Music and Matches

Began the morning with breakfast and the soundtrack from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. To be honest, most of the songs from the original film didn't make it into the remake. Of the ones that didn't, my favorite is Snow White's sweet "With a Smile and a Song," which she sings to the animals after she wakes up in the forest. The CD I found at a yard sale a while back also includes two cut comic numbers for the Dwarfs, "Music In Your Soup" and one intended for the party spot that was taken by "The Silly Song," "You're Never Too Old to Be Young."

It's still pretty cold...and I still have a nasty cold myself. I've been coughing and blowing my nose like crazy since New Year's Eve. Decided I'd take Uber to avoid the weather. That might not have been the smartest thing on a cold Sunday morning. It took 16 minutes for the driver to arrive, and I ended up being late. Ironically, the driver coming home came in 2 minutes. No trouble getting to or from there.

Work wasn't a problem, either. I was outside the whole time. There was a boy there to do the sweeping and the inside trash. I did gather the trash in the employee room, but I was mainly pushing carts and enjoying the day. It was sunny, breezy, and still fairly cold, in the mid-30's. 

Had to grab a few things I forgot yesterday after work. Needed cough drops and pads rather badly. Grabbed Propel to hydrate my poor dry throat. 

After I got home, I put everything away, then vacuumed and Swiftered the rooms. Made the bed, too. I have six blankets on my bed, and they eventually start to fall off if left for too long. Plus I just put the bears from under the tree back.

Listened to two of my recent record acquisitions as I worked. The Vamp of the Roaring 20's is a follow-up to the soundtrack to the TV show The Roaring 20's. It's the same deal - Dorothy Provine, backed by eight chorus girls, singers, and two small combos, performs hits of the Era of Wonderful Nonsense. There's a couple here that even I haven't heard of - "Freddy the Freshman," "Doin' the Sigma Chi," "Bashful Baby," "He Looks at Her and Then He Goes Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha," "I Know that You Know," "Mama Goes Where Papa Goes," "You've Got That Thing." Fun stuff if you love the songs from this time period.

I never even heard of Ellie Greenwich until I heard of this show, but apparently she wrote Leader of the Pack and many huge hits of the early 60's with her then-husband Jeff Barry. Other popular songs she wrote in part or in full, here performed by her friends Annie Golden and Darlene Love, include "Be My Baby," "Today I Met the Boy I'm Gonna Marry," "Do Wah Diddy," "And Then He Kissed Me," "Hanky Panky," "Chapel of Love," "Christmas - Baby Please Come Home," "I Can Hear Music," "Da Doo Ron Ron," "Maybe I Know," and "River Deep, Mountain High." 

While this seems like an early form of the jukebox biography that would begat shows about Greewich's fellow Brill Building writers Carole King and Neil Diamond in the last ten years or so, it was heavily re-written between off-Broadway and Broadway to be more like a revue. Considering it only ran for two months and got bad reviews, that doesn't seem to have worked. It's apparently done better in regional theaters. Here, it comes off as a vanity project, with Greenwich playing her older self and her friends dominating the proceedings. It doesn't help that Greenwich isn't nearly as well-known as Diamond or King today. Unless you're a huge fan of these songs or Greenwich, you're probably better off looking for the original recordings.

Switched to the Eagles game next. That did not go well. They started off well enough against the Commanders in the first half, but faltered by the time of the second. They ended their season on a low note, with the Commanders taking them down 24-17.

Finished the night back at YouTube with dinner and the second half of that Match Game body marathon. The most famous "body part" incident is Gene Rayburn accidentally telling a lady she has a pretty something besides dimples in one of the most infamous bloopers in TV history. There's also Richard answering "Hand" to "Trench __" in the Audience Match and continuing the joke for the rest of the episode (and for several years thereafter), and the time during the Syndicated series when a physical therapist helped Patty Duke with her knee...and a besotted Jack Jones ran out for her to do the same for him. 

Marcia Wallace got censored for referring to a certain male body part in one 1977 nighttime episode. Another nighttime episode had Brett, Charles, and Richard Paul singing about "The Eyes of Texas," while the contestant ended up in Jamie Lee Curtis' lap. Eva Gabor showed off her bare shoulders in a ruffled top in 1976, while Abby Dalton, Fannie Flagg, and Brett Somers walked off when a contestant talked about women's chests in 1974.

The body really is a wonderland in this hilarious look at the crazy things our bodies can do!

Match Game Sunday Classics - Your Body Is a Blank (Part 2) Marathon