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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Sat 13 May, 2006 06:26 am
Stevie Wonder
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born: May 13, 1950
Saginaw, Michigan
Occupation: singer, songwriter, producer, musician and humanitarian

Stevie Wonder (born May 13, 1950 as Stevland Judkins, later changed to Stevland Morris[1]) is an American singer, songwriter, producer, musician, humanitarian and social activist. Wonder has recorded more than 30 Top 10 hits, won 21 Grammy Awards [1] (a record for a living artist), also one for lifetime achievement, and been inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters halls of fame.

Blind from infancy, Wonder has become one of the most successful and well-known artists on the Motown label, with nine U.S. #1 hits to his name and album sales totaling more than 100 million units. He has recorded several critically acclaimed albums and hit singles, and writes and produces songs for many of his labelmates and outside artists as well. A multi-instrumentalist, Wonder plays the drums, bass guitar, congas, and most famously the piano, harmonica and keyboards. Many critics refer to the quality of his work and its versatility as being indicative of musical genius.


Early life

Stevland Judkins (later changed to Stevland Morris) was born prematurely in Saginaw, Michigan. Common belief is that he became blind after being exposed to excessive oxygen levels in his incubator, but the oxygen saved his life. The actual cause was premature development of his eye, causing the blood vessels to detach from the retina. He learned to play a number of instruments, most notably the piano, congas, and harmonica, at an early age.

Early career, 1962-1971


In 1962, at the age of eleven, Morris was brought to Motown by Ronnie White of The Miracles, and Berry Gordy signed Morris to Motown's Tamla label as Little Stevie Wonder.

At the age of 13, Little Stevie Wonder had his first major hit, "Fingertips (Pt. 2)", a 1963 single taken from a live recording of a Motortown Revue performance. The song, featuring Wonder on vocals, congas, and harmonica, and a young Marvin Gaye on drums, was a #1 hit on the US pop charts and launched him into the public consciousness. Dropping the "Little" from his moniker, Wonder went on to have a number of other hits during the mid-1960s, including "Uptight (Everything's Alright)", "With a Child's Heart", and "Blowin' In The Wind", a Bob Dylan cover which was one of the first songs to reflect Wonder's social consciousness. He also began to work in the Motown songwriting department, composing songs both for himself and his labelmates.

By 1970, Wonder had scored more major hits, including "I Was Made To Love Her", "For Once In My Life", "My Cherie Amour", and "Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)". Besides being one of the first songs on which Wonder serves as both songwriter and producer, "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" is one of the main showcases for his backup group Wonderlove, a trio which included at various times Minnie Riperton, Deniece Williams, Lynda Laurence, and Syreeta Wright, whom Wonder married on September 14, 1970. Wonder and Wright divorced eighteen months later, but they continued to collaborate on musical projects.

Besides Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder was one of the few Motown stars to contest the label's factory-like operation methods: artists, songwriters, and producers were usually kept in specialized collectives with little or no overlap, and artists had no creative control. Wonder argued with Berry Gordy over creative control a number of times. As a compromise, Motown released an album of under the name "Eivets Rednow" (Stevie Wonder backwards). Arguments continued and, Wonder allowed his Motown contract to expire, and he left the label on his twenty-first birthday in 1971. His final album before his departure was Where I'm Coming From, which Gordy had strongly fought against releasing.


Classic period, 1972-1976

Wonder independently recorded and released two albums, which he used as a bargaining tool while negotiating with Motown. Eventually, the label agreed to his demands for full creative control and the rights to his own songs, and Wonder returned to Motown in March 1972 with Music of My Mind, an album which is considered a classic of the era. Unlike most previous artist LPs on Motown, which usually consisted of a collection of singles, b-sides, and covers, Music of My Mind was an actual LP, a full-length artistic statement, and began a string of five albums released over a period of less than five years, that make up what is generally considered Stevie Wonder's classic period.

October 1972's Talking Book featured the #1 pop and R&B hit "Superstition", which is one of the most distinctive examples of the sound of the clavinet. Featuring a rocking groove that was partly inspired by and then covered by rock guitarist Jeff Beck, "Superstition" gained Wonder an additional audience on rock radio stations. That audience was further exposed to Wonder when he opened for The Rolling Stones on their much-heralded 1972 U.S. tour. Wonder's pop following was not neglected, however, as "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" followed to #1 on the pop charts and became a staple love song for decades to come. Between them the songs won three Grammy Awards.

Wonder's critical and popular acclaim only increased less than a year later, in August 1973, when Wonder released what is often called his best album, Innervisions. Political considerations were brought into greater focus than ever before, with the driving, percolating "Higher Ground" (#4 on the pop charts) followed by the memorable "Living for the City" (#8), which found Wonder more evocatively describing a time and place in American life than he would anywhere else in his career. Popular ballads were also present, in a mixture of moods that nevertheless held together as a unified whole. The album generated three more Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year.

On August 6, 1973, just days after the release of Innervisions, Wonder was in a serious automobile accident while on tour, when a log from a truck went through a passenger window and struck him in the head. This left him in a coma for a while and resulted in a permanent loss of his sense of smell.

Despite the setback, Wonder eventually recovered all of his musical facilities, and reappeared in concert at Madison Square Garden in March 1974 in a performance that highlighted both up-tempo material and long, building improvisations on mid-tempo songs such as "Living for the City". The album Fulfillingness' First Finale then appeared in July 1974 with a more personal, introspective outlook, but nevertheless sent two hits high on the pop charts. The Album of the Year was again one of three Grammys won.

Wonder then focused his attentions on what he intended as his magnum opus, the double album-with-extra-EP Songs in the Key of Life, released in September 1976. Sprawling in style, unlimited in ambition, and sometimes lyrically difficult to fathom, the album was hard for some listeners to fully assimilate. Two tracks fairly jumped out of the radio with energy, however, becoming the #1 hits "I Wish" and "Sir Duke". "Isn't She Lovely" was a future wedding and bat mitzvah fixture, while songs such as "Love's in Need of Love Today" (which years later Wonder would perform at the post-September 11 America: A Tribute to Heroes telethon) and the classical "Village Ghetto Land" reflected a far more pensive mood. Yet again Wonder was awarded Album of the Year, along with two other Grammys.

Possibly exhausted by this concentrated and sustained level of creativity, Wonder was not heard from again for three years. Nevertheless his output during this stretch had left its mark: the 1983 Rolling Stone Record Guide said that these albums "pioneered stylistic approaches that helped to determine the shape of pop music for the next decade," while in 2005 Kanye West said of his own work, "I'm not trying to compete with what's out there now. I'm really trying to compete with Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life. It sounds musically blasphemous to say something like that, but why not set that as your bar?" [2]


Later career, 1979-present


When Wonder did return, it was with a soundtrack album for the never-finished film Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants (1979). Mostly instrumental, the album was panned at the time of its release but has come to be regarded by some critics as an unusual classic. Hotter Than July (1980) became Wonder's first platinum selling album, and its single "Happy Birthday" was a successful vehicle for his campaign to establish Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday as a national holiday. The album also included "Master Blaster (Jammin')", his tribute to Bob Marley, and the sentimental ballad, "Lately", which was later covered by 1990s R&B act Jodeci.

In 1982, Wonder released a retrospective of his '70s work with Original Musiquarium and included three more hit singles in his catalogue, including the ten-minute funk classic "Do I Do" (which included legendary jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie), "That Girl" (one of the year's biggest singles to chart on the R&B side) and "Ribbon in the Sky", one of his many classic compositions. Wonder also gained a #1 hit that year in collaboration with Paul McCartney in their paean to racial harmony, "Ebony and Ivory".

1984 saw the release of Wonder's soundtrack album for The Woman in Red. The lead single, "I Just Called to Say I Love You", was a #1 pop and R&B hit in the US; it is Motown's biggest-selling single ever in the United Kingdom. It was placed 13th in the all-time list of best-selling singles in the UK issued in 2002, and it won an Academy Award for "Best Song" in 1985. The following year's In Square Circle featured the #1 pop hit "Part-Time Lover".

By 1985 Stevie Wonder was an American icon, the subject of good-humored jokes about blindness and affectionately impersonated by Eddie Murphy on Saturday Night Live. Thus it was only natural that he was in a featured duet with Bruce Springsteen on the all-star charity single for African famine relief, "We Are the World", and that he was part of another charity single the following year, the AIDS-targeted "That's What Friends Are For".

After 1987's Characters LP, Wonder continued to release new material, albeit at a slower pace. He recorded a soundtrack album for Spike Lee's film Jungle Fever in 1991, and released both Conversation Peace and the live album Natural Wonder during the same decade. In December 1999, Wonder announced that he was interested in pursuing an intraocular retinal prosthesis to partially restore his sight. [3]

Wonder's first new album in ten years, A Time To Love, was released on October 18, 2005, after having been pushed back from first a May, and then a June release. The album was released electronically on September 27, 2005, exclusively on Apple's iTunes Music Store; see External links below. The first single, "So What the Fuss", was released in April and features Prince on guitar and background vocals from En Vogue. A second single, "From the Bottom of My Heart" is a current hit on adult-contemporary R&B radio. The album also features a duet with India Arie on the title track "A Time To Love".

Wonder performed at the pre-game show for Super Bowl XL in Detroit in early 2006, singing various hit singles (with his four-year-old son on drums) and accompanying Aretha Franklin during "The Star Spangled Banner".

In March 2006, Wonder received new national exposure on the top-rated American Idol television program. Each of 12 contestants were required to sing one of his songs, after having met and received guidance from him. (Some of the contestants idolized Wonder, while others showed little familiarity with his work.) Wonder also performed "My Love Is On Fire" live on the show itself.

Producer and songwriter for others

Besides creating his own material, Stevie Wonder has written and produced a number of songs for other artists. Among his most significant compositions or co-compositions are "The Tears of a Clown" by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, "It's a Shame" by The Spinners, " "I Can't Help It" by Michael Jackson, and "You Are My Heaven" by Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway. He has also collaborated with Quincy Jones, Barbra Streisand, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, B.B. King, The Supremes, The Temptations, Dionne Warwick, Julio Iglesias, and former Musical Youth lead singer Dennis Seaton.

Impact

Wonder's success as a socially conscious musical performer was significantly influential to both R&B and pop music. Among the musicians and performers who list Wonder as one of their major influences are Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige, Kanye West, George Michael, Nik Kershaw, India.Arie, Musiq Soulchild, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Jay Kay, Donell Jones and the members of Jodeci, Maroon 5, and Dru Hill.

Wonder's songs are renowned for being hard and demanding to sing. There are many 9th, 11th and 13th chords. His melodies make abrupt, unpredictable changes. His songs are melismatic, meaning that a syllable of a word is sung over different notes. Such qualities allow only skilled singers to show the skills. In the American Idol Hollywood Performances, judge Randy Jackson repeatedly stated the difficulty of Wonder's songs.


Awards and recognition

Stevie has received 21 Grammy Award [4] and one Academy Award over the course of his career. In 1989, Wonder was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is also an inductee to the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Wonder also received Kennedy Center Honors in 1999, and was awarded the highest honor to be received at the Billboard Music Award for the Century Award in 2004.

Personal life

Wonder has seven children. His last child, Mandla Kadjay Carl Steveland Morris, was born on May 13, 2005, and is the second child of Wonder and his current wife, Kai Milla Morris. He is an active supporter of the Democratic Party.

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


Signed, Sealed, Delivered I m yours :: Stevie Wonder

Like a fool I went and stayed too long
Now I m wondering if your love s still strong
Oo baby, here I am, signed, sealed delivered, I m yours

Then that time I went and said goodbye
Now I m back and not ashamed to cry
Oo baby, here I am, signed, sealed delivered, I m yours

Here I am baby
Oh, you ve got the future in your hand
(signed, sealed delivered, I m yours)

Here I am baby,
oh, you ve got the future in your hand
(signed, sealed, delivered, I m yours)

I ve done alot of foolish things
that I really didn t mean
Hey, hey, yea, yea, didn t I, oh baby

Seen alot of things in this old world
When I touched them they did nothing, girl
Oo baby, here I am, signed, sealed delivered, I m yours, oh I m yours

Oo-wee babe you set my soul on fire
That s why I know you are my only desire
Oo baby, here I am, signed, sealed delivered, I m yours

Here I am baby
Oh, you ve got the future in your hand
(signed, sealed delivered, I m yours)

Here I am baby,
oh, you ve got the future in your hand
(signed, sealed, delivered, I m yours)

I ve done alot of foolish things
that I really didn t mean
I could be a broken man but here I am

With your future, got your future babe (here I am baby)
Here I am baby (signed, sealed delivered, I m yours)
Here I am baby, (here I am baby)
Here I am baby (signed, sealed delivered, I m yours)
Here I am baby, (here I am baby)
Here I am baby (signed, sealed delivered, I m yours)
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Sat 13 May, 2006 06:29 am
Subject: Fw: Investment tips for 2006....

Investment tips for 2006.... for all of you with any
money left, be aware of the next expected mergers so
that you can get in on the ground floor and make
some BIG bucks.

Watch for these consolidations in 2006.

1.) Hale Business Systems, Mary Kay Cosmetics,
Fuller Brush, and W. R.Grace Co. will merge and
become: Hale, Mary, Fuller, Grace.

2.) Polygram Records, Warner Bros., and Zesta
Crackers join forces and become: Poly, Warner Cracker.

3.) 3M will merge with Goodyear and and become:
MMMGood.

4. Zippo Manufacturing, Audi Motors, Dofasco, and
Dakota Mining will merge and become: ZipAudiDoDa.

5. FedEx is expected to join its major competitor,
UPS, and become: FedUP.

6. Fairchild Electronics and Honeywell Computers
will become: Fairwell Honeychild.

7. Grey Poupon and Docker Pants are expected to
become: Poupon Pants.

8. Knotts Berry Farm and the National Organization
of Women will become: Knott NOW!

And finally

9. . Victoria's Secret and Smith & Wesson will merge
under the new name: Tittty Tittty Bang Bang
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Letty
 
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Reply Sat 13 May, 2006 07:06 am
Well, folks. We now realize that our hawkman is through with his celeb updates when he leaves us with a huge smile.

Bob, you have something different every day. Loved them all, buddy, so it's difficult to pick one.

Daphne du Maurier was a great writer, but Hitchcock took some liberties with her story, The Birds.

Now for a song from Stevie with which to greet the day:



You are the sunshine of my life
That's why I'll always be around,
You are the apple of my eye,
Forever you'll stay in my heart

I feel like this is the beginning,
Though I've loved you for a million years,
And if I thought our love was ending,
I'd find myself drowning in my own tears.

You are the sunshine of my life,
That's why I'll always stay around,
You are the apple of my eye,
Forever you'll stay in my heart,

You must have known that I was lonely,
Because you came to my rescue,
And I know that this must be heaven,
How could so much love be inside of you?

You are the sunshine of my life, yeah,
That's why I'll always stay around,
You are the apple of my eye,
Forever you'll stay in my heart.

(background) love has joined us,
Love has joined us,
Let's think sweet love.
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Sat 13 May, 2006 07:36 am
Good Morning WA2K.

And a Happy 83rd Birthday to Beatrice Arthur; 65th to Harvey Keitel and 56th to Stevie Wonder:

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and a Good Day to all.
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Letty
 
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Reply Sat 13 May, 2006 07:55 am
And a good day to Raggedy. <smile>

Thanks once again for the pictures, PA. Having a wee bit of trouble with Harvey Keitel, but I can always search him out, I guess. The other two we know quite well.

Anyone remember this song?

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.

Music, of course, is wonderful propaganda for a situation that isn't always known.
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Sat 13 May, 2006 08:51 am
Aaah. I remember.

On May 4, 1970, an anti-war student demonstration at Kent State University, Ohio left four students dead, one paralyzed, and eight others wounded.

The demonstration ended when the National Guard fired into the crowd of students. The shootings ended the lives of four students Jeffrey Miller, Allison Krause, William Schroeder, and Sandra Scheuer.

Shortly thereafter, Neil Young wrote the song "Ohio" in memory of the four dead students.


Here are liner notes from Neil Young's Decade album:


"It's still hard to believe I had to write this song. It's ironic that I capitalized on the death of these American students. Probably the most important lesson ever learned at an American place of learning. David Crosby cried after this take."


Letty, if you don't remember Harvey Keitel for his tough guy roles, (he was Jodie Foster's pimp in "Taxi Driver" and "The Wolf" in "Pulp Fiction" an assassin in "Point of No Return" and a gangster in "Bugsy", and many more), you would not forget him if you saw "The Piano" in which he played an Aborigine and bared it all, while Holly Hunter played the piano (a role for which she got the Oscar). Did you see "The Piano"? Try to catch it, if you didn't.
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Letty
 
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Reply Sat 13 May, 2006 09:14 am
Hey, Raggedy. I think I saw Pulp Fiction, but don't remember it too well, but the others I haven't seen. I do recall something about Taxi being the well spring for Hinckley who shot Ronald Reagan.

Thanks gal, for the RNA jump start. <smile>

Speaking of people who shot people. Razz

Here's the James Taylor version:

Artist: James Taylor
Album: "Why here"
When Liberty Valance rode to town,
the women folk would hide,
they'd hide
When Liberty Valance walked around,
the men would step aside
Because the point of a gun
was the only law that Liberty understood
When it came to shooting
straight and fast,
he was mighty good.
From out of the east a stranger came,
a law book in his hand,
a man
The kind of a man the west would need
to tame a troubled land
'Cause the point of a gun
was the only law that Liberty understood
When it came to shooting
straight and fast,
he was mighty good.

Many a man would face his gun,
and many a man would fall.
The man who shot Liberty Valance,
he shot Liberty Valance,
He was the bravest of them all.

The love of a girl can make a man
stay on when he should go,
stay on
Just trying to build a peaceful life
where love is free to grow
But the point of a gun
was the only law that Liberty understood
When the final showdown
came to pass,
a law book was no good.

Alone and afraid she prayed that he'd
return that fateful night,
ahh that night
When nothing she said could keep
her man from going out to fight
From the moment a girl gets to be full grown,
the very first thing she learns
When two men go out to face each other,
only one returns

Everyone heard two shots ring out,
the shot made Liberty fall
The man who shot Liberty Valance,
he shot Liberty Valance,
he was the bravest of them all.

The man who shot Liberty Valance,
he shot Liberty Valance,
he was the bravest of them all.
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Letty
 
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Reply Sat 13 May, 2006 09:27 am
News from the beaches:

Memorabilia collector sues Beach Boys Fri May 12, 2:16 PM ET



MIAMI (AFP) - A rock memorabilia collector has sued the Beach Boys for preventing him from selling sheet music he says he bought two decades ago but that the rock musicians claim he stole from them.



Roy Sciacca of Florida claims in the lawsuit he had bought several boxes of memorabilia from the Beach Boys at auctions held in California in the 1980s.

The boxes contained "valueless junk" but also "valuable contracts, pictures, promotional items and original sheet music," the plaintiff said in his lawsuit.

He claims the Beach Boys' manager had sold the items, but the band claims he had stolen the sheet music, which includes handwritten musical scores to classics such as "California Girls" and "I get around."

Brother Records, which owns the rights to the Beach Boy's music, blocked a planned auction of the items last year and filed a lawsuit in California against Sciacca
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spidergal
 
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Reply Sat 13 May, 2006 12:25 pm
Goodmorning listeners!

India updates by India correspondent.

1. One of India's most promising politicians,Pramod Mahajan, died two weeks after being gunned down by his brother.
2. India along with Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh wins the bid to host the World Cup Cricket 2011.
3. The great Indian musician, Naushad, died at 83.
4.Nationwide protests by Medical students against Ministry Of Education's announcement of 10% reservation for Backward Classes in Medical Schools.
5.Brutal killing of 32 hindus by terrorists in Jammu & Kashmir.
6. Taliban assasinates kidnapped Indian engineer, K. Suryanarayana.
7. Indian born author K Vishwanathan's debut novel 'How Opal Mehta got kissed,got wild and got a life' withdrawn from outlets by the publisher following plagiarism allegations.
8.Priyanka Gandhi, Lt. Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's daughter, appointed as the polling agent for Rai Bareilly by mother Sonia Gandhi.
9. Power crisis hits North India.

Over to Letty.
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Letty
 
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Reply Sat 13 May, 2006 12:36 pm
Miss India. Welcome back, honey. Thank you for the news reports from your end of the world.

Wow! things look as bad there as they do here, and more international news, listeners:



Full Coverage: Indonesia

AP - 1 hour, 35 minutes ago
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia ordered the immediate evacuation Saturday of thousands of people from the slopes of Mount Merapi volcano, warning of an imminent eruption as the mountain oozed fiery lava and belched clouds of black ash. Hundreds of women, children and elderly were taken in buses and trucks to relocation centers set up at local schools and government buildings. Authorities put the region on highest alert after they observed two days of steady lava flow from the 9,700-foot peak on the island of Java.

And, of course, the hurricane season begins here.
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spidergal
 
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Reply Sat 13 May, 2006 12:43 pm
Letty

What do you think about the Kaavya Vishwanathan issue?
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Letty
 
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Reply Sat 13 May, 2006 12:48 pm
Honey, I can't even spell it, I'm afraid. Will you explain it for our listeners?
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spidergal
 
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Reply Sat 13 May, 2006 12:53 pm
Ok, here's it!click here
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Letty
 
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Reply Sat 13 May, 2006 01:12 pm
Odd, folks. Somehow my response to Miss India got lost. Sorry gal. Back in a few to find out what happened to our equipment.
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Letty
 
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Reply Sat 13 May, 2006 02:13 pm
Well, folks. I lost my response because I did NOT give it here. Another round of applause for Letty.

For our sports fans:


Trojan point guard gunned down

Ryan Francis, a freshman point guard for Southern Cal, was shot and killed early Saturday in Louisiana.

He was visiting his mom, folks, and I'll bet it was a Mother's day visit. Someone shot him through the window of the car he was in. What a downer, folks.

Hey, listeners, we need some mellow music. Things be gettin' too up tight.

by Willie Dixon
recording of 1965
from The Paul Butterfield Blues Band copyright notice

Jump, jump here, jump, jump there
Jump, jump baby, everywhere
You gotta mellow down easy, baby
You gotta mellow down easy, baby
You outta mellow down easy, baby, 'fore you you go in time
You outta mellow down easy, baby, please don't stop

You gotta move, move here, move, move there
Move, move baby, move, move baby
Move, move baby everywhere
You gotta mellow down easy, baby
You gotta mellow down easy, baby
You gotta mellow down easy, baby, 'fore you you go in time
You gotta mellow down easy, baby, 'fore you you go in time

Move, move here, move, move there
Move, move baby, move, move baby
Move, move baby everywhere
You gotta mellow down easy, baby
You gotta mellow down easy, baby
You outta mellow down easy, baby
You outta mellow down easy, baby
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Tryagain
 
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Reply Sat 13 May, 2006 02:17 pm
G'day one and all.


Rolling stones ›
The Spider & The Fly

Sittin' thinkin' sinkin' drinkin'
Wond'ring what I'll do when I'm through tonight
Smokin' mopin' maybe just hopin'
Some little girl will pass on by
To wanna be alone
But I love my girl at home
I remember what she said
She said, my! my! my!
Don't tell lies!
Keep fidelity in your head!
My! my! my! don't tell lies!
When you've done your show go to bed
Don't say hi! like a spider to a fly
Jump right ahead and you're dead!

Sit up fed up low down go 'round
Down to the bar at the place I'm at
Sittin' drinkin' superficially thinkin'
About the rins'd out blonde on my left
And then I said hi! like a spider to a fly
Rememb'ring what my little girl said
She was coming flirty
She look'd about thirty
I would have run away, but I was on my own
She told me later she's a machine operator
She said she liked the way I held the microphone
I said, my! my! my! like a spider to a fly
Jump right ahead in my web!
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Letty
 
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Reply Sat 13 May, 2006 02:30 pm
Well, there's our Try, folks.

That song says a lot, buddy. There's always a spider(not you, Miss India)
lookin' for a fly ball. Well, there are a lot of traps in the world, so be careful where you step, and speaking of stepping, I like this one.

Sex Pistols lyrics
"Sex Pistols (i'm Not Your) Stepping Stone lyrics"

I I I I I'm not your stepping stone
I I I I I'm not your stepping stone

You're trying to make your mark in society
Using all the tricks that you used on me
You're reading all those high fashion magazines
The clothes you're wearin' girl
are causing public scenes

I said
I I I I I'm not your stepping stone
I I I I I'm not your stepping stone
Not your stepping stone
Not your stepping stone

When I first met you girl you didn't have no shoes
Now you're walking 'round like you're front page news
You've been awful careful 'bout the friends you choose
But you won't find my name in your book of Who's Who

I said
I I I I I'm not your stepping stone
I I I I I'm not your stepping stone
Not your stepping stone
Not your stepping stone
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RexRed
 
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Reply Sat 13 May, 2006 02:54 pm
Puff the Magic Dragon

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,
Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff,
and brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff.

Oh Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,

Together they would travel on a boat with billowed sail
Jackie kept a lookout perched on Puff's gigantic tail,
Noble kings and princes would bow whenever they came,
Pirate ships would lower their flag when Puff roared out his name

Oh, Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,

A dragon lives forever but not so little boys
Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys.
One grey night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more
And Puff that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar.

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,

His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain,
Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane.
Without his life-long friend, Puff could not be brave,
So Puff that mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cave.

Oh! Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee


Written by by Lenny Lipton (words) and Peter Yarrow (music) - of Peter, Paul and Mary.
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RexRed
 
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Reply Sat 13 May, 2006 03:00 pm
The Jackets Green

When I was a maiden fair and young,
On the pleasant banks of Lee,
No bird that in the greenwood sung,
Was half so blithe and free.
My heart ne'er beat with flying feet,
No love sang me his queen,
Till down the glen rode Sarsfield's men,
And they wore the jackets green.

Young Donal sat on his gallant grey
Like a king on a royal seat,
And my heart leaped out on his regal way
To worship at his feet.
O Love, had you come in those colours dressed,
And wooed with a soldier's mein
I'd have laid my head on your throbbing breast
For the sake of your jacket green.

No hoarded wealth did my love own,
Save the good sword that he bore;
But I loved him for himself alone
And the colour bright he wore.
For had he come in England's red
To make me England's queen,
I'd rove the high green hills instead
For the sake of the Irish green.

When William stormed with shot and shell
At the walls of Garryowen,
In the breach of death my Donal fell,
And he sleeps near the Treaty Stone.
That breach the foeman never crossed
While he swung his broadsword keen;
But I do not weep my darling lost,
For he fell in his jacket green.

When Sarsfield sailed away I wept
As I heard the wild ochone.
I felt, then dead as the men who slept
'Neath the fields of Garryowen.
White Ireland held my Donal blessed,
No wild sea rolled between,
Till I would fold him to my breast
All robed in his Irish green.

My soul has sobbed like waves of woe,
That sad o'er tombstones break,
For I buried my heart in his grave below,
For his and for Ireland's sake.
And I cry. "Make way for the soldier's bride
In your halls of death, sad queen
For I long to rest by my true love's side
And wrapped in the folds of green."

I saw the Shannon's purple tide
Roll by the Irish town,
As I stood in the breach by Donal's side
When England's flag went down.
And now it lowers when I seek the skies,
Like a blood red curse between.
I weep, but 'tis not women's sighs
Will raise our Irish green.

Oh, Ireland, said is thy lonely soul,
And loud beats the winter sea,
But sadder and higher the wild waves roll
O'er the hearts that break for thee.
Yet grief shall come to our heartless foes,
And their thrones in the dust be seen,
So, Irish Maids, love none but those
Who wear the jackets green.

Michael Scanlan
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Letty
 
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Reply Sat 13 May, 2006 03:21 pm
Well, hello, Rex. Welcome back.

I am quite familiar with Puff, Maine, but not that lovely Irish song. Fantastic, buddy. Another Irish plea from across the Irish Sea.

Well, listeners, since tomorrow is Mother's day, let's do an Irish mother's song, but I am afraid that I must do it from memory. Can hardly find any lyrics in the archives any more.

I love the dear silver that shines in her hair,
And the brow that's all wrinkled and furrowed with care,
I kiss the dear fingers so toil worn for me,
Oh, God bless you and keep you Mother McCree.

Sorry, as that is all that I can recall.
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