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[mamculuna]

There were a lot of better Glenn Miller songs that year, but this one was #1 in October. I suspect nobody is going to listen--I didn't! But ZOMG the incredible dancing by the Nicholas Brothers in the second half, and in the clip in a2zmom's comment. Thanks too to mummm for getting me to see that. Still, how often do you get to see guys wearing dinner jackets (tuxes?) with satin lapels?

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[siro-gravity.livejournal.com]

ok, i'll be the one to say the weird thing.
i was just thinking as i watched this piece, about that time in american history, when there were freckled faces & boys carrying books for girls. there's a whole timbre to this era that is completely outside my experience. sometimes i'd like to hop into a time machine and pay a visit to that brief instant of our history when things were so different. when people felt so hopeful.

also, the second half of this video is just amazing. i mean the dancers. omg, they actually walked on the walls!!!

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

I know--you'd think they'd need wires to do that, but it's clearly just them.

I grew up in the late 40's and early 50's. Actually, my experience was that it was very scary--the Korean war, the threat of nuclear war, polio, getting pregnant--all those things seem on the verge of happening all the time, and our parents were just a few years out of their own youth during the Depression, and worried constantly that prosperity would vanish. My son sees it as a hopeful time, too, but at least for me and my friends, it was a little different.