Sweet Treats Matches

Started the day quickly with breakfast and Original Gold. This oldies-based RCA Sessions album from 1975 is a lot more eclectic than the similar collections from K-Tel. Just the first disc alone features "Let's Dance" by Chris Montez, "Sweet Little Sixteen" by Chuck Berry, "Chain Gang" by Sam Cooke, "Rebel Rouser" by Duane Eddy, the original version of "Little Honda" by the Hondells, and a rather unique rock version of "Ding Dong, the Witch Is Dead" from The Wizard of Oz by Fifth Estate. Disc 2 gets into bubblegum pop with "Yummy Yummy Yummy" by Ohio Express, "Simon Says" by 1910 Fruitgum Co, and "Born Too Late" by the Poni-Tails and country with "Guess Things Happen That Way" by Johnny Cash. 

Called Uber just as the disc ended. No trouble here today. The driver going to work arrived in 7 minutes, surprising for quarter of 1. I got there right on time. They did take 14 minutes going home, but that was at the height of rush hour. No traffic either way, not even around the entrance to the Wal Mart.

Work was much busier today than it had been yesterday. Today is the beginning of the month. There's probably a lot of people using government money to restock after the messy and frigid weather we had last week. It's going to get a little warmer this week before going right back to being Antarctic, and today certainly didn't help. It was sunny, like it's been all week, but the strong wind made it feel far colder. I didn't have any help gathering carts that kept vanishing until they finally pulled a college boy out of cashiering in the last hour and a half. 

Did the second disc when I got home, then put on tonight's Match Game marathon. Ice cream was frequently mentioned as answers to questions on some of the best episodes of the entire series. It came up on an episode of the week in 1974 where Brett drooled over Anson Williams, who sat next to her, and later that year when the entire panel wished Charles Nelson Reilly good luck on the opening of the show he directed on Broadway, The Belle of Amhurst. There was also the week with Larry Hovis, Peggy Cass, and Rip Taylor sitting in for Charles, and the one from 1978 that introduced a towering young man with a cherubic face whose massive bulk screamed "wrestler," and the one from 1976 where Scoey and Charles switched seats and claimed they'd had the first "race change." 

They brought up ice cream in later episodes, too. There was an ice cream answer on another episode from 1978 where Fannie Flagg dressed as Greta Garbo and even did her questions in her idea of a Swedish accent. Also in 1978, we had an answer on the infamous episode where Charles moves Jack Klugman to the upper tier to sit next to his by-then ex-wife Brett. They ended up in each other's laps before the others held a mock wedding for them in the last few minutes. Ice cream came up as late as a 1990 episode where Marcia Wallace encouraged Jo Anne Worley to show off her still-trim legs (encased in the requisite sleek spandex tights of the time). Phyllis Neuman argued about Brett's constant teasing in one of the last episodes of 1974. 

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream sundaes on Sunday in this sweet as can be marathon!

Match Game Sunday Classics - Ice Cream "Sunday" and Treats