Turn Back Time

  • What Have I (we) Done to Deserve This?

    What Have I (we) Done to Deserve This?

      For Throwback Thursday we replay a song that we are thinking of adopting as our Covid 19 anthem. “What Have I Done to Deserve This?” is a song by  English synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys, featuring singer Dusty Springfield.  It was released in 1987 and went to No 2 in the UK & US Charts, it helped…

  • Turn Back Time : we revisit Barbara Cook as a Kennedy Awards Honoree in 2011

    Turn Back Time : we revisit Barbara Cook as a Kennedy Awards Honoree in 2011

      The Tony Award winning actress and singer BARBARA COOK arrived on Broadway in the 1950’s and never  disappeared from the limelight until her death in 2017 at the age of 89.. She was in the very first production of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide, created the role created the award winning role of Marian the Librarian…

  • Turn Back Time : when TV interviewing was a real art

    Turn Back Time : when TV interviewing was a real art

      You really have to search hard for “Face to Face” interviews on the University of YouTube as they were originally broadcast in the UK between 1959 and 1961, but if you are prepared to delve the rewards are enormous. A search will uncover interviews with some of the major world figures of the last…

  • Turn Back Time : The Queen of Lincoln Road, Miami

    Turn Back Time : The Queen of Lincoln Road, Miami

    There are many members of the LGBTQ community in Miami Beach who would love to claim this title for themselves but there was, and will always be, only one Queen of Lincoln Road. The diminutive IRENE WILLIAMS cut quite a figure for about 40 years wearing her home designed and made outfits in an array…