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Monday, May 6, 2013

Zenobia (1939)

Zenobia, released by United Artists Pictures in 1939, starred Oliver Hardy (without Stan Laurel), Hattie McDaniel, Billie Burke, and Stepin Fetchit; directed by Gordon Douglas. A Mississippi doctor tends to a main's ailing elephant and when once cured the pachyderm refuses to leave the doctor's side the carnival operator sues the doctor for alienation of affections.

Caught in the Draft (1941)

Caught in the Draft, released in 1941 by Paramount Pictures, starred Bob Hope, Dorothy

Lamour, Eddie Bracken, Irving Bacon, and Dave Willock; directed by David Butler. A famous movie star does his best to avoid military service following his enlistment by mistake in an attempt to court a colonel's daughter.

Pardners (1956)

Pardners, released in 1956 by Paramount Pictures, starred Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Agnes Moorehead, Jack Elam, Lon Chaney, Jr., Lee Van Cleef, Milton Frome, and Lori Nelson; directed by Norman Taurog. Two ranch partners are killed by the 'Masked Raiders' defending their land. Their infant sons are separated, one being raised on the farm and the other being raised in New York. Twenty-five years later, these two boys meet again. They must work through their differences and band together like their fathers before them and defend the ranch against the 'Masked Raiders'.

Ride Lonesome (1959)

Ride Lonesome, released in 1959 by Columbia Pictures, starred Randolph Scott,
James Coburn, James Best, Pernell Roberts, Lee Van Cleef, and Karen Steele; directed by Budd Boetticher. A bounty hunter captures a wanted murderer and escorts him to Santa Cruz to be hanged but allows the outlaw's brother to catch up with him for a showdown over a previous murder.

Yellow Sky (1948)

Yellow Sky, released in 1948 by 20th Century Fox Pictures, starred Gregory Peck, Richard Widmark, Anne Baxter, Harry Morgan, John Russell, and Victor Kilian; directed by William A. Wellman. An outlaw leader and his gang take refuge in a frontier ghost town inhabited only by an elderly man and his granddaughter. The old man reveals that there's gold buried in the area, prompting a few of the gang to plot the old man's death and claim the treasure for themselves.

Apartment For Peggy (1948)

Apartment For Peggy, released by 20th Century Fox 1948, starred William Holden, Jeanne Crain, Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart, Betty Lynn, Charles Lane, and Gene Nelson; directed by George Seaton. An aging professor who decides he's lived long enough changes his attitude after meeting a young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic as an apartment for her and her husband.

Sitting Pretty (1948)

Sitting Pretty, released in 1948 by 20th Century Fox Pictures, starred Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara, Clifton Webb, Ed Begley, John Russell, Betty Lynn, Richard Haydn, Louise Albritton, and Minerva Urecal; directed by Walter Lang. A suburban couple with three sons and a serious need for a babysitter put an ad in the newspaper for a live-in babysitter and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him who works miracles with the children and with the house.

The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, released by Warner Brothers Pictures in 1953, starred Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey, Frank Ferguson, Lee Van Cleef, James Best, Ross Elliott, Merv Griffin, and Steve Brodie; directed by Eugene Lourie. As the result of an arctic nuclear test, a carnivorous dinosaur thaws out and makes its way down the east coast of North America.

George Washington Slept Here (1942)

George Washington Slept Here, released in 1942 by Warner Brothers Pictures starred Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, Hattie McDaniel, Percy Kilbride, Charles Coburn, Franklin Pangborn, Lee Patrick, and William Tracy; directed by William Keighley. Without her husband's knowledge, a woman purchases a dilapidated old farmhouse in Pennsylvania where George Washington was supposed to have actually slept during the American Revolution. They encounter one problem after another trying to get the house renovated.

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Some Beach - Blake Shelton (2004-2005)

Some Beach was the second single released from Blake Shelton's album Blake Shelton's Barn & Grill. The song reached the top of the chart the end of December 2004 and remained at #1 for four weeks. Some Beach was Blake Shelton's third #1 single.

I Watched it All (On My Radio) - Lionel Cartwright (1990)

I Watched it All (On My Radio), the first single from the album of the same name, was released in 1990 and peaked at #8 that same year.

What Mattered Most - Ty Herndon (1995)

What Mattered Most, from the album of the same name, was Ty Herndon's first singe release. It reached #1 in late May 1995.

Amy's Back in Austin - Little Texas (1995)

Amy's Back in Austin was the third single release from Little Texas' album Kick a Little. It peaked at #4 in the spring of 1995.

A Little Too Late - Toby Keith (2006)

A Little Too Late by Toby Keith was released as a single in April 2006 and peaked at the #2 position for two weeks in August 2006. It was the second single release from his CD White Trash With Money.

Somebody Like You - Keith Urban (2002)

Somebody Like You was the first single release from Keith Urban's 2002 album Golden Road and was his fifth American single release. The song reached the #1 position on Billboard's Hot Country Singles on October 19, 2002, and remained at #1 for six weeks and spending 41 weeks on that chart. It also reached #23 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. In 2009, Somebody Like You was named by Billboard as the Number One single of the first decade of the 21st century.

Give it Away - George Strait (2006)

Give it Away became George Strait's 41st #1 hit on September 30, 2006. It was the first single released from the album It Just Comes Natural. Give it Away won both Single of the Year and Song of the Year at the 2007 Academy of Country Music Awards.