Mama Said....

Saturday 9: Mama Said (1961)

Great  Ladies of Music!

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) This week's song is about a girl who remembers wise advice she received from her mother. Tell us about someone who advised you years ago and to this day you think, "They were right!" 

To hear out all sides before I make up my mind.   

 

A good book on closed minds and it's effect on American education and universities was written in 1987  by Professor Alan Bloom.  He taught politics at the University of Chicago.   I highly recommend The Closing of the American Mind.  

I was glad to have been told to keep my mind open and research all avenues when I was a teen and not to just pop off an answer without studying all sides of a question.

Most people pick  their religion, politics, etc.  without really studying into it. They just fall into things and believe most of what they are told by media or what they were told was true. Do they look things up, hear it for themselves, research the reliability of it.. that's very rare.

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2) She sings about hearing chapel bells. Can you hear church bells ringing from your home?

 No.  Sadly most don't bother anymore. How deeply sad.

.  I do hear them when I am online for railfanning live in  Fairport,  New York where the Catholic church there plays them at every hour.   So very lovely.

3) This week's featured artists are the Shirelles, a group formed in New Jersey in 1957. They are credited for beginning the girl group genre. Name another popular girl group.

I was formed in NJ as well!   Another popular girl group were the Supremes, Martha and the Vandellas, The King sisters, The Andrews sisters too.

4) In 1961, when this song was popular, Jacqueline Kennedy appeared on the cover of Ladies Home Journal three times. Is there a printed magazine in your home right now? If so, who is on the cover?

Colleen Corby 1964

Yes. There are a few all of them from my mother's attic. The one in front is a Seventeen Magazine from 1960s  with model Colleen Corby on the front....

5) This song was chosen in celebration of Mother's Day. More phone calls are made on Mother's Day than any other day of the year. Who was your last phone call from?

A fellow in Texas.

 

6) Salons see a bump in appointments around Mother's Day every year. Partly because moms want to look good for their day, but also because hair, spa and nail services are a popular Mother's Day gift. When did you most recently go to a salon, and was it for your hair, complexion, or nails?

Nails and it was over a year and a half ago now.

7) Similarly, restaurants experience a spike in reservations on Mother's Day. Where did you last dine out? Was a reservation required?

 My friend and I ate out at a local Italian place for lunch one afternoon about 2 weeks ago.   Italian food is New Jersey food and most towns sport several Italian restaurants.

8) The most popular Mother's Day gift is still the greeting card. Where do you card shop: drugstore, bookstore, card shop, etc.?

I go to Hallmark.

9) Sam is celebrating Mother's Day with her mother's favorite, Hershey Bars. Would you prefer classic milk chocolate, dark chocolate or chocolate with almonds?

Well, I like almonds and I like milk chocolate  but, chocolate, like wine and grapes, peanuts,  gives me terrible  migraines so, no thank you.

Thank you Sam for another great bunch of questions.