Saturday, February 2, 2013

DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)

DOUBLE INDEMNITY, released by
 Paramount Pictures in 1944, directed by Billy Wider, stars Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Edward G. Robinson, and Porter Hall. Insurance agent Walter Neff meets Phyllis Dietrichson, the seductive wife of one of his clients and they begin an affair. Phyllis proposes to kill her husband to receive the proceeds of his accident insurance policy and Walter devises a scheme to receive twice the amount based on a double indemnity clause. When Phyllis' husband is found dead on a train track, the police accept the determination of accidental death. However, the insurance company's analyst, Neff's best friend Barton Keyes, does not buy the story and suspects that Phyllis has murdered her husband with the help of another man.








BLUE VELVET - Bobby Vinton (1963)

BLUE VELVET by Bobby Vinton spent 3 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in September and October 1963.








SUKIYAKI - Kyu Sakamoto (1963)

 SUKIYAKI by Kyu Sakamoto spent 3 weeks at the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in June and early July 1963. Kyu Sakamoto was killed August 12, 1985, in the crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123 near Mount Osutaka, Japan.

THOSE LAZY-HAZY-CRAZY DAYS OF SUMMER - Nat King Cole (1963)

 THOSE LAZY-HAZY-CRAZY DAYS OF SUMMER by Nat King Cole reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1963


WIVES AND LOVERS - Jack Jones (1963)

WIVES AND LOVERS by Jack Jones reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1963


TWENTY FOUR HOURS FROM TULSA - Gene Pitney (1963)

 TWENTY FOUR HOURS FROM TULSA by Gene Pitney reached #17 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in December 1963


HELLO STRANGER - Barbara Lewis (1963)

HELLO STRANGER by Barbara Lewis peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1963