Showing posts with label Carmen Miranda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carmen Miranda. Show all posts

Monday, 10 July 2017

Love Happens Here, part 2 - "At the Copa"











Many and varied were the joys of Saturday's Gay Pride - the "gathering of the clans" (including my sister and hubbie and Madam Arcati's sister and niece, as well as our nearest and dearest friends Baby Steve, Alex, John-John, Sally, Lou, Julie, Mark and Jim) at Sal's pub for our traditional breakfast (bacon and champers!), the fact that we all had wristbands in advance of the day to actually get onto the march, and getting to watch an hour or so of the colourful parade before joining in the throng - but among the spectacle and the hoo-hah, the infinite variety of participants and the endless flags and banners, came this lot...

...none other than the Welsh Guards marching band, entertaining the crowds with their tribute to - ahem - Barry Manilow!


And speaking of Copacabana - this is, after all, a Tacky Music Monday (despite the fact I am still on leave) - so how about Carmen Miranda's similarly-titled Let's Do The Copacabana to end this party weekend with a bang?!


Have a great week, peeps!

PS We are here, marching, at 48 minutes in:

Monday, 27 August 2012

And you should never doubt it



It's a Bank Holiday - the last before Xmas - and it's also a Tacky Music Monday!

The Notting Hill Carnival is no doubt going to be in full swing today, regardless of the weather - and just to get us into that spirit of dancing and colour, here's a double-bill of the one-and-only Carmen Miranda to help get things moving:


I expect you all will be wearing fruit on your heads before the day is out...

Monday, 2 January 2012

Cookin' with gas...

It's a New Year, that began with a party and fireworks, and we have high hopes that 2012 will provide us with lots of change (in a good way, of course).

And here at Dolores Delargo Towers, we begin the year with our first Tacky Music Monday!

Yesterday would have been the 112th birthday of the magnificent Xavier Cugat, so what better way to start but as we mean to go on - with a triple bill of his wonderfully uplifting music?

Here he is featuring the effervescent Lina Romay:


Here with our "patron saint" Carmen Miranda:


And to finish, here he provides the music for his wife #4, Miss Abbe Lane:


Fantabulosa!

Xavier Cugat biography on AllMusic

Wednesday, 28 April 2010

From Brazil to New York

I'm not in the mood to be out of bed on this dull Wednesday morning.

What better than a little Carmen Miranda to cheer everyone up?!


¡Ay, caramba!