"Hello Dolly": it's an "I love you, Louie" Day on Saturday9!

Hello Dolly!

Welcome to Saturday: 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme!

Saturday 9: Hello, Dolly (1964)

Welcome to Saturday: 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme!

Saturday 9: Hello, Dolly (1964)

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

1) This song is about a woman returning to the town where she was happiest. How many towns have you lived in? 

Eight towns and/or cities.

2) Crazy Sam played Ernestina in her high school production of Hello, Dolly! and still remembers one of her lines: "Hey, you with the big ears! What are you doing after the show?" Tell us something that you memorized for school that is still rattling around in your brain.

Sam, that is an awesome memory.  Congrats!

I played a witch, in a Junior High play, but don't remember any of the lines.  What I do remember from High School is dozens of phrases in two foreign languages, and the fact that "Everything is mostly nothing." from a sort of Physics course as a Junior. That phrase explains existence to me everytime it's written down somewhere.  It always makes me think about just what an illusion this life may well be!

See more amazing illusions HERE

3) This week's featured artist, Louis Armstrong, got his start entertaining diners on riverboat dinner cruises. Have you ever taken a dinner cruise? 

Yes, years ago on the "Rueben E. Lee" paddleboat when it was running in San Diego.  We went aboard twice and each time the whole evening was lovely.

4) Armstrong took his nickname, "Satchmo," from "Satchel Mouth" -- a slang term for someone with a wide mouth, which Louis believed was his most distinguishing feature. What do you think people notice first about you?

Gee, let me think...  I think they notice my eyes first.  

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5) In 1936, Louis became the first African American to get featured billing in a Hollywood movie. Have you seen any of this summer's big movies? 

No.  But.  I'll probably see them NEXT summer or the summer after that.  

Netflix, because you can stop the action to go get a cola from the fridge.

6) When "Hello, Dolly" composer Jerry was growing up, he was close to an aunt named Belle who encouraged his love of music. Tell us about one of your aunts or uncles.

My mother's sisters didn't see us very much once we moved out to California again when the paternal unit didn't feel comfy on the farm.  This was partly because they were so far away, and partly because the Paternal Unit was such an ass.  

The one exception was our Aunt DeeDee,  who moved out to California for awhile with her second husband,  and my cousin, whom I was very close to as a young child.   We were like little sisters more than cousins.

Aunt DeeDee was as brilliant a stand up comedian as, say, Lilly Tomlin.   She really could have gone on stage.  She was also the best Auntie anyone could ask for.  She came through for me so many times, providing good council and protection from Psycho Dad when I finally "flew over the Cuckoo's Nest".

7) Though famous for composing the scores of Hello, Dolly!, Mame and La Cage Aux Folles, Jerry Herman can't read music. Can you?

I could read the treble clef but not so well anymore.  But I've made up songs here and there, and one was around a campfire one year at Quartzsite.  It was fun and sort of exhilarating.  Someone had a guitar at a camp out of the rockhounds; this guitar player, which was truly amazing, played his guitar along with me, composing on the fly.  

Wherever he may be now, I hope it's as happy a memory for him as it is for me.  What a gas!  Happiness, I tell you.  It happens all the time if you can step into the zone.

8) Now retired, Mr. Herman lives in Miami. This is Miami's "wet season," which lasts into October. When did it last rain where you are?

July, and it was the wettest July on record which really isn't saying too much because it rarely rains in a significant amount, here, in July.  And, no wonder everything is green in Florida!

RAIN in July!  Squeee!  Just click through and then click on the image.. it will start the video.  Short but lots of rain for us nutty Californians so we took snaps and videos.  Yes, I got out in it and got soaking wet.  Heavenly!

9) Random question: Have you suffered a sunburn this summer?

 Yes, at the most recent rockhound get together this summer, and in the shade.  Go figure.  lol  That's because I'm so seldom in the sun now.

PS from Me....  Everyone, have a wonderful weekend!  Not to hot, nor too cold, stirred, not shaken.

Thanks so much for joining us again at Saturday: 9. As always, feel free to come back, see who has participated and comment on their posts. In fact sometimes, if you want to read & comment on everyone's responses, you might want to check back again tomorrow. But it is not a rule. We haven’t any rules here. Join us on next Saturday for another version of Saturday: 9, "Just A Silly Meme on a Saturday!" Enjoy your weekend!