Carnival is in full flow this weekend, so this post will be shorter than the average bear. Wait a minute: Yogi Bear has bupkis to do with Carnival, neither does Yogi Berra. Holy mixed metaphor, Batman.
Repeat after me: Friends don’t let friends say DEEP GRAS.
The barbershop in the featured image is currently the Olivier House Hotel. It was once the French Quarter residence of the Duparc-Locoul family of Laura Plantation fame.
This week’s theme song is another New Orleans classic written in 1955 by the great Dave Bartholomew, only without Antoine Domino this time.
We have four versions of I Hear You Knocking for your listening pleasure: the Smiley Lewis OG, Fats Domino, Dave Edmunds, and George Benson.
That’s a whole lotta knocking. Let’s keep on rocking with The Stones.
We begin our second act by skipping it altogether. I had some serious parade watching to do, y’all. We do, however, have a second act last word from Otis and Carla:
We begin our third act with our favorite stolen feature.
Separated At Birth Casting Edition: It’s another image from the Capote-ized second season of Feud. We go from reflected glory last week to glory. I give you CBS chairman Bill Paley and the late Treat Williams.
I always thought Treat Williams should have been a bigger star. Here’s a treat from Treat in Milos Forman’s screen adaptation of Hair:
Hippie chaos is much more entertaining than MAGA chaos.
Your Weekly Oscar: Here’s one of OP’s best loved numbers. It makes me anything but blue.
Have I told you lately how much I love Oscar Peterson?
Best of SNL: Here’s Gilda Radner as one of her best loved characters. What’s not to love about a mouthy Jersey girl with big hair?
Tom Waits demanded equal time. Who am I to deny him?
Saturday GIF Horse: We continue the knocking theme with two GIFs from Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein:
The Junk Drawer: I made this side-by-side image for my Citizen Trump post but went the shadow gavel image route instead.
Let’s close down this virtual honky tonk with some more music.
Saturday Classic: I hope my knockabout humor hasn’t worn you out today. You’ll be relieved to know that I gave up knock-knock jokes when I was ten, but I decline to knock them.
We close with a rare early music video from an artist I never expected to feature on First Draft. It’s all in the title.
That’s all for this week. The last word goes to Terri Garr, Peter Boyle, Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, and Mel Brooks on the set of Young Frankenstein.
OMG! Treat Williams in “Hair”…I was 24 when I saw the movie in ’79, but got an instant schoolgirl crush. But, then, they had to cut his hair for him to look military! I cried! Then, they killed him!! The whole thing took me back to my actual schoolgirl days in 1969 for the movie “The Undefeated.” Football quarterback Roman Gabriel played a Native American and with that long hair…instant crush! Then, the white girl made him cut his hair and lucky I was at a drive-in movie so most people couldn’t hear my screams!! It’s all quite silly, I know…especially considering when I got married, it was to a guy who had been mostly bald since the age of 13! Life is just so weird! 🤪