35 Millimeter Dreams

Fixated movie star fever with as many names as I could conjure and still make sense. Today I’d include Pacino, De Niro, Duvall, Eastwood, Finney and Streep.

All the Best,
Garland

Broadcast on ABC’s “Fridays” November 13, 1981. Garland Jeffreys – Vocals, Brinsley Schwarz – Lead Guitar, Carter Cathcart – Guitar, Steve Goulding – Drums, Brian Stanley – Bass Guitar.

 

Music and Lyrics by Garland Jeffreys

From the album Ghost Writer (A& M Records, 1977)

 
I got 35 Millimeter dreams

And Greta Garbo’s here

Queen of the movie queens

She’s playin’ hard to get

She wants her tea and her toast

She hasn’t got none yet

She just flew in from the coast

But she loves Broadway best

 

I got 35 Millimeter dreams

35 Millimeter dreams

35 Millimeter dreams

 

John Garfield cries out loud

And Humphrey Bogart smiles

Bette Davis she weeps

She plays the pure white slave

There goes her Rolls Royce car

Her loyal fans all wave

Here comes a full blown star

But Brando’s still the rave

 

I got 35 Millimeter dreams

35 Millimeter dreams

35 Millimeter dreams

 

Bump into Orson Welles

Everybody says he’s workin’ on his script

They say it’s rated X

Mae West will never tell

It’s starring Cary Grant

And Valentino’s vamps

And Charlie Chaplin’s tramps

And Jolie Jolson he chants

 

I got 35 Millimeter dreams

35 Millimeter dreams

35 Millimeter dreams

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