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Thirsty Boots

You've long been on the open road,
You've been sleeping in the rain,
From dirty words and muddy cells
Your clothes are smeared and stained,
But the dirty words and muddy cells
Will soon be hid in shame
So only stop to rest yourself
Till you are off again

Chorus:
So take off your thirsty boots
and stay for a while,
Your feet are hot and weary,
from a dusty mile,
And maybe I can make you laugh,
maybe I can try,
I'm just looking for the evening,
the morning in your eye.

So tell me of the ones you saw
As far as you could see
Across the plain from field to town
A-marching to be free
And of the rusted prison gates
That tumbled by degree
Like laughing children, one by one,
They look like you and me

Chorus.

I know you are no stranger down
The crooked rainbow trails
From dancing cliff-edged shattered sills
Of slandered, shackled jails
For the voices drift up from below
As the walls they're being scaled
Yes, all of this, and more, my friend,
Your song shall not be failed.

Chorus.

Yes, you've long been on the open road
You've been sleeping in the rain
From dirty words and muddy cells
Your clothes are smeared and stained
But the dirty words, the muddy cells,
They'll soon be judged insane
So only stop to rest yourself
'til you are off again.

Chorus.


Eric Andersen

Walter Matthau
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Born 1 October 1920
New York City, New York, USA
Died 1 July 2000
Santa Monica, California, USA

Walter Matthau (October 1, 1920 - July 1, 2000) was an Academy Award winning American comedy actor. He is best-known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with fellow Odd Couple star, Jack Lemmon.

Biography

He was born in New York City, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants. His original surname is often shown as Matuschansky, but this is not true (see Original Name Rumour below for a detailed discussion). His real name, as records from his youth prove, was Walter John Matthow. However, he was also called "Jake," so he occasionally signed his name as "Walter Jake Matthow." When, as a young man, he began acting in the Yiddish theatre in New York, he decided to change the spelling of his name. He believed that "Matthow" looked too brash and crude, and opted for the "more-elegant" spelling of "Matthau," and kept it for the rest of his life.

During World War II, Matthau served in the U.S. Army Air Forces with the Eighth Air Force in England as a B-24 Liberator radioman-gunner, in the same bomb group as Jimmy Stewart. He reached the rank of Staff Sergeant and became interested in acting. He often joked that his best early review came in a play where he posed as a derelict. One reviewer said, "The others just looked like actors in make-up, Walter Matthau really looks like a skid row bum!" Matthau was a respected stage actor for years in such fare as Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter and A Shot In The Dark. He won the 1962 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a play.


Matthau with his frequent film co-star & friend, Jack LemmonIn 1955, he made his motion picture debut as a whip-wielding bad guy in The Kentuckian opposite Burt Lancaster. He appeared in many movies after this as a villain such as the 1958 King Creole (where he is beaten up by Elvis Presley). That same year, he made a western called Ride a Crooked Trail with Audie Murphy. Matthau also directed a low budget 1960 movie called The Gangster Story. In 1962, he won acclaim as a sympathetic sheriff in Lonely Are the Brave. He also played a villainous war veteran in Charade, which starred Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn.

In addition to his busy movie and stage schedule, Matthau made many television appearances in live TV plays. Although he was constantly working, it seemed that the fact that he was not handsome in the traditional sense would keep him from being a top star.

Success came late for Matthau. In 1965, aged 44, Neil Simon cast him in the hit play The Odd Couple opposite Art Carney. It was during this time that Matthau nearly died of a heart attack. In 1966, he again achieved glory as a shady lawyer opposite future friend and frequent co-star, actor Jack Lemmon, in The Fortune Cookie.

He won an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for that movie, and also made a memorable acceptance speech. He was visibly banged up, having been involved in an auto accident shortly before the awards show. He started out with a joke about having "fallen off his bicycle", then scolded nominated actors who were perfectly healthy and had not bothered to come to the ceremony, especially three of the other four major award winners: Elizabeth Taylor, Sandy Dennis, and Paul Scofield.

Matthau and Lemmon became lifelong friends after making The Fortune Cookie and made a total of ten movies together, including the movie version of The Odd Couple (with Lemmon playing the Art Carney role) and the popular 1993 hit Grumpy Old Men, and its sequel Grumpier Old Men with Sophia Loren.


Matthau was married twice, to Grace Geraldine Johnson (1948-1958), and Carol Marcus (August 21, 1959 until his death on July 1, 2000). He had two children, Jenny Matthau, and David Matthau, with his first wife, and a son, Charlie Matthau, with his second. His grandchildren include William Matthau and Emily Roman. His son, Charlie, directed Matthau in the movie The Grass Harp (1995).

Walter Matthau died of full cardiac arrest on July 1, 2000, in Santa Monica, California, at the age of 79. After heart surgery, doctors discovered that he had colon cancer, which had spread to his liver, lungs, and brain. However, on his death certificate the causes of death are listed as cardiac arrest and atherosclerotic heart disease, with ESRD and atrial fibrillation added as "other significant conditions contributing to death but not related to [primary] cause..." (see [1]) with no mention of the cancer.

He is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California.

Almost exactly one year later, Jack Lemmon was also buried at the cemetery, after dying from cancer. After Matthau's death, Lemmon as well as other friends and relatives appeared on Larry King Live in an hour of tribute and remembrance; poignantly, many of those same people appeared on the show one year later, reminiscing about Lemmon.

His widow, Carol, died of a brain aneurysm in 2003.

Original name rumour

There is a persistent rumor that his birth name was Matuschanskayasky, which is false, as are the rumors that his name was Matashansky or Matansky, or any of the other reported names. In truth - as reported by the authors of Matthau: A Life by Rob Edelman and Audrey Kupferberg (along with Walter's son, Charlie Matthau), Walter was a teller of tall tales. In his youth, he found that the joy of embellishment lifted a story (and the listener) to such enjoyable heights that he could not resist trying to pass off the most bogus of information, just to see who was gullible enough to believe it. Matthau told many stories to many reputable people - including the Social Security Administration.

When he registered for a number, he was amazed that they only wanted him to write his name, and offer no proof of his identity. So, as another of his traditional goofs, he wrote that his true name was "Walter Foghorn Matthau".

The "Matuschanskayasky" name rumor culminated with the release of 1974's Earthquake. The executive producer, Jennings Lang, had worked with Matthau the previous year on the film Charley Varrick, and convinced him to take a small cameo role in the film - the small part scripted only as a "drunk at the end of the bar." On a whim, Matthau agreed to take the part, without compensation, on the condition that he not be credited under his real name. After Matthau agreed, the part of the "drunk" was expanded to provide comic relief for the film, the character offering toasts to various people (Spiro Agnew, Bobby Riggs, and Peter Fonda), as well as delivering the punchline "Hey, who do you have to know to get a drink around here?" in the midst of a bar devastated by a major earthquake.

As requested, when it came time to insert the credits for Earthquake, the ridiculously long name "Matuschanskayasky" was used, as agreed, by Jennings Lang and Matthau.

Trivia

The popular cartoon character Homer Simpson was based on Matthau's voice and on-screen mannerisms, especially in the cartoon's early episodes.

eric anderson, wonderful song writer especially Violets of Dawn.

James Whitmore
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

James Allen Whitmore (born October 1, 1921) is an American film actor.

Born in White Plains, New York, Whitmore graduated from Amherst High School in Amherst, New York, and subsequently Yale University, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II.

Following the war, Whitmore appeared on Broadway, where he won a special Tony Award in 1948. His first major movie was Battleground, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Other major films included The Asphalt Jungle, The Next Voice You Hear, Kiss Me, Kate, Them!, Black Like Me, Guns of the Magnificent Seven, and Give 'em Hell, Harry!, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of former President of the United States Harry S. Truman.

James Whitmore also appeared as General Oliver O. Howard in the 1975 TV movie I Will Fight No More Forever, based on the 1877 conflict between the United States and the Nez Percé tribe, led by Chief Joseph.

Whitmore's last major role was that of librarian Brooks Hatlen in the critically-acclaimed and Academy award-nominated 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption.

He is the father of actor James Whitmore Jr. and the grandfather of actor James Whitmore III. He was married to actress Audra Lindley.

To a younger generation, he is probably best known, in addition to his role in Shawshank, as the commercial spokesman for Miracle-Gro plant food for many years.

Whitmore has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6611 Hollywood Blvd.

In 2002, Whitmore got the role of the Grandfather in the Disney Channel original movie A Ring of Endless Light.

Tom Bosley
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thomas Edward Bosley (born October 1, 1927) is an American actor. He was born in Chicago, Illinois.

Biography

Early life

During World War II, Tom Bosley served in the U.S. Navy. While attending DePaul University in Chicago in 1947, he made his stage debut in Our Town with the Canterbury Players at the Fine Arts Theatre. He performed at the Woodstock Opera House in Woodstock, Illinois in 1949 and 1950 alongside Paul Newman.

Career

Bosley's breakthrough stage role was New York's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia in the long-running Broadway musical Fiorello! (1959) for which he won a Tony Award.

He is best known as Howard Cunningham, Richie Cunningham's father, in the long running sitcom Happy Days. Bosley is also known for Portraying Sheriff Amos Tupper on Murder, She Wrote. He also portrayed the titular Father Frank Dowling on the TV mystery series, Father Dowling Mysteries.

Bosley has several notable roles in animation, due to his resonant, fatherly yet expressive tone. He is the voice of Harry Boyle in the animated series, Wait Till Your Father Gets Home. He provided the voice of the title character in the 1980s cartoon The World of David the Gnome. He voiced the shop owner Mr. Winkle in the children's animated Christmas special The Tangerine Bear. He also narrated the movie documentary series That's Hollywood.

He has endorsed Glad Trash Bags, D-Con, the IQ Computer and Sonic Drive-Ins, and currently is the spokesman for SMC Specialty Merchandise Corporation.

In 2004, Bosley guest starred as a toy maker named Ben-Ami on the series finale of the Christian video series K10C: Kids' Ten Commandments.

Bosley shared a heartfelt story about his experience with the Holocaust in the documentary film Paper Clips. Other films include The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal.

Pop culture

In The Simpsons episode 2F12, Homie the Clown, Lisa indicates that Homer once attempted to pass himself off as Tom Bosley.
In the Family Guy episode "Road to Europe", Brian and Stewie Griffin find themselves on a train in Switzerland. Stewie remarks that he sees Tom Bosley. Brian questions what Tom Bosley would be doing on the train, to which Stewie has no response.
Similarly, in the animated program The Oblongs the people of the 'Hill' community briefly mention plans for the community, including a 'Tom Bosley Day'.

Laurence Harvey
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Laurence Harvey (October 1, 1928 - November 25, 1973) was a Lithuanian-born actor who achieved fame in British and American films.

Laurence Harvey maintained throughout his life that his birth name was Laruschka Mischa Skikne, his real name was Zvi Mosheh (Hirsh) Skikne, called Hirshkeh by his family. He was the youngest of three boys born to Ber "Boris" and Ella Skikne, a Jewish family in the tiny village of Joniskis, Lithuania. At the age of five he emigrated with his family to South Africa where he took on the English name of Harry. He grew up in Johannesburg, and was in his teens when he served with the entertainment unit of the South African Army during World War II. After moving to London, England, he enrolled in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where he became known as Larry, and from there moved to perform on stage and film where he adopted the stage name "Laurence Harvey", taken either from the shop name Harvey Nichols or from Harvey's Bristol Cream.

Harvey's first major role came in 1959 when he was cast by director Jack Clayton in Room at the Top produced by British film producing brothers Sir John Woolf and James Woolf of Romulus Films and Remus Films. For his performance, Harvey received a nomination for a BAFTA Award and for an Academy Award for Best Actor, the first person of Lithuanian descent to be nominated for an Academy Award.

During the 1950s and 1960s, Harvey appeared in several major films, including BUtterfield 8 (1960), The Alamo (1960), A Walk on the Wild Side (1962), Darling (1965) and the critically acclaimed The Manchurian Candidate (1962), for which he is most well known.

British actor John Fraser writes in his memoir "Close Up" (2004) that Harvey was gay, and his lover was his manager James Woolf. "As a teenager, he started out living with Hermione Baddeley, a blowsy star of intimate revue more than twice his age. Then he married Margaret Leighton, old enough to be his mother, but a woman of style. When this marriage was over, he married Joan Cohn, widow of Harry Cohn, managing director of Columbia Studios. Throughout all these career marriages, he still managed to string Jimmy Woolf along."


Laurence Harvey and Paulene Stone with toddler Domino. (Splash News)Harvey was married three times:

Margaret Leighton (1957-1961) (divorced)
Joan Perry Cohn (1968-1972) (divorced) widow of movie mogul Harry Cohn
Paulene Stone (1972-1973), with whom he remained until his death from stomach cancer at age of 45, and with whom he had a daughter, the famous bounty hunter Domino Harvey (1969-2005).

Stella Stevens
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Birthplace Yazoo City, Mississippi
Birthdate October 1, 1936

Stella Stevens (born Estelle Caro Eggleston on October 1, 1936) is an American actress, film producer and film director who began her notable acting career in 1959.


Biography

Stevens was born in Yazoo City, Mississippi. In 1960, she was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for January (and had featured pictorals in 1965 and 1968). She was listed among the 100 sexiest stars of the 20th century (#27). During the 1960s, she was one of the top ten most photographed women in the world, along with Jaqueline Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Bridget Bardot, Ann Margret and Raquel Welch.

She was first under contract to 20th Century Fox, then dropped after six months. After winning the role of "Appassionatta Von Climax" in Li'l Abner (1959), she got a contract with Paramount Studios (1959-1963) and later Columbia Pictures (1964-1968). She shared the 1960 Golden Globe Award for "Most Promising Newcomer - Female", with Tuesday Weld, Angie Dickinson, and Janet Munro. In 1962, she starred opposite Elvis Presley in Girls! Girls! Girls!. Later, she portrayed Jerry Lewis's love interest in the 1962 The Nutty Professor. 1970 saw her featured in The Ballad of Cable Hogue with Jason Robards. In 1972, she appeared in Irwin Allen's The Poseidon Adventure. Throughout her career, she appeared in dozens of TV shows and was a regular on the 1982-1983 prime-time soap opera Flamingo Road.

She produced and directed two films, The Ranch (1989) and The American Heroine"" (1979).

She teamed with the late Sandy Dennis in a touring production of an all-female version of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, playing the messy one.

She is the mother of actor/producer Andrew Stevens, and a grandmother of three.

There are two nuns. One of them is known as Sister Mathematical (SM)
and the other one is known as Sister Logical (SL). It is getting dark and they are still far away from the convent.
SM: Have you noticed that a man has been following us for the past thirty-eight and a half minutes? I wonder what he wants.
SL: It's logical. He wants to rape us.
SM: Oh, no! At this rate he will reach us in 15 minutes at the most.What can we do?
SL: The only logical thing to do of course is to walk faster.
SM: It's not working
SL: Of course it's not working. The man did the only logical thing. He started to walk faster too.
SM: So, what shall we do? At this rate he will reach us in one minute.
SL: The only logical thing we can do is split. You go that way and I'll go this way. He cannot follow us both.
So the man decided to follow Sister Logical. Sister Mathematical arrives at the convent and is worried what has happened to Sister Logical.
Then Sister Logical arrives...
SM: Sister Logical! Thank God you are here! Tell me what happened!
SL: The only logical thing happened. The man couldn't follow us both, so he followed me.
SM: Yes, yes! But what happened then?
SL: The only logical thing happened. I started to run as fast as I could and he started to run as fast as he could.
SM: And?
SL: The only logical thing happened. He reached me.
SM: What did you do?
SL: The only logical thing to do. I lifted my dress up.
SM: Oh, Sister! What did the man do?
SL: The only logical thing to do. He pulled down his pants.
SM: Oh, no! What happened then?
SL: Isn't it logical, Sister? A nun with her dress up can run faster than a man with his pants down........

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors, and what a lovely morning it is.

Oh, my goodness, Bob. Who says nuns are cloistered. Thanks for the marvelous bio's, hawkman. Will wait for our Raggedy to appear before commenting.

edgar, although that song is rather sad, I like it, Texas. Thanks for reminding us of the BeeGees.

Rex and dys, glad you introduced me to Eric. Lovely songs, so I went searching for this one:

Eric Andersen Violets Of Dawn written by Eric Andersen



D G D G D G
Take me to the night I'm tippin topsy turvy turning upside down
D G D
Hold me tight and whisper what you wish
G D
For there is no one here around
G A
Oh you may sing song me sweet smiles
D G A
Regardless of the city's careless frown
D G
Come watch the no colors fade blazing
D G D G
Into pedal sprays of Violets of Dawn
D G
In blindful wonderments enchantments
D G D G D
You can lift my wings softly to fly
D G D
Your eyes are like swift fingers reaching out
G D
Into the pockets of my night
G A D G

Whirling twirling puppy warm before the flashing cloaks of darkness
A
gone
D G
Come see the no colors fade blazing
D G D G
Into pedal sprays of Violets of Dawn
D G
Some prince charming I'll be
D G D G
On Two white steeds to bring you diamond crowns
D G
And climb your tower sleeping beauty
D G D
Before you ever know I've left the ground
G A D G A
You can wear a Cinderella Snowhite Alice Wonderland gown
D G
Come watch the no colors fade blazing
D G D G
Into pedal sprays of Violets of Dawn
D G D
But if I seem to wander off in dream like looks
G D G
Please let me settle slowly
D G D
It's only me just staring out at you
G D
A seeming stranger speaking holy
G A D G A
I don't mean to wake you up it's only lonliness just coming on
D G D
So let the no colors fade blazing into petal sprays
G D G
Of Violets Of Dawn
D G
Like shadows bursting into mist
D G D G
Behind the echoes of this nonsense song
D G
It's just chasing whispering trail
D G D
Of secret steps see them laughing on
G A D G A
There's magic in the sleepiness of waking to a childish sounding yawn
D G
Come watch the no colors fade blazing
D G D G D
Into pedal sprays of Violets of Dawn

Many of my favorite songs are sad ones. I have to slip in a few.

Good morning on this lazy Sunday, unless you live in Australia where it is probably Tuesday already, but…


No Matter What
Badfinger Lyrics

No matter what you are
I will always be with you
Doesn't matter what you do girl
Ooh girl with you.

No matter what you do
I will always be around
Won't you tell me what you found girl
Ooh girl won't you.

Knock down the old gray wall
Be a part of it all
Nothing to say, nothing to see, nothing to do
If you would give me all
'Cause I would give it to you
Nothing would be, nothing would be, nothing would be.

No matter where you go
There will always be a place
Can't you see it in my face girl
Ooh girl won't you.

Knock down the old gray wall
Be a part of it all
Nothing to say, nothing to see, nothing to do
If you would give me all
'Cause I would give it to you
Nothing would be, nothing would be, nothing would be.

No matter what you are
I will always be with you
Doesn't matter what you do girl
Ooh girl with you.

First for edgar, a sad song on purpose:

Artist: Gilbert O'Sullivan Lyrics
Song: Alone Again (Naturally) Lyrics




In a little while from now,
If I'm not feeling any less sour
I promised myself to treat myself
And visit a nearby tower,
And climbing to the top,
Will throw myself off
In an effort to make it clear to who
Ever what it's like when your shattered
Left standing in the lurch, at a church
Where people 're saying,
"My God that's tough, she stood him up!
No point in us remaining.
May as well go home."
As I did on my own,
Alone again, naturally

To think that only yesterday,
I was cheerful, bright and gay,
Looking forward to, but who wouldn't do,
The role I was about to play
But as if to knock me down,
Reality came around
And without so much as a mere touch,
Cut me into little pieces
Leaving me to doubt,
All about God and His mercy
For if He really does exist
Why did He desert me
In my hour of need?
I truly am indeed,
Alone again, naturally

It seems to me that
There are more hearts
Broken in the world
That can't be mended
Left unattended
What do we do? What do we do?

(instrumental break)

Now looking back over the years,
And what ever else that appears
I remember I cried when my father died
Never wishing to have cried the tears
And at sixty-five years old,
My mother, God rest her soul,
Couldn't understand, why the only man
She had ever loved had been taken
Leaving her to start with a heart
So badly broken
Despite encouragement from me
No words were ever spoken
And when she passed away
I cried and cried all day
Alone again, naturally
Alone again, naturally

and for our Australian friends,

Happy Labour Day

Now for our Try, listeners, an antithesis to BAD FINGER.

Artist: Goldfinger Lyrics
Song: Shirley Bassey Lyrics

Goldfinger.
He's the man, the man with the midas touch.
A spider's touch.
Such a cold finger.
Beckons you to enter his web of sin
But don't go in.

Golden words he will pour in your ear,
But his lies can't disguise what you fear,
For a golden girl knows when he's kissed her,
It's the kiss of death from

Mister Goldfinger.
Pretty girl beware of this heart of gold
This heart is cold.

Golden words he will pour in your ear,
But his lies can't disguise what you fear,
For a golden girl knows when he's kissed her,
It's the kiss of death from

Mister Goldfinger.
Pretty girl beware of this heart of gold
This heart is cold.

He loves only gold,
Only gold.
He loves gold.
He loves only gold,
Only gold.
He loves gold.

Calling yitwail. Come in Mr. Turtle. We miss you.

Mansion on the Hill

Tonight down here in the valley
I'm lonesome and, oh, how I feel
As I sit here alone in my cabin
I can see your mansion on the hill

Do you recall when we parted
The story to me you revealed
You said you could live without love, dear
In your loveless mansion on the hill

---- Instrumental Interlude ----

I've waited all through the years love
To give you a heart true and real
'Cause I know you're livin' in sorrow
In your loveless mansion on the hill

---- Instrumental Interlude ----

The light shine bright from your window
The trees stand so silent and still
I know you're alone with your pride, dear
In your loveless mansion on the hill


Hank Williams

from Paul Simon

Mm------
It's carbon and monoxide
The ole Detroit perfume
It hangs on the highways
In the morning
And it lays you down by noon
Oh Papa Hobo
You can see that I'm dressed like a schoolboy
But I feel like a clown
It's a natural reaction I learned
In this basketball town

Sweep up
I been sweeping up the tips I've made
I'm living on Gatorade
Planning my getaway
Detroit, Detroit
Got a hell of a hockey team
Got a left-handed way
Of making a man sign up on that
Automotive dream, oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh, Papa Papa Hobo
Could you slip me a ride?
Well, it's just after breakfast
I'm in the road
And the weatherman lied,
Oo-------, Ah-----, Oo-------

Good day,WA2K.

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