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Morning Open Thread Saturday May 24, theme: music by trumpeter Al Hirt [1]
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Date: 2025-05-24
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preview: next Saturday May 31, songs about legendary beasts
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Words below are from this Wiki: Al Hirt
>>>Al Hirt was an American trumpeter and bandleader. He is best remembered for his million-selling recordings of ‘Java’ and the accompanying album Honey In The Horn (1963), and for the theme music to The Green Hornet TV show.
At the age of six, he was given his first trumpet, which had been purchased at a local pawnshop. By the age of 16, Hirt was playing professionally, often with his friend Pete Fountain.
Hirt's virtuoso dexterity and fine tone on his instrument soon attracted the attention of major record labels and he signed with RCA Victor. Hirt posted twenty-two albums on the Billboard charts in the 1950s and 1960s.
The albums Honey In The Horn and Cotton Candy were both in the Top10 best sellers for 1964, the same year Hirt scored a hit single with the tune ‘Java’, and later won a Grammy Award for the same recording.
Hirt was chosen to record the frenetic theme for the 1960s TV show The Green Hornet, based on Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight Of The Bumblebee.
====== some words about the Green Hornet from link: Green Hornet
The Green Hornet is an American television series broadcast during the 1966–1967 television season, starring Van Williams as the Green Hornet/Britt Reid and Bruce Lee as Kato.
Playboy bachelor and media mogul Britt Reid is the owner and publisher of the Daily Sentinel newspaper but, as the masked vigilante Green Hornet, he fights crime with the assistance of his martial arts expert partner, Kato, and his weapons-enhanced car, a custom Chrysler Imperial called the "Black Beauty". On police records, the Green Hornet is a wanted criminal, but, in reality, the Green Hornet is masquerading as a criminal so that he can infiltrate and battle criminal gangs, leaving them and the incriminating evidence for police arrival. Beyond Kato, Britt's dual identity is known only to his secretary Lenore "Casey" Case and District Attorney Frank P. Scanlon.
Britt's motive for fighting crime was explained on-screen: His father had died in prison after having been framed for a crime he did not commit.
Britt Reid shares the same family name as the Lone ranger, as Britt's father had been the Lone Ranger's nephew Dan Reid.
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Some songs:
I Can’t Get Started
Green Hornet Theme
Java
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