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Mornin' Letty, this songs very apt this morning......


Gerry And The Pacemakers Lyrics - Ferry 'cross The Mersey

Life goes on day after day
Hearts torn in every way

So ferry 'cross the Mersey
'cause this land's the place I love
and here I'll stay

People they rush everywhere
Each with their own secret care

So ferry 'cross the Mersey
and always take me there
The place I love

People around every corner
They seem to smile and say
We don't care what your name is boy
We'll never turn you away

So I'll continue to say
Here I always will stay

So ferry 'cross the Mersey
'cause this land's the place I love
and here I'll stay
and here I'll stay
Here I'll stay



....and it looks as if they will be staying there for a while longer......

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/4984944.stm

Well, listeners, there's our Lord. Nice to see you back in our studio, Brit.

Yes, that is a perfect song for today as I read your news item. It seems that you folks in England have a lot of those left overs lying around. I do hope that all goes well for the people on the ferry, dear. A grim reminder of what was and what may be again.

Shall we enjoy a bit of Robert Browning's optimism then?

Song, from Pippa Passes

The year's at the spring,
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hill-side's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in his Heaven -
All's right with the world!

-- Robert Browning

Woody Herman
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Woodrow Charles Herman (May 16, 1913-October 29, 1987), better known as Woody Herman, was an American jazz clarinetist, alto and soprano saxophonist, singer, and Big band leader.

Herman was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As a child he worked as a singer in vaudeville, then became a professional saxophone player at age 15. When Isham Jones's band, of which Herman had been a member, broke up in 1936, he formed his own band, the Woody Herman Orchestra, with some of his band mates. This band became known for its orchestrations of the blues and were sometimes billed as "The Band That Plays The Blues".

On April 12,1939 Woody Herman recorded his greatest commercial and mega popular hit record "Woodchoppers' Ball", featuring Woody on clarinet, Neal Ried on trombone, Saxie Mansfield on Sax, Steady Nelson on trumpet and Hy White on Guitar. Other big early hits were "Blue Flame," "Dupree Blues", "Blues Upstairs and Downstairs" and "Blues in the Night" with Joe Bishop on flugelhorn, Tommy Linehans on piano, Cappy Lewis on trumpet, and the strong rhythm team of Walt Yoder and Frankie Carlson.

This popular swing band "took off" and was listed number three in the country in a popularity poll by Down Beat Magazine in 1940. The band was first pinned "Herman's Herd" in a Martin band instrument advertisement in the same magazine on April 1, 1941.

This band's music was heavily influenced by Duke Ellington and Count Basie. Its lively, swinging arrangements, combining bop themes with swing rhythm parts, were greatly admired; Igor Stravinsky wrote "Ebony Concerto" for this band. Other pieces for which the band was known include "Caldonia" and "Northwest Passage." Featured musicians were trumpeter Sonny Berman,trumpeter/arranger Neil Hefti, trumpeter/vocalist Steady Nelson, tenor saxist Flip Phillips, trombonist Bill Harris, vibraphonist Red Norvo, pianist/arranger Ralph Burns, drummers Davey Tough and Don Lamond and bassist Chubby Jackson, who was the driving force/talent scout behind the bands progressive development. Herman disbanded the orchestra in 1946 to spend more time with his wife and family, but in 1947 organized the Second Herd. This band featured a cooler sound, provided by such musicians as Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, Serge Chaloff, Al Cohn, Gene Ammons, Lou Levy, Oscar Pettiford, Terry Gibbs, Shelly Manne, and Herbie Steward. Among this band's hits were "Early Autumn," "The Goof and I," and "Four Brothers" (this band was also known as the Four Brothers band).

Herman's many later bands included the Third Herd and the New Thundering Herd. He was known for hiring the best young musicians and using their arrangements. His band's book consequently came to be heavily influenced by rock and roll.

He continued to perform into the 1980s, chiefly to pay back taxes caused by a band manager in the 1960s. When he became ill and was forced to give up the band, the Internal Revenue Service seized his assets, including his home. While still ill, he picked the leader of the reed section, Frank Tiberi, as his successor. Tiberi leads the band in performances to this day. It should be recognized that after the death of Herman, Charles Mingus, and other jazz greats a sort of retirement fund was created by ASCAP in 1991 to which artists were given the opportunity to fund their latter years when they no longer were recording artists. Woody Herman was discovered dead on October 29, 1987 on a New York City street. He had been homeless for sometime and was tagged a John Doe until some of the locals in the neighborhood couldn't find him a called the police to file a missing persons report.

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Liberace
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Liberace shows off his rings (circa 1980).Wladziu Valentino Liberace (May 16, 1919 - February 4, 1987), better known by the stage name Liberace and known to his friends as Lee, was a charismatic American entertainer.

Early life and stage name

Liberace was born in West Allis, Wisconsin, and grew up in a musical family of Polish-Italian heritage. He had a twin who died at birth. He was classically trained as a pianist and gained wide experience playing popular music. Lee followed the advice of famous Polish pianist and family friend Paderewski and billed himself under his last name only. As his classical career developed he found that his whimsical encores, in which he played pop songs and marches, went over better with audiences than his renditions of classical pieces, so he changed his act to "pop with a bit of classics". At other times, he referred to his act as "classical music with the boring parts left out." During the mid and late 1940s he performed in dinner clubs and nightclubs in major cities around the United States.

Television

He had a network television program in the 1950s which for a time had higher ratings than I Love Lucy. His brother George led the program's backing band. He became known for his extravagant costumes, personal charm and self-deprecating wit. His public image became linked with one ever present stage prop, a silver candelabrum perched on his piano. By 1955 he was making $50,000 per week at the Riviera nightclub in Las Vegas and had over 160 official fan clubs with a quarter of a million member fans (who throughout his career were mostly middle-aged women). He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 for his contributions to the television industry.

In 1966 he appeared in two highly rated episodes of the campy U.S. television series Batman. During the 1970s his appearances included guest roles on episodes of Here's Lucy and Kojak.

Liberace was also the guest host in an episode of The Muppet Show. His performances included a "Concerto for the Birds" and an amusing rendition of "Chopsticks." In the 1980s he guest starred on television shows such as Saturday Night Live (on a season 10 episode hosted by Hulk Hogan and Mr. T), The Tonight Show and the 1984 film Special People.


Recordings

He released several recordings through Columbia Records (later on Dot and through direct television advertising) and sold over 2,000,000 records in 1953 alone. Liberace's highly colored style of piano playing was characterized by some critics as fluid and lyrical but technically careless.


Films

He was at the height of his career in 1955 when he starred in Sincerely Yours with Dorothy Malone, playing 31 songs. The film was a commercial and critical failure and some of the problems were attributed to his having been overexposed on television.

In 1965 he had a small part in the movie When the Boys Meet the Girls starring Connie Francis, essentially playing himself.

In 1966 Liberace received kudos for his brief role as a casket salesman in the film adaptation of The Loved One, Evelyn Waugh's satire of the funeral business and movie industry in Southern California. It was the only film Liberace made in which he did not play the piano.


Lawsuits

His fame in the US was paralleled for a time in the UK. In 1957 an article in The Daily Mirror by veteran columnist "Cassandra" (William Connor) mentioned that Liberace was "...the summit of sex--the pinnacle of masculine, feminine, and neuter. Everything that he, she, and it can ever want. . .a deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love," a description which did everything it could to imply he was homosexual without saying so. Liberace sued the newspaper for libel, testified in a London court that he was not a homosexual, had never taken part in homosexual acts, and won the suit.

For years Liberace had joked, "I don't mind the bad reviews, but George [his brother and business partner] cries all the way to the bank." The £8,000 ($22,400) damages he received from The Daily Mirror led Liberace to alter this catchphrase to "I cried all the way to the bank!" [1]

In 1982, Liberace's live-in boyfriend of some five years, Scott Thorson, sued the pianist for $113 million in palimony after an acrimonious split-up. Liberace continued to publicly deny that he was homosexual. In 1984, most of Thorson's claim was dismissed although he received a $95,000 settlement.[2]

Later career

Liberace Museum, Las Vegas, 2003In 1960 Liberace performed at the London Palladium with Nat King Cole and Sammy Davis Jr. (this was the first televised "command performance" for Queen Elizabeth II). His career then went into a slump but he skillfully built it back up by appealing directly to his fan base through live appearances in Las Vegas and elsewhere. Liberace was a favorite subject of tabloid magazines throughout his life and he published an autobiography in 1973. He had a keen interest in cooking, often preparing meals for friends and associates, owned a restaurant in Las Vegas for many years and published cookbooks.

In 1975 Liberace's live shows were major box office attractions in Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe and he sometimes earned as much as $125,000 a week. These glitzy shows were a continued success for the next eleven years, helped along by infrequent but flamboyant television appearances and the opening of a promotional museum of his extravagant jewelry and stage costumes in 1979.


Death

Liberace's final stage performance was at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on November 2, 1986. He died of complications related to AIDS at the age of 67 on February 4, 1987 at his winter house in Palm Springs, California. His obvious weight loss in the months prior to his death was attributed to a "watermelon diet" by his longtime and steadfast manager Seymour Heller. But he had been in ill health since 1985 with other health problems including emphysema from his daily smoking off-stage, as well as heart and liver troubles. How and exactly when he contracted AIDS will probably never be determined for Liberace vehemently denied to the end that he had AIDS, and that he was a homosexual. He is interred in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.

The Liberace Museum in Las Vegas contains many of his stage costumes, cars, jewelry, and lavishly-decorated pianos, along with numerous citations for philanthropic acts.

Trivia
He appeared on the cover of TV Guide five times.
He achieved a boyhood dream of playing at Carnegie Hall in 1953.
His devotion to his mother was widely publicized.
In 1953 Liberace was named by Ripley's Believe It Or Not as "The Fastest Piano Player In The World" for playing 6,000 notes in two minutes.
He had a piano-shaped swimming pool.
He was the first performer to demand and receive US$50,000 per week to play in Las Vegas.
After seeing professional wrestler Gorgeous George perform in Las Vegas he began to wear a gold-lame dinner jacket in his performances there. Elvis Presley reportedly saw this and asked Liberace if he would mind if he copied the jacket, whereupon Liberace suggested an entire tuxedo of gold-lame, starting Elvis on the road to the rhinestone-encrusted jumpsuits of his later career. Elvis subsequently surpassed Liberace as Las Vegas' highest-paid performer but after Presley died Liberace reclaimed the distinction and held it for the rest of his life.
Liberace is widely credited with helping singer Barbra Streisand's early career.
During the 1960s he briefly owned and promoted an interior decorating shop in Hollywood.
During a 1969 appearance on CBS' The Ed Sullivan Show, he said his favorite song was "The Impossible Dream," from the musical Man of La Mancha.
He appeared onstage in hotpants for the first time in 1971 (the costume was red, white and blue with cowboy fringe).
He appeared at the first WWF WrestleMania in 1985 as a special guest timekeeper in the main event match.
After his death from complications related to AIDS, Liberace's extravagant house in Las Vegas, which he had purchased for $3,000,000, was offered for sale by his estate but no buyers came forward. The house was eventually sold for $325,000 at a public auction and converted into a banquet and reception center.
Due to botched plastic surgery, Liberace was unable to close his eyes totally.

References in popular culture

Entertainers inspired by him include Little Richard (who called himself "the bronze Liberace"), James Brown (who also cited Gorgeous George as a stage influence), and Elton John, whose costumes early in his career often included feathers and furs as Liberace's sometimes did.
Liberace is mentioned in "My Baby Just Cares For Me" by Nina Simone, "The Lonely" by British Sea Power, "California Love" by Dr. Dre and Tupac Shakur, "Mr. Sandman" by the Chordettes, "We Didn't Start The Fire" by Billy Joel, "American Bad Ass" by Kid Rock, "Hustler's Ambition" by 50 Cent, "Stunt 101" by G-Unit, "Criminal" by Eminem,"Fight Music" by D12, "Revelation" by D12 and "It's So Hard" by Big Pun.
In the 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck Liberace is shown (using real footage) being interviewed by Edward R. Murrow (played by David Strathairn). In retrospect, the footage shown has Liberace "coming out" as looking for a man to marry.
That 70's Show (TV series): In episode 4-10, "Red and Stacey," Steven compares Eric to Liberace ("He's as soft as Liberace at the Playboy Mansion.")
Home Improvement (TV series): Tim Taylor smells potpourri in the garage and remarks to his wife "This is the garage, not the Liberace museum!"
Friends (TV series): Chandler sarcastically asks if Joey purchased his bracelet from the "Liberace House of Crap"
Several Looney Tunes cartoons (and other theatrical cartoons) have either caricatured Liberace or used his catchphrase, "I wish my brother George was here."
In Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery: "Yeah, and I can't believe Liberace was gay. I mean, women loved him! I didn't see that one coming."
One episode of Reno 911 has two of the police officers guarding a lucite piano supposedly once owned by Liberace. In that episode, the piano is a player piano that is supernaturally capable of granting wishes.
The Futurama episode "Less Than Hero" (where Fry, Leela, and Bender become superheroes), Leela mentions an audio version of an exhibition at a museum called "The Treasures of Liberace's Tomb"
Season One, Episode 15 of CSI, "Table Stakes", visits the Liberace Museum to retrieve some DNA from a headdress worn by one of the dancers for a show of his.
On the South Park episode "Chinpokomon", after the South Park kids are shown the fake commercial for Alabama Man (a Ken doll/action figure who goes bowling, chews tobacco, drinks beer, and beats up his wife), Kyle refers to the toy as "Liberace gay".
In the 1986 Prince movie Under The Cherry Moon, Christopher's friend Tricky tells Katy, "I'm my own man! Just like Liberace!"

Martine Carol
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Martine Carol (May 16, 1920 - February 6, 1967) was a French film actress.

Born Marie Louise Jeanne Mourer in the resort town of Biarritz, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, she studied acting under René Simon (1898-1966), making her stage debut in 1940 and her first motion picture in 1943. One of the most beautiful women in film, she was frequently cast as an elegant blonde seductress. During the late 1940s and early 1950s she was the leading sex symbol and a top box office draw of French cinema.

Despite her fame and fortune, Martine Carol's personal life was filled with turmoil that included a suicide attempt, drug abuse, and four marriages.

She died at the age of forty-four of a reported heart attack in a Monte Carlo hotel room and was interred in the Cimetière du Grand Jas in Cannes, France.


Partial filmography
Love and the Frenchwoman (1961)
Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Lola Montes (1955)
Nana (1955)
Les Belles de nuit (1952)
Caroline chérie (1950)

Good day to all. Someone just cannot wait…


I Want It All
Words and music by Queen

Adventure seeker on an empty street
Just an alley creeper light on his feet
A young fighter screaming with no time for doubt
With the pain and anger can't see a way out
It ain't much I'm asking I heard him say
Gotta find me a future move out of my way
I want it all I want it all I want it all and I want it now
I want it all I want it all I want it all and I want it now

Listen all you people come gather round
I gotta get me a game plan gotta shake you to the ground
Just give me what I know is mine
People do you hear me just give me the sign
It ain't much I'm asking if you want the truth
Here's to the future for the dreams of youth
I want it all (give it all) I want it all I want it all and I want
it now
I want it all (yes I want it all) I want it all (hey)
I want it all and I want it now

I'm a man with a one track mind
So much to do in one life time (people do you hear me)
Not a man for compromise and where's and why's and living
lies
So I'm living it all (yes I'm living it all)
And I'm giving it all (and I'm giving it all)

Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
I want it all all all all

It ain't much I'm asking if you want the truth
Here's to the future
Hear the cry of youth (hear the cry hear the cry of youth)
I want it all I want it all I want it all and I want it now
I want it all (yeah yeah yeah) I want it all I want it all and I
want it now

Olga Korbut
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Olympic Medal Record

Women's Artistic Gymnastics
Gold 1972 Munich Balance beam
Gold 1972 Munich Floor exercise
Gold 1972 Munich Team competition
Gold 1976 Montreal Team competition
Silver 1972 Munich Uneven bars
Silver 1976 Montreal Balance beam
Olga Valentinovna Korbut (Belarusian: Вольга Валянцінаўна Корбут, Vol'ha Valyantsinawna Korbut; Russian: Ольга Валентиновна Корбут) (b. May 16, 1955 in Hrodna), also known as the Sparrow from Minsk, is a Soviet Belarusian gymnast who won four gold medals and two silver medals at the Summer Olympics, where she competed in 1972 and 1976. Olga Korbut remained a darling with the crowds. She was instantly recognisable and famous everywhere due in part to her cheeky smile and her daring and risky performances.


Early life

Korbut, who started training at age 8, entered a Belarusian sports school headed by coach Renald Knysh at age 11. Korbut's first trainer was Elena Volchetskaya (a 1964 Olympian); she was moved to Knysh's group a year later. With him, she learned a difficult backward somersault on the balance beam.

She ended fifth at her first competition in the 1969 USSR championships. The next year, she won a gold medal in the vault. Due to illness and injury she was unable to compete in many of the tournaments prior to the 1972 Olympics.


The Olympics

At the Olympics, her acrobatics diminutive prettiness captivated the Munich audiences, and there she became the first person ever to do a backward somersault on the balance beam. She also was the first to do standing backward somersalt on bars, and a back somersalt to swingdown (Korbut Flip) on beam. Her bars move is no longer seen in high level gymnastics but the tuck back and Korbut Flip are still very popular (2003 world beam champion Fan Ye performed both in her routine). This excellence in technical skills overthrew the sport's traditional emphasis on gracefulness.

During the Olympics, Korbut was one of the favourites for the all-around after her dynamic performance in the team competition. But memorably, she fell from bars and the title went to her teammate Ludmilla Tourischeva. However Olga did get three gold medals, for the balance beam, floor exercise and team, and one silver medal in the uneven parallel bars.

In 1973 she won the Russian and World Student (i.e., University) Games and a silver medal in the all-around at the European Championships.

The Soviet coaches and officials had designated Olga as the woman who could beat Romanian prodigy Nadia Comaneci in the 1976 Olympic Games at Montreal. But Olga was injured and no longer in love with the sport, and her performances were under-par. She was overshadowed not only by Comaneci but by her own teammate Nellie Kim. But she did collect a team gold medal and an individual silver medal for the balance beam.

She graduated from the Grodno Pedagogical Institute in 1977 and retired from Olympic competition thereafter. She married Leonid Bortkevich, who was a member of a popular Belarusan folk band Pesniary. The couple had a son, Richard, in 1979.

Legacy

Korbut was of course a highly decorated athlete, with four Olympic golds to her credit. But it is not her results for which she is most remembered. The media whirl that surrounded her after her Olympic debut in 1972 caused a surge of young girls to join their local gymnastic clubs. A sport which had previously seldom been noticed now made headlines. She also contributed to a change in the whole direction of the sport. Prior to 1972, the athletes were rather older and there was a greater focus on elegance than on acrobatics. In the decade after Korbut first came to the world's attention, this completely changed.

Debra Winger
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Debra Winger (born May 16, 1955) is an American actress.

Born Marie Debra Winger in Cleveland Heights, Ohio to a Jewish family, she spent several years in Israel, and served in the Israel Defense Forces. After returning to the United States, she was involved in an automobile accident and suffered a cerebral haemorrhage as a result. She was left partially paralyzed and blind for ten months, although she was initially told that she would never see again. With time on her hands to think about her life, she decided that, if she recovered, she would move to California and become an actress.

Her first acting role was as Princess Diana's younger sister Drusilla (Wonder Girl) in the Wonder Woman television series. She got her first starring role in Urban Cowboy in 1980, opposite John Travolta for which she received a BAFTA award nomination.

In 1982 she starred opposite Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Terms of Endearment in 1984, and Best Actress for Shadowlands in 1993 for which she also received her second BAFTA award nomination. In 1995 Winger left the film industry.

In 2001, a critically acclaimed documentary film titled Searching For Debra Winger was made by director/writer/actor Rosanna Arquette and released in 2002 after Winger returned to performing.

Other films include Made in Heaven, Everybody Wins, The Sheltering Sky, Leap of Faith, Black Widow, Betrayed, Wilder Napalm and A Dangerous Woman.

Winger also contributed to the voice of the title character in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, although her role is uncredited.

She also earned an Emmy Award nomination for her performance in Dawn Anna in 2005, marking her return to acting.

She has been married to actor Timothy Hutton and is currently married to actor Arliss Howard, and has a son from each marriage: Noah Hutton (born in 1987) and Babe Ruth Howard (born in 1997). She dated then-Gov. Bob Kerrey while filming Terms of Endearment in Lincoln, Nebraska.

A hungry lion was roaming through the jungle looking for something to
eat. He came across two men. One was sitting under a tree and reading
a book. The other was typing away on his typewriter. The lion quickly
pounced on the man reading the book and devoured him. Even the king
of the jungle knows that readers digest, and writers cramp.

Well, folks. We know our Bob is through when he ends with a real groaner. Thanks, hawkman, for the background info. I, for one, certainly did NOT know that Pierce Brosnan was Irish. What a surprise.

Hey, Try. liked your Queen song, soooo as the woman once said, "All I want is what's coming to me." Unfortunately, she got it.

Back later to review more carefully the familiar Boston Bio's.

Good afternoon. A real groaner? I thought Bob's joke was funny.

Picture time:


(I saw Henry Fonda on stage in Mr. Roberts. He was wonderful.)

Well, there's our Raggedy, listeners. Great pictures as usual, PA. Unfortunately, I don't know Rosie. Well, honey, a play on words usually results in a groan accompanied by a smile.

Terms of Endearment was at once funny and sad, just as life often is. I loved the opening scene when Shirley climbed into the crib and utterd:

"We have a crib death here." She shook the baby until the little girl began to cry, and then said. "There. That's better."

Quote of the day:

My old friend-- look at me,
And tell me how much hope remains for me
With its protuberance! Oh, I have no more
Illusions! Now and then-- bah! I may grow
Tender, walkling alone in the blue cool
Of evening, through some garden fresh with flowers
After the benediction of the rain;
My poor big devil of a nose inhales
April... and so I follow with my eye
Where some boy, with a girl upon his arm,
Passes a patch of silver... and I feel
Somehow, I wish I had a woman too,
Walking with little steps under the moon,
And holding my arm so, and smiling. Then
I dream--- and I forget...
And then I see
The shadow of my profile on the wall

Who said that?

Oooh, "my profile on the wall" - that has to be Cyrano. That is so sad.
Am I right, Letty?

Ah, Raggedy. Once again you are right. Yes, Cyrano. What a marvelous play.

We'll dedicate that to Lord Ellpus and Francis.<smile>

From Brian Wilson:

My Jeanine

Van Dyke Parks

I carry the torch for her in the orchard
Apples were last name
My Jeanine my Jeanine
Each tree would ignite with blossoms of white
And apple her hair enflame
My Jeanine my Jeanine
Jeanine in jean and calico
A streak of mean don't let it show
So when she tells her let her go
Her yes may mean no
I love her so
We would meander now hand in hand in
Our appalachian clime
My Jeanine my Jeanine
We bring in the spring and toss from the swing
Along apple blossom time
My Jeanine my Jeanine

Remember when life was North Carolina
Two bits for Cokes and jokes at the diner
Time was a magazine
My Jeanine
My Jeanine my Jeanine
My Jeanine my Jeanine

I think it only fair for our friend Francis who supplies so many songs in English that we supply one en francais.

Je Ne Regrette Rien :: Édith Piaf

Non, rien de rien
Non, je ne regrette rien
Ni le bien qu'on m'a fait, ni le mal
Tout ça m'est bien égal
Non, rien de rien
Non, je ne regrette rien
C'est payé, balayé, oublié
Je me fous du passé
Avec mes souvenirs
J'ai allumé le feu
Mes chagrins, mes plaisirs
Je n'ai plus besoin d'eux
Balayés mes amours
Avec leurs trémolos
Balayés pour toujours
Je repars à zéro

Non, rien de rien
Non, je ne regrette rien
Ni le bien qu'on m'a fait, ni le mal
Tout ça m'est bien égal
Non, rien de rien
Non, je ne regrette rien
Car ma vie
Car mes joies
Aujourd'hui
Ça commence avec toi...

Nothing is fair in love and war, Bob.

And an answer to Edith's "No Regrets", an elevator song:


Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today, Madam,
Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today,
She's so sorry to be delayed,
But last evening down in Lover's Lane she strayed, Madam,
Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today, madam,

When she woke up and found that her dream of love had gone, Madam,
She ran to the man who led her so far astray,
And from under her velvet gown,
She drew a forty-four pistol,
And she shot that dirty rascal down, Madam,
Now, Old Lady Otis regrets she's disabled and she can't lunch today.

And the moment before she died,
She lifted her lovely head and cried, "Oh, Madam,
Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today."

My friend, Bill ,referred to that song as Miss Otis egrets.

Merci thank you, for you both...