There was Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘G.o.o.d Evening’ with that humorous but long, extended spooky voice, followed by that show’s catchy tune. Those were still the days when, for a dime, you could get a Pepsi or Coke. Either carbonated drink went down real smooth, listening to Perry Como croon, ‘catch a falling star and put it in your pocket’. On Ed Sullivan you might hear Love Letters In The Sand with Pat Boone.
Do you still remember the old shows and the first time you watched television on an Admiral, RCA, Westinghouse, Motorola, whatever, and adjusted those rabbit ears to pull in maybe three channels or up to a dozen with a rooftop antenna. The following song might reprise a thought or two.
A WEE BIT OF NOSTALGIA
Did you ever wear a racoon hat in the days of Davy Crockett? Those hats were a sensation just like the hula-hoop. Do you recall 3-D glasses in the theatre, wow, what a marketing scoop. Then Cinerama came along, ‘Yup’, as Gary Cooper used to say, them those days, did they ever Hopalong fast. As Walter Cronkite used to say long before the CBS Evening News, ‘You and I were there’. Like TV and Motion Pictures, musical theatre has also had a profound impact on many of us ‘youngsters’.