Category: Music

Dollywoodwind

Okay, so that’s a brass band playing the 9 to 5 theme in this video from tastewar. The “woodwind” pun was just too good to resist.

I’ve never seen 9 to 5. Planet Money has the backstory on how the organization, the song and the movie, came to be.

My curiosity is piqued from seeing that Sterling Hayden is in the movie. I’m further surprised that Hayden was only 70 when he died.

Another surprise was learning that Gina Bacon of ‘Big Planet Noise’ and ‘Someday Matinee’ on WFMU worked for Dolly Parton, who she affectionately addressed as “Boss Lady.” Gina’s been busy since Dolly’s passing, dealing with matters within Parton’s organization.

Two of a Kind From ’35

This is something I meant to do years — and years! — ago. Early in 1935, Walt Disney Studios released a Mickey Mouse cartoon, his first in color, called ‘The Band Concert.’

At the end of 1935, the Fleischer Brothers Studio released Popeye’s (much funnier) cartoon “answer” to Mickey, ‘The Spinach Overture’.

I’m making the comparison while QC-ing the replacement Popeye DVD set. There has been some cost-cutting, with DVD+R discs and basic packaging, but it plays without messing up, unlike the now-rotting 2007 box set.