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It's gonna have to be another track from Paul and Arthur:

It's strange - 20 years ago pumpkins weren't seen as part of Halloween over here. It was just about ghosts and other spooky things. Nowadays the stores have huge piles of pumpkins in the weeks before and we seem to have adopted most of the other US traditions associated with it. It doesn't mean we accept these changes without a fight, as this short sketch from UK sitcom 'Not Going Out' shows: We still don't take it the extremes seen in the US. Here's a Halloween light show from last year that I came across recently: Happy Halloween y'all .

He's still singing about a girl here :

Touché Capt. - thought I'd checked Pretty confident we haven't had this before: The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) - Simon & Garfunkel

"But what can a poor boy do, except to sing for a rock 'n' roll band?": Street Fighting Man - The Rolling Stones I beat her to it just over a week ago .

Roger Blevins/Gaylord Duke was played by Simon MacCorkindale who sadly passed away just over a year ago (14th October 2010). His 'RIP' thread is here. Hollywood loves casting British and especially English actors as bad guys- here's a few: Alan Rickman - Die Hard and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Jeremy Irons - Die Hard 3 Anthony Hopkins - Silence of the Lambs Peter Cushing - Star Wars Ray Winstone - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Steven Berkoff - Beverly Hills Cop Christopher Eccleston - Gone in Sixty Seconds Various others including Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Charles Dance. Even evil characters in cartoons get English accents, eg. Shere Khan in The Jungle Book or Stewie in Family Guy. When Scottish actor Brian Cox (who played Dr. Hannibal Lecktor in Manhunter) appeared on Top Gear he suggested to Jeremy Clarkson that Hollywood cast Brits as the baddies in movies because Americans "fundamentally mistrust intelligence". I'm not sure if that's true, but it made me laugh .

Wow, this thread was busy last night. I was going to reply to Brian with another New Order track and then to MaryAnne with an Enya track. I'll save those songs for another day and keep the Elton theme going. This song still reminds me of one of my friends deliberately singing the wrong words to it more than 20 years ago - I can only ever hear her version of it now .

If I remember correctly, Jesse's grandaddy worked every gambling boat on the Mississippi.

I know I could put this in 'One Word Song Titles': Rubberbandman - Yello 1991 track from the eccentric Swiss duo. My CD single came in a great 3D rubber sleeve: I picked up some cool, limited edition CDs and vinyl back then. There used to be so many good record stores in London - maybe four major chains and over a dozen independents. When I went back recently I found that the only surviving major store, HMV, had closed one of its three large West End stores and there are only about three or four independents of the ones I used to visit. I guess this is the price we pay for MP3s. While we're on 'rubberband' songs, I thought I'd also include Rubberband Girl by Kate Bush. I must dig the single out so I can rip it to my computer. Thanks Brian, these guys could give Rosco's '10 Million Dollar Sheriff' suit a run for its money.

I'd say you should be alright. As Dara O'Briain (Irish comedian) says: "There are three states of legality in Irish law. There is all this stuff which comes under 'That's grand', then it moves into 'Ah now don't push it', and finally it comes under 'Right now you're takin the p***', and that's when the police come in." I'm sure you're covered by the first two .

I thought I'd posted this already, but it turns out I hadn't. I'm sure I'm not the only one who first heard this in 'Little Miss Sunshine'. That would mean that you're the one with the brawn and the looks, right Brian?. That's all very well, but are you both making lots of money?.

Roam - The B-52's Cindy and Kate share the vocals on this fun track. Sing along, clap along, enjoy . For anyone who's missing Fred Schneider's vocals, here's Family Guy's Tom Tucker doing his impression of Fred.

Nice work James. I think the blue/green planet in the 2nd pic is my favorite.

Christopher Hensel. According to his page on imdb he only had three acting credits.

Here we see the livery stables run by Moses (Scatman Crothers) with one of the horse-drawn trams passing by. We know it better as Cooter's Hazzard Garage. I guess Jeeter Davenport's blacksmiths must have been elsewhere!. The barber shop in Carson was in building #2. Both the interior and exterior appear in the movie. I wish I could still get my hair cut for 25¢!. Building #13 plays home to the local newspaper, The Morning Appeal. Just like building #10, it also has a covered section at the front. In the background is building #12 that was to become Fanny's Fabrics, Joe's Hardware etc. The final picture, taken from the end of the movie, shows the church on the left and building #19 with smoke coming from the chimney. If anyone knows of other movies/TV shows filmed on Midwest Street, let me know, or post some pictures yourself.

New member Mark B. (the guy who's building a 1:25 model of Cooter's Garage) shares my interest in the backlots, and he let me know that the 1976 John Wayne movie 'The Shootist' was filmed at Warner's studio in Burbank. Considering that it's a turn-of-the-20th-century gunfighting Western you'd have thought that Laramie Street would have been used, but it was Midwest Street (Hazzard Square) that played the part of Carson City in 1901. I guess it would have cost too much to give the square this treatment for 'Go West, Young Dukes'. Here's some pictures from the movie to show what the square looked like a couple of years before the Dukes came to town: The first picture is instantly recognizable, but the streets are filled with horses, carriages and pedestrians. There's even rails for the horse-drawn tram (horsecar) service. This picture is taken from the other end of the street looking between buildings 15 and 16. The buildings off to the left of this shot are seen briefly, but not clearly enough to get a screengrab. I'm assuming this is missing street that's visble on the 1980 aerial view I posted here (2nd picture). Building 16 is the one with the 'Express' sign. The large building behind that was probably built for the movie as it doesn't appear in the 1972, 1977 or 1980 aerials views. Behind that, the back of the church is just visible. Now we're looking at the square from outside building #19. The gazebo is visible on the left, and in the center is building #10 which has a covered section extending from the front. The building on the left of this picture would become Boss's bank. Although not visible in this shot, the building on the right (Hazzard's drug store) is the Acme Saloon. The buggy is parked outside the store that became Hazzard's barber shop.

I know I'm being pedantic here - I hold my hands up . This sign is seen in the Boar's Nest in season 1. "I'd like to complain about the inappropriate use of an apostrophe in this sign. May I return it?."

It's ages since I've seen this episode, and I had no idea until Brian posted the answer - I would have guessed it was either Bo or Luke, so there's a 50% chance I'd have been right . As another aside, there's another Dukes tie-in with Robin Hood that I was going to post in the Hazzard Square thread (and may still do so). In 1904 the construction of the Potrero Dam led to the creation of the 165-acre Potrero Lake. The location was used for filming the 1922 movie 'Robin Hood' starring Dougals Fairbanks, and later the 1938 Warner Bros. movie 'The Adventures of Robin Hood' starring Errol Flynn. After the filming of the former, the ranch became known as Sherwood Forest, and the lake and dam took on the Sherwood name. The Lake Sherwood area was used extensively for filming early seasons of The Dukes of Hazzard. I'm planning a couple of posts about that era, so keep an eye on the Hazzard Square thread.

Melinda Naud plays Alabama Jones in 'The Law and Jesse Duke' in season 4. It's the one where Rosco and Cletus (and Flash) are on strike.

Seeing as MaryAnne seems to like songs from the '30s ... Triplets - From the movie Band Wagon This is actually the 1953 recording because the video (featuring Fred Astaire, Nanette Fabray and Jack Buchanan) is more fun. The 1937 version by The Tune Twisters featuring Arthur Schwartz (the composer) on piano is . Very few famous people seem to share my birthday, but Arthur Schwartz is one .

Skipping on nearly 3 decades ...

I was in a '70s mood after posting in the Musical Chairs thread, so here's a song from 1970: Anyone outside the UK will probably be mystified by the YouTube comment "And a hint of the good old Pearl and Dean cinema ads music in the middle there!". During the '70s and '80s the 'Pearl and Dean' music would precede the adverts before every movie shown at the cinema. Consequently, a trip to the cinema didn't seem complete without hearing it - you can listen here (go on - it's only 18 seconds long ).

For some reason the video claims to be twice as long as the song actually is, hence the music finishes at around 2:40 (this was the best audio I could find). The song was released in 2005, but sounds much older - probably the use of a sitar with backing female harmonies. One of the commenters said it reminded them of the Sesame Street pinball machine song, so I thought I'd include a link to that as well for all the people older enough to remember it : Pinball Number Count - Pointer Sisters Glad to see you guys in the US have heard of Mumford and Sons. I was going to post this myself until I remembered it had that word in it. "It was not your fault but mine".