Posted in Music from TV, Photographic Gallery, Color, tagged Ashokan Farewell, Battle of Gettysburg---the Bloody Wheatfield on August 3, 2022| 4 Comments »
The Bloody Wheatfield. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Over 20,000 men fought here on the 2nd day. Vicious hand to hand combat. There were 30% casualties. Paul Goldfinger photo © Click to enlarge. Originally posted in 2013 for the 150th anniversary of the battle.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The only artillery at that location was the 1st New York, Battery D. Paul Goldfinger photo © Posted 2016. Click to enlarge.
JAY UNGAR AND MOLLY MASON —Fiddle Fever: Songs of the Civil War. “Ashokan Farewell.”
Posted in Blogfinger TV review, Music from TV, tagged Mad Men ends season with a surprise finale on April 21, 2022| 1 Comment »
Robert Morse performs. NY Times photo on May 27, from their review of Mad Men, Re-posted 2018. Originally 2014.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger
This past Sunday, May 25, 2014 was the end of 6 1/2 seasons of the HBO series Mad Men, the wildly popular period piece about the advertising business in the 1960’s. It’s been a very serious show, and one of the stars has been 83 year old Robert Morse, who plays the beloved senior partner of the firm McCann-Erickson who dies during this episode.
However Matt Weiner, the show’s creator, never forgot that Robert Morse, as a young actor, performed as a Tony- winning song and dance man in the film/Broadway show How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
So it was a thrill when, at the conclusion of a superb final episode for 2014, a moment of TV magic occurred as Robert Morse got to do a musical/dance number as part of a fantasy sequence.
It was such a wonderful surprise, something like the Woody Allen movie when a bunch of hospital patients break out into song in Everyone Says I Love You.
I was mesmerized and enthralled by the scene, wishing that it could go on longer.
The song “The Best Things in Life are Free” cast a moment of musical wisdom and joy onto the ending (for now—7 more scenes in 2015) because it is a lyric with a message that is so special, especially in the context of the Mad Men story.
A commenter on the YouTube video, Molly, said, “This was so beautiful and had me smiling the entire time. When I noticed he wasn’t wearing any shoes I started to tear up; Mad Men is flawless.”
Here is the review from today’s NY Times:
Posted in Music from TV, tagged Boardwalk Empire, Darktown Strutters Ball, Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks on May 27, 2021| 2 Comments »
Dancing at Sophia’s to the Nighthawks. Paul Goldfinger photo. © Click left for full view.
Vince Giordano and his Nighthawks won a Grammy for their music on Boardwalk Empire (HBO). They are a marvelous group that brings back music from the 20’s and ’30’s. They play on Monday nights at Sofia’s (Downstairs) at the Hotel Edison at 221 W. 46th Street. They do 3 sets and go from 8:00 pm to 11:pm and they are unbelievably good.
Ballroom dance teams are always there showing off their moves, but the audience can dance along too.
Because their shows are so unique, celebrities often show up. When we were there, Michael Feinstein, his husband and Liza Minnelli came in to enjoy the show. You can order dinner from the restaurant upstairs (Sophia’s) and the cover charge is only $15.00 per person.
THE NIGHTHAWKS. “Darktown Strutters Ball’ from the Boardwalk Empire album
Posted in Music from TV, Photography: New York City Street Series, tagged It's not easy being green on February 3, 2020| 1 Comment »
SOHO. NYC on a sunny September day–2013. By Paul Goldfinger © (yes, it’s a pay phone: number please)
SONGS FROM THE STREET VOL 1 “Five People in my Family”
Posted in Music from TV, Photography: New York City Street Series, tagged New York, the Fleet Foxes: Montezuma on June 19, 2019| Leave a Comment »
New York City street series. 2011. By Paul Goldfinger © Blogfinger.net.
The Fleet Foxes are a rock group from Washington State. This song “Montezuma” is from the TV series “Girls” on HBO. The music is from the season one soundtrack. The Fleet Foxes are known for their lyrics and their harmonies. The photograph is from Fifth Avenue in lower Manhattan.—-PG
“i wonder if I’ll see any faces above me
or just cracks in the ceiling
nobody else to blame?
“Oh man what I used to be
Oh man oh my oh me
Oh man that I used to be
Oh man oh my oh me”
Posted in Music from TV, Photography, tagged Captiva Island, Florida, Flying down to Rio on November 11, 2017| Leave a Comment »
OK, so it’s not Brazil—it’s Captiva Island in Florida. But I couldn’t resist this song by Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks (below). You will not be able to shake this song from your brain. Paul Goldfinger photo 2010.© Click left for bigger water.
SOUNDTRACK: Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks (Emmy winners for Boardwalk Empire) —PG
Posted in Music from TV, Ocean Grove photographs, Photographic Gallery, Black and White on April 15, 2016| 2 Comments »
By Paul Goldfinger © 2013. Click left for full view
CHAIM TANNENBAUM with Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks (Vol. 2 Boardwalk Empire soundtrack)
Posted in Music from TV, Photography by Moe Demby, tagged True Blood on Blogfinger on March 12, 2015| Leave a Comment »
True Blood in Ocean Grove? February, 2015. By Moe Demby, Blogfinger staff©
BAD THINGS—The theme song —soundtrack from the HBO series True Blood.
Posted in Blogfinger Poll, Music from TV, Ocean Grove controversies, tagged Reducing garbage pickups in Ocean Grove on September 23, 2014| 7 Comments »
At the September 22, 2014 meeting of the Township Committee an Ocean Grover suggested that garbage pickups be reduced from two per week to one. The idea is that the recycling program is so effective that money could be saved by changing the pick up frequency. What do you think?
LITTLE APPLE BAND. From Sesame Street:
Posted in Music from TV, Photography by Moe Demby, tagged Rangers action by Moe Demby on July 31, 2014| Leave a Comment »
By Moe Demby, Blogfinger staff reporter/photographer ©
THE FLEET FOXES. “Montezuma” from the HBO show Girls
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