Madlyn Fafard,

music, thoughts, books, dreams, more

Just my world of dreams, music and thoughts. Author of two books, one a novel of Love stories set in Framingham, Mass, Secrets of the Heart the 2nd book an autobiography of growing up in Framingham, Mass. Small Town America, Framingham My generation was the first teenage generation, that was when the word was coined. Ours was the generation that started cruising through town and to the drive in theater and drive in restaurant. In our area, Ernie Kampersal,from Holliston, drove his bucking car through town, picking up girls. It rose in the air, like a stallion! We went to the soda shops and played the juke boxes. It was a different town, a different time, and it belonged to us!

Sunday, February 19, 2012

The Riff Song - Gordon MacRae

This musical, led my imagination into the desert, into adventure, and Lawrence of Arabia, which became one of my favorites when the movie came out.

Kathryn Grayson, Gordon MacRae - Desert Song

ha!ha! I thought he was singing to me, I loved this movie, and when he came to Framingham to appear at the Carousel Theater, I asked him, why not put this production on at the Carousel? He said, he had to appear in something that Sheila, his wife could be in also. So that was that...and I went home to dream of Gordon Mc Rae.

MARIO LANZA "Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise" Aug. 05.1951 Coca-Cola Show

More of the past, with an introduction to the song....beautiful song, great Mario Lanza

Wanting You (New Moon)

In the "old" days, they often sang an introduction , so get through the introduction to one of the prettiest songs of the time....

Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy: Indian Love Call

My mother's generation loved this duo, I heard this song on her phonograph, and it is still one of my favorites all these years later, as you must know, because I bring it back, back, back

VAUGHN MONROE - WHEN THE LIGHTS GO ON ALL OVER THE WORLD

Picture us, as little kids listening to this on our floor size radio, as our parents sat in their matching chairs, smoking with a standing ashtray between them. The ashtray had a clam shape that took and dumped the ashes and cigarettes below , so they would be out of sight and not smell as bad...then the air raid warning would sound.......remembering that sad, sad time, when men/boys left their sweethearts, fathers left their families and young men left their dreams to fight for freedom for our country, some gone for more than 5 years...some never to return....we can never forget...we fought for freedom.

The Platters - Once In A While (1963)

Taking back the past...wonderful music
as we danced with our then loves...long gone with the wind, like the clouds that wisk by in the sky.

Billy Eckstine - I Apologise

Regenerating a beautiful voice, and song from the early 1950's
It was a time when we had less confusion, less antagonism, or was it?

Billy Eckstine - Satin Doll

Regenerating the wonderful Billy Eckstine
and one of his big hits from the 50?'s or was it earlier?

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Make your Own Taco Bowls by Flipping Over a Muffin Tin

Make your Own Taco Bowls by Flipping Over a Muffin Tin Isn't this a great idea?

Monday, February 13, 2012

TOP 15 MICHAEL DOUGLAS MOVIES

Michel Douglas movies...remember "War of the Roses"... In Athens it is like two warraing spouses....who is burning the city down, the husband or the wife?

Seven Wonders of the World - Petra

One of the most staggering wonders of the world.

Downton Abbey Trailer

If you have not seen this, you must, you must....it is an epic journey before and after the First World War, covering the inhabitants of the Downton Abbey, the owners family, servants and more. It is worth watching, and buying the series as a gift for someone that might not have seen it....an English Dr. Zhivago type picture, epic and sweeping across history.