Saturday 9- Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

 

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

Saturday 9: Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (1973)

Unfamiliar with this song? Hear it here.

1) Bette Midler sings that the bugle boy wakes up Company B every morning by playing reveille. What awakened you this morning (phone, alarm clock, sunrise, etc.)? Or did you wake up on your own?  I am answering these questions during the week, so I heard Karl stirring and getting ready, which woke me up.  I got up and dressed only to have school cancelled from snow. I was glad, but I like to sleep in during snow days.  Oh well.

2) This single was produced by Bette's arranger/piano player, who went on to have a successful singing career of his own. Do you have a favorite Barry Manilow song?  I like many of his songs, I am not sure that I have a favorite...Copacabana was always a very visual song for me.  I could see it happening as he sang it.  I Write the Songs came to mind first.  I also like Mandy.

3) Bette was named after Bette Davis. Her sisters, Susan and Judy, were named for Susan Hayward and Judy Garland. So now we know who Mother Midler's favorite actresses were. Who are yours?  I am not a huge fan of movies that I have a favorite actress, my son is though.  In fact I think Susan Hayward is one of them.  He also likes Doris Day.

4) Bette has been married since 1984 to artist Martin von Haselberg. She was 39 years old, already a star, and had never married before. Yet within six weeks of meeting him, she was so sure Martin was "the one" that they tied the knot. Have you found that love takes time, or, like Bette, have you fallen in love quickly?  I have experienced both.

5) When their daughter Sophie was growing up, it was Martin who taught her to cook. What was the last thing you prepared in your kitchen? Did you use the microwave, stovetop, convection oven, blender, coffee maker ...?  I prepared fish.  I used my oven.

 

6) Bette says that listening and compromise have been the key to their happy marriage but adds, "Compromise is hardest of all." On what have you compromised recently?  I am not sure, it must not have bothered me though to not remember it.

7) Bette and Martin have a farmhouse in upstate New York. She enjoys feeding the chickens (whom she has jokingly named The Kardashians) and puttering in her garden. Do you have a green thumb?  I did so much better when I was able to stay home and I could remember when I had watered last.  I had gorgeous house plants and outdoor flowers as well.  When I went back to work, I have not been able to keep them alive.  If you have a suggestion of a plant I could get that is easy...let me know. :)  I feel like the ones I had were easy, but they died anyway.  I had them for years and they were fine until I went back to work.  Maybe they missed me.

8) In 1973, the year this song was popular, actor Neil Patrick-Harris was born. He's best known as Barney on How I Met Your Mother, which ran from 2005-2014. Were you a fan?  I was and I dated a guy in college that looks just like him.  He had just been in Doogie Howser during that time.

9) Random question -- How often do you put crackers in your soup: Always, often, seldom or never?  Always!  I like the crunch.