A scene from Boardwalk Empire. Don’t miss it when it returns.
This delightful tune is brief but poignant. It is from the soundtrack of Boardwalk Empire, the HBO hit series. Stephen DeRosa is the singer, and if he were appearing at the Great Auditorium this coming weekend, I bet we’d have some protesters there. But we’ll let him have his say on Blogfinger, and remember, this show is set in wild Atlantic City back during Prohibition days. The band for this album is Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks. They won an Emmy for the soundtrack. For the music historians out there, Eddie Cantor made this song his own in 1923. — Paul Goldfinger
Paul, the political correctness police will be at your door soon. I’ll visit you in PC prison.
Waterseller: What? This is not politically incorrect; this is just funny. Have we lost our senses of humor? And when you come to the PC prison, I want you to bring me an ACLU lawyer, a copy of the Constitution, and a maid to clean my cell. (Everybody ought to have a maid! So says Stephen Sondheim: let’s send him to PC prison also.)
Actually Neil Young has a song called: A Man Needs A Maid. However not sure it is about cleaning PC prison cells.
A smart educated women is beautiful and much preferred to a ditzy dum dum. Anyone who thinks otherwise is the fool.
The guy who plays Eddie Cantor on Boardwalk Empire is wonderfully good. We only see occasional glimpses of him telling jokes or singing his little ditties, but I’m always fascinated. The character reminds me of Peewee Herman, although, of course, Cantor was playing to adults in mob-run casinos, which makes a difference.