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Two versions of this song were the subject of a comparison on the radio today. It was written by Bacharach and David as a tie-in with the Michael Caine movie of the same name, although it doesn't appear in the movie. Bacharach and David suggested Dionne Warwick to sing it, but the promoters wanted a British singer because of the movie's setting. After Sandie Shaw turned it down, an offer was made to Cilla Black. She was nervous to accept, and said she'd do it if Burt Bacharach did the musical arrangement and came to London for the recording. He agreed, and the rest is history. At the time, Cilla (who's from Liverpool) was managed by Brian Epstein, the song was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London, and produced by George Martin (sound familiar to anyone?). The US release of the movie was accompanied by a version by Cher, which made it onto the soundtrack (despite objections from the movie's director). Her version was produced by Sonny Bono. The song didn't become a hit in the US until a year later when Dionne Warwick (the composers' original choice) decided to cover it. The second song in today's radio comparison was a more recent version by Dutch singer Trijntje Oosterhuis. This is one of several collaborations she's had with Burt Bacharach. Alfie - Trijntje Oosterhuis

Oh, those less politcally correct times . Nice Legs Shame About Her Face - The Monks The song was originally only intended as a demo, but made it to #19 in the UK charts in 1979. The title was borrowed when British comedy show 'Not The Nine O'Clock News' performed their parody of early '80s music: Look out for a young Rowan "Mr. Bean" Atkinson in one of his first TV shows.

The other location identified by Them_Dukes_Them_Dukes' pictures is one I've spent quite a while trying to track down. I must've looked all along the old route of the Fillmore-Saugus Railroad without luck, and now I know it's because the railroad tracks aren't part of that line! In real life it's Pine Street in Santa Clarita. The screengrabs are all from 'The Ghost of General Lee'. The first is from when Boss spots the driverless General and gets his driver to follow it. This is right at the southern end of the paved section of Pine Street. A fence has been added between the road and railroad since filming - check it out here. Here's the reverse view from Boss's car. This shot of the railroad crossing was filmed looking west from Pine Street, not far from the location above. If you take a look at Street View you'll see that the old unpaved track (below) is still there, but now has a gate across it as there's a newer, wider road to the left. I'll finish the Pine Street pictures with a view from across the tracks. The "STOP" sign looks genuine, but I agree with Them_Dukes_Them_Dukes that the barriers are props. I'd guess that the crossing is busier than it was when Dukes was filmed because it now has automated barriers and lights. I'd also guess that the steam locomotive is from stock footage as it certainly wasn't filmed at this location (for any steam buffs out there, I think the loco is the only surviving Southern Pacific GS-4, #4449, in Daylight color scheme).

I thought that I'd read all the HazzardNet threads on filming locations before I started this one. Somehow I managed to miss a 2005 post by HNet member 'Them_Dukes_Them_Dukes' (their only post) who lives/lived very close to the Golden Oaks Ranch. After recognizing a couple of local roads, Them_Dukes_Them_Dukes took some screengrabs and location photos, and the link still works: http://photo.tophersworld.com/gallery_onlocation.htm The first and fourth locations they identified have already been covered in this thread (a section of Placerita Canyon Road and Saugus Speedway), but the second and third proved interesting because they were places I'd been looking for for a while. I'll start with the third because it's a return to another part of Placerita Canyon Road, where I've already found several filming locations. I can only think that I missed some of these by looking west to east, because they're more obvious when you look east to west. There are some screengrabs on the link above, so I just plan to add some clearer pictures and Google Maps links. Some of the camera angles make them harder to spot, so I've included grabs from Street View alongside the ones from Dukes. The first is from 'The Rustlers' when Bo is about to jump out of van towing the horsebox. This piece of road is just to the south of Golden Oaks Ranch. Remarkably, the telegraph poles have hardly changed over 30 years. The grab on the right was taken from here. Here's the same piece of road and the same scene looking the other way. The metal gate on the right of the Dukes grab was still there when Them_Dukes_Them_Dukes took a picture in 2005, but has since been replaced with a new fence and gate. At the bottom of that track you'd find the barn from 'Find Loretta Lynn' and the Golden Oaks Boar's Nest location. A couple of hundred yards down the road you get to this junction, shown here in another shot from 'The Rustlers'. The turning on the left is the entrance to the Placerita Canyon Natural Area. The same junction also gets shot from different angles when it's used in other episodes. The one I've picked is the site of Rosco's detour from 'Find Loretta Lynn'. The gate is just visible in front of the RV, and the mailbox is just hidden by the rear. You'll also see this road near the start of 'People's Choice' when Daisy splits from the General after winning the race to town. Unfortunately, I couldn't get quite the same camera angle, but you can check out the Street View here.

western "We got both kinds."

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Here's old "Slowhand" himself: Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton

She told me to ... I know the is better known, but I have a soft spot for a bit of bluegrass.

Seeing as "Help" became "Helpless", it's gonna have to go back to "Help" again . I'm surpised this hasn't come up before: That's what it's there for .

I recently posted pictures of Sorrell in '12 O'Clock High' from 1965. I then found a copy of a movie called 'Black Like Me' that he appeared in a year before. The sound on the video is horribly out-of-sync (like 20-30 seconds!) and the picture quality isn't great, so I won't bother posting a link, but I did get some screengrabs. I'll start with the title screen. The movie is based on the real life experiences of journalist John Howard Griffin, a white Texan who artificially darkened his skin to pass as a black man as he traveled across the deep South in late 1959. He spent six weeks traveling on Greyhound buses (occasionally hitchhiking) throughout the racially segregated states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, and then wrote about the racism he encountered (from blacks and whites). Sorrell gets first billing after lead actor James Whitmore. It's quite prophetic how his name appears just above someone named Roscoe! About halfway down you'll also see the name Clifton James. Sixteen years later he would be re-united with Sorrell when he played Sheriff Lester Crabb in 'Treasure of Hazzard'. In the '12 O'Clock High' pictures I suggested that Sorrell was wearing a wig. The reason for that comment is that he was clearly already bald in 1964 (see below). He only has a small part in 'Black Like Me', playing the doctor who prescribes the pills and treatment to change John's skin color. I've looked up pictures of John Howard Griffin, and his transformation was quite convincing. Unfortunately, the same can't be said of James Whitmore, who transforms from a white man to a blacked-up white man. I half expected him to add white lipstick and start singing 'Mammy'!

Back in 1974 this song made it to #1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Country Singles charts. Billy Swan also wrote hit songs for many country artists, including Conway Twitty, Waylon Jennings, and Mel Tillis, and he played bass guitar for Kris Kristofferson.

It's not easy to cover a Beatles song and make it better ( appears on their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band), but Joe Cocker managed it. To people of a certain age (OK, my age), this song will also be forever known as the theme from 'The Wonder Years', which is why I went for the studio version. Many versions of his performance at Woodstock are also available on YouTube.

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Another one from the '80s - this one's from 1983: Kissing with Confidence - Will Powers Will Powers was the stage name of photographer-turned-singer Lynn Goldsmith. She used a vocoder to do the spoken parts, but the uncredited lead vocalist was Carly Simon. Reading through the YouTube comments, it looks like Lynn actually replies to them. Should I admit on a public forum that I have the shaped picture disc of this song? It's shaped like a pair of lips - you don't get that with MP3s .

I'll stick with the mid '80s. A rather large sample of this song was used in a 1993 hit for Utah Saints called

This song comes from the 1975 album 'Rhinestone Cowboy'. Country Boy (You Got Your Feet In L.A.) - Glen Campbell Country boy, you got your feet in L.A., But your mind's on Tennessee. I watched a great documentary on Glen a couple of weeks ago. It went from his time in "the Wrecking Crew" right up to the present day, and covered the good times and the bad (he's had plenty of both!). When I watched Garrett's selection of Dream Walkin' by Toby Keith last week, the top YouTube comment was "back when country was country!!!". If the commenter had that thought about a song from 1997, a song like this must blow their mind .

As I said in the previous post, I think the new model of Cooter's Camaro could've been more accurate. I had a quick play with image above and came up with the one below. They already have the correct wheels on other models, and most of the rest would just require changes to the decals.

I thought we should have a single thread to post information about Dukes-related diecast models, new and old. My interest lies in 1:18 scale models, but feel free to discuss other scales. Sadly, I don't currently have the funds or the space to add to my diecast collection (especially with a less favorable exchange rate than it was a few years back). That doesn't mean that I've stopped looking at new releases, so I thought I'd start this thread with a slightly belated round-up of some Dukes-related 1:18 scale cars that came out in the months before Christmas. The first three are released under the Johnny Lightning name, but I think they all use the old ERTL molds. The first is a reissue of the Double Zero Mustang from the 'Reunion' movie. I'm lucky enough to have one of the first issue from 2001 that came with a 1:64 version - with the new release you only get the 1:18 car. It's one of the older diecasts, and doesn't have the same level of detail as some of the more recent releases, but it's still a nice model. On the negative side, the flames haven't been updated to be any closer to the on-screen version, the grille still has the Mustang logo and chrome strip instead of just the two lights, and it's still missing the "GT" badges from behind the front wheels. Even more inexplicable is the addition of a small black hood scoop on the new version - the car in the movie never had one, and nor did the original diecast version, so I can't see why they added one now. Finally, the new packaging calls it "Cooter's Ford Mustang" - no idea where they got that from! After years of waiting, we can now get a reissue of a Hazzard patrol car with a light bar instead of the incorrect "gumball" lights we've been offered in the past (see inset). You may spot that it's still a '74 Monaco, which never appeared in the show (a couple of the Georgia episodes used a very similar '75), but I'm guessing the manufacturers used the same shell as 'The Bluesmobile'. I wish they'd do a '77/'78 Monaco or Fury, but this is the best attempt so far - they've even put the "SHERIFF" decals on the fenders this time (ironically, none of the Georgia patrol cars had these). Now we have a first issue, and this time it actually is one of Cooter's cars: his Chevy Camaro from 'Luke's Love Story'. From the pictures I've seen, the interior is pretty detailed and the engine looks great. They even custom-made the hood scoop for this model. It's a shame they didn't pay the same amount of attention to other aspects of the car. First the decals: the stripes are wrong (in several ways), the door numbers should be all straight lines, and the "Cooter" text behind the doors doesn't look much like the on-screen version. There should also be a "350" on the hood scoop. As for the other details: Cooter's car was missing its grille, it didn't have hood pins, the headlights were covered over with discs (not just painted), and it had slotted mag wheels. I'm hoping they'll reissue it with these points corrected, because none of them would require much work. Finally, I'll just remind y'all that the AutoWorld 'Silver Screen' General Lee is still available. It has a higher level of detail than the standard models, and the last release has several updated features, including the removal of the headrests, revising the decals and fitting a longer CB aerial. The three models above seem to retail online for between $50 and $60 each, whereas this one costs more like $90. If I didn't already own one of the ERTL 'Authentics' Generals, I think I'd buy one of these. NB. I've seen pictures of these that look as if the roof flag is missing - as far as I know, the flag is still there, but covered with a plain orange sticker. A post on the HNet Facebook page earlier this week seems to comfirm this. Still to come, AutoWorld are set to release a 1:18 model of Daisy's '71 Road Runner (Satellite) in the summer. I've seen dates of July and August, so I'll try and let you know nearer the time. There are no pictures available yet, but y'all know what it looks like!

After Alf Shumway posted his DVD box set on the Facebook page recently I decided to finish this montage that I started ages ago. I think I must've misheard Joan Jett . I love rock n' roll, So put another dime in the Duke box, baby. Just to clear up their origin, these box sets, containing seasons 1-7, were available for a short time in the UK when season 7 was released. There's one for sale on Amazon.co.uk at the moment for £150 (about $235). If I recall correctly, they were much more reasonably priced at around £70 ($110) when I first saw them. I would have bought one, but I already had seasons 1-6, and picked up season 7 for £10 ($16), so I couldn't really justify the extra £60 ($95) for a cardboard box and duplicate copies of the first six seasons.

Some lovely nature scenes, clips of the band, and a trip through Los Angeles in a gorgeous '65 Ford Mustang - what more do you want? L.A. Woman - The Doors

At the cinema he meets Ivy Wescott (Antoinette Bower). He's in the middle of trying to chat her up when she suddenly invites him back to her flat, hence his slightly bewildered expression. I briefly thought about hanging around my local cinema on a rainy afternoon, but quickly realized that I didn't have a uniform, and there isn't a war on in these parts! Back at her flat he pours two large whiskeys before having another change of conscience. As he leaves, he falls on a broken stair and winds up back in the hospital. At the hospital he has another heart-to-heart with Gen. Savage who's in the next bed waiting for a specialist surgeon to arrive and remove the shapnel from near his heart. Like Mufn, I won't spoil the ending, but there's a few more changes of conscience still to go. I thought I'd finish with a picture of Sorrell smiling.

I finally managed to watch the whole episode of 'Faith, Hope, and Sergeant Aronson', and got some more screengrabs. It was certainly different seeing Sorrell with hair, but I'm sure he was already bald by this point, so it must have been a wig of some sort. I've updated Sorrell's picture from the intro (a few posts back) with a larger version, so I thought I'd include the title screen. Sorrell plays the Sergeant Aronson of the title, and finds himself in hospital struggling with his faith. After his friend dies in the hospital he decides that life's too short to be moral, and heads off to town.

This song was originally released in 1969: I've chosen to post the live version from 1973 because it's the one I have. I know it's over eight minutes long, but it's lost none of its power over the last 40 years!

I've just looked at the scene you mentioned, and I think you're talking about the black shapes that I've arrowed in the picture below. I have seen them before, and as far as I know they are parts of a lens shade. They can generally be seen when the camera is mounted on a vehicle (like it is here), and are probably put there to prevent reflections from the vehicle causing lens flare, although they shouldn't be visible. I've borrowed the pictures below from the Bloopers thread. The first shows a similar issue when the camera mount is visible in 'Dukes Meet Cale Yarborough'. You also have to remember that the camera equipment was a lot bigger 30 years ago. Nowadays when you see vehicle-mounted cameras on shows like 'Top Gear' or 'Mythbusters' they are no bigger than a small torch. When Dukes was filmed they looked like this the one below, spotted in 'Double Sting' (you see another one on the General during the Styx River jump).