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While perhaps not "musicians", Mr. Ebsen starred in several movie musicals and Ms. Ryan was featured in Broadway's Pippin, so they count in my book. I wonder if any one kept that car? It would sure be a collector's item today.

I don't think any album cover featuring a Marsalis would be considered a winner on this forum.

I first became aware of this article about the Ellamobile from a post on the online Songbirds group. One of the members of that group is James W. (Jim) Blackman who knew Ella and who shared these memories about this car: Ella loved this car and she considered it to be her main car. In 1979 or so Norman Granz came over and told Ella to go outside to see her Christmas present which was a 1980 Rolls Royce. When she looked at it she told Norman but I already have a car. They were only so many cabriolets made that year and Ella told me Dean Martin had one. He told Ella that he was sorry he had gotten rid of his -- he wished he had kept it. Every Saturday Chester, her driver, would drive her around Beverly Hills and shed always want to go to Santa Monica to look at the houses. I went with her one time and she would look at a house and say oh I’d like to buy that and I’d tell her that that she really had a nice house and she said she just loved to look at houses and was just having fun. We were going down Sunset one day and a car next to hers honked and Chester opened his window and the driver wanted to know the history of the car. He didn’t notice who was in the passenger seat which I thought was kind of funny.

Does four-legged transportation qualify?

I hear the train a-comin' . . . This last one is a 4 CD Bear Family boxed set.

I am not an automotive enthusiast by any means, but the photos accompanying this article about Ella Fitzgerald's 1959 Mercedes-Benz 300D Cabriolet sure had me "oooooh"ing and "ahhhhh"ing. Wow! Beautiful car, now up for sale if you are interested.

Season 4 had some great guest stars including Danny Glover (as Crabman's father), Seth Green, Jerry Van Dyke, Betty White, David Arquette, Beau Bridges and Geraldo Rivera (as himself, hosting the 2 part Inside Probe investigative news program in which we discover that Randy's full name is Randall Doo Hickey, Catalina hails from the troubled south-of-the-border community of Guadalatucky and Joy is identified as "Stay-At-Trailer Mom"). While it's never explained exactly where Camden lies, I think it is somewhere between Mayberry and Springfield. While this show had writing every bit as good as The Simpsons in its glory days, it also had the heart and sense of community from The Andy Griffith Show. This scene -- Randy learns that Earl's ex-wife Joy was his first summer crush from decades ago (she only knew him as "Skipper" and he knew her as "Pinky") and since Earl broke them up way back when, he has to cross Randy off "his list" by having Joy agree to give him that first kiss denied him as a boy. Add in John Prine and I was weeping in a happy way.

Wikipedia -- "his father is bassist Eddie de Haas and his mother Geraldine was one of the Bey sisters of the musical trio Andy and The Bey Sisters."

I don't have that disc, so somebody else will have to give you their verdict on that.

This was the first time I saw this film and even while watching it I was thinking the killer couldn't be who I was thinking it might be. Society at large and the studio heads in particular simply would not allow that to happen -- not in that particular place & time in US history. The reveal of the (substitute) killer in the finished film struck me as kind of, "Oh. Okay. Huh.". Last night I watched: What a weird movie. It's kind of a psychological drama that I assume was made because Hitchcock's Spellbound was a box office success a couple years earlier. Just imagine if suddenly in the middle of Spellbound there was a lengthy scene of Sid Caesar doing his German professor schtick -- and you hadn't taken any mind-altering substances! That's kind of what the experience of watching this film was like.

They can't all be gems. Granted, the curiosity factor got the best of me and roped me into watching this "movie" ("stationarie" would be more like it). This film must have been made with a budget even thinner than its plot. To pad out a story about these vaudeville headlining sisters, the producers tossed in a number of other vaudeville performers -- folks neither Ed Sullivan nor Ted Mack would have endured for a minute -- to "entertain" us with their entire acts. Admittedly, the accordionist playing the "William Tell Overture" is perhaps the most enjoyable thing in this film, but then he goes and spoils that by playing a second number! No! Bad accordionist! No! Whew! According to Wikipedia, the Hilton Sisters had an even more unpleasant life than that which was portrayed here. However, also worth noting is : "Violet was a skilled saxophonist and Daisy a violinist." Now, everybody be honest -- you kinda want to see that! It's just human nature. But when the producers got so desperate they even put in a juggler who can juggle three -- count 'em, three -- plates, they could have at least given a couple of minutes to the sax and violin playing conjoined twins performing "Shuffle Off To Buffalo"!

Phantom Lady might be the closest comparison. That is perhaps why these two films were included in this 3 CD set I bought -- The Black Path of Fear kind of fits that plot mold, but the protagonist runs off to Cuba with a mob boss' woman (so he's not exactly an "innocent" man) and when she gets killed, he is the patsy fingered for the murder and he has to outrace and outwit both the police and the mob boss to stay alive and prove his innocence. I wrote about the less than satisfying film adaptation of this book last year here.

A great late Joe Turner album by the late, great Joe Turner!