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Good morning, WA2K fans and listeners.

Thanks to our Try and edgar for the nocturnes. Great songs, guys. Your PD is having a wee bit of trouble with Yahoo, so forgive me for not checking in earlier.

Good coffee and great company today, so let's begin with a poem by Frost:


A Time to Talk


When a friend calls to me from the road
And slows his horse to a meaning walk,
I don't stand still and look around
On all the hills I haven't hoed,
And shout from where I am, What is it?
No, not as there is a time to talk.
I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground,
Blade-end up and five feet tall,
And plod: I go up to the stone wall
For a friendly visit.

Robert Frost

William Boyd
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William Boyd (June 5, 1895 - September 12, 1972) was an American actor.

Born William Lawrence Boyd in Cambridge, Ohio, he was raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He became famous as a Hollywood leading man in silent film romances, but by the end of the 1920s his career had begun to deteriorate due to public problems with alcohol and women. He reformed himself and gained lasting fame in the Western film genre beginning in 1935, when he first played cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy, a role with which he would be indelibly associated. Boyd shrewdly purchased the rights to the character of Hopalong, as well as the rights to the movies (66 in all). In the early 1950s he released the movies to television, where they were extremely popular. The films remain available for broadcast, and are on DVD in physically restored form.

Boyd appeared on the cover of the November 27, 1950 issue of Time Magazine.

Oddly, both Clark Gable and Robert Mitchum experienced their first big breaks in movies playing bearded villains in westerns starring Boyd.

William Boyd died in 1972 in Laguna Beach, California and was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. He is survived by his wife, actress Grace Bradley Boyd.

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, William Boyd has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1734 Vine Street. In 1995, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.


Marriages

Grace Bradley (1937 - September 12, 1972) (his death)
Dorothy Sebastian (1931 - 1935) (divorced)
Elinor Fair (December 1926 - 1929) (divorced)
Ruth Miller (1921 - 1924) (divorced)

Cornelius Ryan
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Cornelius Ryan (5 June 1920 - 23 November 1974) was an Irish-American journalist and author mainly known for his writings on popular military history, especially World War II.

His two best-known books are The Longest Day (1959), which tells the story of the D-Day (day one of the WWII invasion of Normandy), and A Bridge Too Far (1974), which tells the story of Operation Market Garden, the ill-fated assault by airborne forces on the Netherlands culminating in the battle of Arnhem. Both books were made into major motion pictures, in 1962 and 1977, respectively.

Born in Dublin, Ryan moved to London in 1940, and became a war correspondent for the Daily Telegraph in 1941. He initially covered the air war in Europe, flew along on fourteen bombing missions with the Eighth and Ninth U.S. air forces, and then joined General George Patton's army and covered its actions until the end of the European war. He transferred to the Pacific theatre in 1945, and then to Jerusalem in 1946.

Ryan emigrated to the United States in 1947 to work for Time magazine, followed by other magazines. He married Kathryn Morgan and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1950.

In 1956 he began to write The Longest Day. It was an instant success, and he followed it with The Last Battle (1965), about the Battle of Berlin. The book contains detailed accounts from all perspectives: civilian, American, British, Russian and German. It deals with the intense political situation in the spring of 1945 in which the eastern and western fronts fought for the chance to liberate Berlin and carve up the remains of Germany.

He was awarded the French Legion of Honor, and an honorary Doctor of Literature degree from Ohio University, where the Cornelius Ryan Collection is housed (Alden Library). A Bridge Too Far was published in 1974, and Ryan died of cancer while on tour promoting the book

Freddie Stone
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Freddie Stone on The Ed Sullivan Show performing "Dance to the Music", December 28, 1968.Freddie Stone (born Frederick Stewart in Vallejo, California on June 5, 1946) is an African-American musician, best known for his role as co-founder, guitarist, and vocalist in the band Sly & The Family Stone, the front man for which was his brother Sly Stone. His sisters Rosie Stone and Vet Stone were also members of the band as well.

After leaving the band in the mid 1970s, Freddie was a member of former Family Stone bandmate Larry Graham's band Graham Central Station. Later in life, he became an ordained minister and began recording and performing gospel and inspirational music. He is currently the pastor of the Evangelist Temple Fellowship Center in Vallejo, where he lives with his wife Melody.

Ken Follett
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Ken FollettKen Follett (born June 5, 1949) is a British author of thrillers and historical novels.

Life

Follett, the son of Martin and Veenie Follett, was born in Cardiff, Wales and lived there until the family moved to London ten years later. Barred from watching movies and television by his devoutly Christian parents, he developed an early interest in reading but remained an indifferent student until he entered his teens. Applying himself to his studies, he won admission in 1967 to University College London, where he studied philosophy and became involved in leftist politics. He married his first wife, Mary, in 1968.

After graduation, in the autumn of 1970 Follett took a three-month post-graduate course in journalism and went to work as a trainee reporter in Cardiff on the South Wales Echo. After three years in Cardiff, he returned to London as a general-assignment reporter for the Evening Standard. Finding the work unchallenging, he eventually left journalism for publishing and became, by the late 1970s, deputy managing director of Everest Books. He also began writing fiction on evenings and weekends as a hobby. Success came gradually at first but the publication of Eye of the Needle in 1978 made him both wealthy and internationally famous. Each of Follett's subsequent novels has also become a best-seller, and a number have been made adapted for the screen.

Follett became involved, during the late 1970s, in the activities of Britain's Labour Party. In the course of his political activities, he met the former Barbara Broer, a Labour official, who became his second wife in 1984. She was elected a Member of Parliament in 1997, representing Stevenage. She was re-elected both in 2001 and in 2005. Follett himself remains a prominent Labour supporter and fundraiser.

Work

Leaving aside two competent but undistinguished early works, The Modigliani Scandal and Paper Money, Follett's literary career has gone through four distinct phases.

The first, and most distinguished, phase comprises Eye of the Needle and the five books (four fiction and one non-fiction) that followed it. All are variations of the classic espionage thriller, pitting one or two daring, resourceful agents against a numerous and well-equipped enemy. The settings are both geographically and chronologically diverse, ranging from World War I Europe in The Man from St. Petersburg to (then) present-day Iran and Afghanistan in On Wings of Eagles and Lie Down with Lions. Like the early works of Frederick Forsyth, another journalist-turned-novelist, Follett's early thrillers devote much attention to how things are done. The Key To Rebecca, for example, hinges on the workings of a particular type of secret code, and clandestine radio transmitters play a major role in Eye of the Needle. All six books--including On Wings of Eagles, the non-fictional story of the successful attempt to rescue two American employees of Ross Perot's company EDS from Iran after the 1979 Revolution--follow the basic conventions of the thriller genre. All six, however, use those conventions in unconventional ways: making the protagonist of Eye of the Needle a German agent, for example.

The second phase of Follett's career was a conscious departure from the first: a series of four historical novels written in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The Pillars of the Earth, the first of the four, set the pattern for the three that followed. Unlike Follett's earlier thrillers, it featured a large cast, multiple plotlines, occasional outbursts of violence, and extensive use of historical background. Pillars, set mostly in medieval England, followed the building of a cathedral. Night Over Water was a Grand Hotel-style tale that took place aboard a transatlantic seaplane flying from Southampton to New York on the eve of World War II. A Dangerous Fortune revolved around family and business intrigue in a large family of financiers in Victorian-era London, and A Place Called Freedom took place in Britain's North American colonies around the time of the American Revolution.

Follett changed literary gears a third time in the late 1990s, with a pair of books set firmly in the present and using high technology as a plot device. The Hammer of Eden focused on the potential use of earthquakes as a terrorist weapon, and The Third Twin on the darker aspects of biotechnology. The two novels--seemingly an attempt to mine the same fictional vein as Michael Crichton--were comparatively unsuccessful. Reviewers, as well as many readers, found the characters shallow and the effort required to suspend disbelief too great.

Follett returned to conventional low-tech thrillers in Code to Zero, an espionage story pitting Soviet and American agents on the eve of America's first satellite launch. The World War II adventures Jackdaws and Hornet Flight put Follett firmly back where he began: writing about daring agents operating undercover behind enemy lines, charged with a mission that could change the course of the war. Some critics and readers hailed them as a welcome and long-overdue return by Follett to the kind of story he writes best. Others regarded them as old wine in new bottles: rehashings of themes and situations he had treated more interestingly in his earlier work.

Barring another radical shift in his literary output, Follett's reputation is likely to rest on his early thrillers (especially Eye of the Needle and The Key to Rebecca) and on The Pillars of the Earth, which he himself is said to regard as his finest work.

Mark Wahlberg
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Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5, 1971 in Dorchester, Massachusetts) is an American actor, model, and singer.


Biography

Wahlberg is from a family of nine children and is of Swedish and Irish heritage. He first came to fame as the younger brother of Donnie Wahlberg of New Kids on the Block. Wahlberg had run afoul of the law as a teenager - in 1986 he was charged with racial harassment of a group of African-American students, and two years later he spent 45 days in prison after attacking and severely injuring a Vietnamese man.

After Wahlberg was released from prison, Donnie agreed to help his troubled sibling restart his music career if he cleaned up his act. In 1990, after adopting the stage name Marky Mark, Wahlberg formed the Funky Bunch with dancers/rappers Scott Ross (aka Scottie Gee), Hector Barros (aka Hector the Booty Inspector), Anthony Thomas (aka Ashley Ace), and Terry Yancey (aka DJ-T). They earned hits with "Good Vibrations" and "Wild Side" from Music for the People (where he poses with a Saab 9000).

His second LP, You Gotta Believe, was a relative failure, in large part due to the controversy surrounding him, regarding racism and homophobia. When the story of his arrest for assault - and the allegations of racism - broke in the press, things took on a decidedly darker note. Soon after, while on a British talk show along with dancehall dee jay Shabba Ranks, he got into even more controversy. After Ranks made the statement that gays should be crucified, Wahlberg was accused of condoning the comments by his silence. During this time, You Gotta Believe had not been faring well and, after the charges surfaced, it plummeted off the charts. Adding to the hoopla, Wahlberg was brought to court for allegedly assaulting a security guard. He was ordered to make amends by appearing in a series of anti-bias advertisements. In the mid 90s, he enjoyed some further musical success in Europe with his musical partner Prince Ital Joe and the Eurodance-album "Life in the streets", which included the singles "Happy People" (#4 Germany) and "United" (#1 Germany).

At the height of his success Wahlberg released an autobiography which featured a dedication to his own penis. 1

Following his fall from grace in the music world, Wahlberg decided to pursue acting. He had had modeling experience, seen most prominently in a series of underwear ads from Calvin Klein. After becoming an actor, he dropped the Marky Mark moniker and became known simply as Mark Wahlberg.

His first big screen role came in Renaissance Man (1994). Some notable filmography includes his breakout role as Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights (1997), the lead in Tim Burton's 2001 remake of Planet of the Apes, and a firefighter who is facing an existential crisis in I ♥ Huckabees (2004).

Wahlberg will next appear in Martin Scorsese's The Departed, due for release in 2006, as one of Leonardo DiCaprio's police superiors. He is currently producing the series Entourage on HBO, which is loosely based on incidents from his own life.

Wahlberg is dating model Rhea Durham. Their daughter, Ella Rae, was born on September 2, 2003, and their son, Michael, was born on March 21, 2006.

Trivia

He has claimed to have had a reservation to fly from his hometown of Boston back to Los Angeles on September 11, 2001, on either United Airlines Flight 175 or American Airlines Flight 11. He decided on the previous day to go instead to Toronto to meet with friends.
Mark Wahlberg has a third nipple underneath his left breast. He has recently decided not to have it removed [1].
Mark's sister, Debbie Wahlberg, died the same day his daughter Ella Rae was born.
Mark Wahlberg is mentioned in the opening words of Eminem's song "drug ballad".

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
(OR, WORDS THAT MAKE YOU GO... HMMMMM...)


There is no egg in eggplant or ham in hamburger;
neither apple nor pine in pineapple.

English muffins weren't invented in England -
or French fries in France.

Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads,
which aren't sweet, are meat.

Quicksand works slowly.
Boxing rings are square.
A guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing,
grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?

If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth?
And One goose, 2two geese.
One moose, two meese?

If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one
of them, what do you call it?
Is it an odd, or an end?


If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables,
what does a humanitarian eat?

People recite at a play and play at a recital.

Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?

Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,
while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in
which your house can burn up as it burns down,
in which you fill in a form by filling it out,
and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and
it reflects the creativity of the human race,
which, of course, is not a race at all.

That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but
when the lights are out, they are invisible.

P.S. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"?

Well, folks, we know that our hawk has landed when we read his great observations. Thanks, buddy. You once again showed us why the English language is the third hardest language in the world to master, especially for immigrants.

The book, "The Longest Day"was an excellent depiction of D-Day, and I remember a couple of unusual things concerning it. One, had to do with a paratrooper who landed only to find that his thigh had been laid open by shrapnel. He poured sulfa into the wound, and clamped it together with a safety pin. Wow! Adrenalin got many soldiers through a lot of horrifying experiences, listeners.

For our Cyracuz. Sorry, Norway, that I couldn't hear more of your great guitar song, but I was wondering if it were you playing?

Good morning.

Good ones, Bob.

Wondering why he was called Hopalong.





And remembering (in the movie, The Longest Day) the paratrooper (Red Buttons) whose parachute got tangled on a church spire(I think that's what it was) and became deaf due to the overbearingly loud clanging of the church bells.

Richard Burton was the one whose leg was split open.

Well, listeners, there's our Raggedy with great photo's. Hey, PA, maybe they called him Hopalong 'cause his horse threw a shoe. <smile>

Who in the world is Mark and the Funky Bunch?

Well, I am still trying to find the music of Fred Vogel for the observation of D-Day. No luck as yet.

If my memory hasn't failed me, he was found by Richard Beymer of West Side Story fame.

Oops, missed both of your observations, hawk. Ah, I see that you are referring to the movie, and as for that wry observation of Richard Beymer, I guess I'll have to dream the rest,Boston.

Okay. I'll be back later with lunch on Omaha Beach.

Letty: That's Mark Wahlberg (see Bob's bio ) He played the porn star in "Boogie Nights" with Burt Reynolds.

Right on, Bob. I had forgotten about Richard Beymer finding him.

And Letty, did you finally find Lunch on Omaha Beach? I did a lot of searching for that lunch, but never was able to find it.

ah, Raggedy. That reminded me of Cav. "Chef by day; porn star by night." Remembering with a smile.

I know the poem is by Bink Noll, PA, but I am having absolutely no luck at all. Media player isn't even working, but perhaps, it's just me and my machinery.

I think, folks, we're seeing the last of a "free lunch" from the net.

Wonderful news from the Bronx in New York city, listeners. I just received a marvelous cd in the mail.

Many of you here may not remember, Beedle, but you may know him as Bert, one of the best performers that I have ever heard, and he's back and better than ever.

This was just on the radio here by me, so I though I'd share it. If you don't like your songs sappy, then don't listen to this one. But me, I love this style of music.

Meatloaf
I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)

And I would do anything for love, I'd run right into hell and back
I would do anything for love, I'll never lie to you and that's a fact
But I'll never forget the way you feel right now, oh no, no way
And I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, I won't do that
Anything for love, oh I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, oh I won't do that

Some days it don't come easy, and some days it don't come hard
Some days it don't come at all, and these are the days that never end
Some nights you're breathing fire, and some nights you're carved in ice
Some nights you're like nothing I've ever seen before or will again

Maybe I'm crazy, but it's crazy and it's true
I know you can save me, no one else can save me now but you

As long as the planets are turning, as long as the stars are burning
As long as your dreams are coming true, you better believe it

That I would do anything for love, and I'll be there til the final act
I would do anything for love, and I'll take a vow and seal a pact

But I'll never forgive myself if we don't go all the way tonight
And I would do anything for love, oh I would do anything for love
Oh I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, no I won't do that

I would do anything for love, anything you've been dreaming of
But I just won't do that
(repeats 3x)

(Solo)

Some days I pray for silence, and somedays I pray for soul
Some days I just pray to the God of Sex and Drums and Rock 'N Roll
Some nights I lose the feeling, and some nights I lose control
Some nights I just lose it all when I watch you dance and the thunder rolls

Maybe I'm lonely and that's all I'm qualified to be
There's just one and only, the one and only promise I can keep

As long as the wheels are turning, as long as the fires are burning
As long as your prayers are coming true, you better believe it

That I would do anything for love, and you know it's true and that's a fact
I would do anything for love, and there'll never be no turning back

But I'll never do it better than I do it with you, so long, so long
And I would do anything for love, oh I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, no no no I won't do that

I would do anything for love, anything you've been dreaming of
But I just won't do that
(repeats 7x)

But I'll never stop dreaming of you every night of my life, no way

And I would do anything for love, oh I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, no I won't do that

[Girl:] Will you raise me up, will you help me down?
Will you get me right out of this Godforsaken town?
Will you make it all a little less cold?

[Boy:] I can do that! I can do that!

[Girl:] Will you hold me sacred? Will you hold me tight?
Can you colorize my life, I'm so sick of black and white?
Can you make it all a little less old?

[Boy:] I can do that! Oh oh, now I can do that!

[Girl:] Will you make me some magic, with your own two hands?
Can you build an emerald city with these grains of sand?
Can you give me something I can take home?

[Boy:] I can do that! Oh oh now, I can do that!

[Girl:] Will you cater to every fantasy I got?
Will ya hose me down with holy water, if I get too hot?
Will you take me places I've never known?

[Boy:] I can do that! Oh oh now, I can do that!

[Girl:] After a while you'll forget everything
It was a brief interlude and a midsummer night's fling
And you'll see that it's time to move on

[Boy:] I won't do that! No I won't do that!

[Girl:] I know the territory, I've been around
It'll all turn to dust and we'll all fall down
And sooner or later, you'll be screwing around

[Boy:] I won't do that! No I won't do that!

Anything for love, oh I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, no I won't do that

Well, there's our Arthur. Hope you had a wonderful weekend, buddy. Well, dear, we appreciate any style here, whether they be snappy or crappy

Here's an answer:

I Believe In Music lyrics



I BELIEVE IN MUSIC
Mac Davis (1970)


I could just sit around, making music all day long.
As long as I'm making my music ain't gonna do nobody no harm.
And who knows, maybe I'll come up with a song
To make people want to stop all this fussing and fighting
Long enough to sing along.

CHORUS:
I believe in music
I believe in love
I believe in music
I believe in love.

Music is love and love is music if you know what I mean
People who believe in music are the happiest people I've ever seen
So clap your hands and stomp your feet and shake those tambourines
Lift your voices to the sky; tell me what you see.

(CHORUS)

Music is the universal language, and love is the key
To peace hope and understanding, and living in harmony
So take your brother by the hand and come along with me
Lift your voices to the sky, tell me what you see.

(CHORUS)

I'm glad you'll let anything in, because that's the kind of music I listen to most often, so expect more of that now and again, whether you think of it as "snappy" or "crappy" . And my weekend was good, thank you, since I got my home computer repaired and can now be here nights and weekends again.

GENESIS
"You Might Recall"


What was it you said to me
Back in the days when things looked fine
'bout how we would be together
Until we left the earth behind
Oh, it's funny how things can change
Cos there was a time I thought I'd be the one
Who'd leave and start again
But now I'd stay forever

Ooh my hopes are as the leaves upon the water
Just sunk in the night
And though I know you couldn't care, you oughtta
Ah, the end of a life
Or maybe when you're older, and you're thinking back
You might recall
Now did I act carefully, did I do right?
Or were we meant to be, all of our lives
In love and harmony, all of our lives?

So now, take my hand
Come, hold me closely
As near as you can
Believing all that we could be
And all that we have been
And all that we are

Everyday seems summertime
The river flow with wine
Ooh when you were here with me
I wish we'd stayed that way forever

Oh my hopes are as the leaves upon the water
Just sunk in the night
And though I know you couldn't care, you oughtta
Ah, the end of a life
Or maybe when you're older, and you're thinking back
Well you might recall
Now did I act carefully, did I do right?
Or were we meant to be, all of our lives
In love and harmony, all of our lives?

So now, take my hand
Come, hold me closely
As near as you can
Believing all that we could be
And all that we have been
And all that we are

Oh my hopes were as the leaves upon the water
Ah, sunk in the night
And though I know you couldn't care, you oughtta
Oh, the end of a life
And maybe when you're older, and you're thinking back
Oh, you might recall
Now did I act carefully, did I do right?
Or were we meant to be, all of our lives
In love and harmony, all of our lives?

So now, take my hand
Come, hold me closely
As near as you can
Believing all that we could be
And all that we have been
And all that we are

Well, Mr. Tin Sword. I do recall this, buddy.

» The Long And Winding Road

The long and winding road that leads to your door,
Will never disappear,
I've seen that road before It always leads me here,
leads me to your door.
The wild and windy night the rain washed away,
Has left a pool of tears crying for the day.
Why leave me standing here, let me know the way
Many times I've been alone and many times I've cried
Anyway you'll never know the many ways I've tried, but
Still they lead me back to the long and winding road
You left me standing here a long, long time ago
Don't leave me waiting here, lead me to your door
Da, da, da, da--

Now there are two.