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There were a few back and forth exchanges, could have been more. One or two posters mouthed off at him or something. Conversation was asymmetrical and lopsided, as well as one might expect anything to go on here without any moderator presence (all online conversations with celebrities that I have ever seen always have an active moderator). It looked like he was testing the waters and thought "nah, I don't think so".

This is probably it, Traffic With The Devil (1946).

Whether intentional or not, at least for one song these younger guys seem to get it

Hey, here's one. No, I wasn't in that crowd, I was at the square dance the next tent over. 😁

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I'm cheating a bit here, this is from a stage musical instead. A US/Russian chess rivalry. with Murray Head playing "The American". The only important thing to know here is this is a Benny and Bjorn composition. Yeah baby. Never mind all the checkered floors, I don't think they are in a Masonic lodge, though I could always be wrong, but I think this is one of those rare exceptions. Produced by Michael Tretow, who worked all the ABBA sessions. So this is solid ABBA personnel, minus the girls and with a different singer. Turn it up a bit for me...

All good choices. In addition, from what I have seen of Metallica behind the scenes, they are among those who show the highest degree of professionalism I have seen of any performers, regardless of musical genre. Now songwriters and composers is actually something I find more interesting, but maybe fit for a more interesting thread?

Perhaps, I am still trying to figure it out too.

He also thanked him at the end. It's an all-purpose type of reply - usually used for evaluation purposes, one which opens itself to the mindset of the reader and where they are at in life, without the poster having to make this judgement call and tell them where they should be at. The reader naturally will take one part in jest and the other to heart. Since the poster isn't telling the reader how to respond, this could really flip either way. However I just don't see the point.

Could be TCM or AFI. It depends if the data you see on the TCM site is forked or ported. I'm just another data guy and I have wondered once or twice before, but haven't really bothered to look into it. I hear wonderful things about it though.

I posted this link above to a Ron Dante TV interview, which was overlooked or ignored. Dante was 19 at the time when he recorded Sugar Sugar and it was written and produced by Don Kirshner (of "Brill building" fame) and Jeff Barry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHoFjc1Pi3A

Hey, here's one.

I remember her ads prominently arranged in Sky magazine back sometime in the 80s/90s, amongst the ads for Sharper Image types of things. Matronly looking woman holding a cup of coffee or tea and welcoming you the flier. Nothing to gawk at that point, and I never really paid any attention, but man did that ever go sour.

You apparently just have to keep them fed.

You really don't like The Cowsills. do you. Hey, any band that can relate to Mom like that is alright with me! BTW as per The Archies - I have seen Late Night's Paul Shaffer credit Ron Dante as being the first who gave him a chance in the industry. Nice guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHoFjc1Pi3A

It's a bit like the diminishing returns effect that you will find with rarities and premieres on TCM. It is apparently still centered on Boomer music (some for Boomers, some for Gen-Xers), and believe me, they will move on to going through every last drop of that too. Then who knows what. Gen-X music that Gen-Xers listen to, then Gen-X music that only Millennials listen to? Maybe there will be an earthquake or something.

Now that's a tough act to follow. How can the movie possibly live up to that?

BFD. As long as they start off with vector graphics then it will scale well.

Carole, Todd and Dionne check off most of the boxes for me.

Ughh.. Thank God for DVRs. I think I will take a shower now.

Yup. That's the poster I was thinking of. P.S. Now he has his own site. Good idea! https://phantomofthebacklots.com/

I probably should have used an emoticon. No, nothing at all similar. Just the description brought to mind the characters. 😁

Any better than Deliverance?

Sounds very cool. There was another poster for a brief amount of time who grew up around these areas back in the 1970s. He posted photos he had taken and blogged on here on some of his adventures as a kid sneaking onto the grounds while those studios were still active, but then it seemed his posts dropped off. Maybe they got him.