Fol-de-Rol is a television special, based on the Kroffts' 1968 live HemisFair show, which aired on ABC on February 27, 1972. There is not much of a cohesive storyline to Fol-de-Rol. The special consists of a series of skits with humans and puppets that are tied together by the Renaissance Fair-like setting.
It's so strange you should post this, from 1963. Around the same time you made this post, I was going through some of my late Dad's vinyl LPs, and picked out a random one, Frank Sinatra 'Tell Her You Love Her'. I like the front and back covers and thought, I wonder what year this was released, and guessed '69. But, you guessed it, it was released in 1963. Only a coincidence I know, but just one of those strange, insignificant, connections.
As a very young lad, from this time, 1963 onwards, I was exposed to really great music that both my mum and dad would play, on a radiogram in those days. Well remember hearing Frank, Nat King Cole, Chet Atkins, Herb Alpert, etc. Great music and great memories. I've still got all those LPs of dad's and they're all in wonderful condition, mint really, vinyl, sleeves and inner sleeves.
To me, there's something so special about having those records, especially from the sixties (and seventies), in the here and now. I don't quite know what it is exactly, but they have a 'magic' about them, a quality, from the sleeve artwork/graphic design of the times, the heavyweight vinyl, the inner sleeve even, many times with the soft plastic lining, knowing they are getting to 60 years old and over, just that connection back to those days, which many of us here remember, almost an aura to them, if you like.
Ofc, with the records I mention, they have a direct connection to my father, which obviously makes them extra special to me. I know which record shops he bought them from (most of them), local record shops and in London, non of those shops and stores exist anymore.
..and I can still hear those songs playing from back then, gently drifting from the radiogram....Music surely is a powerful thing.
Neil Libbert. Wall Street, New York City, 1960
Leicester, England, circa 1950s, coal
‘The metropolis of tomorrow’ Hugh Ferriss, 1929.
Times Square in 1923
Flower Vendors, Paris, 1950
Photo by Israëlis Bidermanas
Fol-de-Rol is a television special, based on the Kroffts' 1968 live HemisFair show, which aired on ABC on February 27, 1972. There is not much of a cohesive storyline to Fol-de-Rol. The special consists of a series of skits with humans and puppets that are tied together by the Renaissance Fair-like setting.
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Record Shop 1, Possibly London, 1962. John 'Hoppy' Hopkins. Silver gelatin print.
Jeanne Moreau - La baie des anges - (1963) - Dir.: Jacques Demy
KWEST 106 Radiostation Commercial (1982)
Karen Truax, Albuquerque, 1973
I always liked, 'How can you afford life?'
I’m still trying to figure it out.
Stonehenge, 1955
Live long and perspire