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  1. Fletch

    This generation of kids...

    Mine too. One thing, tho, that's tough about breaking up (kids or no kids), is we don't know how much of us we bring to marriage, and how much of others' or society's expectations that we've just internalized. This might have been easier in past generations, when us didn't matter nearly as...
  2. Fletch

    Elizabeth Taylor Passes Away at 79.

    The solemnity of the moment is interrupted by my internal photo editor, who says we need some leg for after the jump. TAYLOR, Please turn to page 2 Sigh.
  3. Fletch

    This generation of kids...

    You've got a lot to be thankful for, Tom. Good going.
  4. Fletch

    This generation of kids...

    I wasn't taught those things in that way. I sometimes wish I had been. Maybe I was too precocious or preoccupied for my own good (maybe? hell, definitely!). When I got that kind of lesson it usually hit me like a barrel of bricks. Only rarely do I remember any positive message. There wasn't a...
  5. Fletch

    This generation of kids...

    As a cosseted layabout with a sense of entitlement that probably would have had your ma bringing in the morning ice water in a full trash can, I've studied this particular phase of our culture quite intently over many years. I've had to, frankly, just to get by in a world where it's often very...
  7. Fletch

    List of Contemporary Bands that Play Music of the Golden Era!

    If the Hunks have broken up (even if only into smaller Hunks), that's too bad. I love their work. My favorites are Fingerbustin', the sax CD featuring Ronald Heitmaijer, and Kodachrome, the Ray Scott orchestral set. Other groups that come to mind on the other side: Michael Law's Piccadilly...
  8. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Now it's 1934 ...and respectable people can enjoy hot music once again. Jazz Prohibition was never law and lasted only 2 years, but was just as draconian as the Federal kind. In A Mist (Bixology) - Frank Trumbauer & Orch., February. Tasty and appropriately modern(e) treatment of the piano...
  9. Fletch

    If They Make This In Shell Cordovan, Sign Me Up ...

    How about a leather trunk, like the one on this 1932 Buick coupé - only with its own motive power. Pretend this has a drive chain, battery, and some bike wheels inside, and a seat under the lid. You could ride it to the next gas station if the Buick, inevitably, goes kerflooey. Or take it out...
  10. Fletch

    Men's File -A Modern Magazine Tracing the Roots of Style

    Hmmm. That decision could have come from either end of their potential reader spectrum - those who don't care to see topless women in a magazine or those who don't care to see any women. It could also have been industry-driven - don't want to be seen as just another lad mag. Anyway, more power...
  11. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    I'm satisfied too...Say didn't I link to Bernie Cummins' take of that awhile back? Probably Jan Garber's too.
  13. Fletch

    Can you date the fedoras and suits in this photo?

    If so, the guy 2d from L is a time traveler from 1952. lol
  14. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Neat stuff! Moreton and Kaye were the featured artists in Harry Roy's band, with some intricate hot novelties built around them. Canadian Capers, 1933 - Temptation Rag, 1935
  15. Fletch

    Old Tom Gin

    Was Old Tom at all popular in Weimar era Germany? ISTR seeing it on the bar menu of the Do X flightship ca. 1930-31.
  16. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    OK, back to 1931 (A few Dime Store Delights thru the courtesy of YouTuber Lou, aka Bigband78) It Looks Like Susie - Cab Calloway & Orch., July. Another one of those songs full of women's names. Listen for Ed Swayze's high-note trumpet work - or not, you'll hear it anyway. All of Me - Frank &...
  17. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    She was really what we today would call The Total Package, wasn't she...
  19. Fletch

    Max Raabe & the Palast Orchester - live!

    Max and the band improve present day music to such a degree that it would be interesting to see what they could do with this. Warning! Colorful language, and lots of it.
  20. Fletch

    Can you date the fedoras and suits in this photo?

    Dorothy Comingore, mentioned upthread, isn't likely either. She was brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1951, refused to answer questions, and never worked again.
  21. Fletch

    List of Contemporary Bands that Play Music of the Golden Era!

    It helps to be from NY or LA, but there are quite a few quality revival groups elsewhere. Just counting the full-dress orchestrated units I can think of: Don Neely's Royal Society Jazz Orch., out of the Bay Area. The Broadway Broadcasters, from Victoria, BC, Canada. Doc Scantlin's Imperial...
  22. Fletch

    Can you date the fedoras and suits in this photo?

    I'd buy the 1952 date because of the 2 gents on the left with the (relatively) skinny long ties and matching lapels. Jane Russell, tho, I dunno. Here's her pubstill for Montana Belle. I am not getting that come-and-get-it vibe from the gal in the middle of the pic. Hell, I'm not even getting...
  23. Fletch

    George Brent "Missabe" Jacket

    Yeah, I was thinking cel, but mine will barely fit in my ELC A-1 pockets and they're quite a bit bigger!

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