THROWBACK THURSDAY

[memory master]

Joey Heatherton (of Oceanside, NY).  Daughter of WOR-TV Channel 9's Ray Heatherton . . . the Merry Mailman.

And sister of Dick Heatherton who did a stint on WCBS-FM 101.1  "We play your favorite oldies WCBS FM"

 

[JohnnyGage]

NO. 17: "THE NAKED CITY"



Remember these?



















Who this be?



What be these thingy's?



                            ************

  "THE FLYING _ _ _ _ _ _  FINGER OF FATE AWARD"

 

[Disp51]

How about "Dr Kildare (Lew Ayres) & Rowan and Martin's Flying Fickle Finger of Fate Award.

 

[johnd248]

You bet your bippy!!

 

[raybrag]

1963 Ford Fairlane
Newfangled galvanized milk delivery box (ours was the old style, wood)
Stamp vending machine; 1 for 5 cents, 2 for10.
Cranks for both main and vent windows, door latch (crank for vent windows wasn't in cheaper cars like Ford, Chevy & Plymouth.  My girlfriend's 1949 Studebaker had one, though.)
The original aluminum glass . . . sweat profusely with a cold drink in hot weather.
The original bicycle "siren" . . . only thing better was to use baseball cards instead of playing cards.
A dial version Princess Phone
Standing ash tray.
NOT Lew Aires . . . Richard Chamberlain (before Shogun, Thorn Birds . . . and the original Jason Bourne)
Oooh . . . the "Necker's Knob" . . . I still have one on my tractor.

And, as a bonus . . . the 1st pic is of a 1958 Buick Roadmaster hulk.

 

[Disp51]

The phone is a "Trimline" model, the Princess phone had a conventional style handset, and the dial in the base.
Thanks for the Richard Chamberlain info.

 

[JohnnyGage]

Well done Ray!  The "Necker knob", also known as Brodie knob, Granny knob or "Suicide knob"

 

[JohnnyGage]

NO.18: "THE NAKED CITY"



REMEMBERING FEBRUARY 3, 1959: BYE, BYE MISS AMERICAN PIE.

A long long time ago, I can still remember how
That music used to make me smile....



But February made me shiver
With every paper I'd deliver...





I can't remeber if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
Something touched me deep inside
The day the music died...



Bye, bye Miss American Pie



Drove my chevy to the levee...






I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy news
But she just smiled and turned away...


(1959 Miss America,  MaryAnn Mobley)

I went down to the sacred store
Where I heard the music years before...



Them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye
Singing this'll be the day that I die

 

[raybrag]

Who remembers "My beer is Rheingold, the dry beer, . . ."
What's the next line?

 

[memory master]

"Think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer"

There was a Rheingold beer radio/television commercial that was adapted to the tune used in a late 50's movie. What was that movie???
C'mon now, you know it!

 

[raybrag]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_51RANXHg0

 

[lucky]

Andre Rieu plays a song called The Carnival of Venice Medley and the music to that song pops up in the middle.

 

[JohnnyGage]

Can anyone share what you remember when you heard the news about "when the music died"? I was only 2 at the time climbing out of my playpen...



(Something like I had, only my dad made a lid, fed me through the bars...)

 

[raybrag]

Can anyone share what you remember when you heard the news about "when the music died"? I was only 2 at the time climbing out of my playpen...


(Something like I had, only my dad made a lid, fed me through the bars...)

I don't remember, Johnny, but did you know it could have been even worse? Waylon Jennings played bass in Buddy Holly's band at that time . . . thank God he didn't ride with him.

 

[JohnnyGage]

Waylon was the benefactor of  "losing" the coin toss done inside the Surf Club from what I understand and giving his seat up to Ritchie Valens.

 

[3511]

Johnny,

I was going on 13 years of age when the plane crash occurred.

Buddy Holly was already a favorite of mine. In the summer of 1957 or ?58 his (along with his group, ?The Crickets?) hit song ?That?ll Be The Day?  was the first 45 RPM record I ever bought...in Cousins record shop on Fordham Road just west of Webster Avenue...(Box 3370 today, where there was an All Hands in that store last year)...price of the record, $1.00. I brought it home and played it endlessly on our Victrola until my father ordered me to stop or he would throw it (and me) out our 3d storey window. The ?B? (flip) side of the record, ?Maybe Baby?, was also a good tune. Buddy went solo not long afterwards.

Richie Valens  was one of the first Hispanics to crash the rock ?n? roll charts,  although that was not well publicized at the time for fear that his records would not sell. I believe his first hit was La Bamba, followed up by ?Oh Donna?,  although I may have those bassackwards. ?Oh Donna?  remains a particular memory to me as it was the first song I danced real close (?grinding? we called it ) with a girlfriend. (Going on 13, the hormones were kicking in!)

All I remember of the big Big Bopper was seeing him on American Bandstand and being surprised that he was not a black artist. His raspy voice, similar to Louis Armstrong?s, had left me with that impression. His hit song ?Chantilly Lace? was really just a novelty. I don?t believe I knew his real name until it was listed in the newspaper after the crash.

I remember vividly seeing the photograph of the plane crash in the Daily News in the days following the event. It was the same photo you just posted from the Iowa newspapers. My impression was how insignificant the wreckage was as it had burned to nothing, along with the bodies of the three singers.  It was a shock to this youngster how three famous guys could suddenly just evaporate from the earth. No more hit songs to be had. I imagine there are many feeling the same way about Kobe Bryant today.

It was a good question you asked, and obviously the whole thing made an impression on me since my memories remain so clear. But I was young, and life so full before me. I moved on, as we all did, and do.

 

[memory master]

"Think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer"

There was a Rheingold beer radio/television commercial that was adapted to the tune used in a late 50's movie. What was that movie???
C'mon now, you know it!

It was "The Colonel Bogey March" from the movie 'Bridge Over The River Kwai'. Mitch Miller had the popular hit record with this song.

 

[nfd2004]

A long long time ago, I can still remember how
That music used to make me smile....

Johnny, "I remember a long time ago how that music would make me smile too".

There was a record shop store where we would go to buy the latest hit songs on those 45 rpm records. Later I learned that "rpm" stood for "revolutions per minute". Before that, records were 78 rpm and a little after 45s came out, the long playing 33 1/3 rpm records started to appear. 

All my high school buddies had those 45 record players and a large collection of those old 45s.

With that said, later around 1989 or so, a song came out that reminded me of those great Doo Wop Days and those old 45s.

It was sung by a guy named Bobby Vinton who ask the question: "What did you do with your old 45s" ?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwhmQHRgC_4 

 

[JohnnyGage]

NO. 19: "THE NAKED CITY"



(What do you suppose they were saying to each other?)





















NAME THIS GAME SHOW HOST




WHO, PRAY TELL, IS THIS GUY?




YOU MAY NEED ONE OF THESE, IF YOU WERE.....

 

[lucky]

While we are on ice cream, Do you remember Mello Rolls?