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She looks like she is waving. He looks like he is telling those damn kids to get off his lawn!

Here's another LP I never knew about until I discovered a copy at the library a couple years ago -- It's a full album of Coleman Hawkins talking. If I recall the liner notes correctly, he and Bill Grauer sat down in the latter's living room one evening and recorded this album of Mr. Hawkins discussing everything from Fletcher Henderson and Louis Armstrong to his surprise at having a hit with his version of "Body And Soul". It was a really interesting album -- not something I'd listen to often, but still it would be nice if some one made it available on CD.

really want to have them. I just stumbled upon this one online today. Haven't heard it, but now I gotta have it.

I found this at the library and got a kick from revisiting some long lost friends. This particular cartoon was not included on the DVD, but it's a good example of the humor of the show. There were enough gags aimed at adult viewers to hold their interest (how many 4 year-olds would appreciate a pun like "Mort Soil"?), but there was plenty of slapstick to appeal to kiddies like me back in those day. And dig the music, daddy-o! [/medi

And the Dinosaur Family says "hi" . . .

I'll take Jan Murray to block. Any film list should begin with Mickey Mouse, or at least his creator, Walt Disney. whose cultural impact worldwide is incalculable. I bet you there is an ISIS member somewhere in the world today wearing a Mickey Mouse watch.

Almost bigger than Hitler by now!

And if Princess Di can make the list, then surely JFK should as well. He's idolized by people today who may have been appalled by his actual political policies when he was in office (if such people bothered to learn anything about them). But in 20th Century America, image triumphed over substance 99.9% of the time and JFK epitomized that.

I found a brand new, sealed copy of this set on Amazon for a really good price, so I finally splurged on it. Looking forward to listening to it, although I expect I will do so in bits and pieces. 24 discs is a LOT of talk!

I like it, but I haven't listened to it in a while. It is included on Mosaic's set: The Complete Mercury Art Farmer/Benny Golson/Jazztet Sessions. The concept is flawed! There is no "10" on a telephone dial! The concept is flawed! Any one under 30 is asking "Why are there 10 little colored holes in what appears to be a CD or something?"

Does it have to be a one-time living, breathing icon? If not, then surely Number One would be Mickey Mouse (with Snoopy perhaps Number Two). And surely Bing Crosby, who was a prominent cultural figure in the 1930's, 1940's, 1950's, 1960's and 1970's, should be on that list. Ditto Sinatra, who was a major star from the 1940's to the 1980's. Laurel & Hardy. Major stars in both silent pictures (which were easier to distribute internationally because the title cards could just be replaced with whatever language was needed) and talking pictures (they even shot foreign language versions of some of their short films for French and Spanish markets) and their images are still instantly identifiable today, even to people who may never have seen one of their films. Bob Dylan must be included on any such list. Shouldn't that be Joe DiMaggio then?