musicalnovelty
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> {quote:title=Moodri wrote:}{quote}Saturday, October 15 - 9:40pm ET, following *The Bicycle Thief*:
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> *One Got Fat* -- a bicycle safety short
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See it again here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1225980947023052205#
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> {quote:title=GreatMoviesFan wrote:}{quote}What was the name of the short on tonight with the monkey children riding their bikes and not following traffic rules?
See it again here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1225980947023052205#
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> {quote:title=C.Bogle wrote:}{quote}
> Who got the first copy of the numbered The Beatles (The White Album)?
> I believe the number was 000001.
I got the album right when it came out in December 1968 and the number on mine is 0757995. My brothers and I played it so much we were afraid of wearing it out so soon decided to buy another copy. But it was selling so well that Christmas that most stores were out of stock. One department store we checked had copies of the Italian pressing in their record department, presumably because that was all that the distributors could get for them at that time. The Italian cover also has a number: 0286996.
Number 000001 sure would be a nice collector's item! I wonder who has it...
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}Name 2 people who have been referred to (or referred to themself) as the "Fifth Beatle".
Nobody has yet mentioned Stu Sutcliffe.
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Could that latest mug be...
Harry Tyler?
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In 1959 The Three Stooges recorded an album of oldies called "The Nonsense Songbook" and it included "Mairzy Doats". Their presentation of the song was to have Larry try to teach it to Moe and Curly-Joe. But what's funny is that at one point in the song Larry himself gets the lyrics screwed up (and he was supposed to be teaching the others!)
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I noticed something interesting about CITY LIGHTS a long time ago and with all that's been written about this movie I've never seen it referred to by anyone else before.
It is in the scene near the end when Charlie leaves Virginia for the final time before getting thrown in prison. She says to him "But you're coming back!" Has anyone else ever noticed that the title originally said "But you're coming back?" (ending with a question mark). If one looks closely the question mark can still be seen but it's been covered by the exclamation point.
The scene is in this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkNhL2Lu3pk&feature=related
What I've always wondered is:
Was that just a typo in the printing of the title and they fixed it the way we see it now?
Or had Charlie originally written the scene with Virginia delivering the line as a question, then changed his mind and thought it would work better as a statement?
Had anyone else ever noticed this, and what do you think?
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Another Van Dine short (unlisted, naturally!) on Oct. 15 at 7: 37 A.M. (eastern) -
THE COLE CASE (1931).
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> {quote:title=JakeHolman wrote:}{quote}Sugarloaf...if you hear some scatches, nothing is wrong with your setup...
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> Jake in the Heartland
Thanks for that link...that song is still a favorite, especially the complete long version. I got that 45 right when it came out in 1970 and liked both sides so much I bought the album, too. And the LP is still a favorite! Then a few months later when Sugarloaf put out their new single and second album I got those too, and they 're still favorites, too. I kept up with the group, getting all of their following releases, but somehow they didn't grab me as much as the first two albums.
I even picked up the 1978 solo album by Sugarloaf leader Jerry Corbetta and found it to be a fraction as good as a group album by the guys. It even included a remake of the hit "Green-Eyed Lady" that as far as I recall thinking at the time, the less said the better, although I admit I haven't played it in decades.
One interesting thing about the original single "Green-Eyed Lady" -
When it was released in 1970 Liberty Records was doing something strange with some of their 45's. If the song was extra long, like "Green-Eyed Lady" they would usually edit it for the 45 release. But if one purchased the 45 right away sometimes you'd get the complete long version! Apparently for just the initial release of the 45 sometimes they'd press special long versions. And that's what happened with "Green-Eyed Lady". And even the B-side was the complete version of the album track "West of Tomorrow" while on the later pressings it was edited. So picking it up right away I got the long versions and the 45 appears to be a real "collector's item".
Recently I got to wondering how rare the long version 45's of "Green-Eyed Lady" are so for a random search I checked eBay to see if anyone was selling the 45 and which version was listed more often. I found that over 30 different copies of the short, edited version were listed (including some reissues and foreign pressings) but NOT ONE of the long version was listed at all!
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> {quote:title=jamesjazzguitar wrote:}{quote}
> How was that Hey Jude single released? I have to assume both the A and B side was Hey Jude.
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> That means that the B side would be mostly just that la, la, de la, la, etc......ending.
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No, when "Hey Jude" was released on a 45 in late August 1968 it was the whole song, all 7:11 of it all on one side. The other side was "Revolution".
It was still pretty unusual at that time for one song on a side of a 45 to run longer than seven minutes, but the practice was just starting. One single that was even longer than "Hey Jude" had just come out a few months earlier: "MacArthur Park" by Richard Harris, running 7:20.
But usually the record companies would cut a long song in half for the 45 release, intending Part One to be the A-side, intended for radio play. Some examples are:
"Sky Pilot" by The Animals in 1968.
"Susie Q" by Creedence Clearwater Revival in 1968.
"American Pie" by Don McLean in 1971.
Eventually some 45's came out with running times of over 8 minutes on one side, but not often.
I can still remember when "Hey Jude" came out and I got the 45 and saw that it ran 7:11 and thought that it would have been so easy for The Beatles to have beaten the record (as far as I knew) of longest song on a single ("MacArthur Park") by letting the ending of "Hey Jude" go just a little longer and then fade it out after it had gone longer than "MacArthur Park"'s 7:20. But The Beatles probably never even knew or thought about such things.
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The theme song "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" was written by Dorothy Fields & Jimmy McHugh and was originally a hit in 1928, having been introduced in the Broadway revue "Blackbirds of 1928".
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> {quote:title=Dargo wrote:}{quote}I believe Freddie Bartholomew might have been billed over Spence in *Captain Courageous* also, TB.
I just took a look at the trailer on YouTube (unfortunately the complete movie wasn't available there, not for free, anyway), and yes Freddie B. is billed before Tracy.
I also looked on eBay to see if there were any posters or other samples of original advertising for the movie and sure enough, again, Freddie appears to have been top billed in that movie.
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> {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote}French actress Paulette Dubost passed away on Sept. 21, 2001 just a few weeks before her 101st birthday.
> She had a long career in French films and television:
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> http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0239513/
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> Most of her films never were shown in the U.S. but two of the more well-known are:
> Le roi des Champs-Elysees (1934) in which she co-starred with Buster Keaton.
> The Rules of the Game (1939).
I just noticed a typo in my original post and it's too late to go back and edit / fix it.
It should have said Paulette Dubost passed away on Sept. 21, 2011, not 2001.
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> {quote:title=C.Bogle wrote:}{quote}
> Here's another piece of fairly low hanging fruit: Longest Beatles' single,
> longest Beatles' album cut. Longest in time, minutes and seconds that is.
Longest single: "Hey Jude" at 7:11 (Yeah, I know I'm way too into it when I don't even need to go & look up the running time!)
Longest album cut: "Revolution #9" at 8 & a half minutes or so.
Actually when you say "longest single" - actually they were all the same: seven inches!
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> {quote:title=GrannyPat wrote:}{quote}Thank you all so very much! I registered for the forum just to ask this question not realizing there was such a fantastic fan base out there for TCM that shares my love for the old ones. This is great! Going to listen to the song now....thanks again!
Here's the complete version:
And see them do it live:
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Unlisted short at 11:40 P.M. (eastern), Oct.13 -
KEEP 'EM SAILING (1942) - MGM - "Crime Does Not Pay" series.
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> {quote:title=JefCostello wrote:}{quote}What are your favorite scenes that take place in a rainstorm? I'll start the list.
I won't say this is my favorite - too creepy! But it is memorable! And it is in the rain!
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/148321/Freaks-Movie-Clip-Assault-in-the-rain.html
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> {quote:title=mongo wrote:}{quote}!
> Marilyn Monroe accepts the Henrietta Award in 1952.
And that's actor Richard Basehart sitting with her.
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> {quote:title=casablancalover wrote:}{quote}With all this talk about overplayed on other threads, I thought of this one that took the better part of three decades to like again:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK9H30szHqk
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> I am still considering if I should play Satisfaction..
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You're right: it's too bad so many unadventurous and inimaginative oldies stations beat to death good old songs that we used to like until we never want to hear them again!
And yes, sorry to say, "Satisfation" is on that list.
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> {quote:title=TopBilled wrote:}{quote}Chris Isaak just mentioned the .....one with Donald O'Connor called TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE (made at Universal).
That was actually a Paramount Picture, not Universal.
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> {quote:title=classicmoviefan09 wrote:}{quote}Hello all,
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> I checked the schedule for this evening/night and there are potential windows between films where shorts could be broadcast.
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> *TOM SAWYER* - 21 minute gap - 17 if you include 4 minutes for intro and exit from scheduled film
> *THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN* - 29 minute gap - 25 minus 4 minute intro and exit
> I would be very surprised if there is not a short broadcast after Huck Finn.
There's also a 27-minute gap with no shorts scheduled after THE LITTLE PRINCESS (1939) on Saturday morning, Oct.15.
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*(Original post):*
*THE BLOND CAPTIVE (1931)*
*Northwestern Australian Neanderthal Expedition Syndicate*
*w/ Lowell Thomas*
http://www.archive.org/details/TheBlondeCaptive
*Full movie**
**An expedition sent to the primitive aboriginal outback of Australia hears rumors of a lost white woman. They do make it to Australia and then eventually to a very remote area. There they do find a white woman who was shipwrecked way back and is married to a tribal Aborigine and is mother to his blond child. She does not want to go back with them.
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*Fans of the rock group Three Dog Night probably already know the origin of the group's name, but it's explained clearly in this film.*
And by the way, the surname of one of the technicians on this movie is Crapp. Were they trying to tell us something about the lame story line of the alleged "Blonde Captive"?
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> {quote:title=slaytonf wrote:}{quote}Great line up of movies tonite! First up:
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> *The Three Musketeers.* A rollicking adventure tale from Dumas' famous novel about the lives, loves, intrigues, and adventures of four swordsmen in the service of the King of France. Swordplay! Romance! Intrigue! Adventure!
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> Great! And, to follow up, there's:
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> *The Three Musketeers.* A rollicking adventure tale from Dumas' famous novel about the lives, loves, intrigues, and adventures of four swordsmen in the service of the King of France. Swordplay! Romance! Intrigue! Adventure!
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> And to cap the evening off:
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> *The Three Musketeers.* A rollicking adventure tale from Dumas' famous novel about the lives, loves, intrigues, and adventures of four swordsmen in the service of the King of France. Swordplay! Romance! Intrigue! Adventure!
And The Fox Movie Channel just ran the 1939 version with Don Ameche & The Ritz Brothers.
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> {quote:title=drednm wrote:}{quote}My review from IMDb:
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> Famous Paramount film from 1929 with Gloria Swanson in her smash-hit talkie debut....
Nice review.
But it's actually a United Artists film, not Paramount.
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> Sunday, Oct. 16th
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Learn more about the young lady with Buster on this poster, here:
http://www.silentcomedymafia.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=583