Nice to be Nice

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Saturday 9: It's So Nice to Be Nice  (to Your Neighbor) – 1947

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

 

1) In this song, Monica Lewis encourages us to greet our neighbors with a smile and a hello. Tell us about one of your neighbors.

  One of my neighbors sons used to come to our house for breakfast every Sunday morning since I made pancakes , waffles or French toast on that day.   It was cute how he'd come around.

2) She reminds us that it's "nice to be nice." Who has recently shown you kindness?

 My friends and family always show me kindness.

3) Monica Lewis was born in Chicago, where her mother performed with the Chicago Opera Company. Have you ever been to the opera?

 Yes.  It's not far to go to the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and it's great.

4) Her family moved to New York City, where she attended college by day and worked at radio station WMCA in the evenings to help support her family. Which do you listen to more: the radio or podcasts?

The radio.  I love radio and especially old radio shows that are still available to hear.

I remember WMCA very well and the personalities on the channel, especially Harry Harrison.

 It was big along with WABC and WNEW.  W.. N..E ..W Eleven three O in New York.

5) In the 1940s she appeared all around New York – in nightclubs, on Broadway, and on radio shows. It was then that she got her best-known and longest-running role: the voice of Chiquita Banana. For decades she was heard singing the jingle, "I'm Chiquita Banana and I'm here to say ..." Do you have any bananas in your kitchen now? 

 No.  I like them a lot but they are too high in sugar.

6) Around 1950 she moved to Hollywood. She had recently divorced and wanted a fresh start. There shedated an actor who was also newly divorced: Ronald Reagan. Obviously she never had to ask, "Whatever became of him?" Who is the last former romance, classmate or coworker that you looked up on the internet?

 I haven't done that.

7) In 1947, when this song was popular, actor Ted Danson was born. He's best known as Sam Malone, the bartender at Cheers, "where everybody knows your name." Is there a bar or restaurant where you are recognized on sight?

 There used to be but they moved to another town and that was the end of that.  It was nice knowing them like that.

8) The 1947 Studebaker Champion was one of the first cars to have an adjustable driver's seat designed to accommodate motorists of various heights. When you're driving someone else's car, do you usually adjust the seat?

 Yes.  I have very short legs.

9) Random question: When someone takes advantage of you, are you angrier at them for doing it, or at yourself for letting it happen?

 At them for betraying trust and using my kindness.