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| billyweeds |
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marantzo wrote: My friends and I are going to Ghost Rider this afternoon. I have Vaughn Monroe's voice echoing through my mind already.
I think I'd rather hear the Monroe record than see the movie. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:46 am |
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I'm hoping for some over-the-top, entertaining crap. Burning biker, how can it be bad?
Billy, you and I may be the only ones on here to know what the Monroe reference is, or who he is, for that matter. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:14 am |
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gromit wrote:
...Now that the weekend is done (and everyone has finished blowing off fireworks and visiting their relatives for Chinese New Year), I'd like to make one more push to see if there's an interest in dividing Couch into two more focused halves. [Either just splitting off Foreign language films, or putting perhaps Foreign, Art Films and Classics in a separate thread]
gromit - I understand your point. I really do. But I think having a bunch of mini-forums as you suggest would end up having the effect that I'd read very little in COUCH. I don't think I'd have to time to check out all forums. At the same time I'd feel as if I might be missing some undiscovered gem if I didn't read every COUCH forum.
I try to do the best I can now with a lot of careful skimming. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:22 am |
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You do great, mo.
gromit -- I really think we're capable of discerning between posts. Sometimes lack of discussion on certain films you might feel passionate about is just par for the course in here. I don't think any posts or discussions get "lost". Third-Eyers will generally discuss what they truly want to discuss REGARDLESS of proper forum headings. Although most of us do seem to figure it out soon enough and either move the topic to appropriate forum or just let it be. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:03 am |
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marantzo wrote: ....Billy, you and I may be the only ones on here to know what the Monroe reference is, or who he is, for that matter. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:45 am |
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yambu wrote: marantzo wrote: ....Billy, you and I may be the only ones on here to know what the Monroe reference is, or who he is, for that matter. Make that three. But I may be the only one who remembers his Ed Sullivan appearance, when they trotted out a dancing horse to help him with "Doin' the Mambo." That was the first time I remember thinking, television can be full of shit sometimes.
I always used to mix up "Ghost Riders in the Sky" and "Mule Train" and could never remember whether each one was sung by Vaughn Monroe or Frankie Laine. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:19 pm |
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marantzo wrote: I'm hoping for some over-the-top, entertaining crap. Burning biker, how can it be bad?
Billy, you and I may be the only ones on here to know what the Monroe reference is, or who he is, for that matter.
Not true. Vaughn Monroe's one of my favorites from the big band era. (Before I was born, in case you're wondering.) |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:23 pm |
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| Monroe is also Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (used in Die Hard), the original of There! I Said It Again, I think Sam's Song with a different singer, Racing With the Moon, one version of The Whiffenpoof Song, and Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long (definitely with a different singer). |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:29 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: ....I always used to mix up "Ghost Riders in the Sky" and "Mule Train" and could never remember whether each one was sung by Vaughn Monroe or Frankie Laine.
I've never known why Frankie Lane didn't get to sing "Do Not Forsake Me" in High Noon over Tex Ritter. They were his lyrics, fer chrissakes. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:55 pm |
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Syd wrote: marantzo wrote: I'm hoping for some over-the-top, entertaining crap. Burning biker, how can it be bad?
Billy, you and I may be the only ones on here to know what the Monroe reference is, or who he is, for that matter.
Not true. Vaughn Monroe's one of my favorites from the big band era. (Before I was born, in case you're wondering.)
I remember him too. We used to have (and may still, but the orig. DJ died) a big band and fab. '50's radio show every Weds. a.m. I used to love that show before I switched to Air America. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:19 pm |
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yambu wrote: billyweeds wrote: ....I always used to mix up "Ghost Riders in the Sky" and "Mule Train" and could never remember whether each one was sung by Vaughn Monroe or Frankie Laine. I coulda wrote that.
I've never known why Frankie Lane didn't get to sing "Do Not Forsake Me" in High Noon over Tex Ritter. They were his lyrics, fer chrissakes.
Wrong. The lyrics were by Ned Washington. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:35 pm |
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I've always connected Mule Train and Ghost Riders in the Sky, also. They must have come out very close together. They are about galloping critters and have the same kind of rhythm.
I just saw Ghost Rider, and it was just what I was hoping for, which I stated earlier. I wouldn't call it crap though, because it seems to be intentionally campy. There are a number of humourous lines and bits. They finally play a stirring orchestral riff on Ghost Riders in the Sky late in the picter when two of them are blazing across the desert on the way to Mexico. Then over the end credits they play what sounded like a very good version of the song, but my friend Barry, bless his heart, always bolts for the exit as soon as a movie is over, and I couldn't stay to hear it. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:44 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Wrong. The lyrics were by Ned Washington. |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:16 pm |
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yambu wrote: I've never known why Frankie Lane didn't get to sing "Do Not Forsake Me" in High Noon over Tex Ritter. They were his lyrics, fer chrissakes.
Yes, but I just can't imagine anyone else singing that song in that movie. It's almost like another character. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 12:01 am |
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Nancy wrote: yambu wrote: I've never known why Frankie Lane didn't get to sing "Do Not Forsake Me" in High Noon over Tex Ritter. They were his lyrics, fer chrissakes.
Yes, but I just can't imagine anyone else singing that song in that movie. It's almost like another character.
I agree with Nancy. Although I am a very, very huge Frankie Laine fan, I cannot imagine anyone but Tex Ritter singing "Do Not Forsake Me" in High Noon. He sounds like a Westerner, for one thing. |
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