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Dennis Collins
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Post Number:
2270
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 10:52 am: |   |
Which personalities are connected with these theme songs?
1. Love Nest
2. Love in Bloom
3. Holiday for Strings
4. Seems Like Old Times
5. Thanks For the Memories
6. William Tell Overture
7. Near you
These are the ones I remember off the top of my head. Join in if you like.
Dennis Collins
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Bill Nelson
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Post Number:
2639
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 05:00 pm: | |
2. Jack Benny.
5. Bob Hope
6. Lone Ranger |
Dennis Collins
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Post Number:
2275
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 08:20 pm: | |
You're right so far and you're not that young. All the rest are from the same era.
Dennis Collins
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Bill Nelson
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Post Number:
2641
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 10:17 pm: | |
Hey, us younguns know stuff. I'm not old, just seasoned! |
Dennis Collins
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Post Number:
2277
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 17, 2007 - 08:22 am: | |
How come nobody wants to play? Didn't anybody here listen to Radio? (Wednesday night: Henry Aldrich) Am I the only one here who never saw a television until I was a teenager? Does anybody besides me remember the proper definition of "Clinker?"
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Tom Elkins
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Post Number:
689
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 17, 2007 - 09:39 am: | |
A clinker is what is left of the coal after it's burned...and you have to take it out of the furnace and haul it to the curb. I was born in 1931 and never saw a TV set until I was in college...1949. The Green Hornet's theme was The Flight of the Bumblebee. But this is old fogey stuff, which 75% of today's population can't relate to.
Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS
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Bill Nelson
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Post Number:
2648
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 17, 2007 - 12:28 pm: | |
But this is old fogey stuff, which 75% of today's population can't relate to.
Tom, 75% of today's population can't find Greece on a map! 75% of today's population don't know who we fought WWII with. |
Dennis Collins
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Post Number:
2278
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 17, 2007 - 04:20 pm: | |
Tom,
You're a little older than me but I'm old enough to remember WWII and I marched in a parade at the end of the war.
In our house it was my job to load the stoker for the furnace and to haul the clinkers out to the alley.
We had a milkman too and his wagon was still pulled by a horse. The horse knew every stop on the route and all the milkman had to do was run back and forth to the wagon.
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Tom Elkins
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Post Number:
691
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 17, 2007 - 07:03 pm: | |
We had a milkman AND a trashman...both horsedrawn until the late '30's, when they went motorized and broke my heart.
Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS
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Dennis Collins
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Post Number:
2279
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 18, 2007 - 06:43 am: | |
Michigan spawned a man named Gar Wood who invented the self compacting garbage truck so we were mechanized early on. But Detroit had horsedrawn sheenies who plied the alleys looking for bottles, cans, and scrap metal up until the mid 60's.
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Tom Elkins
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Post Number:
692
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 18, 2007 - 07:06 am: | |
Interesting. I grew up in Davenport, about a mile from the Mississippi. Out-of-work men - we called them hoboes, hopped rides on the barges traversing the river. Hardly a week went by but what one or two of them would come up the alley, knock on the back door, and ask for something to eat. My mother never turned anyone away...she had the perpetual pot of soup on the stove, and they got soup and crackers.
And whatever happened to alleys?
Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS
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Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2651
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 18, 2007 - 10:50 am: | |
"And whatever happened to alleys?"
Greedy developers who wanted to squeeze an extra lot or two out of a parcel happened to alleys. |
Gloria Marlow
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Post Number:
1939
Registered: 04-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 18, 2007 - 06:06 pm: | |
I can locate Greece on a map and I know who we fought WWII with.
I grew up watching television and listening to a radio, but not until 1968 when I was born.
Gloria
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Tom Elkins
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Post Number:
693
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 18, 2007 - 07:24 pm: | |
Ah, 1968. That was the year that I, as owner/operater of a radio station in St. Jo, Mo., assigned myself to do live coverage of the two national conventions. The Republicans were in Miami Beach and were uneventful...but the Dems made up for it. That was the 'war of Chicago' and my first breath of tear gas. I had floor credentials, and used a small cassette recorder to do interviews, sending them back to the station via telephone, which I begged and borrowed from AP and others. Heady stuff. Drove my wife crazy. Also my mistress.
Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS
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Dennis Collins
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Post Number:
2280
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 04:05 am: | |
Yes, 1968. I was riding a Triumph Bonneville at the time (My "British" years) and it's also the year that I qualified for my professional competition license driving a Chevy V-8 powered Hallett hull on the Scioto River in Columbus, Ohio (It's the one in the photo at left). Only had three kids back then, half of my brood.
Dennis Collins
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Bill Nelson
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Post Number:
2655
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 11:17 am: | |
Ah, 1968, I was...let's see...no, not there...I was...no, not there either.
Was it 1969 or 1967 or...I can't seem to remember. It was a good place to be
though...I think...
Gloria, have you ever seen the Jay Leno bit where he goes out on the streets of
Hollywood and asks (mostly young adults) basic questions? Most of them can't find Greece or anything else. Outside an iPod or cell phone, they have no
information. It's pathetic.
Just because something was before your time is not cause to be oblivious. I know a bit about George Washington, even Napoleon, maybe Jesus. They were
all just before my time. Maybe not Tom's or Dennis. |
Dennis Collins
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Post Number:
2284
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 03:17 pm: | |
Awright... I can't seem to get anyone interested so here's the answers.
1. Love Nest - George Burns and Gracie Allen
2. Love in Bloom - Jack Benny
3. Holiday for Strings - Red Skelton
4. Seems Like Old Times - Arthur Godfrey
5. Thanks For the Memories - Bob Hope
6. William Tell Overture - The Lone Ranger
7. Near you - Milton Berle
Anybody remember Fred Allen from the radio show Allen's Alley?
He said: "I don't know why anyone would spend one or two years writing a book when you can just go into a store and buy one for five bucks."
Dennis Collins
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Gloria Marlow
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Post Number:
1940
Registered: 04-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 04:01 pm: | |
Yes, Bill, I have seen that Jay Leno bit. It is pathetic.
Of course, I am far from a young adult, but I know a lot of people who are just like those folks on Leno.
I happen to have all sorts of useless, semi-useless, and somewhat useful information in my head. Quite a bit of it is from before my time. But television and radio programs are difficult because if it isn't on anymore, not even reruns, then you can't have heard it.
My daughter is in mourning right now because her own kids might not ever watch "Dukes of Hazzard". Of course, I once thought the same thing, I just wasn't sad about it.
My husband loves to play "do you know who that is?" every time a song comes on the radio. 9 times out of 10, I don't. He never asks me obvious ones.
Gloria Davidson Marlow
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Joyce Scarbrough
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Post Number:
1044
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 05:47 pm: | |
My husband is 12 years older than me. Between the two of us, we can kick ass in a trivia match!
I'm older than Gloria but not nearly as old as Bill, and we had a milkman all the way up until the mid-1970s when I was in high school. But that's probably because my brother worked for the dairy and one of our neighbors was a milkman. I loved getting yogurt and ice cream delivered with our milk!
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Todd Hunter
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Post Number:
3551
Registered: 02-2003
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As an interesting side note (based on Tom's previous post), I went to high school up in St Jo, Mo...
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Dennis Collins
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Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 05:10 pm: | |
April Showers? C'mon, somebody's gotta know this one.
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Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
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Post Number:
3053
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 05:51 pm: | |
I think that was recorded by Al Jolson way back in the mid-twenties or somewhere around there. My Dad had that record when we (my brother and I) were very young and he amd my Mom used to dance to it..... I remember it wasn't a regular record, it was sort of like the one that my Dad had recorded with Bing Crosby, an icky yellow/green.
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Dennis Collins
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Post Number:
2397
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 06:39 pm: | |
Give that lady a Seegar!!!
Dennis Collins
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Dennis Collins
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Post Number:
2398
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 06:40 pm: | |
And now the toughest one (but the easiest of all for me)
Sunset to Sunrise
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Tom Elkins
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Post Number:
746
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 07:17 pm: | |
Todd - When did you go to high school? My station was KKJO, and I was in St. Jo from 1963 to 1972. We were big with high schoolers, particularly with our weekly teen dances, called K-Jo-a-Go-Go.
Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS
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Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
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Post Number:
3055
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 08:27 pm: | |
don't know that one, unless it is a sort of biblical song that I seem to remember from Church.....
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Dennis Collins
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Post Number:
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Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 - 03:34 am: | |
It was the Art Mooney Orchestra theme song. My dad was the featured soloist with the band.
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Todd Hunter
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Post Number:
3575
Registered: 02-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 - 06:57 am: | |
Late 80s, early 90s...
Though I seem to remember KKJO still existing when we were around.
But then, my memory of those days is fading fast.
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Tom Elkins
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Post Number:
747
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 - 07:13 am: | |
Obviously, you're a mere child, Todd. I was long gone by then, although I continued to receive monthly checks from St. Jo on the Promissory Note a got when I sold the station. When I owned it, KKJO was an AM station on 1550. When I sold it FM stereo had just begun to capture large segments of audience. The new owners bought an FM station, called it KKJO, and called the AM something else. I guess they figured the KKJO call letters were valuable as a "brand".
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