Saturday 9

 

Welcome to Saturday: 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love to answer questions, however, and here are today's questions!

Saturday 9: On a Clear Day (1970)

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here

1) Is today a clear day where you are?
It is beautiful.  Sunny, only in the low 80s, clear. 

2) Streisand sings that today she's "astounded." What has recently shocked or greatly surprised you?
We are about to shut down the government, but the Republicans are trying to impeach Biden, without any evidence whatever.

3) Streisand's voice astounded people from an early age. She began performing in New York clubs when she was only 18, too young to order a drink in the establishments where she sang. Do you remember the first adult beverage you ordered at a restaurant or bar?
It was probably beer.  My friend and I shared a false ID so we could buy beer before we were 21.  When we turned 21 it was great fun to go and legally get a beer.

4) Barbra has discussed the importance of her Jewish faith in her life and has enlisted the guidance of Reform, Conservative and and Orthodox rabbis as she explored her religion's complexities. Do you enjoy discussing religion?
Not really, other than to say I'm a "recovering Catholic."

5) Taylor Swift just passed Barbra Streisand as the woman with the most #1 albums (12). What's the last album you purchased?
I haven't purchased any albums or CDs in many years. 

6) The lyrics to "On a Clear Day" were written by Alan Jay Lerner. He attended Choate, a private boarding school in CT, at the same time as John F. Kennedy. While JFK was in the White House, Lerner had two major Broadway hits -- Camelot and My Fair Lady -- running concurrently. Obviously those two Choate alumni did very well. Have you been to any of your class reunions? Have you been surprised, pleasantly or less so, by how any of your classmates turned out?
I went to the 50th reunion of my high school class. A friend of mine was the first black cosmetician licensed in the United States.

7) The music was written by Burton Lane. In the 1930s, Lane worked for MGM Studios in Hollywood. After he heard Judy Garland perform at the Paramount Theater in Los Angeles, he brought her to the attention of his studio bosses and the rest, as they say, is history. Lane and Garland later worked together when Judy was an established star. He wrote the song, "How About You?" for her to sing in Babes on Broadway and received an Oscar nomination. Judy's best known movie has to be The Wizard of Oz. How many times have you seen it?
Oh lord, I don't know.  Not as many times as I've seen Garland in A Star Is Born (probably 100 times)

8) In 1970, Glenn Frey formed the Eagles. What's your favorite Eagles song?
I don't know the Eagles.

9) Random question: Which would upset you more, being trapped in an elevator or stranded atop a mountain in a ski lift?.
Ski lift.

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