13 posts tagged “mad men”
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GET THE GOODS ON THE INDIE WORLD. GET CANTARANEWS.
Mad Men's Peggy Olson (Elizabeth Moss) in the 1993 TV version of Gypsy. The fabulous Bette Midler plays Mama Rose, Lacey Chabert is Baby June, and that's Tony Shalhoub playing Uncle Jocko.
Well early in the morning, about the break of day,
I ask the Lord, Help me find the way,
Help me find the way to the promised land
This lonely body needs a helping hand
I ask the Lord to help me please find the way.
When the new day's a dawning, I bow my head in prayer.
I pray to the Lord, Won't you lead me there?
Won't you guide me safely to the Golden Stair?
Won't you let this body your burden share?
I pray to the Lord, Won't you lead me please, lead me there?
When the judgment comes to find the world in shame
When the trumpet blows won't you call my name?
When the thunder rolls and the heavens rain
When the sun turns black, never shine again
When the trumpet blows, won't you call me please, call my name!
And for good measure, included here is the sexiest song ever written (don't get me started on the lyrics), Serge's "Je T'aime...Moi Non Plus". You know this song. Yeah you do. It was used to hilarious effect in The Full Monty.
In anticipation of obtaining the DVD release of Mad Men series one, I'm adding to the ever-growing collection of music from the show a lovely melody from the very first episode. It's the exact same recording, a swoony rendition by swoony top 60s crooner, Vic Damone.
This was the poem heard on the TV in "Maidenform", last night's episode of Mad Men.
The author of this sonnet — most known to television audiences of a certain age as part of the air signoff — was John Gillespie Magee Jr (1922-1941), an Anglo-American aviator and son of missionaries, who was killed in flight while serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force, which he joined before the United States officially entered WWII. "High Flight" was sent on the back of a letter to his father, then a church rector in Washington DC, and became popularized through the efforts of poet Archibald MacLeish. It now serves as the RCAF and the Royal Air Force's official poem; it also is required to be recited by memory by first year cadets at the US Air Force Academy.
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds...and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of...wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up, the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, nor even eagle flew.
And while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space...
...put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
