The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #89103   Message #1773605
Posted By: Elmer Fudd
01-Jul-06 - 01:33 PM
Thread Name: Sitting At The Kitchen Table
Subject: RE: BS: Sitting At The Kitchen Table
I'm not lurkin', just workin'. So many subjects, so little time.

Ron, about that ol' Donald Duck: His voice and bad temper used to scare me when I was little. Mighty Mouse is a character out of the Twilight Zone--I wonder what archeologists studying our era a thousand years from now will make of him. But I did love the times when he would try to whip the mouse masses into action by yelling, "Are we men or are we mice?" and they'd all yell back, "MICE!"

Jerry: I don't remember the first time I heard "Maybelline," but I definitely remember the first time I heard Chuck Berry's "Nadine." I was about 14, and crammed into the back of a station wagon with a group of people joining Cesar Chavez's picket lines for a week in the California grape fields. A woman sang "Nadine" in a beautiful, slow, plaintive manner, evoking a man wistfully longing for a woman ever beyond his reach. I was surprised at the faster tempo in which Berry sang it when I eventually heard the original version on the radio.

Elmer