In my “Les millionaires” Movie Maker project I continued synchronizing the images in my photo-video with the rhythm and the meaning of the lyrics. I was about three-quarters of the way through the song.
I weighed 87.45 kilos before breakfast.
I played my Martin acoustic during song practice and it went out of tune during all but two songs.
Around midday I painted a second coat of “blue bliss” on the outer edges of my bathroom door frame. Tomorrow I’ll probably finish the second coat on the whole frame.
I weighed 88.3 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back.
I weighed 87.95 kilos at 18:10.
I was caught up in my journal at 18:57.
I recorded from cassette tape through speaker to microphone to audio interface to Audacity and then extracted to my hard drive side 2 of the rehearsal tape that was distorted when I tried recording directly with a line from the tape player to my audio interface. This way it worked. Tomorrow I’ll go back to line-in and try digitizing a cassette containing several of Christian and the Lions performances at Fat Albert’s.
I deleted several more images from my hard drive.
I heated the chili I made a couple of days ago and had some on top of oven fries while watching season 2, episode 9 of The Carol Burnett Show.
During the audience warm-up Garry Moore is asked if he’ll do another variety show. He says he hopes not because it’s too much work. He’d much rather visit. He says he’s been in show business since 1935.
In the first sketch Carol and Harvey play the elderly married couple Mollie and Bert again. They are visited by Martha and Ginny played by Garry Moore and Durward Kirby.
Vicki Lawrence and Lyle Waggoner play guitar and sing “Call Me” by Tony Hatch. I didn’t know Lyle could sing or play.
Gary plays the host of a news show that is paying tribute to a renowned humanitarian named Dr. Henry Spencer. President Nixon, President De Gaulle, and Sammy Davis Jr. have all paid homage to him. Now Princess Marianne of Morovia will drink a toast to Spencer. Her royal highness is played by Carol. But during the first take the wine glass is blocking the princess’s face so she has to do another. This time she hiccups and has to do one more take. But by then she’s getting tipsy and the takes are repeated until she falls backwards unconscious.
Garry looks at the latest trends in shows and commercials. He says recent bra commercials have been quite uplifting. But he says integration will be very prominent. They show a black Blondie. There’s a horrible depiction by Carol of an indigenous mother with broken English like Tonto. She tells her son that his father was shot and killed at Little Big Horn, which is a bar on 3rd Avenue. The latest game show is called Shoplift, in which contestants compete to see who can steal the most from supermarkets.
Carol and Durward do a skit in which she is a secretary taking dictation about eliminating safety hazards. Her boss first accidentally puts his cigarette out on the back of her hand. Then he wacks her on the back of the neck with a pointer. By the end she is injured all over her body and is finally knocked out the window by an opening door.
The head dancer on the show is Don Crichton. Carol shows a clip of him dancing with Julie Andrews in the movie Star. Then Don does a live performance.
Garry Moore dropped out of high school before graduation and started in radio in 1937. From 1943 to 1947 he co-starred on the Durante-Moore radio show. This was followed by his own radio show. He hosted I’ve Got a Secret for the first decade of the show. He starred in The Garry Moore Show on television from 1958 to 1964. He was the subject of the first demonstration of hypnosis on US television. He was the host of To Tell the Truth from 1969 to 1977. He released several comedy albums. He wrote a humour column for the Daily Packet called “Mumble Mumble”. His columns were collected into a book of the same name.
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