I like SPAM® (Hormel’s meat product). I hate spam (UCE).
But I like Weird Al.
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What’s on your mind?
I like SPAM® (Hormel’s meat product). I hate spam (UCE).
But I like Weird Al.
Now, it’s your turn. Friday Night Open Thread means you control the conversation.
What’s on your mind?
This is an unreleased song about Claudine Longet. At the age of 19 Claudine met Andy Williams while in the follies and married him, although she was 14 years younger. She had three children with Williams, and in the mid sixties pursued an acting and singing career. She met Olympic skier Vladimir “Spider” Sabich while at a celebrity ski tournament in Bear Valley in 1972. By 1975 she and her children had moved into Sabich’s stone and log chalet in the Starwood section of Aspen, Colorado. Things went well between the two for nearly a year until the relationship started to deteriorate and Sabich asked that she leave the premises by April 1, 1976. On March 21, 1976 Sabich was shot dead on his bathroom floor with a .22 caliber pistol. Longet was responsible for what her lawyers described as an “accident”. She said that Sabich had been showing her how to use the gun when it went off. Ballistics experts at the trial testified that the safety catch was defective on the gun. He was killed by a single bullet (the only inaccuracy in the song is the reference to three shots) to the abdomen and bled to death on the way to the hospital. He was 31 years old. On January 14, 1977 she was convicted of negligent homicide and spent 30 days in the Pitkin County Jail. Claudine was granted family rights during the week which meant that she only served time on the weekends. She went on to marry her defense attorney and continues to live in Aspen…………………..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj1P7cYsUcU
This song was never put on an album because the Stones didn’t want a lawsuit on their hands.
The greater injustice is that Claudine Longet did not receive a lengthy sentence for her singing.
She used to perform on Andy Williams’ show before they split up or it was canceled. I would put up with that just to watch the Bear try to get a cookie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVmt_-2uueM
Fried Spam on white bread with mayo!
The Carol Burnett Show lampoons Star Trek (not quite sure exactly how they got away with some of the stuff in this one)……………..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-tAyQAS6JY
Sad to say but.. that was actually funny. And something that could never, ever be done again.
These are great, never saw the foreign ones. Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDkTNMK1V50&w=560&h=315%5D
Now THAT was funny!! Here is a commercial from back in the day that I think is one of the best (in a suttle way) I’ve ever seen…………………………..
http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/05/media/newsweek-editors-out/index.html
Leontyne Price, one of the great sopranos of her generation, was born February 10, 1927, in Laurel, Mississippi. Here she is, singing “Summertime” from George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess (lyrics by DuBose Heyward):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z5nfHjJG60