Pyewacket
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I had actually forgotten - not who Fred MacMurray was, but how he had influenced me.
In my era, girls were not allowed to play brass, including sax which is actually a brass woodwind. So when I got to school band age, I was not allowed to play the sax, which was my fondest desire. I was only "allowed" by the band teacher (who was a clarinetist) to play either flute or clarinet (well plus piccolo or oboe, but those were even less desirable to me than the flute). I chose clarinet as it is sort of sax-y sounding, but my mother nixed that for being "unseemly" - I was a couple of decades away from understanding where THAT came from. So I ended up on the flute.
What has this to do with Fred MacMurray you may ask? Well he played the sax piece that was the theme for "My Three Sons" and I loved that piece. That's where a girl born in the 50s got the itch to learn to play sax.
Ukulele - not so much. Sorry! My dad did have an ukulele, but he never had time to play it. I would occasionally pull it out and pick at the strings, but it did not create in me an urge toward learning the ukulele. It was the era of the folk guitar. (My dad, btw, was like a really handsome version of Fred MacMurray - so a little extra oomph to the ability of Fred MacMurray to be an influencer for me).
But back to Fred MacMurray - if you don't recognize him from his more serious work (such as The Apartment with Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine) he was the original Flubber professor in the original Disney Flubber movies, also the protagonist of Disney's Shaggy Dog. The original Flubber movies were WAY WAY better than the remake. Just sayin'.
I had actually forgotten - not who Fred MacMurray was, but how he had influenced me.
In my era, girls were not allowed to play brass, including sax which is actually a brass woodwind. So when I got to school band age, I was not allowed to play the sax, which was my fondest desire. I was only "allowed" by the band teacher (who was a clarinetist) to play either flute or clarinet (well plus piccolo or oboe, but those were even less desirable to me than the flute). I chose clarinet as it is sort of sax-y sounding, but my mother nixed that for being "unseemly" - I was a couple of decades away from understanding where THAT came from. So I ended up on the flute.
What has this to do with Fred MacMurray you may ask? Well he played the sax piece that was the theme for "My Three Sons" and I loved that piece. That's where a girl born in the 50s got the itch to learn to play sax.
Ukulele - not so much. Sorry! My dad did have an ukulele, but he never had time to play it. I would occasionally pull it out and pick at the strings, but it did not create in me an urge toward learning the ukulele. It was the era of the folk guitar. (My dad, btw, was like a really handsome version of Fred MacMurray - so a little extra oomph to the ability of Fred MacMurray to be an influencer for me).
But back to Fred MacMurray - if you don't recognize him from his more serious work (such as The Apartment with Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine) he was the original Flubber professor in the original Disney Flubber movies, also the protagonist of Disney's Shaggy Dog. The original Flubber movies were WAY WAY better than the remake. Just sayin'.