Saturday 9: It's So Nice to Be Nice (to Your Neighbor) – 1947

 

It's So Nice to Be Nice

Saturday 9: It's So Nice to Be Nice  (to Your Neighbor) – 1947

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

 

1) In this song, Monica Lewis encourages us to greet our neighbors with a smile and a hello. Tell us about one of your neighbors.  We have a neighbor named Suzie.  She has lived here all of her life and is loved by this community.  She is so nice.  I see her every morning as I am driving to work.  She works here at the school district where I live and I work in another city.  We wave at each other every morning.  She can also be seen walking around town getting her exercise and she also mows lawns for extra money.  She is great!

 

2) She reminds us that it's "nice to be nice." Who has recently shown you kindness?  My husband.  I got home from work today and he had bought pizza hoe for dinner for us to have as we watch the KC Chiefs game.

 

3) Monica Lewis was born in Chicago, where her mother performed with the Chicago Opera Company. Have you ever been to the opera?  Not a real one.  Josh has though, he had a teacher in elementary that was an opera singer and she had all of the kids come up to watch a performance.

 

4) Her family moved to New York City, where she attended college by day and worked at radio station WMCA in the evenings to help support her family. Which do you listen to more: the radio or podcasts? radio, I listen to podcasts, but not in my car, I usually catch some on YouTube so I can see them.

5) In the 1940s she appeared all around New York – in nightclubs, on Broadway, and on radio shows. It was then that she got her best-known and longest-running role: the voice of Chiquita Banana. For decades she was heard singing the jingle, "I'm Chiquita Banana and I'm here to say ..." Do you have any bananas in your kitchen now? no

 

6) Around 1950 she moved to Hollywood. She had recently divorced and wanted a fresh start. There she dated an actor who was also newly divorced: Ronald Reagan. Obviously she never had to ask, "Whatever became of him?" Who is the last former romance, classmate or coworker that you looked up on the internet?  It was a classmate, I was thinking about them the other day and looked them up.

 

7) In 1947, when this song was popular, actor Ted Danson was born. He's best known as Sam Malone, the bartender at Cheers, "where everybody knows your name." Is there a bar or restaurant where you are recognized on sight?  no

 
8) The 1947 Studebaker Champion was one of the first cars to have an adjustable driver's seat designed to accommodate motorists of various heights. When you're driving someone else's car, do you usually adjust the seat?  If I am driving, absolutely.  I have to be able to see.  If I am riding, then no.  I just leave the seat alone.

 

9) Random question: When someone takes advantage of you, are you angrier at them for doing it, or at yourself for letting it happen?  I am probably angrier at them.

I am going to use some of my birthday sigtags, my birthday is Tuesday. :)