The Story Behind the Photograph - Babbs Looked Around

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She calculated how long it would take to leap the fence and make it to her car. Delbert Dalkins had a very annoying giggle.

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The Story Behind the Photograph - Two Bathing Beauties

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Bertie stepped on something and had to be helped back to the shore. She kept saying, "Underneath this bathing suit, I'm naked," until Sally slapped her.

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It's the Birds - Meadowlark

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What. You talkin' to me?

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The Story Behind the Photograph - Glinda

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Good witch of the South-west.

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Wine of the Week - Little Penguin Pinot Noir

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Musty, full body and dry. Dark color. A good example of a Pinot Noir. Only about 8 bucks. Worth having again.

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Wordless Wednesday - Leave a Message

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My Own Wordless Wednesday

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The Story Behind the Photograph - Barnacle Bill

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Not sure why these lyrics popped into my head when I saw this photo. Bessie couldn’t help it any more than you could, or I could Bessie couldn’t help it though she tried to be good, Oh! So good. She was pretty as the heavens above Oh! Boy but how that girl could love Bessie had affection that was simply wonderful, wonderful! But Bessie couldn’t help it any more than you could or I could. When she smiled you were bound to fall, that’s all A boy kissed Bessie in the back seat one night Why, oh why did she yell with delight? Bessie couldn’t help it any more than you could, or I could (C. Bayha / J. Richmond / B. Warner) Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five - 1930 Hoagy Carmichael & His Orch. (vocal: Carmichael) - 1930 Billy Cotton & His Band (vocal: Nat Gonella) - 1930 Slatz Randall - 1930 Keith Nichols Cotton Club Orchestra - 1991 Jack Hylton & His Orch; San Francisco Starlight Orchestra; Digby Fairweather & The New Georgians; Roy Evans with Rube Bloom & Bayou Boys. My favorite is the Hoagy Carmichael version which I have. His “Orch” was Bix Beiderbecke, Ray L’Odwig, Jack Teagarden, Boyce Cullen, Jimmy Dorsey, Pee Wee Russell, Arnold Brilhart, Bud Freeman, Joe Venuti, Irving Brodsky, Eddie Lang, Min Leibrook, and Chauncy Moorehouse. I also have a more contemporary version by Pee Wee Hunt, I think. If I can find it. The card according to the POST CARD site is from 1925. The hat is from Peter Pan I think… The girl is a handsome lass. If you look at the original size, you can see that she had some eye problems. Barnacle Bill (as I read somewhere) was just something they thought of in the studio because they were short a side. So they took the old barroom song and cleaned it up a bit and arranged it and recorded it. Some of the background vocals are interesting on it. On the old 78RPM records you couldn't tell it but on modern restored versions you can hear quite clearly that someone is NOT saying Barnacle Bill the "SAILOR" but something quite different. Most blame Joe Venuti who was a prankster extreme. By all means, time for a CD version for you, just for that one experience alone. Benny Goodman and Jimmy Dorsey are BOTH in the band on that cut. Of course they were all just kids then. Barnacle Bill is also reputed to be the LAST Bix recording

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The Story Behind the Photograph - Loya Johnson

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Loya didn't realize at the time that this was her future home, in the bushes next to the house.

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The Story Behind the Photograph - Angel and the Lawnmower

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Angel wanted to go back to her reading but Filmont needed a break from his yard work. He'd soon learn that she had knotted all his socks.

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