Saturday 9

 

Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head

Welcome to Saturday: 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. 

Saturday 9: Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) In this week's song, BJ Thomas sings that he knows it won't be long until he finds happiness. What are you looking forward to today? What's going to make you smile?Today is actually our 51st anniversary.  Last night my sweet husband and I were at prayer meeting, and he prayed for our marriage and thanked God for our 51 years together, and for blessing us with each other.  He went on from there, while I was choked up and crying like a baby.Best anniversary present ever. Now I’m looking forward to next year!

2) BJ Thomas met his wife Gloria at a bar. She was there with his drummer, but BJ let his friend know he felt a connection to Gloria and was going to drive her home. BJ and Gloria were married for 50 years, until his death. Have you and a friend ever found yourselves attracted to the same person? If yes, how did you handle it? No, not really. 

 

3) This song is from Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, which has been called "the most entertaining Western ever made." Do you enjoy Westerns?  I used to.  And I enjoyed that stint of more recent westerns that stared Robert Duvall.

4) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is one of the most popular movies Paul Newman made, but he liked to say his "favorite role is philanthropist." He raised an amazing $500 million for children's charities through his Newman's Own brand. The most popular Newman's Own product is salad dressing. What flavor of salad dressing would we find in your kitchen right now?  Bleu Cheese

 

5) Burt Bacharach won the first of his three Oscars for this song. Yet 20th Century Fox originally wanted to cut the song from the movie, maintaining that that song and the famous "bicycle sequence" between Paul Newman and Katharine Ross were anachronistic and made the movie too long. Burt and the movie's director George Roy Hill fought for it, insisting that it helped define the optimistic character of Butch. Tell us about a time you were glad you stood your ground.  When I was teaching,  back around the turn of the century..I retired in 2003 at age 53, I was near retirement and our principal wanted to do away with the pledge of allegiance.  I was pretty upset about it, so decided to try to do something to stop it so I contacted our PTA and requested for anyone who was against letting the pledge go to contact other parents. I stood that ground and the parents wrote so many letters  our principal had a change of heart. I don’t know if they still do the pledge, but I am glad I stood my ground  and kept it going for a time at any rate.At that time I figured I didn’t have anything to lose with my retirement right on the horizon.

6) Edith Head also won an Oscar for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. She said that Robert Redford, who played Sundance, presented a wardrobe problem. His jawline is too strong so she had to create special wider-brimmed hats to balance it. If you could magically change one of your physical features, which would you choose? And which feature would you never change?

I would have to say my size.  I wish losing weight for me wasn’t so hard. I keep losing the same 10 pounds over and over again! I would keep my hands.  I think my hands are probably my best feature.  I have my mother’s hands. I’ve been told I should do hand commercials.

7) In 1969, when this song was a hit, The Beatles played their last concert on the roof of Abbey Road Studios. When did you last climb onto the roof? Never.

8) Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys mysteries sold at a brisk pace at Christmastime 1969. They're still popular today. Were you a fan? I loved Nancy Drew mysteries.  I think I checked every one of them out if the library.

9) Random question: Do you consider yourself old fashioned. I think so.  There isn’t very much about the modern world that interests me.