Yep, I remember him! Signor Vitelli and I were talking about him only a few months ago.

Vitelli and Turnbull will love this Karing's Korner site.

I just clicked on the oldies jukebox and pulled up, "Theme from a summer place". I loved that song.

Under the diner's section. Wasn't this diner posted (or one like it) in the food thread?



http://www.americandinermuseum.org/site/

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There was a show called "Steptoe and son"?

What, he had no love for fingers?

Didn't he used to superimpose himself in scenes from some of those horror movies?

The music trivia section alone looks like a blast. Just think of tons of funs you could have with friends and family trying to guess those.

Yes, I believe that it was shown over in the UK. As a matter of fact the show SANFORD and SON was based on that Steptoe and Son show.

I love music trivia. I can't believe that's one I didn't click on.

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I clicked on the sixties and the background is playing, "Sugar, sugar" by The Archies. I remember that comic strip and tv show. That's the first time I remember a cartoon having a hit record.

I wonder who actually sings that song.

Check out the HISTORY OF TOYS site!

I still have some of those GI Joes!

I posted over in the dead pool thread about the hula hoop being the #1 toy on VH1's list. Here is their complete list.

http://www.failedsuccess.com/index.php?/weblog/comments/top_100_toys/

I loved the spirograph. If you got a big set for Christmas you were the big kid on campus.

The irony of that is really weird. "Sugar, Sugar" was the biggest selling hit of the 1960's!!! The decade that started with the likes of The Beatles, The Stones, The Four Seasons, Bob Dylan, etc., ended up with a hit from The Archies!!??!

From Jukebox #2 - "At Last" by Etta James.... the best slow-dance-grind song ever!!

Take the quiz. I only got 5 out of 10.

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Toys quiz

I only got 3 right. #'s 1, 2 and 4.

It's sad I don't know Barbie's middle name.

Another great grind song:

FOR YOUR LOVE

I never heard them referred to as grind songs.

I don't know what year exactly Barbie came out, but I never did have a Barbie Doll. I guess I moved on to the other kind of doll.


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I don't think I've ever heard of anyone who didn't have a Barbie doll.

I'll buy you one for your birthday.

You'd grind against your partner as you danced. Since they were slow songs and no real dance skills were needed, that was about all I'd dance.

Some of these song titles wouldn't pass censorship today.

"Boney Maroney"
"Come softly to me".

Today they'd just call it foreplay.

Here's the true New York sound of the era... Dion and the Belmonts sing "Runaround Sue" - CLICK HERE

I don't see it yet on the jukeboxes, but does anyone remember the Sonny James song, "Gold and silver". My mom had that 45. I used to love to sing it.

Along with the Zager and Evans song, "In the year 2525". That song creeps me out.

I love that one. I have it downloaded on a cd.

Never heard of it. His big song was "Young Love".

I love that song, or just about any song they sang. Dion DiMucci (a piasan) Was he from NYC? I thought he was from Philly.

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No, Tab Hunter sang Young Love. (one hit wonder)


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Nope. From Belmont Avenue in the Bronx (thus the name of his group).

Tab Hunter released his version of the song a year after Sonny James made it a number one hit.

The Del Vikings' classic (you'll know this from "American Graffiti") - CLICK HERE