MFY @ NYM 5/28/13

[Fman99]

Edgy MD wrote: The Mets play good ball, all these ancillary PR issues likely take care of themselves. They play bad ball (as they have most of the season), all these non-issues get inflated. And there are no satisfactory choices.

This is it. Right here. Reporters are bored with writing "hey, the Mets suck again," so they change angles to "hey, the Mets front office is clueless again." It's nice to have pistachio ice cream if you've been eating vanilla for six weeks.

[Zvon]

Zvon wrote: K, I'm done. Bring on the night!

1) I throw these things together real fast some times and I think it may be funny...it sounds funny going thru my fingers to the keys. But I just re-read that and it makes no sense. Mariano could have thrown out the first and last pitch and won the game. Some one make that funny like its supposed to be.

2) Gonna dump this here and on the Jeff history thread. Its a Zvon double play!

[Edgy MD]

Young Brandon Cruz was a Mets fan?

[Zvon]

Edgy MD wrote: Young Brandon Cruz was a Mets fan?

Wow. That's pullin a rabbit out of your hat. Courtship of Eddies Father.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Edgy MD wrote: Young Brandon Cruz was a Mets fan?

Mrs. Livingston was Kaz Matsui's aunt.

[Zvon]

Swan Swan H wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Young Brandon Cruz was a Mets fan? Mrs. Livingston was Kaz Matsui's aunt.

Get out!

[Guest Swan Swan H]

I made that up.

[Edgy MD]

Not really a rabbit. Cooby's got a mad crush on Brandon going back four decades. I've got a mad crush on The Bad News Bears going back almost as long.

Totally him, though.

[Zvon]

Okay Eddie, today we can either
play baseball or try and look under
Mrs. Livingstones dress again.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

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[Zvon]

Harry Nilsson. RIP. I've been a big fan ever since "The Point". I still have not been able to find a stereo recording of that theme. I have tried real hard over the years. I don't think one exists.

[Edgy MD]

I betcha Brandon Cruz has cut a stereo version.

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[Guest Swan Swan H]

Look for a song called 'Girlfriend,' which is more or less a rewrite.

[Ceetar]

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[Vic Sage]

from Wikipedia:

...Nilsson was also commissioned at this time to write and perform the theme song for the ABC television series The Courtship of Eddie's Father. The result, "Best Friend", was very popular, but Nilsson never released the song on record; the original version of the song (entitled "Girlfriend") was recorded during the making of Aerial Ballet but not included on that LP, and it eventually appeared on the 1995 Personal Best anthology, and as a bonus track on a later release of Aerial Ballet.

[Zvon]

Swan Swan H wrote: Look for a song called 'Girlfriend,' which is more or less a rewrite.

I have almost all his recordings. I'm aware of Girlfriend and how the theme was based on that. Not sure if that was from an old album or the anthology. Don't get me started on Harry. I won't shut up.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Jeez, Ceetar, if you're going to put up a different song called 'Girlfriend,' at least put up something decent.

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[Guest Swan Swan H]

Zvon wrote: Swan Swan H wrote: Look for a song called 'Girlfriend,' which is more or less a rewrite. I have almost all his recordings. I'm aware of Girlfriend and how the theme was based on that. Not sure if that was from an old album or the anthology. Don't get me started on Harry. I won't shut up.

Sounds like a worthwhile thread to start.

[Vic Sage]

already done:
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=15653&hilit=nillson

[batmagadanleadoff]

Zvon wrote: Okay Eddie, today we can either play baseball or try and look under Mrs. Livingstones dress again.

Bill Bixby made the cover of TV Guide as a cast member of four different TV shows. I think that's a record. (But Lucy might have that record, or at least tied Bixby, what with all of the later incarnations of I Love Lucy.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Harry Nilsson. RIP. I've been a big fan ever since "The Point". I still have not been able to find a stereo recording of that theme. I have tried real hard over the years. I don't think one exists.

http://www.amazon.com/Televisions-Greatest-Hits-Vol-From/dp/B000000GOL

[Zvon]

Harry Nilsson. RIP. I've been a big fan ever since "The Point". I still have not been able to find a stereo recording of that theme. I have tried real hard over the years. I don't think one exists. http://www.amazon.com/Televisions-Greatest-Hits-Vol-From/dp/B000000GOL

Got that, just for the theme. Its not in stereo ( and a pretty bad quality, IIRC). Pretty sure I still have all of my Harrys stuff on the drive. I'll look see.

I watched and was a fan of My Favorite Martian (was that right before Ed Sullivan? Or After?) and Courtship. Didn't get into The Magician and The Hulk, tho I saw quite a few eps of both cuz one of my younger brothers was way into those shows.

OE: The theme off that CD is not horrible bad quality. Very compressed (the orig, not the mp3 copy) but much cleaner/clearer than I remembered. I bet he went into the studio and knocked that out in a half hour.

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[Zvon]

OE:you would think Id know how to do this shit by now, lol.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Harry Nilsson. RIP. I've been a big fan ever since "The Point". I still have not been able to find a stereo recording of that theme. I have tried real hard over the years. I don't think one exists. http://www.amazon.com/Televisions-Greatest-Hits-Vol-From/dp/B000000GOL Got that, just for the theme. Its not in stereo ( and a pretty bad quality, IIRC). Pretty sure I still have all of my Harrys stuff on the drive. I'll look see. I watched and was a fan of My Favorite Martian (was that right before Ed Sullivan? Or After?) and Courtship. Didn't get into The Magician and The Hulk, tho I saw quite a few eps of both cuz one of my younger brothers was way into those shows. OE: The theme off that CD is not horrible bad quality. Very compressed (the orig, not the mp3 copy) but much cleaner/clearer than I remembered. I bet he went into the studio and knocked that out in a half hour.

I have that CD. The sound on the Courtship theme is somewhat muddy, I'd agree, but not awful. I bet they taped it right off of the TV show.