Face Front, frantic Marvel fanboys! The Avengers are here, along with Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner.
All of the Marvel Super Heroes theme song records from the 1966 cartoons are out, and I’ve got ’em! They’re assembled here in this YouTube playlist, presented in the order the characters appeared daily in the syndicated TV series.
An album version will be released on Record Store Day next week.
We have a neighborhood visitor. He’s welcome to any mice he can find. I suspect there’s one trying to escape the cold night air and set up residence in one of the porch walls.
“A bat! No! wait! A hawk! That’s it! It’s an omen! I shall become a hawk!”
Folk singer and actor Burl Ives was a Communist sympathizer who cooperated with HUAC; however, Ives’ most enduring legacy is almost certainly his narration of 1964’s Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
A tip o’ the Dog Rat toupee to twinster Jeanie Beanie for letting me know that Rudolph is returning to NBC after decades at CBS, for a special 60th anniversary airing.
Jean and I have a possible connection to Burl Ives through our maternal grandfather. Our parents met at Eastern Illinois State College, where our grandfather, Eugene Waffle, was an English professor and later chairman of the department.
The connection with Ives is explained at this link:
However, during a “Beowulf” lecture in his English class, Ives decided to stop pursuing his degree and he wanted to become a singer. He left in the middle of class. Allegedly, the teacher made a nasty remark about him as he left and Ives slammed the door behind him, shattering the glass.