these word of the days for my HEALTH, baby, HEALTH? Let's use FLANGE, baby, FLANGE.
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BK, any more word from Ms. Jessica Skerritt?
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My flange is bent and must be fixed soon.
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Our parents' LPs? How young do you think we are. My mother had 78s which was where I first heard Carmen Miranda. She also had some Garland, Crosby and many other pop singers and big bands from the 30s.
Exactly WEL!
I do remember friends of my parents having 78 rpm recordings by Perry Come (Tulips and Heather) and my favourite , Vernon Dahlert's "Prisoner's Song". (Same tune to my ears as "How Much Is That Doggie In The Window").
It was 78rpm recordings that introduced me to the brilliance of Freddy Gardner. DR Kerry knows of whom I write.
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My flange is bent and must be fixed soon.
Is that a euphemism?
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Re KSF
The Cd of "Baubles Bangs & Beads" was released in 1993
The Go Sound/Kirby Stone Touch was released in 2000.
(A version of Volare is on the "Kirby Stone Touch" MBarnum)
I'm still waiting for their version of "Kids" to be released on Cd. It was a top 40 hit in OZ. "One Last Kiss" was a #1 record here in 1961 by Crash Craddock who outsold the Bobby Vee version by about ten to one!
Reminds me- Bobby Rydell and Frankie Avalon are doing a show in Las Vegas these days.
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That is sad about Footlight.
DR Dan, I did happen to catch that Fire-Me show and really didn't like it. I suppose it was funny. But I'm just not liking the new reality shows they've come up with. They are nowhere near as good as TAR, Survivor, Apprentice or American Idol.
I am hoping that the Tommy Hilfiger show on Thurs will be good.
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Jessica e-mailed again - she's been busy, but says she'll call soon.
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The word of the day, FLANGE, makes me think of Match Game celebrity panalist Fannie Flagg.
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I did see part of it while making dinner last night. About this subject I will say this:
Though I ABHORED this show, the trailer actually intrigued me, and made the property seem more palatable than I remember it.
I think I would prefer to just go on hating the show as much as I did when I saw it on Broadway.
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I think I'm gonna settle in for the next 5 hours and watch Das Boot.
The musical?
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Hi folks,
Sorry I haven't been around. One of those weeks and lots of thunderstorms. In fact, we're just getting over one of the storms. If there's a last hurrah and the power goes out, I may not be here long.
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I have been trying to locate Mark Antony's 'Friends, Romans, etc etc " speech from Julius Caeser online...wouldn't you think that would pop right up? But no....
My copyof Julius Caeser as well as my complete Julius caserr have mysterously vanished from their places on my library shelves......
Flange it all
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I thought I had slipped into an alternate reality where Shalespeare fdidn;t exist but no, my copy of MacBeth is right here, and my copy of his Sonnets...
Flange flange flange
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Hi folks,
Sorry I haven't been around. One of those weeks and lots of thunderstorms. In fact, we're just getting over one of the storms. If there's a last hurrah and the power goes out, I may not be here long.
Hello dear Danise you have been missed
since I have a timeshare in Kissimee I am very familar with your rainstorms....you can drown in one of those downpours!!
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I see the PM, DR Jose but with the way it the power is right now, I'll wait to read it.
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Oh, I finally found the speech thank goodness... off to read it to the Vixter,...
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Hi VixMom! I've missed you all as well.
TOD--I had one of those little portable record players as well. Funny you all are talking about this because I just bought one of those new all-in-one players for Mom. CD/Radio/Cassette/Recorder player from Kmart this weekend.
Yes, we had a Peaches and a Camelot music store.
I remember a series of LPs that were children’s stories with classical music as the soundtrack. I guess the thinking behind that was to get kids to like the classics. I know it worked for me!
I remember Sleeping Beauty and William Tell.
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Well, it's bedtime for me! Have a good evening all!
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I have to go take a drive to finish proofing ATB.
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Good Evening!
Hmmm... Nothing like a pre-dinner nap.
:)
-Anyone else watching "Dancing with the Stars" on ABC?
::)
-And that's how I've been spending my night off.
:P
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The musical?
The choreography is a bit hampered by the tight quarters of the submarine.
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It builds to the incredible finale number, "Das Boots Are Made For Walking"
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Well, now I know why I work evenings...
It's to "avoid" the amazing amount of dreck on Network and Cable TV!
*Of course, the episode of "Lost" that is/was on tonight is one of the two I saw in it's original run. Ah, well...
And all those new reality shows coming up on ABC. WOW?!?!?!? -And I don't mean that in a good sense. I thought some of the commercials were jokes.
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It builds to the incredible finale number, "Das Boots Are Made For Walking"
However, I do happen to like the first act closer - "Too Close For Comfort".
And I actually have a preference for "You Can't Blame the Dog", over the song that replaced it, "Who's Got the Deodorant".
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Well, Ladies and Gentleman... Since it appears I will be baby-sitting in the morning - YEAH!! - I shall be turning in earlier tonight. -And, anything before 3:00AM is early for me, so that's saying something. What's it's saying, I'm not exactly sure. But it's saying something. Possibly in Catalan - those "lisping" Ssss are a dead giveaway.
In any case...
BK - I hope you had a good drive and a good listen to the ATB CD, and that it was all to your liking.
Until the morning...
Goodnight.
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Run through tonight took 1 1/2 hours. We did all the numbers full out and at correct tempos, but we sped through lines. Some people wanted to horse around. I was not game for that. Why go there to horse around? I've been rehearsing my lines at home, so I didn't need to drive to the theater just for myself. I needed the give and take of the other actors, and I couldn't concentrate when they wanted to be silly. I'll be GLAD to be silly after we close. Not now.
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Anyone else see Lisa Kudrow's new show THE COMEBACK on HBO this week? Started with some promise. Not wildly funny but an interesting character for a serio-sitcom/reality show hybrid. I found it infinitely more entertaining than Kirstie Alley's FAT ACTRESS.
One of the critics I read said the second episode of THE COMEBACK is much funnier. I'll look forward to seeing that next installment on Sunday.
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We had another thunderstorm tonight, but it wasn't the gully-washer that we had last night. Last night, I kept looking for Noah singing "Two by Two."
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"If he wants to see CHICAGO, I've left him two tickets - one adult and one child."
Tom is 42, Katie is 26. Brooke just turned 40.
:)
Good for Brooke.
Reminds me of my favorite line from "A Little Night Music" --
"And this is MY daughter."
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Is this a slow news day here at haineshisway.com, yes or no?
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Sort of near TOTD. News story here yesterday that Australia's only manufacturer of piano rolls for pianolas (what else?)will be closing down. Demand has fallen so much in the last few years. I didn't even know you could buy Best of Billy Joel songs etc for the pianola.
The pianola was the only instrument I anywhere near mastered - until the seat stared slipping from beneath me. We didn't have one but my childhood neighbours had one - until they sold it to buy a TV in 1958.
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9:43 and the jernt is empty. Skammen, I say, and skammen I say again. I shall soon be taking my first Jacuzzi in over a week.
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I don't have any flanges.
It's been a long day. I worked at World Wide Wicket - and we are making flanges obsolete.
I work at a machine that bends the wickets into a perfect shape. Of course that gives me a headache sometimes. So I always keep a bottle of Bufferin in my bender.
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Did all the sounds and music cues for I'LL BE BACK BEFORE MIDNIGHT and made the CD's. Discovered the right sound voice for the heartbeat on my Sony keyboard - did the fight/struggle choreography breakdown.
We might as well do the show. If only OLIVER! would hurry up and finish and get the hell out of the theatre.
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FLANGE, baby, FLANGE - I'm going to beat certain hainsies/kimlets about the head for this dastardly errant and truant behavior.
And now - Dino at the piano.
When it's slow like this, I just have no impetus to write tomorrow's notes, no impetus I tell you.
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My impetus ran away with the spoon.
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Dos that mean you impetus is no longer impetuous BK? Perhaps I am showing my sense of impiety.
When does Jane return home? We are missing Jane posts.
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Maybe it's impetuosity.
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YAWN
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How did it get to be 1 am?
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I think Jane gets home next Monday or thereabouts. She'll have SOME catching up to do.
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Dos that mean you impetus is no longer impetuous BK? Perhaps I am showing my sense of impiety.
They call it impiety and lack of propriety
And quite a variety of unpleasant names!
(a Tom Lehrer reference!) ;D