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Hard-Hearted Hannah
My mother loved to sing, in the church choir or just for fun. She sang all the time, singing along with the radio or record player, or just a cappella. I especially remember her singing while doing the...
View Article“No Transfats at a Watertown Diner”
There’s a proposal to ban transfats in Massachusetts, so reporter Carl Stevens of WBZ Radio paid a visit to the Deluxe Town Diner in Watertown which stopped serving transfats three years ago. The...
View ArticleArthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry
My aunt has Alzheimer’s Disease. Both my parents died young, and when I see my aunt fade away, I know I’m losing one of my few remaining connections to my parents and their generation. During one...
View ArticleJournalism: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
This is a career information film from 1940 makes journalism sound like a great career. Especially if you’re a man. Here’s the advice for girls considering this career choice: “Women find it difficult...
View Article1981 TV Report about Online Newspapers
I love this 1981 news segment about how some people were dialing in to CompuServe to read newspapers on their home computers. According to the report, it took two hours to download the paper at a cost...
View ArticleI’ll Be Seeing You
I’m posting this in memory of my mother, in honor of her birthday. She loved this song, and I often hear it in my head as I sort through all these old photographs, seeing her (and too many other loved...
View ArticleYou Made Me Love You
Just remembering my mother with this movie clip of Judy Garland singing “You Made Me Love You” to a photograph of Clark Gable. My mother loved this song and sang it often, and described this scene to...
View ArticleRIP Michael Jackson
Hard to know what to say, what to remember, what’s better forgotten. But I do like this performance of the song “Ben” from the Sonny and Cher show. Here Jackson has outgrown the his role as the...
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Christmas Music and Memories
I’m working on my Christmas playlist, and I want to put in songs dedicated to family members no longer with us. For my mother, it’s “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” for my father, “Good King...
View ArticleClancy Hayes Campaign Song for Nixon/Lodge
You never know what you’ll find when you go searching around on YouTube. I have written here before about searching for the song Peoria. I was hoping to find a performance of the song by Bob Scobey’s...
View ArticleRIP Lena Horne, 1917-2010
I hope she’s up there with Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland and my mother, and they’re having a great time together belting out the Great American Songbook! Lena Horne: A Life in YouTube — Kate Dailey put...
View ArticleI Saw My Life
I saw my life flash before my eyes. I saw seasons come and go. I saw libraries and diners and dogs. I saw Jamaica and Italy, libraries, flowers, fruits and vegetables, historical markers, screenshots...
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Did Your Mother Come from Ireland?
Or your grandfather or your great grandparents? If so, you should check out the National Library of Ireland, the newest member of the Flickr Commons. They have an interesting collection of photographs...
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Clara’s Final Episode
I’ve been following the Great Depression Cooking series on YouTube for years, not so much for the recipes as for the joy of watching the gracious great-grandmother Clara Cannucciari share her...
View ArticleMusic to Shave By
This cardboard record was included in a magazine promotion. Lyrics include “Oh that Roll-a-matic, adjusts to any kind of beard and skin, makes you wish you had a double chin” and “Ain’t misbehavin’,...
View ArticleThe Spaghetti Harvest Video
It wouldn’t really be April Fools Day without the 1957 Spaghetti Harvest video. I first saw this on American TV when I was around 12 years old, and it really made me think about accuracy, authenticity...
View ArticleFebruary 3, 1959: The Day the Music Died
Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson and pilot Roger Peterson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, shortly after takeoff from Mason City on a flight headed for...
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