Sue, I'm not sure that anyone mentioned that song, however, Jeanne Lee posted lyrics to it in a post a day or so ago.  I just checked, the post # doesn't show, but it was done on August 14. 

Mary Ann

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Sue, sounds like you are able to call up the happy times, and music. 

My long time memory is great, my short time memory not so good after the fall I had from my roof the end of April, 2016.  I am doing better now, but have to write down appointments, phone numbers, etc.  My son checks my calendar and makes sure I get where I need to go. Thank goodness for Tim!

Sue

Now I also write things down. Was talking to the doctor the other day after I hurt my Head. Mentioned about short time memory. Says that every one young and old now having a problem. Thinks that we are having to store so much since technology came along. All these Pin numbers and things have to do just to use a phone  etc. We just remember what we need to and don't store like it use to be.  Now I can remember these long 14 number things have to have on Library card and few other things. No problem. But have had my Mobile phone and all family have them. I can't remember any numbers. I don't use mine that much and have had my Home line one for 50 years. Trying to find a Mobile service where I can get my home line number transferred and then drop my home line.

Jeanne, I have ATT for my computer and also my home phone.  For years I used a cell phone for long distance calls, only to learn recently with ATT I can call any number in the Continental U. S. free of charge.  My sister in Jacksonville, FL. has been calling me free for years--so now I can call her at my convenience as she calls me at hers.  I think this is a pretty good deal.

Sue

SCF Sue.  Now I have had them for at least 45 years. I don't have for computer. use Comcast for it and TV.  I just am paying to much to ATT ($29.80) and can't even got long distance on it for that price.  I have a mobile phone I use for that. Also darn Home line is just awful. Get as many as 4 calls a day from Solicitors. Calling ATT or the Gov. one can't stop that.
So trying to figure out how to combine Telephone services. I have Consumer Cellular for mobile. Just the flip one but now looking at a Iphone type.   

Jeanne, I get phone calls from solicitors daily, but my phone prints the name of the caller or business, so I just pick up the phone and hang it up before they can speak.  Mine are mostly political.

Sue

 I just don't have Caller name on my HOme phone.  Thinking of getting rid of it.

I've got Caller ID too. I rarely pick up the phone for a number I don't recognize. Most of them are robocalls, and they abort the call before the voice mail picks up.

I guess by now you've heard that guitarist Walter Becker of Steely Dan passed away a few days ago. This is one of my favorite Steely Dan songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfZWp-hGCdA

Just came across this on youtube.  So called "funky music"  Hard to believe how they matched some old movie dancing scenes to the music.  Turn the sound down and view 4 minutes of great dancing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1F0lBnsnkE

Jack, that was great fun.  Somehow or other, I think "them days is gone forever".

We've lived through a great era, being able to see the movies when we were younger.

Mary Ann

IMHO
The clip was OK but the "music" leaves something to be desired.

I agree, Rammel.  It would have been great with the original tunes...but the dancing was REALLY good!

Sue

Rick and Sue.   I agree on the music and suggested you turn it down.  I was amazed at the skill in putting in the dancing steps to match the music.  Many of the clips can be found on youtube with the original music.   Funky music was popular in the late 60's and early 70's.  I was not a fan of that style, but not as bad as what we hear now.    Appears we are all into "just plain old music"

I guess I am in the minority here....... I actually enjoyed the music and was more interested in how the dancing fit right into the music.   I do have to agree with Jack, was that you could actually make out the words and not like a lot of the "awful stuff"  these days. 

( I guess that makes me "kind of funky" )  LOL

Joy

I loved watching all my favorite dance sequences from the old musicals!  I think I have most of those movies on DVD?  I didn't care for the music, but it was cleverly done, to match the old dance steps to the "funky" beat of today.  I liked it, and have sent it on to my husband, as well as my brother, and couple of friends.  Thanks Jack! 

Can remember seen most of the Films that those dances were done in. True, could have picked better song to play.

Can't believe it. First day of Fall and it is 94 deg here in Illinois.  I cancelled a appointment today as no way am I going out in it.  Not going to be below 84 way up to the end of next week. Not like us at all. Makes wonder what Winter is going to be like.

Old Halloween favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAmB_qURxqo

Keely Smith  1928 ~ 2017

I just happened to see a story in my newspaper this morning, that Keely Smith has died at the age of 89.  Does anyone else remember her?  I was fortunate to see her in Las Vegas in the late 1950's, with her then husband, Louis Prima.  They had a very popular lounge show at the Sahara Hotel. (no longer there.)  The song they were most famous for was That Old Black Magic, but lots of other classic songs as well. 

She had a fabulous voice, and was into swing/jazz style music.  I have a CD that she recorded many years later, called "Keely Sings Sinatra", that I like, but her albums with Louis Prima are my favorites.

Here's a YouTube clip from one of their Sahara shows, singing That Old Black Magic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHcYjPEYSsk

Louis Prima was just in a filler clip late Sunday night on TCM  (Silent Sundays).

I don't know that Keely Smith was in this number, but I liked the song (can't even remember the correct name) about going up the St Lawrence, calling Florence, oh where can you be - oh, I left the one I love on one of the Thousand Island!  That was a Louis Prima number.

Mary Ann

Mary Ann -  As soon as you mentioned The Thousand Island Song, I remembered it from long, long ago.  None on YouTube by Louis Prima, but lots of others. Here is a recording by Johnny Mercer, who wrote the song.  Fun to listen to!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqvLPR47xlE

Thank you, Marilyn.  Johnny Mercer was a favorite of mine.  I do think Louie Prima's version is better, but if it isn't on line, Johnny Mercer's is fine.  What I like about Yesterday's Singers (!) is that you can understand the words, not that I listen to Today's Singers!

Mary Ann

I used to love Keeley SMith, not so much Louis Prima, but they were a duo!  Was it the Ed Sullivan Show they appeared on quite a lot?

Tomereader, while I really don't remember, they could have been on the Ed Sullivan show because I did watch that program and not a lot of others.  I enjoyed them, but I can't say they were favorites of mine.

Mary Ann

Here's a fun one from across the pond that I stumbled across some time ago. Those of you from the UK are probably familiar with this....

"Whispering Grass" by Windsor Davies & Don Estelle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZprkGIc-bgY

For those not familiar with the two, both were actors in the BBC sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum, but apparently both were also accomplished singers. This recording of a song made famous by the Ink Spots in the 1940s hit #1 on the chart in the UK in mid-1975. Davies and Estelle went on to record several albums featuring similar covers of pop standards ("Cool Water", "What A Wonderful World", etc.), but I don't know if they had any further hits. Estelle died in 2003 at the age of 70 while Davies is now 87.

Further proof of what a brilliant singer Don Estelle was...

"All The Things You Are": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xLatNGSc4I

This was written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II for the 1939 musical Very Warm For May and has been recorded by many famous artists including Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Jo Stafford and Shirley Bassey (the lady who sang the Goldfinger theme if you don't recognize the name)

Oldiesman, thank you for the two links to the solos by Don Estelle.  I was not familiar with his name, but what a fabulous voice.  Can you give us some background on him and his tall partner?

SCFSue

I have been a member of a chat room for more years I care to remember.
chat Rooms have gone the way of the Prehistoric Animals but some have hung on by their fingernails over the  years..New  people have come and gone but the older ones seem to strive on what chat rooms were intended to do:  bring  in interesting people from different parts of the world with different interests and cultures...
Recently a new person from Canada came into our room. Her hobby being a pianist who helped with the music of that particular musical production...Being a big fan of all types of musicals, set us off to having something in common..
With the past holiday season, my favorite song was "Let There Be Peace On Earth and she said she would make  a recording for me on you tube...but failed to give me the directions in order to view it...
But through perseverance and sheer luck, I managed to find the clip ..so....with your permission and enjoyment, here is the clip played by a member if my chat Room.....         
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSse5PFeIlg  I have no idea why her face was blocked, but her hands certainly brought out the beauty of the music...