Saturday 9: A Summer Song (1964)
Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.
1) Are you enjoying winter? Or do you daydream about summer? Winter suits me. I'd rather have it 0º than 90º. On the other hand, I do daydream a lot about summer because summer = baseball.
2) In this week's song, trees sway in the breeze. Is it windy where you are today? No. It's very quiet.
3) There's rain outside their window. Have you more recently seen rain or snow? Snow. I like snow.
4)
This week's artists are the duo Chad and Jeremy. As a teen, Chad Stuart
was very versatile in the arts. While he enjoyed drawing, he showed
real promise in music and won a scholarship to London's Central School
of Speech and Drama. When you were a teenager, what were your best
classes? English and American History.
5) Between 1965 and 1966, Chad and Jeremy played British pop stars on a variety of American TV shows, including The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Patty Duke Show, and Batman. Which of those series do you remember? All of them! At first glance, you'd assume that Batman is the least realistic but no, I'd say it's The Patty Duke Show. How are "identical cousins" genetically possible?
5) Between 1965 and 1966, Chad and Jeremy played British pop stars on a variety of American TV shows, including The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Patty Duke Show, and Batman. Which of those series do you remember? All of them! At first glance, you'd assume that Batman is the least realistic but no, I'd say it's The Patty Duke Show. How are "identical cousins" genetically possible?
6)
While those TV appearances were good for the duo's record sales, they
sowed the seeds of dissent between the friends. Jeremy Clyde realized he
enjoyed acting far more than music and began threatening to leave the
act. Chad finally got tired of dissuading him. Between Jeremy's dramatic
aspirations and contract disputes, they broke up. Later they both
admitted they regretted the split, but as Chad said, "we were just
kids." Is there an old friend you've drifted away from but miss? My friend Barb. She moved to Hilton Head and we drifted apart. I remember her fondly but I don't really miss her. I assume she feels the same way. It occurs to me as I answer this that we didn't even exchange Christmas cards this year.
7) In 1964, when "A Summer Song" was popular, the #1 movie in the country was Mary Poppins. Have you seen it? Oh, yes! A million times!
8)
One of the biggest news stories of 1964 was Elizabeth Taylor's wedding
to Richard Burton. The bride wore yellow, with yellow and white flowers
in her hair. The groom wore a dark suit, red tie and yellow boutonniere.
What did you wear last time you got dressed up? A coral knit pantsuit with mesh sleeves. I'm surprised that I was just about the only woman in the room wearing a bright color. Everyone else was muted or neutral.
9) Random question: When you're in the backseat, do you wear a seatbelt? Ever since I read that Princess Diana might have survived if she'd been wearing one. Her body likely wouldn't have flown into the back of the front seat with such velocity.
#9 is the same reason I always buckle up. Although I usually did before then, I am vigilant now.
ReplyDeleteWow on the Princess Diana thing. I never thought of it that way.
ReplyDeleteYou asking how "identical cousins" could be genetically possible made me laugh. We watched an old episode of Hollywood Squares the other day at work and one of the questions was something about could a boy and girl twin be identical...and the contestant said "yes." Um....I guess biology was not her best subject. lol
ReplyDeleteIdentical cousins do exist. Well, sort of. My first cousin Vivian was 20 years older than me. I didn’t know her until I was an adult due to some family drama, she showed me a photo taken when she was my age, and it was like looking in a mirror. We both take after our grandmother
ReplyDeleteBut yeah, patty duke stretched that possibility to the extreme ….
To be identical -- and according to the song, they were "identical" and "they laugh alike, they walk alike, at times they even talk alike" -- they'd have to have come from the same fertilized egg. It simply is not possible, unless they were born to the same mother and then separated at birth. In which case we are headed more into Peyton Place than The Patty Duke Show.
ReplyDeleteNow you have me wondering. But back then, I was not into genes and all that. Maybe twin brothers marrying twin sisters would be close. But it was the antics that were fun to watch. We need fun things to focus on now days.
ReplyDeleteI'm not throwing shade at The Patty Duke Show. It entertained me at the time. But so did Mr. Ed, and I know now a talking horse is not possible, either.
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