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Hey, edgar. Down in the alley, Texas? How about this one.

Down In The Valley
Lyrics: Traditional
Music: Traditional

Recorded by Garcia and Grisman on Shady Grove but seemingly never played live.

Roses love sunshine, violets love dew
Angels in heaven know I love you
Know I love you, love, know I love you
Angels in heaven know I love you

If you don't love me, love whom you please
Throw your arms round me, give my heart ease
Give my heart ease, love, give my heart ease
Throw your arms round me, give my heart ease

Build me a castle, forty feet high
So I can see her as she rides by
As she rides by, love, as she rides by
So I can see her as she rides by

Write me a letter, send it by mail
Send it in care of the Birmingham jail
Birmingham jail, love, Birmingham jail
Send it in care of the Birmingham jail

Down in the valley, valley so low
Hang your head over, hear the wind blow
Hear the wind blow, love, hear the wind blow
Hang your head over, hear the wind blow

Gotta admit, yours is pertier.

Well, edgar. pertier is as pertier are. <smile>

Speaking of which, folks:



Bush Addresses Press Alongside Lookalike By ELIZABETH WHITE, Associated Press Writer
7 minutes ago



WASHINGTON - It was twice the fun for members of the White House Correspondents' Association and guests Saturday night when President Bush and a lookalike, soundalike sidekick poked fun at the president and fellow politicians.



"Ladies and gentlemen, I feel chipper tonight. I survived the White House shake-up," the president said.

But impersonator Steve Bridges stole many of the best lines. Vice President Dick Cheney and his hunting accident were targets of his humor on a couple of occasions.

"Speaking of suspects, where is the great white hunter?" Bridges said, later adding, "He shot the only trial lawyer in the country who supports me."



Love it!

Good day all at WA2K.

Let's wish a Happy 73rd Birthday to Willie:



I guess "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" is my favorite Nelson song. But, this one runs a close second (love his guitar on this one).

If you had not have fallen
then I would not have found you
Angel flying too close to the ground
And I patched up your broken wing
and hung around awhile
Trying to keep your spirits up
and your fever down

I knew someday that you would fly away
for love's the greatest healer to be found
So leave me if you need to
I will still remember angel
flying too close to the ground

[ guitar ]
Fly on, fly on past the speed of sound
I'd rather see you up than see you down

So leave me if you need to
I will still remember
angel flying too close to the ground
So leave me if you need to
I will still remember
angel flying too close to the ground

Well, listeners, there's our Raggedy with Willie. Hey, PA, I love Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain, but that's 'cause I can play it on piano and sing it.

Thanks, gal, for that Willie one. <smile> Never heard it, however.

Which reminds me, listeners. Here's one that my oldest sister loves:



One night while out for a ramble
The hour was just about nine
I met a young maiden in Frisco
On the corner of Geary and Pine

On her face there was beauty of nature
And her eyes just seemed to expand
Her hair was so rich and so brilliant
Entwined in a blue velvet band

We strolled down the street together
In my pocket she placed her small hand
She planted the evidence on me
The girl in the blue velvet band

I heard the scream of the siren
And the girl in the blue velvet band
She left me to face all the trouble
With a diamond that was worth ten grand

They sent me to San Quentin for stealing
God knows I'm an innocent man
The guilty one now she lie's dying
The girl in the blue velvet band

Last night when bed-time was ringin
Standing there close to the bars
I fancied I heard a voice calling
Far out in the ocean of stars

I'll be out in a year and I'm leaving
But I'll carry the name of a man
That served ten years in prison
For the girl in the blue velvet band

And when I get out I'll endeavor
To live in some other land
And I'll bid farewell to old Frisco
And the girl in the blue velvet band

Word for the day:

"schadenfreude,"

Speaking of which, where's our Walter?

I thought the word should be "verboodengluden."

Hey, Texas. I like yours better; it's pertier. <smile>

All kinds of synchronicity floating around today, listeners. That word came from the report about the Harvard sophomore who plagiarized another's work for her book that has been pulled from the bookstores.

As I told Mr. Turtle. When you steal from one person, it's called plagiarism; when you steal from many, it's called research.

It's the sincerest form of flattery. Also, it's okay to steal from the classics. Everbody does it. Man of la Mancha, Ulysses, Jaws, etc. -

Franz Lehár
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Franz Lehár (30 April 1870 - 24 October 1948) was an Austrian composer of Hungarian descent, mainly known for his operettas.

Lehár was born in Komárno (then in Austria-Hungary, now Slovakia) as the eldest son of a bandmaster in the Austro-Hungarian army. He studied violin and composition at the Prague Conservatory but was advised by Antonin Dvorak to focus on composing music. After graduation in 1899 he joined his father's band in Vienna, as assistant bandmaster. In 1902 he became conductor at the historic Vienna Theater an der Wien, where his first opera Wiener Frauen was performed in November of that year.

He is most famous for his operettas - the most successful of which is The Merry Widow; but also wrote sonatas, symphonic poems, marches, and a number of waltzes, (the most popular being Gold und Silber, composed for Princess Metternich's "Gold and Silver' Ball, January 1902) some of which were drawn from his famous operettas. Individual songs from some of the operettas have become standards, notably "Vilja" from The Merry Widow and "You Are My Heart's Delight" ("Dein ist mein ganzes Herz") from The Land of Smiles.

Lehár was also associated with the operatic tenor Richard Tauber, who sang in many of his operettas, beginning with Frasquita (1922), in which Lehar once again found a suitable post-war style. Between 1925 and 1934 he wrote six operettas specifically for Tauber's voice.

by 1935 he decided to form his own publishing house to maximize his personal control over performance rights to his works.

He was elected an honorary citizen of Sopron in 1940.

He died in Bad Ischl, near Salzburg.

Operettas

A complete list of his musical works may be found here

* Wiener Frauen, 21 November 1902, Theater an der Wien, Vienna
* Der Rastelbinder, 20 December 1902, Carl Theater Vienna
* Der Göttergatte, 20 January 1904, Carl Theater Vienna
* Die Juxheirat, 21 December 1904, Theater an der Wien, Vienna
* The Merry Widow, 30 December 1905, Theater an der Wien, Vienna
* Das Fürstenkind, 7 October 1909, Johann Strauß Theater, Vienna
* Der Graf von Luxemburg, 12 November 1909, Theater an der Wien, Vienna
* Zigeunerliebe, 8 January 1910, Carl Theater Vienna
* Eva, 24 November 1911, Theater an der Wien, Vienna
* Endlich allein, 30 January 1914, Theater an der Wien, Vienna
* Wo die Lerche singt, 1 February 1918, Royal Opera Budapest
* Die blaue Mazur, 28 May 1920, Theater an der Wien, Vienna
* Frasquita, 12 May 1922, Theater an der Wien, Vienna
* Paganini, 30 October 1925, Johann Strauß Theater Vienna
* Der Zarewitsch, 26 February 1926, Metropol Theater Berlin
* Friederike, 4 October 1928, Metropol Theater Berlin
* The Land of Smiles, 10 October 1929, Metropol Theater Berlin
* Schön ist die Welt, 3 December 1930, Metropol Theater Berlin
* Giuditta, 20 January 1934, Vienna State Opera


Ballet

Music from Die lustige Witwe ("The Merry Widow") was also used in The Merry Widow ballet, which was created and staged by Sir Robert Helpmann after he received permission from the Franz Lehár Estate to stage the ballet. The orchestration, from operetta score to ballet score, was arranged by John Lanchbery and Alan Abbot.

Films

The Merry Widow has also been made into a movie, most notably in 1925 with John Gilbert playing Danilo; and in 1934 a completely new version, with new music, appeared starring Maurice Chevalier.

Burt Young
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Burt Young (born Gerald Tommaso DeLouise on April 30, 1940) is an American actor.

Burly, talented character actor who has remained consistently busy playing "rough at the edge" type characters, often on the wrong side of the law. Young was known as "Jerry De Louise" before becoming an actor, in New York City, where he received his dramatic arts training under legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio.

Young first gathered notice playing tough thugs in such films as The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971), Across 110th Street (1972), Chinatown (1974) and The Gambler (1974). Fiery director Sam Peckinpah cast Young as the getaway driver/assassin, "Mac", in The Killer Elite (1975), and Young came to the attention of newcomer Sylvester Stallone, who cast him as future brother-in-law Paulie in the 1976 sleeper hit Rocky (1976).

The talented Young was nominated for an Oscar, and has gone on to reprise the role in all four "Rocky" sequels to date. Peckinpah re-hired him to play renegade trucker "Pigpen" in the moderately successful Convoy (1978) (watch for "Pigpen's" Mack truck where the writing on the door states "Paulie Hauling"!).

Young has also appeared in numerous other major productions, including Once Upon a Time in America (1984), The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989), Back to School (1986), Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) and The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Young

Bobby Vee
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Bobby Vee (born April 30, 1943) is an American pop music singer.

Born Robert Thomas Velline in Fargo, North Dakota, United States, his 1961 performance of the song "Take Good Care Of My Baby" went to No.1 on the Billboard U.S. charts and on the U.K. Charts. Known primarily as a performer of Brill Building pop-factory singles, Vee nevertheless became a bona fide star, and went on to record a string of international chart hits in the 1960s, including "Devil or Angel", "Run to Him", "Rubber Ball" and "The Night Has A Thousand Eyes". Bobby Vee also appeared in several of the Scopitone series of early film-and-music recordings. Vee is still active and touring as a performer as of spring 2005.


"The Day The Music Died"

Vee's career began amid tragedy. On "The Day the Music Died" (3 February 1959) -- the day Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson was killed in the crash of aircraft N3974N near Clear Lake, Iowa -- fifteen-year-old Velline and a scratched-together band of Fargo, North Dakota schoolboys calling themselves Bobby Vee and the Shadows volunteered for and were given the unenviable job of filling in for Holly and his band "The Crickets" in the lineup of the traveling "Winter Dance Party" rock and roll show in Moorhead, Minnesota in which Holly was to have performed. Their engagement there was a success, setting in motion a chain of events that led to Vee's career as a popular singer. Bobby Vee regularly performs at the Winter Dance Party memorial concerts in Clear Lake to this day.

Bobby Vee is a recipient of the state of North Dakota's Roughrider Award and his contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.

Lore

In the late 1950s, a musician named Elston Gunnn toured with Vee. He was soon asked to leave the band due to a lack of resources (money and a piano)[1][2][3]. Elston Gunnn was in fact Robert Zimmerman and would go on to have a career as a folksinger under the name Bob Dylan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Vee


Take Good Care Of My Baby :: Bobby Vee

My tears are falling 'cause you've taken her away
And though it really hurts me so, there's something that I've got to say

Take good care of my baby
Please don't ever make her blue
Just tell her that you love her
Make sure that your thinking of her
In everything that you say and do

Take good care of my baby
Now don't you ever make her cry
Just let your love surround her
Paint rainbows all around her
Don't let her see a clouded sky

Once upon a time
That little girl was mine
If I'd been true, I know she'd never be with you

So, Take good care of my baby
Be just as kind as you can be
And if you should discover
That you don't really love her
Just send my baby back home to me

Well, Take good care of my baby
Be just as kind as you can be
And if you should discover
That you don't really love her
Just send my baby back home to me

Ah, take good care of my baby
Well, take good care of my baby
Just, take good care of my baby
Oh, take good care of my baby

Jill Clayburgh
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Jill Clayburgh (born April 30, 1944) is an American actress of stage, motion pictures, and television.

Clayburgh was born in New York City to a Jewish family. She attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she decided that she wanted to be an actress. She later joined the Charles Street Repetory Theater in Boston. She appeared in numerous Broadway productions in the 1960s, including The Rothschilds and Pippin.

Her first major film role came in 1972 in Portnoy's Complaint. She was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Actress for 1978's An Unmarried Woman, for which she won the "Best Actress Award" at the Cannes Film Festival, and for 1979's Starting Over. She also received strong notices for her performance in I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can, costarring Geraldine Page.

Her other films include Gable And Lombard (where she played the screen legend Carole Lombard), Silver Streak, Semi-Tough, It's My Turn and First Monday in October.

Clayburgh received Emmy Award nominations for her work in the made-for-television movie Hustling in 1975 and for her guest appearance in the television series Nip/Tuck in 2005. Jill also starred in the made-for-television movie Crowned and Dangerous with Yasmine Bleeth in 1997.

She has been married to screenwriter and playwright David Rabe since 1979. They have two daughters, one of whom is actress Lily Rabe. Some years ago she publicly admitted to having had an abortion.

She is currently (March 2006) appearing on Broadway in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park with Patrick Wilson (actor) and Amanda Peet; she plays Peet's mother, a role originated by the late Mildred Natwick.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Clayburgh

Kirsten Dunst
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born
April 30, 1982
Point Pleasant, New Jersey, USA

Kirsten "Kiki" Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982) is an American actress of German and Swedish descent. Her first name is pronounced "KEER-sten" (IPA: 'kɪɹs.tn̩).


Personal life

Dunst was born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, to Klaus and Inez Dunst. Dunst's parents are separated; her father, Klaus Dunst, a German medical services executive, remained in New Jersey. Her mother, Inez Dunst, a Swedish former art gallery owner, moved to California. Dunst has a younger brother, Christian, born in 1986.


Dunst graduated from Notre Dame High School, a private Catholic high school in Sherman Oaks, in 2000.

Dunst started dating fellow actor Jake Gyllenhaal in September 2002, after meeting him through his sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal (her co-star in Mona Lisa Smile). They broke up in July 2004 and have been on-again, off-again since.


Career

Dunst began acting at the age of three in television commercials. In a 1988 episode of Saturday Night Live, she played the role of President George H.W. Bush's granddaughter, in a sketch in which Dana Carvey acted as President Bush. Years later, Dunst brought this to light when she hosted the show.

Dunst moved to the big screen in 1989's New York Stories. Soon after, she landed a small part in The Bonfire of the Vanities as Tom Hanks's daughter.

In 1993, Dunst played Hedril in the seventh season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation called "Dark Page".

Her breakthrough came in Interview with the Vampire, a 1994 film based on Anne Rice's novel starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas, and Christian Slater that was directed by Neil Jordan. This movie features a somewhat controversial scene in which Dunst, then aged eleven, had to kiss Brad Pitt, who was 29. Her most well-known performances to date have been in Jumanji, The Virgin Suicides, Bring It On, and as Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2.

Dunst won the 2002 Best Actress Silver Ombú at the Mar de Plata Film Festival for her performance as Charlie Chaplin's love interest Marion Davies in Peter Bogdanovich's The Cat's Meow.

Dunst made her singing debut in the 2001 film, Get Over It, performing two songs written by Marc Shaiman. She also lent her musical voice to the end credits of The Cat's Meow by singing the old standard, "After You've Gone."

More recently, Dunst has played the role of doomed 18th-century royal, Queen Marie Antoinette, in the forthcoming motion picture, titled Marie-Antoinette, which is scheduled for release in Autumn 2006. It is the third film directed by Sofia Coppola (the second to feature Dunst), and is based on British historian Lady Antonia Fraser's biography of Marie-Antoinette.

A new project has been announced on the life of peace activist Marla Ruzicka in which Dunst will play the title lead. Few details are available on the project at this time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsten_Dunst

Back in the old Wild West, there were two blonde cowpokes, Jeff and Dave.

One day, the two were enjoying a strong sarsaparilla in the local saloon, when a man walked into the bar with an Indian's head under his arm.

The barman shakes his hand and says, "I hate Indians; last week they burnt my barn to the ground, assaulted my wife and killed my children."

He then says, "If any man brings me the head of an Indian, I'll give him one thousand dollars."

The two blondes looked at each other and walked out of the bar to go hunting for an Indian. They were walking around for a while when suddenly they saw one; Jeff threw a rock which hit the Indian right on the head. The Indian fell off his horse, but landed seventy feet down a ravine.

The two nuts made their way down the ravine where Dave pulled out a knife to claim their trophy.

Suddenly, Jeff said, "Dave, take a look at this."

Dave replied, "Not now, I'm busy."

Jeff tugged him on the shoulder and says, "I really think you should look at this."

Dave said, "Look, you can see I'm busy. There's a thousand dollars in my hand."

But Jeff was adamant. "Please, Dave, take a look at this."

So Dave looked up and saw that standing at the top of the ravine were five thousand red Indians.

Dave just shook his head and said, "Oh... my... Gosh... we're going to be millionaires!"

Well, speak of the hawk and up he flies. Thanks, bio Bob, for the very interesting background on the celebs.

Why is it, listeners, that blondes are always classified as stupid? We loved your joke, however.

Now here's a lady that I simply can't recall



And it seems she starred in a play called A NAKED LADY ON THE APPLIAN WAY.

This is interesting...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4952646.stm

Hey, Rex. I just listened to Maria via Window's media player. I suppose that music has been used for years to seemingly conjure the devil. Think of the pipes of pan. I really don't know about the tritone, buddy.

My older sister pointed out that e.e.cummings' "In just spring." was really about pedophilia.

Odd that you should mention this today on our little radio, because I have been doing a bit of research on the ritual of May Day. Wow! what a differing background it has.

In England:


[The following song is sung by the Mayers at Hitchin in the county
of Herts.


Remember us poor Mayers all!
And thus do we begin
To lead our lives in righteousness,
Or else we die in sin.

We have been rambling all the night,
And almost all the day;
And now returned back again,
We have brought you a branch of May.

A branch of May we have brought you,
And at your door it stands;
It is but a sprout,
But it's well budded out
By the work of our Lord's hand.

The hedges and trees they are so green,
As green as any leek;
Our heavenly Father he watered them
With his heavenly dew so sweet.

The heavenly gates are open wide,
Our paths are beaten plain;
And if a man be not too far gone,
He may return again.

The life of man is but a span,
It flourishes like a flower;
We are here to-day, and gone to-morrow,
And we are dead in an hour.

The moon shines bright, and the stars give a light,
A little before it is day;
So God bless you all, both great and small,
And send you a joyful May!

Then, listeners, there is the question of "May Day" as a distress signal.

I just happen to know that one. It comes from the French m'aidez literally "help me".