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Well, listeners, Our Raggedy to the rescue again. I thought that I had read every, "let's pretend" book in the world.

Sometimes, I get things confused with other things, like The Happy Prince. Anyone remember that?

I've never read "The Happy Prince" and was surprised to find that Oscar Wilde wrote it. And, I thought I knew all those "pretend" stories.

Surprisingly enough, Raggedy. Oscar wrote another called The Selfish Giant. Not just a fairy tale, either.

Well, folks, speaking of giants here's one by They Might be Giants:

David Bowie came to town
Flying overhead
"Don't you dig my chops?" he cried
This is what they said

Au contraire, Dave
Quite the opposite, in fact
As it happens, au contraire
Au contraire, mon frre

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Knew not what to do
"This tie clashes with my hat," he cried
"Don't you think that's true?"


Au contraire, Delano
Hate to rain on your parade
As it happens, au contraire
Au contraire, mon frre

Jodie Foster held two pair
Bach had three of a kind
Gandhi said, "With my full house,
I will blow your mind!"

Au contraire, Mahatma
Hate to contradict you, but
As it happens, au contraire
Au contraire, yes au contraire

And au contraire, you square
Wash that notion from your hair
If you're still there, I must declare
Au contraire, mon trs
Bon frre

Right on! Right on! Right on! Right on! Right on! Right on! Right on! Right on! Right on!
Right on. Right on.
Right on!

Hilarious!

She Bought A Hat Like Princess Marina
Written by: Ray Davies

She's bought a hat like Princess Marina's
To wear at all her social affairs
She wears it when she's cleaning the windows
She wears it when she's scrubbing the stairs
But you will never see her at Ascot
She can't afford the time or the fare
But she's bought a hat like Princess Marina's
So she don't care

He's bought a hat like Anthony Eden's
Because it makes him feel like a Lord
But he can't afford a Rolls or a Bentley
He has to buy a secondhand Ford
He tries to feed his wife and his family
And buy them clothes and shoes they can wear
But he's bought a hat like Anthony Eden's
So he don t care

Buddy can you spare me a dime
My wife is getting hungry
And the kids are crying
This poverty is hurting my pride
Buddy can you spare me, buddy can you spare me a dime

She's bought a hat like Princess Marina's
And her neighbors think it suits her a treat
But she hasn't any food in the larder
Nor has anybody else in the street
But to look at her you'd think she was wealthy
'Cos she smiles just like a real millionaire
'Cos she's bought a hat like Princess Marina's
So she don't care, she don't care, she don't care, she don't care

This Man He Weeps Tonight
Written by: Dave Davies

I wish that you could see
All the things that I have seen.
This mind of mine is making life worthwhile.
I wish that you'd have know
Of all the plans I had in store for us,
Laughing, dancing, traveling the world on our own.

And this man, he weeps tonight,
And his head is bowed with sorrow,
But what can you do, sitting there,
And you let him cry tomorrow,
Yes, you'll let him cry tomorrow.
Yes, you'll let him cry tomorrow.

I thought our thing would last,
'Cause it said so in my horoscope,
The days have gone and past while dreaming away.
The lighting here is dim,
And the room closes in around me.
Your picture's hanging loose on a rusting nail.

And this man, he weeps tonight,
And his head is bowed with sorrow,
But what can you do, sitting there,
And you let him cry tomorrow,
Yes, you'll let him cry tomorrow.
Yes, you'll let him cry tomorrow.

And this man, he weeps tonight,
And his head is bowed with sorrow,
But what can you do, sitting there,
And you let him cry tomorrow,
Yes, you'll let him cry tomorrow.
Yes, you'll let him cry tomorrow.

Hey, dj. Those two songs are great because they tie in with the depression in America that wasn't so great, Canada. As a matter of record, folks, O Brother Where Art Thou is on TV here tonight.

Let's hear one from that era:

Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?
Gorney, Harburg

They used to tell me
I was building a dream.
And so I followed the mob
When there was earth to plow
Or guns to bear
I was always there
Right on the job.
They used to tell me
I was building a dream
With peace and glory ahead.
Why should I be standing in line
Just waiting for bread?
Once I built a railroad
I made it run
Made it race against time.
Once I built a railroad
Now it's done
Brother, can you spare a dime?
Once I built a tower up to the sun
Brick and rivet and lime.
Once I built a tower,
Now it's done.
Brother, can you spare a dime?
Once in khaki suits
Gee we looked swell
Full of that yankee doodle dee dum.
Half a million boots went sloggin' through hell
And I was the kid with the drum!
Say don't you remember?
They called me Al.
It was Al all the time.
Why don't you remember?
I'm your pal.
Say buddy, can you spare a dime?

Once in khaki suits,
Ah, gee we looked swell
Full of that yankee doodle dee dum!
Half a million boots went sloggin' through hell
And I was the kid with the drum!
Oh, say don't you remember?
They called me Al.
It was Al all the time.
Say, don't you remember?
I'm your pal.
Buddy, can you spare a dime?

No special reason for this one, folks. One of the characters on Criminal Intent mentioned him. This particular episode was really good, incidentally:

Ité


Go, my songs, seek your praise from the young
and from the intolerant,
Move among the lovers of perfection alone.
Seek ever to stand in the hard Sophoclean light
And take your wounds from it gladly.

Ezra Pound

Sure, pleased to help. Now…


GET OFF OF MY CLOUD
(M. Jagger/K. Richards) Lyrics

I live in an apartment on the ninety-ninth floor of my block
And I sit at home looking out the window
Imagining the world has stopped
Then in flies a guy who's all dressed up like a Union Jack
And says, I've won five pounds if I have his kind of detergent pack

I said, Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd
On my cloud, baby

The telephone is ringing
I say, "Hi, it's me. Who is it there on the line?"
A voice says, "Hi, hello, how are you
Well, I guess I'm doin' fine"
He says, "It's three a.m., there's too much noise
Don't you people ever wanna go to bed?
Just 'cause you feel so good, do you have
To drive me out of my head?"

I said, Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd
On my cloud baby

I was sick and tired, fed up with this
And decided to take a drive downtown
It was so very quiet and peaceful
There was nobody, not a soul around
I laid myself out, I was so tired and I started to dream
In the morning the parking tickets were just like
A flag stuck on my window screen

I said, Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd
On my cloud

Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Don't hang around, baby, two's a crowd

Perfect, Try, and one to match for our listeners:



Goin' Out Of My Head
Teddy Randazzo and Bobby Weinstein


Well I think I'm going out of my head.
Yes I think I'm going out of my head
Over you, over you.

I want you to want me.
I need you so badly,
I can't think of anything but you.

I want you to want me.
I need you so badly,
I can't think of anything but you.

And I think I'm going out of my head
'cause I can't explain the tears that I shed
Over you, over you.

I see you each morning but you just walk past me
you don't even know that I exist

Going out of my head over you,
out of my head over you,
out of my head day and night,
night and day and night wrong or right.

I must think of a way into your heart.
There's no reason why my being shy should keep us apart

And I think I'm going out of my head.
Yes I think I'm going out of my head. Repeat and fade

I Just Want To Be Your Everything
Andy Gibb

[Written by Barry Gibb]

For so long
You and me been finding each other
For so long
And the feeling that I feel for you
Is more then strong
Take it from me
If you give a little more then you're asking for
Your love will turn the key
Darling, mine
I would wait forever for those lips of wine
Build my world around you, darlin'
This love will shine, girl
Watch it and see
If you give a little more then you're asking for
Your love will turn the key

I, I just want to be your everything
Open up the heaven in your heart and let me be
The things you are to me
And not some puppet on a string
Oh, if I, if I stay here without you darlin', I will die
I want you laying in the love I have to bring
I'd do anything to be your everything


Darlin', for so long
You and me been findin' each other for so long
And the feeling that I feel for you
Is more then strong girl
Take it from me
If you give a little more then you're asking for
Your love will turn the key

Oh I, I just want to be your everything
Open up the heaven in your heart and let me be
The things you are to me
And not some puppet on a string
Oh I, If I stay here without you, darlin', I will die
I want you laying in the love I have to bring
I'd do anything to be your everything

Repeat last verse

That song was perfect. Now…

C'mon Everybody
ROLLING STONES LYRICS


Well c'mon everybody and let's get together tonight
I got some money in my jeans and I'm really gonna spend it
right
Been a-doin' my homework all week long
now the house is empty the folks are gone
Ooo C'mon everybody

Well my baby's number one but I'm gonna dance with three or
four
And the house'll be shakin' from my bare feet slapping the
floor
When you hear that music you can't sit still
If your brother won't rock then your sister will
Ooo C'mon everybody

Well we'll really have a party but we gotta put a guard outside
If the folks come home I'm afraid they gonna have my hide
There'll be no more movies for a week or two
No more runnin' 'round with the usual crew
Who cares C'mon everybody

You know, Texas. I was meandering through the medical news tonight and found out something very interesting. Most of us curl up in a love song, right? and your song title brought this to mind and I want to share it with our listeners:




"This is probably something that happens all the time."
Dr. Hunter Champion
Johns Hopkins University



(AP) Confirming the wisdom of the poets and philosophers, doctors say the sudden death of a loved one really can cause a broken heart.

In fact, they have dubbed the condition "broken heart syndrome."

In a study published just in time for Valentine's Day, doctors reported how a tragic or shocking event can stun the heart and produce classic heart attack-like symptoms, including chest pain, shortness of breath and fluid in the lungs.

Unlike a heart attack, the condition is reversible. Patients often are hospitalized but typically recover within days after little more than bed rest and fluids, and suffer no permanent damage to their hearts.

So, if you are afraid that you will die of a broken heart, don't worry. It will mend.

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Well, Try slipped one in on us, folks. Shucks, buddy, I love to dance, and generally, I'm not bashful about asking a man, either.

I still love this one, and I think it's because it's in a miror key, but not certain of that. Anyway, it has a double meaning, I think.

Diana Krall in Spanish.

Puede haber apuro a continuación
Pero mientras que hay música y claro de luna y amor y romance
Hagamos frente a la música y bailemos

Antes de los fiddlers han huido
Antes de que pidan que paguemos la cuenta y mientras que todavía tenemos la ocasión
Hagamos frente a la música y bailemos

Pronto estaremos sin la luna, tarareando una diversa consonancia y entonces
Puede haber teardrops a verter
Tan mientras que hay claro de luna y música y amor y romance
Hagamos frente a la música y bailemos

And for us Americans, Diana Krall in English


There may be trouble ahead
But while there's music and moonlight and love and romance
Let's face the music and dance

Before the fiddlers have fled
Before they ask us to pay the bill and while we still have the chance
Let's face the music and dance

Soon we'll be without the moon, humming a different tune and then
There may be teardrops to shed
So while there's moonlight and music and love and romance
Let's face the music and dance

A broken heart hurts as much as anything I've experienced, Letty. No details, however. He he.

Well, Mr. Turtle, that's perfect, honey. Right, listeners? A nurse of the night can also make one's heart beat a little faster. :wink:

edgar, there isn't a person on this planet that has not suffered from a spell of love sickness.

Poor Hank Williams. I don't think his wife would let him be a man.

I got a feelin' called the blu-ues, oh, Lawd
Since my baby said good- bye
And I don't know what I'll do-oo-oo
All I do is sit and sigh-igh, oh, Lawd

That last long day she said good- bye
Well Lawd I thought I would cry
She'll do me, she'll do you, she's got that kind of lovin'
Lawd, I love to hear her when she calls me
Sweet dad-ad-ad-dy, such a beautiful dream
I hate to think it all o-o-ver
I've lost my heart it seems
I've grown so used to you some- how
Well, I'm nobody's sugar- daddy now
And I'm lo-on-lonesome
I got the Lovesick Blu-ues.

Well, I'm in love, I'm in love, with a beautiful gal
That's what's the matter with me
Well, I'm in love, I'm in love, with a beautiful gal
But she don't care about me
Lawd, I tried and I tried, to keep her satisfied
But she just wouldn't stay
So now that she is lea-eav-in'
This is all I can say.

Repeat chorus

Michele Lee
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Michele Lee (born on June 24, 1942) is an American singer, dancer, actress, producer, director and frequent game show panelist of the 1970s who is of Russian-Polish descent is best-known for her role as the beloved matriarch Karen Cooper Fairgate MacKenzie on the 1980s prime-time soap opera, Knots Landing. She also co-starred with Dean Jones in the 1968 Disney cult classic movie, The Love Bug.

Early life

She was born to a Jewish family as Michelle Lee Dusick in Los Angeles, California, to Jack Dusick, who was a popular makeup artist for MGM Studios of the 1950s and 1960s, and to Sylvia Dusick, who was a stay-at-home mother. She is also the oldest of a brother, who's currently a district attorney. She began singing in 1945 in front of her parents, and was soon consumed into the entire community. When she was in 10th grade at Alexander Hamilton High School, she tried out for a band and served as its lead singer, at the same time, she became very popular with her class and received excellent grades. She graduated from high school in 1960, and was destined to become a theatrical actress. For this thrilling teenager to become an actress, at her parents' wishes, she dropped the name of Dusick, and the extra l of her first name, therefore, she became, Michele Lee, and was already popular with her Broadway roles.

Stage actress

She began her career on television in an episode of the late 1950s sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. She soon began appearing in musicals, becoming a star on Broadway at the age of 19 in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying in the role of "Rosemary", opposite Robert Morse and the late Rudy Vallee, a role she reprised in the film version. When Lee was 18 in 1960, she auditioned for the Broadway play Vintage '60. She also appeared in more plays, such as the Los Angeles production of Parade and in the New York-Italian production of Bravo Giovanni that same year.

Singer

In addition to starring on Broadway plays, she also made guest appearances on a number of variety and game shows, making her debut on an episode of The Danny Kaye Show in 1963. This part led to other guest appearances on The Match Game, What's My Line, The Carol Burnett Show, Hollywood Squares, and others. As her popularity grew in the late 1960s, she was also a recording artist signed to Columbia Records. Between 1967 & 1968, she recorded 2 separate albums per year. The first album she recorded was A Taste of the Fantastic which was followed by L. David Sloane. She sung mostly in nightclubs and traveled to the famous Persian Room in New York and the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas.

Film and TV work

After she sang and starred in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967), she first became known for her saccharine roles in the films The Love Bug (1968), and The Comic (1969). Lee's movie The Love Bug became the biggest blockbuster movie of 1969 prior to the star's birth of the child. She continued her frequent game show panelist appearances on a number of game shows, including The $25,000 Pyramid, "Match Game", and Hollywood Squares. She worked infrequently until accepting a role on Broadway in Seesaw, which netted her a Tony Award nomination in 1974. After her mother's death, she stopped working and wanting to spend time with her only son.


Television work

Knots Landing

Main title caption for Knots Landing.In 1979, Lee accepted an acting job after a three-year sabbatical, the leading role in Knots Landing, a spinoff of the immensely-popular, Dallas. On Knots Lee was cast as feisty matriarch Karen Fairgate MacKenzie. Her co-stars on the show were Joan Van Ark and Ted Shackelford, who played Karen's best friends and neighbors, Val and Gary Ewing, who both guest-starred on several episodes of its parent show, Dallas. Lee had been a stranger to Van Ark up until 1979, but the two would go on to become friends off-screen. The first episodes of the series were not high-rated, but the network continued to support it and eventually the show took off during the second season in 1980. Also between the first and the second seasons, the show started sending a few actorsactors from Dallas, to guest-star on her show. Although Lee was finally having great success, her marriage was failing. Coincidentally, she and her husband James Farentino divorced at around the same time Lee's onscreen husband, Don Murray left the show. Lee thus played a single mother on Knots at the same time she was becoming one in real-life. In 2005, Lee revealed that when her character took off her wedding ring in 1983, after a year of mourning, Lee was taking off her real life wedding band.

When Lee and Farentino divorced in 1983, she met Fred Rappaport at a party, whom she married in 1987. During the fall of 1982, her character met M. Patrick "Mack" MacKenzie (Kevin Dobson) who became her husband a year later and would continue working with him up until the very end. As one of the leads, Lee became very popular with fans, winning the Soap Opera Digest Award for Lead Actress five times, and being nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series once in 1982. In 1983, the writers/producers of Knots Landing urged her to do a storyline based on drug dependency. She hated the script, but agreed to do the storyline. Six years later, Lee directed her first episode and continued to do so until the series ended, and that was before her co-star (Donna Mills) has decided to leave the show, she'd been on Knots since 1980, and for the next nine seasons, Mills always wanted to make the soap better than ever, next to Dallas and Dynasty. Lee's co-star (Joan Van Ark) has publicly praised her directing skills. In 1990, Knots Landing was reached a milestone with almost at 300 episodes in the can, being second-only to its parent soap, Dallas. During the 12th season, Michele Lee wrote her favorite scene from the series which is known as the "Pollyanna Speech" among fans. In this scene, the character explains how she would like to be a pollyanna, but cannot be due to the world around her. In 1992, her co-star (Joan Van Ark) has decided to leave the show, because Lee had found out from her best friend that she was about to star in a sitcom for NBC. Though Van Ark shot the pilot, her sitcom had never been advertised, therefore, both Van Ark & Mills came back for the series finale.

As Knots moved into the 1990s, its popularity waned. The big budget that the series once had was trimmed; in the final season, the higher paid cast members were asked to appear in only 15 of the season's 19 episodes, as the budget constraints had become so that the production company couldn't afford to pay them. Lee refused and appeared in all 19 episodes that season, doing her extra four for union scale. This allowed Lee to appear in all 344 episodes of the series: a record that has not been broken by any other actress in a primetime drama to date.

After Knots

Knots Landing ended in 1993. Lee has since appeared in many made-for-TV movies, including a biopic of late country star Dottie West and the Knots Landing reunion special, Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac. In 1996, she became the first woman to star, direct, and produce a TV movie for Lifetime, Color Me Perfect. In 2004, she returned to feature films in the role of Ben Stiller's mother in Along Came Polly. She guest-starred alongside Chita Rivera in a February 2005 episode of Will & Grace. She and her son relocated to New York.

Private life

In 1963, she met actor James Farentino on the set of the theatrical play, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and in 1964, she married him. Soon after, she and husband both had a son, David Farentino (born 6 July, 1969). One year, after giving birth to David, she lost her father Jack Dusick in 1970, of a massive heart attack. In 1976, she lost her mother, Sylvia Dusick, and between the two, she was very devastated about the losses of her parents in separate years.

Mick Fleetwood
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Michael John Kells "Mick" Fleetwood, born in Redruth, Cornwall, England, on June 24, 1942, is a musician best-known for his role as the drummer with the Rock and Roll band Fleetwood Mac. Fleetwood drums in a sparse, solid style that has changed little since his earliest recordings in 1967 with Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. The snakey, sensuous rhythms he forged with Mac bassist John McVie have provided the common stylistic thread throughout the band's many line up changes and stylistic nuances. More than fifty albums have been released under the name Fleetwood Mac - by far the most popular being the two mega-platinum sets the group put out in the late seventies, Fleetwood Mac and Rumours.

Apart from his work with Fleetwood Mac, Mick has led a number of modestly successful side projects. 1981's The Visitor featured heavy African stylistics,and and in 1983 he formed his own side band, Mick Fleetwood's Zoo. The Zoo recorded at least one quite catchy set, I'm Not Me, which had a minor hit with the Mac-ish "I Want You Back" and featured a lovely version of the Beach Boys' "Angel Come Home". A later version of the group recorded 1995's Shaking the Cage. 2004 found the sixty-plus Fleetwood pounding the skins with greater vigor than ever on The Mick Fleetwood Band's Something Big. After a forty year career, Fleetwood could be considered the most consistent drummer in rock history.

The slender, nearly seven foot Fleetwood has a striking, Rasputin-like appearance which has led to a secondary career as a TV and film actor, usually in minor parts, and perhaps most memorably in Star Trek: The Next Generation and as a resistance leader in The Running Man. Fleetwood also had the misfortune to act as co-host of the 1989 "Brit Awards", often cited as one of the worst programmes in the history of British Television.

He is the author of Fleetwood, his memoirs of his life, especially with Fleetwood Mac, published in 1990. Included in the book are his experiences with other musicians, including Eric Clapton, members of the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, and a romance with Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac. Fleetwood also discusses his addiction to powdered cocaine, and his personal bankruptcy after earning millions of dollars or pounds from his drumming career. He stated that his now-deceased father implied that Mick had taken his millions and sniffed them all up his nose. Actually, Mick's problems were exasperated by foolish real-estate purchases in the United Kingdom, in the United States, and in Australia, on which he lost a lot of money.

These by no means unique personal failings notwithstanding, Fleetwood remains one of the most flamboyant and beloved secondary figures in the world of blues-rock.

His sister was the late actress Susan Fleetwood.

Phil Harris
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Phil Harris (b. Wonga Philip Harris, June 24, 1904, Linton, Indiana; d. August 11, 1995, Palm Springs, California) was an American singer, songwriter, jazz musician and comedian. Though successful as an orchestra leader, Harris is remembered today for his recordings as a vocalist, his voice work in animation and the radio situation comedy in which he co-starred with his second wife, singer-actress Alice Faye, for eight years.

Bandleader

Though Indiana-born, Harris actually spent much of his childhood in Nashville, Tennessee, which accounted for both his trace of a Southern accent and, in later years, the self-deprecating Southern jokes of his radio character. Harris began his music career as a drummer in San Francisco, forming an orchestra with Carol Lofner in the latter 1920s and starting a long engagement at the St. Francis Hotel. The partnership ended by 1932, and Harris led and sang with his own band, now based in Los Angeles. In the interim, he married his first wife, Australian Marcia Ralston. The couple adopted a son, Phil Harris, Jr. (b. 1935), but divorced in 1939.

radio

Three years before his divorce, Harris became musical director of The Jell-O Show Starring Jack Benny (later re-named The Jack Benny Program), singing and leading his band and---when his knack for snappy one-liners became apparent---joining the Benny ensemble playing Phil Harris, scripted as a hipster-talking, hard-drinking, brash Southerner whose good nature overcame his ego. His trademark was his jive-talk nicknaming of the others in the Benny orbit. Benny was "Jackson," for example; Harris's usual entry was a cheerful "Hiya, Jackson!". His signature song, ironic considering his actual Hoosier roots, was "That's What I Like About the South."

Phil and Alice

Harris married Alice Faye in 1941; it was a second marriage for both. Faye had been married briefly to singer-actor Tony Martin). The Faye-Harris marriage lasted 54 years, until Harris's death. He enlisted himself and his entire band in the U.S. Navy for World War II service in 1942, but by 1946 Faye had all but ended her film career. She drove off the 20th Century Fox lot after studio czar Darryl F. Zanuck reputedly edited her scenes out of Fallen Angel (1945) to pump up his protege Linda Darnell.

Harris and Faye were invited to join a radio program, The Fitch Bandwagon. Originally a vehicle for big bands, including Harris's own, the show became something else entirely when Harris and Faye became popular personalities. Coinciding with the couple's desire to settle in southern California and raise their children without touring, Bandwagon evolved into the popular situation comedy, The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show. With Harris as the vain, language-challenged bandleading husband and Faye as his acid but loving wife, abetted by actresses playing their two young daughters, the series also featured Gale Gordon as their sponsor's representative, Elliott Lewis as layabout guitarist Frank Remley and former Great Gildersleeve co-star Walter Tetley as obnoxious grocery boy Julius. The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show had an eight-year run on NBC until radio succumbed to television.

After radio

The ThingAfter the show ended, Harris revived his music career. He made numerous guest appearances on 1960s and 1970s TV shows, including the Kraft Music Hall, The Dean Martin Show, Hollywood Palace and other musical variety programs. He worked as a vocalist and voice actor for animated films, with performances in the Disney animated features The Aristocats as Thomas O'Malley, Robin Hood playing Little John and The Jungle Book as Baloo the Bear.

The Jungle Book was his greatest success in the years following his radio heyday. He voiced the character and sang one of the film's showstoppers, "The Bare Necessities," a performance that introduced Harris to a new generation of young fans who had no idea he was once a popular radio star. Harris also joins Louis Prima in "I Wanna Be Like You", delivering a memorable scat-singing performance. In 1989, Harris briefly returned to Disney to once again voice Baloo, this time for the cartoon series TaleSpin which was in production at the time. Unfortunately, he had aged enough by then that he could no longer do the voice successfully [citation needed]. He was replaced later by actor Ed Gilbert. One of his last animated film projects was in the 1991 film Rock-A-Doodle directed by Don Bluth, in which he played the friendly, laid back farm dog Patou.

Song hits by Harris included the early 1950s novelty record, "The Thing." The song describes the hapless finder of a box with a mysterious secret and his efforts to rid himself of it. Harris also spent time in the 1970s and early 1980s leading a band that appeared often in Las Vegas, often on the same bill with swing era legend Harry James.

Harris was also a close friend and associate of Bing Crosby; in fact, after Crosby died, Harris sat in for his old friend doing color commentary for the telecast of the annual Bing Crosby Pro-Am Golf Tournament. An old episode of The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show began with Harris telling the story of how he once won the tournament.

Honoring his roots

Harris was a longtime resident and benefactor of Palm Springs, California, where Crosby also made his home. Harris was also a benefactor of his birthplace of Linton, Indiana, establishing scholarships in his honor for promising high school students, performing at the high school, and hosting a celebrity golf tournament in his honour every year. In due course, Harris and Faye donated most of their show business memorabilia and papers to Linton's public library.

Phil Harris died of a heart attack in Palm Springs 1995 at age 91. Alice Faye died of stomach cancer three years later. Two years before his death, Harris was inducted into the Indiana Hall of Fame. Both Harris and Faye are interred at Forest Lawn-Cathedral City in Riverside County, California. Phyllis Harris was last reported living in St. Louis (she had been with her mother at her father's bedside when he died), while Alice Harris Regan was reported living in New Orleans.

Harris remained grateful to radio for the difference it made in his professional and personal life, however. "If it hadn't been for radio," he was quoted as saying, "I would still be a traveling orchestra leader. For 17 years I played one-night stands, sleeping on buses. I never even voted, because I didn't have any residence."

The gratitude has probably been returned sevenfold: episodes of The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show turn up frequently on compact-disc collections of old-time radio classics, both on their own sets and amid various comedy collections. Many consider the show at its best to have stood the test of time, thanks to the above-average writing and, especially, the two stars who executed it with impeccable comic taste and timing.

A duck walks into a pharmacy and says, "I would like to purchase a
bottle of aspirin and a box of Kleenex, please." "Certainly," says
the pharmacist. "Will that be cash or charge?" "Oh," replies the
duck, "just put it on my bill."