How'd that work out? I forget. Classic Stones. I didn't know this was a cover either. It's my weekend for disillusionment. Stills was very faithful to it, though, adding just a bit more flourish. "Battle of New Orleans" does have some grade-school nostalgia for me. Hmm. Too bad they established that Horton had no human offspring. Or at least that's how it was when Englehart was writing things. Who knows what the story is now. It does have the sound. That voice is just superhuman. Yeah, that's the stuff. Could be. I forget things. Yeah, not much for Flower Power.
Rolling rather slowly. Stills's was the original, he wrote it; it charted in December 1970 and was on the chart until Feb. '71. Indeed.
_______ 55.5th-ish Anniversary Viewing _______ The Ed Sullivan Show Season 18, episode 7 Originally aired October 24, 1965 As represented in The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show All of these segments were kept together in the same Best of installment. Most of the clips below from the Sullivan account are listed as being from June 19, 1966. Metacritic doesn't have an episode listed for that date; I suspect that it may have been the rerun date of this episode. This first number shown by Duke Ellington & His Orchestra is listed as "The Opener"; according to Metacritic, it was part of the medley further below. It's an up-tempo bit of business that prominently features the trumpet player. Baby-faced Peter Noone and the other Hermits perform their current hit "Just a Little Bit Better," which is slipping out of the Top 10 this week. The Best of segment includes a routine before the song about how Tommy got a chicken instead of a dog from their mom; but doesn't show some of the joking during the song in the clip below; which in turn seems to be edited to end early, as it doesn't show them taking their bow and Ed bringing them over. According to Metacritic, they also did a number called "Lonesome Traveler". The Best of segment of this Spanish Flamenco dancer both starts and ends earlier than the clip below. Duke & His Orchestra perform what Metacritic lists as a medley consisting of "Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me," "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," "Caravan," and "Satin Doll". I caught "Satin Doll" in the Best of edit, but not "Don't Get Around Much Anymore"; I'm not familiar with the other two numbers, but it did sound like they did two other distinct pieces. Next Ed introduces Los Angeles mayor Samuel W. Yorty for an audience bow. According to Metacritic, this was the sixth of six shows broadcast from Hollywood; though the Best of installment deceptively has the announcer at the beginning saying that the show is from New York. The act is the Hardy Family, consisting of a father and his three daughters: This clip uses different music from the Best of installment, which has one of their standard pieces for acrobats, plate spinners, and such. Both sources seem to show the same, full performance. The Duke closes the Best of installment with his 1941 classic, "The the 'A' Train," which is said to be his signature tune. Other performances according to Metacritic: Herman's Hermits, "Jezebel" Marvin Gaye, "Take This Heart of Mine" (charts May 21, 1966; #44 US; #16 R&B; #56 UK; this would seem to work better with the June 19 date...) Richard Pryor "imitates the Ali vs. Liston fight and kids in a school play" (Damn he looks young here! If this was in October '65, he was going on 25.) Myron Cohen Audience bow: Dave Chasen _______ Branded "Salute the Soldier Briefly" Originally aired October 24, 1965 McCord goes to the small, ramshackle Colossus Mining Co. asking for a job, but is turned away with a shotgun. He finds that British traveler Charles Briswell (Michael Rennie) is being tried by miners (Jim Davis, Claude Hall, John Mitchum, Chuck Hamilton) in a kangaroo court for breaking a miner's neck. Briswell admits to cleaning him out in a card game. Jason enforces due process at gunpoint. When one of the miners places Jason as the coward of Bitter Creek, Briswell claims to have witnessed the whole battle while prospecting. The duo effect an escape, aided by the distraction of placing the miners' guns in a burning whiskey barrel. On the trail, Briswell tells Jason that he's a geologist by training. They come upon an Apache renegade who's hung a cavalry officer over a fire, and Briswell shoots him. A small cavalry patrol rides up, commanded by Lt. Shanley (John Pickard), an old friend of Jason's. When Jason tells him what Briswell claims, Shanley agrees to help reopen Jason's case. Shanley records Briswell's testimony, which describes Jason fighting the Apaches and eventually being felled, and how Briswell assumed that Jason was dead. Shanley is skeptical of Briswell's tale, as is Jason, who upon probing the man as they're riding away discovers a substantial inaccuracy in his story...that the massacre happened during the day. Briswell admits to having lied for Jason, and, when Jason threatens to take him back to the Army camp, pulls a small double-barreled pistol and admits to having killed the miner. Jason disarms him, a fight ensues, and Jason takes Briswell back to the camp to get a real trial. When they arrive, Jason asks to see Shanley's journal and tears out the pages with the testimony. Impressed with his old friend's honesty, Shanley salutes Jason and addresses him as "Captain". _______ 12 O'Clock High "Show Me a Hero, I'll Show You a Bum" Originally aired October 25, 1965 https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/the-classic-retro-pop-culture-thread.278375/page-77#post-12299825 A British correspondent at the base, Kirby Wyatt (Lloyd Bochner), tips off Susan Nesbit (Lois Nettleton) that Gallagher's plane is coming in with an untrained sergeant flying it and the rest of the crew shot up; the pair are attracted by the prospect of covering the potential death of a general's son. Upstairs, Gallagher is conscious enough to instruct Sandy, who manages to pull off the landing without even resorting to the "crash" part. Sandy's up for a Silver Star, and Nesbit changes her focus to playing up Sandy as a hero, though he's uncomfortable with the attention, and confesses to Doc Kaiser that he was focused on saving himself. He writes himself onto a duty roster to try to avoid a trip to London with the correspondents, but Gallagher emphasizes how important his story could be for morale and Anglo-American relations. Gallagher does approve of Sandy staying on the next mission, though, on which the sergeant kicks loose a bomb that's stuck on the rails. This is considered to be a matter of routine by the 918th, including Gallagher, but the correspondents want to play it up as another act of heroism and try to pull strings to get Sandy a field commission, though Gallagher doesn't think he's ready for it yet and doesn't want to see him pushed into it. Some of the other non-coms, led by Sgt. Chapman (Burt Reynolds), tease Komansky about being a Jonah, referencing how he was flight engineer when Savage was killed and another incident of going down in Yugoslavia that I don't recognize (though it may have been the offscreen shuttle raid delay mentioned in "Big Brother"). Sandy confides in private to Susan, including about how he froze up in the cockpit after the bomb incident, and tries to make it a romantic moment, though she's clearly conflicted on the matter and runs off. Sandy then reports sick for the next mission, and goes AWOL to London trying to find Susan, which gets back to Gallagher. The BBC receptionist who phones him, Pamela Hurley (Anne Whitfield), accuses Nesbit of using Komansky. She follows Komanksy to an inn where Nesbit is at and tries to warn him, but he discovers that Susan is there on a date with Wyatt. Out on the street where Sandy's waiting for a rendezvous with Susan, Wyatt also tries to warn him of her intentions, but a scuffle ensues and he ends up decking an MP who tries to intervene. Gallagher, in London on the premise of seeing a specialist to be cleared for duty, drops by Nesbit's flat as an air raid is commencing. Wyatt is there, and Gallagher confronts them about what they've been doing. Sandy also shows up and asks for a moment alone with Susan. She admits to having been using him, but claims to be conflicted in this case. He walks out on her, immediately after which a German plane hits the building. Susan is trapped under rubble, but Joe, Sandy, and Wyatt free her. Cut to Gallagher and Komansky back on duty flying the next day's mission. In the Epilog, a wheelchair-bound Nesbitt is present as Sandy is awarded his Silver Star on the airfield, though the matter with the MP still has to be cleared up. As mentioned in the original brief write-up, Reynolds gets opening credits billing for a rather small role that wouldn't ordinarily have merited it. Anne Whitfield had a meatier part. _______ Gilligan's Island "Quick Before It Sinks" Originally aired October 28, 1965 Abundant food sources note: now they're catching lobsters in the lagoon. That the Professor doesn't attempt to verify what the stick is showing doesn't say much for his credibility. The men work on the landscaping project by day and secretly on the hut by night; it seems like it would have been a lot more practical to just tell the women. The Professor then determines that the water is rising too fast for high ground to save them. If the island were really sinking that fast, wouldn't there by noticeable changes to the shoreline? They finally resolve that they have to tell the women, but Gilligan breaks the news to Ginger in a way that makes her think they've found a way to get off the island. Having built up the ladies' hopes, the guys just lie to cover up the truth again, faking building a transmitter. If the island were sinking, it would just be nature's way of weeding out people this stupid. After the women discover Gilligan faking the other end of the radio conversation under the table, the truth finally comes out. Ginger comes up with the idea of building an ark. If that were considered to be a practical option, why wouldn't they have already built one? The men undertake a series of tests of attempting to live on the rocking ark. Wouldn't the Skipper and Gilligan be well accustomed to this sort of thing? Anyway, the tests cause the ark to fall apart. In the coda, Gilligan brings in his latest catch of lobsters while carrying the stick, and explains how he's been using it. _______ The Wild Wild West "The Night of the Glowing Corpse" Originally aired October 29, 1965 Jim and Surete agent Lt. Armand Renard (Phillip Pine) are both assigned to protect Franconium, the discovery of Dr. Jean Paul Ormont (Oscar Beregi). An older woman busts into the mansion where they're all being hosted with a big bruiser whom we learn is named Ironfoot (Charles Horvath), who kicks down the door of the cell where the material is being kept with his Gorgon-style footwear. Noticing the signs of a small explosion, Jim goes up to investigate and tussles with Ironfoot, but the lady knocks him out; Jim grabs her ankle before passing out. He later identifies Consul-General Potez (Ron Whelan)'s secretary, Amelie Charlemont (Marion Thompson), as the "old woman," as his fingerprints are still on her ankle. While he's questioning her, she makes a seduction attempt, grabs his pistol from his vest, and shoots him. This turns out to be a ruse using a bulletproof vest so she'll lead them to her confederates. She's spotted at an amusement park, where Jim follows her into a haunted house while she's having a meeting with Cluny (Kipp Hamilton), the doctor's botanist niece, who's ostensibly collecting American flora samples during their stay. Jim finds Amelie dead with an orchid in her hand. Later, a bellhop leaves a bomb in Jim and Artie's room while Jim is looking over Renard's file, his interest caught by it establishing that the man is missing a finger, which Jim didn't notice. He discovers the bomb just in time to push Artie into another room. Using a detector devised by Dr. Ormont--a glass bulb with vanes inside that spin in proximity to Franconium--Jim finds Renard's body in a crate in the mansion's greenhouse, his now-glowing artificial finger tipping Jim off that the Franconium is in a box in the crate. He's confronted by Cluny, who has trap walls lowered to enclose him, and fills the cell with acidic orchid fumes. Jim dons Artie's experimental artificial lung (a five-minute oxygen mask) and tries to use an explosive to get out, but the fumes repeatedly put out his fuse. While Cluny's instructing Ironfoot in clumsily sealing the crate, Artie shows up at the door as an Irish deliveryman, there to pick up the crate. When Artie finds it, Ironfoot clobbers him, but Jim finally busts out. With Jim held at gunpoint by Ironfoot, Cluny reveals that she's actually Prussian...Prussia being at war with France at the time. Jim tries his boot blade, but it breaks on one of Ironfoot's legs, which turn out to be metal. Jim proceeds to coax Ironfoot into a fight against Cluny's orders, which climaxes in Jim using Arties ten-second sticky gadget to hang from under a landing while pulling Ironfoot into a vat of corrosive tanning liquid below. Caught by Jim and Artie, Cluny breaks down crying. In the coda, Jim and Artie arrange a double date with the Consul-General's new secretary and her sister. _______ Hogan's Heroes "German Bridge Is Falling Down" Originally aired October 29, 1965 Hogan calls for a special roll call ostensibly to thwart an unauthorized escape attempt, but actually so that when he gives the men permission to smoke, they all light up at once while forming an arrow as a marker for a flight of bombers. The (presumably lead) bomber pilot (Forrest Compton) actually refers to his inside men as "Hogan's Heroes"! Nevertheless, the bombers fail to take out the Adolf Hitler Bridge. Hogan decides to finish the job, so the prisoners have to raid the kitchen to improvise some explosives...which gives us opening credits shots of Carter working on mixing them. Ensuing mishaps are covered by a sign for top secret construction activity. Plan B involves using German ammo, so the prisoners paint graffiti on on the armory so they'll have to paint over it, which includes mishaps to stall for time. They slip the bomb into the sidecar of an unwitting messenger, but this requires precise timing of his route, and they learn after he leaves that Schultz bribed him to make a detour delivery to his wife in Dusseldorf. Hogan reports that one of his men bribed the messenger to make the detour, so Klink will have the messenger redirected at a sentry post. The bridge blows on time, and Klink assumes that it's more of the construction. In the coda, Hogan volunteers his men to work on rebuilding the bridge so they can set another bomb for future use. This one had enough conspicuous bits of early installment weirdness--including the barracks tunnel entrance being a footlocker--that I suspect it may have been the first regular production episode. OTOH, the prisoners actually felt the need to pull the wool over Schultz's eyes during a barracks inspection when they were trying to clean Carter up after one of his mishaps. Dis-missed! _______ Get Smart "KAOS in CONTROL" Originally aired October 30, 1965 An unknown party attempts to access the vault door of the conference room before the meeting. Max is currently the agent in charge of internal security, which entails having the key to the room attached to his waist, though he doesn't even remember what it's for, getting it stuck in a drawer at home. In the Chief's office we get the Cone of Silence...IN COLOR! Ironically, Hodgkins (Bryan O'Byrne), who's standing outside the cone, is the only one who can understand what both Max and the Chief are saying. Professor Windish (Robert Cornthwaite) shows Max and 99 his electro-retrogressor gun in the CONTROL lab in front of assistants Henry Ratchett (Ed Peck) and Alma Sutton (Barbara Bain). Inspecting the conference room with electronic devices, Max detects electrical impulses behind a wall and cuts a hole in it to find the Chief's office on the other side, where he's shaving with an electric razor. Wingate tries to warn the Chief that somebody's stolen his electro-retrogressor gun when an unseen figure uses it on him. Later Max and 99 respond to an alarm from the Chief's office to find that the gun has been used on him. Max takes charge, and the first thing he asks Hodgkins is who's in charge of internal security. The delegates shortly arrive. Once again the key gets stuck, so Max has to partially undress in front of them to open the conference room door. Ratchett reports that he found material for making an impression of the door lock in Sutton's purse, but when they go to the lab to confront her, she's acting like a child, so they interrogate Ratchett. Max eventually figures out that Alma was acting, as she mentioned watching Captain Kangaroo, which wasn't on when she was a child. He confronts her at the conference room door, using the chained key to swing it closed on her. A brief struggle ensues in which the ray actually fires on her. In the coda, the victims of the gun are back to normal and we're told that the professor plans to destroy it. _______
I think I remember seeing this one. The bit about Catholics cracks me up. I always wonder what people like this do when they're not on Ed Sullivan. Is it, or was it, actually possible to make a living with an act like this? Another guy who makes me sad, thinking of what happened to him later in life. Klaatu. Jock Ewing. "Don't mind me, boys, jest checkin' fer gold." Yikes. Did they save the guy or was he dead? "Also, I'm not really a geologist." That's a nice little moment. It seems like I know that name, but I can't find anything in particular on her. Nice people. Not much of a confession, I don't think. Dan August, and some other stuff. Seems like a busy, chaotic episode with an anticlimactic ending. Was he a big name that early on? I think the starvation plot was a bit of a misfire. Not to mention that he doesn't notice that it's always in a different spot from where he leaves it. They're delicate creatures. They must be protected. I think they'd already be underwater by now. They've been shipwrecked so long that they've lost their sea legs. That's really waiting to the last second to resolve the plot. Cool. Very Bondish. This strikes me as unlikely in so many ways. And yet I find Ironfoot totally believable. This show is not kind to restaurant and hotel workers. Black on one side and white on the other? I had one of those. The world's first cyborg! Botanists are not cut out to be evil masterminds. That's nifty. Did they actually show that from the air? Cool. I wonder if anybody ever called Charlie's Angels "Charlie's Angels?" Now that's foresight. The credit sequence shot of Carter would seem to support that. Cinnamon Carter and Helena Russell. I was thinking that what an appropriate guest star she is for Get Smart, but I think Mission: Impossible actually came later. You can't put the worms back in the can, professor. Somebody else will just recreate it. Better to study and develop it so as to develop a counterweapon.
I'm sure there must be some sort of performance circuit, even if they're just doing bar mitzvahs or whatever. Barada nikto. Ah, didn't catch that. Dead. They let him down. Browsing her credits, amongst lots of other stuff, she was in two installments of the Kung Fu finale arc. Never heard of that one. Seems like it was trying too hard to be a better drama episode than it was. I'm sure he was still rising, but was perhaps big enough a TV guest to get a more prominent billing. I hadn't noticed...the vanes seemed metallic to me. Yes, with an unlikely level of visibility. They were routinely referred to as his Angels, so the full name in the title was at least strongly implied. That was one of the bits that caught my attention. Yep, M:I starts the very next season ('66-'67).
Another little-known subculture of society. The Acrobat Underground. I'm surprised I did. Ugh. I browsed, too, and it's clear that I've seen her a million times, but I was expecting something iconic the way I reacted to her name. One-season wonder. I never saw it, but I remember it turning up on that late-night thing on CBS in the late 70s (the same one where they showed Night Stalker re-runs for a while). We had this little knick-knack thing that looked like a mini bell jar, with three or four vanes painted white on one side and black on the other. Light pressure would make it spin because of the color difference. It was like a mini science lesson. I explained it to my Mother a thousand times and she still didn't get it. That's true.
55 Years Ago This Week June 20 By a unanimous (307 to 0) vote, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the Freedom of Information Act, which had been passed by the U.S. Senate in December, despite the efforts of several federal agencies to block the creation of a means for facilitating examination of U.S. government records. President Johnson reluctantly signed the bill into law on July 4, and it would take effect on July 4, 1967. French President Charles de Gaulle starts his visit to the Soviet Union. Bob Dylan's album Blonde on Blonde is released in the U.S. June 21 – Opposition leader Arthur Calwell is shot after attending a political meeting in Mosman, Sydney, Australia, sustaining minor injuries. June 22 – The film adaptation of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? premiered at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California, days after Jack Valenti of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) gave its approval in spite of the strictures of the MPAA's Production Code, a prerequisite for being shown in most American cinemas. The Mike Nichols film could be distributed as long as the theater operator signed a rider to a standard contract "prohibiting anyone under the age of 18 from seeing the picture unless accompanied by an adult", a forerunner to the "R" Rating that would be implemented as part of the limitations system that would be created on November 5, 1968. The MPAA released a statement at the time noting that "this exemption does not mean that the floodgates are open for language or other material" judged to be obscene. June 23 The final collection of James Bond short stories authored by Ian Fleming was published as Octopussy and the Living Daylights. Fleming, who had created the Agent 007 character, had died in 1964. The Beatles fly from London Airport to Munich, West Germany, at the start of a short inter-continental concert tour. June 24 – The United States Senate voted unanimously, 76-0, for the most comprehensive automobile safety laws ever enacted in the U.S., with 26 requirements for all 1968 model vehicles, including lap and shoulder seat belts, rear view mirrors, back up lights, hazard lights, safety door latches, collapsible steering columns, sturdy anchorage of seats, recessed instrument panels, redesign of interior forward compartments to reduce impact, safety glass, hydraulic brakes, roll bars for soft top or open top vehicles, and padded head rests. June 25 – After 160 years of constructing ships for the United States Navy, the Brooklyn Navy Yard was closed. The increasing size requirements for modern warships after World War II made BNY impractical, because the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge did not have sufficient clearance to allow newer vessels to pass underneath. Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week: Leaving the chart: "Come On Let's Go," The McCoys (9 weeks) "Kicks," Paul Revere & The Raiders (14 weeks) "Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart," The Supremes (8 weeks) "Message to Michael," Dionne Warwick (12 weeks) "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35," Bob Dylan (10 weeks) "River Deep – Mountain High," Ike & Tina Turner (4 weeks) Recent and new on the chart: "Please Tell Me Why," The Dave Clark Five (June 11; #28 US) "Searching For My Love," Bobby Moore & The Rhythm Aces (#27 US; #7 R&B) "Over Under Sideways Down," The Yardbirds (#13 US; #10 UK) "Sunny," Bobby Hebb (#2 US; #3 R&B; #12 UK) "Wild Thing," The Troggs (#1 US the weeks of July 30 and Aug. 6, 1966; #2 UK; #257 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time) _______ Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki pages for the month or year and Mark Lewisohn's The Beatles Day by Day, with minor editing as needed. _______ This one looked more like a light bulb.
Whew! Say what? I don't think either one of those bridges would be a match for a warship. I'm not sure if I've heard this before or not. There's nothing particularly wrong with it.... Kind of the same as above. Minor, but I think I hear some Doors in there. I haven't heard this in ages. Good nostalgia factor. And here we have a classic. Apparently they're called Radiometers and there's different kinds. I don't see one that looks exactly like I remember, but this is basically what I was thinking of.
50 Years Ago This Week June 20 – Britain announces that Soviet space scientist Anatoli Fedoseyev has been granted asylum. June 21 – Britain begins new negotiations for EEC membership in Luxembourg. June 22 – For the first time since the Vietnam War began, the U.S. Senate voted for a pullout of all troops, but only on the condition that North Vietnam and the Viet Cong release American prisoners of war. The vote, an amendment to the authorization of an extension of the draft, passed, 57 to 42, and was sent to the House of Representatives. The House rejected the amendment six days later by a vote of 176 for and 219 against. June 25 – Madagascar accuses the U.S. of being connected to the plot to oust the government; the U.S. recalls its ambassador. June 26 – In Paris, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit gained worldwide fame after stringing a 100 pounds (45 kg) steel cable between the two towers of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and then spent the next few hours walking back and forth across the wire without a safety net or a balancing pole, juggling balls and laying down, all 225 feet (69 m) above the ground. After Petit climbed down, Paris police took him to a nearby precinct headquarters for a check of his identity, then accompanied him to make sure that he dismantled his high-wire equipment, and released him without filing charges. [See? This is what happens when they cancel Ed Sullivan...] Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week: Leaving the chart: "Chick-A-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It)," Daddy Dewdrop (16 weeks) "Cry Baby," Janis Joplin (6 weeks) "The Drum," Bobby Sherman (8 weeks) "Here Comes the Sun," Richie Havens (14 weeks) "I've Found Someone of My Own," The Free Movement (5 weeks) "Love Her Madly," The Doors (11 weeks) "Never Can Say Goodbye," Jackson 5 (12 weeks) New on the chart: "Moonshadow," Cat Stevens (#30 US; #10 AC; #22 UK) "Beginnings," Chicago (#7 US; #1 AC) "Colour My World," Chicago (#7 US as double A-side w/ "Beginnings") "Smiling Faces Sometimes," The Undisputed Truth (#3 US; #34 AC; #2 R&B) "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart," Bee Gees (#1 US the weeks of Aug. 7 through 28, 1971; #4 AC) _______ Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki pages for the month or year. _______ I had no idea it was such a controversial film. My ex loved it...she'd always stop on it if it came up in channel surfing. 1966 is starting to sound like a bizarre parallel universe, isn't it? Pretty sure I've already used the "Are these guys still around?" gag with the DC5. Guess it's time to check the date on the carton or something... One of those odd things that I bought at some point to fill out the era, but it doesn't do much for me. Who in 1966 would that be? This is a good one, though the Yardbirds still aren't going as all-out psychedelic as "Eight Miles High" or "Rain". A pleasant oldies radio classic. Looks like it'll be blocked from the top spot two weeks in a row by a certain seasonal Lovin' Spoonful classic that will be coming out way next month... Now this one was actually a little overplayed for me well before I got all immersive retro. Yeah, those look like what they used. They probably did have the black and white vanes, but I didn't notice, the show still being in black and white.
I forgot what day it was until I was just now paying a bill! Happy 79th, Sir Paul! (That's Happy 24th for Chipped Tooth Paul; and Happy 29th for Hanging Out on the Farm with Linda and the Kids Paul!)
He kept the street acrobats off the street.... At the very top of his game. Chicago is still good. Maybe not great, but.... This is a very good one. Still First Phase Bee Gees, but fading a bit. I've never seen it, but I recall it being referenced in pop culture (such as in MAD) in the same way as I Am Curious, Yellow. A bit above my pay grade at the time, but I got the gist. I think somewhere along the line I got flung into the JJ-verse. Ouch. I just meant it in an abstract kind of way. I listened and heard some psychedelic breaks, and when I listened again it really reminded me of The Doors. They played it all the time on BCN back in the day. He just wants to lay low. Happy Birthday, Paul. "Host" Paul.
50th Anniversary Album Spotlight Sticky Fingers The Rolling Stones Released April 23, 1971 Chart debut: May 15, 1971 Chart peak: #1 (May 22 through June 12, 1971) #63 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2003) The album opens as it should, with its iconic lead single, "Brown Sugar" (charted May 1, 1971; #1 US the weeks of May 29 and June 5, 1971; #2 UK; #490 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time), recorded at Muscle Shoals in 1969, as shown in the film Gimme Shelter: This is followed up by the less notable, bluesy "Sway"...which was the B-side of the album's other noteworthy single, country-flavored ballad "Wild Horses" (charted June 19, 1971; #28 US; #334 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time), another track recorded at Muscle Shoals: "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" is a good rocker and the album's longest track at over seven minutes...largely due to a long, immersively psychedelic-style jam section that was recorded unintentionally and left on: The first side closes with the album's only cover, traditional spiritual blues song "You Gotta Move," credited here to Fred McDowell and Gary Davis based on earlier recordings they'd done in the '60s. This track was also recorded at Muscle Shoals. Side two also opens very strongly, with the album's most memorable rocker that was never going to be released as a single A-side, "Bitch": The rest of the album has a hard time living up to that...starting with "I Got the Blues," which Wiki describes as "a slow-paced, bluesy song featuring languid guitars with heavy blues and soul influences." On the dark, acoustic guitar-driven "Sister Morphine," Jagger and Richards share songwriting credit with Marianne Faithfull, who'd released her own version as a single B-side in 1969. The Stones go into full-on country rock mode for the album's penultimate track, "Dead Flowers": The album closes with "Moonlight Mile"... Overall, it's a classic Stones album. It's got a couple of stone-cold classic singles, a standout album track, a couple of other more memorable tracks, and the rest I could take or leave. _______ It's a striking, classic track, but kind of gruesome when it gets into him losing his eyes and teeth... This is actually a track from their 1969 debut album being reissued as a single with a new B-side from the 1970 second album. The version posted here was the full album version; the single version was much shorter. The version I bought years back from a compilation album is around a minute shorter than the album version...without comparing them, I suspect that it was all lopped off the end, which wasn't familiar to me. Really? This song is a gorgeous classic. I recall the ex telling me how it was very popular at weddings after it came out...including that of her eldest brother. Our selections this week feel very early '70s...lots of mellow with a dash of edgy soul. They still sound like they're on their pre-disco game to me. I don't think I ever watched it all the way through, but it was a dark, psychological drama, centering around a couple (Taylor and Burton) playing mind games with each other and their young guests. As in body snatchers or something?
The Stones are in the very prime of their life. As it should indeed. These guys seem to have had a few happy accidents. Rare is the album that I want to listen to straight through-- aside from a few greatest hits collection. Heh, I guess it is. I never thought of it that way. I always thought of it as a poetic fade away rather than a bloody dental extraction. Well, not one of my personal faves. Definitely very 70s. I probably would have guessed it for a couple of years later. They pretty much are, but this doesn't compare to stuff like "Massachusetts," or "Words," or "Holiday." I was thinking of the robot duplicates in Westworld. At which point it's very important to stay off the street.
_______ 55.5th-ish Anniversary Viewing _______ The Ed Sullivan Show Season 18, episode 8 Originally aired October 31, 1965 As not presented on The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show, according to Metacritic Liza Minnelli, "Who's Sorry Now": Comedian London Lee: The Harlem Globetrotters--IN COLOR! Other performances as listed on Metacritic: Barry McGuire sings "Child of Our Times" (with the Grass Roots) Harry Secombe and Roy Castle perform "If I Ruled the World" (from their Broadway musical "Pickwick") Budapest Children's Choir sing "Danny Boy." Tong-Il Han (child prodigy pianist) plays "Rachmaninoff Prelude." Harry Secombe (in addition to the "Pickwick" segment) does a comedy routine where he lip-synchs to an old record. Allan Sherman (comedian) - sings song parodies: "Shine On, Harvey Bloom," "Crazy Downtown" and "Drinking Man's Diet." Peter Gennaro and dance troupe - "When the Saints Go Marching In" production number. Footage of golfer Gary Player lifting weights. Audience bows: Abe Saperstein (founder of the Harlem Globetrotters); Federico Fellini and his wife Giulietta Masina. _______ Branded "The Richest Man in Boot Hill" Originally aired October 31, 1965 Out on the trail, Jason runs into his old friend from the Alaska episode, Rufus I. Pitkin (J. Pat O'Malley), who's having trouble with a wagon horse. It turns out that Pitkin won an undertaking business while gambling, and has a body he hasn't seen in the wagon. He guilts Jason into hitching his horse to the wagon, despite Jason's protests that it will break his steed's spirit as a saddle horse. We see a hand lift the coffin lid from within...I'd tell RJ to go to town, but this one's too easy. Once at the parlor in Cutback, the occupant, a renowned safecracker named Roy Barlow (Richard Bakalyan), slips out and meets with his accomplices, Fred and Marty Slater (Lee Van Cleef and Jack Lambert). Their plan is to lower Roy to the stage coach office where a just-arrived gold shipment is being held from their room right above it. To serve as a distraction, Fred picks a fight with Jason in the saloon, which turns into a general barfight during which Slater slips out. Back at the parlor, Jason and Pitkin discover the next phase of the plan...that the gold has been placed in one of the coffins, to be buried and dug up at a later time. Jason advises Rufus to go through with the burial, so Rufus rides the coffin up to Boot Hill, where the trio of conspirators put on a bereavement act. While Rufus says a few words, Jason pops out the back armed. Fred jumps him and a Boot Hill brawl ensues, Rufus helping out with a shovel. Jason lets Rufus take the trussed-up thieves into town and take full credit as the hero, happy to get out of town without further trouble. _______ 12 O'Clock High "Runway in the Dark" Originally aired November 1, 1965 The episode opens with Gallagher's crew engaging in an exercise to make a destination at night under cloud over on instruments only without being spotted. When they're doing the real thing in Norway, navigator "Chub" Willis (Jack Weston) makes an error because of an unanticipated light and they end up over a lit decoy runway, being fired at. They still manage to locate the actual runway and land. The resistance leader they're extracting, Arn Borg (Albert Paulsen), insists on bringing his young son, Christian (Pat Cardi), and with a German patrol attacking, Gallagher complies, though he smells a double-cross. Borg is carrying maps of German installations in the lining of his coat, but they don't include the locations, and Gallagher insists on keeping Borg in custody because of how the pickup went wrong. Borg TV Fus a guard and slips out, leaving Christian behind. Gallagher presses the boy for info about his father's whereabouts or the installations. The boy is able to help in the latter area, but that means they have to get clearance to take him on an recon mission to find them. As they're about to go, Borg pops up and agrees to lead them to the installations in order to keep is son out of danger. They find and bomb the first target, where intel later indicates the Germans were building a new type of rocket. Borg plans to be dropped off in Norway after leading them to the other target, but is leaving his son safely in England. This one was filled by odd bits of drama largely concerning the son's reaction to his father's actions and being persuaded to help, but also involving Chub being distracted by issues with an unseen girlfriend, which doesn't really go anywhere. By the coda, he seems to have started developing a relationship with Cynthia Finlay (Dinah Anne Rogers), the roommate of Gallagher's love interest of the week, Lt. Fay Vendry (Jill Haworth), both of whom are involved in the groundside end of the operation, and with whom Christian stays. _______ Gilligan's Island "Castaways Pictures Presents" Originally aired November 4, 1965 Gilligan and the Skipper inspect the wreck with makeshift diving equipment, including airlines constructed of bamboo segments...that doesn't seem terribly practical. The equipment they find in the crates is for silent-era movies. They decide that the best way to use it to get a message to civilization is to enact the aftermath of the shipwreck and survival on the island. Why didn't they just make signs like they did for the Mars probe? Likewise, if they can send the film to shore on a raft, why not a message as well? The Professor acts more anal than usual in this one which includes Bigwords/Hank McCoy-style vocabulary and not wanting to kiss Ginger for sanitary reasons. The one truly vital scene in the film, Skipper pointing out the location of the island on a blackboard, becomes a mess from too much impromptu input. The castaways screen the film to find that it suffered a variety of technical difficulties, mostly Gilligan's fault, though some of them are pretty arty, helping to explain the award. _______ The Wild Wild West "The Night of the Dancing Death" Originally aired November 5, 1965 The episode opens with Jim inspecting security for the arrival of Albanian princess Gina Carlotti with Ambassador Xavier Perkins (Booth Colman). Artie arrives on a coach with a woman posing as the princess (Lynn Carey), but the ambassador promptly identifies her as an impostor, upon which she finds herself the victim of a ride-by knifing from her coach. Artie figures that the switch must have been made before he boarded the princess's ship near New Orleans. Jim proceeds to the Albanian Embassy to see the princess's sister, Prince Gio ([Peter] Mark Richman), who's practicing martial arts...Jim quickly assesing him as the best practitioner he's seen. When the coach arrived, Jim had been introduced to the impostor princess's maid-in-waiting, Marianna (Ilze Taurins), and noticed an unusual C-shaped brand on her wrist; he notices same mark on the prince's secretary, Nola (Françoise Ruggieri), who has a newfangled "writing machine" (typewriter), and arranges a date to speak with him urgently. Baddies bearing the same brand wire the doorknob of her hotel room while he's insdie...one of them played by Arthur Batanides. Jim guesses that Nola's been ordered to stall him and, somehow, that the door has been rigged to blow, so he triggers it from afar and the man who isn't Arthur Batanides is killed. Nola tells him that she's working for a criminal organization called the Camorra and points him to a ranch where they meet. He gets there to spy on hood-wearing members conducting a swearing-in ceremony from a window, and confronts Marianna outside. She sounds an alarm and he's overpowered by several members and brought before their leader...the prince, who has him staked out on the ground as target practice for the neophytes, who are supposed to try to outline his body with spears thrown from horseback. Jim breaks a bottle of poisoned wine meant as a merciful suicide option to cut his ropes, and commandeers Marianna's horse while she's on it. After effecting escape with the help of Artie's "crying gas" smoke bomb, he takes her to the train, where she tries to use her wiles to recruit Jim to her cause, which aims to take America's wealth back to the homeland. Jim shows up at the scheduled embassy ball, hosted by the prince; and as with his previous visit, the Gio emphasizes that they're on Albanian soil. Artie arrives posing as the Grand Elector of Saxony, bluffing his way in, and provides a diversion for Jim to slip out unseen by picking a nationalistic fight with another VIP guest, in which the prince intervenes. Jim snoops his way down to a cellar where he finds the real princess (an uncredited Lesley Brander) in a hidden cell. She explains that her brother is holding her because she has orders from their father to disband the Camorra, and he doesn't want to kill her to avoid displeasing the old man. Jim is caught before he can free her and taken to the "arena" where the Prince practices his fighting. The hole in floor where vanguished opponents are thrown is now netless and leads to the ballroom below. The prince squares off with shirtless Jim and, after a lot of menacing setup, Jim kicks the prince into the hole with anticlimactic promptness, where His HIghness falls to his death. The train coda has Artie trying to woo Marianna while she's busy learning to use the writing machine. _______ Hogan's Heroes "Movies Are Your Best Escape" Originally aired November 5, 1965 A pair of downed British pilots, Lieutenants Ritchie and Donner (John Crawford and William Christopher, both sporting accents), are brought in via the tunnel just as a General von Kaplow (Henry Corden sporting an eyepatch) is calling on Klink. Schultz is in full "I know NOTH-INK!" mode here. Hogan drops in Klink's office and invites the general to a dinner prepared by the prisoners. While serving as waiter, Newkirk slips under the table to get at the general's briefcase, causing some flirtatious misunderstanding between the general and Helga. LeBeau photographs the documents in the kitchen while Klink, at Hogan's request, unknowingly proivdes a distraction with his terrible violin playing. The documents are slipped back into the briefcase during the performance. Later Hogan inspects the film to find the battle plans of the 4th Army Group. Hogan's ruse for getting the film out involves convincing the Germans through Schultz (who's fully being played here, not at all in the know) that the Allies will be liberating Stalag 13 soon. (Has D-Day even happened yet? It was only 1942 in the first episode.) Kinch fakes a German broadcast to support this, with Newkirk doing Hitler giving a speech. Then the pilots are pressed into service as a German film crew passing through wanting to capture archival footage of Stalag 13. Their exit with the film smuggled in their fake camera is delayed by Klink--motivated to have evidence of the good conditions in his camp--wanting more footage, which gives the general time to return from a trip to Berlin and inform Klink that things are hunky dory there. Klink has the fake film crew driven out by Schultz. DIS-missed! _______ Get Smart "The Day Smart Turned Chicken" Originally aired November 6, 1965 Max has a zipper in his apartment door to serve as a not-so-secure peephole. A man dressed as a cowboy (Simon Oakland) comes knocking with a knife in his back, warning him of an attempt to poison an ambassador. Max uses a phone concealed in a plant right next to his actual phone to call the Chief; when he goes back to his bedroom, the Cowboy is gone...having already had a couple of comically timed fake passings away. The Chief comes over and doesn't believe Max, thinking that he's under too much stress from recent cases. We get a "Sorry about that, Chief" here...I don't think it had come up yet. After the Chief leaves, Max goes to bed and the Cowboy's there again, still alive and talking, offering more details. A Dr. Fish (Howard Caine, sporting neither mustache nor German accent) shows up at Max's door, seemingly by accident, and Max brings him in, upon which the docotr declares that the Cowboy is dead. When Max needs to produce the doctor for the Chief, he's not at the neighbor's whom he was supposed to be making a call on. The cowboy and Dr. Fish meet up in a basement room where Max's call to the embassy is intercepted by another KAOS agent, and we learn what their goal is. Max goes to the embassy in a chicken costume, having been led to believe that they were having a costume ball. Oakland's character is attending, now out of costume, and makes a point of drinking the punch that Max was told would be poisoned. The next day in court, KAOS attorney Blake (Phillip Pine) produces the ambassador (George J. Lewis) and Max's neighbor, Mrs. Dawson (Iris Adrian), as witnesses against his credibility. I'm pretty sure that his isn't a valid legal tactic...the words "objection, Your Honor, the witness is not on trial" come to mind. On the witness stand for Max, the Chief reluctantly divulges his first name--Thaddeus--and remains tight-lipped when questioned about Max's competency. Max finally brings Oakland's character to the stand and points out inconsistencies in his role in the scheme, upon which the KAOS agent shows his hand way too easily, pulling a gun and jumping out the window. His announced intention was to land in the back of a KAOS truck carrying a load of mattresses...which gives us what I'm also pretty sure is our first "missed it by that much". _______ An additional note about the famous cover, which has a substantial section dedicated to it on the album's Wiki page: in original release, the functioning zipper was found to be damaging the record inside when the albums were stacked together. I have three words for you: Beatles, Beatles, Beatles. I assumed from age or accident, but it's not a pleasant evocation. I've gotta disagree with at least one of those...I had to put "Holiday" on to remember how it goes. Definitely not the radio classic that "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" is.
And I've never heard of it. Sounds like it was influenced by songs like Ruby Tuesday and other songs in that vein.
Update: I believe I mentioned my plan to cut back to three days a week as of my birthday. HR didn't go for that. Apparently, the work-life balance concept has suffered in the wake of the pandemic-- I'm not complaining, since they've been very generous to both employees and patients despite the hits the company has taken. So I mused about various other options and decided to just damn the torpedoes and flat-out retire. As of Independence Day, appropriately enough, I shall be a gentleman of leisure (pronounced with a long 'e'). You'd think the show was about seven hours long. A recurring character! O'Malley must have been fun to work with. Yeah, that's a gimme. They decided to up the ante-- no more relatives, now it's the actual dead soldiers. Mission: Easy As Pie. Interesting that there was no attempt to involve the law. There was a high risk of them being implicated in the theft. That would have been a much better title. Why would a guy trying to save his kid make him smell a double cross? I think he's prejudiced against him because of his name. Why? How did he know? I think this guy has conflicting emotions about his kid. I think the writers are losing it. This one sounds like another chaotic mess. Bamboo is an all-purpose renewable resource, and very eco-friendly. The isolation has clearly driven them quite mad at this point. He's afraid this plan will actually work. I wonder if they filmed enough of the silent footage to make an actual movie. That would be pretty cool. From their stash of generic titles, evidently. Yeowch. The Reverend Snow, among many others. He excelled at playing evil. Y'know, if you're going to have a secret cabal, at least put the brand on your butt or something. Now why didn't Artie think of that? Imagine my surprise. How Jim made it even this far without getting PTSD is pretty amazing. Ah, right, he only invents things that hurt people. Jim defeats outsourcing! "Get in there, you. We're running out of time." "So whattaya say?" "asdf jkl semi" "???" The drugs finally kicked in. It took longer than expected because of his BMI. Two film plots in one week. Must be a Rolling Stones fan. Vincenzo! This is almost like a Hitchcock pastiche. I was under the impression that KAOS was a renegade international organization of evil, but maybe it's just a political party. "We're not trying to conquer the world, we just want to ensure free and fair elections." Where's Perry when we really need him? Poor Max. Two anitclimactic dives in one week. I bet those damaged albums are worth a pretty penny now. Actually, I'm not familiar enough with them to know. There are certainly several S&G albums I can listen to straight through, and maybe a handful of others. The first Pretenders album and Crimes of Passion spring to mind. Makes me wonder what he intended. Very interesting. It's one of my favorites and I remember it vividly. In fact, it's one of my prime time-travel songs.