[78-L] Holiday torture (tenuous 78 connection, sorry)

[simmonssomer]

Amen. Last night some cable channel purported to put on the Best of Bing 
Crosby. Turns out that most of it came
from his, late in the game, TV specials, when this guy could barely reach 
the high notes in White Christmas.
I turned it off in disgust. Probably many younger people who had never seen 
or heard Bing looked at this stuff and thought
what an old geezer with a threadbare voice. Ah well. Time Marches on.


Al S.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78L" <78-L at 78online.com>
Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 11:46 AM
Subject: [78-L] Holiday torture (tenuous 78 connection, sorry)


> Sometimes I wonder why I spend each lonely night..no, scratch that. 
> Sometimes I
> wonder why the Christmas episodes of classic radio and TV programs are 
> always
> the worst, especially (I assume) out of context. Last night we opened a 
> dvd of
> some more classic Christmas sitcoms, most of them of series I never 
> watched in
> the first place (Beverly Smellbillies etc). The two we watched were
> insufferable and neither would give me the slightest urge ever to watch 
> any
> other episodes for any reason. The "Odd Couple" Scrooge episode was mildly
> amusing about 10% of the time. The 1962 "Lucy Show" Christmas program was 
> the
> most strident, screaming, unfunny piece of crap I've suffered in years. 
> Please
> tell me it wasn't always that bad. I know there were funny sitcoms in the
> sixties because I still remember them, although I admit to being a snob 
> about
> much tv during that decade (I also didn't have the time, and for a few 
> years I
> also didn't own a set). I'm given to understand that The Lucy Show was a 
> hit
> for 6 years, possibly largely because of Gale Gordon..definitely not 
> because of
> these two screaming meemies (one of them with a bad face lift) and 3 
> obnoxious
> kids.
>
> Humbug, already.
>
> dl
>
>
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