Best Scopitone EVER, from the King of Scopitones, Sonny King.
American lounge singer Sonny King (April 1, 1922 February 3, 2006) was born Luigi Antonio Schiavone on April 1, 1922 in Brooklyn, New York. He was the sidekick of Jimmy Durante for 28 years, and they appeared together on the Ed Sullivan Show five times in the 1960s. King shared a New York apartment with Dean Martin when the two were struggling entertainers, and is credited with introducing Martin to a young comedian Jerry Lewis. Though not an official member, he was close friends with many Rat Pack entertainers and appeared in the Rat Pack movies Robin and the Seven Hoods and Sergeants 3. He died on February 3, 2006, in Las Vegas, Nevada of cancer, aged 83.
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June 17, 2009
Sonny King: I Cried For You [SCOPE LOUNGE] via: Lethal Dose
June 16, 2009
Dolly Parton: The Real Queen Of All Media - CBS News
Dolly Parton: The Real Queen Of All Media
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See Dolly Parton's 1969 Grand Ole Opry performance of "My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy" from the motion picture "The Nashville Sound." (Footage courtesy of xenonpictures.com/nashvillesound.)
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Video Dolly: A Pig's Tale
You are not going to believe this Tennessee mountain tale!
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Dolly Parton is a country music legend who's surprisingly down to earth. And just wait until you hear some of her Tennessee mountain tales!
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Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, author, actress and philanthropist Dolly Parton.
Dolly Parton calls herself "a cartoon character that I created," and neither Bugs Bunny nor Minnie Mouse ever had it so good. But as Morley Safer first reported in April, there is the other Dolly Parton - the savviest woman in show business, the singer, the songwriter.
And yet another - the Hillbilly kid from the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, who grew up dirt poor in a family of 14.
She's a woman who, despite her millions, remains deeply attached to the customs, the humor and, for sure, the music of her roots.
Her latest venture is a Broadway show based on her iconic film "9 to 5" - words and music by Dolly. Writing songs and singing them is something she's been doing practically since birth.
"Ok. You wanna ask me to sing or do you want me to just whup it out for ya?” Dolly Parton asked Safer.
Safer and 60 Minutes were at Dolly's Tennessee mountain home, listening, to her "whup" out some songs from her childhood.
"Tiptoe, tiptoe, little Dolly Parton, tiptoe, tiptoe, ain’t she fine?" Dolly sang. It's the first song she remembers hearing around the house.
"Little tiny tabletop, I love you an awful lot…Hope you never go away, I want you to stay," she sang for Safer. That's the first song she ever made up, at age five, about a doll her father made from a corn cob.
"Puppy love, puppy love. They all call it puppy love. Now I had that little squeak, I'm old enough now to kiss and hug and I like it!" she sang.
And that was the first song she ever recorded, when she was 13 years old.
For half a century now, "little" Dolly Parton has been center stage and loving it. She's a songwriter, movie star, and queen of the quotable quotes. At 63 years old and five feet tall, she's larger than life.
She settled on the "party girl" persona when she was still a kid.
"The woman that I was most impressed with when I was a little girl was the town tramp. But I didn't know what that meant," she told Safer. "This woman had the yellow peroxide hair. She had the red nails. The red lipstick. The beautiful eyes. The high heels. Short skirt. And I thought she was the prettiest thing I'd ever seen. And whoever I was with would say, 'Oh, she ain't nothin' but trash.' And I make the joke. And I would say, 'Well, that's what I'm gonna be when I grow up,' meaning that's how I wanna look."
"When you started out with whatever you want to call 'that look,' did people really get the wrong idea in the sense that they didn't know that beneath that look there is maybe one of the smartest women around?" Safer asked.
"Well, I certainly got hit on a lot. And a lotta men thought I was as silly as I looked, I guess. You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone," she replied.
Gone, into Dolly, Inc.
Early on she demanded total control, and has a sizeable staff overseeing her business, philanthropy and music publishing. And she has become a kind of national monument, one who turned up at the National Press Club in Washington with some thoughts on the State of the Union.
"Somebody said to me 'Well, you know what? You just got such a big mouth and you just know how to talk to people. Did you ever think about runnin' for president?' I said 'I think we've had enough boobs in the White House,'" she joked at the press club appearance.
THE CHILLER! JERRY LEE LEWIS MUSEUM TOUR [SISTER - FRANKIE JEAN LEWIS TERRELL]
"I can't imagine being reincarnated and not being me...I'm going to invent hard liquor in squirt guns..."--Frankie Jean Lewis
Other Frankie Jean Quotes:
"...You can't blackmail a Lewis...We tell all and we tell the truth...The town can't stand us. They'll lie to you...anytime someone lies on a Lewis, something bad happens to 'em...They named a damn cow trail after Jerry in a white neighborhood...made me sing Little Richard songs--tore up the check and the Decca contract--that was that...said I was crazy--Crazy and glad for it...Mickey's known in the family as Puss-Gut...We passed the nickname down from his father......got a hole in my pants, wearing a shirt from the mission store, make 7 cents off a dollar, and drawed $200 out of this store in 30 years...roots are in the black neighborhood...work 14 hours a day...Pay taxes and die...two things you're sure to do...Mickey makes no damn sense. I don't know why Mickey's so arrogant...(Jimmy Swaggart) has a slush puppy with no alcohol in it. I have a margarita every day..."
Most days you'll find "The Chiller" at the Lewis Family Museum, or next door, at the Pik-Quick Drive-Thru beer and liquor store.
The proprietress is 5ft. 5in., with a curly red poodle-cut--you can see her resemblance to Jerry Lee.
The Lewis clan is intermarried with Swaggart's and Gilley's (if you're from Ferriday, pronounced with a soft 'G,' like a 'J' sound), televangelists and Urban Cowboys--Frankie Jean went her own way.
Married at 11 and soon widowed, she has been Mrs. Marion Terrell for 43 years. She and her husband raised eight kids.
Write to Frankie Jean
(INCLUDE SASE--NO EMAIL ACCOUNT)
Jerry Lee Lewis Museum
712 Louisiana Ave.
Ferriday, LA 71334
tel:
(318) 757-2460
fax:
(318)757-0709
*TELL HER NICHOPOULOOZA SENT YOU--YOU MIGHT GET A FREE DAIQUIRI WITH BUBBLEGUM INSIDE.
~ NICHOPOULOOZA
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Arnold Rypens
(oktober 2007)
Nederland, Cotton Harvest Tour
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