20s Revival in the 50s?

[Mojito]

Glad you liked it, Tiller - and yes, the coat was a campus favourite for both genders.

You wouldn't want to take a tumble from the Manly ferry after a night out "On The Razzle"[/B][/I][/FONT][/COLOR]

lol Indeed - one would risk the fate of Kenneth Slessor's mate, Joe.

I'm sure I'd sink like a stone in one of those things.

 

[Antje]

Wasn't the movie some like it hot, a 50's movie inspired by the 20's???

 

[Paisley]

Yes--it's one of my favorites!

 

[Antje]

I knew it, it's also one of my favorites

 

[vitanola]

"Pye" was a British record label -- an outgrowth of the Pye radio manufacturing firm of the 30s and 40s.

There was a lot of pseudo-twenties stuff right into the sixties -- remember "Winchester Cathedral," with that guy doing a bad Rudy Vallee impression with a megaphone? And how about "Your Father's Moustache Banjo Band," which would have made Harry Reser writhe in his grave.

Excepting, of course, that Mr. Reser was still alive and kicking, playing guitar and banjo in Broadway pit orchestras. In fact, he passed (fatal heart attack) in the orchestra pit of the Imperial Theater, just before the curtain was raised on the 9/27/65 performance of Fiddler on the Roof.

 

[David Conwill]

There must have been - how else do you describe the way these fellows are dressed? Or Fred MacMurray’s Halloween costume in Son of Flubber?

-Dave

 

[Fletch]

Couple instruments missing there. Maybe the rest of the band came in their own cars.

lol

 

[Jack Armstrong]

As I recall, both Teresa Brewer and the Maguire Sisters both started their careers with Twenties-revival music.