Buddy's Blog

Sorry I couldn’t get to your comments today. I’ll answer tomorrow.

Who was it who asked for this story. I can’t find the request. It’s about when Doris and Arnold nearly got married. Well here it is, but the wedding isn’t until the third week. First you have to go through some carpentry…

If you like novelty songs, Chris M gave me this link in Comments. It’s Yogi Yorgesson singing All Pooped Out. 

One of my favorite novelty singers was Frank Crummit, the Gay Cabellero.

OK, I went down to the thrift shop, and I bought a new dress for Delores PLUS a bunch of terrific LPs. Three for a dollar! Y0u can’t beat that. Heck, you probably pay ten bucks for one song at the Apple store. Not that I know that. I never buy music at the Apple store. And you know why? It’s not because I’m cheap. No No. It’s because new music for the most part pretty much sucks canal water. I don’t think it’s because I’m old. I dig music from the Baroque to the 90s. There are some good ones later, naturally, but it seems these days most of them have a beat, but no melody – and the lyrics! Hold yer ears kids.

Now here’s a great LP I found at the salvage shop. This is REAL music. Check it out!

When I was in college my roommate, Louie Capone, turned me on to opera and especially old Red Seal Victors. Louie had a huge collection. I collected quite a few myself. I found some real classics in junk stores. When Louie and I parted company (He went to the University of Florida where he earned a PhD in physics despite having only 5% vision in one eye and totally blind in the other)

The best of the bunch in my collection that I remember was a Riccardo Stracciari, I forget the song, but it was quite rare. The other was Caruso singing the bass aria, Vecchia Zimarra (Old Cloak), from La Boheme.  It was not published, I believe, until the 1940’s. It was on some sort of red plastic, not unlike a 45, but it was played at 78 rpm. After Caruso recorded the aria he said “Maybe we better break him up.” Fortunately they didn’t. On the flip side of the record was the alto who sang Musetta telling the story. Here’s the description from the web site www.enricocaruso.dk

During a performance of La Boheme in Philadelphia, Segurola, the basso, who was about to sing the “Coat Song” (“Vecchia Zimarra” from La Boheme), turned to Caruso and whispered “I’ve lost my voice”. Caruso replied, “You just stand still and move your lips and I’ll sing it for you”.  And so, with his back turned to the audience, Caruso sang the aria for Segurola. Segurola then acknowledged the cheers from the audience, who didn’t realize that it was Caruso who had done the singing.

OK, I got my new stylus. I heard the Patti Page version of this song and it brought me back to the Ink Spots version. As I said, I played this LP many many times when I was young. There’s something about the sound of vynil that’s so much warmer than digital, even with the scratches. I’m going to start buying LPs at the thrift store where Delores shops.

When I was working at the Physics Department at FSU in the mid 70’s, Dean Johnson was a grad student in the group. That means he did most of the dirty work. Today Dr. Dean Johnson just sent me this link of video of the installation of some doodads on the Space Station.  He is involved in cooling systems for electronic gear in space. He had a part in this project. If you’re interested in space stuff, this happened a few days ago.

Installation of EMIT and BCDU. Jul/22

I love this gag

I got hacked again. My spam filter stopped working. I’ve got about a zillion spam posts in comments. I have to figure out how to get rid of them.They’re from Browser MMORPG and Fantasy MMORPG. Dirty bastards.

BTW, Even though I didn’t win the billion, I’m still ahead on my gambling. 43 years ago I won 10,000 francs at the Grand Casino in Monte Carlo.

I personally love that one.

From 2002. The real estate market is booming…

(Now you see how I type) Sorry This is a little late. There was a new hacking attempt and they shut me down for a while.

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