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Terms Which Have Disappeared
The compliment-related meaning might have been very much diluted by 3/9/1948, when Fibber realizes the leg of the card table is broken and that he'll have to try to call Doc Gamble before he leaves his house (on his way over to play checkers.) So Doc can bring his own card table... Molly says...- Espee
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
I'm going to plead Forum-Searching Ineptitude here. I think we had (and maybe I started) an examination of "I have a T. L. for you..." (1940s) and now years have passed and I can't find it for review. I forgot all about it until last week when I heard Molly McGee say it to Fibber.- Espee
- Post #2,103
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Ambiguous Lyric.
Last week I heard what was pretty obviously a Shakira track (it had that "break" in her voice over and over) and for a while I thought the lyric was "and the stork makes love to the hummingbird" which sounds somewhat impractical. By the time it ended, I realized it was "and the stars make love... -
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Follow the arrow... 1938-39
On a 1939 Jack Benny show, in their dramma... I mean, drama... Jack is running a rooming house and asks a prospective client "Do you want a room with a bath, or do you want to follow the arrow?" The line gets a pretty long laugh. I can imagine a sign in such an establishment, with an arrow... -
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Bea Wain on the Alan Young radio series
So the photo I saw probably wasn't from 1948... No, I don't have the Dunning book, but I used to spend a lot of time with the Buxton/Owen book. However it would tell when a show BEGAN but not when it ENDED... and I recall listening to examples of shows and discovering they were from a different... -
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Bea Wain on the Alan Young radio series
I saw a photo of the two of them, dated "1948." I have a disk of a bunch of his situation comedy shows over several years, and I believe only one (dated "1944") features her. She sings "Music Makes Me" from FLYING DOWN TO RIO. Several of the shows have Dianne Courtney as the vocalist. I'm... -
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Cedric Weehunt's phrase
Okay... so, about the same as when I've heard black (or blackface) characters answer with "Yazz'm..." -
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Cedric Weehunt's phrase
On "Lum n' Abner"... slow-witted Cedric often answers Lum or Abner with "Yes mom..." or is it "Yes ma'am..." or is it "Yes marm..."? None make sense. Is there an archaic word involved here? -
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The Ambiguous Lyric.
And which is it really, in "A Hard Day's Night"? "And why I love to come home, cuz when I get you alone, you know I feel all right" or "And why on earth should I moan..."? I always thought it was the former... then I saw it in print as the latter (in 2015)... but I've also seen it in sheet music... -
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Fibber McGee & Molly theme music change
The New Year's Eve 1946 show has Fred Waring and his Orchestra subbing for Fibber and Molly. Some lyrics are supplied for the "tuneless tune" which had temporarily become the McGee's theme: We're gonna ride ride ride ride ride We're gonna ride ride ride ride ride We're gonna ride ride ride ride... -
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Fibber McGee & Molly theme music change
Ah well, the stuff finished falling from the closet much quicker than it ever did on radio... I had the chance to attend Jim Jordan's day at the Hollywood Walk of Fame. But I was not used to visiting Hollywood by then (although it's only 25 miles away) and it happened to be in December (so I... -
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Fibber McGee & Molly theme music change
I heard a couple Fibber shows from 1939-40 last week, so I tried to absorb "Save Your Sorrow (for Tomorrow.)" Then I listened to a few versions of the song on Youtube. The next time I listened to a 1946 show, I realized that they played what LizzieMaine told us is "Wing to Wing" leading into... -
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Fibber McGee & Molly theme music change
And during what years did Gale Gordon portray "Foggy" Williams, the weatherman? -
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Fibber McGee & Molly theme music change
Perhaps if I hadn't heard that theme associated with our funny friends, Fibber and Molly, a couple hundred times over the last forty years, I might be able to get a "patriotic" feeling from it. Then again... -
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Fibber McGee & Molly theme music change
I read a statement that "Billy Mills is probably best-remembered as the wise-cracking orchestra leader on 'Fibber McGee & Molly'"... but I don't remember ever hearing him speak. I'm sure many of their shows I've heard, had been re-edited. I've heard plenty of comedy-star-and-bandleader banter... -
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Fibber McGee & Molly theme music change
The familiar theme music is replaced in the fall of '46-- then it comes back after a couple months. Were they just trying to freshen things up, or was there one of those broadcast music-rights disputes going on at the time? The replacement music strikes me as a rather tuneless tune... -
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Why was "903" funny? At least for a while, in December 1946.
Here's another Alan Young Show reference. While hoping to make a good impression on his girlfriend's father, he says, "I don't gamble... I don't drink... I don't know what '903' means..." -
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The Great Gildersleeve, with different music pasted-over
When looking through newspaper radio logs for the Bob & Ray 15-minute CBS series (mid-1959 to mid-1960) I saw a five-minute slot for Andy Griffith. I figure he told his folksy-funny stories... Someone suggested to me the five-minute show was made by merely editing his records. Really? -
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The Great Gildersleeve, with different music pasted-over
I did have the "rights to the music" idea in mind as a possible issue. I think it was for about a year that KFI had run "Fibber McGee and Molly" and "The Lone Ranger." Then they shifted to "The Great Gildersleeve" and "The Green Hornet." At some point, they started leading into that hour with... -
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The Great Gildersleeve, with different music pasted-over
One of the first OTR shows I had heavy exposure to, was The Great Gildersleeve on KFI, Sunday evenings in the mid-1970s. I made cassettes of many of them, but I haven't heard those in decades. Perhaps they were syndicated by Charles Michaelson? They seemed to have replaced the original music...
