Central Park. 2013. By Paul Goldfinger. NYC Street Series. © Click image once for larger version.
JOHN BARRY From the motion picture “Somewhere in Time”
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Somewhere in time…
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Say ah!
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Fertility god. A replica from a Hindu temple in central Java before the Islamic era. Photographed at the Naples Botanical Garden by Eileen Goldfinger. ©
YUNA —— from the soundtrack to the film Savages
One, two, three: SMILE for Dad
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Phone photo on the Asbury Park boards. Paul Goldfinger photo ©
LA TROPICANA ORCHESTRA from My Week With Marilyn. “Uno, Dos, Tres.”
A summer job with a soundtrack, just like a particular movie: Dirty Dancing
Posted in Music from the movies, tagged Love is Strange from "Dirty Dancing.", Mickey and Sylvia on May 30, 2025| 9 Comments »
By Paul GOLDFINGER, MD. Editor, Blogfinger.net. Ocean Grove, N. J.
In 1987 the move “Dirty Dancing” became a hit. It starred Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze. Jerry Orbach played the girl’s father, and the film takes place at a Catskill Mountain “borscht belt” resort. Jennifer plays a nice Jewish girl with a beautiful way about her. Guess what? She falls for the dance instructor.
I loved this movie for a bunch of reasons, but especially because I spent two summers “working” at a resort like that, and the depiction was quite accurate. Those were the best summers ever. My job at the Hotel Nemerson in South Fallsburg, New York, was on the athletic staff by day and the nightclub staff by night.
Here I am (tall guy) with members of the athletic staff in front of the handball court at the Hotel Nemerson, South Fallsburg. c. 1960.
All those “mountain” hotels provided a total experience where no one had to leave the grounds. They all had a professional “dance team” who gave ballroom dancing lessons in their studio by the pool and then performed at night in the club, just like the couple in the movie. Did the staff “mingle” with the guests? –you bet they did! 
Every show up there had 3 acts: a singer, a comedian and a dance team. That is why dancing was such an important component in the movie as was music. There was music all around.
Each hotel had a dance/show band and a Latin band. That’s where I learned to play the claves. (sticks you bang together as part of the rhythm section of a Latin band.)
So here is one of the songs from the soundtrack. Actually it was written in the 1950’s and had been recorded by Buddy Holly and Bo Diddly before Mickey and Sylvia got hold of it for this movie. It has a unique feature: a conversation in the middle of the song.
Here are Mickey and Sylvia with “Love is Strange.”
Exhaustion
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Asbury Park Fire Dept. By Michael Goldfinger, Blogfinger staff. 2014.
JOHN WILLIAMS, ITZHAK PERLMAN. Il Postino (movie theme)
The Fountain Motel: “Same Sun as the Beach. Come See Us.”
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Fountain Motel. Fort Myers, Florida. Paul Goldfinger photos © 2014. Click left
Fountain Motel. “No vacancy.” ©
THOMAS NEWMAN. “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” from the movie of the same name.
Inside out. A view from the park.
Posted in Music from the movies, Photography by Stephen R. Goldfinger on April 22, 2025|
April, 2015. By Stephen Goldfinger, Blogfinger NYC correspondent.
BETH ROWLEY from the movie “An Education.”
What red flag?
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What are they discussing? Where did she hide her cell phone ?—it’s ringing. August 19, 2014. Ocean Grove beach. Aerial shot. © Paul Goldfinger photo.
THE BIRD AND THE BEE
Portrait of Eileen: Paris West Bank.
Posted in Music from the movies, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery France, Photography Gallery France, tagged Portrait of Eileen in Paris on March 6, 2025| 1 Comment »
Somewhere in Paris, on a rainy afternoon, a French chef speaks to Eileen. She is speechless. Paul Goldfinger photo Click once to enlarge.
MICHAEL GIACCHINO, composer of the “Main Theme” from the film Ratatouille
Does life seem jolly rotten? Then always look on the bright side (and give a whistle).
Posted in Music from the movies, tagged Chewing on life's gristle? on March 3, 2025| 2 Comments »
Music from “The Life of Brian” by Monty Python: There is one four-letter word here, so we’ll rate it PG 13, but the music is so much fun that we will overlook that issue. Anyhow, we could have used a five letter word and received an R rating, but, on Blogfinger, we do not go all the way, and the letter X is not found on our keyboards. —PG
MONTY PYTHON.
“Life is a colorful carousel…” *
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January 23, 2014. By Bob Bowné © Special to Blogfinger
BARBARA RUICK. From the movie soundtrack to Rodgers and Hammerstein’s CAROUSEL.
* Headline quote from the off-Broadway show “The Fantasticks.”
Memories—-2013. Those oldies but goodies…
Posted in Music from the movies, tagged Keansburg on February 26, 2025|
Keansburg, New Jersey. Amusement Park destroyed by Sandy. 2013 Paul Goldfinger photo.. Click once for larger size.
KENNY VANCE, JOHN CAFFERTY AND THE BEAVER BROWN BAND. From the score of “Eddie and the Cruisers”
Charles Pierre sends us a snowy poem.
Posted in Guest photographer, Music from the movies, Poems by Charles Pierre, tagged Andre Kertesz photographer, Snowy New York poem by Charles Pierre. on February 13, 2025| 2 Comments »
Hi Paul:
Greetings from Manhattan and Happy New Year. We’re having our first snowfall of the year, and it comes as a welcome relief after the hectic rush of the holidays. There is nothing that so quickly changes the tenor of life in the city as a covering of the white stuff. Here is “Manhattan Snow” from my 2008 poetry collection, Father of Water.
Best wishes,
Charles Pierre,
January 6, 2015.
André Kertész, NYC, 1954. Washington Square Park.©
Manhattan Snow
By Charles Pierre:
The hard edges of the city are softened now.
Buildings shimmer in speckled mist, streets
lie buried and still, and the crackle of talk
at each corner is silenced from river to river.
Tonight, no human walks, no vehicle moves,
no noise vibrates across the white landscape.
From our window, an arabesque of lampposts
lends an elegance to the empty, unshovelled
steps and pathways below: a gentle curve
of pendant lights encircles the frosted trunks
and limbs of trees, the drifted-over benches
and trash cans, and the silver tips of bushes.
The island this moment has a numinous shine,
and in the quiet ease of evening, we can hear
our own muffled breathing, the only sound
in the air, as edgeless as snow, hovering above
yet deepening the softness of this winter scene.
JAMES NEWTON HOWARD “Snowstorm” from the film Snow Falling on Cedars.