[78-L] Yiddish to Sam Levinson to I remember Mama

[David Lennick]

It was Maxwell House! Complete with "ping" on that last drop.

And specifically, the show was called "Mama"..the play that preceded it was "I 
Remember Mama". Dick Van Patten was also in it, playing Nels.

Theme music was a movement from Grieg's "Holberg Suite" (opening) and "The Last 
Spring" (closing), played on a celeste.

End of trivia.

dl

Jim Whipkey wrote:
> Absoluktely right,  Gertrude Berg  starred in the Goldbergs and  Peggy Wood
> starred in
> "I remember Mama", which  evokes another  memory.   Remember her  doing the
> coffee commercials during the show and then for years after the show  ended
> (Was it Folgers?) and to keep this on topic,  believe Peggy Wood  recorded
> some 78s, but I don't have any.  Last I remember seeing her was  in her
> wonderful role as the Mother Superior in Sound of Music.
> when she sang  "How do you solve a problem like  diah--er- I mean Maria".
> Jim Whipkey
> 
>> Definitely not about a Jewish family, that one. Norwegians in San
> Francisco.
>> "The Goldbergs" was the correct answer.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> RAY KILCOYNE wrote:
>>> I Remember Mama
>>> Rayk
>>> From: "Jim Whipkey"
>>>> I'm still digging through all my newly acquired records,  don't have
> any
>>>> Sam
>>>> Levinson, but just came across  two  more  pretty interesting records,
> on
>>>> LP,  and I have not listened to them:
>>>>
>>>> There's Harry Golden, on a Vanguard label.  and   Gertrude Berg on the
> Amy
>>>> label.  Her  albukm is titled How to be a Jewish Mother, a very lovely
>>>> training manual by Dan Greenburg.  It has to be next on my turntable. I
>>>> remember  the Gertrude Berg show on early television,  wait a minute,
> was
>>>> it
>>>> called the Goldbergs?  I  can still see  Molly hanging out the window,
>>>> yoo-hoo-ing  a neighbor for a chat.
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