The Eagles Pound On the Jaguars

Began the morning with breakfast and America: The Complete Greatest Hits. The country-rock group is an old favorite of mine. I remember hearing many of their song on the Saturday night oldies radio show as a child. They had some of the biggest hits of the 70's and early 80's with "A Horse With No Name," "Sandman," "Ventura Highway," "Tin Man," "Sister Golden Hair," "Daisy Jane," and "You Can Do Magic." 

Headed off to work after I ate. Work was a mess from start to end. We were so busy! There were lines down the aisles for most of the afternoon. It's the beginning of the month, and a lot of people may be starting to think Thanksgiving, too. I had a hard time keeping up with sweeping and cleaning up spills and doing the carts until another bagger came in later and took over the trash and sweeping. Focused on the carts for the rest of the afternoon.

Soon as I got home, I changed and vacuumed and Swiftered the rooms. Listened to the soundtrack from You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown, which I picked up from Amazon yesterday, as I worked. Once again, this isn't the best-known Peanuts score, but it does have some good things. That's Vince Guaraldi himself supplying the laid-back vocals for the ode to Snoopy's "Joe Cool" persona, and there's the "Incumbent Waltz" that opens the album.

Did some dusting while listening to Oh Kay! This is part of a series of LPs the Smithsonian put out from 1977 to 1982 to explore older musicals that debuted before the advent of the full-on cast albums. Truth be told, this isn't really an accurate "cast album," either. It's mainly either George Gershwin playing his own music, or star Gertrude Lawrence singing them. The hits "Do, Do, Do," "Someone to Watch Over Me," and "Clap Yo' Hands" are repeated constantly throughout the run time. At least it does give you the character of the era and an idea of what this sounded like at the time.

Switched to Paramount Plus for the Eagles-Jaguars game. To be honest, the Jaguars have won two games so far this season, and this one didn't help matters. They played badly in the first two quarters and were down 17 - 0 by halftime. They did come back, but not enough to get past the Eagles, who won 28 - 23.

Finished the night after a shower and dinner on YouTube for the Match Game Sunday Classics marathon. Grumpy character actor Richard Deacon started on Match Game in 1974, during a wild week that also included Nipsey Russell and Gunilla Hutton. He appeared sporadically through the syndicated run in 1981, with one last final appearance with the rest of the Leave It To Beaver cast on The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour a few weeks before his death in 1984. 

For all his grouchiness and touchiness about his lack of hair, Deacon was one of the better players in the first seat. In fact, Nipsey and George Kennedy were probably the only semi-regulars who did better there. He won at least three people big money, including a $10,000 in a PM episode. He got to see Bob Barker and Gene Rayburn moon over nubile young Charlene Tilton late in 1979 and and was there for the New Year's week in 1977 and 1978 when Fannie Flagg sat in for Brett Somers and kept claiming Brett was in jail. (She was actually out doing a play.)

Get to know Dick Van Dyke's boss and Lumpy's dad in this very funny marathon!

Match Game Sunday Classics - Best of Richard Deacon