Even back then, they preferred to lip-synch. Dead giveaway when the guitars are not plugged in and there are no mikes, and the cymbals never move. Why did that become a thing? Wouldn’t it be better if they put aside their instruments and sang along to the recorded music?
And, let’s not forget the Ike and Tina Turner Revue back in ’69! (which didn’t do as well on the charts as the others, yet I still remember it as one of the first that I heard way back when…)
Here is NASA on ERIS sometimes called Pluto’s twin (I think the names should have remained as originally given to Eris and its moon; Xena and Gabrielle).
Yup. The point that they both orbit around is outside of Pluto’s body.
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I’m willing to admit I had never heard of this show before now. Neither the human re-make nor the basset original. Naturally, I am familiar with a few of the stars; Little Cesar Romero, Carmen Grranda, Harry James. But not the title, or the title song.
Beautiful poster, though. I’d stop.
And it’s even timely…. most of us are still waiting for any signs of a very late Spring.
…
What a cast!
Betty Kibble…. with her purplie eye shadow, her pearls…. and of course, her famous million-dollar legs…
They were actually insured for that sum, way back then!
Yes, to us they may look a bit short… but they’re the shapely stuff of basset-sailor dreams.
Johnny Paws… never achieved the lasting fame he deserved….. but a singing and dancing dreamboat in his day….
even next to the silky-smooth Little Cesar Romero!
…
Carmen Grrranda.. wow… how did she dance so well, to that fast Latin beat, while holding up that amazing tower of kibble and Milk Bones on her hat?
And Charlotte Dogbone! An old favorite of mine…. tall and thin for a basset, she could kick her little legs straight up in the air!
And many more…. a real, old-style Howlywood extravaganza!
One of those old fashioned doggie romps, where half the cast loves somebody who mistakenly thinks they love someone else.
Some of them flirt with the wrong person to make the right person jealous, and sometimes it backfires…
All interwoven with “putting on a show” in the grand old tradition of pre WWII Hollywood musicals, in the days before everybody burst into song in lieu of conversation.
….
StelBel has posted the copydog human version.
I really don’t know what they bother.. but back then, they hadn’t figured that out yet..
They saw the success of the basset films, and just tried to grab a piece of that action.
It’s kind of sad.
The blonde human woman just doesn’t fill out a gown like Betty Kibble, does she?
And of course, none of the humans have long, soft basset ears.
…
BTW… Another bit of strange Hollywood trivia:
There’s another movie with the exact same title, a few years older.
A cowdog flick, starring Gene Dogtry, that has nothing to do with this one, and no music.
My mother’s rich turkey neck soup, made with the heart, gizzard, and sometimes the wing tip joint, was the pot just sufficient for us to have small bowls before Thanksgiving dinner.
The big pot came later, with the bones left from carving the bird.
I usually wait and just make one batch, when the bones are ready. I don’t feel like making soup along with everything else on the holiday.
Neck, wing tips, liver and gizzards were boiled and the stock used in the turkey gravy. Whatever dog was living with us usually got the liver. I liked the gizzards. My grandmother was fond of the neck.
You can imagine what adolescent boys inserted as alternative words in the line “come on, hold me tight.” Sorry, but that’s where we were then.
This advertisement based on both:
“Stone City Iowa – 1930 / American Gothic (inset) – also 1930 ” By: Grant Woods.
Snuggling Sea Cows
Manatees, Crystal River, Florida
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Bing Picture of the Day, 3.29.2023
So the early mariners thought these were mermaids? They must have had water in their eyes.
Yeah, I’ve heard that too, and thought the same thing.
Or they must have been at sea waaay too long.
Even back then, they preferred to lip-synch. Dead giveaway when the guitars are not plugged in and there are no mikes, and the cymbals never move. Why did that become a thing? Wouldn’t it be better if they put aside their instruments and sang along to the recorded music?
Cleo’s great-grandmother and Claude’s great-grandfather in Cleveland, Ohio…..1908
Lots of “tampered” pics today, Stel!
still pretty good shot.
Love this one!
Euclid Beach?
Now these guys are plugged in!
And daring to cover a Gladys Knight hit that had next become an even bigger Marvin Gaye hit.
At the time I wasn’t really a Credence fan, and I thought it was pretty cocky of them….
Yet I think they did it justice.
And, let’s not forget the Ike and Tina Turner Revue back in ’69! (which didn’t do as well on the charts as the others, yet I still remember it as one of the first that I heard way back when…)
I’ve always been a Credence fan ~ in my top 5.
Me too
You are now a twin planet.
With Charon?
Here is NASA on ERIS sometimes called Pluto’s twin (I think the names should have remained as originally given to Eris and its moon; Xena and Gabrielle).
It’s Pluto and Charon, though, that are considered a twin system, because of their orbits.
See Happy³’s reply to me.
Meanwhile I had looked it up.
Yup. The point that they both orbit around is outside of Pluto’s body.
I’m willing to admit I had never heard of this show before now. Neither the human re-make nor the basset original. Naturally, I am familiar with a few of the stars; Little Cesar Romero, Carmen Grranda, Harry James. But not the title, or the title song.
Beautiful poster, though. I’d stop.
my ear worm for the day is springtime in cleveland?
nah. it’s the rockies, of course….
The Mendelssohn is nice, but Elvis conveys Spring Fever best, for me.
Beautiful, Stel!
“Springtime in Cleveland!”
And it’s even timely…. most of us are still waiting for any signs of a very late Spring.
…
What a cast!
Betty Kibble…. with her purplie eye shadow, her pearls…. and of course, her famous million-dollar legs…
They were actually insured for that sum, way back then!
Yes, to us they may look a bit short… but they’re the shapely stuff of basset-sailor dreams.
Johnny Paws… never achieved the lasting fame he deserved….. but a singing and dancing dreamboat in his day….
even next to the silky-smooth Little Cesar Romero!
…
Carmen Grrranda.. wow… how did she dance so well, to that fast Latin beat, while holding up that amazing tower of kibble and Milk Bones on her hat?
And Charlotte Dogbone! An old favorite of mine…. tall and thin for a basset, she could kick her little legs straight up in the air!
And many more…. a real, old-style Howlywood extravaganza!
One of those old fashioned doggie romps, where half the cast loves somebody who mistakenly thinks they love someone else.
Some of them flirt with the wrong person to make the right person jealous, and sometimes it backfires…
All interwoven with “putting on a show” in the grand old tradition of pre WWII Hollywood musicals, in the days before everybody burst into song in lieu of conversation.
….
StelBel has posted the copydog human version.
I really don’t know what they bother.. but back then, they hadn’t figured that out yet..
They saw the success of the basset films, and just tried to grab a piece of that action.
It’s kind of sad.
The blonde human woman just doesn’t fill out a gown like Betty Kibble, does she?
And of course, none of the humans have long, soft basset ears.
…
BTW… Another bit of strange Hollywood trivia:
There’s another movie with the exact same title, a few years older.
A cowdog flick, starring Gene Dogtry, that has nothing to do with this one, and no music.
yep, we got a good 2 inches if that white stuff overnight. with a winter storm alert until midnight. oh goody!
But,but,but….. it’s Spring! We are expecting some over the weekend.
Yup. Snow in the moutons here in the PNW this weekend.
I like my spell check and auto correct. That is how bad my spelling is.
But, it has made some strange guesses over the years.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mouton
Am odd word for spell check to think you’d want.
I used to have a vintage mouton coat.
Weighed a ton, and made me look like a big tan bear, but it was very warm, except for the fact that coats from the 40s and 50s seldom fasten.
If your coat swings open in California, eh, no big. But I wondered how they could wear them in snowy places.
…
BTW it’s just the French for sheep.
Using the French word for something we use was supposedly more sophisticated than using the English one ever since the Norman invasion of England.
Hence we eat “beef” and “pork”, not cow and pig.
if it was outside of my house it would have been a BAD 2 inches
?
You mean… It’s not as bad INSIDE your house?
For me, it doesn’t matter how much it is ~ it is all bad! Really tired of it!
also celebrated today was vincent van gogh’s 170th birthday!
and he doesn’t look a day over 150
My mother’s rich turkey neck soup, made with the heart, gizzard, and sometimes the wing tip joint, was the pot just sufficient for us to have small bowls before Thanksgiving dinner.
The big pot came later, with the bones left from carving the bird.
I usually wait and just make one batch, when the bones are ready. I don’t feel like making soup along with everything else on the holiday.
Neck, wing tips, liver and gizzards were boiled and the stock used in the turkey gravy. Whatever dog was living with us usually got the liver. I liked the gizzards. My grandmother was fond of the neck.
Make it from goose or duck, add some vinegar – and you have “Gänseklein” or “Entenklein”. Served Christmas – at our house usually on Boxing Day.
i love your poster today, stel! it shows the movement of the ear flapping dancers! it wants me to break out with dancing…..
I’m not familiar with the movie, but I love these two dancers ~ so elegant. And, of course, all the names are so great!
I live in an Eastern suburb of Cleveland! Love the references.
such cute cartoons and love the paintings!
Hi Neighbor!
I lived in Cleveland Heights during grades one through four.
Not that I’ve ever been back, but I remember some parts of it.