Somewhere in my garage there’s a box with a tape of the very first Saturday Night Live, when Don Pardo referred to the ensemble cast as “The Not for Ready for Prime Time Players”. I haven’t watched the show much in the past 10 years, but I made sure the 50th Anniversary Special was recorded in my YouTube TV subscription.
Unfortunately, this last bit was not recorded. I just watched it now and it’s wonderful, despite Paul’s aging voice. This was always one of my favorite medleys of theirs. I miss the strings, which I still heard (in my head) while listening to this.
There are lots of things I love about being a father of young children. One of them just happened in our living room while I was cleaning the kitchen. Our oldest is away with Mom at a Girl Scout activity and the youngest daughter of one of the other families is here playing with our youngest.
I just listened to her (the friends’ daughter) start to sing Frosty the Snowman which, mid-way, transformed into Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and somehow ended in an amalgamated medley of the two. Listening to this incredible editing job, which I’m sure was invented on-the-fly, was priceless. I will miss this age as I miss others that have passed. Thankfully my memory isn’t what it used to be, so the loss isn’t melancholy for long. Still . . .
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