The Childhood Songs that You Grew Up With?
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jl4761:
Nancy R:
jl4761:
Nancy R:
steven ambrozat:
jl4761:
steven ambrozat:
Songs For Little Cowboys. still have the album from 1963. On Twinkle Records, a subsidiary of Premier Albums, Inc. Among other tunes: El Paso, Yellow Rose of Texas, Running Bear, and Red River Valley.
Are you from Texas?
Illinois. But when I was little, I wanted to be either Roy Rogers, fighting bandits, or Jesse James, robbing banks and stagecoaches. I was flexible in those matters.
When I was little (in Ohio) it was Davy Crockett. I had a DC t-shirt and some kids had the coonskin hats.
Ahhhhh, the battle of The Alamo!!! Davy Crockett was the MAN!!!
Did you see the recent mini-series with Bill Paxton as Sam Houston? (Texas Rising) Really good! http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/23/arts/television/review-texas-rising-a-mini-series-on-alamo-aftermath-with-dialogue-to-forget.html?_r=0
Like yourself, I've seen them all!!! My Father, while in the Marine Corps, met the cast from the Alamo at the Alamo in downtown San Antonio, Texas. John Wayne, Linda Crystal, Richard Widmark and Frankie Avalon, just to name a few, were there to shake hands and sign autographs.
Whenever Disney would run the Fess Parker-Davy Crockett shows, it was a priority to watch The Wonderful World of Color (in glorious black-and-white) on Sunday Night.
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steven ambrozat:
jl4761:
Nancy R:
jl4761:
Nancy R:
steven ambrozat:
jl4761:
steven ambrozat:
Songs For Little Cowboys. still have the album from 1963. On Twinkle Records, a subsidiary of Premier Albums, Inc. Among other tunes: El Paso, Yellow Rose of Texas, Running Bear, and Red River Valley.
Are you from Texas?
Illinois. But when I was little, I wanted to be either Roy Rogers, fighting bandits, or Jesse James, robbing banks and stagecoaches. I was flexible in those matters.
When I was little (in Ohio) it was Davy Crockett. I had a DC t-shirt and some kids had the coonskin hats.
Ahhhhh, the battle of The Alamo!!! Davy Crockett was the MAN!!!
Did you see the recent mini-series with Bill Paxton as Sam Houston? (Texas Rising) Really good! http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/23/arts/television/review-texas-rising-a-mini-series-on-alamo-aftermath-with-dialogue-to-forget.html?_r=0
Like yourself, I've seen them all!!! My Father, while in the Marine Corps, met the cast from the Alamo at the Alamo in downtown San Antonio, Texas. John Wayne, Linda Crystal, Richard Widmark and Frankie Avalon, just to name a few, were there to shake hands and sign autographs.
Whenever Disney would run the Fess Parker-Davy Crockett shows, it was a priority to watch The Wonderful World of Color (in glorious black-and-white) on Sunday Night.
The Wonderful World of Disney was great to watch on Sunday nights!!!
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It was The Wonderful World Of Disney and The Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday nights! (Yes, in glorious black & white! My grandparents had a color TV in about '66, but back then the "color" was so crappy!) We got our first color TV in 1969 (delivered on the day that the Tom Jones show was on!)
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Nancy R:
It was The Wonderful World Of Disney and The Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday nights! (Yes, in glorious black & white! My grandparents had a color TV in about '66, but back then the "color" was so crappy!) We got our first color TV in 1969 (delivered on the day that the Tom Jones show was on!)
Nov. 1966, we got a color tv. NBC had the best color reception. On ABC and CBS, occasionally, the faces of people looked like they were suffering some kind of skin disease. "Multi-colored forehead," I think, was the diagnosis.
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Three networks and black & white TV. Imagine how all of this sounds to today's teenagers.
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HaileyMcComet:
Three networks and black & white TV. Imagine how all of this sounds to today's teenagers.
I don't think that teenagers today can even comprehend three networks and black & white TV's!!!
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jl4761:
HaileyMcComet:
Three networks and black & white TV. Imagine how all of this sounds to today's teenagers.
I don't think that teenagers today can even comprehend three networks and black & white TV's!!!
And no remote control. Turning the set on manually, and waiting for it to "warm up."
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What about M-I-C(See you real soon)K-E-Y(Why, because we like you!)M-O-U-S-E!!!
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jl4761:
What about M-I-C(See you real soon)K-E-Y(Why, because we like you!)M-O-U-S-E!!!
I remember watching that when I was 2 or 3! Mom said I would stand about 4 feet from the screen and bounce up & down and sing along! Only I would sing M-I-C-K-D-Y
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steven ambrozat:
jl4761:
HaileyMcComet:
Three networks and black & white TV. Imagine how all of this sounds to today's teenagers.
I don't think that teenagers today can even comprehend three networks and black & white TV's!!!
And no remote control. Turning the set on manually, and waiting for it to "warm up."
The teenagers today would go insane!!!
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Nancy R:
jl4761:
What about M-I-C(See you real soon)K-E-Y(Why, because we like you!)M-O-U-S-E!!!
I remember watching that when I was 2 or 3! Mom said I would stand about 4 feet from the screen and bounce up & down and sing along! Only I would sing M-I-C-K-D-Y
I used to sing that song in my elementary school class along with Yellow Submarine!!!
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Nancy R:
jl4761:
What about M-I-C(See you real soon)K-E-Y(Why, because we like you!)M-O-U-S-E!!!
I remember watching that when I was 2 or 3! Mom said I would stand about 4 feet from the screen and bounce up & down and sing along! Only I would sing M-I-C-K-D-Y
I've still got the original cap with the ears. It was a hand-me-down from two older mouseketeer wanna-be's.
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steven ambrozat:
Nancy R:
jl4761:
What about M-I-C(See you real soon)K-E-Y(Why, because we like you!)M-O-U-S-E!!!
I remember watching that when I was 2 or 3! Mom said I would stand about 4 feet from the screen and bounce up & down and sing along! Only I would sing M-I-C-K-D-Y
I've still got the original cap with the ears. It was a hand-me-down from two older mouseketeer wanna-be's.
Those were hardcore mouseketeers that handed the original cap with the ears down to you!!!
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jl4761:
steven ambrozat:
Nancy R:
jl4761:
What about M-I-C(See you real soon)K-E-Y(Why, because we like you!)M-O-U-S-E!!!
I remember watching that when I was 2 or 3! Mom said I would stand about 4 feet from the screen and bounce up & down and sing along! Only I would sing M-I-C-K-D-Y
I've still got the original cap with the ears. It was a hand-me-down from two older mouseketeer wanna-be's.
Those were hardcore mouseketeers that handed the original cap with the ears down to you!!!
They were three and four years older than me. By the time I got the mouse ears, Mickey was hanging out in Las Vegas with his own Rat Pack, and acting Goofy.
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steven ambrozat:
jl4761:
steven ambrozat:
Nancy R:
jl4761:
What about M-I-C(See you real soon)K-E-Y(Why, because we like you!)M-O-U-S-E!!!
I remember watching that when I was 2 or 3! Mom said I would stand about 4 feet from the screen and bounce up & down and sing along! Only I would sing M-I-C-K-D-Y
I've still got the original cap with the ears. It was a hand-me-down from two older mouseketeer wanna-be's.
Those were hardcore mouseketeers that handed the original cap with the ears down to you!!!
They were three and four years older than me. By the time I got the mouse ears, Mickey was hanging out in Las Vegas with his own Rat Pack, and acting Goofy.
Mickey must have been having too much fun in Vegas hanging out with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. and company!!!
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steven ambrozat:
And no remote control. Turning the set on manually, and waiting for it to "warm up."
I still have to wait for my TV to warm up. When I turn it on, it always wants to update, so it has to log online and download whatever it's updating. That's a little different from what you're talking about, though.
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HaileyMcComet:
steven ambrozat:
And no remote control. Turning the set on manually, and waiting for it to "warm up."
I still have to wait for my TV to warm up. When I turn it on, it always wants to update, so it has to log online and download whatever it's updating. That's a little different from what you're talking about, though.
Just a little. No antenna adjusting, either.
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steven ambrozat:
Just a little. No antenna adjusting, either.
Where would it go? The screen is too flat.
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steven ambrozat:
jl4761:
HaileyMcComet:
Three networks and black & white TV. Imagine how all of this sounds to today's teenagers.
I don't think that teenagers today can even comprehend three networks and black & white TV's!!!
And no remote control. Turning the set on manually, and waiting for it to "warm up."
I remember waiting for the little dot to warm up and suddenly a big black and white picture would appear. You tuned the set with tuning knobs and got the "rabbit ears" antenna in just the right position. So you could watch channels 2-13, if you lived in L.A. or New York. Most cities coast-to-coast only had the three network channels. There wasn't even videotape to watch a movie! Boy how we take our HDTV's, DVD's, cable, and satellite dishes for granted now.
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beatlesfanrandy:
steven ambrozat:
jl4761:
HaileyMcComet:
Three networks and black & white TV. Imagine how all of this sounds to today's teenagers.
I don't think that teenagers today can even comprehend three networks and black & white TV's!!!
And no remote control. Turning the set on manually, and waiting for it to "warm up."
I remember waiting for the little dot to warm up and suddenly a big black and white picture would appear. You tuned the set with tuning knobs and got the "rabbit ears" antenna in just the right position. So you could watch channels 2-13, if you lived in L.A. or New York. Most cities coast-to-coast only had the three network channels. There wasn't even videotape to watch a movie! Boy how we take our HDTV's, DVD's, cable, and satellite dishes for granted now.
No matter how hard you try, you can't send a text message from a rotary phone.