It's DROM's Birthday Weekend!

My goodness, drom, you dear lady:

Along with some key lime pie here's a song for your avatar, and especially for you:

Lyrics by: Johnny Mercer
Music by: Johnny Mandel
Arranged By: Nelson Riddle - Nelson Riddle
Album Title: The Reprise Collection, Disc 4
From the Film: The Americanization of Emily (1964)
Label: Reprise - Reprise
Recorded: 10/3/64 - 3/9/77
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Emily, Emily, Emily
Has the murmuring sound of May
All silver bells, coral shells, carousels
And the laughter of children at play

They say "Emily, Emily, Emily"
And we fade to a marvelous view
Two lovers alone and out of sight
Seeing images in the firelight
As my eyes visualize a family
They see dreamily, Emily



Two lovers alone and out of sight
Seeing images in the firelight
As my eyes visualize a family
They see dreamily, Emily.

Happy Birthday, drom

Thanks, Bo !! Well, looking back, she never really was ionterested in what I had to say, she just concealed it; but I never had the chance to say anything: really, I'm better off not having her as a friend... she just seemed so like one; but she can go to hell or Bognor Regis for all I care, now .

but if i am right, and there is no 'hell'; we would be quite happy to fashion one, here on earth, for her; your call........

That's a beautiful song, Letty; one that I've never heard before... thank you so much for your dedication. What is 'The Americanization of Emily' about, do you know?

It's all right, Bo; I wouldn't want to stoop to her level.. I'll just let it be. And inspect the warts from afar.

Being a bit of a relic (and an Anglo, myself) i have some 'sage' advice:

bitter disappointment from a trusted friend is best chopped up and eaten; though it may catch in the throat, sear the oesophagus, cramp the stomach; when finally digested, it will find its way to a suitable end! :wink:

! Well, the end is that she fooled me completely for her own gain, and was never my friend! But there are more deserving people to trust in the future, I know (/hope)!

i was thinking of a more.......'anatomical'.........end!

and getting back to all warm and fuzzy;

'trust' is something you give, not take;
hence it is not available to 'takers'!

drom, I never saw the movie, but somehow I always remember the songs:

http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/movie/pid/1264056/a/Americanization+of+Emily.htm

and Bo is right about trust. (sometimes he's wrong, however)

wha???

I know, I know, Bo! Well, I won't consider the deceit any more, there is no use in it.

O, I thought that it had something to do with adapting Wuthering Heights for a US audience, Letty ! (I heard a while ago that an American broadcasting corporation had planned to make a US version of the Irish comedy, Father Ted, which deleted half the plot; had they?

Bo is unexceptionably right, apart from when wrong.

Heh! heh! I should have said. BoBeBad, sometimes. Now that's alliteration.

drom, I know nothing whatsoever of Father Ted, but I will most certainly research it.

Perhaps my song for you should have been "Sisters".

really Letty; some days you can be soooo "Daytona Beachy"!


[and runs for the hills!!!!!!!!!!!! ]

Bo, there is a group in Daytona called The Sons of Beaches. Really!

Now we musn't bicker on drom's birthday celebration.

I can just visualize Bo and drom singing a duet:

It would have to be something by Diana Krall, I think.

Perhaps Sophia and Eva will join in. I know that Sophia likes KD Lang.

Hmmmmm. How about "Sky Lark" or Eva's favorite driving song.

Incidentally, "Sisters" was sung by Rosemary and Betty Clooney. George Clooney is their nephew, I think. All he can do is sync.

I won't synopsise it, because it would do no justice to the show... but, I think that I remember reading that one of the writers of Seinfeld is helping to adapt it...

And, despite the wordplay, wouldn't you say Daytona Beachy is good, like a calm day by the seaedge?

Actually, drom (don't tell anyone) Daytona Beach sucks. Too crowded and folks drive on the beach; however, a little further south, there is a theatre where one may see the London Symphony Orchestra. Fabulous!

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Why would it be Krall? I did a little singing in the past, in a band called something stupid and pretentious. I sang for about two weeks and then tired of it, and never went back. My gran, however, was a singer famed throughout the whole of Ireland... her voice shrivelled up, though, but it was beautiful.

And it sucks? It just goes to show that names are deceptive. Why did you decide to move there? Do you think that you'll move again, or would you like to? How often are the LSO there?

Thank god America didn't remake Father Ted. That would have been so wrong.