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  1. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Backatcha with Enric Madriguera and the Biltmore Hotel Orch., who give it that New York oomph! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evNBYcDJOtQ Note that "CARI0CA" is spelled with a zero! What's up with that?
  2. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    The Scat Song ...and yep, there used to be just one "Scat Song"! In 1932, wordless vocalise was widely touted as a remedy for all that ailed the spirit, thanks in large part to Cab Calloway and his publisher-impresario Irving Mills, who saw "skat 'n skeet 'n hi-de-hi" as the next big thing...
  3. Fletch

    The Curse of Indiana Jones

    My typical schoolday getup consists of fedora/newsy, flight jacket, and laptop bag worn bandolier style. I only got the Indy comment once. It was a rainy day in late summer. Both the hat and jacket were...light tan. :eusa_doh:
  4. Fletch

    Nike Missle Sites or how close you were to the Cold War

    Not Nike-related, but my dad helped design the TV monitoring system in the Titan missile silos near Denver in 1961-'62. It was his first job out of the Navy, where he had been a photo and film officer.
  5. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    She Wears A Yeller Ribbon (For Her Lover Who Is Fur, Fur Away) - Byron G. Harlan and chorus, 1918.
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    If the loathsome Gilbert Gottfried had been around in '29 ...

    Well, in comedy as in pop song writing, New York cornered most of the distribution channels and efficiently supplied the nation. Part of that efficiency was to develop local talent, whose style heavily influenced the national tastes. Thus was born Culture Industry Beta, before scientific...
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    If the loathsome Gilbert Gottfried had been around in '29 ...

    He's also the dog that doesn't know chemically flavored cardboard dog treats from bacon. But I particularly prize him on Comedy Central's comic roast shows. There is something truly arresting about using that autism-spectrum mama's-boy whine to deliver pure smut. The Whiny New Yorker Voice is...
  9. Fletch

    Modern Male Identity Crisis

    You're not alone. You gots kitteh!
  10. Fletch

    For Wearing 'Golden Era' Vintage, Are Men Socially Castigated More than Women?

    I make sure I don't take fastidious care of my non-dress shoes. They draw much less attention that way. In dressy situations, it's part of the look. You stand or fall on that, not the shoes alone.
  11. Fletch

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Today I passed thru downtown Perry, Iowa, where leading citizen George Soumas is memorialized in a public art garden. George's jaunty air and black muffler seemed to call out for my Resistol OR clone, so I snapped a pic of him wearing it.
  13. Fletch

    Film/television speech patterns from the 1920s to 1960s

    We had a very strongly East Coast centered media machine until well after WW2. Even in Hollywood, all the money and most of the creativity had to have some link to New York. That gave an "eastern" sounding accent prestige. Of course "not classy" speech such as Brooklyn, Yankee, etc., was...
  14. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    :cool: oh...nooooo, not at all...;) have some Madeira m'dear?
  15. Fletch

    J. Peterman Cavalry Twill Coat Mens M 42R

    Question about fit for you. Thanks.
  16. Fletch

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Rooney's air-witness account of a B-26 raid on occupied France for Stars and Stripes, September, 1943.
  17. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Clyde McCoy, his corny horn and swingin' band Another great outfit of lost reputation. Here they are in 1936 doing a couple of Duke Ellington covers that are right in the groove, altho not at all Ellingtonian. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg4_ScouBnI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uMd0jYJjIY
  19. Fletch

    Aero A-2 sz 44 HH to trade

    Tito, see your PM box if you would like an AN-6552.
  20. Fletch

    Is this what we, as a society have come to?

    Not that anybody asked me, but those gals have probably done more to set back the cause of the Armenian diaspora than anyone since the Ottomans set about exterminating the race in the mid'teens.
  21. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Unearthly.
  22. Fletch

    Your Aero horsehide comes from...

    The kill-zero-horses sentiment in the US is really NIMBYism if you ask me. It means old or ill horses have to be shipped over the border to be put down - only adding cruelty to the process.
  23. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    AND high black boots!

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