WFO,
How's Joe doing?
Puff, puff, puff! After a weekend away from this site, it takes all the reading you can do to stay in the same place! (Oh, a
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There reference!
DR Kerry: Thanks for asking. This weather of ours--hot/cold/hot/cold--really takes it out of him, increases the cramping and exhaustion. Saturday he was outside for about an hour at 50°, and when he came in his fingers felt frozen, but his head was feverish. That is the paradox of his disease.
DR Pogue: The one cast recording my parents had when I was little was
Oklahoma!, the original, all on 78's. For our younger members, that's why we speak of an "album". It was bound like a photo album, with each "page" a paper envelope containing one large record, one song per side. For the
really young members among us a "record" was--oh, go look it up!
I still have that album somewhere in a box, what's left of it, after some broken records. But of course I have nothing to play it on. According to the latest CD of it, it was such a run-away best-seller that they brought the cast back into the studio to record
Oklahoma! Volume 2, the other 3 songs: "It's a Scandal", "The Farmer and the Cowboy", and "Lonely Room". I know they weren't on our old 78s. The first I heard of them was on the Nelson Eddy studio cast.
Didn't eat no pie this weekend.
