musicalnovelty
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Hey, I might stick my neck out for Noone - he made some pretty darn good records!
By the way, I got to meet him back in 1980 when he was touring with his new group The Tremblers. Nice guy.
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Thanks for the beautiful pictures of the beautiful Barbara!
Being a long-time fan of hers I've seen the first & third....but are you sure the middle one is Barbara Kent? I just ain't seein' her in that one. What's the source that says it's she?
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> No S.S. Van Dine mystery because they put in too much other filler.
How ya like that?!
We're not ready and they run one...then we're ready and they don't!
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> You probably read where Babara Kent has passed away at the age of 103. It's sad that Criterion could not have released LONESOME (1928) which they have the rights to, before she died.
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Info here, with several links, on the passing of Barbara Kent:
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> > M}{quote}ine is ...from one of my favorite songs from one of my all time favorite movies *Seven Brides for Seven Brothers*.
> It is wonderful to now know how you choose your name. I had thought it might be the name of a character in a Western.
I thought that maybe LonesomePolecat chose that name because he may be a Buster Keaton fan and that is Buster's name in the 1940 movie LI'L ABNER.
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HOLLYWOOD PARTY listed as including its original trailer plus an "Audio Vault" featuring "rare pre-recordings and out-takes of deleted songs".
Info here:
http://www.wbshop.com/Hollywood-Party-1934/1000202893,default,pd.html?cgid=MOVIEPRE
Sounds cool! Thanks, Warner Archives!
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> Can anyone give me the name of the song and the artist that TCM is using this month for it's collage of film clips. Some of the song is "only in a dream" Thanks
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That song is called "Saw You First" by a group called Givers.
More info about it here:
http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=162029&tstart=30
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There is time after the movie MURDER ON A BRIDLE PATH on Saturday morning, Oct. 22, for a two-reel short. I think from past experience we may expect a Vitaphone S.S. Van Dine short.
Be prepared...
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Here's a link to a page with a link to a nice YouTube tribute to Barbara Kent:
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2011/10/barbara_kent_last_silent.php
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Here's another obituary for Barbara Kent, under her married name of Barbara Monroe, including a beautiful recent photo:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thedesertsun/obituary.aspx?n=barbara-monroe&pid=154205768
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> > Is Carla Laemmle now the last surviving actress (excluding juveniles) who acted in a US silent?
> Today happens to be Carla Laemmle's 102d birthday.
Fans of Carla should check out her biography, "Among the Rugged Peaks" by Rick Atkins (2009).
I got mine signed by the author...AND by Carla herself!
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> I}{quote}t's your thread.Okay, I hope this one is fitting:
Somewhere in the film output of TCM's Star of the Month Buster Keaton appears the song "You Never Did That Before".
Name the film, and / or who performs it?
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'Our Gang' star from silent era dies in Vero Beach
By Tyler Treadway
October 14, 2011
VERO BEACH — Before "Spanky," before "Buckwheat," before "Alfalfa" and, for that matter, before "talkies," William A. "Billy" Naylor was a member of "Our Gang."
Naylor, 95, one of the last surviving stars of the silent era "Our Gang" comedies, died Oct. 5 at Royal Palm Skilled Nursing Facility in Vero Beach.
The "Our Gang" kids, aka "The Little Rascals," were featured in dozens of short comedy films from the mid-1920s through 1944 about the adventures, and misadventures, of a group of children. The cast changed several times over the years. Billy Naylor appeared in several early silent films when the main stars were Mickey Daniels, Joe Cobb, Allen "Farina" Hoskins and Ernie "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison.
The more famous George "Spanky" McFarland, Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas and Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer joined the gang for "talkies" in the 1930s.
Naylor's "Our Gang" movies included three made in 1926:
Uncle Tom's Uncle: The gang puts on a version of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"; Naylor played a boy in the audience.
The Fourth Alarm: The gang forms a junior fire department, with Naylor a member of the squad.
Telling Whoppers: The gang takes on the neighborhood bully. Naylor overhears the bully's mother tell a police officer her son is missing and reports it to his buddies.
Before joining "Our Gang," Naylor appeared in several "Hey Fellas!" comic short films — including "The Klynick" and "Tin Hoss," both made in 1925 — that copied the "Our Gang" format.
After "Our Gang," Naylor appeared in many more movies, including Cecil B. DeMille's "The King of Kings" in 1927, in which he played a boy watching Jesus fix a doll, and "Special Agent" in 1935 starring Bette Davis, in which he was a newsboy.
"Uncle Bill was a very private person," said Jeanne Dunphy, 87, of Sebastian, Naylor's niece. "He never talked about being in movies. I remember telling him, 'You were a movie star.' Maybe he wasn't a movie star like Carole Lombard or Clark Gable, but he was a movie star in our eyes."
Naylor was born in San Francisco and lived most of his life in Los Angeles before moving to Vero Beach in February to be close to family members.
At 18, Naylor became the youngest actor at the time to join of the Screen Actors Guild. After appearing in movies, he continued to work at the Warner Bros. studio as casting director and sound effects editor.
He was preceded in death by his wife of more than 30 years, Valena Blaney.
Dunphy remembers seeing "Reducing," a 1931 comedy about a beauty parlor/"reducing" salon in which Naylor appeared, with her uncle and aunt in the late 1960s at a Hollywood theater specializing in classic films.
"The theater was filled with people in their 30s and 40s interested in old movies," she said. "But Uncle Bill didn't tell anyone that he was there and he had been in that movie. That's just how he was."
No services are scheduled. Arrangements are by The Neptune.
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Norman Corwin, the legendary writer, director and producer of [original radio plays for |http://www.normancorwin.com/Classic.html][CBS|http://www.latimes.com/topic/economy-business-finance/cbs-corp.-ORCRP002841.topic|CBS Corp.] during the golden age of radio in the 1930s and '40s when he was revered as the "poet of the airwaves," has died. He was 101.
Here's the whole L.A. Times article:
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-norman-corwin-20111019,0,3410344,full.story
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}.......I've always liked "She's a Rainbow".
That's one of my favorites by The Stones.
And one that I wish the oldies stations would remember once in a while instead of all those other oldies they play way too often.
Here it is...
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That's still a good one.
But here's one of my faves by them (in fact probably my favorite). From early 1968, one that we don't hear enough on the radio any more:
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> }{quote}I also forgot about George Burns and Jack Benny. They both wore toupees.
And who can forget Benny's classic 1942 comedy "Toupee Or Not Toupee"?
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Very sad news, but inevitable, at her age.
She was one of my favorites and I've collectred a large number of pictures & other stuff on her career, especially from the 1928 Universal movie LONESOME and her films with Harold Lloyd.
Here is the New York Times article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/movies/barbara-kent-silent-film-star-dies-at-103.html
Pictures:
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> {quote:title=RowanMartin68 wrote:}{quote}anyone else excited that they're finally releasing this album:
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YES!!! - Finally!
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> }{quote}One of the great moments in film is Jean Arthur leaping across the desk to grab the list of names from the deceitful store manager.
Hey, far as I'm concerned, ANY time I see Jean Arthur on screen is a great moment in film!
But, yes, that IS a great scene!
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> {quote:title=lavenderblue19 wrote:}{quote}Musical, what is the site you're referring to? I'd love to hear the version. btw, it's your thread.
I don't know what happened. A wrong link somehow got posted.
Here (I hope) is the YouTube link I intended to post:
[www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-2nIlkOgC8|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-2nIlkOgC8]
I'll try to come up with a song question later today.
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And one of my favorites by them.
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That "mann" looks like Hank Mann.
"Yes we can can!" said Little Nicola.
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> }{quote}musicalnovelty, thank you for posting She's a Rainbow. It's a very pretty song, and Nicky Hopkins' delicate piano playing adds so much. You can imagine a ballerina twirling away to that. Another great track from the same album is 2000 Light Years from Home.
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> About a month ago Wilco and Nick Lowe ( as the "warm up" act) appeared in concert in Toronto. This would have been a dream show for me, but unfortunately I was away at the time and had to miss it. By all accounts it was, not surprisingly, a great show. Here's a tune that Nick is said to have played at it - I Live on a Battlefield :
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Thanks for the link to that good song...that's a good reminder that Nick Lowe's still got it!
Long-time big Nick Lowe fan here, too. I have seen him play several times, mostly in the late 1970's to early 1980's and a few times later.
So many great Nick Lowe songs and albums, but this is one of my faves (along with just about everything from his "Pure Pop for Now People" / "Jesus of Cool" album):
Good to hear that he's still touring. Maybe I can go & see him again.
About "She's a Rainbow" by The Stones -
Yes, "2000 Light Years from Home" is another good one from that album (in fact it was the B-side of the "She's a Rainbow" 45).
I think that's my favorite period of The Stones: songs like "She's a Rainbow", "Dandelion" and even the hit "Ruby Tuesday" - even though played often on the oldies stations, I'm still happy to hear it and will never get sick of it.