Music fair, music foul, music played by Teddy Powell

February 26, 2020 2:08 PM

The talented Teddy Powell and His Orchestra perform Serenade To A Maid (1941). WARNING: undignified
posted by Orange Dinosaur Slide (10 comments total)

I'm putting "Warning: Undignified" on my tombstone.
posted by saladin at 2:09 PM on February 26, 2020 [4 favorites]

Heck, I'm putting it on my resume!
posted by Orange Dinosaur Slide at 2:23 PM on February 26, 2020 [5 favorites]

If I was as high as that Teddy Powell guy ...
posted by valetta at 4:06 PM on February 26, 2020

a morsel of snow
posted by Greg_Ace at 4:14 PM on February 26, 2020

1. This is probably way funnier if you're familiar with whatever it is they are sending up. A specific song perhaps?

2. "If I were as high as the moon in the sky..." but how high were they when they made this?

3. Someone should DTMFA, this relationship is doomed.
posted by Coaticass at 6:00 PM on February 26, 2020

Also i just misread tombstone as trombone. Yes you all should definitely go put that warning on your trombones. Go on!
posted by Coaticass at 6:01 PM on February 26, 2020 [4 favorites]

If we're talking about novelty songs from the 1940's with the word "Serenade" in the title, I prefer this one.
posted by dannyboybell at 7:10 PM on February 26, 2020 [1 favorite]

Puts me in mind of the birdaphone, also featured in Laura.
posted by flabdablet at 3:52 AM on February 27, 2020 [1 favorite]

This is the guy represented in the exceptionally weird episode of “Atlanta” season 2, or do I have my names mixed up? Ah, mixed up. That was Teddy Perkins. Would have been even weirder if this guy.
posted by hwestiii at 3:56 AM on February 27, 2020

Weirder still if Tex Perkins.
posted by flabdablet at 4:39 AM on February 28, 2020