Saturday 9 - People

 

This week's song? Hear it here

1. In this song, Barbra Streisand sings that pride can get in the way of happy relationships. Have you found that to be true?
   
   I have no personal experience about that.
   
   
   
2. The photo on the record sleeve was taken on Chicago's Oak Street Beach, as Barbra watches the sun rise over Lake Michigan. Have you been to the beach yet this summer?
   
   No, and because they stopped with the cheap traintickets I don't think I will be able to go to the beach.
   
   
3. Barbra performed "People" more than 1,350 times when she played Fanny Brice onstage in Funny Girl. She also did it in her Oscar-winning turn as Fanny in the film version. She performed it in her first TV special back in 1964 and in at least 510 concerts since. That's a lot of "People!" Can you think of another performer who has/had a song that is so identified with them you can't imagine seeing them in concert without hearing it?
   
   Don McLean: Vincent
   
   
4. Barbra got her first pet, a poodle named Sadie, as a gift from the Funny Girl behind-the-scenes crew when she was 23 years old and she's had dogs in her life ever since. Did you have pets when you were growing up?
   
   No. I had so many allergies.
   
   
5. Barbra has always taken her Jewish faith seriously, beginning with her days at the Yeshiva of Brooklyn. 70 years later, her old school is still there. How about your grammar school? Does it still stand?
   
   We didn't hvee something like grammar school.
   But we had a school for 12 to 18.
   
   Part of the first school I went..the front.. is still there.
   The second building is still in use as a school.
   
   
6. She tried marijuana a couple times but didn't like it and the only alcohol she drinks is the occasional beer with her Chinese food. Are you like Barbra and generally abstain? Or do you enjoy pot and/or alcohol?
   
   No pot for me.
   I lov to drink a bear with my British friends.. and a whisky.
   But i aam not a regula drinker.
   
   
7. Barbra's favorite lunch is a bowl of Campbell's condensed tomato soup. If we were to peek into your pantry, would we find any canned soup?
   
   No.
   It's better to make it fresh.
   
   
8. In 1964, when this song was popular, hats were, too. The Sears Spring/Summer catalog devoted six pages to ladies hats and two pages to mens. Are hats part of your wardrobe?
   
   I have hats.
   To go with my WW2 uniform.
   Some summerhats
   and a black one with the Tibetan flag.
   
   
9. Random question: Which of your personality traits has gotten you in the most trouble?
   
   Putting others always first.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

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About **Syl

Syl: "Life is a chain of challenges. Sometimes the largest challenges are we ourselves. Facing life, facing others and facing yourself requires either a worryless attitude or plain courage. Most of the time it is dealing with judgement. Maybe life is about getting rid of it."