Denro pointed out this Boston radio tidbit:
This weekend, Mix is bringing you back to the 90’s with music that will make you say Oh Wow! You’ll hear some old favorites like Marky Mark, Hanson, Spice Girls and more! We can hear you saying “Oh Wow” to yourself right now! It’s all weekend on Mix 104.1!
This can’t be right. Having a weekend music mix celebrating a decade that’s only ten years ago, as if it were the distant past, would be ridiculous, like having a Doo-wop tribute band at Woodstock!
Saturday was the 60th anniversary of Beetle Bailey, created by Mort Walker. The comic strip was introduced before Peanuts, and unlike Charlie Brown the premise and setting changed. For most of its run Beetle Bailey has been on an Army base, but it started out with Beetle in college.
There was a series of Beetle Bailey cartoons produced in the 60’s by Al Brodax. Brodax’s next project was to produce another batch of cartoon Beetles, but they were Beatles.
One of Prue Bury’s best friends is in this video clip, a montage-homage to the film Carnal Knowledge. I’m in the middle of reading her memoir, which has almost nothing to do with modeling, or acting, or anything glamorous.
September 3, 1964, 5 pm — Indiana State Fair, Indianapolis
We turn our attention yet again to Mitch Miller, this time for a British perspective on the late musician/talent scout/record producer. As the English news outlet The Independent said in its obituary of Mitch…
Miller loved coming to London. One of his slogans was “Thank God for the British” because he always felt that a record that had failed in America might get a second chance when it was released here. “Cool Water” (Laine), “Christopher Columbus” (Mitchell) and “Where Will the Dimple Be” (Clooney) had been overlooked in the US, but became successful in the UK. “I like the British,” he told the New Musical Express in 1955. “They are not in as much a hurry as we Americans are. They take time out to really listen.”
Russell Davies on BBC Radio 2 (who isn’t BBC TV’s Russell T. Davies) spent fifteen minutes of his Sunday programme talking about Mitch, and he played Rosemary Clooney singing a very odd novelty song, “Where Will the Dimple Be?” which was a #7 hit in England.
[Audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/2010/AUG/RussellDavies.mp3]
Davies points out that Thurl “Tony the Tiger” Ravenscroft (“You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch”) is credited for singing bass, and thanks to 78s4FR on YouTube we can see the original record label as it appeared in England in 1955.
Denro and I have various catch-phrases we like to use, and at least a couple of them are Beatles-related quotes. One of them is, “I can say no more,” from HELP! Another is “Touring became intolerable,” from an 80’s documentary, now out-of-print, called The Compleat Beatles. Here’s the complete Compleat. The quote is at 1h 12m into the video.
http://youtu.be/DrvhyL0cIm4?t=1h12m10s
