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No 277 - On The Town Directors - Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly Well thank you Channel 4, I was just wondering what to do with my afternoon and then this cropped up.... This film follows three of the campest sailors in the world as they run around New York, excited with their 24 hours of shore leave. They're planning a fun filled day seeing all the sights and a fun filled night macking all the hunnies . I don't know much - if anything - about Jules Munshin , but the other sailors are Swing God Frank Sinatra and song, dance and falling over hero Gene Kelly . So we're in good musical hands. Within one tiny musical montage, Gene Kelly's Gabey has fallen in love. With a girl on a poster. Bless the poor old sap. Vera Ellen plays Ivy Smith, the star of Miss Turnstiles, though we don't know quite what that title means. But we do get to see inside Gabey's campy imagination as he ponders the information on the poster. I love how it starts quite mundane and gradually ge...

We went to the Stranahan Theater in Toledo last night to hear the OMEA District 1 High School Honors Concert of the best of this area's high school orchestras, choirs, and bands.  It was a wonderful evening of music.  My son played his upright bass in the orchestra there.  I recorded three of their songs, but I don't have time to upload them to the computer today.  Perhaps I will do that another time. At one point the emcee of the program was laughing about the fact that during the band's performance, some of the other students from the orchestra and choir were backstage dancing to the music on stage.  We in the audience couldn't see them, of course.  He was amused by the fact that the kids were doing a sort of line dance, can-can style, with high kicking legs. It made us wish we could have seen what was going on back there!   A dance with high kicking legs, always makes me think of the big finish to the song, "New York New York" by Frank Sinatr...

There are no links for Music Monday today, and I'm very late getting this posted, but here's my Music Monday choice for this week. "I've Got You Under My Skin" by Frank Sinatra