Saturday 9: One of my all time favorites

Moon River

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Saturday 9: Moon River (1962)

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

Thanks Sam!

1) This song is featured in a Dove candy bar commercial. What's your favorite way to enjoy chocolate (cookie, candy bar, ice cream, hot cocoa, etc.)?  I love dark chocolate truffle bars from Trader Joes, and Justin's Organic Peanut Butter Cups from Costco.  I used to love all of the above mentioned items, too!

2) It was originally written for the movie, Breakfast at Tiffany's. Where's the best place to eat breakfast in your neighborhood?  It's called Coco's and they have a sort of reputation for baking awesome pies.  Of course, homemade pie is better but Coco's makes some fantastic ones.  The meal to go to is breakfast though and take a pie home with you.  Works for me!

3) Were you able to see the moon last night?  I didn't get to see it.  Overcast was in off the ocean by the time I looked.

4) When Andy Williams' show was first telecast in color, viewers commented on how very blue his eyes were. What's the first thing you notice about a person?  Their eyes, but the first thing I noticed about Andy Williams was that VOICE!  I think that Andy Williams, Peri Como, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and an almost forgotten Louie Prima, had the most amazing singing voices ever.

5) The Andy Williams Show gave the Osmond Brothers their first national exposure. When younger sister Marie joined the act, she made her debut on his show, as well. Let's say you have just been bumped up to first-class for a three hour flight. Which Osmond would you prefer as your seatmate, Donny or Marie?  I'll pick Marie.  I think we'd have more in common.

6) Even though Andy was a millionaire many times over, he was still careful with money, once saying he would never pay more than $50 for a haircut. This leaves Sam shaking her head, because she spares no expense when it comes to her hair. What's something you splurge on?  I splurge on nothing anymore.  But I do intend to redo the garden so there will be splurging going on again around here.

7) Andy's Moon River Theater still draws tourists to Branson, MO. Have you ever been to the Ozarks?  Nope, never had the pleasure, and pleasure it would be.  We have some friends who retired to a place near Branson, and I really would love to see my once BFF again.

8) Andy had a discerning eye for Native American art. His collection of Navajo rugs was sold at auction for nearly $1,000,000. Have you ever bid on an auction?  Yes, I once bought a bifold mirror on auction.  I still have it.  It's a table top one.  Plain but in a way, beautiful to me.  Also, we used to buy things at the silent auctions for charity and rockclubs.  They are fun!  I'm not surprised that those rugs go for so much, and the silver rings.  They are quite beautiful.  The Navajo learned to weave from the Hopis, you know.

9) Andy told an interviewer that his earliest memory was hiding from a storm in the cellar of his family's Iowa home. What's your earliest memory?  I've answered this before.  I was barely 2 and a half when I cut myself on razor blades, and smeared blood on the stairwell, screaming my head off down to the first floor of my grandparent's farmhouse.  That sort of trauma makes for some unbelievably vivid memories.  I feel really sorry for Andy and other tiny kids in the path of disasters.  They don't forget those things.

Sam Says:
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