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Good day all. This one's practically a manual on how to stalk someone.

I Wanna Come Over

Melissa Etheridge

I know you're home
you left your light on
you know I'm here
the night is thin
I know you're alone
I watched the car leave
your lover is gone
let me in

open your back door
I just need to touch you once more

I want to come over
to hell with the consequence
you told me you love me
that's all I believe
I want to come over
it's a need I can't explain
to see you again
I want to come over

I know your friend
you told her about me
she filled you with fear
some kind of sin
how can you turn
denying the fire
lover I burn
let me in

I know you're confused
I know that your shaken
you think we'll be lost
once we begin
I know you're weak
I know that you want me
lover don't speak
let me in

I want to come over
to hell with the consequence
you told me you love me
that's all I believe
I want to come over
it's a need I can't explain
to see you again
I want to come over

http://rexred.com/eric/music/I%20love%20you%20-%20Eric%20Pedersen.wmv


Here is a direct download of my video. (For slower connections).

Click "save as" and save it to your desktop. Once it is finished downloading then it will be playable.

Well there's our Raggedy. Ah, what a crush I had on Glenn Ford when I was a kid. Thanks, PA, and Judy Collins is not only a great vocalist, but lovely as well. I am eternally getting Judy and Joni mixed up. Need to attend to that.

and here's our tin swordsman back again. Hey, buddy; love your song, especially the "night is thin" Great!

Hey, Rex. Thanks for giving us slow loaders another chance. Will do, Maine. Hope I don't screw up.

If you are going to download it right click on the link and save target as: Make sure you note "where" it downloads to so you can find it again once it is done.

I was going to lower the quality and make a smaller file but the sound suffered too much it was recorded live as it was.

If you download it and can't find it private message me and I will help you locate it on your hard drive.

That's kind of you, Rex. We here in radio land appreciate all and any help since our equipment is complex.

Well, listeners. I need to check out some things, so I'll be back later.

Let's hear a song by Judy, listeners:

Done by Bob Dylan as well.


Oh, the gentlemen are talking and the midnight moon is on the riverside,
They're drinking up and walking and it is time for me to slide.
I live in another world where life and death are memorized,
Where the earth is strung with lovers' pearls and all I see are dark eyes.

A cock is crowing far away and another soldier's deep in prayer,
Some mother's child has gone astray, she can't find him anywhere.
But I can hear another drum beating for the dead that rise,
Whom nature's beast fears as they come and all I see are dark eyes.

They tell me to be discreet for all intended purposes,
They tell me revenge is sweet and from where they stand, I'm sure it is.
But I feel nothing for their game where beauty goes unrecognized,
All I feel is heat and flame and all I see are dark eyes.

Oh, the French girl, she's in paradise and a drunken man is at the wheel,
Hunger pays a heavy price to the falling gods of speed and steel.
Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies,
A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes.

Awesome, right?

Word for the day: picaresque.

Calamity Jane
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Martha Jane Canary-Burke, better known as Calamity Jane (May 1, 1852 (?) - August 1, 1903), was a frontierswoman most well known for her association with Wild Bill Hickok, after first gaining fame fighting Native Americans.


She was born Martha Jane Canary in Princeton, Missouri. Her mother died in 1866 and her father died in 1867 (in Utah). In 1870, she signed on as a scout with George Armstrong Custer, and adopted the uniform of a soldier. It is unclear whether she was actually enlisted in the U.S. Army at the time. She was involved with a number of campaigns in the long-running military conflicts with Native Americans. In 1872, she acquired the nickname "Calamity Jane," by rescuing her superior, Captain Egan, from an ambush near Sheridan, Wyoming. Calamity Jane accompanied the Newton-Jenney Party into the Black Hills in 1875, along with California Joe and Valentine McGillycuddy.

In 1876, she settled in the area of Deadwood, South Dakota, in the Black Hills region where she was close friends with Wild Bill Hickok and Charlie Utter, all having traveled in Utter's wagon train. She later claimed to have been married to Hickok at some time prior to Hickok's death in 1876, and that Hickok was the father of her child (born September 25, 1873, and later placed for adoption); however, this story is viewed with skepticism, Hickok having been newly married at the time and by all accounts completely infatuated with his wife. In 1876, Jane nursed the victims of a smallpox epidemic in the Deadwood area.

In 1884, Jane moved to El Paso, Texas, where she met Clinton Burke; they soon married in August 1885 and had a daughter in 1887. The marriage, however, did not last, and by 1895 they were officially separated.

In 1896, Jane began touring with Wild West shows, which she continued to do for the rest of her life. Jane died from complications of pneumonia in 1903. In accordance with her dying wish, Calamity Jane is buried next to Wild Bill Hickok in Mount Moriah Cemetery, overlooking the city of Deadwood.

Several films have been made about the life of Calamity Jane, the most famous being the musical of the same name starring Doris Day. The TV series Deadwood gives a more realistic and unglamorous - albeit still flawed - depiction of Jane.

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

Kate Smith
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Kathryn Elizabeth Smith (May 1, 1907 - June 17, 1986) was a Washington, D.C.-born singer best known for her rendition of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America". She greeted audiences with Hello, everybody! and signed off with Thanks for listenin'. She was one of America's most beloved entertainers, with a radio, TV and recording career that spanned five decades.

Her musical career began in earnest when she was discovered in 1930 by Columbia Records vice president Ted Collins, who became her longtime partner and manager and who put her on the radio in 1931. She sang the controversial top twenty song of 1931, "That's Why Darkies Were Born". She starred in the 1932 movie Hello Everybody!, with co-stars Randolph Scott and Sally Blane, and in 1943 she sang "God Bless America" in the wartime picture This is the Army. Irving Berlin had written the song in 1938 for her, and it is considered "the second National Anthem". Its popularity and constant airplay led Woody Guthrie to pen the original version of "This Land Is Your Land" in protest at the Berlin tune's unquestioning complacency.

Kate began making records in 1926; among her biggest hits were "River, Stay 'Way From My Door" (1931), "The Woodpecker Song" (1940), "The White Cliffs of Dover" (1941), "Rose O'Day" (1941), "I Don't Want to Walk Without You" (1942), "There Goes That Song Again" (1944), "Seems Like Old Times" (1946), and "Now Is the Hour" (1947). Her theme song was "When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain", the lyrics of which she helped write. Her overweight figure was the occasional butt of derision from fellow performers and managers.

She had a successful radio career with several of her own shows, the last ending in 1960. Abbott and Costello and Henny Youngman received their big breaks on The Kate Smith Variety Hour.

An unusual part of her career began on December 11, 1969, when the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team played her rendition of "God Bless America" before the game. Philadelphia beat the Toronto Maple Leafs, 6-3. The team would begin to play the song before home games every once in a while, and the perception developed that the team was more successful on these occasions, so the tradition grew. The Flyers had an incredible record of 68 wins, 17 losses and 3 ties when Kate Smith sung "God Bless America".

On October 11, 1973, she made a surprise appearance at the Flyers' home opener to perform the song in person, and received a tremendous reception. She again performed the song prior to the May 1974 game in which the Flyers clinched the Stanley Cup against Boston, and would do so on later occasions as well. Although viewed as a good luck charm to the team, there were a few losses along the way. The Flyers record when "God Bless America" was either played or sung in person was 68 wins, 17 losses, and 3 ties. Regardless of wins and losses, Ms. Smith and her song remain a special part of Flyers history. In 1987, the team erected a statue of Smith outside their arena at the time, the Wachovia Spectrum, in her memory.

In 1982, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan.

Kate Smith died of diabetes at the age of 79 in Raleigh, North Carolina, several years after converting to Roman Catholicism.

She never married.

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

God Bless America
Words and music by Irving Berlin
© Copyright 1938, 1939 by Irving Berlin
© Copyright Renewed 1965, 1966 by Irving Berlin
© Copyright Assigned to the Trustees of the God Bless America Fund
International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved.
Used by Permission


"While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,
Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,
Let us all be grateful for a land so fair,
As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer. "

God Bless America,
Land that I love.
Stand beside her, and guide her
Thru the night with a light from above.
From the mountains, to the prairies,
To the oceans, white with foam
God bless America, My home sweet home.

Here, Letty. Maybe these will help.

Judy Blue-Eyes....(2005)
(her thick, glamorous hair was dark "back in the days" but I love it white now)
Best known for "Clouds"..."Send in the Clowns"


Joni Mitchell....(2004)
(she's always had straight blonde hair...and has aged better than anyone expected)
Best known for "Big Yellow Taxi"

Glenn Ford
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Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford (born May 1, 1916), better known by his stage name Glenn Ford, is an actor. He was born in Portneuf, Quebec, Canada and moved to Santa Monica, California with his family as a child. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1939.

Ford is best known for his film roles as cowboys and as an ordinary man in unusual circumstances. His acting career began on stage, and his first large movie part was in 1939 film Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence.

In 1942, Ford's film career was interrupted when he volunteered for duty in World War II with the U.S. Marine Corps. His interest in the military continued as, during both the Korean War and the Vietnam War, Ford took the time to make goodwill visits to the American troops.

Following military service, Ford's breakthrough role was in 1946, starring alongside Rita Hayworth in Gilda. He went on to be a leading man opposite Rita Hayworth in five films, and starred with other acting greats such as Bette Davis, Gloria Grahame, Ingrid Thulin.

Ford's movie-acting career flourished in the 1950s and 60s, and continued into the early 1990s, with increasing television roles. His major roles in thrillers and dramas and action films include A Stolen Life, The Big Heat, Framed, Blackboard Jungle, Interrupted Melody, Experiment in Terror, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Ransom!, Superman and Westerns such as The Fastest Gun Alive, 3:10 to Yuma and Cimarron.

Ford has been married (and divorced) four times to Eleanor Powell, Jeanne Baus, Kathryn Hays and Cynthia Hayward. With Eleanor Powell, he is the father of actor Peter Ford.

After being nominated in 1957 and 1958, in 1962 Glenn Ford won a Golden Globe Award as best actor for his performance in Frank Capra's Pocketful of Miracles. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Glenn Ford has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6933 Hollywood Blvd. In 1978, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In 1992 he was awarded the Legion d'Honneur medal for his action in the Second World War.

As of 2005, Ford was living in quiet retirement in Beverly Hills with his son's family. Peter Ford is currently working with Christopher Nickens on a biography of his father.

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

Danielle Darrieux
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Danielle Darrieux (born May 1, 1917) is a French singer and actress.

Born Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux in Bordeaux, France, Darrieux was the daughter of a medical doctor who was at the time serving with the French Army during World War I but who later died unexpectedly when she was seven years old. Raised in the city of Paris she had a good singing voice and was musically gifted, studying the cello at the "Conservatoire de musique". At age 13, she auditioned for the role of a young girl in the musical film Le Bal and earned the part. Her youthful beauty combined with her singing and dancing ability in the 1931 film immediately led to numerous other film offers and she went on to a hugely successful and enduring career.

In 1935, Darrieux married director/screenwriter, Henri Decoin, who, after she had made more than two dozen successful films in France, encouraged her to try Hollywood. Offered numerous scripts, in 1938 she accepted a lucrative offer from Universal Studios to star opposite Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in the sophisticated comedy The Rage of Paris. Although the film was well received by audiences and critics, World War II briefly interrupted her career. Under the German occupation of France she continued to perform, a decision that was severely criticized by her compatriots, ignoring at the time that Craven, manager of the German Continental, intimidated her by hinting about her brother's possible deportation to Germany.

After her divorce from Decoin she fell in love with Porfirio Rubirosa, a Dominican Republic diplomat posted in Paris. Rubirosa was a notorious womanizer and a lover, well in demand for the generous gifts endowed to him at birth. They married in 1942. Rubirosa's anti-Nazi opinions resulted in his forced residence in Germany in under-house arrest. Darrieux then accepted, with several other actresses, a promotional trip in Berlin in exchange for Rubirosa's liberation. Soon after they escaped Germany, and lived in Switzerland until the end of the war.

The less than happy marriage ended within 5 years, and they officially divorced in 1947. Rubirosa immediately married the American tobacco heiress, Doris Duke, and Darrieux married George Mitsikides, a script-writer of Greek descent, and lived with him until his death in 1991.

After the end of World War II, Darrieux kept her successful career going and eventually accepted another offer to appear in a Hollywood production. Once again she received very positive reviews for her performance in the 1951 MGM musical, Rich, Young and Pretty. Although she at once returned to her native France, the following year director Joseph L. Mankiewicz lured her back to Hollywood to star opposite James Mason in the acclaimed 1952 spy thriller 5 Fingers. Back home, she appeared in the 1954 French drama Le Rouge et le noir opposite Gérard Philipe, one of the country's biggest box office draws. The next year she starred as Lady Constance Chatterly in L'Amant de lady Chatterley (Lady Chatterly's Lover). Based on the D.H. Lawrence novel and the play by Philippe de Rothschild, it was adapted for the screen by co-writer and director, Marc Allégret, but due to its sexual content, both the book and the film were banned by the Catholic censors in the United States.

Approaching the age of forty, she returned to Hollywood for a supporting role in United Artists' 1956 big budget epic Alexander the Great starring Richard Burton and Claire Bloom. Despite a strong cast and a competent director, the film was a critical and box office failure, and it was the last English-language film she would make in America. However, in 1961 she went to England at the request of director Lewis Gilbert to star opposite Kenneth More in The Greengage Summer.

Successfully adapting to age, and a recognizable talent throughout Europe, she also made films in Germany, Italy, Spain, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Throughout her career, her singing voice proved a positive and during the 1960s she sang at concerts and did recordings for a French record label.

Although primarily a film actress, Darrieux appeared on the stage and in 1970, she replaced Katharine Hepburn in the Broadway musical, Coco, which was based on the life of another Frenchwoman, Coco Chanel, but the show did not last very long after Hepburn's departure. All during the 1970s and through to the 21st century, Danielle Darrieux has continued to act in a remarkable career spanning eight decades.

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

Good morning listeners.

Queen:
We Will Rock You - Lyrics
Words and music by Brian May

Buddy you're a boy make a big noise
Playin' in the street gonna be a big man some day
You got mud on yo' face
You big disgrace
Kickin' your can all over the place
Singin'

'We will we will rock you
We will we will rock you'

Buddy you're a young man hard man
Shoutin' in the street gonna take on the world some day
You got blood on yo' face
You big disgrace
Wavin' your banner all over the place

'We will we will rock you'
Singin'
'We will we will rock you'

Buddy you're an old man poor man
Pleadin' with your eyes gonna make you some peace some day
You got mud on your face
You big disgrace
Somebody better put you back into your place

'We will we will rock you'
Singin'
'We will we will rock you'
Everybody
'We will we will rock you'
'We will we will rock you'
Alright

Joseph Heller
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Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 - December 12, 1999) was an American satirist best remembered for writing the satiric World War II classic Catch-22. The literary devices established in this first novel continued in his other books. The book was partly based on Heller's own experiences and influenced among others Robert Altman's comedy M*A*S*H, and the subsequent long-running TV series, set in the Korean War. The phrase "Catch-22" has entered the English language to signify a no-win situation, particularly one created by a law, regulation or circumstance.


Biography

(1922-1960) Early life and pre-Catch-22 occupations

Heller was born in Brooklyn, New York, as the son of poor Jewish parents. His Russian-born father, Isaac Heller, who was a bakery truck driver, died in 1927 because of a botched ulcer operation. After graduating from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1941, Heller joined the Twelfth Air Force. He was stationed in Corsica, where he flew 60 combat missions as a B-25 bombardier. In 1949 Heller received his M.A. from Columbia University. He was a Fulbright scholar at Oxford University in 1949-1950. Heller taught english composition for two years at Pennsylvania State University (1950-52), before moving on to become a copywriter for the magazines Time (1952-1956) and Look (1956-1958), and promotion manager for McCall's. He left McCall's in 1961 to teach fiction and dramatic writing at Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania.

(1961-1970) Catch-22

"All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives. There was no end in sight." (from Catch-22)

Heller sold his first stories as a student. They were published in such magazines as Atlantic Monthly and Esquire. In the early 1950s he started working on Catch-22. At that time Heller was employed as a copywriter at a small advertising agency. Most of the book he wrote in the foyer of a West End Avenue apartment. "As I've said and repeat, I wrote the first chapter in longhand one morning in 1953, hunched over my desk at the advertising agency (from ideas and words that had leaped into my mind only the night before); the chapter was published in the quarterly New World Writing #7 in 1955 under the title 'Catch-18'. (I received twenty-five dollars. The same issue carried a chapter from Jack Kerouac's On the Road, under a pseudonym.)" (from Now and Then, 1998) The novel went largely unnoticed until 1962, when its English publication received critical praise. And in The New York World-Telegram Richard Starnes opened his column with the prophetic words: "Yossarian will, I think, live a very long time." An earlier reviewer called the book "repetitious and monotonous", and another "dazzling performance that will outrage nearly as many readers as it delights."

Catch-22 was originally written (and scheduled for publication) as Catch-18, in which the bomber crews were required to fly a minimum of 18 missions, rather than 22. Just before the scheduled publication date of Heller's novel, another publisher brought out Leon Uris's novel Mila 18, unrelated to Heller's work but also with a military theme. Heller's novel was hastily retitled (or renumbered), with the characters' military requirements increased to 22 missions.

Catch-22 was not a success when first published, but a few months later S. J. Perelman praised the book in an interview; soon afterward, sales figures took off, and this novel has enjoyed steady sales ever since. Mike Nichols's movie version of the novel from 1970 is considered disappointing. Nichols emphasized the absurdity of war, and as Heller, he rejected American militarism. Orson Welles, who also was interested in filming the book, was in the role of General Dreedle. After writing Catch-22, Heller worked on several Hollywood screenplays, such as Sex and the Single Girl, Casino Royale, and Dirty Dingus Magee, and contributed to the TV show "McHale's Navy" under the pseudonym Max Orange. In the 1960s Heller was involved with the anti-Vietnam war protest movement.

Catch 22 Controversy

In April 1998, Lewis Pollock wrote to The Sunday Times asking for clarification as to "the amazing similarity of characters, personality traits, eccentricities, physical descriptions, personnel injuries and incidents" in Catch 22 and a novel, published in England in 1951. The book that spawned the request was written by Louis Falstein titled The Sky is a Lonely Place in Britain and Face of a Hero in the United States. Falstein's novel was available two years before Heller wrote the first chapter of Catch 22 (1953) while he was student at Oxford. The Times stated "Both have central characters who are using their wits to escape the aerial carnage; both are haunted by an omnipresent injured airman, invisible inside a white body cast", Heller in The Washington Post stated "My book came out in 1961[;] I find it funny that nobody else has noticed any similarities, including Falstein himself, who died just last year." (April 27, 1998)

Other works (1974-2000)

Heller waited 13 years before publishing his next novel - the darker and sombre Something Happened (1974). It portrayed a corporation man Bob Slocum, who suffers from insomnia and almost smells the disaster mounting toward him. Slocum's life is undramatic, but he feels that his happiness is threatened by unknown forces. "When an ambulance comes, I'd rather not know for whom." He does not share Yossarian's rebelliousness, but he acts cynically as a "wolf among a pack of wolves". Heller's play-within-a-play, We Bombed in New Haven (1968), was written in part to express his protest against the Vietnam war. It was produced on Broadway and ran for 86 performances. Catch-22 has also been dramatized. It was first performed at the John Drew Theater in East Hampton, New York, July 13, 1971.

Heller's later works include Good As Gold (1979), where the protagonist Bruce Gold tries to regain the Jewishness he has lost. Readers hailed the work as a return to puns and verbal games familiar from Heller's first novel. God Knows (1984) was a modern version of the story of King David and an allegory of what it is like for a Jew to survive in a hostile world. David has decided that he has been given one of the best parts of the Bible. "I have suicide, regicide, patricide, homicide, fratricide, infanticide, adultery, incest, hanging, and more decapitations than just Saul's."

No Laughing Matter (1986), written with Speed Vogel, was a surprisingly cheerful account of Heller's experience as a victim of Guillain-Barré syndrome. During his recuperation Heller was visited among others by Mario Puzo, Dustin Hoffman and Mel Brooks. His next book (1988) was the satirical and experimental historical fiction Picture This. In 1994, he returned with Closing Time - a sequel to Catch-22, depicting the current lives of its heroes. Yossarian is now 40 years older and as preoccupied with death as in the earlier novel. "Thank God for the atom bomb," says Yossarian. Now And Then (1998) is Heller's autobiographical work, evocation of his boyhood home, Brooklyn's Coney Island in the 1920s and 1930s. "It has struck me since - it couldn't have done so then - that in Catch-22 and in all my subsequent novels, and also in my one play, the resolution at the end of what narrative there is evolves from the death of someone other than the main character." (from Now and Then).

Heller had two children by his first marriage. His divorce was recounted in No Laughing Matter. In 1989 Heller married Valerie Humphries, a nurse he met while ill. Heller died of a heart attack at his home on Long Island on December 13, 1999. His last novel, Portrait Of The Artist As An Old Man, (2000) published posthumously, was about a successful novelist who seeks an inspiration for his book. "A lifetime of experience had trained him never to toss away a page he had written, no matter how clumsy, until he had gone over it again for improvement, or had at least stored it in a folder for safekeeping or recorded the words on his computer." (from Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man).

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

Joan Hackett
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Joan Hackett (May 1, 1934 - October 8, 1983) was an American-born actress of Irish and Italian extraction, who appeared on stage, in films, and on television.

Born in New York City, her immigrant parents raised her Roman Catholic and sent her to Catholic schools, which she did not always attend punctually.

Hackett debuted with the role of Gail Prentiss in the TV series Young Dr. Malone in 1959. She had a leading role in the Twilight Zone episode A Piano in the House (1962). She had one of the starring roles in the 1966 Sidney Lumet film The Group along with Candice Bergen, Larry Hagman, Richard Mulligan, Joanna Pettet, and others.

One of the roles she's best remembered for, perhaps, is the role of Catherine Allen in the western Will Penny (1968) with Charlton Heston. Hackett also has a notable part in the classic Western comedy Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) with James Garner. After this she primarily had parts in TV movies and on episodes of TV series.

Hackett won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1981 movie Only When I Laugh, the last movie she made before her death.

From 1965 to 1973 she was married to the late actor Richard Mulligan, who also appeared in the movie The Group.

Joan Hackett lost her battle against ovarian cancer at Encino Hospital in California in 1983 at the age of 49. Both of her parents had also died of cancer.

She is interred in a crypt in the Mausoleum in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California. Her crypt marker carries an epitaph relating to her love of "beauty" sleep, admonishing visitors to "Go Away - I'm Asleep."

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

Judy Collins
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Judith Marjorie Collins (born May 1, 1939 in Seattle, Washington) is an American folk and standards singer.


Biography

As a child Collins studied classical piano with Antonia Brico, making her public debut at age 13 performing Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianos.

However, it was the music of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, and the traditional songs of the folk revival of the early 1960s, that piqued Collins' interest and awoke in her a love of lyrics. Three years after her debut as a piano prodigy, she was playing guitar. She eventually made her way to Greenwich Village, New York City, where she played in clubs until she signed with Elektra Records, a record label with which she was associated for 35 years. In 1961, Collins released her first album, A Maid of Constant Sorrow, at the age of 22.

At first she sang traditional folk songs, or songs written by others, in particular the social poets of the time, such as Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, and Bob Dylan. She recorded her own versions of seminal songs of the period, such as Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" and Pete Seeger's "Turn, Turn, Turn". Collins was also instrumental in bringing then little known composers to a wider public; for example, she recorded songs by Canadian poet Leonard Cohen, and Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell.

With her 1967 album Wildflowers, she began to record her own compositions, the first of which was entitled "Since You've Asked". This album also provided Collins with a major hit, and a Grammy award, with her version of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now", which reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100.

1968's Who Knows Where the Time Goes was produced by Stephen Stills (of Crosby, Stills & Nash), with whom Collins was romantically involved at the time (she is the "Judy" of the Stills-written CSN classic "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"). It had a mellow country sound, and included Ian Tyson's "Someday Soon" and the title track, a Sandy Denny song which has been covered by several artists.

By the 1970s, Collins had a solid reputation as an art song singer and folksinger. She had also begun to stand out with her own compositions. She was also known for her broad range of material: her songs from this period include the traditional gospel song "Amazing Grace", the Stephen Sondheim Broadway ballad "Send in the Clowns" (both of which were top 20 hits as singles), and her own compositions such as "My Father" and "Born to the Breed".

In more recent years, Collins has taken to writing, producing a memoir, "Trust Your Heart" in 1987, and two novels. Though her record sales are not what they once were, she still records and tours. One of her more recent albums is a collection of songs based on her novel Shameless. She performed at US President Bill Clinton's first inauguration in 1993, singing "Amazing Grace" and "Chelsea Morning". (The Clintons have stated that their daughter Chelsea was named after Collins' recording of the Joni Mitchell song.)

Activism

Like other folk singers of her generation, Collins was drawn to social activism. She is a representative for UNICEF and campaigns on behalf of the abolition of landmines. Following the 1992 death of her son Clark Taylor at age 33 after a long bout with depression and substance abuse, she has also become a strong advocate of suicide prevention. Her 2003 book, Sanity & Grace, chronicles her recovery from her son's suicide and attempts to provide some comfort and guidance to other families dealing with the loss of a loved one to suicide. She describes the "Seven T's" as a means for going through this process of recovery: Truth, Therapy, Trust, Try, Treat, Treasure, and Thrive. The Truth is that there should be no guilt in suicide; Therapy helps people express their emotions and seek grief counseling; Trust is the effort to believe that one can make it through the loss and keep a belief in life and in the future; Try means to stay away from drugs and alcohol or any excess--including overeating--as a means to deal with the loss and pain; Treat means to take care of the mind, body, and spirit with exercise and meditation; Treasure means to keep the memory of the moments to be treasured, and for this Collins recommends writing and keeping a journal; and Thrive means to be positive, hopeful, open to love and others, and continuing to know that you can rebuild your life on a basis of hope.

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


Send In The Clowns :: Judy Collins

Isn't it rich?
Are we a pair?
Me here at last on the ground,
You in mid-air..
Where are the clowns?

Isn't it bliss?
Don't you approve?
One who keeps tearing around,
One who can't move...
Where are the clowns?
Send in the clowns.

Tim McGraw
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Tim McGraw (born Samuel Timothy Smith in Delhi, Louisiana on May 1, 1967) is a country music singer who has achieved many number one singles on the country charts, six multi-platinum albums and sales of over 25 million albums. He is married to country singer Faith Hill and is the son of baseball player Tug McGraw. His trademark hit songs include "Don't Take the Girl", "Down on the Farm", "I Like It, I Love It", "It's Your Love" (featuring wife Faith Hill), and "Live Like You Were Dying".


1990s

He signed with Curb Records in 1990 but it wasn't until 1992 that he had his first minor hit "Welcome to the Club" off his self-titled debut album, which failed to make much of a dent on the charts. He achieved a couple of minor hits, "Memory Lane" and "Two Steppin Mind", off the same album in 1993.

The second album Not a Moment Too Soon went on to become the best selling country album in 1994. The first single, "Indian Outlaw", written by John D. Loudermilk, caused considerable controversy as critics argued that it presented Native Americans in a patronizing way. Some radio stations refused to play it, but among some Indian tribes, the song was popular; it went to the top of the playlist at the clear channel KTNN, the radio voice of the Navajo Nation. The controversy helped spur sales and the song became McGraw's first top ten country single as well as reaching the top 20 on the pop charts.

The second single, the ballad "Don't Take the Girl", reached the top of the country charts as did the title track in 1995. "Down on the Farm" reached number two and "Refried Dreams" reached the top 5. The album sold over 5 million copies, topping the Billboard 200 as well as the country album charts. He won Academy of Country Music awards for Album of the Year and Top New Male Vocalist in 1994.

All I Want, released in 1995, continued his run of success debuting at number one on the country charts. The album sold over two million copies and reached top 5 on the Billboard 200. "I Like It, I Love It" reached number one on the country charts as the leadoff single, while "She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart" also went to number one in 1996. "Can't Really Be Gone", "All I Want is a Life", and "Maybe We Should Just Sleep On It" were all top 5 hits.

In 1996, Tim McGraw travelled America on the Spontaneous Combustion Tour, which was the most successful country tour of that year. Faith Hill was his supporting act and the title of the tour turned out to be prophetic as the singers married late in the year. The couple have had three daughters: Gracie Katherine born May 5, 1997, Maggie Elizabeth born August 12, 1998 and Audrey Caroline born December 6, 2001.

Tim McGraw's happy family life is in contrast with his father who had a reputation as a hell raiser. Tug McGraw once famously said: "Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women, and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste."

Tim McGraw also produced the first three albums by Jo Dee Messina, along with long-time associate Byron Gallimore.

Everywhere continued his golden run topping the country charts and reaching number two on the album charts in 1997. The album sold 4 million copies. The first single "It's Your Love", a duet with Faith Hill, reached number one on the country charts, reached the top ten in the pop charts and became the most played single in the history of the Billboard country charts. Five more singles "Everywhere", "Where the Green Grass Grows", "One of These Days", "For a Little While", and "Just to See You Smile" reached the top of the country charts from the album, with the last of these setting a new record by spending 42 weeks on the Billboard charts. The Country Music Association awarded Everywhere its Album of the Year award for 1997.

A Place in the Sun in 1999 was another huge hit topping the US pop and country album charts and selling three million albums. It featured another four chart topping singles on the country charts including "Please Remember Me" with Patty Loveless, "Something Like That", "My Best Friend", and "My Next Thirty Years". During Summer 1999, Tim McGraw toured the US with the Dixie Chicks as the support artist as well as appearing as the headline artist at the George Strait Country Music Festival.

Faith Hill's career was also going well. Another duet between the pair, "Just to Hear You Say You Love Me" off her multi-platinum 1998 album Faith, reached the top five of the US country charts. Her follow-up and even more successful 1999 album Breathe featured another duet between the couple called "Let's Make Love", which would win a Grammy Award in 2000 for Best Country Vocal Collaboration.

By the end of 1999, Tim McGraw had supplanted Garth Brooks as the most popular country male singer in the nation, while Faith Hill was one of the most popular female country singers along with Shania Twain.

2000s

In 2000, McGraw released his Greatest Hits album which again topped the charts for nine weeks. On tour he and opening act Kenny Chesney got involved in a scuffle with police officers when Chesney attempted to ride one of their horses; McGraw was later cleared of any charges. In the latter half of 2000, he and Hill went out on the Soul 2 Soul 2000 Tour, playing to sellout crowds in 64 venues including Madison Square Garden. It was one of the top tours of any genre in the US and the leading country tour during 2000.

Set This Circus Down was released in 2001 and spawned four number one country hits - "Grown Men Don't Cry", "Angry All the Time", "The Cowboy in Me", and "Unbroken". A duet with Jo Dee Messina entitled "Bring on the Rain" also topped the country charts. "Things Change" made the history as the first country song to chart from a downloaded version following his performance of the song at the CMA Awards show.

In 2002, Tim McGraw bucked country music traditions by recording his album Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors with his tour band The Dancehall Doctors in the Catskill Mountains. Unlike rock music, where it is commonplace for touring bands such as the E Street Band or Crazy Horse to play on albums with the artist they support, country albums are normally recorded with session musicians. McGraw stated on his web site that he felt he owed this to the musicians who had been an integral part of his success and to capture some of the feel of a real band. All of the Dancehall Doctors had been with McGraw since at least 1996. They include:

* Darran Smith - lead guitar;
* Denny Hemingson - steel guitar;
* Bob Minner - acoustic guitar;
* John Marcus - bass guitar;
* Dean Brown - fiddler;
* Jeff McMahon - keyboards;
* Billy Mason - drums; and
* David Dunkley - percussion.

Tim McGraw and the Dance Hall Doctors was released on November 26, 2002 and reached number 2 on the country charts, with "Real Good Man" reaching number one. "She's My Kind of Rain" reached number 2 in 2003 and "Red Rag Top" reached the top 5. The album also featured a cover version of Elton John's early 1970s classic "Tiny Dancer", as well as appearances by Kim Carnes on "Comfort Me" - a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks - and Don Henley and Timothy B. Schmit of the Eagles on "Illegal".

McGraw's 2004 album Live Like You Were Dying continued his record of commercial success. The title track was a soaring ode to living life fully and in the moment, while the second single "Back When" was a paean to an easy nostalgia.

In late 2004, his unlikely duet with rapper Nelly on "Over and Over", a soft ballad of lost love, became a crossover hit. [1] "Over and Over" brought McGraw a success he had never previously experienced on contemporary hit radio, and brought both artists success neither had previously experienced in the hot adult contemporary market. The song also spent a week at the top of the UK single charts, and was McGraw's first visit to the UK hit countdown.

In a 2004 interview, McGraw said he would like to run for public office in the future, possibly for Senate in his home state of Tennessee. In the same interview, he praised former President Bill Clinton, a somewhat unusual stance in the traditionally conservative country music industry: "I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg - everything."

In early 2006, McGraw reaffirmed his plans for running for public office, saying that he would like to run for Governor of Tennessee about 10 years down the road. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

McGraw also participated in the Live 8: The Long Walk to Justice concert series, performing along with Faith Hill at the Rome, Italy concert on July 2, 2005 as part of the effort to get G8 leaders to address the humanitarian crises in Africa. McGraw's performance of "Live Like You Were Dying" was one of the most re-played performances in Live 8 television recaps.

Throughout the 2005 NFL season McGraw sang an alternate version of "I Like It, I Love It" every week during the season. The alternate lyrics, which would be different each week, would make reference to plays during Sunday's games and the song would be played along video highlights during halftime on Monday Night Football.

In 2006 Tim McGraw and Faith Hill announced plans for an April start to a 70+ concert tour called Soul2Soul II 2006. Soul2Soul II will feature the songs that have become synonymous with Tim and Faith's careers over the past decade. Along with some never before seen musical performances and what insiders are calling one of the most unique set designs ever made, the latest in visual technology and lighting design, Soul2Soul II Tour will include many of Tim and Faith's biggest hits and duets. Soul2Soul II is expected to be the #1 concert tour of summer 2006.

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You Don't Love Me Anymore :: TIM MCGRAW

She walks over to him and she says "do you remember me?"
I think we might have met somewhere before
Southern Carolina is the place that comes to mind
But Hey, I guess you never really can be sure
Oh there's nothing like a true love
To go and make a fool of someone just like before
And right there for a minute
I forgot that you don't love me anymore

Then an old familiar feeling
Wraps its arms around the moment
And he says so many times I've tried to call
Well you think you'd spent a lifetime
It's been two years since I've seen you
But it seems like no times gone by at all There was nothing like a real love To give you back the feel of someone just like
before And right there for a minute
I forgot that you don't love me anymore

Oh and how far we'll travel
For a place to heal our hearts
We watched it unravel
So why's tonight the hardest part

Then he says the weather's changin
And it's icing up the highway
So I guess it's time for me to hit the road
So she says goodbye and then before she knows what she is saying
she says I wish that you didn't have to go

Oh there's nothing like a true love
To go and make a fool of someone just like before
And right there for a minute
I forgot that you don't love me anymore

And right there for a minute
I forgot that you don't love me anymore

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