Subj : Re: Musical memories
To   : JOE MACKEY
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Sat Sep 18 2021 22:06:00

Joe,

 JM>   I really like Jolson.  He has a bad rep now (blackface and all that)
 JM> but he was a major player in the day.

  There is a scene from "Silver Streak", where Grover T. Muldoon (Richard
Pryor) is putting brown shoe polish on George Caldwell (Gene Wilder) to 
make him look like a black man, so they can get him on the train (George
Caldwell is falsely wanted for murder).

  In the exchange, Muldoon said "Are you afraid it won't come off??"...and 
Caldwell replied "This is crazy!! It'll never work!!". To which, Muldoon
has him look in the mirror, and said "Al Jolson made a million bucks looking 
like that!!".

  As they were heading toward the police checkpoint (Caldwell was told the 
cops were from Travelers Aid <G>), Caldwell says "I don't think we'll make 
it past the cops", and Muldoon replies "We'll make it past the cops. I just 
hope we don't see no Muslims". :P Bear in mind this was filmed in the mid 
1970's.

 JM>   Of course you know the story of how Eskimo's judge a cold night?
 JM>   A regular cold night is a one dog night.  A colder night is a two dog
 JM> night.  A really cold night is a three dog night.

  Plus, they get Polaroids if they sit on the ice too long. <G>

 JM>   I have a lot of old LP's in the closet.
 JM>   For some years I had no record player.

  I have several books from the late Clive Cussler (my late Mom loved his
books, and we went to several of their society conventions before she died
just over 2 years ago)...and I also have a large amount of vinyl LP records.
Unfortunately, I don't have the means to ship them (financially or 
otherwise), and am afraid to put an ad out...as some scumbag might show up
and kill me, then ransack the place.

 JM> fond of the '20s, '30s and '40s.

  I listen to classical music (Brahams, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, 
Rachmaninoff, Tchaikowsky, etc.), as well as Big Band and Swing. Years
ago at work, an employee heard me listening to the OLD music, and he
asked me if I was trying to get old before my time. I replied "You're
d@mn right I am!!". My late wife lamented with the "music" (I use the 
term loosely) they have nowadays, that "If that's music, we're doomed".

Daryl

.... What you think of me is none of my business.
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