Thanks Frenchie!

[Guest]

A big thanks to French Frank and her team for setting up this facility!

[Globaltruth]

A big thanks to French Frank and her team for setting up this facility!

Absolutely...here's hoping the others wander over soon.

[johncorrigan]

Thanks a lot French Frank - do I not have to wait three minutes to make another posting?

[Globaltruth]

Thanks a lot French Frank - do I not have to wait three minutes to make another posting?

Can if you like...

[boatmanbird]

occasional World M on 3 messageboarder boatmanbird here, just checking in to say I'm on board. Time & tide though, must be off, will be back

[Paul Sherratt]

Yes indeed, the ever-sterling ff has done us proud.
I think for those good folk in the R3 crowd, this will be the one to watch.

[eucalyptus44]

Yes, very many thanks for setting it up so quickly and smoothly. I do enjoy reading through the R3 message boards very much and dreaded going cold turkey on 30th.:)

[marthe]

Many thanks French Frank. Reading through the R3 boards has been part og my life since 2005. This site is quite user-friendly. Thank you for setting it up. Though i'm registered over on the other board, I'm not a "bells and whistles" kind of gal so this suits me just fine.

marthe

[Paul Sherratt]

marthe,

Just noticed your location.
Now that means one thing above all else for me.
This glorious filming, performance and hat.
Anita O'Day, ladies and gentlemen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agp2on83hrA

[marthe]

Paul,

Thanks for posting that clip. It's one of my favorites from Jazz on a Summer Day. I had a chance to see the whole film this summer on a big screen at the local cinema. The music, Miss O'Day and her hat, and Newport in 1958 are glorious indeed. Brings back wonderful memories of childhood summers here.

marthe

[Paul Sherratt]

On a big screen, now that's something ! ( gives me an idea for our superb local film theatre in Stoke )

A chum who is lot nearer to you than me, featured Miss O'Day in a special programme some years back. Here's the link to Monica's show on that New Jersey miracle, wfmu : Includes a phone chat with the great lady if I remember correctly.

http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/4125

[marthe]

Paul,

Thanks for the link. WFMU is, indeed, a miracle especially as much FM programming here has gone to the dogs. "Jazz on a Sumer Day" was part of a local film festival called Doris Duke Days. Miss Duke was a friend of Anita O'Day and an amateur jazz pianist. She is best known here for founding a preservation organization that saved a large number of 18th-century Georgian buildings in Newport from being torn down during a period of redevelopment in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The theatre where the film was shown is the only old-fashioned, large-screen cinema for miles. It still has a Wurlitzer organ! In its early days, it was an Episcopal (Anglican) church called Zion Church.

marthe

[Chris Newman]

May I join in and send my heartiest thanks to french frank for keeping many of us together? Well done!!!

Chris (modest as ever).

[Lateralthinking1]

Many thanks too from me French Frank. This new site is great.

[agingjb]

Let me add my thanks. I'm mostly a lurker, but I think I do listen to Radio 3 enough to justify my membership here.