(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Fortnight?" poll) [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-06-09 I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in "Cheers & Jeers". OK, you've been warned - here is this week's tomfoolery material that I posted. CHEERS to Bill and Michael in PWM and ...... well, each of you at Cheers and Jeers. Have a fabulous weekend .... and week ahead. ART NOTES — an exhibition entitled Georgia O’Keeffe: My New Yorks — while famed for her images of flowers and Southwestern landscapes, approximately 100 works (including paintings, drawings, pastels, and photographs) will represent the first major survey of her cityscapes — and will be at the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois through September 22nd. East River No. 1 — 1927 YOUR WEEKEND READ #1 is this in-depth (and gripping) essay in The Atlantic (gifted by its author McKay Coppins) about how on-edge European officials are concerned about the future of NATO, noting “European officials can explain the Electoral College in granular detail and cite polling data from battleground states.” THURSDAY's CHILD is named Susie the Cat - a family cat who has visited over 30 shops in Dorchester, England ... and so popular, she now appears on a postcard. Susie the Cat YOUR WEEKEND READ #2 is this essay in The American Prospect by Hassan Ali Kanu on the subject of junk fees: noting that ten years ago, StubHub went to “all-in pricing” — where customers pay only the advertised price (hoping to gain a competitive advantage) — only to have confused buyers (who assumed it was more expensive) and had to return to junk fee pricing after it lost market share. FRIDAY's CHILD is named Dashiell the Cat - who is set to retire in June from his post at the Raven Bookstore in Lawrence, Kansas. Dashiell the Cat BRAIN TEASER — try this Quiz of the Week's News from the BBC ...… and the usually easier, less UK-centered New York Times quiz. SISTER-BROTHER? — right-wingers Christina (b. 1982), Scott (b. 1987) ...... and finally, for a song of the week ...........................… celebrities that my parents knew as singers, stage/film actors and comedians …. I grew-up knowing as game-show panelists. And such is the case with Jaye P. Morgan — whom I came to know as the bawdy Gong Show “judge” in the mid-to-late 70’s — only to learn of her extensive prior singing career later on. And as she is still alive at age ninety-two, a retrospective is surely called for. She was born in Colorado in 1931 as Mary Morgan and serving as her high school treasurer: was given her nickname (after the banker JP Morgan). She made her first recording at age twenty-two, and when her version of Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries reached #26 on the pop charts — she was offered a recording contract by RCA Victor, working with bandleader Frank De Vol. As the bandleader Harry James had a vocalist named Marion Morgan, De Vol agreed that Jaye P. was it. She had other successful singles in the 1950’s, with The Longest Walk and There’s a Dream in My Heart, with her best-selling tune reaching #3 in 1954 with That’s All I Want from You. She appeared on many TV shows in the 1950’s as a featured singer: Stop the Music was a music quiz show (1954-55, a forerunner to Name That Tune), plus the Robert Q. Lewis Show on CBS. She even had her own TV show in 1956, The Jaye P. Morgan Show — which featured four of her brothers as ensemble singers. Jaye P. in the 1950’s She spent much of the 1960’s as a nightclub singer, with occasional TV guest singing performances: on My Three Sons in 1966 and The Odd Couple in 1973. In the 1970’s she began recording again, leaving behind her big band background and recording with smaller groups — with a mature approach to both old chestnuts as well as newer material. Whenever she leaves this Earth, her obituary will be quick to note her tenure on Chuck Barris’ Gong Show: as a feisty judge who made gonging a dud contestant a spectacle. After she flashed on live TV, she was banned from the show’s remaining eight shows (before its already-scheduled cancellation) — yet appeared as herself in a 1980 film version of the show. She also made guest appearances on other TV shows (Match Game, Hollywood Squares, Love Boat, Fantasy Island) and singing That Old Black Magic on The Muppet Show (with Dr. Teeth). In the 1990’s she focused on jazz singing and before her retirement appeared in film roles (Home Alone 2: Lost in New York) in 1992 and appeared as herself in the 2003 semi-biographical Chuck Barris film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. With the Gong behind her Circa 2002 Two songs to feature … one from her 1950’s heyday, with the Ray Ellis Orchestra in 1959 ….. Should I — music by Nacio Herb Brown, lyrics by Arthur Freed. And from 1971 — this modern take on Leon Russell’s classic, A Song for You. 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