Face-Off
I’ll take OLDCATMAN’S for $500—cause they’re easy. In order - jerry teddy bat socialistfagasshatguy wyatt terry burt butch wilfred gene
IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION PLEASE!
Who are 9 Real Men and one.....?Posted by Oink
02/21/2005 at 12:07 PM
Let me change that. The question, not the answer. Who are 9 pretty normal guys and one fuggin’ weird dangerous guy?
NOW will you tell me who that long-haired freak “Tommy” was in the previous game?
Posted by Oink
02/21/2005 at 12:14 PM
Tommy Chong of Cheech & Chong.
For OCM’s Faceoff. I know the answers to mine.
1 = Terry
2 = Teddy
3 = Bat?
4 = Guy
5 = Wyatt?
6 = Jerry?
7 = Burt
8 = Butch
9 = Wilfred
10 = GeneI’ll take my hat off when I start seeing pictures of Julie London, Joni James, Peggy Lee, Vivian Leigh et al. No latterday skanks please. Stick to the classics.
Jerry Colonna toured with Bob Hope. Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earpe, & Butch Cassidy—old time outlaws—that’s the photo of Butch that almost got him caught—the photographer was so proud of it he posted it in his window in St. Louis. The law spotted it.
Wilfred Brimley you know from Cocoon and commercials + more.I don’t care as much for modern country music. Too much rock & roll and it’s for the homesick urban hillbilly. I like the old Hank Williams & earlier, when they sounded like they sang with clothespins on their noses. (for that extra twang)
Posted by Oink
02/21/2005 at 02:49 PM
No “country” or “rock” at all for me, chaps. Give me the big bands anytime! Glenn Miller forever!
Isn’t it past your nap time Tennenberg?
Posted by Oink
02/21/2005 at 03:28 PM
Minor correction here: it’s WilFORD Brimley.
(He was also in the 1982 remake of “The Thing”.)(gag,spit,choke) Country??
Tannenberg - you rule!. You’ve already mentioned my all-time favourite - Alton Glenn Miller, so in no particular order I would add a ‘few’ of my own:
Benny Goodman, The Dorsey’s, Artie Shaw, Woody Herman, Harry James, Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn, Count Basie, Sammy Nestico, Thomas “Fats” Waller, Jimmy VanHeusen, Neal Hefti, Harry Warren, Ned Washington, Joe Garland, the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Lerner & Lowe, Fletcher Henderson, Gus Kahn, Fred Ebb, Johnny Mercer, Jerry Grey, Jimmy McHugh, Snuffy Walden, John Higgins, Louis Armstrong, Paul Desmond, Ben Bernie, Louis Prima, Gene Krupa, Rodgers & Hart, Ray Henderson, Earle Hagan, Errol Garner, Harold Arlen, Burton Lane, Jule Styne, Chick Corea, Irving Berlin, Juan Tizol, Henry Mancini, Juan Carlos Joabim, Cy Coleman and Billy Rose.
Hope I haven’t missed anyone. (Heh, heh)
-Dan D,
CanuckistanI’ll take a shot at Stanly’s
a.Roy Clark
b.Hank Williams
c.Chet Atkins
e.Roy Acuff
g.Lester Scruggs
h.Jimmy Dean
i.Merle Haggard
J.Bob Wills
spelling???
OLDCAT—this story needs some explaining before telling. Do you remember what our parents’ generation said about Rock ‘n Roll? Certainly the second part, hopefully, not many, the second. They may have thought it. I was asked my opinion of RAP.
“To me it’s n*gg*r music and it all sounds alike.”
We have become our parents.
Posted by Oink
02/21/2005 at 07:19 PM
#@!#* MY nap time?!?! Hell, no! I’m just getting IN THE MOOD with a MOONLIGHT COCKTAIL. You’re invited to take the CHATTANOOGA CHOO-CHOO to meet me at TUXEDO JUNCTION where we’ll pick up a couple of young ladies, each with a STRING OF PEARLS, and we’ll dance to JUKEBOX SATURDAY NIGHT and MOONLIGHT SERENADE, and when we get home, there’ll be nobody to say AT LAST.
Dial me up at PEnnsylvania 6-5000 and we’ll chew the JOHNSON RAG for awhile. I GOT A GAL IN KALAMAZOO that you oughta meet! The last time I saw her, I told her, DON’T SIT UNDER THE APPLE TREE WITH ANYBODY ELSE BUT ME!
WAY TO GO DAN IN CANUCKISTAN! We’re on the same wavelength. Philistines or no Philistines, good taste will prevail in the end.
KingAlJr,
Close but not there yet.
”.....good taste will prevail in the end. “
Damn straight...and you know of course, that you named the very first Gold Record in musical history? (arr. by A.G. Miller.) Recorded May 07, 1941 by the Glenn Miller Orchestra: “CHATTANOOGA CHOO-CHOO”
To this day, if one attends a wedding or social event, I’d bet you’ll still hear them play “IN THE MOOD” - it’s timeless.
And the NAACP got their nuts in an uproar over the lyrics to this: (from my own 5 min.+ arrangement)
Chattanooga Choo Choo
Music by: Harry Warren; Lyrics by: Mack Gordon.
From the original movie “Sun Valley Serenade”Pardon me, boy - Is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo?
Track twenty-nine - boy, you can give me a shine.
I can afford - to board the Chattanooga Choo Choo
I’ve got the fare - and just a trifle to spare.You-leave-the Pennsylvania Station ‘bout a quarter to four,
Read a magazine and then you’re in Baltimore.
Dinner in the diner - nothing could be finer,
Than to have your ham ‘n eggs in Carolin(er).When you hear the whistle blowin’ eight to the bar,
Then you know that Tennessee is not very far.
Shovel all the coal in - gotta keep it rollin’
Woo, woo, Chattanooga there you are!<Short Instrumental>
There’s gonna be - a certain party at the station,
Satin and lace - I used to call ‘funny face’.
She’s gonna cry - until I tell her that I’ll never roam,
So Chattanooga Choo Choo - won’t you choo-choo me home.Chattanooga Choo Choo - won’t you choo-choo me home.
<Long Instrumental>
Pardon me, boy - Is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo?
Track twenty-nine - boy, you can give me a shine.
I can afford - to board the Chattanooga Choo Choo - now!
Chattanooga Choo Choo - won’t you choo - choo me home.<Short piano licks>
Chattanooga Choo Choo - won’t you, choo-choo me home!
-Dan D,
CanuckistanAnd so they might… get their nuts in a twist. It is a teeny bit degrading to be forty years old and called “boy”. The lyrics I’ve heard lately have been changed to “Pardon me boys”. Regarding the shine, I don’t know.
Posted by Oink
02/21/2005 at 09:18 PM
You’re right, Dan, on all counts. Damn shame the Pennsylvania Station isn’t there any more, too. This is one of my all-time favorites, and incidentally, one of my best keyboard arrangements in my solo show for ballroom dancers. A damfine swinging arrangement!
Remember the Duke: “It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that SWING!”
Absolutely right Oink. Bad phrasing. We’ve not had quite the same problems with blacks/negros/coloured people as you have had in the US. So perhaps they (NAACP) were within their rights. But I believe it was that whole phrase: “...boy, you can give me a shine...” The reference there being that in the 30’s and 40’s, “coloured people” were more than often ‘shoe shine boys’. Which probably made it even worse.
But at the same time, that was the way it was written. And productions of “Showboat” (I think it was) almost got cancelled a while back because of the lyrics, and pronounciation of the lyrics, in “Old Man River” - IMO one of the most beautiful, dramatic and moving ballads ever written, and I can’t for the life of me remember the person’s name who originally sang it (Paul Robeson??). It was said that he was actually crying real tears when he sang it. I would believe that. It has that effect on many people - this writer included.
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-Dan D,
CanuckistanI saw this graffiti: “SEX, DRUGS &
ROCK ‘N ROLL!” Yep, someone had scratched out the truly offensive phrase!But let us put this stuff aside and gird our loins. See “Eating Pussy” in today’s offerings…
Posted by Oink
02/22/2005 at 10:01 AM
02/21/2005 at 07:00 PM
