It’s been crazy weather..we went all the way up to 32C (89.6F) for the last 3 days and now we are down to 16C (60.8F). Work is crazy from the clients to stress that we must get the stragglers in before June 30th or their Consumer Proposals and Bankruptcies will be opposed and rejected. I am not sure how I will get through them all but it must get done. Last night I had an idiot for 6pm who finally called me at 6:45pm. She picked up stuff at the groceries and got her nails done completely forgetting about this Mandatory appointment that she asked for, because she can only do these appointments at 6pm because of work. Since the first session must be done in the first 60 days, I took her because my next free 6pm isn’t until the middle of July. I wish I could say that she got into debt due to illness, loss of job, marital breakdown but, nope, she went back to school, at 48( which is great), got the credit cards and wanted a truck so bought a big ass truck. She didn’t realize how much interest there would be so now she did a Proposal. Ughhhh!
Ok, I bitched enough:) It is freebie week over at Monday Music Moves Me and it is time to see if you know who won the Oscar for Best Song of 1936. Let’s see if you can guess which song won the Oscar, which was nominated and which came up empty-handed. It’s a huge year for great songs, by the way.
1. I’VE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN SUNG BY VIRGINIA BRUCE
This song is from the musical, “Born To Dance” starring Eleanor Powell and James Stewart ( who sang “Easy To Love” and, as he even said, he couldn’t screw it up since it’s such a great song) and sung by the ethereal Virginia Bruce as the other gal. All the songs were composed by Cole Porter.
2. A FINE ROMANCE SUNG BY FRED ASTAIRE AND GINGER ROGERS
This is a great song, written by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields from the Astaire/Rogers film, “Swing Time.” It is sung by the 2 with a hopeful Astaire trying to woo the jaded Rogers. They each sing it I. The style of their emotions and it works so well. I love the chemistry of these 2 greats.
3. THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT SUNG BY FRED ASTAIRE
Another great song from the film, “Swing Time” written by Kern and Fields where Astaire serenades Rogers who dissed him just before she washes her hair. It’s a beautiful song.
So which one won the Oscar, which was nominated and which came up empty-handed?
Two songs were nominated from Swing Time? That seems unlikely.
ReplyDeletePeople are annoying. It's the ones that get themselves into debt like that that don't consider things like keeping appointments. Sigh. Sorry you have to deal with them.
People - I wouldn't have lasted long at that kind of job. But those songs, sigh...All worthy of winning. I'll give it a try. I've got You Under My Skin winner, The Way You Look Tonight runner up, A Fine Romance nada. Too bad they were all in the same year!
ReplyDeleteFor once, I know them all! No idea what won, but the best sing IMO is The Way You Look Tonight.
ReplyDeleteWow. What a great year for music. I have no idea, but I'll be humming these songs.
ReplyDeleteYou do good work, Birgit! How many hundreds, if not thousands of people have you helped over the decades?
ReplyDeleteI'll guess "I've Got You Under My Skin" won while The Way You Look Tonight" was nominated.
Our weather is crazy, too. I'm so ready for things to settle in one way or the other.
ReplyDeleteI have no clue which one won, but given your situation fade in then I'd have to say the winner was "I've Got You Under My Skin". That being said, I prefer Fred Ast
Have a boogietastic weekend, m'dear! xo