Tuesday Night Open Thread

Johnny Mercer wrote this, and had a hit with hit. But Louis Jordan did, too.

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Is there something you’ve been wanting to share? It’s Tuesday Night Open Thread.

What’s on your mind?

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  1. Pierre de Beaumarchais, who wrote both the play that is the basis for Rossini’s opera The Barber of Seville and the play that is the basis for Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro, was born January 24, 1732, in France. Here is Thomas Hampson singing “Largo al Factotum” from The Marriage of Figaro. If you’re from my generation, you’ll probably be waiting for Bugs Bunny to walk in during this:

  2. In 1777, as Washington’s 4,000-strong army wintered in Morristown, NJ, having been chased out of New York by Howe’s 10,000-strong army:

    Perhaps the most encouraging event was the arrival in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in March of a French shipment of 12,000 muskets, 1,000 barrels of powder, blankets, and much-needed military supplies of various kinds. A few weeks later 11,000 muskets reached Philadelphia. These were among the first of a constantly growing stream of arms, ammunition, and military stores to be supplied by France through a dummy trading company [Hortalenz and Sons] presided over by Pierre Augustin Caron, who took the name Beaumarchais. The French composer, adventurer, poet, and jewelry-maker had taken a particular interest in the American cause.

    — Page Smith, A New Age Now Begins

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