Countdown to Christmas 2007!!!

Binger · Nov 29, 2007

That show last night was the worst one yet! Geez - Tony Bennett looked like he was freezing to death and Celine Dion couldn't even lip synch! That show stinks worse every year

Binger · Nov 29, 2007

HEY- IDEA FOR 2008! let's all meet here during the Rockefeller tree show and make comments through it all......... then vote as to which perforamnce stunk the most!

Binger · Nov 29, 2007

Cedar- is that Jay in that picture with the pointy hat waiting to Paus Du Lux?

Binger · Nov 29, 2007

And Crown alseep under the tree.....?

Crown 84 · Nov 29, 2007

Well, the Rockefeller show wasn't the best but I actually thought it was a bit better than last year.
The first singer (can't recall his name - Groban or Grogan, something like that) was pretty good. One or 2 of the others were OK. (The rock songs I just muted!)

Tony Bennett I felt sorry for. His voice is about gone.
Felt he was great in his day and I still enjoy seeing him for old time's sake but he really ought to retire to hosting duties.
Fred Astair was smart. When he realized his dancing ability was starting to slip, he retired on top rather than become a pathetic figure. Tony should take a lesson from him.

BooksNChristmas · Nov 29, 2007

Cedarfarm said:
~This morning after listening to Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky, I did some research and came up with this picture of the first ballet in Petersburg, 1892! Amazing.

That is an awesome picture! I love the Nutcracker--the music and the ballet. It's one of my favorites.
:razz:

sila · Nov 30, 2007

morning
st andrews day today

Crown 84 · Nov 30, 2007

SEASON DAY 18
Days to Christmas Day: 25

Good Morning!

Can you believe it? December tomorrow!
Where has the year gone, guys?
Better get that Christmas shopping into high gear!

Chilly this morning, with the old mercury in the upper 30's. Should be a nice, walk-friendly 55-58 by this afternoon.

Well, this is our big weekend! Christmas tree hunting, poinsettia purchasing, house decorating!
We always do this the first weekend in December, a long-standing tradition.
The decorations will stay up until New Year's.

If you get the chance, snap some Christmas Seasonal photos for the Christmas Photos 2007 thread. I have a few more I plan to post. The more the Merrier!

Well, I hope everyone has a Fabulous Friday and a Wonderous Weekend!

Cedarfarm · Nov 30, 2007

~Good FRIDAY Morning, dear friends!~

Sounds like a very busy, fun week-end Crownster! Same thing here, "seriously" decorate the first week-end of December...I've had the big (10') tree for a week now, laying outside. Decorating begins tonight! Can't wait to have that aromatic beauty in the house.

Hey Bing, LOVE your idea! Let's all get together next year during the Rockefeller show....great idea!...a new tradition!

Hi Miller! I love the Nutcracker also...to me, that is as much a part of Christmas as the tree is.

Crown...I agree with you, poor Tony Bennett should hang it up...or not sing, (actually it sounds more like croaking now) just be a loveable guest on all the talk shows. He seems so very likeable, doesn't he? Always smiling.

Crown 84 · Nov 30, 2007

Yes, I've always liked Tony.

Liked all of the old-time crooners: Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Dean Martin, Andy Williams, Frank Sinatra.
That golden age is passing away. Only Tony and Andy Williams are still with us.
And I have not seen Andy on TV in many years. He does still perfom in Branson, I believe.

sila · Nov 30, 2007

evening you lovely lot xxxxxxxxx

JayIsh · Nov 30, 2007

I love the crooners...Back in 1981 I was a college student at a small school near Atlantic City...A good friend of mine was a stagehand at The Golden Nugget Casino. He got us in to see Frank Sinatra...Of course we watched from the sound booth but I was so in awe of being in the room with Mr. Sinatra that I was able to overlook the fact that his voice had faded...He was a little surly too...But he was a superstar...I was just in complete awe...He walked by us after the show, up a hallway that ran alongside the sound booth...there were always these stories that people were told never to talk to him, not make eye contact...He walked up the hall and nodded and smiled at us as he was escorted by...there was none of that pretense that I've read about...It was a golden moment...You know Frank Sinatra saved my life once...He said "Ok boys...that's enough..."

badumpbump...

jay

Crown 84 · Nov 30, 2007

Nice story, Jay.

The closest I ever came to a "Christmas icon" performer was when a friend of mine got me Burl Ives' autograph many years ago. I still have it in a drawer somewhere.

JayIsh · Nov 30, 2007

You know Crown, our own Auntie Mistletoe and her family were actually friends with Burl Ives and his wife! I forget how they met but she told me that he was the nicest of men, very warm and cordial, just as you'd expect him to be...Hopefully she'll read this and write the whole story!!!

I have the tendency to forget that these folks are men and woman just like you and me and that they are flawed and fallible just like we are...I tend to raise them up to almost mythic status...The few celebrities that I've met in my day have proven to me that they can be very warm and very friendly...or not...But they are real people...With real problems and real successes and failures...I get very nervous at even the thought of meeting some of my idols...

slgslg02 · Nov 30, 2007

merry christmas all

Binger · Nov 30, 2007

Yeah- I know Jay- once I waited on Natalie Schaefer- and sold her a pair of shoes ( she played Lovey Howell on Gilligan's Island..)- she was so sweet and had clean feet!

Binger · Nov 30, 2007

Didn't Burl Ives become a snowman and tell the story about some reindeer and then go on and on about "silver and gold...?"

RadioJonD · Dec 1, 2007

JayIsh said:
I have the tendency to forget that these folks are men and woman just like you and me and that they are flawed and fallible just like we are...I tend to raise them up to almost mythic status...The few celebrities that I've met in my day have proven to me that they can be very warm and very friendly...or not...But they are real people...With real problems and real successes and failures...I get very nervous at even the thought of meeting some of my idols...

That's how I feel about you folks!