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The Monday Morning Memo

Plumbing contractor license number appears in screen text somewhere.
[ZACK appears onscreen with 3 TECHS]

TECH 1:  When the bottom rusts out’a your water heater,
TECH 2:  [nodding his head up and down with BIG EYES] 
                     all that water floods the house!
TECH 3:  [slowly shaking his head “no” in disgust] 
                 and the supply line keeps pumping more water in.
ZACK:    So Kenny and me wrote this song for you. 

[ZACK and the 3 TECHS dance happily to our 15-second tune of the little kids singing.]
As each line is sung, screen text appears to let the viewer read the lyrics as ZACK and the TECHS do their comic dance.

Turn off the gas at your broken water heater.
Turn off the ‘lectric at your ‘lectric water heater.
When your water heater bursts, turn off the gas-n-‘lectric first,
Then turn off the water at your busted water heater.

ZACK:   Or you could replace that water heater BEFORE it goes bad. Personally, I think that’s your better option.

[On “Personally,” Zack starts nodding his head “yes.”]
            Goettl Logo appears and we hear Ken’s voice say “Gee-Oh-E-TT-L”

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“The music for “Moon River” was written by Henry Mancini and the lyrics were written by Johnny Mercer, who grew up in Savannah, Georgia, picking huckleberries and watching the river roll by without a care.

Writing a song about those Southern summer days and gently flowing rivers, he incorporated “my huckleberry friend” as an homage to the carefree huckleberry-picking days of his youth.

Not known as a singer, Hepburn performs the song in the opening scene of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, singing sweetly, if sparingly, filling the screen with a romantic yearning for a simpler life.

Moon river, wider than a mile,
I’m crossing you in style some day.
Old dream maker, you heartbreaker,
Wherever you’re goin’, I’m goin’ your way.

Two drifters, off to see the world.
There’s such a lot of world to see.
We’re after the same rainbow’s end
Waitin’ ’round the bend,
My huckleberry friend,
Moon River, and me.

(The singer longs to take a journey with his or her huckleberry friend on Moon River.)

Moon River won Record of the Year and Song of the Year at the 1962 Grammy Awards. It has since been recorded by more than 500 artists.”

- Southern Living magazine, July 22, 2024

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