{"id":17,"date":"2012-03-22T02:52:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T20:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=17"},"modified":"2021-06-19T20:05:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T14:05:58","slug":"frank-sinatra-bill-bailey-a-little-crazy-in-the-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"FRANK SINATRA, BILL BAILEY, & A LITTLE CRAZY IN THE HEAD"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Where has the time gone?\u00a0 More than a month and no new blahg?\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong>\"ScottAwwwk!\u00a0 I know, that’s a strange noise to make, and I’m sure I didn’t spell it correctly, but that’s the best I can do at this point.\u00a0 I have been so busy this past month that I haven’t had time to write a blahg and if I had the time, I was probably too tired.\u00a0 I won’t make any more excuses and I won’t make any more strange noises except caw caw.\u00a0 That’s even stranger but last week when we were in Toronto, I amused my thirteen year old daughter by randomly making that bird like noise in public to see if anyone would notice.\u00a0 No one did.\u00a0 Now on to the blahg.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This blahg is going to be an update to two previous blahgs and a little something extra thrown in.\u00a0 Right about now you’re probably wondering what I mean by “a little crazy in the head.”\u00a0 If you’ll stay with me, I’ll get there.\u00a0 First, let’s jump back to last September and the first blahg that I posted.\u00a0 You may recall that the title of that first blahg was “THE BLAHG AND THE MOST HAPPY SOUND”.\u00a0 If you can’t remember back that far, and believe me that I have those days, then you can just jump back and check out that blahg here:\u00a0 http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=5<\/a><\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0 The ‘Most Happy Sound’ of that blahg referred to the title album by Margaret Ann & The Ja-Da Quartet.\u00a0 I reviewed that album and offered a couple of tracks for your listening pleasure.\u00a0 I also noted two single 45 rpm releases by the same group but that I did not have a copy of one of these which included ‘Secret’ <\/em>backed with ‘Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home’.\u00a0 <\/em>I know this is a bit of a cheat because I have actually gone ahead and updated that blahg but if you’re only reading my new blahgs, and boy did you have to wait a while for a new one, then you probably didn’t know that first blahg has been updated.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I won’t dwell too much on this part of the update but I had previously reviewed “Secret” and commented that it sounded like a <\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>late 50s\/early 60s vocal group.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong>\"Secret\/BillThe flip side is completely different. <\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>“Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home” harkens back to the LP ‘The Most Happy Sound’. Here we have that roaring 20s jazz and swing coming through.\u00a0 Give it a listen:\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong>
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Now on to the second update.\u00a0 I’m happy to say that Frank Sinatra is in the house!\u00a0 I guess I should clarify that in case a few of you believe I am a little crazy in the head and believe Sinatra is haunting me or at the very least that I’m hallucinating.\u00a0 This reference goes back to another blahg that I wrote back in January of this year.\u00a0 The title of that blahg was “THIS SPOT RESERVED FOR THE 2011 CARLTON CARDS SINATRA ORNAMENT.”\u00a0 Again, if you haven’t read that blahg, then you can check it out here http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=14<\/a>. <\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong>\"All<\/a>In that blahg, I detailed my frustration in finding the 2011 Carlton Cards Sinatra ornament to complete my collection that I started with the first release in 1999.\u00a0 I also exhibited a picture of my incomplete collection.\u00a0 That picture was in error because it only displayed 10 of the 11 releases (not including the missing 2011 ornament) and also did not include the Hallmark release in 2009 when there was no Carlton Cards Sinatra ornament.\u00a0 The picture at left now shows all of the ornaments; including the 2011 ornament.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The point of my original blahg was to draw attention to the missing ornament in my collection.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong>\"My<\/a>Since that blahg I have now acquired the 2011 ornament and I want to comment a little on it.\u00a0 As I have mentioned (come on, read that blahg already so I don’t have to keep repeating everything), the 2011 ornament was withdrawn shortly after its initial release.\u00a0 The two answers I received from American Greetings, the parent company of Carlton Cards, basically pointed to a production error.\u00a0 If you look at the picture of my 2011 Carlton Cards Sinatra Ornament at left, you will notice that the skin coloring used for Sinatra seems to be quite dark.\u00a0 Maybe this was the production error or maybe Sinatra had a really good tan that year.\u00a0 Well, at least my collection is complete.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now what about being crazy in the head?\u00a0 I knew you’d get around to asking that again.\u00a0 Well, the fact is it’s not really about being a little crazy in the head, although I will openly admit to that, but rather about ‘poco loco in the coco’ which translates that bit about being crazy in the head.\u00a0 Let me explain a little more.\u00a0 A couple weeks ago I was listening to my favorite AM Radio Station AM 740 out of Toronto.\u00a0 In fact, it’s the only AM station that I do listen to.\u00a0 Every morning from 10am to 11am they run the top ten at ten.\u00a0 This particular week they were running down the top ten hits from that week in 1950.\u00a0 Here’s how the list broke down: <\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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10. \/ Enjoy Yourself <\/em>\/ Guy Lombardo
\n9. \/ The Third Man<\/em> Theme \/ Anton Karas
\n8. \/ Cry of the Wild Goose<\/em> \/ Frankie Laine
\n7. \/ Rag Mopp <\/em>\/ Ames Brothers
\n6. \/ I Said My Pajamas (and put on my prayers)<\/em> \/ Tony Martin & Fran Warren
\n5. \/ It Isn’t Fair<\/em> \/ Don Cornell
\n4. \/ There’s No Tomorrow <\/em>\/ Tony Martin
\n3. \/ If I Knew You Were Comin’ (I’d’ve baked a cake)<\/em> \/ Eileen Barton
\n2. \/ Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy<\/em> \/ Red Foley
\n1. \/ Music Music Music<\/em> \/ Teresa Brewer <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

You will notice that in the 3rd position was “If I Knew You Were Comin’ (I’d’ve Baked A Cake) by Eileen Barton.\u00a0 I’m familiar with this tune and have heard various artists sing it.\u00a0 It wasn’t extraordinary to me that the song was recorded by Ms. Barton but rather the flip side of that single caught my attention.\u00a0 When the radio personalities of AM 740 began to make fun of the title of the opposite side track, I was a little startled.\u00a0 The title of the flip side was “Poco Loco In The Coco.”\u00a0 I knew this song!\u00a0 I had only recently heard it for the first time a couple weeks before hearing this top ten list…and I have Frank Sinatra to thank for this.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the mid-1950s, Sinatra had a fifteen minute radio show rightly entitled “To Be Perfectly Frank”.\u00a0 On this show, he sang a song or two with a small combo and played platters by other artists.\u00a0 At the beginning of this year, 2012, I decided to start listening again to material associated with Sinatra for every day of the year.\u00a0 I have so many recordings, radio shows, and concerts that I have enough material to listen to something different for all 366 days (don’t forget the added bonus of February 29th this year).\u00a0 For January 29th of this year, my selection was the To Be Perfectly Frank episode from January 29th, 1954. Besides crooning his own versions of “On The Sunny Side of The Street” & “Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out To Dry”, Sinatra spun the wax version of Eileen Barton’s version of\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong>“Poco Loco In The Coco.”\u00a0 If you ask me, this should have been the hit because it’s a fun little number that jumps.\u00a0 Here it is:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong>
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