Leroy Anderson had this hit tune in 1951, The Syncopated Clock.
I remember it as the theme music of The Early Show, back in television’s infancy. It was also the theme of The Late Show, but I wasn’t allowed to stay up anywhere near that late.
I was whistling this tune at the Y when a man stopped me in the hall. “I’m going nuts,” he said, “trying to remember what that’s called!” When I told him, he was delighted. “Of course, that’s it–The Early Show! I knew I’d heard it before, long ago.”
Long ago indeed.
Oh, yes, I remember it well. I do not remember well what they all talked about on those shows, but the Today Show that is on now drives me up the wall. They sound like a bunch of mad chipmunks all talking at the same time. I can’t bear to be in the room for long…
The Early Show was movies.
Memory Lane . . . the way things are today, it sure makes one long for those days.
Back in the 1950’s and 1960’s, women wore a funny little hat thing that sometimes had a veil attached, do you know what it was called without looking it up? Oh, go ahead, look it up.
Was it the pillbox?
Your description is a little sketchy, but do you mean a pillbox–a la Jackie Kennedy?
Not a pillbox. I thought of a fascinator, or a hatinator, but I was wrong, the one with a partial veil is merely a cocktail hat. The fascinator is more like a Vegas headdress.
I can’t say I was, as a boy, a keen observer of ladies’ headgear.
My mother had one but mostly I see them on TV by watching old B&W reruns of To Tell The Truth, I’ve Got A Secret, etc. Bud Collyer, host of “Truth” also hosted Beat The Clock and was both the radio voice & cartoon voice of Superman in the 1940’s. He was also an anti-communist & was involved with the publication “Red Channels”, also a Sunday school teacher in his church, often doing some custodial work for his church as well as an author of 2 Christian books. You can watch episodes of To Tell The Truth on you tube.
A blast from the past