Meet Me In Seattle

"♪ ♫ ♩ ♬Meet Me In Seattle ♪ ♫ ♩ ♬" "Seattle Washington. A new landmark, The Space Needle, dominates this view with Seattle in the background and Mt. Rainier 60 miles in the distance standing guardian over all."
 
I'm growing quite a collection of Seattle Postcards.  I'm particularly fond of anything related to the 1962 Seattle World's Fair.
I have several of this postcard view.  But the musical inscription led me to look for the song.
It's awesomely awful. So I love it.
The mp3 file has been uploaded here (which was blogged here)

I was compelled to geek out the lyrics to this peppy tune:

"Meet Me In Seattle" Joy and the Boys - Seafair Records

Meet me in Seattle at the fair

If you want to meet me I’ll be there

I will be your guy

You will be my doll

We will have a ball

Remember

If you wanna hug me hug me there

If you wanna kiss me kiss me there

I’ll be waiting

to start that celebrating.

Meet me in Seattle

That’s where I’ll be at; I’ll meet you 
in Seattle at the fair.

Doodoodoodoo

Paris at the exposition

The item of the hour

that took the prize

and raised the eyes - the Eiffel tower

Chicago of the 30s had Billy Rose’s plan

The Aquacade,

Promenade

and Sally 
and her fan

Now it’s in Seattle

and honey you can bet

Meet me here

I promise dear

Ya aint seen nothing yet! Yeah!

Dressed up in my finery

Up in that space age dinery

Meet me in Seattle

That’s where I’ll be at; I’ll meet you 
in Seattle at the fair

If you fail me I’ll be blue

Wanna ride that monorail with you

Meet me in Seattle

That’s where I’ll be at; I’ll meet you 
in Seattle at the fair!

Any other interpretations of the lyrics welcome!

The Marines' Hymn

I have a stack of old sheet music of my grandmother's. I wanted to share The Marines' Hymn in honor of Memorial Day Weekend.


copyright MCMXLII - 1942

I was not familiar with the second verse

This is the back cover the score - I think it'd be very cool to have old sheet music of the Star Spangled Banner!


The Armed Forces Hymnal is also with the collection of family music. I'll have to ask my Dad if it was from when he was in the army in the late 50s early 60s since there is no date on the inside. The table of contents lists a Catholic Section, Jewish Section and Protestant Section.


Please take time to remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice to protect our freedom.

Christmas Music through the years

I know I'm not alone feeling deeply connected with Christmas music from the past. Classic versions of many holiday favorites just make it feel more like Christmas. A personal favorite of mine is Julie Andrew's Joy To The World. I still have the vinyl! I also still have my vinyl of Gene Autry's Rudolph the Red-nose Reindeer

From Visiting Vintage

Another LP I have includes Simon and Garfunkel's 7:00 O'Clock News/Silent Night - have a listen if you haven't heard it.

From Visiting Vintage

I took guitar lessons in Junior High - I was pretty proud of myself when I learned how to play Silver Bells - I still have the ditto!  (Note to self - describe to teen age daughter how school assignments used to look and smell)

From Visiting Vintage

The family piano plays a big role for me at Christmas time and the rest of the year.  Below is family sing-along at the piano in 1974 - my Dad had an ear for music and would take requests.

From Visiting Vintage

The piano here is from the 1920s - according to family lore when my Dad's parents got married in January 1929, they rented a furnished apartment in Bremerton, WA.  The previous owner was a Deputy Sheriff (possible surname Allen) and for reasons unknown to me, skipped town in the middle of the night leaving through a back window with his family.  Later the family was washed away in a flash flood somewhere in California.  Some day I'm going to see if I can find anything to authenticate this story but in the meantime, the story of the piano is that it originally belonged to him and was left in my Grandparent's first apartment.  My parents later inherited it and "antiqued" it as shown above (GAH!).  Sometime in the 80's or the 90's they had the ivories replaced and thankfully refinished the body and this is how it looks today.

From Visiting Vintage

The sheet music on the right in both photos is the same.  Here is some old Christmas sheet music in the family collection

From Visiting Vintage

Irving Berlin's White Christmas copyright 1942, I Believe In Santa Claus dated in my grandmother's handwriting December 1945 and Carol of the Drum that I tried to play on piano in the mid 70s.

My Grandmother played on this piano, my Dad learned to play on this piano, I TRIED to learn to play on this piano and my daughter has learned to play on this piano.  This makes me smile.

Many years ago my mom recalled my favorite decoration was a music box wall nativity that played Silent Night when the string was pulled so she gave it to me.  This also makes me smile.

From Visiting Vintage

More "modern" is my Best of Christmas in the Northwest CD - this the cover unfolded because I love the lyrics to Another Wet Seattle Christmas. Album presented in 1994 by the now defunct Ernst Home and Nursery.

From Visiting Vintage

VERY meaningful to me is every Christmas Eve service that I've attended since I was very young is concluded with individual candle lighting during the singing of Silent Night.  I don't have an old photo of this important tradition for me but this is a couple of years ago at my church.

From Bellevue

Merry Musical Christmas to you!!

Solid Potato Salad - Ross Sisters 1944

I originally became obsessed with this video featuring the Ross Sisters a few years ago - I watched it several times a day for quite a while and "had" to decipher the lyrics. There's something about this: the goofy song, the stage setting, the vintage costumes - not to mention the amazing contortions that had me enthralled. My sister-in-law gave me the VHS of the movie; it's from Broadway Rhythm (it's not released on DVD - go figure). I was curious to see how this clip fit in to a movie but the video got buried and I forgot about it. Last week a friend posted it on Facebook and again I can't get it out of my head! Now to track down my copy of the movie.
Here's my best attempt at lyrics - can anyone help me fix them?
Root toot tooo yew dut
Root toot tooo yew dut
Da doo day
Root toot tooo yew dut
Roo doo loo dooo loo dut bah doodle bay boys
Solid potato salad That's solid salad, Jack
Hit your _____ with
Solid potato salad, boys
Take my plate, Fill it up, And bring it right back
Solid potato salad
And lets have no Yak Yak
Solid potato salad, boys
Take my plate, fill it up, And bring it right back
The farmer said to the spud (solid solid salad days)
Your skin looks slightly pallid (solid solid salad days)
So I'll dig you later bud (solid solid salad days)
For some solid potato salad hoy hoy
Solid potato salad
It's a groovy, movie salad, Jack
Solid potato salad, boys

Dat do dat do dat do day
Bring it back!
And speaking of "bring it back" What say we re-introduce "solid" into the vernacular? You know . . . as in "that's sooo SOLID".
"Awesome" and "You rock" are totally over-used these days. We need this groovy word back as another way to say "excellent". Who's with me?