Do You Remember, My Darling?
Do You Remember, My Darling?
When I was a kid, my mother and the other mothers in the apartment building would talk about someone called "The Continental." I was too young to have any idea about what that meant, so I asked her and was told, "Oh, he's a man on the radio who talks to ladies." Ugh!! The Continental was a character created by an Italian gent named Renzo Cesana.
Enjoy his smooth patois.
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I know the dance but not the person!
ReplyDeleteAnn Kennedy - Wot? You've not been introduced to Signore Cesana!? Then strike his name from your dance card forthwith!
ReplyDeleteMike Martin I keep (w)racking my brain in hopes that the memory might come to me, but no luck!!
ReplyDeleteAnn Kennedy - What is it you're trying to remember? I'll try to help.
ReplyDeleteMike Martin Were there parodies of this program in much later years? The organ music in the background sounds so familiar but I don't recall hearing the show. Strange because there was always a radio on in my house growing up, at all hours.
ReplyDeleteOk. I just looked it up and I bet I'm remembering the SNL skits!
ReplyDeleteAnn Kennedy - Yes, Christopher Walken did a good send up of TC on SNL some years ago. I looked for it on YouTube but couldn't find a short version.
ReplyDeleteIt appears that Cesana was the producer & writer & talent for what was originally an 11 pm radio show that only lasted something like 15 mins. At some point, he made it into a TV show but it only ran for a couple of months.
As I recall, the background organ music was a common feature of '50s soap operas daytime dramas. Ever boring, always a woman in a dress with a necklace busying herself by arranging flowers and a guy in a business suit getting ice from the always filled ice bucket and pouring himself a drink. One or the other would make some remark that went right over my kid head, my mother would gasp and the organ music would become louder and faster. Whatever.
Mike Martin I would never have been up late enough to hear the program. You're right about that awful organ music whining in the background, along with all the whining of the actors/esses on daytime TV. Yuk!
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