I’m pleased to announce that the first round of behind-the-scenes changes to the blog are done, but there’s still a bit more to do. As a result here will be another little hiatus tomorrow while I attack those. Check back on Monday  – I’m hoping to be done by then, but computer things always take long than you think. So,  we’ll see how it goes.  In the meantime, I’ll offer a few more musical pieces. One of which actually is even kind of related to the blog. Really.

Anyway, when I looked up that clip the other day, the one with Dorothy Loudon in Annie,  I noticed a “recommended” clip over to the side that looked intriguing.  Does this ever happen to you on YouTube, when you find one clip, which leads to another, which leads to another … and then an hour later you realize you’ve just spent an hour watching old TV show or movie clips on YouTube. Fun, but not necessarily productive.

Well, I let that happen to me every so often. So on Tuesday, Dorothy Loudon in Annie led to

• Dorothy Loudon singing Hard Hearted Hannah on some probably sort-lived TV series she had that I’d never heard of. Which led to …
• Carol Burnett singing Hard Hearted Hannah on The Lucy Show. I had never realized Carol Burnett did a guest appearance on any Lucille Ball show. Who knew. Which led to…
• A marvelous musical pastiche of the old Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals, called High Hat, performed on the Carol Burnett show. Roddy McDowell and Ken Berry do amazingly spot-on versions of Edward Everett Horton and Fred Astaire, and Vicki Lawrence and Carol Burnett are also very good (although Carol is less Ginger Rogers-like than Ken Berry’s version of Fred Astaire).   The songs in the sketch are also well done affectionate parodies of the songs in the actual movies. I cannot recommend this clip highly enough.They don’t make them like that any more: neither those movie musicals with people like Fred and Ginger, nor the sketch comedy shows with a bunch of talented performers and writers like they had on the Carol Burnett show.

Since Chris and I enjoyed that last clip from that show so much, we looked to see if there were any other musical numbers with Ken Berry on YouTube. And lo and behold Chris found another one with him.

Now, you just need to recall that the name of this blog is Two to Tübingen, which shortens to Two to TÜ, and then you’ll see why this clip is the perfect musical note on which to end the blog post for today.

After all, while my blog’s behind the scenes changes aren’t quite finished, at least I can tell you that My Cutie’s Due on the Two to Two Today, the name of that other musical number with Ken Berry that Chris found on YouTube.

Enjoy.

See you back here on Monday.