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But keep in mind that a lot of grocery stores, and drug stores too, back in those days offered home delivery to their customers. One just had to call the store with an order and some kid on a bicycle would bring it to your house, so there still would have been no problem with the customer having to lug the bottles of milk home --some poor teenage kid would have had to deal with it. It just seems odd that it was commonplace to leave a highly perishable food product sitting on some one's doorstep. When I was a kid there was still a local dairy which had its own store and that's where we got our milk from, usually in large glass gallon bottles. Back then one could also buy a glass gallon jug of A & W root beer from the local A & W drive-in restaurant. Wow -- they still did milk deliveries like that into the 90's?!?! I remember I had a Matchbox cars milk truck kind of like that vehicle in the video you posted, with crates of milk bottles stacked up in the back. I never really thought about it as a kid, but I guess that was a contemporary vehicle at that time in the 1960's.

This front & back cover reflected the themes of the two sides of the album. Front cover/side one: was all about happy love songs, while the back cover/side two: was all about sad songs of lost love.

Wow! That's a GREAT one!!!

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An astoundingly absurd plot for which the viewer must be willing to suspend belief in huge chunks. Still, there's the lovely Gene Tierney to watch and some great atmospheric b&w cinematography. The movie listed the screenplay as by Ben Hecht and Andrew Solt, but I notice on the poster here it was listed as being by Lester Bartow & Andrew Solt. Did Mr. Hecht have to use a pseudonym? Two questions came to my mind while watching this silly movie. One, at one point one of the detectives announces he is from the Los Angeles police department and he pronounces it "Los Ang-uh-les". I have noticed that pronunciation in some other old movies as well. At what point did the "Los Anj-uh-les" pronunciation that we are familiar with today become the norm? At another point, a detective arrives home late at night and picks up the bottle of milk left on his doorstep. Why was it considered necessary or even preferred for milk to be home delivered at one time? I mean, if that milk had been sitting on his doorstep all day, or even for a few hours on a hot day, it's not exactly safe to consume. Why couldn't people in the 1930's and '40's just go to the store for milk like they did for other food staples. I mean, they wouldn't have expected a baconman to come by and leave a pound of bacon on their doorstep every other day or so, so why milk?

I guess he probably did wear this costume on one of his Christmas TV specials.

Discs 3 (Ralph Sutton) and 4 (Joe Sullivan, Jess Stacy & Buddy Weed)

I love "Cheesecake" ("gobble, gobble, cheesecake")! I have it on this album --

Recently watched: First time I'd ever seen this "classic" and i completely disagree with all the blurbs printed on this poster. This heavy-handed, turgid, lackluster melodrama was a major disappointment. Maybe it was "socially relevant" in it's time, but this over-the-top "message" movie with hammy acting in spades has not aged well. Sure Rod Steiger's character had lived through a personal hell, but in the end, he is still just a major asshole for whom I really could not work up a rat's ass worth of sympathy. Brock Peters' performance was the only redeeming thing in this turd. A generally good look at the studio musicians who were behind so much music in the 1960's. The film is a tad unfocused, but there was so much music that these guys (and gal) were involved with, it's understandable if the film feels like the director (Tommy Tedesco's son, Denny) tackled more material than he could fully cover. The DVD has a lot of bonus deleted interviews, including some with musicians who did not make it into the final film (Emil Richards, Frank Capp, Vic Mizzy, Mike Nesmith, etc.) or rather the MST3K version of this movie -- It's one of my favorite MST3K episodes. It works so well for them because it is a bad movie, but not intentionally bad due to low budgets or the filmmakers ineptness. The movie actually had pretty good production values and did its best to simulate a Bond movie. But just starring the brother of a famous actor alongside few of the featured characters from Bond movies was no road to success. The riffs the MST3K gang made on the move are merciless and very funny.

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A pretty good documentary about James Brown, even though it leaves his story in the mid-1970's so the final decades of his life are not even touched upon.. Makes good use of some vintage photos and TV clips of the man in action and being interviewed, as well as interviews with some of the musicians who worked with him (Maceo Parker, Bobby Byrd, Bootsy Collins, Fred Wesley, Clyde Stubblefield, etc. It's even worth watching a second time to listen to the commentary track which features a discussion including James Brown's former tour director Alan Leeds, Christian McBride and Questlove.

Good one. I don't think I've even seen that one before.