Thanks for this to panhala.net--and to Mary Oliver most of all.
http://www.panhala.net/archive/Mockingbirds.html
And then there's this, from today's Along the Way:
http://joared-along.blogspot.com/2013/03/squirrely-avocado-bird-tale.html
and thanks to Joared, too, this, which played on my dad's little radio in the early 1950s:
Thanks for the mention and links. The "Mockingbird Hill" song seem to be on the radio constantly by some artist as I recall from those many years ago. That was true of so many different pop tunes during those years -- played so often 'til they drove me crazy sometimes.
ReplyDeleteXE: In my head, I hear "Mockingbird Hill" as sung by Patti Paige.
ReplyDeleteJoared: In about 1954-55, the local radio station whose music I listened to at bedtime played Rosemary Clooney's "This Old House" for about 24 hours. Enough to drive anyone boinkers!
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Joared: The one I really love, and had never heard before i clicked the link on your blog, is the one by the Pinetoppers! It has a real country sound, and is a little more uptempo than Paul & Ford's or Page's, especially. Thanks for a most enjoyable music adventure!!
ReplyDeleteCC: Page's "Mockingbird Hill" was most familiar to me, too, though we did get a LOT of Les Paul & Mary Ford--"The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" was the most often played when I was in high school.
I didn't listen much to pop music on the radio when I was a teenager. My dad listened to the news in the morning while he got ready for work, and I'd hear the tunes from that station. I was most likely to sit down by our big radio in the living room and listen to something by Madame Schumann-Heinck, which my mother loved, too. We did not listen to the radio AT ALL in the convent. After I left and graduated from college and got a job, the women I rode to work with listened to Station KDWB during the commute, and I don't think I will EVER forget "Rubber Ball." "I'm like a rubber ball, baby, that's all that I am to you...bouncy bouncy, bouncy bouncy....I'm like a rubber ball cuz you thought you could be true to two....You BOUNCE my heart around....you don't even put her down...." God knows who the "artist" was on that one....Bobby Vinton??
Thanks for correcting my spelling/typo, XE. I never heard of "Rubber Ball", or, don't recall it. My folks listened to a C&W station during breakfast - enough to put me off of C&W music for life!!!! We had our (large) radio in the "dining room" (if you can call an 8'x8' space that) and we kids were not allowed to use it because, except for the morning news/music, Mom said it made her nervous to have the noise. By the time I was a junior or senior in high school, we did have a "portable" (about the same size and weight as my first "portable" computer that weighed 14#) that I was allowed to listen to in a room with the door closed.
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I never did read harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird", I scraped by fifty+ years ago only thanks to Cliff's notes :-)
ReplyDeleteCC: I din't even notice a typo....had to look back. but yer welcome!!
ReplyDeleteOPS: You're missing out on a good book! Go back and read it! It has nothing to do with the song, btw. or does it??
My favorite radio program during high school was broadcast from the Moorhead station late at night: "Stars from Paris." I had never heard of Paris or any of the stars, but the songs were mostly in French, and I found it enchanting!!! I'd say they were all in French, but I remember this line: "...under Paris skies...." which appears to be English!!
ReplyDeleteI'll have to check with my friend Mary, who is a Moorhead native and knows just about everything.
ReplyDeleteI have read "To Kill a Mockingbird" more than once - and - I think that the movie was very well done.
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I have read it once, and I read the summary again last night, too. MOST WONDERFUL!! did love the movie, too.
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