Saturday night at the Great Auditorium: Doo Wop night 2011. Good will for the CMA. Paul Goldfinger photo
THE DEL-VIKINGS:
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Postcards From Ocean Grove: Saturday Night Doo Wop.
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Postcards From Ocean Grove: The Great Auditorium
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Ocean Grove. 2005. By Paul Goldfinger. © click left
SLOVENIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. From “Xerxes” Act one. George Frideric Handel
Everybody’s gone? Who cares?
Posted in Postcards From Ocean Grove, tagged A pretty girl is like a melody, she'll run around your brain on December 15, 2022| 1 Comment »
By Paul Goldfinger. Ocean Grove beach. Sept 14, 2013 © click left to see the sky better.
BING CROSBY AND AL JOLSON (one pretty girl for each). From the album “The Complete Radio Duets.”
The Windamer
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Summer Rentals. Ocean Avenue, Ocean Grove. April 5, 2015. Paul Goldfinger photo © Click to enlarge
JOHNNY HARTMAN
As foggy as duck soup…
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Fletcher Lake from the OG side. January 11. 2014. By Paul Goldfinger © Click to enlarge.
A FOGGY DAY. Performed by Gregory Hines. George and Ira Gershwin wrote this song for a 1937 movie called “A Damsel in Distress.” Fred Astaire performed “Foggy Day” in that film.
We have a winner in our “name that singer” contest. It is Carl Swenson of OG who nailed it.
Gregory Hines was a brilliant performer who, early in his career, sang and danced with his brother Maurice Hines and his Dad. The act was called “Hines, Hines and Dad.” Eileen and I saw them live in New York, and they they were wonderful. 
Gregory Hines was a great star of movies, TV, and Broadway. He won a Tony and an Emmy. He died at age 57 of cancer. —PG
Beautiful baby at Founders Park…
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Founder’s Park Art Show 2005. By Paul Goldfinger. © Click image to see that she must have been a beautiful baby.
This is the sort of small-town community event that we need in OG. So much better for the locals during the loveliest time of year in the Grove (springtime) when we should have our town to ourselves.
Am I repeating myself? Well golly..some things bear repeating (or is it bare?)
BILLIE HOLIDAY WITH THE TEDDY WILSON ORCHESTRA :
Snowy Boardwalk Pavilion and The Canadian Brass
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Looking back in the Grove. We used to have a flower shop.
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Photo-shoot on Main Avenue. Paul Goldfinger photo. 2012
CAB CALLOWAY ON SESAME STREET:
Postcards from Ocean Grove. Plant sale by the Auxiliary
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Postcards From Ocean Grove, tagged Auditorium Pavilion plant sale on November 16, 2021| 1 Comment »
Lightshow at the OG Beach
Posted in Music: The Power to Enchant, Postcards From Ocean Grove, tagged John Rutter's music, Sunrise at the Ocean Grove beach on August 10, 2021| 3 Comments »
Beachfront sunrise. 7:53 a.m. 2002. Ocean Grove, New Jersey. By Paul Goldfinger. © Click image for full view. Reposted from December 17, 2012. Blogger Susan Heney reminded me of this post.
As a photographer, I much prefer sunrises to sunsets. Maybe it’s because photographs of sunrises are rarer than sunsets. After all, most people are still awake when the sun sets, but hardly anyone is up and about when the sun reappears early in the morning. But also, in my opinion, sunrises are more beautiful than sunsets, and speaking philosophically, more uplifting because beginnings are happier than endings.
Yet people love to see images of sunsets. To be honest, I almost never photograph a sunset or accept one for publication on Blogfinger (with very rare exceptions). I think they are corny and boring. Some of you will probably sneer at my opinion and consider me to be an effete snob. One of the definitions of effete is “decadent.” I like that, although I have never actually tried it — except when I sneak over to Days for an illicit hot fudge sundae, once or twice each summer.
Of course, this image has some special meaning this year, since the portion of the pier that is seen here is no longer present due to hurricane Sandy. The picture reminds me of the song from Annie –“Tomorrow” (“The sun will come out tomorrow; bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there’ll be sun…”). But that’s not the song for this photograph. Instead, I’m in the mood for John Rutter’s music, and here is his “Blow, blow thou winter wind.” — Paul Goldfinger