Lost In Boston III was the last CD in that series I didn't have. I've wanted this one for years, but I could never find it on eBay for a decent price until now. "Mama's Talkin' Soft," performed by two little girls as in the original Gypsy, is the big one here. Others I like include the sweet "Pink Taffeta Sample Size 10" from Sweet Charity, "When I Go Out Walking With My Baby" from Oklahoma!, and "Older and Wiser" from Bye Bye Birdie.
Went to work even before Lost In Boston ended. We were steady for the first hour or so...but once the football games started, our customers ended. I did returns, swept the store, and gathered carts for the first few hours. By 4:30, we had more help to sweep the store, the carts were all up, and the return carts were empty. I organized the gift cards in the kiosk for the last hour or so, even though there wasn't a lot to do there, either. I mainly reorganized the cards in the kiosk.
Jodie visited me as soon as I got in. She had mushroom pizza for dinner and thought I might want the leftovers. Poor Jodie is still reeling from her father's sudden death. Unlike Dad, he died from the virus. Many other members of her family have it, too. This has been a rough couple of months for her. I held her and let her cry on my shoulder. And she did love the bread and the scarf I gave her for Christmas. She thought the scarf was the most beautiful thing she ever had.
Did Unsung Sondheim as I ate dinner. Same deal here, only this one has Sondheim songs either cut from his better-known musicals or from lesser-known projects. I've always thought his music and Danny Elfman's score for Dick Tracy were underrated. "Sooner or Later" won the Oscar, but my favorite song from that film is the touching ballad "What Can You Lose?"
Worked on writing for an hour after I finished dinner. While Sharon Farrell tries to quiet everyone, Robert Walden and McLean Stevenson knock out the two sailors on patrol. They all head further into the ship, hoping to figure out where Brett is and where the crews and Tom's brother Jack are hidden.
Finished the night online with New Year's-themed game shows on YouTube. Started off with High Rollers. Alex Trebek is dressed for a New Year's Eve party in 1979 as his contestants roll the dice and win an amazingly soft-looking mink coat and lots of trips. The older lady was pretty funny - she kept saying "yes," even when it wasn't a yes-or-no question.
Also in 1979, the Monty Hall Beat the Clock celebrates the New Year with games revolving around pouring champagne into glasses stacked so the champagne will overflow the glasses and tossing balloons over nails. Comedian Jack Carter and soap star Eileen Barnett were the clear winners here, beating sitcom favorite Ellen Travolta and character actor Louis Nye by a long shot. The New Year's 1979 episode of Hollywood Squares brought in James Coco, Robert Mandan, Pia Zadora, and the Lennon Sisters...but the champion knew the Lemmon Sisters and had to be replaced with another one.
What's My Line? has been doing New Year's episodes since 1950. Appropriately, their Mystery Guest on New Year's Eve that year was none other than orchestra leader Guy Lombardo. Lombardo was famous for his radio (and later TV) New Year's Eve broadcasts, and was probably more associated with the holiday than anyone until Dick Clark started his Rockin' New Year's.
Since Buzzr is doing a marathon of the New Year's Eve episodes from Match Game '70s Thursday night, I opted for the New Year's Eve show from Match Game '90. This show did holidays up right, and this episode was no exception. They celebrated with black and silver balloons over the arches and everyone in fancy dress. Brad Garrett did a dead-on imitation of Charles Nelson Reilly (who was on hiatus) in the opening segment.
Family Feud kicked off 1990 with an all-woman family making a big comeback after losing the first round. They too decorated very well, with balloons and white poinsettias. New Year's Eve on The Prices Is Right in 1975 revealed a very different Big Wheel - no green sections on the 5 and 15 where you can win 5,000, different sound effects, and the Wheel is filmed from a different angle. A lot of the same pricing games, though, including a hilarious King Kong-themed Showcase Showdown. (You've never lived until you've seen Johnny Olson zooming around a guy in a gorilla suit wearing a round yellow airplane.)
Run these in the background at your New Year's Eve party and see if you can get your guests playing along! (Warning that several of them have bad tapes and are kind of hard to watch, including The Price Is Right, High Rollers, and Hollywood Squares. The latter two are more forgivable - their runs were erased, and there isn't much left of this version of Rollers or Squares' daytime run.)
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