This photo of Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall celebrating the holidays with their kid comes from my pallie Bill.
I did want to say that I hope all of you have enjoyed these last two weeks of Christmas posts here at The Dino Lounge. I had so much fun putting these together. They definitely helped put me in the holiday spirit.
The blog The Shelf started a meme to name your top 10 Christmas music performances. I was tagged by my pallie over at Retro Hound to take part in this.
I remember that MTV would show a lot of Christmas videos during the holiday season when I was a teenager. These are ten of the videos from some of the songs that I enjoyed most back then. Do any of you guys remember these songs? Which ones do you like? I'm not going to be back as soon as I thought. My cable modem has died. I'm going to have to get another one. I don't have the money for that yet. It will be at least Monday, January 4th before I'm back up here.
I hope that all of you will have a wonderful time with your loved ones. Take good care of yourselves. God bless you all. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Paul McCartney: Wonderful Christmas Time
John Mellencamp: I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
David Bowie & Bing Crosby: Little Drummer Boy
Hall & Oates: Jingle Bell Rock
John Lennon: Happy Christmas
Band Aid: Do They Know It's Christmas
Wham!: Last Christmas
Run-DMC: Christmas In Hollis
U2: Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Annie Lennox & Al Green: Put A Little Love In Your Heart
White Christmas, penned by Irving Berlin, is one of my favorite Christmas songs. The most popular version by far is the classic version by Bing Crosby, which had sold millions and millions of copies throughout the years. This song always reminds me of Christmas as a child. I remember that I always wanted it to snow on Christmas back in those days. I'm posting Bing's rendition of the song, as well as several others for your enjoyment. Let me know which version you like the best.
Bing Crosby:
Dean Martin:
Dolly Parton:
Robbie Williams: This is a more comical version of the song
Chesterfield was a popular brand of cigarettes back in the 1950's/1960's. It was actually the favorite cigarette brand of Lucille Ball. There are so many really cool vintage ads for their cigarettes. Many celebrities actually did advertising for them. Whether you're a smoker or not, it is neat to see this slice of another time period. I've got a bunch of ads from them that I plan to post in the future. Here are some of the Christmas ads Chesterfield did in the past. I hope you like them.
P.S. I hadn't originally put this in the post, but I'm adding it in now. I watched an Andy Williams Christmas special on PBS yesterday, so I wanted to share a clip from it with you guys. Here's Andy singing Silent Night.
These are some Christmas album covers throughout the years that I like. Many of them I posted last year at this time, but I thought I would share them again. So which do you like the best?
I thought I would end this post with a video of Nat King Cole's Christmas classic The Christmas Song.
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Here's a picture of Dean Martin and Bing Crosby rehearsing for a show in Hollywood in the late 1950's. I'm not sure exactly what this was. Any ideas? It is cool to see Dino hang out with his idol. Plus Dino is looking really cool in this photo.
P.S. My blog has won several awards.
I won the Kreativ Blogger Award from Clare at her blog Clarabelle.
I was honored with the Stylish Blogger Award from Annie over at her blog Loose Leaf Tigers.
I also was bestowed with this Idyllhours Award from Laurel over at her blog HappySimpleLife.
Thanks to my wonderful blogging friends for these awards. I greatly appreciate it. I'm always thrilled to find that others enjoy what I do here. It means a lot. I do need asap to post the information that I'm asked to do for these awards. I wanted to go ahead and mention that I had won these. I've been so busy lately that I sometimes feel like a chicken with their head cut off. lol
Dean Martin and Bing Crosby share a dance to celebrate The Dino Lounge winning an award.
That's right, pallies! The Dino Lounge has been honored with the You are a great read! award by my good pallie Jessica over at her wonderful blog Chronically Vintage. I am so thrilled with receiving this award. I thank Jessica so much for bestowing it upon my blog. I highly recommend her blog. I hope you'll check it out.
I'd love to be able to give this award to all of my blogging friends. You all have incredible blogs that I enjoy checking out and commenting on. It's hard for me to only highlight a select few. You all deserve this award so much. I am limiting myself, however, to only fifteen blogs since that seems to be the standard. I tried to pick an eclectic bunch of winners. If you've never visited these blogs, I hope you will take the time to stop by them. I'm sure you will like them as much as I do. Cafe Fashionista Dapper Kid Fantomorte Felinofelice
I do hope that nobody will feel slighted if I didn't pick them. It's nothing personal. It was hard to limit myself to these blogs. I did try to pick blogs on everything from film to music to fashion. These are some of the blogs that I love and enjoy. There are so many others. I do hope the award winners will pass this award on to some of their favorite blogs as well. Congrats to all the winners. I raise a toast to you. Cheers!
I posted a clip in the past of Dean Martin and Lena Horne together on The Dean Martin Variety Show. I really loved that video. These two were fantastic together. Click on this link to visit that post if you want to. Today I'm posting another great clip of Dino and Lena, but this time they are joined by Bing Crosby. I hope you enjoy this medley of these three amazing entertainers.
Yesterday, June 7th, was the 92nd birthday of Dean Martin. Happy Birthday to the King of Cool himself. Dino is definitely the coolest cat to ever live. There's never been anybody quite like him. Dino's one of a kind. I wish I just had a small percentage of the cool and hip swagger that Dino possesses. I would be a happy and content fella then. Dean Martin epitomizes what it means to be cool. He is the very definition of it. While many of us try to be cool, it oozes from Dino naturally. It's always been effortless with him. I raise a toast in honor of my favorite entertainer of all time. Cheers!
I came across this picture by Drew Friedman. I thought it would be great to share it with my pallies here.
There was quite the party this weekend to celebrate Dean Martin's birthday. I was trying to snap a picture of Dino, but he headed off with some hot chick. I can't blame him though. It was his birthday after all.
I did get a pic of Frank Sinatra and some other guy (I have no clue who he is -anybody know?). Frank was tending bar. He made up some pretty tasty drinks for all of us to enjoy.
Dino and so many of his guests entertained us with some wonderful cocktail music. I wish though I could carry a tune. Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong were part of the house band for the night.
P.S. Thanks to all those who offered words of advice to me. I really appreciate it very much. I don't usually talk about my personal life here at my blog, but this has been something deeply on my mind. I'm glad nobody was offended by me talking about such matters. Many of you, either here in comments or by email, offered some great advice. It was nice to hear about how things have been going with all of you. Some of you had better news than others. I do care about all my friends here. I hope that things will go well for all of you. These are some difficult and worrisome times for us. I wish all of you the best. Take care. You are in my thoughts and prayers.
These are some really cool lobby cards for the Rat Pack flick Robin & The 7 Hoods. These cards feature Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. & Bing Crosby. I hope you like them. I know that I really do. They come courtesy of my pallie Timmy.
I love Robin and the 7 Hoods. It doesn't get much better than the Rat Pack and Bing Crosby. For those that have never seen this movie, it's basically the story of Robin Hood set in Chicago during the Prohibition era. Here's a clip of Sammy singing Bang Bang. He's singing, dancing & shooting. I told you before he's an all around great entertainer. :-)
I looked around before I was really able to find a clip of Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby together. I finally came across this one. It's about ten minutes long. I hope you will watch it. It features a medley of Christmas songs.
I don't really know what to write about this video clip. You've just got to watch it. I hope you enjoy it. I thought it was really awesome.
P.S. I wanted to remind my pallies here to check out the Dean Martin Christmas video I posted at Celluloid Slammer. I hope you'll check it out and leave me some comments there. Thanks. Cheers!
Here's a cool shot of Dean Martin with his pallies Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby. These three look like they are having a great time on the radio.
P.S. My pallie Dave over at his wonderful blog Planet Mondo has a really cool post you should check out. This week's edition of his regular feature Funky Friday is dubbed Cocktail Shakers. As the 60's were ending and the 70's were beginning, many of the singers who did lounge and cocktail music wanted to try to stay relevant. They covered popular songs of the day to try to be cool and hip for a new crowd. I think the results can be quite enjoyable. For example, I really dig hearing Peggy Lee cover Everyday People. It's neat to hear Vegas era singers do their own takes on the socially conscious music of the Vietnam era. I hope you'll check out this blog post and leave some comments for Dave there. Thanks. Cheers!
Robin and the 7 Hoods is coming to Broadway. Here are a couple of excerpts from the Broadwaywebsite:
A new musical adaptation of the 1964 Rat Pack film Robin and the 7 Hoods has set its sights on a Broadway debut in Spring 2010. Directed and choreographed by three-time Tony Award nominee Casey Nicholaw (Spamalot, The Drowsy Chaperone and the upcoming To Be or Not to Be), the production will showcase the classic songs from Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen, such as “My Kind of Town,” “Come Fly with Me” and “Call Me Irresponsible.”
A Prohibition-era reimagining of the tale of Robin Hood, Robin and the 7 Hoods starred Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Bing Crosby, Peter Falk and Barbara Rush, trading Sherwood Forest for a gangland Chicago riddled with mobsters. When racketeer Robbo (Sinatra) refuses to surrender his territory to a corrupt sheriff and new mob boss (Falk), Chicago's worst go gunning for him. When a surprising rainfall of illicit funds comes his way, Robbo donates the ill-earned money to a local orphanage and quickly becomes the toast of the town. As the mob war simultaneously rages on, Robbo forms an alliance with the orphanage's director (Crosby) and a smooth pool player (Martin) and tries to come out of it all alive.
Click on the above link to read the whole article. Many films are being turned into Broadway musicals. I guess it was about time that one of the Rat Pack flicks found its way to stage. I hope it's going to be good. I've been a fan of mob movies and the Rat Pack since I can remember. I really enjoyed this movie. I hope the musical does it justice. Let me know what you think.
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