So you join Den for another installment in blogsville. Den is feeling lonesome as his squeeze is OS, so he may wander back into this dark corner of the web before next weekend...anyway, Den has some rat pack, a bathing belle & a drag king for your delight this week...
Have you ever met anyone who dislikes Dino? Most of them would struggle to name one of his songs other than the ubiquitous Italian restaurant staple “That’s amore” so it’s down to Den to educate Joe Q. Public. This is from an LP called “The Dean sings” that Den reeled in from a car boot sale back in ’98. This a bright, summery tune that flies by and is perfect to banish the reality of a cold, dark, dank, stinking Sheffield January…And yes, that is a thumbs up from Den!
Dean Martin- In the cool, cool of the evening
I once heard Frankie say that you should never hitch your cart to a fad or a novelty as you’ll end up looking like a schlub. Well he must have had a very big plate to eat his words from when the 47 year old, rug wearing Francis Albert cut this side back in ’62. Ol’ Blue Eyes was hitchin’ his wagon aboard the twist craze and he pulls it off with some aplomb! Who gives a monkeys if Frank is a skinny ass desperado…this is the cats ‘jamas!
PS- I couldn't keep this one under my hat...Ava Gardener upon being asked "What are you doing with a 120 pound loser like Sinatra?"..."Well" she said, "20 pounds of that is cock"!
Frank Sinatra- Ev'rybody's twistin'
And so to Sammy…the vertically challenged one eyed, black, Jew who is constantly being saddled with cheap clichés and stereotypes that mean that tunes like this get buried on the b-side of something called “The second best secret agent in the world”. It’s hard to describe this…is it a late night Vegas, finger-clicking lounge number, a northern soul beat ballad…I dunno? Who cares this is one real gone lacquer cracker that makes me want to buy more and more Sammy…He can sing, dance and like Joe Q I find him hilarious as the priest alongside Dino in “The Cannonball Run”.
Sammy Davis Jnr- If you want this love of mine
A load of toffs living the high life and committing much incestuous whoopee in 1940’s wartime London…The Camomile Lawn has a great cast including Jennifer Ehle, Tara Fitzgerald, Toby Stephens, Felicity Kendall and a very young Rebecca Hall I’ve been watching this on 4 on demand and it’s great during the period set scenes but falls a little flat in the final episode…Calypso is an absolute harlot but makes Den feel all unnecessary!
Den is going straight to hell with this one…Even though he’s yet to see her in the flesh this vid made his eyes fall out of his head like a pair of cheap joke shop eyes on springs glasses. There’s something about a women in man’s clothes wearing a fake moustache that gives Den the screaming mimi’s…check it out for the pay off at the end!
