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That's the U.S. Navy Band doing Ray Charles!

yep

they did a pretty good job

That was the first time I saw a Nat King Cole performance.  And I think he had died by the time I saw the movie.

Same here.  But aren't you kind of young to remember that movie?

It came on network TV one night when I was a kid, early 80s, as one of those "Feature Presentations" the networks used to air.  It was at least 15 years old at that time, so I'm sure the network didn't have to pay much for the rights to air.

I think maybe my folks were having a party and they banished all the kids to the back room with the TV, and it was on.  The moment I first saw her on screen I was instantly smitten.

Then we watched it later in one of my high school theater classes, it was a favorite of my drama director.

Since I'm a band/choir/theater dork, I love musicals and always enjoyed that one, so I've rented it a few times over the years since then.  Well, mainly I've rented it because I still have a crush on that particular version of Jane Fonda.

(Barbarella, too  )

1965 seems like yesterday to me

I actually saw Cat Ballou on the big screen

Lee Marvin stole the movie as Kid Sheileen


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et1mQSQhpok

Yes to the above.

Some of my very best AP students have been band and/or choir dorks.

Yeah I was a very good student. 

That's one of the most positive things I found about band, lots of smart kids all encouraging one another to do well.  It was simply an expectation that you'd be in mostly or all Honors/AP courses, and that you'd be working hard to excel at them. It was also an expectation that you'd not only go to college, but likely get scholarships to do so.

There were other social groups where academics either weren't a priority, or even worse, where smart kids that were actually trying to do well in school, were frowned upon. 

Yeah I was a very good student. 

That's one of the most positive things I found about band, lots of smart kids all encouraging one another to do well.  It was simply an expectation that you'd be in mostly or all Honors/AP courses, and that you'd be working hard to excel at them. It was also an expectation that you'd not only go to college, but likely get scholarships to do so.

There were other social groups where academics either weren't a priority, or even worse, where smart kids that were actually trying to do well in school, were frowned upon. 

I don't know how my "Bandites" do it.  The band practices more than the football team, and the football team has won state 7 out of the last 8 years.  The band is very good too.

Over achievers.

I slid so much in HS.

I had a pretty good time, but I was definitely busy all the time.  Like I said, I really have no idea now, how I was able to do it back then.  It's exhausting when I think about it but at the time it was just the norm.