Winds of Spring

Slept in this morning. Started off the day with breakfast and the soundtrack from The Three Amigos. The last thing I expected to find was Elmer Bernstein's score and three songs by Randy Newman from this hilarious 1986 cult western comedy. It's an old favorite in my family. My sisters and I used to do the Amigos' "My Little Buttercup" act, with me miming playing the piano like Chevy Chase and my sisters ending up on each other's backs. I forgot how good Bernstein's score is, too, as sweeping as any actual western.

I also didn't know David Rose wrote the instrumental standard "The Stripper." Whomever named The Stripper and Other Fun Songs for the Family definitely had a sense of humor. Along with the brassy title number, we have either songs that, like "The Stripper," are associated with naughty doings ("Banned In Boston," "What Is This Thing Called Love?"), or are just more sophisticated than usual ("Mood Indigo," "Night Train"). My favorites here, along with the title number, are "St. James Infirmary" and "Black and Tan Fantasy."

Headed off to work after David Rose ended. Spent most of a chilly, cloudy, windy afternoon pushing carts. We were off-and-on steady, though it could have been a lot worse for a Sunday afternoon. The parking lot was busy. I had a hard time keeping up with the carts early in the afternoon. By the time the morning bagger went home and I took over the sweeping, it had slowed down considerably. I even had time to do the outside trash. No problems whatsoever.

Went home, took a shower, had dinner, and spent the rest of the night watching the Sunday Match Game marathon. Dumb Dora and her masculine equivalent Dumb Donald were two more characters created when the questions started getting longer in late '73 - early '74. They popped up whenever the question revolved around something someone wouldn't normally do or would probably kill anyone else. There was a Dumb Dora question in the episode where Scoey took off to hit the bathroom in the middle of an episode in 1976 and in 1974 when the cute British contestant with the perky pigtails certainly proved she was no dummy. 

The "Dumb" questions also carried over into other Match Game shows. A Dumb Dora question was heard during the wacky week with the cast of Too Close for Comfort (and Arsenio Hall and Bart Braverman) in Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour. There were also Dumb Dora and Donald questions during the Marines week on Match Game '90, one of which prompted answers that were so sexually-charged, two of them were censored. 

You won't be dumb if you join two of the most famous characters on Match Game for this wild marathon!

Match Game Sunday Classics - Dumb Dora Marathon (Part 1)