[78-L] Google home page

[David Lennick]

On 5/8/2013 12:36 PM, David Breneman wrote:
>
>   From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>
>
>> Check the Google home page today. Saul Bass's birthday, image from Anatomy
>> of a
>> Murder. (So how come it says it's gonna play Brubeck instead of Ellington)
>> http://www.google.ca/
>
> I always wondered how these guys decide what they're going to "honor"
> in this way.  They completely ignored the anniversary of the 1962
> World's Fair (and all the iconic imagery that went with it), but will
> commemorate the 43rd anniversary of some obscure Dr. Seuss book or
> something.
>
> Ob78:
>
> There was supposedly a 78 recorded to promote the Fair, "Skidattle to
> Seattle".  I've never seen or heard it.  It may have been a one-off.
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There's also a picture disc, 7-inch 33rpm of Paul Whiteman and pianist Sondra 
Bianca doing "Rhapsody 21". Apparently the jacket of first pressings said 1961 
instead of 1962.

dl