DAY 114 - COUNTING DOWN TO THE 50TH

GOOD MORNING, CLASS OF '64

Vintage Easter Postcard

Easter Parade - 1911

The Easter Parade

William Jay Smith
 

What shall I wear for the Easter Parade?

A dress that’s the color of marmalade
With a border embroidered
in light blue cornflowers
 Like the edge of a meadow
after spring showers
And a matching hat round
as a top you can spin
And elastic to hold it on under my chin
And brand-new shoes
whiter than newly-poured cream
With heart-shaped,
golden buckles that gleam;
 And I’ll carry a small purse
of butterfly blue
With a penny for me and a penny for you
To buy us both glasses of cold lemonade
When we walk, hand in hand,
in the Easter Parade.

Vintage Easter Postcard

Easter Time was a time for new frocks:

New dresses, hats, gloves, new shoes, new socks.
We stepped so fine as we went on our way -
So lovely, so handsome for Easter Day.

Vintage Easter Postcard

 Peter Cottontail
Composed in 1950
Gene Autry's version of Peter Cottontail peaked
at number 3 on the U.S Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cottontail_%28song%29 
Gene Autry - 1950

The Easter Bunny

 

M. Josephine Todd, 1909

There's a story quite funny,
About a toy bunny,
And the wonderful things she can do;
Every bright Easter morning,
Without warning,
She colors eggs, red, green, or blue.
 

Some she covers with spots,
Some with quaint little dots,
And some with strange mixed colors, too
-- Red and green, blue and yellow,
But each unlike his fellow
Are eggs of every hue.

And it's odd, as folks say,
That on no other day
In all of the whole year through,
Does this wonderful bunny,
So busy and funny,
Color eggs of every hue.

If this story you doubt
She will soon find you out,
And what do you think she will do?
On the next Easter morning
She'll bring you without warning,
Those eggs of every hue.

Vintage Easter Postcard

Easter Parade
Written by Irving Berlin and was published in 1933.
Sung by Bing Crosby in the film Holiday Inn (1942)
It was performed in 1948 by Judy Garland and Fred Astaire in the musical film Easter Parade.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Parade_%28song%29
Perry Como

 

Lucy from "Peanuts"
All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!

An Easter bonnet can tame even the wildest hare.

There is only one time in the year when it’s safe to put all your eggs in one basket. 

Happy Easter!