Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Tuesday’s podcast: Rubio on NBC, Trial over Biden speech plus more stories

Rubio on NBC, Trial over Biden speech plus more stories..


Biden goes full racialist

Biden goes full racialist: A few years ago, President George W. Bush spoke at our son's Southern Methodist University graduation.    He was joined by first lady Laura, who is a graduate.    His speech made us laugh, but it was very inspirational…
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We remember Raymond Burr (1917-1993)




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We remember Raymond Burr, known to most of us as Perry Mason.  He was born on this day in 1917 and died in 1993.    

Back in 1956,  Burr was in Cuba working on “Affair in Havana“.     Burr played “Mal Mallabee”, a rich businessman confined to a wheelchair as the result of a boating accident.  Mallabee hired an investigator to look into his wife Lorna (Sara Shane) who is allegedly having an affair with Nick Douglas, an American living and working in Cuba played by John Cassavetes.   
Catch “Affair in Havana” the next time it’s shown on the retro channels.   I won’t tell you more about the plot. 
The movie will take you back to a time when Americans worked and invested in Cuba without fear of confiscation, totally functional pre-Castro Cuba.
After that movie, Burr applied for the role of “Perry Mason” .   He won the audition and started that show later in 1957 and it became one of the most popular TV series ever. 
I recall my late father saying that he saw the show in pre-Castro Cuba.  I remember watching the show in Mexico overdubbed in Spanish.

Burr had another popular series called “Ironside”.   It was good but I think most of us remember him for those Perry Mason shows.
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1955: Chuck Berry and the story of "Maybellene"

On this day in 1955, Chuck Berry recorded "Maybellene" and the rest is history.        

Chuck Berry has a very special place in the history of rock.  He is one of the legendary composers and guitarists.     Where would rock be without Chuck Berry?

Berry went on to have many more hits.   He also influenced The Beatles and The Rolling Stones of the next generation of rock.

It all started for Berry with the wonderful "Maybellene".


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1927: Charles Lindbergh arrived in Paris


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We remember that Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris in 1927.     His plane "The spirit of St. Louis" had taken off from Roosevelt Field 33 hours earlier.

As a result of the flight, Lindbergh became an international personality and met his future wife during a trip to Mexico.     He died in 1974.


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