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The Bob Newhart thread got me reminiscing ... back in the dark ages I remember watching TV for something called entertainment. We used to call those shows "spectaculars", like Ed Sullivan, Bob Hope's Buick Show, Bell Telephone Hour, Garry Moore, Texaco Star Theater, etc. There was this rare thing called variety for us to enjoy, with performers like:

Ethel Merman, Barbra Streisand, Sammy Davis Jr., Ray Bolger, Pearl Bailey, Carol Channing, Ben Vereen, Vladimir Horowitz, Joel Grey, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Russian Army Chorus, Gregory Hines, Senor Wences, Isaac Stern, Beverly Sills, Carol Burnett, Dinah Shore, etc.

Somehow the likes of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton seem to have nothing but "glitz", and little else (to my old eyes anyway ...).

So who do the young folks watch for talent these days? Maybe I'm missing something by using the latest overpriced digital gizmo of the hour ....

Tom
 
Can't help you, Tom, but I have been asking myself a similar question for a long time.

About 27 years ago, I was listening to some Old Time String Band music from the '20s and '30s when a girl asked me, "What kind of regular music do you listen to?"

I didn't, and still don't, know what regular music is. What am I supposed to be listening to? Britney Spears? Don't think I've ever heard it. I'm lost when these guys in the Pub talk about Tin Dirigible and such. Is that regular?
 
Judging by the price of the concert tickets, I'd say Hanna Montana (whatever that is)...
 
Funny you should ask that question. I drive about 123 miles each way (mostly Interstate) every weekend to visit my elderly parents. I usually drive my '05 MINI S. About a year ago I basically stopped listening to radio music in my car! Most radio stations broadcast caterwailing and "hip hop" crap that I can't stand! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wall.gif

I now listen mostly to broadcast news when driving, or nothing at all. It's kinda fun to listen to the hum of the MINI engine. Gives me time to think, etc., and the engine noise is a <u>lot</u> better than the "music" on most radio stations! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cryin.gif
 
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I put a Sony AM/FM/cassette thingie in the Alfa when I got it, likely it has fewer than half the hours "on" than the new engine has running time. I drive it on 100 mile a day work trips often enuff, usually remember I have a radio about 10 minutes before I get where I'm goin'.

"The BARK of th' Webers" an' all that jazz. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif
 
I loved watching "Rock & Roll Jepordy" (spelling?)-
-when they'd get to the newer stuff,I'd echo -
"Yeah.... who is XXXXX?".

- Doug
 
I know what you mean, Tom. I've had three GT6s, only one had a radio in it (when I was 19-20 years old in 1971-2)!

The Triumph six had a wonderfully lovely and evil roar to it, no way I'm messing that experience up with a radio. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
 
Heck, the Spider makes noises like old Italian farm machinery, but I ~still~ prefer that to most of what passes for "music" lately.
 
alana said:
Judging by the price of the concert tickets, I'd say Hanna Montana (whatever that is)...
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If you had daughters between the ages of say 4 & 10 you'd know who Hanna Montana is.

For the uninformed (without little girls living at home) Hanna Montana is actually a show on the Disney Channel. Staring Miley Cyrus as Hanna Montana who is the real life daughter of on again off again "Pop" Country singer & want-a-be Actor Billy Ray Cyrus. Yup for those that remember he's the same guy with the stupid mullet who had that annoying little song "Achy Breaky Heart" (Ohh the pain!) back in the early 90’s.

But believe it or not Hanna Montana Show isn’t all that bad and is extremely popular with the little girls of the Duff household. And truth be known I’d much rather have them watching her show that some of the other garbage on the Boob Tube these days.

I just hope Miley Cyrus dosn't go the way of some of the other starlets makeing the news these days.
 
I am so old that I can remember, "Pluck your magic twanger, Froggie!"

How many of you can say that.
 
TR6BILL said:
I am so old that I can remember, "Pluck your magic twanger, Froggie!"

How many of you can say that.
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Heck - I still think of plunking the magic twanger in times of great stress. Learned it from these two:
 
I must admit to knowing first hand. And: "What time is it kids?" is in there as well. Along with Ruff & Reddy and a bunch of other Saturday morning shows. "Sky's niece, Penny" among 'em.

But YOU guys are waay older'n ME. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif
 
I remember lying on the floor in front of the Atwater Kent, waiting for Inner Sanctum to come on. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
That creaking door used to scare the <u>heck</u> out of me.
Jeff
 
My earliest recollection (although I had no idea of the significance) was the Kennedy assassination. All I remember is my step-mom crying uncontrollably.

But as far as children’s programming the earliest I recall watching was Hobo Kelley oversized glasses who could see all us little boys & girls watching our black & white TV sets and then there’s Sheriff John with his Birthday Cake Polka ( put another candle on the Birthday Cake).

There’s more but I’m already feeling pretty awkward talking about those.
 
Bugeye58 said:
I remember lying on the floor in front of the Atwater Kent, waiting for Inner Sanctum to come on. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
That creaking door used to scare the <u>heck</u> out of me.
Jeff
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Wow... that I'd forgotten. There later was a daytime one with the premise a car could have wings strapped on and fly... a photographer named "Bob". Bob Cummings? And Spring Byington, "December Bride", Zazu Pitts, "My little Margie"... "I Remember Papa"... "Life of Riley"!!! Burns & Allen, Uncle Milty, Paladin, STEVE ALLEN!!! "SHMOCK! SCHMOK!!!"

Geez, that covered at least two decades!

WHOA!!! That's waay more than I've thought about in a long time!
 
Doc,

Do you have an autographed picture of Andy Devine?
I had a kid come up to the TR6 and say..."Cool car -
- where's the radio?".I replied that I don't listen to it,
that I like listening to the sound of the engine.
He didn't get it.

- Doug
 
And to this I have to add:

Life with Elizabeth (Betty White)

I Married Joan (Joan Davis and Jim Backus - What a girl, what a whirl, what a life). And they drove a Henry J!

and did you start your day with "Ding Dong School" and Miss Frances?

Altho' many might say that today these shows would be *really boring*, you could watch them all with your kids and with grandma, and not be embarrassed about every other word or situation.

sigh.

Tom
 
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