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Dial V for Video

This is an attempt at embedding a video that’s not from YouTube. One of my own. Let’s try the opening credits from Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder, because it happens to be handy and it’s short.

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Bismobile

    Bismo

I helped teach this man how to drive, and I took him to see The Blues Brothers. What was I thinking??

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Chicken Fat Attack

When I was kid, along with perhaps millions of kids in gym classes across America, I was forced to exercise to a song called Chickenfat. I always assumed the song was done by nobody in particular, but how wrong I was. Chickenfat was written by Meredith Willson and sung by Robert Preston, who had some slight success with something called The Music Man.

Robert Preston (1918-1987)

Isn’t this just great? Robert Preston was one-of-a-kind. It isn’t so much the nostalgic kick of hearing this again that I appreciate, as it is Preston’s tremendous talent and enthusiasm.

Thanks go to a blogger named Defective Yeti, who provides much more background information. And thanks to my twin sister Jean for pointing this out!

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