NFRC: Righteous Brothers song, Unchained Melody (trivia)

gayle-mo

gayle-mo

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Hi all! Thought maybe a couple of you might be interested in the background of the song Unchained Melody.

It's been quite busy around our house this summer but my DH and I were able to 'get-away' last weekend to Branson, MO, to celebrate our anniversary. We had no idea that Bill Medley, of The Righteous Brothers fame was in Branson now.

My DH and I were eachother's 'first love' when we were 15 & 18 in 1967 and 'Unchained Melody' was our song. We broke up a year later and married others, then found ourselves divorced in the early 80's, caught up with each other and began dating. We were married in 1986. (awwww.......)

That made it kinda special to see Bill Medley at Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theatre last weekend. Paul Revere and the Raiders were also playing! (talk about flashbacks!) Upon returning home on Monday I did a search and found this interesting link.

The posting above on patents made me think to post this link. I found it interesting! Sorry to show my sentimentality....ha

Good to see y'all - it's been awhile! I see some yummers recipes to save and try! Thx

Gayle

http://newstranscript.gmnews.com/news/2003/1203/Front_Page/047.html

 
Only if you're using a dictaphone for your dictation. I guess we'll

have to post our recipes for a certain English pudding as Spotted Richard now. But you'll have no edicts from me about it!

 
Rec: Spotted Richard

This is the formal name version of the English pudding.

Spotted Richard

2 oz plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 teaspoon mixed spice
pinch of salt
2 oz shredded suet
1 oz white or brown sugar
4 oz currants
2 oz fresh breadcrumbs
1 egg, beaten
4-5 tbsp milk


Butter a 1.5 pint pudding basin. Sift the flour, baking powder, spice and salt into a mixing bowl and mix in the suet, sugar, fruit and bread- crumbs. Stir in the egg and sufficient milk to produce a soft consistency that drops off the spoon in 5 seconds.
Turn the mixture into the pudding basin, which should be two-thirds full. Cover with greased foil or a snap-on lid (the plastic container from a 2 lb Christmas pudding is worth saving for this purpose.) Steam for 2 to 2.5 hours. When cooked, remove the cover and allow the pudding to shrink slightly, then cover the basin with a hot serving plate, hold it firmly and invert. Lift off the basin to leave the pudding on the plate.

Serve hot with custard.


Fanny recommends a nice hot custard to go on your Spotted Richard. I am sure Fanny would never have a Spotted Richard unless it had a nice big blob of nice hot custard on it:

Custard
3 egg yolks
1 tbsp caster sugar
1/2 pint milk
1/4 tsp vanilla essence


Whisk the yolks and sugar together in a bowl. Heat the milk in a saucepan until it is nearly boiling.
Whisk the hot milk gradually into the egg mixture. Put the bowl over a saucepan of simmering water and stir the mixture over the indirect heat until it is thick enough to coat the back of a wooden spoon. (Direct heat will make the custard curdle.)

Stir in the vanilla essence and more sugar, according to taste. Strain and serve hot.

 
So funny, Dick. Brought back memories of all the scuba phrases about not getting the

'rapture of the deep' and becoming a 'bent Richard'. Of course, who knows what a Richard is in the Caribbean.

I needed a chuckle.

 
ROTF here, Gayle, you must have inadvertantly opened a worm hole to the twilight...

zone! '-))) as I finished reading the Unchained Melody story, the radio station played it.

then there's all the other "stuff" that's just hysterical but seeminly unrelated.

I have a migrain right now and if you guys could get me rolling inspite of it, well, dang you're good! '-)))

 
ROFL......my GD was a Richard known as Dick....no-one ever said anything that....

may have been "otherwise about his name. I wonder if it is a modern thing.....
Does anyone know that the English fanny* is just NOT the same as an American *fanny* .....in SA if the sports coach ever dared to tell the boys to put their fannies firmly on the ground they'd get upset that they were being referred to as girls!!!!!

 
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