The following is a bit of a different concept—a rhyming paragraph. If you enjoy playing either guitar, accordion, or piano, see if you can churn out a melody and turn that rhyming paragraph into a song, like the old Lawrence Welk show, turn on the bubble machine and away we go.
There was Groucho Marx...You Bet Your Life; our Terry Jacks, Robert Young in Father Knows Best and his T.V. wife; Dragnet’s Joe Friday and his favourite saying “just the facts, ma’am”. Do you recall Robert CULP in I Spy and Jack Benny’s friendly competition with Fred Allan?
Then there is, it’s on the tip of my tongue, oh now I remember, Al Martino and his big hit, “She Was a Wild and Lovely Rose”. Of course, let’s not forget Dean Martin’s “When The Moon Hits Your Eyes” or “Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)” sung by Perry Como.
Do you miss those fast spinning 78 rpm records? Oh well, that’s the way yesterday goes. How about all those soap operas on the tube radios. Did things go better with coke? I miss good old George Gobel and Myron Cohen.
Today it’s out the window just like an old fashioned can of evap...or...ated..milk...as Jimmy Durante might have said...”Folks”. How about Shelly Berman and all those westerns and famous Hollywood cowpokes?
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