Cavalcade of Food: Vintage Percolators

Appetizer: For us folks of a certain age, this happy little tune has always been stuck in our heads:

 

Main course:  Kevin shows off his huge collection of coffee pots in his private museum up in Michigan.  He also demonstrates how to use them.

I think I or someone in my extended family owned all or most of those at some point across the decades.  What a trip to see them all together.  There's actually nothing wrong with percolators except that the Mr. Coffee machine is slightly less messy to empty and refill.  And you see can at a glance how much coffee is left in the pot.

But I miss the perka-perka sound!

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See the USA in Your Chevrolet

The beginning of the tune is familiar to us ol' boys of a certain age, but do you know the next line of it?  Can you sing a whole stanza? 

I thought not.  Well, here's Miss Dinah Shore to give you the complete lyrics in her lovely way from 1952:



Dinah was the face of Chevrolet to TV viewers for years. Here's another Chevy commercial she did a few years later, with a less-memorable song but some cool shots of a '59 Impala:



And I can't help remembering the famous Hertz jingle too, with the magical ending: