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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Mon 14 Mar, 2005 08:39 am
Good morning

Dialogue from Singing in the Rain:

Don: Everything you ever said about me is true, Kathy. I'm no actor. I never was. Just a lotta 'dumb show.' I know that now.
Cosmo: Well, at least you're taking it lying down.
Don: No. No kidding, Cosmo. Did you ever see anything as idiotic as me on that screen tonight?
Cosmo: Yeah, how about Lina?
Don: All right. I ran her a close second. Maybe it was a photo finish. Anyway, I'm through, fellas.
Kathy: Don, you're not through!
Cosmo: Why, of course not. Why, with your looks and your figure, you could drive an ice wagon or shine shoes!
Kathy: Block hats!
Cosmo: Sell pencils!
Kathy: Dig ditches!
Cosmo: Or worse still, go back into vaudeville.

::Good Morning::


Words by Arthur Freed
Music by Nacio Herb Brown, 1939


Good mornin', good mornin'!
We've danced the whole night through,
good mornin', good mornin' to you.


Good mornin', good mornin'!
It's great to stay up late,
good mornin', good mornin' to you.


When the band began to play
the sun was shinin' bright.
Now the milkman's on his way,
it's too late to say goodnight.


So, good mornin', good mornin'!
Sunbeams will soon smile through,
good mornin', my darlin', to you.


Here we are together,
a couple of stand-uppers.
Our day is done, breakfast time
starts with our supper.


Here we are together,
ah, but the best of friends must party.
So let me sing this party song
from the bottom of my hearty.


Good morning, it's a lovely morning.
Good morning, what a wonderful day.
We danced the whole night through.
Good morning, good morning to you.


I said good morning, see the sun is shinin'.
Good morning, hear the birdies sing.
It's great to stay up late.
Good mornin', good mornin' to you.


When the band began to play
the stars were shinin' bright.
Now the milkman's on his way,
it's too late to say goodnight.


Good morning, good morning!
Sunbeams will soon smile through.
Good mornin', good morning',
Good mornin', my darlin', to you!
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Letty
 
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Reply Mon 14 Mar, 2005 08:48 am
Colorbook, what a fantastic parody. Love it!

and Bob, Singing in the Rain is an all time favorite of everyone, and the songs from it inspire the most wonderful thoughts.

Listeners, when I was a kid, I always wanted natural curly hair, and I found that wandering out in the rain gave me that wave that I thought was soooooo sexy. Ah, little Letty, how you've changed. Now it's the wind and the salt spray in my hair.
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Mon 14 Mar, 2005 09:59 am
Good Morning all.
My earlier post went up in smoke (critical error), so keeping my fingers crossed, but not holding by breath.

BD time:

1864 Casey Jones, railroad engineer and hero of the ballad (near Cayce, KY; died 1900)
1879 Albert Einstein, physicist (Ulm, Germany; died 1955)
1916 Horton Foote, playwright (Wharton, TX)
1920 Hank Ketcham, cartoonist and creator of Dennis the Menace (Seattle, WA)
1928 Frank Borman, astronaut/airline executive (Gary, IN)
1933 Michael Caine, actor (London, England)
Quincy Jones, composer/record producer (Chicago, IL)
1942 Rita Tushingham, actress (Liverpool, England)
1947 Billy Crystal, actor/comedian (Long Beach, NY)
1946 Steve Kanaly, actor (Burbank, CA)
1951 Rick Dees, radio personality/comedian (Jacksonville, FL)
1961 Kirby Puckett, baseball player (Chicago, IL)
1969 Larry Johnson, basketball player (Tyler, TX)

Happy Birthday <sigh>, Michael:

http://www.fantafilm.it/Attori2/caine.jpg
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Mon 14 Mar, 2005 10:03 am
Regarded as the top musical film of all time. The price of admission is worth it just to watch Donald O'Connor in the song and dance sequence Make 'em Laugh:

"Make 'em Laugh"
music by Nacio Herb Brown; lyrics by Arthur Freed
Make 'em laugh. Make 'em laugh.
Don't you know everyone wants to laugh.
My dad said, "Be an actor, my son,
But be a comical one."
They'll be standin' in lines
For those old honky tonk monkeyshines.
Or you could study Shakespeare and be quite elite,
And you charm the critics and have nothin' to eat.
Just slip on a banana peel, the world's at your feet.
Make 'em laugh. Make 'em laugh. Make 'em laugh.

Make 'em... Make 'em laugh.
Don't you know everyone wants to laugh?
My grandpa said, "Go out and tell 'em a joke,
But give it plenty of hoke."
Make 'em roar. Make 'em scream.
Take a fall, butt a wall, split a seam.
You start off by pretending you're a dancer with grace.
You wiggle 'till they're gigglin' all over the place.
And then you get a great big custard pie in the face.
Make 'em laugh. Make 'em laugh. Make 'em laugh.

Make 'em laugh. Make 'em laugh.
Don't you... all the...
My dad...
They'll be standin' in lines
For those old honky tonk monkeyshines.
...
Make 'em laugh. Make 'em laugh.
Make 'em laugh.

Make 'em laugh. Make 'em laugh. Make 'em laugh.
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Letty
 
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Reply Mon 14 Mar, 2005 10:15 am
Thanks, Raggedy. It most assuredly worked. And there's Alfie. Ain't he cute?


What's it all about, Alfie?
Is it just for the moment we live?
What's it all about when you sort it out, Alfie?
Are we meant to take more than we give
or are we meant to be kind?
And if only fools are kind, Alfie,
then I guess it's wise to be cruel.
And if life belongs only to the strong, Alfie,
what will you lend on an old golden rule?
As sure as I believe there's a heaven above, Alfie,
I know there's something much more,
something even non-believers can believe in.
I believe in love, Alfie.
Without true love we just exist, Alfie.
Until you find the love you've missed you're nothing, Alfie.
When you walk let your heart lead the way
and you'll find love any day, Alfie, Alfie.

And for Slappy there is "What's it all about, Austin?" Laughing

Bob, Donald O'Connor was extremely talented, no doubt about that. I don't know much about his life, need to research that, listeners.
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Letty
 
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Reply Mon 14 Mar, 2005 12:48 pm
A factoid from Northern Ireland.

In 1991, a British court reversed the convictions of the ``Birmingham Six,'' who had spent 16 years in prison for an Irish Republican Army bombing, and ordered them released.

And here's a brief bio about the rain man and the dummy:





Singin' in the the Rain star dies at 78

Donald O'Connor, who combined comedy and acrobatics in the show-stopping Make 'Em Laugh number in the movie Singin' In The Rain, has died at 78.

The actor, who had been in poor health in recent years, died of heart failure at a retirement home in Calabasas, California.

In a brief statement, the family said that among O'Connor's last words was the following quip: "I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get."

O'Connor won an Emmy, but never an Oscar. He was best known for films he made in the 1950s - a series of highly successful Francis The Talking Mule comedies and movie musicals that put his song-and-dance talents to good use.

1952's Singin' In The Rain, also starred Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds and took a satirical look at Hollywood during the transition from silent to sound pictures.

As he sings Make 'Em Laugh, O'Connor dances with a prop dummy and performs all manner of amusing acrobatics.

"Someone handed me a dummy that was on the stage," he recalled in a 1995 interview. "That was the only prop I used. I did a pratfall and we wrote that down. Every time I did something that got a laugh, we wrote it down to keep in the number."

Among O'Connor's other 50s musicals were Call Me Madam, Anything Goes and There's No Business Like Show Business.

Hey, panz. I answered your question, now you need to answer ours!
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Francis
 
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Reply Mon 14 Mar, 2005 02:08 pm
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/gismonda/images/franci.jpg
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Letty
 
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Reply Mon 14 Mar, 2005 02:21 pm
Well, Francis, He certainly wasn't a girl, was he?

Let's see now, listeners. What do we call a female mule. A jenny?

Aha! Time for a song:

A Portrait of Jennie
More precious to me
than a masterpiece how ever famous it be

The portrait of Jennie
is etched on my heart
where her features have been sketched from the start.

Good grief. I don't recall that song only having two verses. More research needed, I guess.

Anyway, Francis. Thanks for reminding us of how a mule looks. Quite fetching, really. Smile
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Letty
 
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Reply Mon 14 Mar, 2005 02:38 pm
Confused I knew it, folks. Here are the rest of the lyrics:

Ah, the color and beatuy of life
and the glow of her sprit divine
all cast in heaven's own design

With a portrait of Jennie
I never will part
for there isn't any portrait of Jennie
except in my heart

for there isn't any portrait of Jennie
except in my heart

I think that a mule got in the way of the remainder of that lovely song.
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Mon 14 Mar, 2005 03:33 pm
Donald O'Connor films

# Out to Sea (1997) .... Jonathan Devereaux
# Father Frost (1996) .... Baba Yaga
# Bandit: Bandit's Silver Angel (1994) (TV) .... Uncle Cyrus
... aka Bandit: Bandit and the Silver Angel (USA)
# Toys (1992) .... Kenneth Zevo

# A Time to Remember (1987) .... Father Walsh
... aka Miracle In a Manger (USA)
# Alice in Wonderland (1985) (TV) .... Lory Bird
... aka Alice Through the Looking Glass (USA: video title (second part title))
# Alice in Wonderland (1983) (TV) .... Mock Turtle
# Pandemonium (1982) .... Glenn's Dad
# Ragtime (1981) .... Evelyn's dance instructor
# Lucy Moves to NBC (1980) (TV) .... Donald O'Connor

# "The Donald O'Connor Show" (1968) TV Series .... Host (1968)
# That Funny Feeling (1965) .... Harvey Granson
# Meraviglie di Aladino, Le (1961) .... Aladdin
... aka Mille et une nuits, Les (Italy)
... aka The Wonders of Aladdin
# Cry for Happy (1961) .... Murray Prince

# The Buster Keaton Story (1957) .... Buster Keaton
# Anything Goes (1956) .... Ted Adams
# Francis in the Navy (1955) .... Lt. Peter Stirling/Bosun's Mate Slicker Donovan
# There's No Business Like Show Business (1954) .... Tim Donahue
... aka Irving Berlin's There's No Business Like Show Business (USA: complete title)
# Francis Joins the WACS (1954) .... Peter Stirling
# Walking My Baby Back Home (1953) .... Clarence 'Jigger' Millard
# Francis Covers the Big Town (1953) .... Peter Stirling
# Call Me Madam (1953) .... Kenneth
# I Love Melvin (1953) .... Melvin Hoover
# Francis Goes to West Point (1952) .... Peter Stirling
# Singin' in the Rain (1952) .... Cosmo Brown
# Francis Goes to the Races (1951) .... Peter Stirling
# Double Crossbones (1951) .... Dave Crandall
# The Milkman (1950) .... Roger Bradley
# Curtain Call at Cactus Creek (1950) .... Edward Timmons
... aka Take the Stage (UK)
# Francis (1950) .... Peter Stirling
... aka Francis the Talking Mule

# Yes Sir That's My Baby (1949) .... William Waldo Winfield
# Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin' (1948) .... Wilbur McMurty
# Are You with It? (1948) .... Milton Haskins
# Something in the Wind (1947) .... Charlie Read
# Patrick the Great (1945) .... Pat Donahue Jr.
# Bowery to Broadway (1944) .... Specialty Number
# The Merry Monahans (1944) .... Jimmy Monahan
# This Is the Life (1944) .... Jimmy Plum
# Chip Off the Old Block (1944) .... Donald Corrigan
# Top Man (1943) .... Don Warren
... aka Man of the Family (UK)
# Mister Big (1943) .... Donald J. O'Connor, Esq.
# It Comes Up Love (1943) .... Ricky Ives
... aka A Date with an Angel (UK)
# When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1942) .... Frankie Flanagan
# Get Hep to Love (1942) .... Jimmy Arnold
... aka She's My Lovely (UK)
# Give Out, Sisters (1942) .... Don
# Private Buckaroo (1942) .... Donny
# What's Cookin'? (1942/I) .... Tommy
... aka Wake Up and Dream (UK)

# On Your Toes (1939) .... Phil Jr., as a Boy
# Death of a Champion (1939) .... Small Fry
# Night Work (1939) .... Butch Smiley, the Orphan
# Beau Geste (1939) .... Beau at age 12
# Million Dollar Legs (1939) .... Sticky Boone
# Unmarried (1939) .... Ted Streaver (age 12)
... aka Night Club Hostess
# Boy Trouble (1939) .... Butch
# Tom Sawyer, Detective (1938) .... Huckleberry Finn
# Sons of the Legion (1938) .... Butch Baker
# Sing You Sinners (1938) .... Mike Beebe
# Men with Wings (1938) .... Pat Falconer at Age 10
# It Can't Last Forever (1937) (uncredited) .... Kid Dancer
# Melody for Two (1937) (scenes deleted) .... Specialty
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Letty
 
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Reply Mon 14 Mar, 2005 03:53 pm
What a list, Bob. You mentioned Ragtime. Was that Evelyn The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing?

Isn't it fascinating, listeners, how one swing leads to another thing?

For our little listeners:

How would you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue.
Oh, I do think it's the pleasantest thing,
Ever a child can do.

Up in the air,
And over the wall,
Til I can see so wide.
River and valleys and trees and things,
Over the country side.

Then I'd look down on the garden so green
Down on the roof so brown.
Up in the air I'd go flying again.
Up in the air and down.

Robert Louis Stevenson--set to music.

What a fantastic and varied writer was he.
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Mon 14 Mar, 2005 04:07 pm
One of all time best short stories I've ever read "The Bottle Imp" was penned by him.
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Letty
 
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Reply Mon 14 Mar, 2005 04:31 pm
Bob, I had forgotten that story. Was it the imp in the bottle, or the bottle imp.

My dad made me swing, after swing, after swing, listeners--the real kind!

And, Francis. I used to use my mom's sherbet glasses and pour ginger ale in them. The was my champagne. When I had my first sip of the real stuff, I hated it.

Well, all. I guess for St. Paddy's Day, we could have green champagne:

Nowhere else to go
It's 3 am and I miss you so
Couples are departing soon they'll all be gone
Now another day is starting
Still I linger on with

green champagne
Purple shadows and green champagne
With the echoes that still remain
I keep a blue rendezvous

Bubbles rise
Like a fountain before my eyes
And they suddenly crystallize
To form a vision of you

All the plans we started, all the songs we sang
Each little dream we knew
Seems to overtake me
Like a boomerang
green is the sparkle, gone is the tang

It's your refrain,
Keeps returning, as I remain
With all the memories and blue champagne
To toast the dream that was you
I'm bluer than green champagne

Well, all. I have to take some liberties to make the song fit the season.
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Diane
 
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Reply Mon 14 Mar, 2005 04:42 pm
This morning Dys said that I was on my way to Denver, figuring that I would be gone in a few minutes. He hadn't checked the weather for the Sangre de Christo mountains, Glorieta Pass to Raton Pass, only for Denver, and didn't realize that there would be snow and snow showers (luckily, I did check).

Whenever I plan on driving to Colorado, I check that part of New Mexico instead of the major cities. The scenery throughout those mountain passes is absolutely stunning, but it can be deadly until winter is REALLY over. In addition, that part of the mountains is very sparsely populated (which is why it is so spectacular)! When they say snow showers, they mean STAY HOME.
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This is Wagon Mound, NM, going through the Sangre de Christos, with an elevation of around 7,000 ft. High prairie and deserted most of the time.

I love driving this when the weather is good; even in a misty fog it can be gorgeous--nearing the mountains and mesas,the mesas look like prehistoric monsters looming out of the fog.

Here in ABQ we are singin' in the rain and snow.
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Letty
 
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Reply Mon 14 Mar, 2005 04:50 pm
Diane, that was breathtaking, but thank God you had the foresight to check the weather before you left.

Listeners, I am sorry that we don't have a weather reporter here on WA2K, shall we draft Diane?

To Bob:

You were absolutely correct, my friend. Stevenson's short story was The Bottle Imp. Now I recall the details-- A different twist on the genie in the bottle routine.
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Diane
 
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Reply Mon 14 Mar, 2005 05:05 pm
Letty, I am honored to be drafted as weather reporter.
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Letty
 
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Reply Mon 14 Mar, 2005 05:17 pm
Hoorah! We have a new staff member.

aside: do you know that because dys thought you were off to Denver he fell into the clutches of that Eva of the wine cellar? Talk about a bottle imp. Razz
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the prince
 
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Reply Mon 14 Mar, 2005 05:20 pm
And the prince did Toronto
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husker
 
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Reply Mon 14 Mar, 2005 05:22 pm
Prince where are you now?
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husker
 
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Reply Mon 14 Mar, 2005 05:24 pm
Diane
that is the cool picture - more?
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