Wednesday 10 August 2011

What IS Behind The Green Door, Anyway?

Thanks Tess, for your
Edward Hopper prompt.

13 comments:

  1. WOW! That takes me back to the original version of "Green Door" I once won a tiepin for knowing the title in a "Spot Waltz" at the local Palais de Dance. Can't remember who made the original (1958/59?). One more for Google.

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  2. Do come back a tell us who, then Doctor - don't leave us in suspense...

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  3. 'Twas FRANKIE VAUGHAN . . who enjoyed a distinguished career both as a singer, showbiz personality and citizen, being considered worthy of both the O.B.E and C.B.E.

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  4. I beg to differ, Doc - I eventually found this:-

    "It was a different day and age for sure in 1956. Jim Lowe, a disc jockey by trade and part-time country and novelty tune songwriter enters a Greenwich Village apartment and records a song he has written, "Green Door", and it goes all the way to #1 in September and stays on the charts for an astounding 22 weeks. It took Elvis and "Love Me Tender" to knock "Green Door" from its #1 spot."

    Complete with a YouTube link:-

    http://youtu.be/nVlcqMLMbVA

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  5. Behind the Green Door? Me! Hiding from Ada. She's on the rampage again.

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  6. Gosh short words but when put wit image - real scary!!

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  7. interesting...not a song i was familiar with...

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  8. Aaah!Now this is something very different...
    oooh but I'm scared...

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  9. Why does that warning that makes me want to open that green door!

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  10. Brian ... you are but a lad! We oldies know 'Green Door' ... can still sing it.

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  11. Brian . . there is inter alia "an eyeball peeping through a smoky cloud behind the green door." Oooerrr! They don't write 'em like that these days. Fun blog, this is!

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  12. Yes...Trellis! So definitely perfectly memorable in a green-doorish kind of way~my hub is singing it now! Will have to youtube the original vesion...personally, to me, (who else?) I think it looks like "The Shadow", kermit de frog or Door Number 2? Great imagination to zoom in on the green door like this...very personified now!

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  13. Ah, it WAS about the door! The Green Door.

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