Showing posts with label "The Wizard of Oz". Show all posts
Showing posts with label "The Wizard of Oz". Show all posts

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Happy Birthday, Horace Vandergelder!

"All the troubles of man come from his not knowing how to sit still."
-Blaise Pascal, French philosopher (1623-1662)


Happy Birthday, Horace Vandergelder!
(This is Horace's grandfather, Grand Sire Ritzy!)
I don't mean David Burns, Eddie Bracken, Cab Callaway,Walter Matthau...etc.
I mean our baby, Horace Vandergelder Skipper-Sherman!
Danny and I had for about 11 years, a Yorkie named Chip. He was devoted to both of us and when we lost him six years ago, we were devastated.
When the holidays rolled around again, I said I wanted to get another Yorkie.
We were watching the CBS news one night when they did a story about getting the breed you were seeking without going through a pet store. Most dogs that end up in pet stores come through puppy mills. They suggested going to the American Kennel Association and putting in the breed you were seeking and a zip code and within a certain radius, all breeders registered with the American Kennel Association would show up. We tried it and found a breeder near the Delaware water gap. We made plans to meet with her on Saturday afternoon. Danny informed me that this was only the first breeder we would be seeing and that we did not need to make up our mind that day.
So on Saturday, we went to this farm and after she interviewed us as fit parents, she took us into this mobile home and let the dogs out! Interestingly enough, Danny and I both gravitated to Horace. There is an old saying that you don't choose pets; that they choose you. Whatever happened, we had our minds made up! Then she said before you get too attached to any of these dogs, please let me inform you that there are different prices based on their age, size, and lineage.
Of course, we had chosen the most expensive dog there!
This is a picture of Horace's father, Champion Edgewood's Sky High Blue, called 'Jag'.
Horace's mothers name was Poco in the Sky.Horace is descended from Champions.


Horace is noted as 'Boinb May 28,05' off to the left of the chart.(Seen below)






Our minds were made up! We had lots of paper work to fill out plus an agreement that our vet would see him within 72 hours to make sure there were no health issues and that he would be neutered.
He was at this point a little under 7 months old. We named him Horace Vandergelder,brought him home(this is a pic of Harace the day we brought him home), put him in his crate, and, unfortunately, due to a prior engagement, went out. When we came back, he was running around the house! How did he get out of his crate? This happened a few times until I caught him in the act! He would climb over the top. We learned very early on that Horace has confinement issues. Chip used to love to travel with us. Never an issue! But Horace WILL NOT go in a carrier. After a trip to Florida with him in which he barked the whole trip, going and returning, I said NEVER AGAIN!
Luckily for us, we have a tenant and therefore we are able to leave him at home.
One other thing that we have learned about Horace is that he loves to watch TV...IF animals are involved. He loves the animal planet, all commercials that feature animals, and his favorite movie, as mine was growing up, is THE WIZARD OF OZ.The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American children's musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed primarily by Victor Fleming. Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, but there were uncredited contributions by others. The lyrics for the songs were written by E.Y. Harburg, the music by Harold Arlen. Incidental music, based largely on the songs, was by Herbert Stothart, with borowings from classical composers.Based on the 1900 fairytale novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum,the film stars Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, and Frank Morgan, with Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, Charles Grapewin, Clara Blandick and the Singer Midgets as the Munchkins.
He watches, checks his food bowl, and brings a "snack" in to watch it in front of the TV. Take a look: WARNING: You may want to turn down your volume: The strange thing is that it includes animated animals as well!

Here are some of Horace's favorites!


Here he is watching Max in How The Grinch Stole Christmas!


And Snoopy!


And BABE:Babe is a 1995 Australian-American film directed by Chris Noonan. It is an adaptation of the 1983 novel The Sheep-Pig, also known as Babe: The Gallant Pig in the United States, by Dick King-Smith and tells the story of a pig who wants to be a sheepdog. The main animal characters are played by a combination of real and animatronic pigs and Border Collies.Babe was filmed in Robertson, New South Wales, Australia.The talking-animal visual effects were done by Rhythm & Hues Studios. Although the setting and style of the film are distinctly British/Australasian pastoral, many of the human speaking parts were overdubbed from Australian to American accents for popular acceptance in the American film market.



LASSIE COME HOME:Lassie Come Home is a 1943 MGM film starring Roddy McDowall and canine actor, Pal, in a story about the profound bond between Yorkshire boy Joe Carraclough and his rough collie, Lassie.The film was directed by Fred M. Wilcox from a screenplay by Hugo Butler based upon the 1940 novel Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight. The film was the first in a series of seven MGM films starring "Lassie."
The original film saw a sequel, Son of Lassie in 1945 with five other films following at intervals through the 1940s. A British remake of the 1943 movie was released in 2005 as Lassie to moderate success. The original film and its sequels continue to air on television and have been released to VHS and DVD.



The Muppets are a group of puppet characters created by Jim Henson starting in 1954–55. Individually, a Muppet is made by Jim Henson or his company's workshop. Although the term is often used to refer to any puppet that resembles the distinctive style of The Muppet Show, the term is both an informal name and legal trademark linked to the characters created by Henson.

RUDOLPH:Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer is a fictional reindeer with a glowing red nose.
He is popularly known as "Santa's 9th Reindeer" and, when depicted, is the lead reindeer pulling Santa's sleigh on Christmas Eve. The luminosity of his nose is so great that it illuminates the team's path through inclement winter weather.Rudolph first appeared in a 1939 booklet written by Robert L. May and published by Montgomery Ward.The story is owned by The Rudolph Company, L.P. and has been adapted in numerous forms including a popular song, a television special, and a feature film. Character Arts, LLC manages the licensing for the Rudolph Company, L.P. Although the story and song are not public domain, Rudolph has become a figure of Christmas folklore.
Robert L. May created Rudolph in 1939 as an assignment for Montgomery Ward. The retailer had been buying and giving away coloring books for Christmas every year and it was decided that creating their own book would save money. May considered naming the reindeer "Rollo" and "Reginald" before deciding upon using the name "Rudolph".In its first year of publication, 2.4 million copies of Rudolph's story were distributed by Montgomery Ward. The story is written as a poem in the meter of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas". "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" is loved by millions and still selling copies. Publication and reprint rights for the book "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" are controlled by Pearson Plc.

THE Westminster Dog Show:In 1877, New York was well on its way to becoming the world's greatest city. This was the year that a group of sporting gentlemen decided that this would be a good time to hold a dog show in Manhattan. It didn't take long before the Westminster Kennel Club, following the lead of its home town, would be on its way to becoming the world's greatest dog show.

We love our baby and we're looking forward to the next six years!


The Yorkshire terrier is a small dog breed of terrier type, developed in the 19th century in the historical area of Yorkshire, England to catch rats in clothing mills. The defining features of the breed are its small size, less than 3.2 kilograms (7.1 lb), and its silky blue and tan coat. The breed is nicknamed Yorkie and is placed in the Toy Terrier section of the Terrier Group by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale and in the Toy Group or Companion Group by other kennel clubs, although all agree that the breed is a terrier. A popular companion dog, the Yorkshire terrier has also been part of the development of other breeds, such as the Australian Silky Terrier.
Here is Horace sleeping with his favorite toy:



At our back gate:



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Saturday, May 14, 2011

Harold Arlen & Billy Barnes revisited...with a little Streisand just for fun!

Happy Saturday! If you follow my blog, you know that yesterday there were issues with the official blog site. In the process, my blog from Thursday is destroyed. Only a very small portion remains. I spent five hours creating that blog! And the response to that blog was incredible. It was about the Billy Barnes tribute that took place at The Pantages Theatre Monday night in Los Angeles and the efforts of Fred Barton and Scott Thompson to bring ONE FOR MY BABY to Broadway. Thank you for your continued support!
With grateful XOXOXs!
Richard Skipper 845-365-0720 What do we Harold Arlen, Billy Barnes, and myself have in common? We are are all Aquarians!


Harold Arlen was a life-long camera buff. He shot this 16mm footage during the portrait sittings for the film and visits to the set.

FEATURES:
Judy Garland
Ray Bolger Jack Haley
Bert Lahr
Margaret HamiltonHAROLD ARLEN
(Born Hyman Arluck)
February 15, 1905 - April 23, 1986

His music is everywhere! You have probably heard, and maybe even hummed, a Harold Arlen song today and didn't even know it! Though he is most noted for composing the songs for the film "The Wizard of Oz," particularly Over the Rainbow,
which was recently named the Number One Song of the Century,
he has written over 400 songs including favorites like: It's Only A Paper Moon, Stormy Weather,
I've Got the World on A Stringhttp://www.michaelbuble.com - Michael Bublé - "I've Got The World On A String" Live at Madison Square Garden, and Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive. With this blog, I invite you to learn a little bit more about Harold Arlen, one of the Great Twentieth Century Composers, and his music. At the official Harold Arlen website, www.HaroldArlen.com, you can discover how Harold developed his musical career, browse through his catalogue of compositions, and listen to several samples of his works. Take a look at his life in pictures by visiting their on-line photo album. Find out where you can see and hear Harold Arlen's works performed in "What's New" and then shop for your favorite Harold Arlen tunes from the comfort of your own home. For the media, we have provided an avenue for licensing and easy access to press releases and updates on various projects.
With over 400 songs to his credit, it is impossible to mention every song and show ever written by Harold Arlen in this blog.There is a wonderful biography of Harold Arlen called Rhythm, Rainbows and Blues by Edward Jablonski and is a great read.Portions of this blog are adapted from that book. On February 15, 1905, Samuel and Celia Arluck gave birth to twin boys; one weighing seven pounds and the other, a mere four pounds. The larger of the two sadly died the following day. The Arlucks quickly changed their surviving son's name to "Hyman," after his twin that passed. Seven years later, on November 11, 1911, the Arlucks had their second and last son, Julius. The family of four resided in a modest two-family home in Buffalo, New York.Father of the household, Samuel Arluck, was a celebrated cantor in Buffalo's rapidly growing Jewish community. Around the time when Julius was born, Samuel Arluck took a position as cantor of the Pine Street synagogue where he directed the choir. It was here that Hyman first started singing and developing his musical talents.Hyman loved to sing, but was extremely shy. In hope that her eldest son would become a music teacher, Celia introduced a piano into the Arluck home. Hyman began studying around the age of nine and quickly outgrew the neighborhood piano teacher. He therefore went on to study with the leading local teacher, who was also a conductor, organist and composer.Hyman, like most nine and ten year-old piano students, did not like to practice. Though he found the classical pieces that he studied beautiful, he was much more interested in modern music. Hyman was twelve years old when he played his first popular composition, Indianola. Something about the ragtime syncopation and unconventional harmonies stirred and captured his imagination. He began to collect jazz records, which sounded strange coming from the Victrola accustomed to playing what his father liked - traditionally Hebraic melodies and Italian opera. Desperate to hear more modern music, whenever a new jazz band came to Buffalo, Hyman Arluck managed to see them perform. Today is my friend Audrey Lavine's birthday. In honor of her birthday, here she is singing a Harold Arlen classic: Audrey is one of my favorite singers! But don't take my word for it:
2001 Bistro Award, Outstanding Vocalist for "Dancing"
2001 MAC Award, Female Vocalist for "This is No Dream"
2002 Nightlife Awards Finalist, Outstanding Cabaret Female Vocalist for "Simply Lavine"
2003 MAC Nominee, Female Vocalist for "Simply Lavine"
2003 MAC Nominee, Recording of the Year - Female Vocalist for "At Home With Arlen"
2004 MAC Nominee, Female Vocalist for "Old Postcards"
2004 MAC Nominee and 2003 Nightlife Awards Finalist,
Vocal Duo for Goin' Home: Songs of the South (with Scott Coulter)(At home with Harold Arlen is available at Amazon)

"Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good)" is a song composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics by Ted Koehler, it was written for their last show at the Cotton Club Parade, in 1934.

In the 1940s, he teamed up with lyricist Johnny Mercer, and continued to write hit songs like "Blues in the Night", "That Old Black Magic," "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive," "Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home" and "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)".

"As Long as I Live" composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics by Ted Koehler, it was written for their last show at the Cotton Club Parade, in 1934. It was introduced by Avon Long and Lena Horne.

Thank you Harold Arlen for the gifts you have given us!

Revisiting Billy BarnesBilly Barnes (born January 27, 1927) is a composer and lyricist from Los Angeles, California. His hit songs include "(Have I Stayed) Too Long at the Fair" recorded by Barbra Streisand (in her album "Color Me Barbra"), and "Something Cool", recorded by jazz vocalist June Christy. Barnes is best known for his theatrical revues, including The Billy Barnes Revue, Billy Barnes' People, Billy Barnes' Party, Billy Barnes' L.A.,and Billy Barnes' Hollywood. Other productions with Barnes' songs include Movie Star, and Blame It on the Movies (1988).An assertive composer and skillful pianist, Barnes is affectionately known as the "Revue Master of Hollywood." (Barry Williams hosted a musical tribute last Monday night in Los Angeles at The Pantages Theatre for The Actors' Fund).
Barnes started writing musical comedy sketches while still in high school, and continued while at UCLA. He started collaborating in college with Bob Rodgers, and their first professional revue, a Cabaret Concert Show, was staged in 1956 in Los Angeles. His revues were the springboard for many talented comics and singers, including Bert Convy, Ken Berry, Jo Anne Worley, Jackie Joseph, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Donald Ross, Dick Patterson, Dave Ketchum and Barnes' former wife, Joyce Jameson.On television he wrote special material and original musical production numbers for Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, The Danny Kaye Show,The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, Cher and The Carol Burnett Show. He wrote opening production numbers for several Academy Awards telecasts. He has composed comedic and topical songs for many of show business's greatest personalities including Lucille Ball, Bette Davis and Angela Lansbury. He wrote the songs for the 1976 television musical adaptation of Pinocchio starring Sandy Duncan in the title role, Danny Kaye as Mister Geppetto and Flip Wilson as the Fox.Barnes had a recurring acting role on Mad About You in the 1990s as "Mr. Edlin", the musical director and pianist of a community theatre.Barnes received The Los Angeles Theatre Alliance Governor's Award for his lifetime achievement in the theatre. He resides in the Hollywood Hills above Los Angeles.Barbra in 2006 - an awesome rendition of this song - maybe a lot more meaningful this time in her career.
She originally sang it in Color Me Barbra which is the title of the seventh studio album by Barbra Sreleased on Columbia Records in 1966. It reached #3 in the US albums charts and was certified GOLD by the RIAA. It was also the title of Streisand's second CBS TV special on March 30, 1966
and the first in color when it was still a novelty for TV, hence the title.
Here is another number from that Special (not by Billy Barnes)In one of her most powerful vocals, Barbra ends her 2nd television special singing about new love and new beginnings.
The beginning clip of Barbra's 2006 concert including the first song, Starting Here, Starting Now.
"Yesterdays" is a 1933 song composed by Jerome Kern, with a lyric by Otto Harbach.
It was written for the show Roberta (1933), where it was introduced by Irene Dunne.

Barbra Streisand performed the song in her TV special "Color Me Barbra" and included a recording on her album Color Me Barbra (1966).
Marianne Faithfull recorded it on her 1987 album Strange Weather.


Barbra Streisand And Ray Charles, Live - November,03,1973! Incredible voices! Wonderful!Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), better known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records.He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums.While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company.Frank Sinatra called Charles “the only true genius in show business.”

Barbra Joan Streisand (pronounced /ˈstraɪsænd/; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards,eight Grammy Awards,four Emmy Awards,a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award,a Peabody Award,and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award.She is one of the most commercially and critically successful entertainers in modern entertainment history, with more than 71.5 million albums shipped in the United States and 140 million albums sold worldwide.She is the best-selling female artist on the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) Top Selling Artists list, the only female recording artist in the top ten, and the only artist outside of the rock and roll genre.Along with Frank Sinatra, Cher, and Shirley Jones, she shares the distinction of being awarded an acting Oscar and also recording a number-one single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.Streisand holds the record for the most top ten albums of any female recording artist - a total of 31 since 1963.Streisand has the widest span (46 years) between first and latest top ten albums of any female recording artist. With her 2009 album, Love Is the Answer, she became one of the only artists to achieve number-one albums in five consecutive decades.She has released 51 Gold albums, 30 Platinum albums, and 13 Multi-Platinum albums in the United States."Funny Girl to Funny Lady" Tv special, 1975: "I Like Him/It's Only A Paper Moon". Duet with James Caan.
Barbara Joan Streisand was born on April 24, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York, to a Jewish family, the daughter of Emmanuel and Diana (née Rosen) Streisand. She is the second of two children fathered by Emmanuel (the elder child is Sheldon), who was a respected high school teacher. Fifteen months after Streisand's birth, Emmanuel died of a cerebral hemorrhage and the family went into near-poverty.She attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn and joined the Freshman Chorus and Choral Club. Diana Rosen Streisand remarried Louis Kind in 1949 and gave Streisand a half-sister, the singer Roslyn Kind. (Kind "is 9 years younger" than Barbra)
Barbara Streisand became a nightclub singer while in her teens. She wanted to be an actress and appeared in summer stock and in a number of Off-Off-Broadway productions, including Driftwood (1959), with then-unknown Joan Rivers. (In her autobiography, Rivers wrote that she played a lesbian with a crush on Streisand's character, but this was later denied by the play's author.) Driftwood ran for only six weeks.When her boyfriend, Barry Dennen, helped her create a club act—first performed at The Lion, a popular gay nightclub in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in 1960—she achieved success as a singer. While singing at The Lion for several weeks, she changed her name from Barbara to Barbra.One early appearance outside of New York City was at Enrico Banducci’s hungry i nightclub in San Francisco. In 1961, Streisand appeared at the Town and Country nightclub in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, but her appearance was cut short; the club owner did not appreciate her singing style.Streisand appeared at Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit in 1961.(Q&A Session at the Vienna concert of Barbra Streisand, June 22nd 2007.)Streisand's first television appearance was on The Tonight Show, then hosted by Jack Paar, in 1961, singing Harold Arlen's "A Sleepin' Bee".
Orson Bean, who substituted for Paar that night, had seen the singer perform at a gay bar and booked her for the telecast (Her older brother Sheldon paid NBC for a kinescope film so she could use it in 1961 to promote herself. Decades later the film was preserved through digitizing and is available for viewing on a website).Jack Harold Paar (May 1, 1918 – January 27, 2004) was an American radio and television comedian and talk show host, best known for his stint as host of The Tonight Show from 1957 to 1962. Time magazine's obituary noted that: "His fans would remember him as the fellow who split talk show history into two eras: Before Paar and Below Paar."
Streisand became a semi-regular on PM East/PM West, a talk/variety series hosted by Mike Wallace, in late 1961.
Westinghouse Broadcasting, which aired PM East/PM West in a select few cities (Boston, New York, Baltimore, Washington, DC, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago and San Francisco), has since wiped all the videotapes because of the cost of videotape at the time.Audio segments from some episodes are part of the compilation CD Just for the Record, which went platinum in 1991. The singer said on 60 Minutes in 1991 that 30 years earlier Mike Wallace had been "mean" to her on PM East/PM West.He countered that she had been "self-absorbed." 60 Minutes included the audio of Streisand saying to him in 1961, "I like the fact that you are provoking. But don't provoke me."
In 1962, after several appearances on PM East/PM West, Streisand first appeared on Broadway, in the small but star-making role of Miss Marmelstein in the musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale. Her first album, The Barbra Streisand Album, won two Grammy Awards in 1963. The Barbra Streisand Album is the debut album by Barbra Streisand, released in 1963 on Columbia Records, catalogue CL 2007 in mono and CS 8807 in stereo. It peaked at #8 on the Billboard pop albums chart, and has been certified a gold album.
Following her success in I Can Get It for You Wholesale, Streisand made several appearances on The Tonight Show in 1962. Topics covered in her interviews with host Johnny Carson included the empire-waisted dresses that she bought wholesale, to her "crazy" reputation at Erasmus Hall High School.It was at about this time that Streisand entered into a long and successful professional relationship with Lee Solters and Sheldon Roskin as her publicists with the firm Solters/Roskin (later Solters/Roskin/Friedman).
Streisand returned to Broadway in 1964 with an acclaimed performance as entertainer Fanny Brice in Funny Girl at the Winter Garden Theatre.
The show introduced two of her signature songs, "People" and "Don't Rain on My Parade." Because of the play's overnight success she appeared on the cover of Time. In 1966, she repeated her success with Funny Girl in London's West End at the Prince of Wales Theatre.
From 1965 to 1967 she appeared in her first four solo television specials.
Streisand has recorded 35 studio albums, almost all with Columbia Records. Her early works in the 1960s (her debut The Barbra Streisand Album.
Initially, Columbia label president Goddard Lieberson resisted signing Streisand to a contract, finding her style too close to the cabaret singers he disliked and too far from the understated approach of Jo Stafford or Rosemary Clooney(Rosie singing one of my favorite Christmas songs.), having recorded for the label in the 1950s.
After exposure to a television interview of Streisand by Mike Wallace on PM East/PM West and pressure from associates, Lieberson relented and agreed to sign her.
In Just For the Record..., Streisand indicated that The Second Barbra Streisand Album, The Third Album, My Name Is Barbra, etc.) are considered classic renditions of theater and cabaret standards, including her slow version of the normally uptempo Happy Days Are Here Again. My Name Is Barbra is the first of two studio album tie-ins to Barbra Streisand's Emmy Award-winning CBS debut My Name Is Barbra television special, which aired on 28 April 1965, directed and choreographed by Joe Layton. Barbra's brother shot the front cover photograph when she was five.
She performed this in a duet with Judy Garland on The Judy Garland Show. Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand sing "Get Happy" and "Happy Days Are Here Again" in a counterpoint duet. This performance is from episode 9 of the Judy Garland Show, broadcast on October 6, 1963. It is available in a number of DVD "Judy Garland Show" collections which seem to go in and out of print. U.S. viewers can probably buy or rent one of these DVDs online; worldwide viewers are probably out of luck.
Garland referred to her on the air as one of the last great belters. They also sang There's No Business Like Show Business with Ethel Merman joining them.(http://barbra-archives.com/tv/60s/garland_show_streisand.html)All you have to do today is bask in the LOVE and talent that surrounds you!
(Buy Rhythm, Rainbows and Blues by Edward Jablonski at Amazon)
(Thanks to Wikipedia as my main source for information)

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