Peace and Quiet

Started off the morning with breakfast and The Busy World of Richard Scarry. "Mr. Fixit's Magnet Machine" gets out of control and starts attracting anything made of metal, including Mr. Frumble's car keys, Mr. Cat's lawn mower, and an ocean liner. "Sneef and Sniff at the Opera" returns two of the detective characters from the first two seasons as they search the opera in Milan for stolen pearls. Huckle things "Mr. Gronkle Won't Mind" if they get their ball and arrows out of his yard. He does mind, until he learns a valuable lesson about what's trespassing and what isn't.

Hurried off to work after the cartoon ended. No trouble here whatsoever. They were quiet for most of the day. I cleaned the bathrooms, swept the store, gathered trash, and pushed carts. Some of it may have had to do with decent weather. It was still a little humid and warm, but nothing like yesterday, sunny and breezy. Picked up yogurt for the next few days and my first couple of days after vacation and soda after I got off.

Went straight home and into Hollywood or Bust after doing some chores. I go further into the last movie to feature Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.

Hollywood or Bust

Added a little to the inventory after that. Put in the rest of the B titles and the first C ones, including the Disney stage version of Beauty and the Beast, By the Beautiful Sea, the original 1966 Cabaret, and the 1995 Tyne Daly Call Me Madam Encores concert. By the Beautiful Sea was one of the first cast albums I ever bought. I picked it up from the long-defunct music store Vibrations down the street from us in North Cape May somewhere between 1995 and 1997. I know I had it before I went to college. I've listened to it at least once a summer ever since.

Switched to Match Game '73 while eating a ham sandwich and broccoli for dinner. Charles appeared as a southern-accented Santa Claus in the first episode to wish the audience a very merry Christmas. Lee Merriweather made her first appearance in the second as they headed towards their first New Year and we met Harry, a laid-back contestant who would become more important early in '74...

Finished the night with more recent record finds. Black & Blue came out after the Rolling Stones' guitarist Mick Taylor quit and was basically an audition for another guitarist. That's why there's more emphasis on the rhythm section in many songs like "Hot Stuff" that are a lot funkier than usual for these guys. "Fool To Cry" was the closest thing to a hit at the time.

I'm surprised my family didn't own Picture This in the 80's. We had the two albums Huey Lewis and the News made after this, Sports and Fore!, but not this one. It features one of my favorites of their songs, the driving rocker "Workin' For a Livin'," along with their first major hit "Do You Believe In Love?"

Yoko Ono assembled songs she and John Lennon had worked on before his death into the album Milk and Honey in 1984. It wasn't the huge hit that the previous Lennon album Double Fantasy had been, but it still did well enough, with "Nobody Told Me" hitting the top 10 in the US. I prefer "Sleepless Night" and the gentle demo "Grow Old With Me."