Citizenship

Can someone help me find my iPode?

 

Maybe your miniature podle ate it?

 

There is no such thing as good sashimi in MY dojo.

And to me , Taco is a Dutch-Indonesian artist who, in the 80s , made an album with a dynamite version of "Puttin' on the Ritz." Irving Berlin wrote "Puttin' on the Ritz" in 1927. In 1946 Fred Astaire danced to this song in the Irving Berlin tribute musical comedy, "Blue Skies."

I'm thinking of writing a version with lyrics about myself - to be called "Puddin' on the Fritz."

 

Peter Boyle and Gene Wilder in 1974....

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [singing] If you're blue, and you don't know where to go to, why don't you go where fashion sits...

The Monster: 'UTTIN' ON THE 'IIIIITZ.

 

I saw that one. Maybe 1951 - I would have been eight. I can remember hearing "Puttin' On the Ritz" for the first time. I think "Blue Skies" was my first Fred Astaire movie. I saw several, as we (and many, many others in postwar UK) didn't have TV and went to the movies at least once a week. My mother liked Fred's movies - and I came to like them too.

People didn't say things like "Dude-in' up my shirt front" in UK and I liked hearing American expressions.
I would have called them "snappy" back then. "Cool" wasn't in my vocabulary till later in the 50s - Beat Generation days, maybe, when I was 15 or so and living in Canada.

 

The "Cool" jazz movement had started earlier in the 50s - but I hadn't heard any until later. My parents didn't like it. I did. Right away. I think there's an international law somewhere, that says teenagers must like music their parents hate.