Saturday Nine for the week of Crazy, Month of Agast

Frankie and Johnnie.

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Saturday 9: Frankie and Johnny (1966)

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

1) When this record was initially released in 1966, it never cracked the Top 20. Critics were harsh, saying that Elvis had not kept up the times. How about you? Do you consider yourself up-to-date on today's music?  I consider myself a musical Luddite.


2) The song is about a woman named Frankie and Johnny, the man who does her wrong. Who is the most recent person to do you wrong? (It doesn't have to be in romance; it could be the person who cut in front of you in line at the supermarket.  I was called an "*ucking Idiot" for gently saying that a certain item wasn't what the poster thought it to be.  

Scientifically, they were dead wrong, and after they told me off,  I told them that.  It wasn't a matter of opinion.  It just was fact over fiction.  I just didn't want anyone to buy a pig in a poke from someone and be expecting to have the real deal.  Sometimes I hate the internet.

3) Elvis sings that Johnny cheated with "a chick named Nellie Bly." The real Nellie was an estimable woman, a pioneering 19th century journalist. Can you think of another song that mentions a real person?  Not really, but I do know that Carly Simon wrote a song that was pointed toward someone -Warren Beatty I think- being so vain that she sung " I'll bet you think this song is about you, don't you?"

4) This song was recorded for a movie by the same name. Elvis played a riverboat gambler. When did you last play a game of chance?  It has to be years and years ago.  1988?  We were all camping at Hurrahs out in the desert and as I walked in to eat dinner I spotted a line of one armed bandits.  So on the way back out, I put a couple of quarters into the end machine.  Big spender, I know. lol

5) Actor Harry Morgan had a supporting role in the movie. He's remembered as Officer Gannon on Dragnet and Col. Potter on M*A*S*H. Gannon was a good cop but could be particular about his food and surroundings. As a career soldier, Potter didn't mind roughing it every now and again. Which character are you more like: fussy Gannon or outdoorsy Potter?  I'm more like Potter.  But now it's no more tent camping but having an off-roading Bounder has been really nice.  We took it all the way up Milpitas Wash the first year we got it. Beginners Luck!  We felt so proud! We were crazy back in the early 90's.  It was a GAS. The map showed a road, we went up it.  We were lucky to get through as the rains had washed out the darn thing. Our camping buddies were shocked to see us coming up from the south through the wash instead of off the highway!

6) Elvis' leading lady was Donna Douglas. She filmed her part during her summer hiatus from TV's The Beverly Hillbillies. Have you ever had a summer job? I had a child sitting job for a working mom and got to take care of a couple of really angelic little boys, a new born and his three year old brother.  Also I was a library aide, and worked another summer at a Dairy Queen.

7) Though not remembered as an actor, Elvis was a bona fide movie star. In 1966, he was listed (with Paul Newman, Sean Connery, John Wayne and Richard Burton) as one of the world's biggest box office draws. Who starred in the last movie you watched? "It was Sharknado3 Oh Hell No!" , and the stars were Ian Ziering  and Tara Reid.  There were two notable political has beens in it, Michael Bachmann and Ann Coulter, who played the role of the VP, Sonya Buck. It's a horrible movie but then all that series are!  Crazy fun.

8) In 1966, Lauren Bacall appeared on the cover of Time with the headline: "The Pleasures and Perils of Middle Age." She was 41 years old and starring in a hit Broadway play. In the article, she explained that in middle age, she had come to understand that "character and a sense of humor are the two things that will carry you through." Tell us about something you understand better or appreciate more today than you did when you were young.  Just about anything that old age doesn't offer, like Agility and stamina... But,  the trade off is wisdom and discretion. Really, not such a bad trade.

9) Random question: Have you checked out Bud and Mimi's cool new meme, Monday Madness?

 Not yet, but thanks for reminding me what day it was on.  I thought it was today, Thursday, and went looking for it.  This Monday and next Monday are going to be challenging.  But I will try!

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