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Cool vid. But movie is bunk. Baron-Brown dogfight never happened. Baron was chasing Wop May and Brown came after them. Brown put two bursts into Red tripe, but recorded them as "indecisive". Baron had been brain-injured from previous crash. That's why he chased May in a straight line at a low alt...

excellent. Thanks for posting and here's to the Stinkin' Rose: garlic.

Eh is used throughout the Commonwealth. The uniquely Canadian usage is how we use it redundantly; eg. "That noise is driving me crazy", response "Really, eh?" Eh is not necessary here, but Canadians will use it like that anyhow. Also, there is a class dichotomy. Educated, upper-class Canadians of...

40 years old, this tune, and it's still fresh. Marvelous.

Wow! That last scene. People knew how to dress then (1936) . I'd love to have been able to offer my arm to her in 1981 when she was 30. What a beautiful gal! What a smile! Sure, you can buy me a drink, Darlin.

who cares if it is fake or not? It's damn funny. We all need a laugh. I believe this clip is edited, though. Near the end I think they have cropped the part where he says the little old lady is talking to the guy as he's driving away. But an absolute classic. Thanks so much for posting... LMAO!

No, they haven't read the book. I'm not sure why some directors want to re-write the classics. They are brilliant stories already. It's nearly obscene how much money goes into making a junk production like this. Oh well, ch-ching.

From that amazingly long note (3,30 to 3,41) onward is the quintessential sound of the 1980s: bittersweet romance. It was our time, the closing of the era of vinyl records, computerless homes, the pre-internet solitude, the brink of the collapse of the Soviet block and the end of the Second Cold...

Stafford is a hell of a picker and a pretty good singer and writer too. But I think he got type-cast as a novelty tune writer and never made it super big. Entertaining as all get out, though.

@arkady714 -- Were you young then? The period I liked the best was 1978 to 1983. After that, ya some good tunes, but too much electronics. The synthesizer becamse over used. Like the way the Cranberries sang, or Cher's electronic voice a few years ago. Too over used. But between 78 and 83 the Pun...

1:18 "Bow to the Queen" . . . great stuff. Hard to imagine how popular the Mississippi blues was kids in Britain back then. But pop music is the music of the people whether it's skiffle or blues. Thanks for uploading.

Note the one the initial camo uniforms. Allied vets note this anecdotally. The Germans often seemed to blend into the foliage and come out of nowhere. Allied paratroopers had the Denison Smock which also used a disrupted pattern.

Both flawed men, perhaps. But Mozart's only fault was that he was genuine. Salieri on the other hand was a deceitful, jealous, weak, malicious, selfish snake. He loved music for his own sake. Mozart loved music for music's sake.

tbirdit086: I think Sixpence None The Richer covered it a few years back. Of course, I remember the original, and I even remember Neil and Tim Finn when they were Split Enxz in the early 80s. Great stuff then, really nice orchestration. They had six or seven pieces in their band. Great early 80s ...

a stirring movie and so universal to what so many young men must have experienced through centuries of war, to come back mamed, angry and alone. Cruise portrays this quite well; it must be incredibly difficult for people out there today who cannot do the things a lot of us take for granted. The f...

Very nice. Goran Sollscher is a tad smoother on this piece with his 11-string guitar. I find the American guitarists to be second to none for technical ability, but a little lacking in expression. Consider Bream, or again, Sollscher, playing any of the really technically demanding stuff like Bach...

Cool. I've got a couple of her cd's but never saw her play before. Older school technique like Christopher Parkening and Segovia with the right hand nearly perpendicular to the strings. You don't see much of that any more. She's a great player, though.

No foul language, no violence, no shock . . . if you took those things out of pop culture today there would be nothing left. Of course, these guys said a few naughty things in the burlesque clubs they played. But on TV it had to be clean. Bob Hope was banned for years for saying the difference be...

Look at the class--ties and fancy outfits. Different world back then. It's a brilliant video too, just capturing a moment when he was on stage, the walk in, the walk out, and just a snapshot of him not singing, Very cool stuff. Thanks for uploading. Cheers from Canada.

Great great patriot and her story should be told. She walked about 30km and climbed the Niagara Escarpement. The British officers were reluctant to believe her story, luckily they did. Thanks to the chocolate company naming their business after her so her name is seen everywhere across this count...

There's a great documentary about 1CanPara; it details all their operations in the European theatre. (They never faced the Japanese.) They were the first unit sent home (after V-E day) and they were disbanded after that. The only CDN unit that never lost an objective or ground that they had taken...

Thank you, Gene, for what you have done for Canada. The government should declare you and Diana Krall national treasures.

I think he's an Arctic Tern. Hence the Russian accent. Very cool that they would animate him accurately. This is definitely not Disney.

That must be John Hurt doing Hazel's voice. He also did Aragorn in the 1978 animated Lord of the Rings. A much better voice than Viggo Mortensen's. Hurt also played Penelope Cruz's father in Captain Correlli's Mandolin, opposite Nicholas Cage. Brilliant voice.

Marion from Raiders of the Lost Ark. OMG she's cute. What a smile!

There's certainly something magical about the pop music from the 50s. No politics, or glorification of drugs or violence or what's the meaning of life . . . it was all pretty much about romance. Fantastic! Thanks for posting.

I was a teen in 80s and this was a perennial tune among me and my friends along with all the current stuff at that time. This is my dad's music as he was a teen in the 1950s. But it is absolute classic make-out music. It's still tough to beat driving around on a summer evening (Not very green, I ...

No problem for the comment. Please upload some more and keep playing! cheers!

Fantastic. The great master certainly left his mark on these works, but the antiquity of the culture is also preserved. Some of those chords are absolutely exquisite. They really shine through with the orchestra playing them.

Paganini was not a Gypsy/Romani. And Gypsy music is not the sum total of the guitar's voice. Gypsy music is brilliant in its own right; but it's not everything about the guitar.

It was a joint effort that ended fascism in Europe. But most western veterans will tell you the Russians won the war. It was years before a second front was opened and during that time the Russians basically took on Germany themselves. They call it "The Great Patriotic War" because they began it ...

I saw some of this in Eaton's Centre (Victoria, BC Canada) about 15 years ago. I see a lot of comments from people who don't like it. I thought it was really great. But then, my ancestry is English. In Canada we speak a dialect of English, but cultural things like dancing are often from somewhere...

This song always reminds me of my dad. He was from Yarmouth and left it all behind to seek a new life in the west. "Oh, I miss the green and the woods and streams and I don't like cowboy clothes"--yep, that's my dad. Decades away from the water but take him to the ocean and he could still swim, ...

I wonder if any of the younger royals secretly listen to this. It must be odd to be in such a position of privilege and know that guys like the pistols had something to say about the bitter reality they were living. How would you reconcile being a royal and an aware young person? People were behe...

Hell, who doesn't?

That French commander is not a real Frenchman. Funny, so many of the other French characters are played by French actors. I wonder if that is why his journal was written is such poor French :D

Cute gal. A Black Irish--just like Harper! Finally, my people on the screen. I get tired of other Canadians asking if my family is from Italy. And for the record, even after being in Canada for 150 years, we kids still call our mother "Ma".

I wonder if that story about the Armada has any merit ...