1955 - 1965 Alfred Hitchcock had a TV show where there would be a suspense story told weekly -- sometimes at the end Hitchcock would say to the audience, "I think we've had quite enough for one evening." (I liked that phrase, for some reason. Maybe it was the way he said it. He has on-camera personality and magnetism, unembellished by physical beauty.)
Another trademark phrase was the director looking into the camera and intoning ponderously, "Good evening." In a documentary on You Tube, an associate of Hitchcock's told of riding in a taxi with him and they were stopped at a light; a teenage boy came up to the window and said to him, mimicking his style, "Good - EVE-ning!"
Hitchcock didn't say anything to the young man; light changed, taxi drove on, and then the famous director turned to his companion and said, "Can you believe that?"...
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Today's song to listen to is
"Mystery Train," by Elvis Presley.
There's an upload on You Tube where you see the yellow Sun Record Company label with a picture of a chicken under the word "SUN."
Under the picture it says,
"Mystery Train by Elvis Presley on 1955 Sun 78."
Uploader: Irh1966
On this song the guitar-playing is like the sound of a train -- a steady, insistent, jumping beat.
And now, Play
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