Crooner Culture

(Originally posted August 2007, I want to try to get this idea rolling again!)
Okay everyone – it’s time for the first ever Crooner Culture blog project!
Here’s the skinny…
Everyone has old family photos from the 40’s and 50’s laying around somewhere. Maybe your cousin’s got them all, or your sister, or your 80 year old Uncle Joe. But they’re somewhere.
Your job is to find the photo that reminds you of the classic “crooner era” and post it on your blog, writing whatever you know about when and where it was taken, and put a link in the post to this blog …read more

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While searching YouTube for some videos of those “home of the future” films of the 40s and 50s, I found this one. It’s kind of funny if you watch the whole thing (they cut some of it up in pieces and spread it out through the film)!
This was a special “blooper” reel prepared by (and for) the staff of the “First Motion Picture Unit”, which produced training films for our fighting forces during World War II – they worked out of the Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California between 1943 and ‘46.
Pay attention to 4:01, with Ronald Regan!

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Ever long to have that glamorous look of 1940s pin-up hair, like you’ve seen on the red carpet lately by the likes of Christina Aguilera and Gwen Stefani? (Of course, let us not forget the “Victory Rolls” or Bettie Page style, which started the whole thing back in the day!)
Well, here’s the perfect video tutorial for you! I might try these out myself someday soon, and make a vid or post some pics!

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Okay, please don’t take this as any fodder for a political debate on today’s situation, but I had to post this. Not just because it’s Frank Sinatra, or because it’s got him singing in it, or that he’s talking about his views on America and war. It’s amazing how this could be used by either “party” today though. He talks about American pride, dabbles on the 1940’s “melting pot”, and uses some analogies that have been used for decades since about blood and war.
From the video’s YouTube page:
Starring Frank Sinatra, this short ten minute film was given an honorary Oscar …read more

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C’mon bloggers… I know you have old family photos hiding somewhere in your homes! Dig them out and submit to the Friday Family Album Blog Project! I need at least ONE for this Friday’s post!

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