Would that it were, DC. The finger-snap business is a high stakes, live-on-the-razor's-edge, roller coaster ride.
Sure, my gig with 77 Sunset Strip and my celebrated work on Peggy Lee's version of Fever represented the best of times. Of course, my ill-fated 2 month marriage to Miss Lee puts a bittersweet pallor over the reminiscences.
Danny Thomas Productions screwed me out of my royalties for my snapping on the Andy Griffith Show theme, but the Addams Family Theme earned me a cult following that I enjoy to this day.
My final studio work was with those kids in Queen (Crazy Little Thing Called Love).
Sometimes, in the wee hours of the morning, I wipe the sleep from my baby blues and snap out a few tunes for old times sake. I haven't lost the touch.
Goomba omits this story. He was fired as snapping coach from the set of "West Side Story" because he trained Tamblyn and Chakiris to snap out "Bernstein is a rat fink" in Morse Code.
I love the car and the guys looked handsome also. Could ya transport me back in time? LOL!
ReplyDeleteI'd much rather had lived in those days than have to deal with the crap we're dealing with today.
Teresa, you and I can go together. Like a ladies' day out. ;-)
ReplyDeleteOpie,
ReplyDeleteThat sound great!
Great clip, Nick. That background snapping gig you landed took you to lofty heights, too.
ReplyDeleteWould that it were, DC. The finger-snap business is a high stakes, live-on-the-razor's-edge, roller coaster ride.
ReplyDeleteSure, my gig with 77 Sunset Strip and my celebrated work on Peggy Lee's version of Fever represented the best of times. Of course, my ill-fated 2 month marriage to Miss Lee puts a bittersweet pallor over the reminiscences.
Danny Thomas Productions screwed me out of my royalties for my snapping on the Andy Griffith Show theme, but the Addams Family Theme earned me a cult following that I enjoy to this day.
My final studio work was with those kids in Queen (Crazy Little Thing Called Love).
Sometimes, in the wee hours of the morning, I wipe the sleep from my baby blues and snap out a few tunes for old times sake. I haven't lost the touch.
Goomba omits this story. He was fired as snapping coach from the set of "West Side Story" because he trained Tamblyn and Chakiris to snap out "Bernstein is a rat fink" in Morse Code.
ReplyDeleteYou love spreading the misery around don't you, Nickie? Now all of a sudden I feel old.
ReplyDeleteNow snap your fingers and get us out of here.
Of course there were Chernobyl-like after effects from that program:
ReplyDelete"Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb."
I really did enjoy that program; and I still feel a faint stirring whenever I see a 1960 T-Bird.