Saturday 9 Volare!

Happy weekend friends . I am joining with Saturday 9 again this week.  I usually write these on Thrusday morning or early Friday.

"Welcome to Saturday 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme! "

Saturday 9: Volare (1960)

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.   This is not the one I grew up hearing.  The original was by Domenico Modugno

1) The word "volare" is Italian for "to fly." Say something else in Italian. 

Cosa fai? (what are you doing)  New Jersey is overwhelmingly Italian and most of the Italian I know is not fit to print.

2) This week, Bobby Rydell invites us to take off with him up in the clouds and promises we'll find a rainbow. Countless lyricists have included rainbows in their songs. Can you name another song that mentions rainbows?

 Rainbow Connection, Somwhere Over the Rainbow.

3) His happy heart is singing. What is making you happy this morning?

You will have to settle for Thursday morning   My Fuller Carpet Sweeper arrived.

4) Bobby Rydell, like Frankie Avalon and Fabian, was a 1950s teen idol who hailed from Philadelphia. Home to the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall, Philly is Pennsylvania's most populous city. Have you ever been there? 

 I live on the coast of New Jersey just about an hour and a quarter from Philly.  Yes,  I have been there many times.  I am also only about an hour and a half from New York City. 

5) Bobby was such a perfect example of a clean-cut American boy that when Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey sat down to write the play Grease, they named their fictional high school Rydell High after him. Do you have a favorite song from Grease?

Beauty School Dropout is cute.

6) In addition to singing, Bobby also acted. His most famous film role was opposite Ann-Margret in Bye, Bye, Birdie (1963). Have you seen it?

Yes, a few times.

7) In 1960, when this record was popular, so were hand-loomed, 100% virgin wool sweaters from Italy. You could order one from the Sears catalog for $12.60 (approx. $135 in today's dollars). That sweater was labeled "dry clean only." Do you have any garments waiting to be picked up from the cleaners?

 No I don't have anything at the cleaners.

8) Also in 1960, Princess Margaret married photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones. They met when he was commissioned to take her official portrait. Who took the most recent photo of you?

 One of the kids.

9) Random question: Is your oldest friend also your best friend?  

Yes, for sure and really now a part of the family.