Center44′s SHOUT OUT “Beautiful Dreamers”

Beautiful Dreamers

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Song of the Week

“Beautiful Dreamer”
by Slim Whitman

In 1979, yodeling has-been Slim Whitman, who’d been discovered 30 years earlier by Col. Tom Parker, shot a modest TV commercial to help sell a greatest hits package. With his pencil moustache, slick jet black hair, and spangly rhinestone cowboy get-up, he looked like an extra from a saloon scene of a 1930s western. And yet, Whitman’s “All My Best” became a late-night telemarketing phenomena and a cultural touchstone, going on to sell four million records and becoming the best-selling television-marketed album in history. “Beautiful Dreamer” was featured on Monica‘s January 15th show on WFMU and is available via iTunes and Amazon.

Tube of the Week

Based on the 1954 Broadway play by Sandy Wilson – as seen through the kaliedoscopic eyes of Ken Russell in 1971 – “The Boyfriend” stars Twiggy and Tommy Tune. Russell, who died in 2011, added a backstage story to the shenanigans and heightened both the campiness and the sweet, heartfelt innocence in an “all talking, all singing,” fever dream of a musical. Love it or hate it, it’s quite an experience.
Here’s the theatrical trailer.

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