Saturday 9: Volare (1960)

 

Volare

Saturday 9: Volare (1960)

 

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

1) The word "volare" is Italian for "to fly." Say something else in Italian. Ciao

2) This week, Bobby Rydell invites us to take off with him up in the clouds and promises we'll find a rainbow. Countless lyricists have included rainbows in their songs. Can you name another song that mentions rainbows? Somewhere over the Rainbow.

 

3) His happy heart is singing. What is making you happy this morning?  That I am able to sleep later than 4:45AM.  I am so tired by the end of the week.

 

4) Bobby Rydell, like Frankie Avalon and Fabian, was a 1950s teen idol who hailed from Philadelphia. Home to the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall, Philly is Pennsylvania's most populous city. Have you ever been there?  no

 

5) Bobby was such a perfect example of a clean-cut American boy that when Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey sat down to write the play Grease, they named their fictional high school Rydell High after him. Do you have a favorite song from Grease? Oh goodness, I LOVE Grease...funny because my son Josh hates it.  I have a lot of favorites from that one.

 

6) In addition to singing, Bobby also acted. His most famous film role was opposite Ann-Margret in Bye, Bye, Birdie (1963). Have you seen it? I probably have with Josh.  I'm not sure.

7) In 1960, when this record was popular, so were hand-loomed, 100% virgin wool sweaters from Italy. You could order one from the Sears catalog for $12.60 (approx. $135 in today's dollars). That sweater was labeled "dry clean only." Do you have any garments waiting to be picked up from the cleaners?  no, I try not to buy anything dry clean only.

 
8) Also in 1960, Princess Margaret married photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones. They met when he was commissioned to take her official portrait. Who took the most recent photo of you?  My co-worker at school (Debbie), one of the kids in our class wanted a picture with me, so Debbie took one of the two of us.

 

9) Random question: Is your oldest friend also your best friend?  I went to school with Debi, she and I were in cheer together, then in college in the summer we worked together and went out on the lake and had the best time.  She lives really close to me now (just down the road), I could walk to her house.  We have been friends a long time.

Update on my mom:  She went back to her assisted living facility on Wednesday and is doing good.

Also, I got Teacher of the Month for January at school!  I was so excited.