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Re: Vernian Inspirations

From: derek bloggs <derek_bloggs11223344~at~yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:03:48 +0000 (GMT)
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Rick Wakeman - 1974 and 1998 made two albums about Journey.


--- On Sun, 12/4/09, WILLIAM JONES <wbj514~at~sbcglobal.net> wrote:

From: WILLIAM JONES <wbj514~at~sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: Vernian Inspirations
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Date: Sunday, 12 April, 2009, 7:29 PM







Perhaps. But my pop-culture guess would be that if there is a Vernian inspiration present at all, it has been filtered through Michael Todd, circa 1956. Ricky Nelson's "Travelin' Man" travelogue video (1961) is arguably as likely a deep-background hommage ("Pretty Polynesian baby..."). I somehow doubt that anyone connected with the Donna Summer video was making the passing-by-the-Sandwich-Islands=Hawaii connection, assuming that they had read Verne's novel in the first place. But who can say what was in the producers' minds?
 
--Bill Jones
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