Saturday Night Open Thread

Some of the songs from the 40s are as great today as they were then. Les Brown’s recording of “Sentimental Journey” featuring Doris Day on vocals is one such song.

I found a recording of the original, but this reunion video is pretty neat.

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What’s been on your mind? Got something you’d like to share? A topic to discuss? It’s Sunday Night Open Thread.

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  1. Edward Albert Heimberger, known to most of us as Eddie Albert, was born April 22, 1906, in Rock Island, Illinois, one of the Quad Cities, along with Moline, Illinois, Davenport, Iowa, and Bettendorf, Iowa. He is probably best known for starring with Eva Gabor on the television series Green Acres, whose real star, of course, was Arnold Ziffel, a pig played by several Chester White pigs, mostly sows. The pigs had to be changed frequently because pigs grow very fast and to rather substantial sizes, and also because, of course, the pigs were known to ham it up in front of the cameras.

  2. Eddie Albert

    Hollywood actor, who served as a civilian informant for U.S. Army Intelligence in Mexico.

    In July 1942 he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and earned a commission.

    He was assigned to the amphibious transport U.S.S. Sheridan as a lieutenant (j.g.) and was in charge of a casualty evacuation boat at the invasion of Tarawa on November 20, 1943. He was discharged on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1945.

    (– “World War II: 4,139 Strange and Fascinating Facts”)

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