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[Michael]

 

DRMichael Shayne, Ben Bagley was one of the funniest men I ever met, and he was one of the cheapest.  By the early 1980s, when I worked with him, he was recording on the lowest possible budget and he had absolutely no artistic standards because the time and money spent were far more important than the artistry; his attitude toward wrong notes was "we'll take them out in the mix" and a session was like a casting call:  "lovely, thank you, next!"  The irony was that he claimed poverty and lived rather well in a lovely apartment in Queens, which I was lucky to see when Ben invited me one night to dinner.  The walls were covered in the original Harvey Schmidt artwork for the "Revisited" album covers.

Joanne Woodward was a total delight. She liked singing, and she seemed quite thrilled to be doing a recording!   She was fighting a cold so she was drinking lots of tea and taking lots of vitamin C, which we both agreed was the best remedy.  She did a duet with her singing teacher, Andy Anselmo.  It was for the same (?) Jerome Kern Revisited album that I did a chart for Rod McKuen, who was an old friend of Ben's.  He was also a charming, friendly guy, and I liked him and Miss Woodward both very much.

The song that Miss Woodward sang was "The Bull Frog Patrol," and Ben liked the "Scott Joplin" arrangement so much that he stuck a bit of it before the song itself.  Unfortunately, the tempo of the song had picked up in the session, so when the piece of music Ben decided to use as an intro meets the actual song's beginning, there's a bit of a traffic jam

Did you do any other Ben Bagley's??

[Michael]

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[bk]

Just had a lovely walk.  

[elmore3003]

Was the first question serious or sarcastic?

If it was serious, it was actually bleeding for a long while (like 2+ hours).

It has since stopped bleeding. And i had it bandaged.  But it's starting to throb.I called the clinic to speak to a nurse to ask if i should have it looked at. She was not clear.  She basically said that if i was worried i could go in. But i really wanted her to say more.

Btw, it's not  a big cut.  It's a circle on my pinkie where the fingerprint is. It is about 5mm in diameter and maybe 1.5mm thick.

I've been holding it up, which relieves the pressure. But it feels like the blood has been drained from it.

DRJennifer, you might need a tetanus shot.  And some pain pills.  Tylenol with codeine seems to be my doctor's drug du jour.

[elmore3003]

OK, I need 61 more words on rhetoric. Anybody?

It's a bore.  58 to go!

[elmore3003]

Oh...  And...

"Bright Eyed Joy" - The Songs of Ricky Ian Gordon

Ricky never met a tone cluster he didn't like.

[elmore3003]

Who does?  You have eight other perfectly serviceable fingers with which to type!

Or to play the harp.  DRJennifer, get thee to a clinic!

[td]

I'm agog and aghast!  DR Matt must not read the Scarlet Street Forums where I posted the contents (actually the press release) for the contents of the Doris Day boxed set from Warner.  Two of the titles - PAJAMA GAME and CALAMITY JANE - have been previously released:

 The Doris Day Collection

Young Man With a Horn, Lullaby of Broadway, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Glass Bottom Boat, Love Me or Leave Me, Billy Rose's "Jumbo" Six New-to-DVD Titles and Two Previously Released Classics Available April 26 from Warner Home Video

Burbank, Calif. January 26, 2005 - Doris Day -- whose on-screen wholesomeness, unfailing optimism and understated strength of character helped make her America's sweetheart in the '50s and '60s -- comes to DVD on April 26 with eight of her films. Warner Home Video's The Doris Day Collection features six new-to-DVD titles -- Young Man With a Horn, Lullaby of Broadway, Love Me or Leave Me, Billy Rose's "Jumbo", Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Glass Bottom Boat -- along with two of Ms. Day's all-time favorite musicals, Calamity Jane and Pajama Game which have been repackaged for the Collection. All DVDs are packed with bonus features including vintage shorts and featurettes, cartoons, trailers and more. The gift set will be available for $88.92 SRP. Each title is also available separately for $19.97 SRP/$14.95 MAP. Orders are due March 29.

Born Doris Mary Ann Von Kapplehoff in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ms. Day started out as a dancer, but after a near-fatal car crash ended her hopes of becoming a ballerina, at her mother's suggestion she began refining her vocal skills. With a voice of distinct beauty at just 14 years of age, Ms. Day was soon discovered by a vocal coach who arranged an appearance on a local radio station.

Soon after, the young songstress met local bandleader Barney Rapp who convinced her to adopt the moniker that would soon become a household name. Rapp suggested "Day" after the song "Day after Day" which was part of her repertoire. Ms. Day toured briefly with Rapp's band, as well as those of Bob Crosby and Les Brown, and then set out on her own in the late 1940s.

Ms. Day's film career began in 1948 after a screen test at Warner Bros. resulted in her first film role in the smash-hit musical Romance on the High Seas. It was in this film that she introduced the hit song "It's Magic". The song and the film catapulted her to super-stardom. Throughout the 1950s she appeared in dozens of films from musicals to dramas to comedies. By the 1960s she was best known for a string of successful romantic comedies opposite some of Hollywood's greatest leading men including Cary Grant, James Garner, Rod Taylor and Rock Hudson. In 1960, she earned a Best Actress Oscar® nomination for her role in the hugely popular Pillow Talk with Hudson.

In April of 1968, Ms. Day's film career came to an abrupt end with the death of her third husband, manager/producer Marty Melcher. Left penniless and deeply in debt through what turned out to be a series of sordid investments by Melcher, Ms. Day soon bounced back and found success in television with "The Doris Day Show." Now in her 80s, Ms. Day is an active and vocal supporter of animal rights, focusing the majority of her attention on her Animal League and Animal Foundation organizations.

Details of The Doris Day Collection Films

Young Man With a Horn (1950)
With a second-hand trumpet and the loving guidance of a brilliant bluesman, a lonely boy grows into manhood as a superb musician whose talent carries him from honky-tonks to posh supper clubs. But his desperate search for the elusive high note, trapped in his mind but impossible to play, starts him on a boozy downward slide. Charged with dynamic performances by Kirk Douglas (the title role), Doris Day, Lauren Bacall and Hoagy Carmichael and pitch-perfect direction by Michael Curtiz, the film is a feast of hot, cool, moody jazz. Legendary Harry James dubbed Douglas' horn work.

DVD special features include:
* Doris Day trailer gallery
* Languages: English & French
* Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Lullaby of Broadway (1951)
Day danced divinely and sang in this musical delight about a singer newly arrived in New York and destined for Great White Way fame in the capable company of co-stars Gene Nelson, S.Z. Sakall, Billy DeWolfe, Gladys George and Florence Bates. Highlights are the inclusion of the Oscar®-winning title tune, Cole Porter's "Just One of Those Things", "Somebody Loves Me" and six more songs.

DVD special features include:
* Doris Day trailer gallery
* Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
Laced with Doris Day's vibrant performances of songs from the era, this 1955 Academy Award® winner (Best Motion Picture Story) is the tough-minded true tale of Ruth Etting's life with the man who boosted her career with strong-arm tactics yet smothered her in an obsessive grip she escaped at great peril. As Martin "The Gimp" Snyder, James Cagney earned one of the film's six Oscar® nominations. Ms. Day's Etting was a career-best dramatic performance, bringing acclaim from critics and protest letters from fans unprepared for the departure from her traditionally sunny roles.

DVD special features include:
* Soundtrack remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1
* Three vintage shorts, the first two with Ruth Etting
- A Modern Cinderella
- Roseland
- A Salute to the Theatres
* Theatrical trailer
* Languages: English & French
* Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
Radiant Doris Day sings beloved Rodgers and Hart tunes and does her own horseback riding tricks in this razzle-dazzle musical based on Billy Rose's stage spectacular and featuring circus sequences directed by Busby Berkeley. The story revolves around a circus owner (Jimmy Durante, star of the 1935 Broadway original) with only two real attractions: his daughter (Day) and popular pachyderm Jumbo. Three-ring pandemonium breaks out when a handsome rival (Stephen Boyd) infiltrates the circus, and father, daughter and Dad's wisecracking fiancée (Martha Raye) are suddenly at risk of losing the greatest show on earth.

DVD Special Features include:
* Soundtrack remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1
* Musical short Yours Sincerely
* Tom and Jerry cartoon Jerry and Jumbo
* Original overture rejoined to the film for the first time in more than 40 years
* Theatrical trailer
* Languages: English & French
* Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1962)
Ms. Day brings her trademark radiance to this jovial comedy from the bestseller by playwright Jean Kerr. With Janis Paige, Spring Byington and Richard Haydn on hand for snappy comic support, Please Don't Eat the Daisies is breezy family fun with popular songs "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" and "Anyway the Wind Blows."

DVD special features include:
* Theatrical trailer
* Languages: English & French
* Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
Doris Day entered her eighth consecutive year as a Top-10 Box-Office Star when she boarded The Glass Bottom Boat, a blending of romantic comedy and the era's burgeoning spy-movie genre. Frank Tashlin directs with a cartoonist's sensibility, embracing everything from spy guises to push-button chaos in a futuristic kitchen. The film also stars top comedians Arthur Godfrey, Paul Lynde, Edward Andrews, John McGiver, Dom DeLuise and Dick Martin.

DVD special features include:
* Three vintage featurettes:
o Catalina Island
o Every Girl's Dream
o NASA
* Oscar®-winning cartoon The Dot and the Line
* Theatrical trailer
* Languages: English & French
* Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

[td]

I'm very excited about "The Dot and the Line" making it to dvd.

[Jed]

MattH, we usually go to my business manager's house for the Super Bowl, but he is actually going to the game this year...so that won't be happening.  Like you, I could care less about the game...but there is always great food and lots of entertaining folk there, so I can spend three splendid hours and never watch a minute of the game.  One year, Jane Krakowski showed up as someone's date.

I'd be all too happy to be anywhere Jane Krakowski is!  Just gotta find a way to distract that fershluganah date of hers...

[elmore3003]

Yes, Rodzinski, you have found heaven's cultural clearing-house...welcome!

DRPogue, LOL!

[Jane]

I was under the impression Melcher had made a commitment for THE DORIS DAY SHOW, which she didn’t want to do, but the trooper Doris did it-plus she needed the money.  The second season changes, when her character moves to the big city. were her doing.

Off to the market.

[elmore3003]

Did you do any other Ben Bagley's??

Dennis Deal used to call me when he got stuck for time, so I know I've got charts on several of the revisiteds; I just can't remember any more!   I copied the WONDERFUL TOWN "Conquering the City" band parts for either Dennis or Albert Evans on "Leonard Bernstein Revisited," but it's been too long ago.  I had been asked by a film producer to write a film score for a small independent film and I lost the job because I had no recording studio experience in the early 1980s, and I found working with Ben was a good intro to the recording process.  The recording I consider my first good album was the Book-of-the-Month Club "Songs of New York," but it was working with Dear Friend BK that turned me into a virtuoso.

[bk]

Someday if I eat enough coconut cream pie, perhaps I'll tell you a few of my cherce Krakowski stories.  

[Charles Pogue]

Okay, I know it's not question day, but I know I will not remember this question for when question day rolls around again.  Outside of a job in the Arts, what would be your dream job?  Mine would be Li'l Abner's job...which was demonstrating the comfort  and sleep-ability of mattresses in a store display window.  What a great job, getting paid to sleep for 8 hours a day and then having 16 hours to kick around and do what you want.

[Jed]

When the oven is F 350, I pick up pan (using oven mitts) and slowly swirl...

I highly recommend following his advice of oven mitts here, NOT a dish towel!  

[Jrand74]

DR JANE - I think Doris describes her TV series experience as you remember it.  She had been signed up for it by Mr Melcher before his demise, and she didn't even know it.

DR RON -  when I first saw the Project Runway photos I did NOT see Kara Saun, on a second look I did - so all four of the designers are there - but you are right there is no winner listed.  I was afraid Kara was gone and Wendy was there instead.

[Jrand74]

DR Jane there are very few low-cut gowns that can't be helped with a turtle neck sweater - depending upon the wearer, of course.

[George]

I highly recommend following his advice of oven mitts here, NOT a dish towel!  

Jed, are you making recommendation because of personal experience??

[bk]

My dream job would be someone who got paid lots of money to watch DVDs.

[Jed]

Jed, are you making recommendation because of personal experience??

Well, in my defense, it only took one dish towel bursting into flames in my hand for me to learn this lesson!  

[bk]

POPPYCOCK!

[Jennifer]

I did go to the clinic & saw the nurse. She said i didn't need to see the doc.

[Ron Pulliam]

I did go to the clinic & saw the nurse. She said i didn't need to see the doc.

And now you don't need to worry about it.  Of course, you must take care of it.  

Don't leave it bandaged for long periods.  When it's feasible, such as during your sleeping hours, remove the bandage.  Air is a wonderful healer and it will minimize the chance of moisture aiding any germs that might linger around the cut.

DO place a fresh bandage on it daily until you're certain the cut is healing.

[bk]

Now you can rest easy.  

About five more degrees and I'll go take a swim.  I'm one of these people who need the water really warm.

And then there is dinner.  Whatever shall I have?

[bk]

AOL is being completely lame - can't get to any websites.  But, here I am on Safari.  Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, adventurous BK is on Safari.

Now, what in tarnation shall I eat?

[bk]

WFO, would you be coming to a reading/signing should we do one?  Yes or no?

[Jennifer]

And now you don't need to worry about it.  Of course, you must take care of it.  

Don't leave it bandaged for long periods.  When it's feasible, such as during your sleeping hours, remove the bandage.  Air is a wonderful healer and it will minimize the chance of moisture aiding any germs that might linger around the cut.

DO place a fresh bandage on it daily until you're certain the cut is healing.

The nurse said that i should bandage it today and then not remove it for a day or two.  She said playing with it, taking off bandages ... would just give it more opportunity to start bleeding again.  Do you think what she advised was wrong?

[Charles Pogue]

I've just been listening to the original cast recording of OKLAHOMA on WMKV.  In this recording they have Alfred Drake sing A LONELY ROOM.  Now I can understand the obvious advantages to having Drake sing this haunting, chilling song over Howard DaSilva...but it is Jud's song.  Now when I played Jud years ago, we cut the song...But I can't think that they'd cut it from the original production...So I'm assuming Da Silva did sing it, why didn't he get to on the cast album?  Anyone know?

[MBarnum]

DR Michael Shayne, I am glad that you chose the family friendly photos to create todays word! LOL!