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I'll 3rd that!

That's "Kollege," comrade (or should I say "komrade"); please remember your spelling!!! Ain't that funny, a website devoted to him, and they don't know it's Kollege! They do list all the movies though, guess they didn't run all of the RKO films then! Cool posters as well! Red, good to see you have interests beyond politics! http://www.kaykyser.net/movies.html

Kay Kyser's band was in a few films, actually. AMC, back when AMC wasn't crap, used to run the RKO films now and then...TCM does now, as mentioned above. Part of the allmovie bio.... Though in later years he claimed to dislike moviemaking, Kyser was so anxious to enter films in 1939 that he put a lot of his own money into his first starring film, That's Right, You're Wrong. The film proved to be one of RKO Radio's biggest hits, spawning a series of popular Kyser vehicles: perhaps the best known (but not the best) of these films was You'll Find Out (1940), which was distinguished by the only screen teaming of Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and Peter Lorre. Not long after completing his final film, Columbia's Carolina Blues (1944), Kyser married his band vocalist Georgia Carroll and began raising a family. He moved his radio show into TV in 1949, by which time his featured singer was a young Mike Douglas. Having promised himself that he'd retire from show business when he'd saved a million dollars, Kay Kyser did just that in 1950, returning to Chapel Hill to devote himself full-time to his family and to the Christian Science movement. — Hal Erickson

No it's a guy who openly traded CDRs on organissimo. Jazzmoose as the *straight man*? I've now seen it all! Well, he lives in San Fran, so can he really be the straight man?

The song is called Murderistic, from December 22nd of 1941. The only cd I can find it on is the 2 cd Decca Anthology of Big Band Swing 1930-1955. I remember reading the liner notes from Loren Schoenberg years ago, saying basically, the brief, far out tenor solo was unlikely anyone with the band at the time. (Those listed are Milt Yaner, Frank Langone, Don Hammond, and Charles Frazier ) Forgot about it, but I'd say once a week for a month now, I hear the tune on my Dish Jazz station! It really does sound like someone who was a bop man, or soon to be a bop man....The liner notes are from 1993, has any new info come along since then??? Sorry, I dug around, but all the sound samples are early in on the song...Scan of part of the liner notes below....

Gee, I just assumed that he was a Nugent man! Hope you had a great one! Gee, 2000 posts, and a birthday, better get a lotto ticket as well!

yeah, but is it as good at the Regis Philbin version?

Hey Ghost, as you may know...Laura is out March 15th! An interesting review down near the bottom of the page.... http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/bar...well030105.html

For the classic comedy and musical lovers, check out these two box sets, and the prices for each!!!! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...?v=glance&s=dvd http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...?v=glance&s=dvd What's truly amazing to me, is that each set has a few 2 disc special editions. You could buy Easter Parade and Band Wagon separately for about 40 bucks, or buy the set and get Bells are Ringing, Finian's Rainbow and Brigadoon for about 3 bucks more !

Well, it's been a looooong time since I had anything go for real moola, but I once found a scratched, but playable MFSL jazz sampler-first gold cd go for $270 bucks in the last minute! But even things that only go for a few bucks that someone has been looking for in vain for years...well...that just makes my day!

Just tried that on GA's paragraph above, it works!

Glad to hear it was a good one! Heres to many more!

PLEASE tell me he's not still using that "Perfect Strangers" cover... Please don't tell me you know the name of the show on the cover of the TV Guide!

Was it something on VH1? I forgot that I saw him on it, looking a bit different. Made some funny crack along the line of after ruining a man's life , a woman need to move on..or something like that. Still a bit surprised he likes the fairer sex.

Well, he has a website, and still tours, but you don't see him on TV, at least I haven't. A friend who doesn't like him much forwarded an email with some jokes of his. I think some found his "look" hard to get past, but he always cracked me up... His classic religon joke is at the end.... When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. "Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash." - Emo Phillips "...and always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said "A truck!" - Emo Phillips "I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well." - Emo Phillips "The toughest time...in anyone's life...is when you have to kill a loved one just because they're the devil." - Emo Phillips "I ran three miles today, finally I said "lady take your purse." - Emo Phillips "I'm a great lover, I'll bet." - Emo Phillips "People come up to me and say, "Emo, do people really come up to you?" - Emo Phillips "People come up to me and they're worried...that I'll reproduce." - Emo Phillips "Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps." - Emo Phillips "I was at a bar nursing a beer. My nipple was getting quite soggy." - Emo Phillips "I was walking down the street, something caught my eye...and dragged it fifteen feet." - Emo Phillips "I went into Gus's artificial organ and taco stand. I said "Give me a bladder por favor." The guy said "Is that to go?" I said, "Well what else would I want it for?" - Emo Phillips "You know, a lot of girls go out with me just to further their careers...damn anthropologists." - Emo Phillips "I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky---but there wasn't any gum under any of them." - Emo Phillips "The other day a woman came up to me and said, "Didn't I see you on television?" I said, "I don't know. You can't see out the other way." - Emo Phillips "Emo Phillips was pulled over in Massachusetts for reckless driving. When brought before the judge, Emo was asked if he knew what the punishment for drunk driving in that state was. His reply: "I don't know, reelection to the Senate?" - Emo Phillips "I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming...They don't know I'm only using blanks." - Emo Phillips "I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, "Get off me, you two!" - Emo Phillips "At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote." - Emo Phillips "I'm from Downers Grove, Illinois. We had a blackout there the other day, but fortunately the police made him get back into his car before he got too far." - Emo Phillips "The IRS sent back my tax return saying I owed $800. I said "If you'll notice, I sent a paper clip with my return. Given what you've been paying for things lately, that should more than make up the difference." - Emo Phillips "A friend of mine gave me a Philip Glass record. I listened to it for five hours before I realized it had a scratch on it." - Emo Phillips "You know what I hate? Indian givers...no, I take that back." - Emo Phillips "I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. so I ran over and said "stop! don't do it!" "Why shouldn't I?" he said. I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!" He said, "Like what?" I said, "Well...are you religious or atheist?" He said, "Religious." I said, "Me too! Are you Christian or Buddhist?" He said, "Christian." I said, "Me too! Are you catholic or protestant?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me too! Are you Episcopalian or Baptist?" He said, "Baptist!" I said, "Wow! Me too! Are you Baptist church of god or Baptist church of the lord?" He said, "Baptist church of god!" I said, "Me too! Are you original Baptist church of god, or are you reformed Baptist church of god?" He said, "Reformed Baptist church of god!" I said, "Me too! Are you reformed Baptist church of god, reformation of 1879, or reformed Baptist church of god, reformation of 1915?" He said, "Reformed Baptist church of god, reformation of 1915!" I said, "Die, heretic scum!"and pushed him off. - Emo Phillips

You are so right!!!! If you wonder how stupid network types think we are, just watch a few syndicated shows. In the lower portion of the screen...in zooms the important news....YOU ARE WATCHING FRIENDS!!! It then zooms away...then comes.....NEXT THE SIMPSONS!!!! Gee, Thanks....I wasn't sure what I was watching! Cable networks are no better. My Mom will be watching a B&W Perry Mason on Hallmark. They will shrink the credits, so you don't get to see the name of the guest stars, to show you that there is another Perry up next! Wonder why the unions don't fight not getting viewable credits at the end of TV shows, and movies??? I have even seen them do this on some pay channels, shrink credits so can know what's on next...

Man, I wish I had seen that! He was going grey back in It's a Wonderful Life!

Olivia de Havilland is 89, her kid sister Joan Fontaine is only 88.

Opera star Rise Stevens is 92.

Jean Parker. She was in the 1933 version of Little Women!

Didn't know that Martin Denny was until quite recently, still amongst the living, so thought that I would toss in a few that might suprise folks (feel free to add to the list!!!!) Charles Lane Yep, 100 years old!!!! Saw him on a taped clip on the Screen actor's Guild awards show saying how he joined them in the early 30's and was still a member.

"The Rain, The Park, and Other Things" by The Cowsills. Supposedly they used the music but changed the words for the commercial. Thanks! Didn't know the Cowsills had more than one "hit"!

I'd put Easy Living and Remember the Night (Both directed by the underrated Mitchell Leisen)in the class of the first group.... I think there was a Docu. that ran on Sturges PBS a few years back, well worth checking out. He had such a great, yet sadly too short film career.

I hate to disagree with Allen on this, but his answer is not entirely correct. First, editing and cutting in the twenties and early thirties could, and in some cases was as sophisticated as that found today. However, audiences were conditioned to see longer scenes, with less camera movement and with less cutting than we are used to seeing today (this is known as the MTV effect). It must also be considered that in the period 1929-1931 the technical issues of sound movies were still being worked out, and this necessitated a much more static camera. (See the scene in "Singing In The Rain" with the microphone in the flowers). The costs and nature of the actual production process must also be considered, as these films were deliberately made with a very limited number of set shots. Story and stars were everything to the audience of this period, and there was little incentive to dazzle them with directorial technique or special effects. Slow takes, lingering closeups, and lengthy speeches were quite normal in American movies up until the 1970's. When I show some of these films to students they always remark on the difference in pace and rhythm in comparison to today's movies, and many find them difficult to watch because of this. The history of film is a fascinating subject (after all this is how I make my living), and much more complicated than most people imagine. For an excellent primer, may I suggest the following book: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/023...0581866-0523862 Don't you think the studio that shot a film had a lot to do with it as well?? Many Warner Brothers films of the early 30's are quite fast paced, sometimes just to keep you from noticing how little plot there is.