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Take a letter, Maria: Dear Prudence, What's new, pussycat? How are things in Glocca Morra? I miss you. You made me love you. I love you, I need you, I want you. I want you to want me. When will i see you again? Hope that we can be together soon. Sincerely, Tom Dooley P.S. -- I love you. (Thanks to R.B. Greaves, The Beatles, Tom Jones, Yip Harburg, Randy Newman, Judy Garland, Elvis Presley, Cheap Trick, The Three Degrees, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, the McGuire Sisters, Kingston Trio, The Beatles)

I'm telling you now, old man -- a chicken ain't nothin' but a bird! Can you dig it? (Thanks to: Freddie & The Dreamers, Neil Young, Louis Jordan and Brenton Wood)

Wow -- Arte Johnson was already 39 by the time Laugh-In went on the air. I was a kid then, so everybody seemed old to me, but he didn't seem that old! That list you linked to is an odd collection. I wouldn't consider Sammy Davis Jr.to have been a regular cast member of the show. A frequent guest, maybe. Actual cast members like Larry Hovis, Dave Madden, Jeremy Lloyd, Teresa Graves, Johnny Brown (still alive and 79 according to Wikipedia), and Moosie Drier (still alive and 52) aren't even mentioned. I thought Paul Winchell was a cast member for a while as well.

Are the women the only survivors from Laugh-In now? Goldie Hawn, Lily Tomlin, Ruth Buzzi and JoAnne Worley. I think all the main men from the show have passed on. Maybe Arte Johnson is still alive. And I guess Moosie Drier must be alive because he was just a kid when he was on the show in its later seasons

Who killed Davey Moore? Don't blame me! For all we know, I shot the sheriff across the alley from the Alamo on a night like this.

Don't worry baby, come Sunday we'll meet again under the boardwalk -- me and you and a dog named Boo.

Mrs. Brown, you've got a lovely daughter and I love her like a rolling stone -- here, there and everywhere!

Oh darling -- we've only just begun up the ladder to the roof where flamingos fly!

Specifically which contains the albums The High And Mighty Hawk (Coleman Hawkins) and Cue For Saxophone (Billy Strayhorn), both excellent!

The rules are pretty simple: Write a coherent, grammatically correct (more or less) sentence using only the titles from songs. If you use the title from a more obscure tune, it might help to identify who wrote it or recorded it. Here's an opening example "This Christmas -- 'round midnight -- I'll be seeing you on the street where you live, Mrs. Robinson." Let the game begin!

Louis Armstrong only appears on tracks 2-5.

A couple of WW II related films: Paul Lukas has a couple of great scenes which certainly helped win him the Oscar that year. Interesting to see how this poster was made to sell potential audiences on The Burmese Harp. If they went in expecting a dramatic, action packed war film, they must have been very disappointed by what they saw. It's a wonderful film, more about the consequences of war than the actual actions of war.

Jim Hall in two very different settings. The Billy Taylor album is from 1962 and the Paul Bryant album is from 1960. I don't think I've ever heard organist Paul Bryant before. Jim Hall does not get a whole lot of solo space on either album.

1972's Truth Is Fallen was dedicated to the students killed at Kent State and Mississippi State and "all other innocent victims, caught in the cross-fire between repression and rebellion". With a suitable updating of the rock music portions of the piece, this music would be deserving of reviving for a performance in our own troubled times. The second album was from 1974 and featured several of the Brubeck sons along with the likes of Jerry Bergonzi and Peter "Madcat" Ruth.