I memorized the second verse of “Je t’aime. Moi aussi” (I Love You. So Do I). I transcribed the chords from the second verse of “Je t’aime. Moi non plus” (I Love You. Neither Do I) and placed them on the second verse of the parody. There are only four lines left to nail down so I might have it done tomorrow.
I weighed 89.05 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning since July 7.
I played my Kramer during song practice and it stayed in tune more than half the time.
While I was playing and singing I saw two guys from The City of Toronto finally come to replace the bike post ring in front of my place, seven months after I reported to them that it had been knocked off by a snowplow. I gave them the old ring and told them how long ago I’d called them. He said they just got the paperwork that day.
Today I had to do laundry and wanted to wash both pairs of shorts but wanted something cool to wear. I tried cutting off a pair of jeans at the point they were ripped but they were so short it that if I wore them I would have looked like an old hustler. So I cut off an old pair of dockers at the point where they were torn. They didn’t look too short when I was standing but when I was on my bike the pockets hung down below the cut-offs and it looked ridiculous, but they served their purpose.
I weighed 89.3 kilos at 16:10.
My daughter Astrid and I were going to watch Wednesday in the evening on Discord but she messaged me while I was doing laundry that she would be sleeping in the evening and offered to watch it at our alternative time of 13:00. I wouldn’t have been able to and so we’ll be skipping watching the show this week.
I took a siesta and slept an extra hour.
I weighed 90.25 kilos at 19:55.
I was still a day behind in my journal and worked on catching up but remained behind at suppertime.
I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with rosée tomato sauce, tomato pesto, wedge oven fries, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a glass of Creemore lager while watching season 10, episode 19 of The Carol Burnett Show.
In the Tudball-Wiggins sketch, Tudball asks Mrs. Wiggins where she is going on her one week vacation and she tells him Vegas. He suggests she try blackjack and she asks, “Who’s he?” He tries to explain that it’s a game and how it is played but she doesn’t understand. He suggests they play the game for real money so she can learn it. She says, “I thought your wife made you promise you wouldn’t gamble anymore”. He says they don’t have to tell her. She tries to bet a nickel but he tells her she has to bet at least $2 in Vegas. She gets 21 on the very first deal and wins $3 because one wins one and a half times what one bet. She bets all $5 for the next game. She is dealt two cards and doesn’t want any more. Tudball ends up busting with 27. Wiggins reveals she only has two threes but wins. Now she has $10 but says she has to get back to work. Tudball wants to keep playing. He offers her a chance to double her money and has her pick a card from the deck. He asks her what the card is and she says the four of hearts. He declares that it’s the four of hearts and that he wins but then she says, “Or is it the four of spades?” He looks and sees it’s the four of clubs so she wins since he didn’t guess her card. Mrs. Wiggins is about to leave for her one week vacation when the phone rings and it’s Mrs. Tudball. He begs Wiggins not to tell his wife he was gambling. Wiggins asks him if she should tell her or if she should leave for her two week vacation.
Eydie Gormé sings “What I Did For Love” by Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban from the 1975 musical A Chorus Line.
When she is done, Carol comes out and says, “Brave, sad Eydie! I know how you must be suffering”. “What are you talking about? I’m not suffering.” “I hated finding out about you and Steve Lawrence the way I did”. “What about us?” Then Carol shows her a gossip magazine and reads, “Eydie spilled the beans that when Steve started hitting the sauce she threw in the towel”. Eydie tells her she has to read under the headlines: “On the Dinah Shore Show Eydie Gormé spilled the beans she was preparing when her husband Steve Lawrence was adding barbecue sauce to the recipe. Eydie then threw in a towel and caught most of it”. Then Eydie reads the headline, “Carol Burnett confesses that she’s a streetwalker and loves it”. Underneath it reads that Carol loves to exercise even if it’s a walk on the street”. They both swear off gossip magazines but then Eydie reads that the Bionic Woman tells how she got the parts.
Carol plays Mrs. Ferguson, whose husband has just been kidnapped. The police have just finished questioning her and now reporter Leo McKenzie comes with a film crew to interview her. She gives an emotional account of receiving the call from the kidnappers who said they had Arthur. They demanded a large sum of money or else he would be killed. When she’s done one of the technicians says the sound wasn’t right so she is asked to repeat the same account with the same emotion. When she’s done she says she wants to do another take because she thinks she can do it better. Her next account is extremely over dramatized. When they are gone she calls up a friend and is thrilled to announce that she’s going to be on the prime time news.
In the Mama’s Family sketch Ed is home alone looking for food only to find that there’s no bread and no crackers. Then Eunice and Mama arrive with Eunice carrying a big box. Eunice has bought clothes and accessories to wear because she is going to perform on a national TV show. Ed is angry that she’s been ignoring her duties as a housewife and a mother but Eunice is unrepentant because she thinks she’ll be a star after her appearance and may get a regular part on a TV series. She triumphantly reads out loud the letter she received telling her they enjoyed her audition and would love to have her perform on The Gong Show. Ed complains about the expenses and her air fare but Eunice argues that altogether everything costs about $500. In 15 years of marriage she hasn’t asked for anything for herself. $500 dollars over 15 years amounts to about 5 cents a day. She tells Ed for him to hire somebody to do what she’s done for him and see how much it costs. Mama suggests to Ed that he should be paying her to take care of his kids while Eunice is gone. Ed tells her to get her hand out of his pocket and reminds her that he didn’t charge her anything to lay her linoleum, fix her toilet and put up her screen door. Eunice rehearses her song, which is the 1974 song “Feelings” by Morris Albert and Louis Gasté. In the middle of the song Eunice adds a monologue about feelings that she had once when she skinned her knee while skipping rope, how she had her heart broken in high school, and how she feels when she sees the morning sun caressing the walls of the grain emporium. Then she finishes the song. Ed suggests that she might get gonged but Eunice says they only gong the bad acts and not class acts like hers. Flash forward to The Gong Show backstage as Eunice is one act away from going on. Ed calls her and asks when she’s coming home but Eunice says she’s never coming home. She’s going to buy a big house with a pool and a bodyguard to keep him and Mama off her property. Chuck Barris introduces Eunice Higgins and she starts singing “Feelings”. When she gets to the chorus we see the panel reacting. Jamie Farr looks like he’s in pain, Jaye P. Morgan is holding her ears, and Allen Ludden is cringing as well. They all hit the gong together before she’s done with the chorus. We see that Eunice is devastated.
Carol and Eydie do a salute to the songs of Hollywood. They sing “Hooray for Hollywood” by Richard A. Whiting and Johnny Mercer from the 1937 film Hollywood Hotel. Eydie sings “The Way We Were” by Marvin Hamlisch and Alan and Marilyn Bergman from the 1973 movie of the same name. They sing “Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head” by Burt Bacharach and Hal David from the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. They sing “Born Free” by John Barry and Don Black from the 1966 movie of the same name. Then “What’s New Pussycat?” by Bacharach and David from the 1965 film. They sing “Chim Chim Cheree” by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman from the 1965 movie Mary Poppins. They sing “If You Feel Like Singing Sing” by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon from the 1950 movie Summer Stock. They sing “Be a Clown” and “Mack the Black” by Cole Porter from the 1948 film The Pirate. They sing “The Trolley Song” and “The Boy Next Door” by Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin from the 1944 movie Meet Me in St Louis. “Over the Rainbow” and “We’re Off to See the Wizard” by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. “Thanks for the Memory” by Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin from The Big Broadcast of 1938. “I’m Wishing” and “Whistle While You Work” by Frank Churchill and Larry Morey from the 1937 movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. “Theme from San Franciso” by Bronislaw Kaper, Walter Jurmann, and Gus Kahn from the 1936 film San Francisco. “Top Hat White Tie and Tails” by Irving Berlin from the 1935 film Top Hat. “I Won’t Dance” by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields from the 1935 film Roberta. “Let Yourself Go” by Berlin from the 1936 film Follow the Fleet. “The Continental” by Con Conrad and Herb Magidson from the 1934 film The Gay Divorcee. Eydie sings part of a song in Spanish. Then “Lullaby of Broadway” by Harry Warren and Al Dubin from the 1935 film. “42nd Street” by Warren and Dubin from the 1933 film. Carol sings “On the Good Ship Lollipop” by Richard A. Whiting and Sidney Clare from the 1934 film Bright Eyes. Eydie sings “Stay as Sweet as You Are” by Harry Revel and Mack Gordon from the 1934 film College Rhythm. Carol sings Animal Crackers in My Soup by Irving Caesar and Ted Koehler from the 1935 movie Curly Top. “Should I Reveal” by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed from the 1929 film Lord Byron of Broadway. “Am I Blue” by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke from the 1929 film On With the Show. “Keep Your Sunny Side Up” by Rau Henderson, B.G. De Sylva and Lew Brown from the 1929 movie Sunny Side Up. “Sonny Boy” by the same three from the 1928 movie The Singing Fool. “My Mammy” by Walter Donaldson, Joe Young and Sam M. Lewis from the 1927 movie The Jazz Singer. As usual they finish with the song that started them off but this time they are shown standing in front of the actual Hollywood sign as the camera is probably pulling away in a helicopter.
Jaye P. Morgan graduated from high school in 1949 and sought a career as a cabaret singer. She sang with the Frank de Vol Orchestra and her first big hit was “Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries” in 1951. From 1954 to 1955 she was a vocalist on the show Stop the Music. In 1955 she had five hits: “All I Want from You” hit #5, “The Longest Walk” was #6, “Danger Heartbreak Ahead” and “If You Don’t Want My Love” both reached #12, and “Pepper Hot Baby” made it to #14. She was a regular vocalist on the Robert Q. Lewis Show. In 1959 her version of “Are You Lonesome Tonight” made it to #65 before Elvis recorded it. She sang the theme song for the 1975 sitcom Fay. She made several appearances on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show. From 1976 to 1978 she was a regular panelist on The Gong Show” until she was fired for exposing her breasts.
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