A little instrumental ditty by Bert Kaempfert from 1962.
Kaempfert recorded and produced this little instrumental ditty in 1961.
Author: DOuG pRATt
This is… The Night Gallery Impulse Purchase
Rod Serling’s Night Gallery is best remembered today for its pilot episode, featuring Steven Spielberg’s directorial debut.
At the start of 11th grade I got a part-time job washing dishes. Coinciding with that was Night Gallery becoming a regular series. On weekday work nights I usually got home about 10 o’clock and I’d watch Night Gallery when it was on.
With those memories in mind, I went to Amazon to see if Night Gallery is available to buy or stream. Only $15 for the complete series on a 10-disc DVD set? *Click!* Done.
Record Store Day – 1969
As I have pointed out, 1969 was the year that records mostly stopped having dedicated mono mixes. Late ’68? The Beatles White Album had a mono mix. Fall of ’69? No mono mix for Abbey Road.
The move from mono to stereo must have been on the minds of consumers to deserve a comment in this scene from Cactus Flower. Look at all of the Beatles records on display, and there were 8-track tapes a’plenty.
This is the City. Los Angeles, California.
Produced in 1962, narrated by Bill Conrad, and posted on YouTube by the L.A. Fire Dept. a year ago.
Succeseverance
Two well-regarded TV series I didn’t watch were Succession, available on HBO Max (that I have) and Severance on Apple TV+ (that I don’t have). As happened years ago with Breaking Bad, my interest in Severance was piqued by Stephen Colbert’s praise for the series.
With season 2 of Severance about to premiere, season 1 is now available for free on the Roku Channel.
https://therokuchannel.roku.com/details/e3ff336ee4705000a82fa68163cdb149/severance
I binge-watched all nine episodes over the weekend. I’m now considering the 90-day Apple TV+ trial to catch season 2. Succession has almost 40 episodes over four seasons. That’s a big commitment I’m not ready to make yet.
Dude, You’re Getting a Google
The battery in my Pixel 4a has gone through some changes since I took the mandatory Android 13 update. The first day, the battery seemed to last much longer than it ever had. The second day, it returned to its previous rate of discharge. Today, it seems to be running down somewhat faster than usual.
Half an hour ago, Google sent me a $100 discount code for the purchase of a new Pixel phone. Checking the Google Store, I saw the Pixel 8a is once again at $400, a hundred bucks off its list price. Can the discount code be combined with the sale price? Yep, it can, so I ordered one.
