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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
LOL - honest precious!
My camera works pretty well...*but* the backup battery that holds the date and all doesn’t work, and no matter how often I replace it, it stops working almost immediately. So EVERY TIME I turn it on I have to tell it to ignore the lack of the date and deal with the fact that it doesn’t set one. It’s aggravating. It also eats batteries for breakfast, but that’s another story.
As is my lack o’ skillz.
Sounds like your hubby needs to get you a new camera for Christmas...
That’s how I ended up with the current camera... :)
Ike found Tina (her real name is Anna Bullock), in Nutbush, Tennessee. The Ike & Tima Turner Revue was a high-energy show steeped in sex, long wigs, and built women dancing in sequined rags and high heels.
Though Ike and Tina were often slotted into "R&B" or "soul," they were always "rock & roll" to me. Their biggest hit, "Proud Mary," is a classic rock song --- but it took Ike and Tina to make it both rock & roll and R&B.
I saw this 1974 performance of theirs on The Midnight Special. It highlights Ike and that amazing falsetto bass, and gives the viewer a taste of the "high-energy" sexuality that Tina could turn on and off.
And, for those deprived folks, The Midnight Special was a fantastic variety show that aired in the 70s on NBC Friday nights after Johnny Carson. Live performances, the occasional naughty word, your favorite act trying something a little different ... it was a great show.
And she did have legs up to her armpits, didn’t she ;~)
Great video :~)
Yep, that's the one we saw. It truly was an outstanding show! They knew how to entertain!
Classic performance! I remember John Denver introducing her once, on some show, saying “God created Tina Turner so she could teach white women how to dance in high heels.” She could naturally MOVE in those things!
That’s funny ;~)
Ginger Rogers could dance in high heels....backwards.
And Fred Astaire always looked like he was having more fun. The high heels were to blame, I’m sure.
Hehehe....except for that number where Ginger was wearing the beaded gown. Fred got popped in the face good with those sleeves every time she did a turn.
I forget that one. Been a while since I’ve watched any of those movies.
One of my favorite of those old song and dance movies is “White Christmas”. I especially enjoy how one of the gals can sing and the other can dance but they can’t both do both...
I think you’re thinking of Holiday Inn. I should know...youngest bother *literally* watched that over a hundred times one year. We started counting. It got so we could turn down the sound and say every line as the actors did.
I still like it and usually watch it a couple of times a year, which says something for the movie!
Then again, maybe White Christmas is pretty similar. Wouldn’t surprise me. ;-)
I remember liking it, but I only saw it two or three times, years ago.
<chuckling>I saw one of the wigs slip once, on a variety show. It wasn't Tina, but a member of the Revue. She just twisted it back into place and kept on dancing --- what a professional!
It's interesting ... Angela Bassett had to get all ripped and hard-muscled to do what Tina did just being Tina.
Poor Ike ... like every other Svengali, his creation broke free of his control. Now he's known as a wife-beating drug addict, and she's the queen of rock & roll.
Sad, really ...
True, but she sure didn't move like Tina!
It IS sad, because he was so very talented. Too bad it just went wrong with him.
Another group I like a LOT, and SirKit and I saw in concert, again at Univ. of Sou. Mississippi (the Student Assn. sponsored some GREAT concerts), was Sly and the Family Stone. Not quite as raucous as Ike and Tina, but they were vey talented. "Stand" is one of my favorite songs.
I’m thinking specifically of “White Christmas”. It’s not too different from “Holiday Inn” exccept that it’s Christmas only. Stars Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye. And some chicks too.
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