Oh wow...when I was living in England, I read 2 books by the late (and wrong about almost every political issue) Jilly Cooper - Riders & Rivals - and the 2nd one I loved, for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture.
And today I learned that it was a tv series starring David Tennant. :)
I was watching a clip of Neil Sedaka on the old tv show "I've Got a Secret" and at the end of his segment, he played Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu. Halfway through I realized that the song "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" was swiped from that Chopin piece.
(this isn't a secret, but it was news to me)
Basically. My dad was in the army (peacetime), stationed in Germany, and my mom was with him. When I was born, Dad still had 3 months left to serve. My maternal grandparents had a little crib borrowed from another relative waiting back in the US, so my parents made do until we returned.
0 to 3 months. 🤣
I spent three months sleeping in a dresser drawer in Bavaria
Day #4 of "songs all my friends knew during my 1960's childhood and regularly sang during grade school music time."
On Moonlight Bay - Doris Day (youtu.be/Ud7ZTU4FS3U?...)
Actor Harrison Ford (...83 years old), in a tuxedo and holding the SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award
"...it's a little weird to get a lifetime achievement award at the half-point of my career."
-Harrison Ford, at least night's SAG-AFTRA Awards
Day #3 of "songs all my kid friends knew during my 1960's childhood and regularly sang during grade school music time."
"Alouette" - the most random version I could find, with cute, costumed Vietnamese kids who ALMOST remember the choreography (youtu.be/MCE7zeTLs7Y?... )
The 1960s, thank you. 🤣
Day #2 of "songs all my friends knew during childhood and regularly sang during grade school music time."
Waltzing Matilda - Slim Dusty
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVK_...)
Day #1 of "songs all my friends knew during childhood and regularly sang during grade school music time."
Oh, Shenendoah - Tennessee Ernie Ford
(youtu.be/khxx3sCVhtE?...)
Weirdly, there was a link on that pag to a video of somebody reading aloud a monologue based on "English" from 450 on, and I was understanding most of it at about the 950 stage. I suspect it's looking at the wynns & ethes that's throwing me off. :)
Reading aloud to myself, I made it back through 1200 with no particular problem, but I had a much harder time with 1100, and by the time I got to 1000, I was lucky I still understood the gist of what was written.
Listening to random famous classical music, and when I got up to Les Toreadors from Carmen, I had a flashback to playing early '90s Tetris for hours on end.
That was fun!
I was afraid of matches back then. I started using the 6" fireplace matches instead, and my parents said they were too expensive!!!
What's a chore you had when young (between 9 and 12, let's say) that you suspect almost nobody has these days?
Mine: taking the paper trash out to the backyard, dumping it in the metal trash can (the one with holes in the side), then setting the trash on fire.
Robert Duvall as Tom Hagen from The Godfather II, jacket off and slumped back casually in a black leather wingback chair. Photo credit to Getty Images.
RIP Robert Duvall, 1931 - 2026
In a long line of crushes I had on actors when young is Robert Duvall. 12 year old me had a weirdly inappropriate thing for The Godfather's Tom Hagen, which...I have no idea.
Anyway.
Robert Duvall was a great actor...may his memory be a blessing.
When i was a child - long before I knew what slash was - I suspected that James West and Artemus Gordon were a couple.
If you see this, post a rabbit 🐰
I had to look up the composer! (Irwin Allen, I knew...he'd also produced Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, and Land of the Giants before moving to the world of big budget disaster films. :D)
The Prisoner first aired in the late 60s and I watched it with my dad, but when I was in my late teens and living in San Francisco, the show re-aired on their PBS station, followed each week by a one-hour discussion program, often featuring cast members or writers from the show. It was great!
The Champions was a short-lived British show, and I know almost nobody in the US (where it did air) who really remembers it
LOL. I can hum along to all of them. :)
So...The Time Tunnel was "an Irwin Allen production," which I knew, but the theme music was apparently composed by John Williams (then credited as "Johnny" Williams :D)
Who remembers watching any of the following tv shows?
The Time Tunnel
Here Come the Brides
The Champions
The Wild, Wild West
The Prisoner
The Jo/Laurie thing is so funny because I read Little Men first, which meant I knew from 9 years old who Jo and Laurie would each end up with. Jo/Laurie always seemed weird to me. :)
Grapes of Wrath, I really liked. Madame Bovary & A Farewell to Arms, though? I'm with you.
I...still haven't read Crime and Punishment. :(
One of the problems with Wuthering Heights for me was that I saw the Olivier/Oberon movie first, which was plainly structured as a love story. When I read the book...yipes. :)
What are 3 classics you read before you were 13 that you Loved and 3 you Disliked? Mine are...
Loved
*1984
*To Kill a Mockingbird
*Jane Eyre
Disliked
*Wuthering Heights
*Catcher in the Rye
*The Scarlet Letter
