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Showing posts with label Holiday. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Monday, February 14, 2011
Happy Valentine's Day
Happy St. Valentine's Day to all you lovers out there. Young or old, hopeful or found, be sure and tell your sweetie how much you're kinda sweet on 'em.
Kind of rough and tumble like all good drunken serenade's should be.
And a Happy Day to my Balentine. She knows who she be.
Talk to you soon.
Kind of rough and tumble like all good drunken serenade's should be.
And a Happy Day to my Balentine. She knows who she be.
Talk to you soon.
Friday, December 31, 2010
Happy New Years Eve OTR for 2011 from 1944!
HAPPY NEW YEARS EVE all you peoples!
I hope you and yours are surviving the holiday onslaught and are ready to celebrate in any small way you see fit the passing of the old year and decade and bring in the wishes and hopes of a new beginning. 2011 and a new decade are just around the turn of a clock and I hope all the best for all of you.
Again this week I'm foregoing our usual listening to the surviving episodes of Vic & Sade and share with you a Jack Benny show from January 2, 1944.
For quite a few years, Jack did a fantasy segment around the new year in which he played the old year needing to move on and make way for the baby new year. They were always funny and heartwarming, especially the ones performed during WWII in which he hoped all the troubles the world was going through would soon be over. He got his wish...the troubles would soon be over to make room for new troubles...but that's what we humans do. We muddle through, champion, try and fail and try and fail and try and fail until at last we succeed, only to try a new hurdle. It's what we do. And we always feel better for it.
I hope you enjoy this show, I always do. And I hope you try and succeed at whatever you set your sights on in the coming year and decade.
I'll be rooting for you.
Here's Jack.
Funny stuff, now go get drunk!
Jeffy's Angels wanted to wish you all the best too. While tats and piercings are verboten at "Ye Olde Drink Hole", body paint is always welcome. :)
Talk to you soon.
I hope you and yours are surviving the holiday onslaught and are ready to celebrate in any small way you see fit the passing of the old year and decade and bring in the wishes and hopes of a new beginning. 2011 and a new decade are just around the turn of a clock and I hope all the best for all of you.
Again this week I'm foregoing our usual listening to the surviving episodes of Vic & Sade and share with you a Jack Benny show from January 2, 1944.For quite a few years, Jack did a fantasy segment around the new year in which he played the old year needing to move on and make way for the baby new year. They were always funny and heartwarming, especially the ones performed during WWII in which he hoped all the troubles the world was going through would soon be over. He got his wish...the troubles would soon be over to make room for new troubles...but that's what we humans do. We muddle through, champion, try and fail and try and fail and try and fail until at last we succeed, only to try a new hurdle. It's what we do. And we always feel better for it.
I hope you enjoy this show, I always do. And I hope you try and succeed at whatever you set your sights on in the coming year and decade.
I'll be rooting for you.
Here's Jack.
Funny stuff, now go get drunk!
Jeffy's Angels wanted to wish you all the best too. While tats and piercings are verboten at "Ye Olde Drink Hole", body paint is always welcome. :)
Talk to you soon.
Friday, December 24, 2010
OTR Christmas Eve - Lionel Barrymore as "Ebeneezer Scrooge"!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!
I'll forgo our usual visitation with Vic & Sade in this weeks OTR post, with the knowledge that everyone's beginning their Christmas celebrations, and lay a single show on you. One that's perfect listening while you sit by the fire with a hot buttered rum or spicy cider or egg nog and watch the lights twinkle on the tree.
A true Christmas classic in my heart, and one I devoured with my ears every year as a child lonnnnnnnnnnnnnng before I knew what old time radio WAS. We had this album shuffled in with our Dean Martin, Harry Connick Singers and Chipmunk Christmas albums...
It's Lionel Barrymore as "Scrooge" in "A Christmas Carol". You can argue all you want over who's portrayed this miserly soul the best over the years all you want. THIS is IT!
I hope you've all found a safe harbor with friends and family to spend this holiday weekend. I know I have and wish you all the same.
I'll forgo our usual visitation with Vic & Sade in this weeks OTR post, with the knowledge that everyone's beginning their Christmas celebrations, and lay a single show on you. One that's perfect listening while you sit by the fire with a hot buttered rum or spicy cider or egg nog and watch the lights twinkle on the tree.
A true Christmas classic in my heart, and one I devoured with my ears every year as a child lonnnnnnnnnnnnnng before I knew what old time radio WAS. We had this album shuffled in with our Dean Martin, Harry Connick Singers and Chipmunk Christmas albums...
It's Lionel Barrymore as "Scrooge" in "A Christmas Carol". You can argue all you want over who's portrayed this miserly soul the best over the years all you want. THIS is IT!
Barrymore first portrayed Scrooge on the radio in 1934 on "Mercury Theatre On the Air" directed by Orson Welles. It was such a success, that over the next 19 years or so, Barrymore recreated the role over and over. On CBS' Campbell Playhouse, Hallmark Hall of Fame, whatever outlet won the prize and got him.
Enough from me...this is one of those "You just GOT to hear THIS" things. So here's Mr. Barrymore from December 24, 1942 taking a break from his regular broadcast of "Mayor of the Town" to lay it on us. Enjoy!
I hope you've all found a safe harbor with friends and family to spend this holiday weekend. I know I have and wish you all the same.
Talk to you soon!
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Happy Thanksgiving!
I hope everyone out there is ready to get their grub on...cause if yer not, I call dibs on your stuffing!!!
Time to spend time with loved ones and be thankful for all things. As you sit back and relax this holiday morning watching the 84th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, cringing at the Pikachu and Hello Kitty balloons and closing you eyes and longing for Bullwinkle and Underdog instead, here's a little bonus oldtime radio treat for you to plug your earholes from the inane chatter of the announcers and clatter of marching bands as well.
This program was a special broadcast from Armed Forces Radio for Thanksgiving of 1944. Germany had surrendered to allied forces in WWII and the war in the Pacific was coming to a head and our fighting boys had been away from home for too many Thanksgivings. This was to be their last and some of radio's finest wanted to send a "We miss you" audio card.
The host for the show is the wonderful Lionel Barrymore...
...and he's joined by musical and comedy stars alike in what to me is warm and just plain feels like the holidays are here. I hope you enjoy.
Also appearing are Percy Faith...
...Dinah Shore...
...Harry Von Zell...
...the funny and too-often forgotten Wally Brown...
...for a touch of class, John Charles Thomas...
...the comic stylings of Fanny Brice and Handley Stafford in their roles as "Baby Snooks" and "Daddy" respectively...
...Frank Morgan...
...and even an original Thanksgiving song written by Irving Berlin. Hey, if he gave us "White Christmas" and "Easter Parade"...why not a Thanksgiving tune too.
Have a great long weekend and I'll talk to you soon.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Drink Hole Halloween Night Concert - Steve Goodman
"Lincoln Park Pirates"
"Red, Red Robin"
"Three Legged Man"
"I'll Fly Away"
"Grand Canyon Song"
"Men Who Love Women Who Love Men"
"What Have You Done For Me Lately?"
"I Gotta Hand It To You"
"The Family Tree"
"Truck Driving Man"
"The Auctioneer"
"Lost Highway"
Talk to you soon.
"Red, Red Robin"
"Three Legged Man"
"I'll Fly Away"
"Grand Canyon Song"
"Men Who Love Women Who Love Men"
"What Have You Done For Me Lately?"
"I Gotta Hand It To You"
"The Family Tree"
"Truck Driving Man"
"The Auctioneer"
"Lost Highway"
Talk to you soon.Monday, September 6, 2010
Happy Labor Day 2010
Happy Labor Day everyone!
I'll get back to regular blogging by next weekend...this was a weekend of rest and spending time with family.
Enjoy the music, food and beer...we did!
Talk to you soon!
I'll get back to regular blogging by next weekend...this was a weekend of rest and spending time with family.Enjoy the music, food and beer...we did!
Talk to you soon!
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Sunday Funnies: "Nemo" issue #10 - Christmas in July!
"Nemo: the Classic Comics Library" issue#10, their Christmas 1994 issue.
Robert ("All I Need to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten") Fulghum, in one of his essay books of the 1980's, had a chapter about finding a box of unopened Christmas cards in the middle of the summer and how much true joy he got from laying on his hammock in the backyard and sipping lemonade and feeling the Yuletide in the summer sun. There's no expiration date or statute of limitation on these things, folks. Go ahead and appreciate them anytime!
This issue starts out with a great selection of largely unseen Christmas cards from famous cartoonists to their friends and family. Real treasures!
That's pretty much where the Christmas theme stops. But it's a nice change of pace here on July 18th if you ask me.
Next, again Nemo interviews a contemporary cartoonist. Mel Lazarus of "Miss Peach" and "Momma" fame.
"Fantasy in the Comics" hits on the complex art stylings of Gustave Verbeek and his strip "The Upside Downs". Make sure you download these images so you can rotate them in your image viewer or else you'll miss half the fun.
Nemo uses it's far reaching expertise to expose us all to some artists from Europe that we're not often exposed to and the influence they have.
Bill Blackbeard looks back at the time in 1952 when Bud Fisher reviewed his own work from 30 years earlier in an introspective "Mutt and Jeff" sequence. Unique and insightful.
Part 6 of the Allen Saunders autobiography, "Playwrite for Paper Actors", offers more insider info from this long term comics professional.
And "Penman from the Past" celebrates the work of the great Ray Ewer. Drink it ALL in...is it ever worth it!
Finally a sneak peek at what's upcoming in "Nemo" issue #11...
...which I will be happy to bring to you next Sunday! Happy reading and...
Robert ("All I Need to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten") Fulghum, in one of his essay books of the 1980's, had a chapter about finding a box of unopened Christmas cards in the middle of the summer and how much true joy he got from laying on his hammock in the backyard and sipping lemonade and feeling the Yuletide in the summer sun. There's no expiration date or statute of limitation on these things, folks. Go ahead and appreciate them anytime!
This issue starts out with a great selection of largely unseen Christmas cards from famous cartoonists to their friends and family. Real treasures!
That's pretty much where the Christmas theme stops. But it's a nice change of pace here on July 18th if you ask me.
Next, again Nemo interviews a contemporary cartoonist. Mel Lazarus of "Miss Peach" and "Momma" fame.
"Fantasy in the Comics" hits on the complex art stylings of Gustave Verbeek and his strip "The Upside Downs". Make sure you download these images so you can rotate them in your image viewer or else you'll miss half the fun.
Nemo uses it's far reaching expertise to expose us all to some artists from Europe that we're not often exposed to and the influence they have.
Bill Blackbeard looks back at the time in 1952 when Bud Fisher reviewed his own work from 30 years earlier in an introspective "Mutt and Jeff" sequence. Unique and insightful.
Part 6 of the Allen Saunders autobiography, "Playwrite for Paper Actors", offers more insider info from this long term comics professional.
And "Penman from the Past" celebrates the work of the great Ray Ewer. Drink it ALL in...is it ever worth it!
Finally a sneak peek at what's upcoming in "Nemo" issue #11...
...which I will be happy to bring to you next Sunday! Happy reading and...
Talk to you soon.
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