Another week slumps to its end, and we look forward to three whole days away from this stifling dump - thanks to May Day, we have Monday off!
But first, another celebration...
Sharing a birthday with such unlikely compatriots as Bing Crosby, Mary Astor, Richard D'Oyly Carte, Henry Cooper, Mary Hopkin, Golda Meir, Sandi Toksvig, Ben Elton, Betty Comden and James Brown, one Francesco Stephen Castelluccio blows out 85 candles on his cake today.
Whoooooo..?
Better known, of course, as Mr Frankie Valli, his was [and still is - we saw him on stage at Proms in the Park in 2016 (when the event was still good - we're not even booking this year, after last year's debacle)] a long and enviable musical career, topped-off quite neatly during the late '70s with this Bee Gees-penned number - here given some much-needed funky va-va-voom, courtesy of The Commodores!
Never, in the field of human performance, has so much been owed, by manufacturers of rhinestones everywhere, to so few. Thank Disco It's Friday!
Have a great (Bank Holiday) weekend!
still making singing appearances too!
ReplyDeleteI know - and, as you will see if you follow the link in my blog, the voice is as strong as ever! Jx
DeleteI still have my Grease album, though the stylus used to jump all over it.
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A pile of 2p pieces soon sorts that out. Jx
DeleteI know, we had a lump of blu-tac and several coins piled on, it still skipped on some LPs.
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I remember washing them in a bowl with washing-up liquid to try and get the muck out of the grooves to stop them sticking - and then there was also the task of brushing the fluff off the diamond stylus... Ah, those were the days! You tell that to a young person today, and they won't believe you. Jx
DeleteHe was fab and we have seen so many great performers at 'Proms In the Park but I am so looking forward to NOT going this year.
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame the BBC has mucked up Proms In the Park to the degree that it's no longer worth paying to go - even this year's headliner Barry Manilow is a star we've seen before [ten years ago - doesn't time fly?], let alone the lack of live link-ups to the Royal Albert Hall... Jx
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