In clearing out some old drafts I discovered the following which at first sight I was sure that I had posted to a topic but no amount of searching on corfid brings it up so perhaps I only meant to start a topic so I will do it now using the filename as a topic title
the draft was inspired by Walter Bonestorer's frequent espousal of chart positions and by two great documentaries shown "last week" (the draft file is dated 8 february 2006) on New York's PBS Channel 13.
the first was an hour long review of the wartime US troop enterainment program(me) with some great archive film of the likes of Bing Crosby Bob Hope Dorothy Lamour and Lena Horne entertaining the troops.
This was followed by an in depth documentary on Bob Hope who "was born Leslie Towns Hope in England on May 29, 1903. His family came to America when he was four years old, and he grew up in Cleveland Ohio" and amongst this was the song that I remember as my own first pop favo(u)rite:-
"Don't Fence Me In"
which I had not realised was by none other than Bob Hope (there was certainly a clip of Bob singing it in the program but googling indicates than the hit version was by Bing Crosby not Bob.
Has anybody got any other interesting memories???
John Fowles