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The video from my original post no longer exists, so I'm re-posting this important snippet of sports history: It's Secretariat blowing away the rest of the field at the 1973 Belmont Stakes.
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Triple
Crown
Added: 6th September 2019
Views: 1002
Posted By: Lava1964 |
 
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Here's a gem: From a 1971 episode of The Dick Cavett Show, Julie Andrews is persuaded to sing Wouldn't It Be Loverly? from My Fair Lady.
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Lady
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Cavett
Added: 31st August 2019
Views: 1163
Posted By: Lava1964 |
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One of the most spectacular throws in World Series history was by Los Angeles Dodgers' right fielder Joe Ferguson who unloaded a dart to gun gown Sal Bando of the Oakland A's at home plate in Game #1 of the 1974 Fall Classic. Vin Scully, Tony Kubek and Curt Gowdy are broadcasting the game for NBC.
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World
Series
Joe
Ferguson
Sal
Bando
Added: 23rd March 2019
Views: 1172
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One of America's greatest musical talents was Roy Clark who passed away in 2018. In this 1975 clip from The Odd Couple, Clark shows his versatility with stringed instruments. The final sequence, in which Clark plays the guitar, is mind-blowing. Enjoy!
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Odd
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Added: 2nd February 2019
Views: 829
Posted By: Lava1964 |
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Here's a cute video: Up-and-coming TV star Billy Crystal gets to meet his boyhood idol, Mickey Mantle, on the Dinah Shore television program in 1977. The two became great friends. Crystal co-wrote a eulogy for Mantle's funeral 18 years later.
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Mantle
Billy
Crystal
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Added: 16th December 2018
Views: 1099
Posted By: Lava1964 |
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From a December 1972 episode of The Odd Couple (titled "The Odd Father), Felix takes daughter Edna to the home of clients so she can see him in action as a professional photographer and be his assistant. The unexpected size of the parents in the family portrait leads to some comic scenes--especially the last gag.
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Couple
midget
family
Felix
photographer
Added: 24th November 2018
Views: 980
Posted By: Lava1964 |
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'I'm Mandy, Fly Me' by Eric, Graham and Lol begins with the hook-line from 'Clockwork Creep' (on second album 'Sheet Music') and an airplane flying overhead before being swiped aside by a fat bass line, exotic synthesiser sound effects, a vocoder apparently whispering 'amazing grace' and whistling. We find out later that the airplane has crash-landed in the water, with the narrator thrown out of the plane (his first line is that he's 'on the outside looking in') but rather than sound petrified or angry, the narrator bobbing in the water is ecstatic. The poster he sees on the side of the aircraft, of an air-hostess named Mandy, 'with a smile as bright as sunshine' causes him to hallucinate (or so it seems) and takes him out of himself ('The world was spinning like a ball, and then it wasn't there at all!') Mandy gives him the 'kiss of life' that saves him, his addled brain setting off on a journey of exotic acoustic guitars and psychedelic effects that ends only when he's pulled from the wreckage; he asks for Mandy but she's not there. A love song to an imaginary person, created by a situation so intense and extreme that the 'real essence' of life comes into sharp contrast, 'Mandy' is balancing a lot of things for a humble catchy single. For a start we don't know who to believe: the narrator is clearly awake enough to realise that what's happening to him seems like a film (Mandy acts 'just like the girl in Dr No, no no no') and yet when he tells his rescuers later that it might have all been in his head they tell him 'no no no no' and that she was was real, yet currently missing - do they mean this? Or is that simply a ruse to keep him awake and conscious in the hope that the pair might be reunited? (note the sheer amount of denies in each of those two lines, the sort of things you do when you're lying to someone). The key line of this song is 'if your chance would you take it?' - would you be prepared to create a whole new life for yourself in your mind to keep yourself alive? And if you did, what would happen to you afterwards when you realised you were making it all up? It's interesting in this context that the band chose an 'air hostess' as their 'exotic woman' (the first in a whole sequence of imaginary confident Eric Stewart girls who'll end up seducing him on subways and all sorts in albums to come): air hostesses never seem quite real anyway, what with all that make-up and being made up to look the same. This clearly isn't a 'real' woman: she's the sort you see everywhere if you travel by plane a lot and even that name - Mandy - isn't a common one amongst 'real' people, though it's used a lot in books. The result is a fourth straight song in a row that's easy to admire and yet there's something difficult to fall in love with compared to earlier classic 10cc singles: there's too many questions and not enough answers for this to be an 'easy ride', with the sudden switch of gears every time the band break out for another instrumental making this song less easy on the ears than, say, 'I'm Not In Love' or 'Rubber Bullets'. Still, this is a lot of people's favourite 10cc song for a reason: its a love song told with such a radical twist that no one on first hearing could have heard it coming (if they'd understood it at all), traditionally loved by 'true' fans (although interestingly co-writer Lol Creme wasn't one of them; it was this song he quoted as evidence that the band were growing stale). In actuality 'Mandy' is a clever hybrid of catchy commercialism and bonkers uniqueness that couldn't possibly have been thought up by another band, but there are better mixtures of the same ingredients around, even on this same album.
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10cc,
Pop
Music,
Rock
Music,
1976
Added: 11th August 2018
Views: 871
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Written by William S. Bickley
Produced by Larry Rosen
Directed by Jerry London
Original Air Date: February 4, 1972
The Partridge family awakes one morning to find they have an unexpected visitor: Russian immigrant Nicholas Minsky Pushkin, or, as he is otherwise know, Pushkin the Magnificent. Nicholas is a jack-of-all-trades: master chef, master carpenter, master artist, etc. Nicholas has decided to offer his services to a typical middle-class American family and the Partridges are that lucky family.
The family likes Nicholas well enough but he seems to break as many things as he fixes. In his sincere desire to be helpful, Nicholas paints the garage door while the Partridges are away on a concert date. It may sound innocent, but Pushkin the Magnificent has painted a scantily-clad young lady on the garage door and although Nicholas is an accomplished artist, the location of the work is a cause for much embarrassment, and the neighbors are in an uproar.
As it turns out, Nicholas may not be the greatest of carpenters, but he is a recognized artist. The local museum purchases the garage door for a large sum so Shirley is able to buy a new garage door and Pushkin is able to take a vacation with the remaining money.
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"Last Night," music and lyrics by Wes Farrell & Tony Romeo (on Shopping Bag)
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Partridge
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70s
Added: 11th August 2018
Views: 814
Posted By: Maitlandsplace |
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Written by William S. Bickley
Produced by Larry Rosen
Directed by Jerry London
Original Air Date: February 4, 1972
The Partridge family awakes one morning to find they have an unexpected visitor: Russian immigrant Nicholas Minsky Pushkin, or, as he is otherwise know, Pushkin the Magnificent. Nicholas is a jack-of-all-trades: master chef, master carpenter, master artist, etc. Nicholas has decided to offer his services to a typical middle-class American family and the Partridges are that lucky family.
The family likes Nicholas well enough but he seems to break as many things as he fixes. In his sincere desire to be helpful, Nicholas paints the garage door while the Partridges are away on a concert date. It may sound innocent, but Pushkin the Magnificent has painted a scantily-clad young lady on the garage door and although Nicholas is an accomplished artist, the location of the work is a cause for much embarrassment, and the neighbors are in an uproar.
As it turns out, Nicholas may not be the greatest of carpenters, but he is a recognized artist. The local museum purchases the garage door for a large sum so Shirley is able to buy a new garage door and Pushkin is able to take a vacation with the remaining money.
Song:
"Last Night," music and lyrics by Wes Farrell & Tony Romeo (on Shopping Bag)
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The
Partridge
Family
Added: 11th August 2018
Views: 813
Posted By: Maitlandsplace |
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