I’ve always wanted to collect tin wall signs for some reason. My mom’s got a couple she pulls out around Christmas, with Santa and Coca-Cola on them, but every time I see these kinds of wall art up, I always wonder if they’re real (authentic) or reproductions. We even have a restaurant where I live that essentially has “papered” the walls with retro-vintage stuff like this. I don’t know why, I just love the way the art looks and feels.
I’ve GOT to get my own space where I can start collecting these on the walls… Maybe a bathroom? LOL I don’t know… where would you guys put them?
First, HappyIndependence Day to all my fellow Americans! :)
Before I get on with the Weekend Song and Drink post, I want to direct you all to a post I wrote on Memorial Day weekend, about a great artist, Poto Leifi and his project “Freedom’s On Me”, who is using retro-style artwork to pay tribute to fallen US soldiers. Simply awesome stuff, and we need to remember that it’s these soldiers who keep us independent and free.
Now, on to the celebration!
When I started this blog over a year ago, I wrote a post about a “hot, new Miami drink” called the Yellow Tomato Martini…
I can see it now - my thinner, sexier, dangerous dame self - on a terra cotta patio overlooking a giant inground pool. I’m tanned and dewy, wearing a white slinky dress with my long, dark hair cascading over my shoulders. In my hand? The hottest new drink in Miami - The Yellow Tomato Martini.
I never added a song to that post, so here we go… I’m thinking something sort of spicy, something you can really get a sexy dance into…
Okay, this is really cool - I haven’t seen him being so silly like this on any talk show (day or night) before, and maybe it’s because I’m in the US and the FCC is a bunch of haughty high and mighties. I love how he talks about the nachos and underwear, but even more than that I love the challenge he gets from Jack Black.
Apparently Mike once killed a bunny (quite sure it was an accident, folks) and once received a teddy bear from a raging fan that he gave to one of his producer’s kids, and when she squeezed the bear, it said something pretty raucous!
Watch, laugh out loud, and don’t snarf your beverage on this:
Yay! Meat’s coming back out of retirement! Sorry, I know this isn’t “crooner” related but I totally love Meat Loaf. Yes, yes I do. Just don’t ever ask me to sing “Paradise” with you at a karaoke bar because lemme jus’ tellya… the way I sing that song… man, it’s so… whew! Let’s just say the passion in my voice, the strength in my passion, oh, you’ll pretend like you don’t know me. Mmhmyep. ;)
Okay, so I realized that I’ve written a few “Did You Know? 5 Facts…” posts, and I thought I’d write an archive post for all the ones I’ve done so far. Are there any others you’d be particularly interested in? Should I do some “5 MORE Facts…” type posts?
Did you know that Mel was nicknamed the “Velvet Fog”? In his younger years, I can see why… I’m personally not too keen on the stuff he did in the 70s and 80s, but that might be just because when I was growing up then, I thought of him as “old lady music”. LOL
Here’s a piece of rare footage of the fogginess himself singing “April Showers” circa 1950(ish): Read More
It’s definitely summertime here in the northeast. FINALLY!
Lots of rain the past couple weeks, but when we get a nice, hot day, what’s better to guzzle down than some lemonade?
For this weekend’s song and drink, I’ve selected something different and cool.
Something languid and sexy, that kind of makes you just want to be on a porch swing, leaning back with a leg up, hanging the glass by it’s rim from your fingertips and listening to something slow and piano-laden on the stereo…
Melvin Howard Tormé was born in 1925 in Chicago, Illinois to immigrant Russian Jewish parents whose real last name had been Torma.
He composed the music for the classic holiday song “The Christmas Song” (also known as “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” popularly sung by Nat King Cole and many other crooners). Noted by some as odd, because he was Jewish, that he wrote a Christmas song, Mel claimed to have written it in under 45 minutes and it was never one of his favorites.
As a teen, Mel Tormé sang, arranged, and played drums in a band led by Chico Marx of the Marx Brothers.
He was married 4 times, and had 5 children and 2 stepchildren.
Mel lent his voice to Warner Brothers in The Night of the Living Duck (1988) and Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters (1988)
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