The Rockford Files: Movie Collection - Volume 2
DVD and Blu-ray new releases May 26, 2015: Rockford Files; The Saint; Wonder Years; Orson Welles, more
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The Rockford Files: Movie Collection - Volume 2
The Rockford Files: Movie Collection - Volume 2
Pop Focus: Leslie Charteris' "The Saint" in comic books
Leslie Charteris' "The Saint" has enjoyed a decades-long history in novels, films, TV and... comic books - at least on a few brief occasions.
Below are covers of the character's late 1940s series published by Avon in the U.S., along with covers published for a 1960s series that ran in England and Australia. I love the crisp, clean lines of the British covers, and their cool graphic design.
Images from the Grand Comics Database, which is still seeking scans of a few missing "Saint" covers.
Below are covers of the character's late 1940s series published by Avon in the U.S., along with covers published for a 1960s series that ran in England and Australia. I love the crisp, clean lines of the British covers, and their cool graphic design.
Images from the Grand Comics Database, which is still seeking scans of a few missing "Saint" covers.
Pop culture roundup: That Coke song
Music historian Martin Lewis traces the history of "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing," made famous in a 1972 Coca-Cola commercial and lately in the news due to its being featuring in the final episode of "Mad Men."
It was McCann Erickson creative director Bill Backer who in early 1971 came up with the slogan “I’d like to buy the world a Coke and keep it company” as an idea for a Coca Cola ad campaign. But he knew it needed to become a jingle to make it succeed. So he turned to a successful British pop-writing duo Roger Cook & Roger Greenaway and gave them the challenge.
The duo wrote massive worldwide hits such as the Hollies’ 1972 smash “Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress,” “You’ve Got Your Troubles” (#7 Billboard for The Fortunes in August 1965), “My Baby Loves Lovin” (White Plains, 1970) and many more.
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