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……A white Rose, I placed a white envelope behind to get this shot - didn’t work in colour but interesting in mono I thought. Happy Friday folks, Alan:-)……
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Candy Man, hey, Candy Man
"Alright everybody, gather around
The Candy Man is here
Now, what kind of candy do you want?
Sweet chocolate? Chocolate walnut candy?
Gum drops? Anything you want
You've come to the right man because
I'm the Candy Man" (whoo)
Who can take a sunrise? (Who can take a sunrise?)
Sprinkle it with dew (sprinkle it with dew)
Cover it with chocolate and a miracle or two............
Soundtrack // Bande-son: Frank SINATRA & SAMMY DAVIS JR ("Me And My Shadow"): www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-4uKgXRnpI
"Like you'll never get rid of your shadow... Frank, you'll never get rid of me... ME AND MY SHADOW..."
"Très épuré et ça me plait." // "Purified. I enjoy it." (Régis DUBUS / www.flickr.com/photos/dubusregis/)
"Eloquent and poetic." (Elliot MARGOLIES / www.flickr.com/photos/elliotmar)
"Superbe ! Et la lumière qui inonde une moitié de l'arbre est superbe aussi." // "Great. And the flood of light on half of the tree is great too." (SOPHIE C. / www.flickr.com/photos/26450367@N04/)
...said the Great and Powerful Wizard, to Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tinman, and the Cowardly Lion. Yeah yeah yeah...I know, it was a green curtain, but geeeesh...oh never mind!!!...lolololololol.
...and now, boys and girls, digging way back, deep into the archives of J-ARG, who else but two of the Rat Pack, that dynamic duo of Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr., singing:
~~~ Me and My Shadow ~~~
Fat Tony hanging out with Frank, Dino and Sammy.
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm sung by Dean Martin.
Inside Miners Landing, along the waterfront in Seattle. Perhaps the "campiest" image I have taken. Frank's head and hands are particularly ginormous... Still, the replicas are authentic enough to make me smile and perhaps sing a tune or two... The relationship between Sammy and Frank was in particular interesting. ( Not depicted in my image but still present were Peter Lawford, Angle Dickinson and Joey Bishop, Angie to the right of Frank, while Peter and Joey were to the left of Dean). A 15 or 18mm lens would have allowed this shot to be a "head on" view of the entire group, instead of "still campy," frontal view of the 3.
32 Center St
Artist: James Christopher Hill - 2009
Planet Follywood is a beach bar and restaurant on Folly Beach where the locals roam. Whether your into observing the local scenery or need something to fill your belly, Planet Follywood has got what you need!
For Throwback Thursday. Although this picture was taken recently, the record is certainly vintage. My Mother had the Sammy Davis Jr. album in the 1970s. I saw this record in a local store.
The Candy Man makes everything he bakes
Satisfying and delicious
Now you talk about your childhood wishes
You can even eat the dishes
Oh who can take tomorrow
Dip it in a dream
Separate the sorrow and collect up all the cream?
The Candy Man
Oh the Candy Man can
The Candy Man can 'cause he mixes it with love
And makes the world taste good...
Martini Tour Hosting Home - Mid- Century Modern. For this evening event, I did not want to carry a big camera bag, so, opted just to bring the 35mm and it is a great lens to use for this event. From portraits to general usage.
“You wouldn’t call it a gang, just Danny Ocean and his eleven pals – the night they blew all the fuses in Las Vegas!”
A novelization of the hilarious movie by George Clayton Johnson and Jack Golden Russell. Screenplay by Harry Brown. Directed by Lewis Milestone. A Dorchester Production in Technicolor Panavision released through Warner Bros.
Starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Angie Dickinson.
From the back cover:
Pep Talk Before the Kickoff!
“Okay, guys,” Danny said, “here’s the whole layout. You know what this map is, don’t you?”
“Sure,” Curly said. “It’s printed right up there in the corner – Las Vegas, Nevada.”
Ocean nodded. “Yeah. Now this map of the city’s got everything we’re interested in spotted real plain – especially the casinos.”
His finger stabbed at the paper. “These are the five we’ll hit – the Sahara, the Riviera, Desert Inn, the Sands, the Flamigo.”
He looked around the table slowly. “We figure to liberate about two million in each of them.”
There was a shuddery inhalation. Somebody muttered: “Ten million bucks!” The voice was freighted with awe.
Rainbows are magic and double rainbows even more.
I think this songs fits the picture.....
SAMMY DAVIS JR AND LAURINDO ALMEIDA : I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
Have a great week my friends!
German postcard by Krüger, no. 902/193. Photo: Terb Agency.
Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) was an American singer, actor and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide.
Francis Albert Sinatra was born to Italian immigrants in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1915. Sinatra spent much time at his parents' tavern in Hoboken, working on his homework and occasionally singing a song on top of the player piano for spare change. While he never learned how to read music, Sinatra had an impressive understanding of it, and he worked very hard from a young age to improve his abilities in all aspects of music. He began his musical career in the swing era with bandleaders Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. Sinatra's first vocal hit was the song 'Polka Dots and Moonbeams' in 1940. 'Imagination' was Sinatra's first top-10 hit. His fourth chart appearance in 1940 was 'I'll Never Smile Again', topping the charts for twelve weeks beginning in mid-July. Sinatra made his film debut in 1941, performing in an uncredited sequence in Las Vegas Nights (Ralph Murphy, 1941), singing 'I'll Never Smile Again' with Tommy Dorsey's Pied Pipers. As his success and popularity grew, Sinatra pushed Dorsey to allow him to record some solo songs. In 1942, Sinatra recorded 'Night and Day', 'The Night We Called It a Day', 'The Song is You', and 'Lamplighter's Serenade'. He found success as a solo artist after he signed with Columbia Records in 1943, becoming the idol of the 'bobby soxers'. In 1945, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cast Sinatra opposite Gene Kelly and Kathryn Grayson in the Technicolor musical Anchors Aweigh, in which he played a sailor on leave in Hollywood for four days. A major success, it garnered several Academy Award wins and nominations, and the song 'I Fall in Love Too Easily', sung by Sinatra in the film, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Sinatra was awarded a special Oscar for his part in a short film that spoke out against intolerance, The House I Live In (Mervyn LeRoy, 1945). In 1946, he released his debut album, 'The Voice of Frank Sinatra', which reached No. 1 on the Billboard chart.
But by the early 1950s his professional career had stalled and he turned to Las Vegas, where he became one of its best known residency performers as part of the Rat Pack. His career was reborn in 1953 with the success of the film From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinnemann, 1953). The film deals with the tribulations of three U.S. Army soldiers, played by Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, and Frank Sinatra, stationed on Hawaii in the months leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Sinatra won an Oscar and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. In the following years, Sinatra released several critically lauded albums, including In the Wee Small Hours (1955), Songs for Swingin' Lovers! (1956), Come Fly with Me (1958), Only the Lonely (1958) and Nice 'n' Easy (1960). Sinatra left Capitol in 1960 to start his own record label, Reprise Records, and released a string of successful albums. In 1965, he recorded the retrospective September of My Years and starred in the Emmy-winning television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music. After releasing Sinatra at the Sands, recorded at the Sands Hotel and Casino in Vegas with frequent collaborator Count Basie in early 1966, the following year he recorded one of his most famous collaborations with Tom Jobim, the album Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim. It was followed by 1968's Francis A. & Edward K. with Duke Ellington. Sinatra retired for the first time in 1971, but came out of retirement two years later and recorded several albums and resumed performing at Caesars Palace, and reached success in 1980 with 'New York, New York'. Using his Las Vegas shows as a home base, he toured both within the United States and internationally until shortly before his death in 1998.
Frank Sinatra forged a highly successful career as a film actor. After winning an Academy Award for From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinnemann, 1953), Sinatra starred opposite Doris Day in the musical Young at Heart (Gordon Douglas, 1954) and earned critical praise for his performance as a psychopathic killer posing as an FBI agent opposite Sterling Hayden in the Film Noir Suddenly (Lewis Allen, 1954). He played a heroin addict in The Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger, 1955), and was nominated for an Oscar and a BAFTA Award. He appeared in various musicals such as Guys and Dolls (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1955) starring Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons, High Society (Charles Walters, 1956) alongside Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly, and Pal Joey (George Sidney, 1957) with Kim Novak and Rita Hayworth, winning another Golden Globe for the latter. Lighter roles alongside 'Rat Pack' buddies Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. were lucrative, especially the famed Ocean's Eleven (Lewis Milestone, 1960). He again received critical acclaim for his performance opposite Laurence Harvey in The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962). Toward the end of his career, he became associated with playing detectives, including the title character in Tony Rome (Gordon Douglas, 1967), an example of a late-1960s Neo-Noir trend which revived and updated the hard-boiled detective and police dramas of the 1940s. On television, The Frank Sinatra Show began on ABC in 1950, and he continued to make appearances on television throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Sinatra was also heavily involved with politics from the mid-1940s, and actively campaigned for presidents such as Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. In crime, Sinatra was investigated by the FBI for his alleged relationship with the Mafia. 'Ol' Blue Eyes'a led a colorful personal life, and was often involved in turbulent affairs with women. Sinatra had three children, Nancy (1940), Frank Jr. (1944–2016), and Tina (1948) with his first wife, Nancy Sinatra (née Barbato), to whom he was married from 1939 to 1951. His second marriage to Ava Gardner, from 1951 to 1957, was turbulent with many well-publicised fights and altercations. In 1963 his son Frank Sinatra Jr. was kidnapped. The kidnappers told Frank Sr. to call them from pay phones. He paid the $250,000 ransom, Frank Jr. was returned, and the kidnappers were eventually caught. He married Mia Farrow in 1966 and they divorced in 1968. Sinatra finally was married to Barbara Marx from 1976 until his death. Frank Sinatra died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in 1998, after a heart attack. He was 82.
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The Candyman makes everything he bakes satisfying and delicious!
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Photo taken March 7, 1989 at the Kahala Hilton Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii as he stands waiting for his car. Five months after this photograph was taken Davis began to develop symptoms of cancer – a tickle in his throat and an inability to taste food. Doctors found a tumor in his throat. On Sept. 14, 1989 he publicly announced he had throat cancer. Sammy died May 16, 1990. He was 64 years old.
Scanned from the original 35MM film negative.
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On occasion, after we have captured the image we planned to shoot or in this case while we were waiting for moonrise, we have a little fun with the basic setup.
Sometimes, the hardest part of playing with a setup is trying to conjure up a plot line that could possibly explain the juxtaposition seen in the image.
This alternate shot for A Well Guarded City could have any number of plausible to semi-plausible explanations.
A) This is an audition tape captured by early Director, Alan Smithy, who saw a very different direction for the film. He was later fired and replaced by Ron Howard.
B) This is an effort to restart the Cannonball Run series that starred Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Farrah Fawcett, Roger Moore, Adrienne Barbeau, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr and many more.
“Master Luke, Chewie and I are entering the Cannonball-Kessel Run this year! Would you like to join us?”
C) A new plot twist. “Why are we here in Denver, Master Luke? Is U2 playing Red Rocks again?”
“No, child, we are here to find your Father.”
“But, all they said……”
“They all lied child, THAT CAR belonged to your Father!” [cue: bump, bump bummmmmm music effect]
D) Now accepting plausible to semi-plausible script proposals.
E) “Why are we here Master Luke?”
“We are here because Bill S. Preston and Ted Theodore Logan need our help to save the Universe! We must help them find, the perfect song or at least, a tribute."
This is a forced perspective photograph of a 1/24 scale model car, trees and figures in front of a real background.
Luke, Chewbacca and Rey were made by Hasbro.
The Tumbler was made by Jada.
Trees are by Marilyn Heath
Old School Cut & Paste (Scissors & Glue) Collage created for the weekly themed blog:
The Kollage Kit
This week the theme is MUSIC.
The background is an end-paper from the 1939 book edited by Rockwell Kent entitled "World Famous Paintings". Diamonds cut from various magazine ads. As is the image of Sammy Davis Jr. -- a bright star in heaven.
Sammy Davis Jr. and the members of the Rat Pack, led by Frank Sinatra, and including performers Dean Martin, Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford.
Vintage African American photography courtesy of Black History Album, The Way We Were.
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It's the last hour of your fabulous seven day Las Vegas Vacation. So how should you spend your last hour on the Las Vegas Strip before you need to head back to your hotel and catch the 3pm Bell Trans shuttle to McCarran International Airport.
Perhaps a wonderful 'selfie' with the lovely and stingingly witty Kathy Griffin would be really nice. What do you think.
And be sure to get front row seats to see her excellent show headlining August 9th at the Mirage Resort & Casino. Do so because surely you wouldn't want to miss an opportunity to spend an evening with Kathy Griffin -- Right...
And if this is your first hour on the Vegas Strip as opposed to it being your last hour, then know this -- Living Las Vegas is always better than Leaving Las Vegas! Life Is Good Here!!
Vintage postcard advertising shows by Sammy Davis Jr. and Jerry Lewis at Bally's Casino Resort in Las Vegas. Sent to a Postcrossing member in Japan.
You See!! This is what you get when you spend way too much time using the airport's free Wi-Fi to upload your Las Vegas vacation pictures to Flickr and Facebook -- you get distracted -- you lose track of time -- and you miss your flight! And that was the last overseas flight of the day too!
But don't be sad or mad because you got distracted and missed your British Airways non-stop flight to London, England. There's no sense in you sleeping at the airport. So just head on back to your hotel, get checked into your old room, have some dinner, get a front row seat for the Rita Rudner Show headlining tonight at the Venetian Resort & Casino, get a good night's sleep, and try to catch the next returning flight tomorrow evening. You must do these things, because for you, your Las Vegas Vacation is not officially over yet.
Can You Dig It!
The revolutionary-looking 920-room hotel attracted the glitterati of the mid-century generation. “You’re not going to get the history from anybody else,” he says. “I saw Betty Grable and Harry James, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Judy Garland, the Beatles, Elvis. They all entertained at La Ronde. I took care of all of them. Sammy Davis was the nicest.
“I took care of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Golda Meir,”
Mac McSwane age - 82 swears he will never retire. He has been a Fontainebleau bellman since the hotel opened in 1954. “I was their personal concierge.”
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