HELLO FROM FRED & ETHEL'S HOUSE: November 2011

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

The voice of Donald Duck

What's My Line? - Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz

What's My Line? - George Burns & Gracie Allen (1953)

What's My Line? - Carol Burnett

What's My Line? - Debbie Reynolds (1959)

What's My Line? - Debbie Reynolds & Eddie Fisher (1956)

What's My Line? - Debbie Reynolds (1954)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO. . . . . . . . DICK CLARK

Born in Mount Vernon, New York, on November 30, 1929, TV entertainer (and America's Oldest Teenager) turns 82 years old today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO. . . . . . . . EFREM ZIMBALIST, JR.

Born in New York City on November 30, 1918, actor Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. turns 93 years old today.

Thursday, November 24, 2011

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO. . . . . . . . STANLEY LIVINGSTON

Born in Los Angeles on November 24, 1950, actor Stanley Livingston turns 61 years old today.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

See That Girl - The Vogues (1968)

Didn't Want to Have to Do It - The Lovin' Spoonful (1966)

Flip side of Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind

(Baby Baby) I Can't Take it No More - Tommy James & The Shondells (1968)

Blue Autumn - Bobby Goldsboro (1967)

I Just Don't Love You Anymore - Bobby Goldsboro (1967)

Looking Glass - The Association (1966)

The Crystal Ship - The Doors (1967)

Even If I Could - The Mamas & The Papas (1966)

Heaven in My Heart - Liz Damon's Orient Express (1978)

Do You Want to Dance - Johnny Rivers (1966)

Album cut from the 1966 LP "Changes"

Like to Get to Know You - Spanky & Our Gang (1968)

Lake Shore Drive - Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah (1971)

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

48th Anniversary of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

Today marks the 48th anniversary of one of the most tragic events to take place in the United States -- the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States. The president was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was fatally shot while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas governor John Connally, and Connally's wife, Nellie, in a Presidential motorcade. A ten-month investigation by the Warren Commission, 1963–1964, concluded that the President was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone and that Jack Ruby acted alone when he killed Oswald before he could stand trial. Conspiracy theories have abounded in the ensuing years.

I was a freshman in high school that fall of 1963. I had come home from school for lunch when the first bulletins about the shooting came on TV. I knew that the president had been shot at but did not know he had died until I got back to school. I remember that weekend just as vividly as if it happened just yesterday. Friday, November 22 in Central Illinois was a cold, rainy, and gloomy day. School let out early and we went to church for a prayer service that evening. We were glued to the TV set the whole weekend. And on Monday we had another church service in the morning before the Kennedy funeral began. It was a very sad time.