MLT Club Member David Herrick
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My favorite MLT Christmas song is their cover of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. Their arrangement wakes this song from its coma and replaces all the stodginess with exuberance.
And my favorite video would have to be All I Want Christmas to Be. It’s so much fun to see Mona and Lisa enjoying Christmas as kids, reminding us all of the magical quality of the season way back when. And their backstory of the fortuitous snowstorm that sent them running back home to grab their filming gear always makes me smile as I watch them casually stroll through it.
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Over the past week, I’m Looking Through You has averaged C = 19.2 and V = 9467. Still doing very well!
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That’s really wild, Juergen! I’ve never seen a fusion of the German and Arab cultures before. And thanks for providing a translation.
If you like I Dream of Jeannie, you would probably also like Bewitched, which has a similar theme: a woman informs her husband, shortly after they get married, that she’s a witch with the ability to make things appear and disappear by wiggling her nose. I Dream of Jeannie was actually created by another television network in response to Bewitched after it became a hit.
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Juergen, the Krofft brothers left an indelible impression on the minds of North American kids like Jacki and me in the early 1970’s. They created their own myths with a series of Saturday morning fantasy TV shows that often involved human kids interacting with life-sized puppets in surreal settings. Here are the opening and closing theme songs from their best-known show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orUNj09oN4U
You should check out Mork and Mindy as well. It’s the show that made Robin Williams a star playing a space alien who lands on Earth on a mission to study human behavior.
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Fun topic, Jacki!
I too would put Birds at the top of the list. What could be more idyllic than Mona and Lisa playing acoustic instruments while sitting in trees and skipping through meadows? The flower field in June evokes similar imagery. And I really like the bandstand area in the video for Won’t You Listen Now; there’s something very laid-back and old-timey about it.
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I didn’t know about the Here, There and Everywhere film at all. Good catch, Jung! Did I miss a memo where MLT mentioned their involvement, or did you find that out on your own?
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Dave Dee is back to serenade you with another song about a legendary character:
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Juergen, the uploader of the Atlantis video said the footage is from the Kuroshio Sea aquarium in Okinawa, Japan. Apparently it’s the second-largest aquarium in the world.
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This one was posted a while back on another thread, but I think it fits here:
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Here is Stephen Colbert’s gushing (but informative) commentary about the Get Back movie, from last night:
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Great pick, Diana! I should have thought of that one right off the bat. Puff has been tugging at my heartstrings since I was five.
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You always trigger my memory to come up with more examples, Juergen!
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Same with this one:
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This may be stretching the definition of “myth” or “fairy tale” a little, but I think it fits the general category:
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A few weeks ago I wanted to learn the chords to Puff the Magic Dragon so I could play it on my ukulele. I figured it would be fairly simple, but surprisingly there was a string of fast, difficult chord changes at the end of the refrain. For just about any other song I would have given up, but I kept at it until I could do it, thereby moving my playing skills up to the next level. Puff is still helping me grow!
At at Peter, Paul & Mary concert I once attended, Peter played the intro to Puff, and the audience applauded in anticipation. But before he began the lyrics, he suddenly stopped and communicated with the guy in the booth. Troubleshooting the problem required him to play and sing something, so he played Puff while ad-libbing these words: “Once there were three performers who had trouble with the sound. They told the studio engineer that there was too much echo.” The audience actually started to settle in to enjoy this version, despite the lyrics being about a tech issue. If that doesn’t tell you how great a song Puff is, I don’t know what does.
