Saturday 9 Santa Baby

Sam’s Saturday 9: Santa Baby (1987)

On Saturdays I take a break from the heavy stuff and have some fun…

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) In this song, Madonna refers to Santa as "baby," "honey" and "cutie." What's the most recent endearment someone called you?

Well I have been hibernating all year so I don’t remember the last time someone used an endearment.

2) At the top of her list are a fur coat, a new convertible and a yacht. If you could receive any of those luxury items, which would you choose?

A yacht, actually I would rather have a sailboat instead of a yacht. You don’t have to pump couple of hundred of dollars of gas in it and you don’t have to smell all those gas fumes.

3) She would like to decorate her tree with ornaments from Tiffany's. Do you have a favorite holiday ornament or decoration?

I have a couple of boxes of Christmas ornaments from my great grandmother.

4) "Santa Baby" was written in 1953, before electronic payments. While her wish list includes blank checks, a 2017 survey revealed that 51% of consumers felt check writing was "a pain." Who received the last check your wrote? Who most recently gave you a check?

A reverend.

He bought one of my photographs to give as a Christmas present.

5) Madonna has been a successful singer for decades, and 1985's "Into the Groove" is her top-seller. What's your favorite Madonna song?

I am not a fan of Madonna and I don’t have favorite song.

My mother didn’t like Madonna because of the way she dressed but one time I was watching “A League of Their Own.” She was very surprised and liked her performance in the movie.

6) Madonna was born in Bay City, MI, and traveled to New York City to find fame and fortune. When she first arrived, she supported herself by working at Dunkin' Donuts. What's your standard DD order?

It is officially Dunkin now, they dropped Donuts.

In the summer Decaf Ice Coffee black, in the winter it is hot Decaf coffee black.

One time I was at a Dunkin on the Cape and I ordered my coffee black, and the kid behind the counter looked up and said, “Wow somebody who likes real coffee!”

7) The only Christmas card Sam has received so far this year is from her dentist. Have you received many cards this year?

0, but it is still early. I still have to do mine but I am trying to write my Christmas letter. What do you write about in the year of the plague?

So far I wrote,

Wow, what a year! Or 2020 the year that wasn’t!

The plague made this year’s Christmas letter short…

January, February, and March – Hibernated at home

April, May, June, July, August, and September – Hibernated at the cottage

October, November, and December – Hibernated at home

And I can’t think of anything else to write about.

8) Will you wrap many presents? Or do you prefer to use gift bags?

I don’t think we are going to be doing our Yankee Swap this year, we probably have another Zoom holiday.

9) Madonna recorded "Santa Baby" to benefit The Special Olympics. Here's your chance to plug a cause or organization that's near and dear to you.

My annual recommendation is True Colors

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On the first question from last week. I thought of a famous bridge near me and many of you have seen it!

It is an old railroad bridge across the Connecticut River and is about 12 miles away from me.

Billy Joel - The River of Dreams 

If you take a cruise down the Connecticut River you will see many of the locations where it was filmed and also it was filmed on the tobacco farms around the state. Here is the bridge that the steam train went over in the video…

And here is the engine…

The bridge that they are singing on is the railroad bridge in Middletown, the steam train is Essex 

Steam Train and the ferry is the Chester-Hadlyme Ferry one of the oldest continuous operating ferries in the nation (Since 1769) and I crossed the on it many times.