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 Thoughts destined to be washed away by the tides of life. |
The older I get, the stranger and more convoluted are the paths my brain takes from subject A to subject B. The years add more and more trivia, more and more experiences, and every cultural reference can send my mind down a twisting path from which my original thought never returns. That’s my way of explaining how I got to this video. The Man was singing Winchester Cathedral which made me sing along because it’s quite catchy, you know? And of course, it was incumbent upon me to pretend I had a megaphone by forming one with my hands and altering the sound of my voice. I thought how funny it was that the style was once to sing into a megaphone. Why that must have been the 1920s. They were certainly the bees knees back then. Rudy Vallee made the whole megaphone thing popular. Odd to think of someone named “Rudolph” being a pop culture megastar. So, I had to find out when he died because the only movie I remembered Rudy Vallee being in was “The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer” (great movie btw) which was well before I was born. Google told me that he wasn’t named Rudolph at all, but Hubert. Hubert Prior Vallee. Suddenly, Rudy seemed a more reasonable alternative as a stage name. So, YouTube. YouTube for everything. YouTube for how to assemble that furniture from Walmart. YouTube for finding obscure performances from long-dead entertainers. So, YouTube for Rudy Vallee and of course, we get the great Ed Sullivan, showman extraordinaire! I know you don’t care but here’s Rudy Vallee. |
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