musicalnovelty
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> {quote:title=ginnyfan wrote:
> }{quote}Yellow Balloon was one of those bubble gummy songs performed by a group of session guys. Don became the drummer when they had to create a band to tour. A friend of mine had the single.
I have it too.
They actually released three singles, the other two being:
Good Feeling Time/I've Got a Feelin' for Love (1967)
Can't Get Enough of Your Love/Stained Glass Window (1968)
The song "Yellow Balloon" was also recorded by Jan & Dean (actually just Dean without Jan) and released as a single at the same time as the Yellow Balloon's version in 1967. The Yellow Balloon's single turned out to be the bigger hit.
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> *711 Ocean Drive* is a nifty little film. The filmmakers were able to actually film at Hoover Dam and the government allowed them to shoot interiors of the Dam as well.
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> Hoover Dam was renamed Boulder Dam during the Roosevelt administration. After Roosevelt died, Congress passed a resolution restoring the name Hoover Dam. Growing up in Las Vegas, we just called it the Dam.
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711 OCEAN DRIVE would have made a good double feature with the 1936 Warner Bros. picture BOULDER DAM, shown a few days ago on TCM during Ross Alexander night.
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> {quote:title=TomJH wrote:
> }{quote}....all having the time of their lives breaking up over this cartoon dog.
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> The question that I have always asked, however: WHY ARE THESE PEOPLE LAUGHING?
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I agree too! I've always thought that was a weak point in this otherwise fine movie.
And I was also going to point out when it was suggested they choose a Bugs Bunny cartoon, that it's surprising Paramount didn't insist on one of their own, such as a "Popeye" or even an old "Betty Boop" from Fleischer. Would have been a lot funnier (if they chose a good one) than what was actually used.
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I also want to say that I'm glad to hear that you're okay for now.
My brother and his wife live in northwestern Colorado so I'm watching the situation there with interest and they're also okay.
Wishing the best for you, your family and friends.
And I also want to thank Kyle for his original post on the situation.
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I've always loved Petula Clark!
Here's one of my all-time favorite pieces of film ever!:
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> {quote:title=EugeniaH wrote:
> }{quote}Sometimes it would cause the tape player to shut off or mangle the tape.
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> I remember that. I used to carefully pull the tape out of the machine, with the tape still stuck around the components, carefully remove the tape, rewind it with my finger, then pray that the tape wouldn't get mangled again when I played it (unless I could make a new copy using a dual-cassette recorder).
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There's a trick to getting a cassette tape out of the machine if it gets stuck in there and all wrapped around the components.
If that happens, naturally one's first instinct may be to eject the tape quickly and try to pull it out, and as you say, hope it isn't too mangled. BUT - what you should do instead is before ejecting the tape, hit rewind first. Most of the time the machine will just pull the stuck tape up and back onto the reel and it can then be easily ejected with no risk of breaking or damaging the tape. Sure it may come out with a few wrinkles in it from being wrapped around the innards of the machine, but that's usually okay (preferable to the tape breaking or getting stretched and ruined if forcibly pulled from the machine by ejecting while it's still stuck in there).
This won't work every time, of course, but it actually has for me, most of the time.
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> Do people remember when cassettes would "jam" and you had to wind the tape with a pencil, or your finger?
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A pencil never worked well enough. Too small. One of those clear plastic Bic pens was perfect.
I know because I still have thousands of cassettes and still use them often. But I don't need to use the pen these days like decades ago when, before knowing any better, I'd get cheapo tape brands.
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> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:
> }{quote}The cassettes from the late 1960's to the mid 70's were bad at "friction binding" within the housing. Sometimes it would cause the tape player to shut off or mangle the tape. The brand called "Crescendo" was notorious for this.
Also the brand Certron. Once anyone foolishly bought one of those we learned pretty quickly to avoid them forever!
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> {quote:title=kriegerg69 wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=EugeniaH wrote:}{quote}*why would you want to do something like that?*
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> > I love music and listen to a lot of it, and I've edited songs to make them sound even better - to me.
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> That's your choice, of course...but to me it's the same thing as what's called "fan edits" on the internet, where people take a movie from a DVD source and re-edit it, usually deleting scenes and things they don't like and redoing the sound, etc. Personally, I despise fan edits because to me they're done by people who DON'T like movies and are simply disrespecting the director's intentions...regardless of what they personally think about the film.
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> Your editing a song "to make them sound even better" is the same thing. It makes my back crawl just thinking about what you said about editing music. Leave it alone...it's disrespectful. A song can't possibly be THAT painful to listen to that you HAVE to edit it like that.
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> If you truly "loved music", you would leave them alone.
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While I agree in general with what you say about editing music there are some records/songs that just MUST be edited.
This was one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=974W-hJ3kRA&feature=related
That was a terrible idea to release it that way. This is how it should originally have been:
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Actor and musician Don Grady passed away June 27 at age 68.
Sad news for this fan of his work, especially the classic TV show "My Three Sons".
L.A. Times obituary article:
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-don-grady-20120628,0,7035373.story
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:
> }{quote}Well, at least you are familiar with Anne Nagel's work. Hardly anyone else is (except for maybe 100 people on these boards.)
Sure, yes, always been familiar with and a fan of Anne Nagel. That comes mostly from being into stuff like Monogram and especially early-1940's Universal movies.
And by the way, Anne Nagel fans can catch her on TCM starting July 7 when the 1940 Universal serial THE GREEN HORNET starts. Anne is the leading lady in this serial.
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> {quote:title=johnmack434 wrote:
> }{quote}He has been identified as Porter Hall or Ray Teal. Anyone have a guess?
I could offer a guess if I could see the picture. Once again, it's not coming out.
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> {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:
> }{quote}How about Bela Lugosi as SOTM in October?
YES!!
It's long-overdue!
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:
> }{quote}How can you exclude Claude Rains in THE INVISIBLE MAN?
I wouldn't mind TCM giving that one a rest for a while. It seems it's been on quite a lot recently.
The sequels however, would be welcome.
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> {quote:title=Swithin wrote:
> }{quote}Despite all the usual hype about those other ladies who were nominated for the 1950 Oscar (Davis, Swanson), Eleanor Parker should have won for Caged. One of the great performances of all time.
I guess one might say it was a "close shave" that she didn't win that year!
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> }{quote}RO's satement that his wife, Anne Nagel, was often confused with Anna Neagle strains credulity. Anna Neagle was a superstar in the UK. Anne Nagel was a very minor actress, wasn't she?
Yes, that was a surprising comment by RO, I thought.
I gotta say that after decades of being very familiar with both ladies' work that was the first time it even occured to me that anyone would confuse them with each other.
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Where's the horse? A bridle is something one puts on a horse. You probably meant to say "bridal" costume.
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Did anyone else notice that after SHIPMATES FOREVER the lady who announces the upcoming three movies called our star of the night "Alexander Ross"?
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The picture is not showing up. Can you try posting it again?
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Larry Fine of The Three Stooges!
Excellent violin player and pretty good on piano too. He can be seen playing these in several films.
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> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:
> }{quote}Thanks for posting this about the Edison diamond disc. I never heard of this format before, you made my evening! I'm going to get a couple of those discs on Ebay, they have a lot listed along with a few players, reproducers, parts and yes the rare replacement diamond stylus.
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Those Edison Diamond Discs (or, "thick Edisons" as they're often called) are not really rare, just unusual. I have a lot of them. Like most records, their value and collectability depends upon what the recording is that's on the record. (I don't think any of mine are particularly valuable).
The REALLY desirable Edison 78's are those his company released in 1929, called "Needle Cut" or "thin Edisons" (14000 number series). Those really are valuable, no matter what's on them.
Feel free to let me know when you find some of those!
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> {quote:title=TomJH wrote:
> }{quote}For those interested here's a lengthy article from Classic Images on Ross Alexander:
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That is a good article, and giving credit where it is due, the author of the article was John R. Allen, Jr.
The article was entitled "Fleeting Star" and appeared originally in the November 2006 issue of "Classic Images" (#377) where it ran for ten pages.
Numerous photos also were included such as 7 portraits of Alexander, 3 of wife Anne Nagel, one of Alexander with Warner Bros. co-star Beverly Roberts, one with Dick Powell and John Arledge from SHIPMATES FOREVER (1935), one with Lyle Talbot, James Donlan, and Patricia Ellis from BOULDER DAM (1936) and one with several co-stars fom CHINA CLIPPER (1936). Also included was a newspaper ad for A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (1935) and the sheet music cover for the hit song "Too Marvelous For Words" from the 1937 movie READY, WILLING AND ABLE on which Ruby Keeler, Louise Fazenda, and Allen Jenkins are pictured.
Also included in the article was the story on Alexander's death from the January 4, 1937 issue of "The Los Angeles Examiner" including a large photo of Anne Nagel being consoled by mother Veronica. And finally, pictures of Warner Bros. Studio offices and of Alexander's tombstone were included.
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> > }{quote}Great replies everyone.
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> Except for mine, of course. But I was in one of those moods.
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Hey, yours was one of the best!
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> Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy enjoy the company of funnyman Norman Wisdom (sitting on Ollie's lap)
Thanks for this nice shot. It's a slight variation of one I've seen before. Be the way, we can't see it in this shot, but Stan is holding a cigarette in his hand.
That's Bernard Delfont at the left and Albert Whelan at the right. The picture was taken on January 29, 1952 at the Washington Hotel in England.
Preston Sturges tonight...!
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Not meaning to pick too much on Robert Osborne, but in the interest of accuracy, I wanted to correct an erroneous statement he made about the 1940 movie CHRISTMAS IN JULY.
He said it was Dick Powell's first movie for Paramount after leaving Warner Bros. Actually it was his second.
I WANT A DIVORCE (starring Powell and Joan Blondell) was filmed in March and April of 1940 and released on September 20, 1940.
CHRISTMAS IN JULY was filmed between June 1 and June 29, 1940 and released on October 18, 1940.