[Publius]

Songbook ping.

[CaliforniaCraftBeer]

bfl

[CaptainPhilFan]

No matter what he writes about, in any amount of paragraphs Steyn never fails to entertain and enlighten (I know that phrase is already in use but really, Glenn doesn’t fit that description).

Another great read. Thanks for sharing.

[yarddog]

Cindy Williams was pretty. It seems like her career just died after or maybe during “Laverne and Shirley”.

[Responsibility2nd]

This thread is begging for a joke.

Knock knock.

[ZOOKER]

Never heard of this before, that there was a re-release, or that HF sang in it.

Sounds like a hoot. Any way there's a YouTube of it?

[Inyo-Mono]

I remember seeing American Graffiti in 1973 when it first came out. The tag line for the film advertising was "Where were you '62?" The cultural and musical differences between 1962 and 1973 were astounding. Only 11 years later. The 20 and 30 something audience at the showing of the film was almost tearful at the nostalgic scenes and music. I was in junior high in '62 and the film captured that year so perfectly that it was amazing.

I tell younger people today that no one was smoking pot or using drugs when I was in high school, at least where I lived, in the mid to late '60s and they find it hard to believe.

[Beowulf9]

Harrison certainly can sing. He did that pretty well.

[Fiji Hill]

Some Enchanted Evening--Jo Stafford(1949)

[Fiji Hill]

I saw American Graffiti in Los Angeles just days after it was released. Most of the audience were teens and twenty-somethings. For years, American Graffiti and Star Wars I were my all-time favorite films.

[Fiji Hill]

A later release of American Graffiti that I saw on TV included a performance of Louie, Louie using Richard Berry's original arrangement, but for some reason, it was cut from the original release.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

there's a scene where young Harrison Ford and young Cindy Williams are sitting sullenly in his '55 Chevy during a rather awkward moment in their relationship.

I still remember that movie - they had no relationship. The Cindy Williams character met him that night and they cruised around for an hour or two before the Harrison Ford character rolled his car in a drag race.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I just finished reading the entire Steyn essay about “Some Enchanted Evening.”

Just reading that piece made this a different sort of enchanted evening. What a wordsmith! It was so much fun reading that bit of musical history and learning all about the song.

Near the end, the parts about Frank Sinatra singing the terrible H B Barnum arrangement is absolutely hilarious!

Thanks for posting.