Stand by Me (was Freaks and Geeks)

[Carol]

Kemper now:
> While I wasn't around when those songs were hits, I was around for the
> movie, 'Stand by Me'.  It's a great coming-of-age movie, which I
> recommend to all.  
> 
> The soundtrack, which I had on cassette and was stolen out of my '74
> Plymouth Valiant parked at my high school as I marched around a
field playing Shehrazad (sp?), contained some fun but apparently
'silly old songs': Yakety Yak, Lollipop, Great Balls of Fire,
Everyday, Mr. Lee (Mr. Lee, Hey!, Mr. Lee), and of course Stand by
Me... though I would not label that one as 'silly'.
> 
> Kemper


Carol responds:
"Scheherazade" by Rimsky-Korsakov, do you mean? It's based, of course,
on the Arabian Nights stories that Scheherazade told to her husband to
keep herself alive or 1,001 nights. My parents used to have the whole
suite on an LP album (38 rpm, IIRC).

Yes, "Stand by Me" is a great little coming-of-age movie. I also
recommend the old "Crime Story" series, made in the 80s but set in the
very early sixties (when men still wore hats), if you like music from
that era. "Stand by Me" was used very effectively in the pilot for
that series. And Ted Levine as Frank Holman, a crook turned rockabilly
singer, is hilarious singing duets with a defecting MIG pilot in one
of the Las Vegas episodes.

Anyway, anyone nostalgic for music, cars, clothes, and hairstyles from
that era should see the whole series, which unfortunately lasted only
two seasons. (Lots of violence, of course, but lots of comedy as well.)

Carol, who used to post on a now (probably) defunct "Crime Story"
messageboard before switching to HPfGu