The lovely raquel welch was just one of the lovely actress we had in our time jill st John ursula address the lovely Natalie Wood 2 name but a few we were very lucky & very very blessed love u all God bless xxx❤😊
James Stewart & Dean martin & lovely raquel welch in great westerh direct by Andrew v mcglen music by Jerry goldsmith the actor who sold the film was George Kennedy great actor fantastic western with stars who r no longer with us xxx🤠🐎🐂🐄 more the pity xx
Reportedly, when off set, Raquel Welch disliked all the attention she received from fans and autograph seekers, but Jimmy Stewart wisely advised her to be gracious and kind to them, because their adoration…and the adoration of her millions of other fans…will help keep her a “movie star”.
I had the great pleasure of working with Tom about 20 years ago while he was in the Lehigh Valley and connected with the Allen Organ Co. A wonderful guy and one of the most decent human beings there ever was. This recording captures all of Tom's spirit. A week or two after we did a concert together, Tom subbed for one Sunday service as the organist at my church in Allentown. It was 4th of July weekend, so Tom chose "Variations on America" by Charles Ives for the prelude music. I wish you could have seen all the "blue hairs" in the congregation twisting their necks to see what in the blazes was going on up in that organ loft!!
Totally agree with your comments. There’s just something special about the successful TV series of the early and mid 60’s. I guess it would be the innovation and innocence of it all. Watching reruns of Petticoat Junction this month. Luv that tune…
Now if you really want to test out your stereo, Play this instrument at 11 on your stereo. Everything that is loose or can become loose will shake loose. A big organ has so much sound and range of sound.
Great song representing its era… late mod 60’s/early 70’s. However, the five year contract that Knott’s had with Universal was starting to fade. Time were changing. His previous movies (Ghost and Mr. Chicken/Shakiest Gun in the West) were fantastic. This one was more of a dud.
Knotts was not too thrilled about the subject matter of the movie, which is strange because Playboy was being read by just about every red blooded American male at the time. He still had that Mayberry persona hanging around his reputation, and that was pretty much played out as well. America was moving on from those Mayberry days. All In The Family was coming, and all the popular shows were being shelved. Jim Nabors, Andy Griffith, Don Knotts still made a few movies, but Lucille Ball, and all those heavyweights in the 60's were just about finished. Griffith had his show Matlock being successful, and it was always great to see Don Knots making a rare appearance. But notice they used the same gimmicks that they used in the Mayberry days. Mostly used for reminiscing. When you really think about it, that era of comedy was very much over. You watched it for a decade, and writers had to come up with a different style of comedy. The 70s was far different then the 60s were. Vietnam took a lot of the comedy out of the late 60s. And TV reflected on it, and television turned more serious than before. There were far more comedies that were successful in the 60s then the 70s. 70s heavyweights were Mary Tyler Moore, Three's Company, Sanford & Son. Most great comedies did not last very long. Get Smart, Green Acres, Hogan's Heroes. All gone. But the 70s had live audiences' shows being Top Gun. Carol Burnette Show. Happy Days, All In The Family. The Jeffersons. Really great shows. Good Times. And they were tackling subject matters no one would had dared dreamed of during the 60s! The only major flaw with Don Knotts, and the Universal movies he made was the fact that they were all predictable. I actually liked The Love God? more than The Reluctant Astronaut. I never understood why Lucy always tried to recapture that magic that was long gone from her comedy. She was on top of the world for more than 19 years, and by that last ditch effort to come back in what? 1977, it was all over. It was a totally different generation of TV viewers. And she was running Desilu studios. Very successfully. Today, long after her death, she is still the most recognizable face on television. She had not a thing to prove. Apologies for the length of my long comments!
@@tomodonovan5931Having just seen the movie, I think it suffered from coming out a few years too early. The script feels like it has one foot in the "safe" comedy of earlier years and another foot moving toward the raunchy comedies of the 70s like Blazing Saddles. The tone feels uneven as a result.
@@IsmailofeRegime Good point. The free love movement had not yet bloomed, so you were pretty much tuned in to what was going on around you. Caught in the middle of squeaky clean, and as you say raunchy. Europe was way ahead of America in the raunchy films in the sixties. America graduated when that Linda Lovelace flick came out in the early 70s. Excuse the pun, but she blew it out of the water! lol!
That's Big Birtha, the Wurlitzer (one of only 3 in it's original theater) of the Alabama Theatre in Birmingham Alabama. I used to be a projectionist there.
I've always had a soft spot for theater organ music. My parents have a vinyl record of organ music from the now-defunct Organ Grinder Pizza parlor in Portland, Oregon. It's the best Don Simmons album, and I can't find it anywhere on the internet. Which is a shame, because I don't own a record player.
Whenever I want my big Russian cat to come to me from anywhere in the house, I pay this the piano. She has loved it since she was but a wee mite! Right down there on my bare feet and the pedals.
