The cocktail songs are fine and fun, but that Sweet Marie clip steals the show! I love Powell’s part here. Thanks for including that snippet.
Pennies from Heaven…….is that the poignant, heart-rending song which the mother recalls in the book This House of Brede? I hope you’ve read that one; not everyone enjoys Rumer Godden’s disjointed-chronology style of story-telling, but it’s a fine and well-told tale.
I had the same memory when I heard Spike Jones’ Cocktail for Two and I asked the AI on X called Grok and it spit out Bugs Bunny’s “Long Haired Hare”. Also, I found the Brave Little Toaster which I never saw, so I knew it wasn’t that connection. But I immediately thought Bugs Bunny when I heard the familiar song! Fun stuff! And we too love Life With Father, and that sweet scene. There is a similar scene in Meet Me in St. Louis.
Oh, I love Life with Father. Best baptism movie ever : ) All of your initial song choices are so good. There’s another funny Doris Day one, Love Somebody, a comic duet about a secret, you might like it. Your song title today reminds me of Tea for Two, which I believe may be the only broadway show tune to be adapted into a popular classical music piece by one of the world’s last great composers. I won’t name him, but I’ll give you a hint, our dog Shosty is named after him…
Debra, I think you may have embedded the wrong Keely Smith video by error. Here is a link to “Cocktails for Two”:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew3KzZBaPf0&pp=ygURY29ja3RhaWxzIGZvciB0d28%3D
Thanks. I was going to mention that I got a different Keely Smith song & had to find a Bing Crosby for a “straight” rendition.
The cocktail songs are fine and fun, but that Sweet Marie clip steals the show! I love Powell’s part here. Thanks for including that snippet.
Pennies from Heaven…….is that the poignant, heart-rending song which the mother recalls in the book This House of Brede? I hope you’ve read that one; not everyone enjoys Rumer Godden’s disjointed-chronology style of story-telling, but it’s a fine and well-told tale.
I had the same memory when I heard Spike Jones’ Cocktail for Two and I asked the AI on X called Grok and it spit out Bugs Bunny’s “Long Haired Hare”. Also, I found the Brave Little Toaster which I never saw, so I knew it wasn’t that connection. But I immediately thought Bugs Bunny when I heard the familiar song! Fun stuff! And we too love Life With Father, and that sweet scene. There is a similar scene in Meet Me in St. Louis.
Oh, I love Life with Father. Best baptism movie ever : ) All of your initial song choices are so good. There’s another funny Doris Day one, Love Somebody, a comic duet about a secret, you might like it. Your song title today reminds me of Tea for Two, which I believe may be the only broadway show tune to be adapted into a popular classical music piece by one of the world’s last great composers. I won’t name him, but I’ll give you a hint, our dog Shosty is named after him…