Posted on 07/23/2017 2:02:30 AM PDT by iowamark
I will NEVER buy ANYTHING from a company named ACME!!!!!
Or if you are an opera singer like Giovanni Jones, make sure that you do not drink alum before your performance, lol.
Speedy Gonzalez’s lay about friends got him on the un PC list.
Bookmarked!
Are you curious why classical music was part of early radio and television?
There was no computer complied database of music but there was a huge storehouse of music they could play without having to pay the writer.
The Lone Ranger theme for example was the William Tell Overture.
Great post! But I think today’s generation of kiddies’ parents would be offended at the ersatz violence and display of guns, etc. Public education failed the kids of the 70’s and 80’s, and we are now saddled with a generation of dunces and snowflakes.
But ACME specializes in heavy things like pianos and safes.
Somebody post the link to Trump as Buggs giving to to the CNN Pavarotti.
Timely and SO educational!!
What is also kind of interesting is finding out that the Bugs Bunny cartoons I grew up watching were in some cases cut or censored for TV viewing (myself having been born in 1970 and grew up watching the Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner Hour on Saturday mornings back in the day). As an example, I recall reading about how the Giovanni Jones one had a scene in which Bugs, dressed up as a bobbysoxer, asked for an autograph and gave Jones a stick of TNT disguised as a pen. Did not see this until watching a full, uncensored version of this cartoon on You Tube a few years back.
Not just classical: Bugs Bunny would always be singing “I Dream of Jeanie” or “When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano” or would dance to show tunes.
I for one enjoy the juvenile mind numbing humor of classic cartoons for the sake of juvenile minding numbing humor.
But you sure know about saving the planet from global warming
In addition to classic cartoons, in the United States we were lucky and blessed to watch the worlds greatest opera singers on TV talk shows! Merv Griffin , Mike Douglas, Dick Cavett, and of course Johnny Carson regularly had Judith Blegen, Luciano Pavarotti, Martina Arroyo, Marilyn Horne, Carol Neblett, and Plácido Domingo, Robert Merrill and Sergio Franchi as guests.
The late great American soprano, Beverly Sills was a special favorite. Funny and witty with her red hair and amazing voice, that bubbly gal from Brooklyn charmed the hosts and audiences alike. It’s such a treat to have so many of these gems available on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn227ShOc5k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEuUvGVbSxY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yTeixRxPBg
Exactly. Most young people would have no idea about the “great white whale” if you asked them now. Our cultural vocabulary has gotten reduced to almost nothing.
The cartoon Peter and the Wolf is still played to our grandchildren and truly helps them to understand music and storytelling.
Lordy, what have we come to that the decline of the culture is measured in cartoon devolution?
A professor I had at the University of Northern Colorado called Carl Stalling’s cartoon soundtracks, when heard without the accompanying cartoon, some of the first ‘avant garde’ music.
It’s an opera. What did you expect, a happy ending?
Favorite literary reference: “And I will love him, and I will squeeze him, and I will call him George.”
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