Old-Timey Celebrities Project

Last year my friend JB had a project to listen to music from fifty-two different calendar years, starting with the year 1963. Essentially, each week of 2015 was dedicated to music from a different calendar year. A few weeks ago I decided that I was going to do a similar thing this year. I'm not going to exclusively listen to music, nor explore things at the impressive rate that JB did. Instead, I thought that I would dedicate each month to learning more about some old-timey celebrity or musician. I hope to read a biography and/or autobiography each month for these people, as well as watch/listen to several of their films/music:

• Audrey Hepburn
• Fred Astaire
• Elvis
• Buddy Holly/James Dean 
• Louis Armstrong
• Billie Holiday
• Frank Sinatra
• Grace Kelley
• Bing Crosby
• Sammy Davis Jr.
• Marilyn Monroe
• Leonard Bernstein

J helped me come up with this list, based on the types of movies and music that he could handle being played in our house all year long. I asked him if he wanted to have Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly on the list, and he said, "You choose just one. I can only handle one 'dancey guy' next year." Ha! 

This month is Audrey Hepburn month. J and I watched Breakfast at Tiffany's last weekend to kick things off. I'd seen that film before, but J hadn't. We'll see if I get him to watch My Fair Lady before the month is through...