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23:35 Nov 27 2011
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They showed a documentary of the Concert for NYC about a month after 9/11. Most of it was about Paul McCartney who organized the whole thing. What I find interesting is in everyday life young people don't mix well or like to with people much older but will come to a concert with all ages and the place will be packed. The groups playing are all my age or nearly, lol.



Paul is about five years older than I am. I was never a big Beatles fan. I liked them and I was 16 or 17 when they came to the US in 1964. I was die hard Rolling Stones at the time. I remember going to San Bernardino to the Swing Auditorium (not there anymore) and seeing them in 1964. I sat in the fifth row from the stage and paid only $3.50 to see them. I still have the ticket stub somewhere. About a year later they had gained popularity and I went back there and wasn't so close to the stage and had to pay $7.00 I think it was that time. I went to concerts but not a lot of them with big names until the 70s.



I liked English groups but the Beatles just weren't that high on my list. I thought they were ok. I never cared for John Lennon. I thought he was a pompous ass...sorry. I liked a few of their songs though and I didn't dislike their band but like others better such as the Dave Clark Five and Gerry and the Pacemakers but mostly I was a Rolling Stones fan. I liked a lot of American music as well. I was listening to a lot of odd things like Jose Feliciano and as I have posted in the past, Brazilian music. I was into Haiku poetry and a lot of crazy things probably because we thought it cool then. But then I was never an Elvis fan until after he died. Saw his movies though.



I just find it interesting how these elderly people bring the crowds out for the concerts. I wonder if Paul will still be performing in his 70s. He is only one year off. I liked their music, don't get me wrong but I wasn't one of the screaming teens. When their little black and white movie came out everyone screamed in the theater. I sat there laughing but my best friend says I was screaming but I never did. She isn't remembering right. My favorite had been George. I saw their hallmark appearance on the Ed Sullivan show like I saw the Doors when they were on there. I was never a big Doors fan either, lol. I liked individual songs.



I use to watch Ed Sullivan to see Topo Gigio. He is mentioned in the first Santa Claus movie when they try to find out who he is. I laughed because I figured most had no clue what was being referred to. I knew right away. He was an Italian mouse. I never knew how it worked. I guess it was a Marionette but I don't know.

I looked in Wikipedia to see and this is what it said about Topo. He wasn't a Marionette but a puppet.



"During the first half of the 1960s (especially in 1964), there was a TV music show presented by the British singer Chris Howland both in Austria and Germany; in Austria Mike Molto had a special small show to help the advertising industry in the early 1960s. (Austrian television advertising first started in 1959.) Topo Gigio was part of the Italian puppet show of Madame Maria Perego. A 1969 color television show especially for children in Austria and Switzerland was called Cappuccetto and Her Adventures with her friends Lupo Lupone, Professor Lhotko, a fox, some other animals of the forest, her grandmother and a music band with five little mushrooms playing on guitars and singing.



During the 1960s, the American Topo Gigio appeared on the long-running CBS-TV variety show The Ed Sullivan Show. Created by a troupe of Italian puppeteers, it took four people to bring the 10" tall character to life, three to manipulate him and one to create his voice. The puppet stood in a special "limbo" black art stage with black velvet curtains, designed to absorb as much ambient light as possible, which helped hide the puppeteers, who also dressed in black from head to toe. Each puppeteer operated a different part of Gigio's foam rubber body by using several wooden dowel rods (also painted black). The illusion was quite remarkable, since unlike traditional hand puppets, Topo Gigio could actually appear to walk on his feet, sing, make subtle hand gestures, and even walk up Ed Sullivan's arm and perch on his shoulder. Careful lighting and TV camera adjustment made the "black art" illusion perfect for the television audience, though on at least one appearance, Ed asked the puppeteers to come out and take a bow, revealing their black-clad appearance (though deftly hiding Gigio's mechanisms to conceal the secret).



In more than fifty appearances on the show, the mouse would appear on stage and greet Sullivan with, "Hello, Eddie!". Gigio would occasionally talk about his girlfriend, Rosie. Gigio ended his weekly visits by crooning to the host, "Eddie, kiss me goodnight!" (pronounced as "Keesa me goo'night!"). Topo Gigio closed Sullivan's final show in 1971."

20:38 Nov 11 2011
Times Read: 561

If interested read here at the Blue Moon Manor:



http://www.blue-moon-manor.com/articles/compared-to-wicca.html