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Throwing it back to 2014 for some #TBT action via the Dating Game-themed music video, “Somebody 4 Everybody,” from award-winning singer/songwriter Matt Zarley. The video is upbeat, fun, and full of flirtation. Who can’t use a bit of that today? Continue reading “#TBT: Matt Zarley Finds ‘Somebody 4 Everybody’”
Matt Zarley sings “I Look To You”
A little Throwback Thursday action here as I reach back to Dame Olivia Newton-John’s 2005 album, Stronger Than Before. Continue reading “#TBT – Olivia Newton-John “Stronger Than Before””
Juraj Krajcik (via Twitter)
Mary Chapin Carpenter (photo: Aaron Farrington)
Wow, talk about #ThrowBackThursday!
I can’t believe how time goes by. Twenty-three years ago today, I made my Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade debut with the 1995 Broadway revival cast of Hello, Dolly! (including the incomparable Tony Award-winner herself, Carol Channing)!
I remember this like it was yesterday. We all had to get up waaaaaaaay early, get down to the Lunt-Fontanne Theater where we were playing to get into costume, then get on a bus to ride about 10 blocks down Broadway to sit in a trailer before we headed out to do “Before The Parade Passes By.”
And it was so cold! You’d never know to look at Carol, though. And what a thrill to be on the most famous and watched parade with the world.
I then headed to home on the Upper West Side for a most fab dinner with (then boyfriend, now husband) Michael and my bestie, Carlye.
During dinner the phone rang, and it was Vanessa Williams calling from the West Coast to say “Happy Thanksgiving!” – and since she was watching the parade in California – “you look like you’re freezing!” LOL
I still love my Broadway Dolly! family all these years later. What a great memory to find this video today.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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A bit of #TBT action today as the above pic of hubby Michael came up as a reminder on Facebook today and it totally took me back in time to when we first met.
It was 1994. Michael and I had just begun to date long distance after meeting in Minneapolis at the recording session for the revival of Hello, Dolly! with Carol Channing bound for the Great White Way (my first Broadway show).
Michael was the 25-year-old vice president of publicity for the record label that handled the recording.
A couple of weeks into dating I realized I didn’t have a pic of Michael. Remember, this was pre-internet days.
He sent me a test polaroid pic from a photo shoot he’d just overseen for a new album, Slow Hot Wind, by Janis Siegel of the Manhattan Transfer and jazz pianist Fred Hersh.
I still have the polaroid in my office.
And I loved the album when it came out.
p.s. Michael and I celebrate our 24th anniversary this month, which is pretty cool 🙂
Check out “Agua” from Slow Hot Wind below.
While the film wasn’t well-received at the time, Grease 2 has become something of a cult classic.
And you have to admit director/choreographer Pat Birch came up with some clever dance numbers.
Like this one…
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A little #TBT action as I sit back a relive the days I wore down my cassette tape (!!!) of this duet, “If You Say My Eyes Are Beautiful,” by Jermaine Jackson and a young Whitney Houston.
A bit of history about this recording: Whitney was deemed ineligible for “Best New Artist” in 1986 when her first solo album dropped because this duet with Jermaine had been released prior and she was considered “not new.”
Isn’t that silly? Anyway…
Everything here takes me back: the oh-so-80s music production, Jermaine’s light but shining vocals, and then – my girl.
So much here was a sign of what was to come. So sweet in the beginning, but take note of moments like the 2:40 mark and 3:32. Boom!
My bestie Matt and I rewound those tapes over and over and over to hear the awesome over-the-bar key change and those rocking riffs.
Sigh. Takes me back.
Sit back and enjoy 🙂
My hubby Michael recently found this mashup of Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” paired with the Whitney Houston classic, “My Love Is Your Love,” and it’s been on repeat for a while now.
Feels like they were meant for each other.
Perfect for a #ThrowBackThursday…
Enjoy.