STUCK IN THE VINYL AGAIN - DON AMECHE and FRANCES LANFORD - THE BICKERSONS REMATCH

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Good Tuesday morning to you all and welcome back to Stuck In The Vinyl Again. Today we remember Hernando, Florida native, singer and actress, Frances Langford (Julia Frances Newbern-Langford), on what would have been her 110th Birthday. She was born in 1913 and as a child lived here in our hometown of Lakeland, FL. In 1946 we named our Lake Mirror Promenade as the Frances Langford Promenade. She passed away July 11, 2005, age 92, from congestive heart failure. She was originally trained as an opera singer, but by her teenage years had changed to a big band style. She tried radio, films, television, and touring with Bob Hope to support and entertain the troops. Today we have her on this comedy album, teaming up with Don Ameche, as the lovable but extremely disagreeable couple, John and Blanche Bickerson. The Bickersons Rematch (originally two albums ; The Bickersons and The Bickersons Fight Back) was a double album, released in 1965 on the Columbia label. On it we hear the duo bickering over any and everything including the dirty dishes in the kitchen sink.

 A1 Breakfast With John And Blanche 6:23
A2 The Bickersons At Sea (Phil Rapp, Third Actor In This Sketch) 12:39

B1 Wedding Anniversary 5:45
B2 Later That Same Evening 10:32

C1 Round I 8:24
C2 Round II 12:38

D1 Round III 8:23
D2 Round IV 13:32

Don Ameche & Frances Langford - performers 

Curtis Brown  Liner Notes

Philip Rapp Composer

Cover, Design – Steve Bernstein 

Cover, Photography By – Hank Parker