Once again, a busy weekend of fun events has left me feeling I could do with another day off to recover...
Never mind, it's another Tacky Music Monday - and who better than our beloved, and much-missed, Mitzi Gaynor to help cheer things along?
Here, she and her safety gays take on Georgy Girl - and win!
Have a good week, dear reader.
After the unseasonable warmth this week has brought, I awoke this morning to find a proper autumnal mist shrouding the garden. I thought that might be a sign of things to come, but happily the forecast for the impending weekend shows no sign of the temperature sliding back to "normal" October levels. Hoorah!
As my regular reader knows, I always look forward to weekends (no matter how fleeting they seem) - and this Sunday, a little gang of us is off to the delights of the historic and only recently-restored Alexandra Palace [aka "Ally Pally", the original home of the BBC] Theatre for a rare outing of the musical revue Sondheim on Sondheim.
Meanwhile, there's a party to plan!
Since tomorrow marks the 80th birthday of the "founder of Disco" himself Mr George McCrae, it would be curmudgeonly of me not to mark the occasion with two of his greatest hits:
Those trousers! Those collars! Those dancers! Thank Disco It's Friday!
Have a great one, peeps!
Another snippets post, dear reader:
[More over at the Dolores Delargo Towers Museum of Camp. Of course.]
And the weather? Unseasonably warm - it was 18C/64.4F last night!
Happy 2024, dear reader!
We've had a very slow day indeed, after our sparkling (and very late) "gathering of the clans" for the Dolores Delargo Towers Grand New Years Eve Party! I didn't even surface until it was getting dark at around 4pm...
Hey ho, we had no plans other than recovery, anyhow.
New Year's Day or no, it is still a Tacky Music Monday - so let's start as we need to go on, in the glitzy company of our Patron Saint of Bugle Beads Miss Mitzi Gaynor and her (banana-coloured) safety gays!
Enjoy the last dregs of holiday before it all fades back to "normality"...
Monday again. Groan.
After a lovely (and hot) weekend - on Saturday had a good time with our cousins from Canada, who are in the UK for a few days, and yesterday was really hot and very windy so was mainly spent chilling - it's back to "reality" again.
However, the countdown to "Gay Xmas" in London this weekend has begun - and who better on this Tacky Music Monday to open proceedings than our beloved Patron Saint of Bugle Beads, Miss Mitzi Gaynor and her magnificent safety gays?!
Have a good week, dear reader. It's the gayest time of the year!
As another weekend fades [one of mixed fortunes - a lot of rain, but we still managed to get some plants pruned and some new acqusitions potted-on], there may be another week of dreariness to come in the office but at least from today on the days start getting longer - and on this Tacky Music Monday, our Patron Saint of Bugle Beads Mitzi Gaynor (and chums Wayne Rogers and Roy Clark) knows a song about that! [Although you will need to turn the volume up...]
Have a good week, dear reader.
Oh, dammit. Back to reality...
Never mind, eh? We have a genuine treat to lift our spirits - for yesterday was the (91st) birthday of Our Patron Saint of Bugle-Beads, Mis Mitzi Gaynor!
On this Tacky Music Monday, here she is with a positive cavalcade of safety gays!
As I said way back in 2013: "I am certain that Irving Berlin never envisioned his ultimate torch song would receive this kind of treatment - trust Mitzi!"
Many happy returns, Mitzi Gaynor (born Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber, 4th September 1931)
One of our favourite "all-rounders"; our Patron Saint of Bugle Beads, the ever-shimmying, uber-camp saviour of the career of many a "safety gay" - Miss Mitzi Gaynor is 90 years old today! Lordy.
Miss Mitzi is one of the rare stars for whom the epithet "legend" was coined - she began her Broadway career in 1946, starred in her first film in 1950, was nominated for a Best Actress Golden Globe Award for her role in South Pacific in 1958, became the highest-paid female entertainer in Las Vegas in 1961, starred in nine television specials that received 16 Emmy nominations in the 1960s and 70s, returned to cabaret in the 1980s, became a newspaper columnist in the 90s, toured the US with her one woman show Razzle Dazzle: My Life Behind the Sequins from 2009 to 2014, was inducted into the Great American Songbook Hall of Fame in 2017 - and, despite her venerable age has never officially retired...
Time for a proper celebration of a monumental career, methinks!
And finally, a house favourite here at Dolores Delargo Towers. I practice these moves regularly:
Campness abounds!
Many happy retuns, Mitzi Gaynor (born Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber, 4th September 1931)!
Oh. Shit. The dreaded "first Monday" is here, and after a lovely couple of weeks of self-indulgence I am not ready for all this...
Never mind, eh? On this Tacky Music Monday, let us revel in the sheer insanity of this remarkable routine featuring our Patron Saint of Bugle Beads Miss Mitzi Gaynor (and her safety gays) to cheer ourselves up, shall we?
That almost makes the prospect of a week chained to the laptop more bearable. Almost...
