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Warning!
Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 11:22 am
by DoghouseRiley
Do not click on this link!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPStMNs73Wo
You won't be able to get the tune out of your head.
Re: Warning!
Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 5:24 pm
by Ron Rich
"Doghouse",
I won't --thanks for the warning---NOW, understand (how you got) your name ! Ron Rich
Re: Warning!
Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 6:35 pm
by DoghouseRiley
Close, but no cigar.
The name, I took many years ago from the opening scene in the film "The Big Sleep" where Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) meets Carmen Sternwood (Martha Vickers) for the first time.
Anyway, my video has had 29 hits in less than 24 hours so some have found it hard to resist.
Re: Warning!
Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 2:10 am
by Ron Rich
So far--I have resisted--is this something you did--or "found" ? Ron Rich
Re: Warning!
Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 9:37 am
by DoghouseRiley
Nothing sinister,
It was a tune my wife heard playing in the background on an episode of an American TV detective programme series a couple of weeks ago.
She could only remember a couple of words from the song, but I worked out the title from that. She insisted I try to get the single for one of the jukeboxes. I fortunately found it on a "double A side" on eBay in Germany and it cost me nine quid! But she's happy.
It's up to 33 hits now. So someone must like it.
Re: Warning!
Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 5:11 pm
by Ron Rich
Any idea as to what a "quid" is in USD ? Ron Rich
Re: Warning!
Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 5:58 pm
by DoghouseRiley
I dunno!
"You colonials!"
I know a "buck" is a dollar.
A "quid" is a pound.
Re: Warning!
Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 6:15 pm
by Ron Rich
OK -- so what's a "pound" worth in "bucks"--and BTW--did the word "pound" indicate a pound of silver, in the "good old daze"? ? (still resisting !)
Ron Rich
Re: Warning!
Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 12:14 pm
by ami-man
Hi Bob,
The Beverly Sisters takes me back to TV viewing in the late fifties early sixties on Saturday night, Doctor Who (the real one), Dixon of Dock Green and Saturday night at the London Palladium.
By the way how did you get the Wisteria to flower, I have had one for over 10 years and have never had it flower.
Ron a quid is worthless in any currency, it does not even buy a litre of petrol!
Regards
Alan
Alan Hood
ami-man
Re: Warning!
Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 2:25 pm
by DoghouseRiley
Hi Alan!
Beverley Sisters?
It's the Andrews Sisters!
Anyway,
Gardening Section
You need to prune wisterias in January, (I do mine between Christmas and New Year these days) cut the side shoots back from between two to four buds, no more. You need to be quite ruthless. If you get it right, the blooms appear before the foliage.
From now 'til the end of the summer, get rid of any long straggly bits, they won't produce any flowers. However some wisterias sold by garden centres never flower. Best to buy one in flower if you get another.
This is how one of ours looked just as the flowers were coming out.
Re: Warning!
Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 4:33 pm
by ami-man
Hi Bob,
Thanks for the gardening tips, if you can now sort out my brain as well you would be on to a winner!
Regards
Alan
Alan Hood
ami-man
Re: Warning!
Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 10:35 pm
by viggie
A pound is about 2 Bucks American. I have often wondered how the Brits can afford to pay the prices I see for stuff in Europe as compared to the US. I think I see why. I may be wrong but, it would seem that middle class in Eastern Europe get paid higher wages. And more holiday time. Again correct me if I'm wrong, the minimum wage in the UK is about 6.50 Pound per hour. That's about $13.00 US. Here in the USA the min. varies from state to state and is less than $8.00 (4 Pounds) per hour. Most workers only get 2 weeks holiday per year. The only reason I mentioned it is because I watched Doghouse's video. BTW "the Big Sleep " is a favorite of mine. And wasn't Martha Vickers, who played Carmen Sternwood, a bit risque' for 1946. WOW ! Did you know there was 2 versions. I've have both but can't tell the difference ? Anyway nice colorful Jukebox Doghouse. When you decide to add another one to your collection, you gotta' get one that has valves and shows the records spinning !
viggie
Re: Warning!
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 8:52 pm
by DoghouseRiley
Hi viggie.
Visible mechanism jukeboxes are quite expensive in the UK.
To get something even like a Wurlitzer Lyric made in Germany, it's going to cost around £1,500.
A good "Silver Age" machines would be around £3,000.
The ones I've got I can remember from my youth, I'm quite happy with them.
I'm not interested in spending a lot of money on something I'm going to keep in a glorified garden shed. I wouldn't expect my wife to have one in the house. She has to put up with my electric piano and my alto and tenor saxophones, to add a jukebox would be "pushing it."
Martha Vickers was a far better actress than Lauren Bacall. The release of "The Big Sleep" didn't happen until I think nearly a year after it was filmed, by then Bacall and Bogart were married and an additional "romantic" scene was filmed and added, (the one in the restaurant where they're comparing people to racehorses).
Some scenes featuring Martha Vickers were cut from the final print, as the producers didn't want her upstaging the rather wooden performances of Bacall.
It's now 110 years since Bogart was born.
Re: Warning!
Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 4:56 pm
by RAMONES
Hey Viggie !
Situating the UK in Eastern Europe is a bit ....
Wages over there are about 1/5 of those in the UK (Western Europe, thus 1/3 of those in the US...)
I know we're getting really off-topic, but I wanted to clarify
Besides I doubt you'll find a lot of vintage jukeboxes in Rumania, Hungaria, Latvia, or where-ever in Eastern Europe, or it should be CCCP ones with only 1 record in it : a Lenin speech
Re: Warning!
Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 3:56 am
by TripleSpring
What label is your record on?
This appears to be the original 1946 release, but it seems odd that this version would be found on 45rpm, rather than the 1957 version.
I've got the 1946 Decca 78, and the 1957 Capitol 78, and there is also a 1960's Dot label version.
I guess yours must be a pre 1957 pressing?