WA2K Radio is now on the air, Part 3

Today is this great jazz man's birthday:

Here's a winter song by him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Y7fpEfmC4

I liked Take Five also, but it kept going on too long.

We used to sing Jolly Old St Nicholas in grade school, before I heard any records of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyXwgky38J8
Tomorrow Mountain

Yep, Texas, Christmas is for kids. Loved Lena doing Tomorrow Mountain.

Anyone remember Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1fEsvke8ys

This film concentrates on a war of wills between rebellious POW David Bowie and camp commandant Ryuichi Sakomoto. Assuming that his other prisoners' unwillingness to protest their cruel treatment is a sign of weakness, Sakomoto is most impressed by Bowie's enigmatic defiance.

Sakomoto says: Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

I didn't see that movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7kXrcXbY3A
A Thousand Stars

edgar, I didn't know Kathy and The Innocents doing A Thousand Stars, but thanks for the introduction.

Gurda, Welcome back to you as well. Straight No Chaser by Kristen was fabulous.

Inspired by edgar, two versions of the same song.

First, the instrumental:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZOBDCXvWiA

Now, "the sassy" Miss Sarah:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW1SAvp50X8

Once again calling all musicians, music lovers, painters and poets.

Ah, I miss Olivier 5, my French friend. Also McTag, my Scottish friend and England, of course.

Today is this guy's birthday, but first some info.

Harry Forster Chapin (December 7, 1942 – July 16, 1981) was an American singer-songwriter best known for his folk rock songs including "Taxi," "W*O*L*D," "Sniper", "Flowers Are Red," and the No. 1 hit "Cat's in the Cradle." Chapin was also a dedicated humanitarian who fought to end world hunger; he was a key participant in the creation of the Presidential Commission on World Hunger in 1977.[1] In 1987, Chapin was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his humanitarian work.

Now, y'all, The Cat's in the Cradle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUwjNBjqR-c

I almost always prefer a vocal of a song, letty. And Chapin's songs are all favorites of mine.

Sarah Vaughn and Billy Eckstine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDp439rc8ik

Thanks, edgar for your comment and personal acknowledgement.

I had no idea that Billy and Sarah did I'll Be Loving you Always. Beautiful, Texas.

Well, it's one odd thing to listen to the warm, and it reminded me of The Sound of Silence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fWyzwo1xg0

Good evening WA2K
Here's some Jesse Winchester . . .


Jesse Winchester -- She Makes It Easy Now

Linda & James together


Linda Ronstadt & James Taylor -- I Think It`s Going To Work Out Fine

Latin George, welcome back to you as well. Jessee doining She Makes it Easy now was great. Didn't know it, so thanks again for the introduction

Wow! Linda and James doing I Think It's Going to Work out was fantastic.

Going to say good afternoon now with a big surprise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7U8xMrmBLA

From Letty with love to everyone here.

Good Morning Everybody.
How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
Sonnet XCVIII

And it's Uncle Jim's birthday. (More about that later.)

Hurry back izz with a y. Didn't know that sonnet so thanks again for the introduction and we'll be waiting for Uncle Jim, my friend.

Had some problems with the equipment in our Florida radio station. I'm surprised that our edgar didn't like that one by Ernie Ford.

two songs for Sunday here in our station.

First, a funny one that I learned from my Texas friend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o95tSMAphKY

Now, a hymn for today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0NgftkD7xk

I'll bet our Latin George will know that one.

I grew up with Tennessee Ernie's music.
Frosty is one of my wife's favorite seasonal tales.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EONW3ifsx14
Loretta Lynn

Like that one by Loretta Lynn, Texas.

Another birthday man, and somehow he reminds me of Leonard Cohen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knII3S0MZtY

funny observation about the guy:

Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a carzzzzzzzzzzzzzz''

My favorite German Christmas carol.

Gurda, Welcome back to you as well, my German friend.

Fantastic version of Lo How a Rose. Love it!

Here's a choir singing Ring Christmas Bells, but I'm not certain of the dialect. Doesn't matter as it is lovely:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6x-pjVL67A

Just found out that it was based on an old Russian folks song.

I have long liked Tom Wait and also like the Christmas song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1bI9y9OMTA
Leonard

Tonight Will Be Fine by Leonard was great, Mark. Speaking of Russian, this next song for kids was translated to this:

Rudolph the Red Knows Rain dear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujtaAQEWHTI

Yes, but do you know a reindeer named Randolph?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBJX-lqdnlU