Really Old School

[Gliderman8]

Sitting outside enjoying my newly found jazz music station. Not MP3 BUT my trusty and dependable Sony Sports Walkman.

 

[NutmegCT]

Whoa! You're into portable music just like me!

Presenting, Ed Wynn and his bicycle piano -

(and Dinah Shore's first TV appearance)

 

[Gliderman8]

Live TV in the 50’s.,, wonderful. As a kid I was in Buffalo Bob’s Peanut Gallery. Remember that?

 

[NutmegCT]

Sure do. And Princess Summer Fall Winter Spring!

 

[AngliaGT]

Tom still has his original rocks that he plays music with.

 

[NutmegCT]

Doug - what one of my favorite scenes in a favorite movie:

I hate it when someone even *thinks* of my rocks.

 

[waltesefalcon]

Tom still has his original rocks that he plays music with.

I think the real issue here is whether or not Tom's rocks are igneous or not.

 

[NutmegCT]

I think the real issue here is whether or not Tom's rocks are igneous or not.

Well, back in the day, they were known to sometimes spontaneously ignite. <ducks and runs>

 

[Mickey Richaud]

I think the real issue here is whether or not Tom's rocks are igneous or not.

Sedimentary - took eons for them to layer up...

 

[mikephillips]

The next question is, Are those Howard Bannister's rocks, what are you doing with Howards's rocks??

 

[NutmegCT]

Checking for a particularly high frequency, to save the plane from crashing!

 

[mikephillips]

If it does decide to crash, just make sure it runs out of gas right before reaching the ground...

 

[NutmegCT]

Here's what the great Italian pilots did, when they ran out of gas -

 

[Gliderman8]

Here's what the great Italian pilots did, when they ran out of gas -

I didn’t even have to watch it to know what the Italian pilots did. The Marx Brothers are and continue to be my favorites. Every time I watch one of their movies I can’t believe that I missed a wisecrack out of Graucho’s mouth that I missed from the last time I saw the movie.

 

[NutmegCT]

I wonder if the Italian pilot at the mic was Captain Spaulding, the African explorer.

Remember where that phrase came from? and where the tune re-appeared in the 1950s?

Bonus points for knowing The Secret Word!

 

[Gliderman8]

You Bet your Life I know where the song reappeared.

 

[NutmegCT]

The last performance of Margaret DuMont, reprising her role in Animal Crackers (Musical w/ Marx Bros., 1928, 1930 a movie).

She died just a few days after this performance. Really wonderful how she got such an ovation when she first came onto the stage.

Also note Groucho's daughter Melinda in an early TV performance.

 

[Gliderman8]

The Marx Brothers lived for a time in the town I lived in as a kid on Long Island.

 

[waltesefalcon]

Tom, thanks for sharing that. I really enjoyed the act but I also enjoyed that old Accutron commerical. They are really interesting watches. The commerical mentions use in satellites but they also made it into space on Mercury and Gemini Astronauts wrists as well as ever man who earned his astronaut's wings in the X-15. They even went to the moon eith Apollo, being used as the chronometers in the command module and lunar lander.