Remenissing About Days of Yore

Originally published: 1929 City of focus mentioned here is 2015 London. City of Mahagony changes with time.

When I was a youngster we would sneak away to the 'ol swimming hole. On the walk back home we would be hungry and would eat raw field corn. I was actually pretty good when it is young, but I learned the hard way not to eat more than one small ear!

You are right on. I wonder if the pickled little ears in grocers markets are field or sweet? I grew my own sweet corn and pigged out big time on first crop eating 36 ears at one sitting, No problem. Sweet corn can be eaten raw I find out only some 20 years ago. Delicious!!!

Kurt Weill

Compositions
Mack the Knife
September Song
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
The Seven Deadly Sins
Speak Low
Street Scene
Youkali
Alabama Song
Mahagonny Songspiel
Pirate Jenny
My Ship
Kanonnensong
Der Silbersee
Klops Lied (Meatball Song)
Barbara-song
Kleine Dreigroschenmusik
The Berlin Requiem
Down in the Valley
Happy End: Bows
Jacob Schmidt
Silverlake: Act I. The Police Station
The Threepenny Opera: The World is Mean
Beat! Beat! Drums!
Mack the Knife: Mack the Knife Overture / Chase
Der Jasager: Akt II "Bist du krank?"
Mack the Knife: Ballad of Pleasant Living
Stay Well (from "Lost in the Stars")
Epitaph

36 ears would have turned me inside-out!

And I not that big just average. Only did it that one time. Got carried away with home grown tasty corn. It was probably standard yellow but later on I found out that the white can be even better.

I was referring to "Processing Capabilities"

Agreed, but have not seen that movie.

Not a movie. See post 41 this thread. Talks of opera type play

Lol. I have only seen a few plays, and am not an opera fan at all.

I remember when calls were a dime. The last person to actually use a phone booth was Superman but that was years ago.

if you listen to the promotion the topic may surprise you and the evolution over time

That's quite a list! The last song title brings this same-titled song to mind

Pleasant Surprise....The lyrics are more relevant today than 1969. The music fitting too....somber.....first time I heard this. I see the group originated in London and there is a post of a promotion from around 2012 for a production of Weills' ..'City of Mahagonny',...which points to London as 'Mahagony'. It is posted this thread #40 and #41

I have gone almost 4 years without listening to music. Phantom I used to really like the Schwartz piece is appealing. I still don't pay much attention to music now. Kurt Weill is a different animal. Years ago on the internet or tv I saw a production of 'mahagony' that didn't come across as opera at all. Actually I believe among the hoi polloi Weills' works are not 'opera'. Snobs!!!???stuffed shirts????Weill seems to be delivering a message. Gods' or the Devils'?????His 'seven deadly sins' is strange. I could also play along on guitar to his 'Alabama' song. It was kind of popular like the 'Mack the Knife' from his 'Three Penny Opera'. Well known people did both. Alabama song is strange.

I recall ...the first cellphones were heavy as bricks

I had a flip phone until it broke.

I even had a Garfield Phone once but it didnt work with our phone network.

Also I lost the remote to the TV at school so now I have to go to the wall and turn it on at the switch.




I used to use a typewriter, by the time I was at school they had gone electronic.

This just seemed to fit better here