Saturday 9...

 Join in on the Saturday 9 HERE.  Big thanks to Crazy Sam for today's questions!

Big Spender

Welcome to Saturday: 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so to speak. We encourage you to visit other participants' posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love to answer the questions, however, and here are today's questions!

Saturday 9: Big Spender (1966)

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

 
1) In this song, Peggy Lee invites a gentleman to join her for fun, laughs, and a good time. What will you be doing for fun this weekend?  This weekend I will be nursing my cold and hoping it goes away.

 

2) Peggy was blessed with perfect pitch. It's estimated that just 1 in 10,000 has this gift. Tell us about something that comes naturally to you.  Gosh, I don't know. I like people. I like cooking. I like animals. I like entertaining...

 

3) Peggy was an influential performer whose fans included singers as diverse as Carly Simon, Petula Clark, and Joni Mitchell. Bette Midler even did a Peggy Lee tribute album. What songstress do you listen to most often?  Whoever comes on the raidio.

 

4) Paul McCartney was also a big Peggy Lee fan. In the 1970s he was invited to meet her in her London home. He arrived with a carefully chosen hostess gift: a bottle of champagne and an original song ("Let's Love") which she recorded and he produced. Have you more recently given or received a gift?  I gave gifts this month.

5) Cy Coleman wrote the music to "Big Spender." Unlike Peggy Lee, who never took a music lesson, Coleman was classically trained and studied composition, conducting, and orchestration at New York City’s High School for the Performing Arts and at the New York College of Music. If you could take classes in anything that interested you, what would you choose to learn more about?  Piano, perhaps.

6) Coleman met lyricist Dorothy Fields by chance, at a party. Though Fields was more than 20 years his senior, they hit it off immediately and he invited her to work with him. Their collaboration resulted in two Broadway shows including Sweet Charity, which featured "Big Spender." Think about the person you spent the most time with last week. Were they older, younger, or about the same age as you?  All of the men I work with are younger than me.  I call myself the office granny.

 

7) In 1966, when disc jockeys were playing this record, consumers were discovering garage door openers. These transistorized devices weren't cheap. Typically about $150 in 1966, that would be more than $1,000 in today's dollars. These days garage door openers are far more affordable and common. Can you think of something that was a luxury item when you were a kid that today you take for granted?  I thought my seven-transistor battery operated radio was really something. Now we have SiriusXM... I was a kid long before cellphones and computers.

 

8) 1966 found Jacqueline Susann atop the best seller list with her steamy novel, Valley of the Dolls. Though it was savaged by critics, countless Americans enjoyed the book. Do you have a similar guilty pleasure? Is there a book, movie, TV show, or song you enjoy, even though you know it has little artistic merit?  I am watching Moonstruck as I am answering these questions. It is a favorite of mine (Joe loved it too).  Cher won an Oscar for her role so it did have some artistic merit but maybe not such a big audience.

9) Random question: When at a Mexican restaurant, what's your go-to order?  Taco salad lately but I do like a burrito platter or tacos.

Peace & Hugs!

Happy birthday to my son, Jeff!!

Glory! Glory! This I sing— 

Nothing but the blood of Jesus, 

This is all my righteousness— 

Nothing but the blood of Jesus.