Chuck Mangione has rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. Heaven has a new flugelhorn today. 84 years young. https://www.instagram.com/p/DMf2tIBxeag
Apart from that, I think the warmest memory of the guy is when he partnered with his AA sponsor Pat Boone to promote the latter's album of metal-to-lounge covers. The only one I really know is Crazy Train, which works at least as a novelty item.
Chuck Mangione has rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. Heaven has a new flugelhorn today. 84 years young. https://www.instagram.com/p/DMf2tIBxeag
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Feels So Good is the Platonic form of Easy Listening. And I say that in a good way.
Terry Gene Bollea has died. Who is he? Otherwise known as Hulk Hogan of professional wrestling fame. Cardiac Arrest. Age 71 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulk_Hogan
It has just been announced that Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth, celebrated UK singer and widow of John Dankworth, jazz musician and impresario, died yesterday. She was 97.
The last surviving cast member of the 1970s TV show, Hogan's Heroes, Kenneth Washington, has died.
I saw re-runs of it in the 1980s, and was highly amused. RIP.
Weird thing is, I found the show boring, and never watched a full episode, but I think I know who all the characters were and which "archetypes" they were supposed to represent.
And, of course, the theme song, probably the catchiest TV theme ever.
And, of course, the theme song, probably the catchiest TV theme ever.
Yes!
I loved, and still love, Hogan’s Heroes. (I’m old enough to have watched it when it was first on in prime time.) Part of that was that found it very funny, but part of it was that watched it with my father—a WWII vet who never talked about his war experience, who at the end of the war was stationed in an Allied POW camp in Germany, and who loved Hogan’s Heroes. That show, together with a few other random bits of German-related things, represents a connection with the part of my dad’s life he never really shared.
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Interesting that non-Ozzy cover is getting a significant amount of traffic in its comments-section in tribute to Osbourne's passing.
One of the comments mentions that that version was used as the opening to The Osbournes, which I did not know, being a total non-viewer of the show.
Feels So Good is the Platonic form of Easy Listening. And I say that in a good way.
I saw re-runs of it in the 1980s, and was highly amused. RIP.
Weird thing is, I found the show boring, and never watched a full episode, but I think I know who all the characters were and which "archetypes" they were supposed to represent.
And, of course, the theme song, probably the catchiest TV theme ever.
I loved, and still love, Hogan’s Heroes. (I’m old enough to have watched it when it was first on in prime time.) Part of that was that found it very funny, but part of it was that watched it with my father—a WWII vet who never talked about his war experience, who at the end of the war was stationed in an Allied POW camp in Germany, and who loved Hogan’s Heroes. That show, together with a few other random bits of German-related things, represents a connection with the part of my dad’s life he never really shared.