Posted on 07/02/2011 5:25:46 PM PDT by Krankor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLoYFvbR0XY
That really brought back some memories—thanks for posting it.
Boy! that’s a relief. I get hung up here and never thought to google it...Thanks loads.
Thank you.....I should have googled it but I never got around to it - too busy here at FR.... Appreciate it.
The two movies were “Paleface” and “Son of Paleface”.
Don’t forget Wild Bill Hickock! Had a Wild Bill lunchbox for school.
Roy Rogers was my idol all through my childhood. I watched some of the old movies the other night, and felt the same old admiration for such an upstanding hero. May he, Dale, Trigger, Bullet, Buttermilk, and all the rest of that wonderful ensemble rest in peace. Roy, we really need your example around here these days...
Actually, the Hope films were Son of Paleface and Alias Jesse James. Rogers was not in the original Paleface. I just looked it up.
I stand corrected.
Where did the first line
“Wildcat Kelly, looking kind of pale,
Was standing at the Sheriff’s side,
And when the Sheriff said I am sending you to jail,
Wildcat threw back his head and cried.
Just give me land, lots of land...”
come from?
It was actually written about 1934, used in HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN in ‘44, and then featured in DON’T FENCE ME IN in ‘45.
When I was very young (maybe 11?) I was listening to “My Heart Belongs to Daddy” - This was in the sixties, so you know I've always been an aficionado of the older standards! - and the line jumped out at me “To dine on my fine finnan haddie”. I mean, what a lyric. Had no idea what it meant, but I loved the sound.
I've always been a poetry lover - my mom raised me to love it. And since then I've loved Cole Porter.
So for fun, here is one of my fave CP lyrics sung by, IMHO, the greatest singer ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzfrcPJinVY
I mean, “You're cellophane!” What a compliment!
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