Faith is now quite uncertain. I'm no longer acting-as-if.
Monday, May 19, 2008
For Paul, The BB
Harry James and his orchestra with singer, Helen Forest.
Thank you, Paul, for your wonderful post on my beloved city of New Orleans. He has maps. He has a video of the destroyed Lower Ninth Ward. He has music videos, one with Harry Connick, Jr. and Branford Marsalis, and more.
I was struck by the cigarette girl seen in profile early on in the clip. We have vending machines now, of course, and coffin nails (or cancer sticks) were never a very good idea anyway. But she does seem very glamorous.
Wasn't that the whole idea? Cigarettes equal glamor. They seemed glamorous to me back then, and all my friends smoked. I could never get over the initial nastiness, so I never got hooked.
Aw, you're such a sweetie, Mimi!
ReplyDeleteHis post was great and he is great, you too are great Mimi and New Orleans... the greatest.
ReplyDeleteIsn't that a wonderful old song? YouTube has some great clips from old movies with performances of romantic old songs.
ReplyDeleteWe used to have old 78 records of Harry James and his talking trumpet. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteMuthah+, those old 78 records have great sound, don't they? Of course, you have to disregard the occasional scratch. Hmmm...nostalgia is kicking in.
ReplyDeleteVive la nostalgie!
ReplyDeleteI was struck by the cigarette girl seen in profile early on in the clip. We have vending machines now, of course, and coffin nails (or cancer sticks) were never a very good idea anyway. But she does seem very glamorous.
But she does seem very glamorous.
ReplyDeleteWasn't that the whole idea? Cigarettes equal glamor. They seemed glamorous to me back then, and all my friends smoked. I could never get over the initial nastiness, so I never got hooked.
I, mercifully, was never tempted. Glamor was certainly the "sell."
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