On Saturdays I take a break from the heavy stuff and have some fun…
The last couple of weekends I had company at the cottage for the weekend. But now I’m home for this weekend for routine doctor visits.
Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.
1) In this song, Monica Lewis encourages us to greet our neighbors with a smile and a hello. Tell us about one of your neighbors.
They are really quiet, the neighborhood, is becoming a grandparent neighborhood. All their children are grown and married.
2) She reminds us that it's "nice to be nice." Who has recently shown you kindness?
A couple of friends that were up at the cottage last weekend and helped around the yard.
3) Monica Lewis was born in Chicago, where her mother performed with the Chicago Opera Company. Have you ever been to the opera?
Nope, and that will not change.
4) Her family moved to New York City, where she attended college by day and worked at radio station WMCA in the evenings to help support her family. Which do you listen to more: the radio or podcasts?
Sirius Radio
Going and coming from the Cape I listen WBZ AM for the traffic and news.
5) In the 1940s she appeared all around New York – in nightclubs, on Broadway, and on radio shows. It was then that she got her best-known and longest-running role: the voice of Chiquita Banana. For decades she was heard singing the jingle, "I'm Chiquita Banana and I'm here to say ..." Do you have any bananas in your kitchen now?
Bananas are not good for me, they are high in potassium and one of the med that I take I have to limit potassium.
6) Around 1950 she moved to Hollywood. She had recently divorced and wanted a fresh start. There she dated an actor who was also newly divorced: Ronald Reagan. Obviously she never had to ask, "Whatever became of him?" Who is the last former romance, classmate or coworker that you looked up on the internet?
She worked where I used to work, on Facebook she popped up as people you might want to “friend.”
7) In 1947, when this song was popular, actor Ted Danson was born. He's best known as Sam Malone, the bartender at Cheers, "where everybody knows your name." Is there a bar or restaurant where you are recognized on sight?
Yes, on the Cape.
8) The 1947 Studebaker Champion was one of the first cars to have an adjustable driver's seat designed to accommodate motorists of various heights. When you're driving someone else's car, do you usually adjust the seat?
I don’t know, I haven’t driven someone else’s car in decades.
9) Random question: When someone takes advantage of you, are you angrier at them for doing it, or at yourself for letting it happen?
Neither, it is more of an educational experience and you know that I will never do anything with them again.
I take it you’re not a fan of opera …
ReplyDeleteTo each their own.