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Charo with DeVol

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Ella Fitzgerald ELLA WISHES YOU A SWINGING CHRISTMAS

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♫ The Happening ♫ (Redux)

My first inclination for today’s music post was Cat Stevens’ “Peace Train”, but I just played it a few months ago.  So I thought, maybe John Lennon’s “Imagine”, but I just played that a few months ago, too.  And so, I decided to go for something upbeat, something to take our minds off our troubles for a few minutes, get our toes tapping and maybe lighten our spirits just a bit.  And who better to…

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Where's Everett? (1966) Or: Alan Alda raises an invisible alien baby

Part of a series of writeups of unaired or otherwise inaccessible TV objects ft. Alan Alda, which I was able to access via the Paley Center for Media in NYC (November 2024). 

Where’s Everett? (1966) - Producer, Creator, Writer: Ed Simmons; Associate Producer: Jon Zimmer; Director: Gene Nelson. 

Cast: Arnold Barker - Alan Alda; Sylvia Barker - Patricia Smith; Dr. Paul Jellicoe - Nicolas Coster, Lizzie Barker - Doreen Miller; Murdock - Frank DeVol; Milkman - Robert Cleaves. 

Summary: When a basket containing an invisible baby appears on the doorstep of Arnold (Alan Alda) and Sylvia Barker (Patricia Smith), the couple clashes over what to do. Arnold, a professional science fiction author, thinks they ought to turn the baby over to be studied. Sylvia thinks they ought to raise it as their own. The couple call in family friend and pediatrician Dr. Paul Jellicoe (Nicolas Coster) for help, all while trying to balance keeping invisible baby Everett a secret from their daughter, Lizzie (Doreen Miller), nosy neighbors (Milkman - Robert Cleaves) and investigating reporters (Murdock - Frank DeVol). 

Plot recounting: The show begins in an unassuming suburban American neighborhood, white-picket-fence’d, green lawn’d, and quiet. A tracking shot follows an empty, floating wicker basket down the street, through a white picket fence, and up to the door of a house. The basket floats down to sit on the doorstep. The doorbell is rung by an unseen entity, whose footsteps are audible as it hurries away. The camera follows the invisible entity back down the street, panning to reveal a large spaceship parked on one of the suburban lawns. The spaceship opens, a staircase descends, footsteps are heard ascending it, and the staircase retracts. The spaceship flies away. Meanwhile, the doorbell is answered by Arnold Barker (Alan Alda), still in his dressing gown. He regards the empty basket with confusion as a baby—not visible—begins to cry. The intro plays: A cheerful, upbeat tune over yellow title cards listing cast and credits. 

Arnold and his wife Sylvia (Patricia Smith) investigate, attempting to locate the crying baby. They decide the sound must be coming from inside the apparently empty basket. Though Arnold is doubtful, he puts a hand inside the basket, and quickly withdraws it: He was bitten by something invisible, which left visible teeth-marks (“Arnold, there’s a baby in that basket!” “But a baby what?”). The couple try to decide what to do with the invisible baby. Arnold suggests they report it (“Why don’t we call the police and have them give the baby back to Claude Rains?”), but they eventually settle on calling their friend, pediatrician Dr. Paul Jellicoe (Nicolas Coster) for advice. 

Arnold explains the situation to Paul, who refuses to believe him, due to the fact that Arnold is a professional science fiction novelist. Eventually Paul agrees to come over for Arnold’s sake, convinced that Arnold is sick, drunk, or otherwise hallucinating. Meanwhile Sylvia feeds the baby, whom she has named Everett, oatmeal, which disappears off the spoon. Arnold complains about the ridiculousness of the situation, and Everett responds by flinging oatmeal into his face.

When Paul arrives, Arnold shows him to Everett’s wicker basket—but they realize that Everett has crawled away, prompting a carefully thorough and shoeless (“You might step on him!”) search of the floor and furniture, until Paul notices a floating piece of candy and realizes Everett the invisible baby is real after all. Paul gives the baby an exam and notes that the child is healthy and normal, except for an unusually high body temperature and, of course, the invisibility (“Just think, Arnold, you’re going to save a fortune on clothes.”). He recommends the Barkers not mention the baby to their young daughter Lizzie, worrying it might have an adverse emotional impact. 

Lizzie descends the stairs and states that she dreamed she heard a baby crying. The Barkers and Paul play a game of hot potato with invisible baby Everett, trying to keep him away from Lizzie without arousing her suspicion or looking too obviously as though they are holding something invisible and baby-sized. The tradeoff only works until Everett is placed back into his basket and begins to cry. To the surprise of the Barkers and Paul, Lizzie takes the revelation with equanimity: “Invisible baby,” she says, pleased, before rocking Everett in her arms and asking if the family can keep him. 

Sylvia hears the milkman outside, and asks Arnold to buy some extra milk for the baby. Arnold, still believing they ought to turn the baby over to somebody in authority, reluctantly agrees, and hears from the milkman that a rumor is going around the street: A flying saucer was spotted on a neighboring lawn early in the morning.

Arnold is surprised and then delighted by the news, and suggests that it could be a boon for his career. He proposes handing the baby over to science in a public fashion, imagining the headline attention it might receive, and the increase of attention towards his books. Sylvia, however, wants to keep Everett, distressed by the idea of the baby being “poked at” and studied; she states that whoever dropped the baby off must have wanted them to care for him. 

The doorbell rings (Arnold: “If nobody’s there, maybe it’s the parent.”), and reporter Murdock (Frank DeVol) asks if the Barkers have any information about the flying saucer rumor. Arnold attempts to tell the reporter about Everett, but Sylvia and Lizzie undermine him by implying he is relaying a story he’s working on, mentioning his career as a science-fiction writer, and hiding the baby, so when Arnold directs the reporter to pick Everett up, he finds nothing in the basket. Arnold immediately panics, believing Everett has crawled away again (“Where’s Everett?!”), and begins to search the floor on hands and knees. The reporter leaves, convinced Arnold is insane. 

Sylvia and Lizzie assure Arnold that the baby isn’t lost again—they only relocated Everett to an armchair. Arnold picks Everett up for safekeeping and tries to convince his family one last time that they can’t possibly raise an invisible baby. He slowly begins to doubt himself as he speaks, noting that they have always wanted a son, before Everett manages his first word: “Dada.” Arnold leaps over a couch and begins to hop around, delighted, holding Everett to his chest (“He knows me!”), accepting his role as Everett’s new father. 

(Semi-Alda-specific) review: So awesome. Went into this one knowing the premise “Suburban couple find and raise invisible alien baby” and was prepared for it to be pretty hard to take, but was pleasantly surprised by its consistent humor and how well it committed to a pretty ridiculous conceit. Ed Simmons wrote for Martin and Lewis, which feels just about right, given the zaniness of the script and the prevalence of tossed-off one-liners. Unclear on how this would have worked for longer than one episode, but I’m sad we never got to see it attempted. Alda and Smith are particularly excellent at what seems, while watching, like a long-form improv warmup game: They commit and commit well to ‘holding’ baby Everett, transferring him between each other, rocking, soothing, lifting, and otherwise gently handling baby-shaped empty air, which if you stop buying the existence of the baby becomes insanely funny insanely fast, but in the watching process is pretty sweet. Really excellent for Alda specifically because he does befuddled but well-meaning and generally reasonable suburban dad so well as a role type; plus he’s wearing a wonderfully 60s velour tracksuit top, which is so visually fun it’s almost a character in itself. Verdict: Don’t miss this one if you visit the archive. Such a treat.

[fallengalaxy]

I feel like, at the end of the day, life doesn't always have to be completely expected and sometimes when you need to heal, you should always take a step back to find peace outside of a problem before finding peace inside it.

Anyways that's to say, read this fic It made me cry and I've not done that in a while so that's cool. It's a Peter Parker in DC fic, great trope btw, I've been reading a shit ton of them and this one stuck out to me. It's completed and has four book in the series. You should definitely listen to this 👇 song on the last chapter to really get in your feels.

Que Sera, Sera

Whatever will be, Will be

The futures not ours to see

Que Sera, Sera

Edited to fix link (⁠ᗒ⁠ᗩ⁠ᗕ⁠)

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12/18/24 Mondo Radio Playlist

Here's the playlist for this week's special edition of Mondo Radio, which you can download or stream here. This episode: "Monster's Holiday" - A Very Mondo Xmas 2024 (Part 1)! If you dig these seasonal sounds, don't forget to also follow the show on Facebook and Twitter!

Artist - Song - Album

Bobby Helms - Captain Santa Claus (And His Reindeer Space Patrol) - Captain Santa Claus (And His Reindeer Space Patrol) (Single)

The Ralph Hunter Choir - Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town - Christmas Surprises From The Ralph Hunter Choir

Liberace With George Liberace And His Orchestra - The Toy Piano - Christmas At Liberace's

Roger LaVern & The Microns - Christmas Stocking - Vampires, Cowboys, Spacemen & Spooks: The Very Best Of Joe Meek's Instrumentals

Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers - Monster's Holiday - The Rock 'N' Roll Era: Christmas Hits

The Singing Dogs - Jingle Bells - Dr. Demento Presents The Greatest Christmas Novelty CD Of All Time

Capitol Records With Margaret Whiting - Season's Greetings From Capitol 1949 - Season's Greetings From Capitol 1949 (Single)

Kay Starr With Orchestra Conducted By Frank DeVol - (Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man With The Bag - (Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man With The Bag (Single)

Galli Sisters - Because! Because! Because! He's Santa Claus - Because! Because! Because! He's Santa Claus (Single)

The Skip-Jacks With Esquivel & His Orch. - Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane) - Mambo Santa Mambo: Christmas From The Latin Lounge

The Bonnie Sisters - I Saw Mommy Cha Cha Cha With You Know Who? - I Saw Mommy Cha Cha Cha With You Know Who? (Single)

Stan Novitski And His Knuckle-Heads - Mama Dancing Polka With Santa Claus - Christmas Polka (Single)

Lennon Bros. With Don Shaw Orch. - Santa Claus Polka - Santa Claus Polka (Single)

Stan Boreson & Doug Setterberg - Ho, Ho, Ho, Don't Ever Go - Stan And Doug Yust Go Nuts At Christmas

Brenda Lee - I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus - Rockin' Little Christmas Tennessee Ernie - A Rootin' Tootin' Santa Claus - Christmas Dinner (Single)

Leon McAuliffe And His Western Swing Band - A Cowboy's Christmas Song - A Cowboy's Christmas Song (Single)

The Radar Quartet - Frosty L'Omino Di Neve (Frosty The Snowman) - Buon Natale: Christmas In Italy With Sergio Franchi And Favorite Italian Stars

Louis Prima And His New Orleans Gang - What Will Santa Claus Say? (When He Finds Everybody Swingin') - What Will Santa Claus Say? (When He Finds Everybody Swingin') (Single)

Sonny Thompson - Not On A Xmas Tree - Not On A Xmas Tree (Single)

Victoria Spivey And Her Chicago Four - I Ain't Gonna Let You See My Santa Claus - I Ain't Gonna Let You See My Santa Claus (Single)

John Lee Hooker - Blues For Christmas - The Complete '50s Chess Recordings

Jackson Trio - Jingle Bell Hop - Merry Christmas, Baby

Detroit Junior - Christmas Day - Blue Yule: Christmas Blues And R&B Classics

Fat Daddy - Fat Daddy - A John Waters Christmas

Sunshine Ruby - Too Fat For The Chimney - Too Fat For The Chimney (Single)

Sugar "Chile" Robinson - Christmas Boogie - Christmas Boogie (Single)

Babs Gonzales - The Be-Bop Santa Claus - The Be-Bop Santa Claus (Single)

Darlene Love - White Christmas - A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Solomon Burke - Presents For Christmas - The Original Soul Christmas

Stevie Wonder - Someday At Christmas - Christmas Classics

James Brown - Santa Claus Is Definitely Here To Stay (Vocal) - The Singles, Vol. 7: 1970-1972

Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes - Yulesville - Yulesville!: 33 Rockin' Rollin' Christmas Blasters For The Cool Season

The Ventures - Sleigh Ride - Christmas With The Ventures

Bob Seger & The Last Heard - Sock It To Me Santa - Heavy Music: The Complete Cameo Recordings 1966-1967

Bobby Sherman - Goin' Home (Sing A Song Of Christmas Cheer) - A T.V. Family Christmas

Jimi Hendrix - Little Drummer Boy/Silent Night/Auld Lang Syne - Merry Christmas And Happy New Year

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - There's No Lights On The Christmas Tree Mother, They're Burning Big Louie (Live) - Live At The BBC

The Who - Christmas - Tommy

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - I Believe In Father Christmas - I Believe In Father Christmas EP

Sparks - Thank God It's Not Christmas - Kimono My House

Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody - Get Yer Boots On: The Best Of Slade

Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday - Wizzard Brew

Nilsson - Remember (Christmas) - Son Of Schmilsson

John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Gimme Some Truth

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sorority girls by mommy long legs is very henrietta. On the same note I think Que Sera Sera by Doris Day is very Bebe. I've also said this before but I think so many songs from 3OH!3 remind me of Kenny. i have more.. I am pondering.

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Abla diyor ki ne olacaksa olacak

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her eyes are pure stars,

Virginia Woolf - Orlando: A Biography 🪞🕰🧸🕯

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Martin Mull (American, 1943-2024)

House Wives - oil on canvas - 40"x 30" - 2009

Art in America - oil on linen - 50"x 60¼" - 2007

Brook - oil on paper - 20"x 15" - 2006

String Theory for Dummies - oil on linen - 50"x 50" - 2007

Performing Husband - oil on linen - 52"x 64¼" - 2006

Split Infinitives - oil on linen - 52"x 140¼" - 2006

The Pursuit of Happiness Exhibition - Ben Brown Fine Arts - 2007

His paintings are following assembled collages/montages of cut-outs from fifties advertisements, chintz and found photographs, enlarged for a strong representative impact to stimulate our senses in to re-visiting that specific time of the 1950s.

He started his career with comedy music albums, beginning in 1972 with Dancing in the Nude. Below are the covers of his first few records and some of the songs from them that are still on my playlists. Besides Dancing in the Nude, some of my favorites are I'm Flexible, I'm Everyone I Ever Loved, and They Never Met (with Melissa Manchester).

Sex and Violins followed Days of Wine and Neurosis, but 1978's Sex and Violins is a full-fledged orchestral album in the tradition of Frank Sinatra's albums with Nelson Riddle, arranged and produced by Frank DeVol, a noted composer of television themes who played bandleader Happy Kyne on Fernwood 2-Night. Although the entire enterprise is dripping with irony, from Harry Shearer's opening remarks as an ABC Records spokesman onwards, there's also an obvious love of the style on display. ABC Records imploded not long after the release of Sex and Violins, and Mull signed to Elektra for what would prove to be his final album, 1979's Near Perfect/Perfect. A return to the low-key pop/rock style of his first two records, it's also the most overtly comedic of Mull's albums. After this, Mull returned to his first love, painting, scoring numerous one-man shows at museums around the world, supplementing his work with medium-profile television acting and writing gigs.

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Music by DEVOL

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Halloween Countdown Day 5

Vintage Spooky Songs

Everyone who's ever celebrated Halloween knows the classic songs like Monster Mash, Spooky Scary Skeletons, The Addams Family theme song, and Michael Jackson's Thriller. However, did you know there's a whole spider-web covered hidden vault of vintage Halloween songs lurking on the internet's dark recesses?

There was a trend in the American music of 1950s and 1960s for funny and subversive Halloween songs, and this delightful playlist showcases 13 of them with visuals from the pop culture of those decades. Many vintage Halloween songs are based off the monster and horror movies that were popular in those days.

Listen to them in the comfort of your own tomb, or play them for your ghoulish gathering on Halloween to add some vintage creepiness!

13 Vintage Halloween Hop Songs from the 1940's, & 50's – Visualized Playlist

Transylvania Twist by Baron Daemon & the Vampires 1963 – The Addams Family (1964) The Mummy by The Naturals 1959 – Disney's Silly Symphony Egyptian Melodies (1931) Janie Made a Monster by The Fabulous Five 1958 – Lady Frankenstein (1971) Zombie by Johnny Fever 1967 – Night of the Living Dead (1968) Horror Pictures by The Calvanes 1958 – Footage of Vampira (1954) and Plan 9 from Outter Spave (1959) Haunted House by Chris Kevin & the Comics 1959 – The House on Haunted Hill (1959) Witches Brew by Darla Hood 1957 – Bewitched (1964-1972) Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Versatones 1956 – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) I Was a Teenage Monster by The Keytones 1961 – I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) & I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957) Grim Grinning Ghosts by Disney 1962 – Disney's Haunted Mansion footage House on Haunted Hill by Frank DeVol (1950) – The House on Haunted Hill (1959) and The Haunting (1963). Voodoo by The Ivies 1959 – Voodoo Island (1957) Nightmare by Jack Turner 1955 – Betty Boop Minnie the Moocher (1932)

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🔀 and millian?

Hi Ash!! I decided to shuffle my vintage playlist instead of my sea shanty one for a little suprise and–

Soo this king of plays into an au I've been plotting so I'll incorporate bits of that👀

Killian looks after Bae while Milah and Rumple are at work, trying to make ends meet, and hears Milah singing this to Bae one morning when he comes to pick him up ✨️

[alwaysmassiveavenue]

The sexual tension between midafternoon slumps and deadlines

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letter W for the music ask game!! :)

Ooh alright let's see!!!!