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Post by the Scribe on Nov 26, 2022 8:39:55 GMT
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
The History Of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade in New York City presented by the U.S.-based department store chain Macy's. The Parade first took place in 1924, tying it for the second-oldest Thanksgiving parade in the United States with America's Thanksgiving Parade in Detroit (with both parades being four years younger than Philadelphia's Thanksgiving Day Parade). The three-hour parade is held in Manhattan, ending outside Macy's Herald Square, takes place from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Thanksgiving Day, and has been televised nationally on NBC since 1953. The Parade's workforce is made up of Macy's employees and their friends and family, all of whom work as volunteers.
In addition to the well-known balloons and floats, the parade also features live music and other performances. College and high school marching bands from across the country participate in the parade. The television broadcasts feature performances by established and up-and-coming singers and bands. The Rockettes of Radio City Music Hall are a classic performance (having performed annually since 1957 as the last pre-parade act to perform, followed by a commercial break), as are cheerleaders and dancers chosen by the National Cheerleaders Association from various high schools across the country. The parade always concludes with the arrival of Santa Claus to ring in the Christmas and holiday season (except for the 1932 parade, when Santa led the parade)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macy%27s_Thanksgiving_Day_Parade
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 26, 2022 8:40:54 GMT
The 54th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 1980
Featured performers
1980 Melba Moore, Linda Ronstadt, Rex Smith, Captain & Tennille, Sister Sledge, The Spinners, Chita Rivera, George Rose, Stephanie Mills, The Steinettes, Priscilla Lopez, Dean Butler, France Joli, Maynard Ferguson, Lacy J. Dalton, Paul Keenan, Danielle Brisebois, Wally Amos, Joe Nolan, The Cast of Sesame Street
Pirates of Penzance float sails in at 1:59:08 with Linda Ronstadt, Rex Smith, the Major General George Rose and all the Pirates (except Kevin Kline, the pirate king).
MILESTONE EVENT:
www.businessinsider.com/macys-thanksgiving-day-parade-history-2012-11?op=1#broadway-appearances-have-been-a-parade-regular-since-1980-when-the-cast-of-the-pirates-of-penzance-were-featured-21
 Pirate Float video with Linda, Rex and the Pirates of Penzance: my.mail.ru/mail/nowofoto/video/107/1431.htmlMarching Band (Nationwide) Randy Hamilton Mr. Chuck the Parade Clown (The Cootie) Lacy J. Dalton (Rocking Horse) Linda Ronstadt (The Pirate Ship) Rex Smith (The Pirate Ship) Captain& Tennille (The Dollhouse) France Joli (Cinderella) Skating
macysthanksgiving.fandom.com/wiki/The_54th_Annu
platypuscomix.com/history/1980parade.html
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 26, 2022 9:34:32 GMT
Being a native New Yorker and my mom being from New York City we never missed the Thanksgiving Day Parade on our old black and white television set. We lived on eastern Long Island by the ocean. My mother had memories of attending the parade with her family in the 1930's and had a grand old time. Life was so different then. The city (as we referred to NYC) was so much smaller, cleaner, safer. The Macy's parade has been the one consistent thread running through the city like a living time capsule. As a kid it's true, we all waited to see Santa show up at the end of the parade but I must confess I was suspicious it wasn't the real Santa so I watched him carefully. With this parade we always knew Christmas was near. Even better if we had snow.
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 23, 2023 3:18:34 GMT
Hard to believe this was some 43 years ago Thanksgiving Day.
in: 1980 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Celebrities, Article stubs
Linda Ronstadt
macysthanksgiving.fandom.com/wiki/Linda_Ronstadt
(go to original article for numerous hyperlinks)
Linda Ronstadt
Years active
1967–2011
Genre
Rock, pop, folk, country, Latin
Parade appearances
1980
Float appearance
"The Pirate Ship" by Macy's
Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15th, 1946) is a retired American singer who performed and recorded in diverse genres including rock, country, light opera, and Latin. She has earned 11 Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, and an ALMA Award. Many of her albums have been certified gold, platinum or multiplatinum in the United States and internationally. She has also earned nominations for a Tony Award and a Golden Globe award. She was awarded the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by the Latin Recording Academy in 2011 and also awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by the Recording Academy in 2016. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2014. On July 28, 2014, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts and Humanities. In 2019, she received a star jointly with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for their work as the group Trio. Ronstadt was among five honorees who received the 2019 Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime artistic achievements.
Ronstadt has released 24 studio albums and 15 compilation or greatest hits albums. She charted 38 US Billboard Hot 100 singles. Twenty-one of those singles reached the top 40, ten reached the top 10, and one reached number one ("You're No Good"). Ronstadt also charted in UK as two of her duets, "Somewhere Out There" with James Ingram and "Don't Know Much" with Aaron Neville, peaked at numbers 8 and 2 respectively and the single "Blue Bayou" reached number 35 on the UK Singles charts. She has charted 36 albums, ten top-10 albums, and three number 1 albums on the US Billboard Pop Album Chart.
History with the Macy's Parade
She made her only appearance at the 1980 Parade as she along with Rex Smith, Kevin Kline, George Rose, and The Cast of The Pirates of Penzance performed a musical medley from the show while sailing the The Pirate Ship float.
Jolly Polly Pirate Ship
macysthanksgiving.fandom.com/wiki/Jolly_Polly_Pirate_Ship
The Jolly Polly Pirate Ship is a classic float from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
History with the Macy's Parade
The Jolly Polly Pirate Ship first set sail in 1969, under the name "Captain Hook's Pirate Ship". The float was created for the reissue of the Disney film classic, Peter Pan, and featured the titular character, along with Wendy Darling, Captain Hook, and Tinkerbell. The grand schooner ship stood at over 40-feet-tall and was decorated with intricately-detailed masts, a plank, smoke-bellowing cannons, and a skull with a jewel eye at the helm. Decorating the base of the float were carved pieces of foam, made to look like crashing waves. From its debut until 1976, the Jolly Roger appeared in the "Wonderful World of Disney" unit of the Parade.
After the Disney branding was stripped of the float in 1977, it was turned into a generic pirate ship. In 1983, the float was given a fresh coat of paint, changing from muted colors to vibrant hues of red, yellow and blue. The following year, in 1984, the float was given another refurbishment and was attached to a replica of the Statue of Liberty, creating one of the grandest floats in the Parade's history known as the Salute to the Statue of Liberty. In addition to the combination of the two floats, the jewel-eyed skull was replaced with an American bald eagle.
The Macy Clipper
After the 1985 Parade, the original float was retired, leaving the Statue of Liberty as a separate float. The new pirate ship float, now named "The Macy Clipper" in the 60th anniversary parade, was much larger and grander than the original float, with larger crows nests, and various American flags decorating the back of the float. The base was also given a major improvement, now decorated with much more detailed, foam-carved waves, with the addition of dolphins swimming with glee. The base of the float was wrapped with a wave and seashell-patterned trim. The float was further improved upon in 1993, it was given the now-signature name, the "Jolly Polly Pirate Ship". And the blue & red pin-stripped flag was replaced with a large sail, featuring a parrot in front of a rising sun.
The float underwent another name change in 1997, now being named "Peter Pan's Pirate Ship", to promote the Broadway musical of Peter Pan, starring Cathy Rigby. The float remained under the sponsor of Ocean Spray Cranberries from 1997 until 1998 when it renamed as "The Ship of State in 1999 to 2000, and then renamed back to the Jolly Polly Pirate Ship in the 75th Anniversary Parade. To represent the "Jolly Polly" theme better, the float was given and upgrade sail once again, now featuring a cyan-and-yellow parrot riding upon a ship's steering wheel. from 2002 to 2003, Australian children's band The Wiggles performed on the The Jolly Polly Pirate Ship.
Jolly Polly Pirate Ship
The float was briefly retired after the 2003 Parade and was brought back shortly after in the 2007 Parade, pairing with the new Arrrtie the Pirate novelty balloon. The float would continue to make subsequent appearances until the 2012 Parade when the Jolly Polly Pirate Ship float was officially retired from the Parade lineup.
Despite this, the float returned in 2014, under the branding of Pirate's Booty. A separate article for the float's refurbishment can be read here. macysthanksgiving.fandom.com/wiki/Pirate%27s_Booty
This version of the float is known to remain intact in the Macy's Float Warehouse as of 2018, meaning that a return of the float may be likely.
Guest Stars
Listed below are the guest stars that have performed/appeared on the float, alongside the respective songs which they sang during the NBC Telecast.
Captain Hook's Pirate Ship
1972 - Rick Springfield
1977 - The Trammps
Pirate Ship
1978 - Brass Construction
1979 - Sha Na Na, sang "Get a Job"
1980 - The Cast of Pirates of Penzance
1981 - Don McLean, sang "Castles in the Air"
1982 - Andy Gibb and the Cast of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", sang "Any Dream will Do"
The Macy Clipper
1986 - Robert Vaughn and Robert Merrill, sang "So Good to Me"
1987 - Christopher Hewett and the Brigade of the American Revolution Fire & Drum
1988 - Robin Leech and Judith Ledford
1989 - Terry Lester
1990 - The Boys, sang "I Had A Dream"
1992 - Macy's Holiday Chorus, sang "One Brick at a Time"
Peter Pan's Pirate Ship
1997 - Cathy Rigby, sang "Never Neverland"
1998 - Cathy Rigby, sang "I Gotta Crow"
Ship of State
1999 - Lillias White and the United States Naval Academy Men's Glee Club, sang "Just Beyond the Dream"
2000 - The Cast of NBC's Passions
Jolly Polly Pirate Ship
1993 - Valley Stream Central High School Streamers
1995 - Joseph Barbara, Timothy Gibbs, Thyme Lewis, Peter Reckell, Diego Serrano and Mark Valley
1996 - The Cast of Cats
2001 - Denise M. Quiñones with the Highbridge Voices Choir, sang "I Believe I Can Fly"
2002 - The Wiggles, sang "Wiggly Party"
2003 - The Wiggles, sang "Central Park, New York"
2007 - Sarah Brightman, sang "The Journey Home"
2009 - Ziggy Marley with Judah Marley, sang "Family Time"
2010 - Juanes, sang "Y No Regresas"
2011 - Michael Feinstein and "The Pi-rettes" Puppets, sang "Jolly Dream Pirates"
2012 - Whoopi Goldberg as the Pirate Queen
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