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geodeticman.5 · 09-23-2008, 03:38 AM

Char, yes, I was saying to myself after reading the Paul Ankle Song "Thats...That.s the...the... KODAK song..thats it ! I bet she doesn;t know... I'll tell her.... And then I saw Oh,Linda!'s response immediately what I thought was going to be that ONE THING TODAY I KNEW THAT NO ONE ELSE DID. BUT noooOOOOO. THAT's allright.....I'll be OK. Damn Damn Damn. lol .....j/k

Actually, that WAS a very heartwarming song, Paul Ankle's Kodak song -
really, and in way it is a bit like the 4-part Harmony in your parent's Christmas cassettess from Henry Mancini, Mantovani, 101-strings,& .. -you know, Reader's Digest Collections, The 4 Freshmen, - the Clean College Guys,
and all of those songs your parent's had in heavy coloured cardboard Flip-lid
boxes, with like 5 LP's in each, and names on the Reader's Digest Collections like "Hawaiian Breezes", and yes once again the 4-part harmony of the Good Examples Group, its like every group was a reminder from your parents of advice - the college bit about opening doors that would not otherwise be open, and lettering in sports builds the competitive edge, and good sportsmanship,. etc lol.....they meant well though....

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But the Paul Ankle song was, to me anyway, definately Lettermen-esque -as in that song: "Theeese are the moments we remeeeeeemer"- lol,
which is funny, but as a teenager you could never admit that THAT music WAS Christmas - Steve Lawrence & Eata Gourmet, Andy Williams, all of that
stuff - you eschewed it then, but secretly you looked forward to it each
Christmas, and now, as an adult, you self-consciously flip though each one
in the 6 for $10 bin at Walmart, rationalizing it to every passerby with a
statement to the effect of 'ahh yes....laugh...nostalgia...this stuff IS Christmas..... THIS is the stuff our parents had, isn't it honey ?... Honey ?...

Anyway, on Paul Ankle's Kodak song, it did really sound like the Lettermen's
song "These (will) (be)(are?) the Moments to (we?) Remember.."ahhh THATS Christmas". I am not sure if the Kodak song came out as a single or even recorded-LP song, but perhaps by contractual retainer only by Kodak "Write us something Heartwarming, Kid, and Make it Snappy - said the fat-cat Kodak exec's while chomping on yesterday's soggy stoagies." & It DID have a sequel (the Kodak song did) - "The Re-prints of your live" lol...thinking of nostagic things we're sort of drifting into as a subtext thread theme for at least a few posts anyway....lol..

Well RM, I hope the T-Shirts idea is ....wrth-considering - you KNOW how our
generation measures event enjoyment by T-shirts...... I'd love to wear them just to remember how much I like the music, (?duhhhh?), conversation starters, etc.

09-23-2008, 03:38 AM	#24
geodeticman.5 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eastern Slope urban corridor, Colo. USA Posts: 1,007	Re: Corfid wants to know Char, yes, I was saying to myself after reading the Paul Ankle Song "Thats...That.s the...the... KODAK song..thats it ! I bet she doesn;t know... I'll tell her.... And then I saw Oh,Linda!'s response immediately what I thought was going to be that ONE THING TODAY I KNEW THAT NO ONE ELSE DID. BUT noooOOOOO. THAT's allright.....I'll be OK. Damn Damn Damn. lol .....j/k Actually, that WAS a very heartwarming song, Paul Ankle's Kodak song - really, and in way it is a bit like the 4-part Harmony in your parent's Christmas cassettess from Henry Mancini, Mantovani, 101-strings,& .. -you know, Reader's Digest Collections, The 4 Freshmen, - the Clean College Guys, and all of those songs your parent's had in heavy coloured cardboard Flip-lid boxes, with like 5 LP's in each, and names on the Reader's Digest Collections like "Hawaiian Breezes", and yes once again the 4-part harmony of the Good Examples Group, its like every group was a reminder from your parents of advice - the college bit about opening doors that would not otherwise be open, and lettering in sports builds the competitive edge, and good sportsmanship,. etc lol.....they meant well though.... . But the Paul Ankle song was, to me anyway, definately Lettermen-esque -as in that song: "Theeese are the moments we remeeeeeemer"- lol, which is funny, but as a teenager you could never admit that THAT music WAS Christmas - Steve Lawrence & Eata Gourmet, Andy Williams, all of that stuff - you eschewed it then, but secretly you looked forward to it each Christmas, and now, as an adult, you self-consciously flip though each one in the 6 for $10 bin at Walmart, rationalizing it to every passerby with a statement to the effect of 'ahh yes....laugh...nostalgia...this stuff IS Christmas..... THIS is the stuff our parents had, isn't it honey ?... Honey ?... Anyway, on Paul Ankle's Kodak song, it did really sound like the Lettermen's song "These (will) (be)(are?) the Moments to (we?) Remember.."ahhh THATS Christmas". I am not sure if the Kodak song came out as a single or even recorded-LP song, but perhaps by contractual retainer only by Kodak "Write us something Heartwarming, Kid, and Make it Snappy - said the fat-cat Kodak exec's while chomping on yesterday's soggy stoagies." & It DID have a sequel (the Kodak song did) - "The Re-prints of your live" lol...thinking of nostagic things we're sort of drifting into as a subtext thread theme for at least a few posts anyway....lol.. Well RM, I hope the T-Shirts idea is ....wrth-considering - you KNOW how our generation measures event enjoyment by T-shirts...... I'd love to wear them just to remember how much I like the music, (?duhhhh?), conversation starters, etc. __________________ ~geo Steve . :"I will leave my footprints there to lie beneath the snow" ~gl Quote to ponder: "A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed." ~ Henrik Ibsen Last edited by geodeticman.5; 09-23-2008 at 07:13 AM.