Ever since I learned that it was Lucille Ball's 100th birthday today, I've spent the morning posting some of my favorite clips from the show on Facebook and reliving such classics as Viteameatavegimin, Lucy's job at the candy factory, and the grape stomping scene. Then I got to thinking that I just happen to be on the letter "L" in the Z-A Blogger's Challenge and I then I started looking at some of the great songs from the show and figured I'd post em' here. So without further adieu, here are some classic musical moments from the great "I Love Lucy"

We're Having a Baby

Ah, I loved this one! Lucy finds a great way to break it to Ricky that she's "expecting" and he breaks into this sweet, sweet tune!



Cuban Pete

Ricky Ricardo sang some cool Cuban flavored stuff, including this one...."Boom chickee boom, boom chickee boom, boom chickee boom..."



Friendship

Who can forget this hysterical scene between Lucy and Ethel? Uh oh, they bought the same dress for the benefit and neither one is too happy about it, lol.



Babalu

Finally, we come to one of Ricky's most famous songs, this time sung as a duet with the very adorable Little Ricky.



Of course there's much more fun music from the "I Love Lucy" show, and you can check most of them out on YouTube. I hope you've enjoyed this little retrospective as much as I have!

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Today is Saturday, August 6th, 2011 and it is Lucille Ball’s 100th birthday. Google is honoring the occasion with a really cool logo, so if you’re reading this today, you should definitely check it out. Though Lucy was even before my time, I still grew up watching those hysterical reruns and still get a chuckle whenever I see them. Classic!

Throw Me a Topic

Ah, what to write, what to write? I’ve really wanted to talk more about the situation with my house, but I’ve been distracted from it the past couple of days (in a good way!) and I don’t really want to talk about it until I’m back in that mode, which I know will come soon. I made several phone calls this week and things are being looked at by the bank, so I have no idea where this is going to go, but I know I’ve got to prepare myself mentally. Stay tuned…

Friends and Food

As I mentioned the other day, my friend Eddie (AKA Rose) is here from Florida and I’ve been spending some time with him and Rich and Bobby (Dita and Blanche!). He, Rich and I hit the Good Steer the other night, which is one of those Long Island places that everybody around here knows. They have these delectable fried onion strings that they serve with their delicious burgers and though I don’t get there too often, it’s always reliably fantastic! In fact, I posted the words “Good Steer” on my Facebook page when I got there and several former Long Islanders made yearning comments about the place. For more on the place, check out this article on Y!CN:

Where to Find Great Burgers on Long Island

A Saucy Night at Splash with Oz

After leaving the Good Steer it was off to Splash. This was the third straight time that I’ve gone there with people. First it was Laura Kim and Michael, then it was Paul, and this week I went with Ozzie. Campus Thursdays is one of the club’s most popular nights and this Thursday it was as crowded as I’d ever seen it. Not only was the place packed in, but many of the patrons were a little wild, to say the least.

I’m starting to learn that Mr. Oz is one popular dude! We ran into a lot of people he knew, all from Long Island, of course, including Julian, the guy who won the Mr. Gay LI at Circus the other night. That dude I met at Ozzie’s house last week, Jeremy, also showed up and boy was he a grouch! All in all it was a great time, despite the naughty groping by the wild crowd. The deejay was rocking and before you knew it, Ozzie and I were heading out the door at 4:30 AM. I walked in the door to my house at 6… Am I getting too old for this…..nah!

Grove Party Tonight!

I don’t know what’s been happening lately, and I actually think I’m starting to miss going out alone, but we four friends are going to Cherry Grove together this evening. It’s been like forever since Rose has been there and I know several people who are also going, so I am very excited!!!! Stay tuned…

In honor of Lucille Ball’s 100th Birthday, here’s my all time favorite scene from the I Love Lucy Show. It’s an early episode when Lucy thinks Ricky is missing his native Cuba and she tries to make him feel more at home by dressing the place up like Cuba and putting on a side-splitting imitation of Carmen Miranda, of course with the help of Ethel, her partner in crime. So funny!



So thanks for reading and enjoy your weekend!

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Amber was a hot commodity back in the late 90's/early 2000's. With plenty of great club hits including 'This is Your Night,' 'Sexual (Li Da Di),'One More Night,' and this one, the Netherlands born, German raised singer was all over the club scene and the dance charts during that time. One of the singer's shining moments came in 1998 when she was made a part of the group Stars on 54 to do a disco remake of Gordon Lightfoot's classic 'If You Could Read My Mind' for the movie '54.' The group featured two other similarly styled and popular singers Jocelyn Enriquez and Ultra Nate and that song is one of my all time favorites.



'Above the Clouds' is a pleasantly happy song, giving the listener images of soft, puffy white clouds floating within a big blue sky. The song's got a great beat that blends perfectly with the lyrics and is pure sunshine! The song always makes me think of the great 'Sex and the City,' as it was featured in the closing sequence to an episode in which the girls have a summer rooftop party with some drag queen prostitutes that Samantha had been having a hard time with. The scene epitomized what made that show so great and having this song in the background just gave it that extra special feel.



There was no video made for 'Above the Clouds,' unfortunately. All that was available were a couple of concert scenes of the singer performing it live, which took away from the song itself. I always like to feature the original versions of songs when I do a song of the day and so I chose to include an audio track of the original recording, and I threw in a snippet of that 'Sex and the City' scene I spoke of. I hope you'll enjoy both!







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They’re coming back! Earlier this week it was reported that the British TV sitcom ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ will be filming an all new season this summer. For those of you who are not familiar with the show, AbFab is a hysterical show about the misadventures of two friends, Edina and Patsy, who are not your ordinary middle aged women. Still stuck in their drug-taking days in the 60’s, Eddy and Patsy get into the kind of outrageous situations that could only be shown on British television.

With a supporting cast of characters, including Eddy’s level-headed daughter (who's more like her mother!) Saffy, her dim-witted mom, and her absolutely idiotic secretary Bubble, AbFab is one of the most popular comedies in BBC history. I first caught them about ten years ago in repeats on BBC America and have been in love with the show ever since. The humor is British, so it doesn’t all translate to American audiences, but for many of us, it’s well worth watching!



"You can never have enough hats, gloves and shoes." - Patsy Stone



Take a look at some outtakes from the show (and don’t mind the subtitles, lol):





For more on this week's announcement see this post in the Advocate online.

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