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Hey, cowboy. Good to see you back. Don't know that John, I'm afraid, but it is interesting that he could have two of the good guys together playing music at the same time.

Trying to remember, now. Was it Paul Desmond who played sax with Dave Brubeck? I just hate to look it up.

Well, a fine vocalist from Australia, Melissa Forbes, wrote this song for Chet Baker.

The face of an angel
Your toothless smile
Holding a secret
Yet all the while
You share it, a little by a little
Note by note, phrase by phrase
The spun gold of your melodies
The sadness of your ways

You're holding out, you're holding in
You can't go home again
You've got broken wings

Citizen of the world yet a nation of one
You shun, you scorn, you love, you lie, you cheat
You feel defeat at the hands of "them"
But of course you are your own worst enemy
No truce, no surrender
You tender to your every desire while inspiring
Slavish devotion to the notions
Of truth and beauty

You're holding out, you're holding in
You can't go home again
You've got broken wings

Maggie's Farm

I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.
No, I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.
Well, I wake in the morning,
Fold my hands and pray for rain.
I got a head full of ideas
That are drivin' me insane.
It's a shame the way she makes me scrub the floor.
I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.

I ain't gonna work for Maggie's brother no more.
No, I ain't gonna work for Maggie's brother no more.
Well, he hands you a nickel,
He hands you a dime,
He asks you with a grin
If you're havin' a good time,
Then he fines you every time you slam the door.
I ain't gonna work for Maggie's brother no more.

I ain't gonna work for Maggie's pa no more.
No, I ain't gonna work for Maggie's pa no more.
Well, he puts his cigar
Out in your face just for kicks.
His bedroom window
It is made out of bricks.
The National Guard stands around his door.
Ah, I ain't gonna work for Maggie's pa no more.

I ain't gonna work for Maggie's ma no more.
No, I ain't gonna work for Maggie's ma no more.
Well, she talks to all the servants
About man and God and law.
Everybody says
She's the brains behind pa.
She's sixty-eight, but she says she's fifty-four.
I ain't gonna work for Maggie's ma no more.

I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.
No, I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.
Well, I try my best
To be just like I am,
But everybody wants you
To be just like them.
They say sing while you slave and I just get bored.
I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.

B Dylan

Good morning WA2K listeners and contributors. Glad to see that our studio and audience are moving smoothly this early am.

Thanks, edgar, for the Dylan song. You like him, don't you. <smile> Do you know that Ezra Pound looks a lot like Bob?

Well, let's begin the day with another Maggie:

Rod Stewart
» Maggie May

Wake up Maggie
I think I got something to say to you;
it's late September and I really should be back at school.
I know I keep you amused
but I feel I'm being used
oh
Maggie
I couldn't have tried anymore.
You lured me away from home
just to save you from being alone.
You stole my heart and that's what really hurts.
The morning sun
when it's in your face
really shows your age
but that don't worry me none
in my eyes you're ev'rything.
I laughed at all of your jokes
my love you didn't need to coax
oh
Maggie
I couldn't have tried anymore.
You lured me away from home
just to save you from being alone.
You stole my soule
that's a pain I can do without.
All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand
but you turned into a lover
and
Mother
what a lover !
You wore me out.
All you did was wreck my bed
and in the morning kick me in the head
oh
Maggie
I couldn't have tried anymore.
You lured me away from home
'cause you didn't want to be alone.
You stole my heart
I couldn't leave you if I tried.
I suppose I could collect my books and get back to school.
Or steal my daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool.
Or find myselfe a rock and roll band that needs a helpin' hand.
Oh
Maggie
I wish I'd never seen your face.
You lured me away from home
just to save you from being alone.
You stole my heart and that's what really hurts.
The morning sun
when it's in your face
really shows your age
but that don't worry me none
in my eyes you're ev'rything.
I laughed at all of your jokes
my love you didn't need to coax
oh
Maggie
I couldn't have tried any face
you made a first-class fool out of me
but I'm as blind as a fool can be
you stole my heart but I love you anyway.
Maggie
I wish I'd never seen your face.
I'll get on back home one of these days.

Pearl S. Buck
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Pearl S. Buck
Born
June 26, 1892
Hillsboro, West Virginia, United States
Died
March 6, 1973
Danby, Vermont, United States
Pearl S. Buck (birth name Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker; Chinese: 赛珍珠; pinyin: Sài Zhēnzhū) (June 26, 1892 - March 6, 1973) was a prolific writer and Nobel Prize winner.




Life

Born in Hillsboro, West Virginia to Caroline (Stulting) and Absalom (Andrew) Sydenstricker, both southern Presbyterian missionaries, she went to Zhenjiang, China in 1892 when she was 3 months old. She was brought up there and first knew the Chinese language and customs, especially from Mr. Kung, and then was taught English by her mother and teacher. She was encouraged to write at an early age.

In 1910, she left for America to attend Randolph-Macon Woman's College [1], where she would earn her degree in 1914. She then returned to China, and married an agricultural economist, John Lossing Buck, on May 13, 1917. In 1921, she and John had a daughter, Carol, who was afflicted with phenylketonuria. The small family then moved to Nanjing, where Pearl taught English literature at University of Nanking. In 1925, the Bucks adopted Janice (later surnamed Walsh). In 1926, she left China and returned to the United States for a short time in order to earn her Master of Arts degree from Cornell University.

Buck began her writing career in 1930 with her first publication of East Wind:West Wind. In 1931 she wrote her best known novel, The Good Earth, which is considered to be one of the best of her many works. The story of the farmer Wang Lung's life brought her the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1932. Her career continued to flourish; she won the William Dean Howells Medal in 1935.

The Bucks were forced to leave China in 1934 due to political tensions. She returned to the United States and obtained a divorce from her husband. She then married Richard J. Walsh, president of the John Day Publishing Company, on June 11, 1935, and with him adopted six other children. In 1938 she won the Nobel Prize for Literature, after writing biographies of her parents, The Exile, and The Fighting Angel. She was the first woman from the United States to win the Nobel in Literature.

In her lifetime, Pearl S. Buck would write over 100 works of literature, her most known being The Good Earth. The Good Earth chronicled the fictional life of the farmer Wang Lung against the backdrop of twentieth-century turmoil and revolution in China. It traces the rise of Lung, a simple farmer, from destitution to great wealth. The novel portrays the complexities of marriage, parenthood, joy, pain, and human frailty. Buck stresses in the novel the value of fertile land, hard work, thrift, and responsibility. The novel has a very circular feel to it, recreating the ebb and flow of life, the change of seasons, and the cycles age and family. Buck's writing is unique in the way it blends the technical language of the King James's version Bible with the simplicity and directness of the old Chinese narrative sagas.

Home

Buck wrote about her experiences in China from her home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. In 1935 she bought a sixty-acre homestead she called Green Hills Farm and moved into a one hundred year old farmhouse on the property with her second husband Richard Walsh and their family of eight children, some of whom were Asian children the couple had adopted. Green Hills Farm is constructed of coursed fieldstone. The house is four bays wide and two deep with the main entrance located in the second bay. Two gable dormers are located on the front and rear slope of the roof. Chimneys are located on each gable end. When Buck purchased the farmstead, she made extensive alternations and additions to the 19th-century farmhouse, including a two-story fieldstone wing added to the east gable and two libraries. Today visitors can tour twelve rooms of the home and visit the pre-Revolutionary War cottage on the property and the barn built in 1827. Green Hills Farm is where Buck spent thirty-eight years of her life, raising her family, writing, pursuing humanitarian interests, and gardening. She completed many works while living in Pennsylvania such as This Proud Heart (1938), The Patriot(1939), Today and Forever (1941), and The Child Who Never Grew (1950). Buck's house represents an excellent example of nineteenth-century Pennsylvanian architecture. The interior of Buck's home melds the two worlds that so greatly shaped the life of this renowned author. In the large library, two Pennsylvania jugs serve as lamp bases upon a beautifully hand carved Chinese hardwood desk, at which Buck wrote her breakthrough novel, The Good Earth. Buck filled her home with interesting works of original art by Chen Chi and Freeman Elliot, iron works of art produced by exiled artisans in China, Peking Fetti carpets that survived revolutions in China, and some of her own sculptures. The Pearl S. Buck House became a National Historic Landmark in 1980 and opened as a museum the same year. The estate is owned and operated by The Pearl S. Buck Foundation. Hills Farm is now on the Registry of Historic Buildings; fifteen thousand people visit each year.

Humanitarian Efforts

Pearl Buck was an extremely passionate activist for human rights. In 1949, outraged that existing adoption services considered Asian and mixed-race children unadoptable, Pearl established Welcome House, the first international, inter-racial adoption agency. In the nearly five decades of its work, Welcome House has assisted in the placement of over five thousand children. In 1964, to provide support for Asian-American children who were not eligible for adoption, Pearl also established the Pearl S. Buck Foundation, which provides sponsorship funding for thousands of children in half-a-dozen Asian countries. She wrote novels, short stories, fiction, and children's stories. Many of her life experiences are described in her books. She wanted to prove to her readers that universality of mankind can exist if they accept it. She dealt with many topics including women, emotions (in general), Asians, immigration, adoption, and conflicts that many people go through in life. In 1949, she established Welcome House Inc., the first adoption agency dedicated to the placement of bi-racial children, particularly Amerasians.

Pearl S. Buck died on March 6, 1973 in Danby, Vermont and was interred in Green Hills Farm, Perkasie, Pennsylvania.

Peter Lorre
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Peter Lorre, 1946, by Yousuf KarshPeter Lorre (June 26, 1904 - March 23, 1964), born Ladislav (László) Löwenstein, was a stage and screen actor of Austrian descent especially known for playing roles with sinister overtones in Hollywood crime films and mysteries.


Background

Lorre was born into a Jewish family in Rózsahegy/Rosenberg, Austria-Hungary, now Ružomberok, Slovakia. He began acting on stage in Vienna, Breslau, and Zürich. In the late 1920s he moved to Berlin where he worked with German playwright Bertolt Brecht. The German-speaking actor became famous when Fritz Lang cast him as a child killer in his 1931 film M.

When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, the Jewish Lorre took refuge first in Paris and then London where he played a charming villain in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much. When he arrived in Great Britain, his first meeting was with Hitchcock and by smiling and laughing as Hitchcock talked, the director was unaware that Lorre had a limited command of the English language. During the filming of The Man Who Knew Too Much, Lorre learned much of his part phonetically.

Eventually, he went to Hollywood where he specialized in playing wicked or wily foreigners. He starred in a series of Mr. Moto movies, a parallel to the better known Charlie Chan series, in which he played a Japanese detective. He did not much enjoy these films but they were lucrative both for the studio and for Lorre himself.

Lorre enjoyed considerable popularity as a featured player in Warner Bros. suspense and adventure films. Lorre played the role of Joel Cairo in The Maltese Falcon (1941) and played the role of "Ugarte" in the film classic Casablanca (1942). It was Lorre's character who introduced the "letters of transit" (there was no such thing in reality) which became, in some ways, the dramatic center of the film. But Hollywood never fully tapped Lorre's creative powers.

In 1941, Peter Lorre became a naturalized citizen of the United States.

After World War II Lorre's acting career in Hollywood experienced a downturn, whereupon he concentrated on radio and stage work. In Germany he co-wrote, directed and starred in Der Verlorene (The Lost One) (1951), a critically acclaimed art film in the film noir style. He then returned to the United States where he appeared as a character actor in television and feature films, often spoofing his former "creepy" image. In 1954, he had the distinction of becoming the first actor to play a James Bond villain when he portrayed Le Chiffre in a television adaptation of Casino Royale, opposite Barry Nelson as an American James Bond. In the early 1960s he worked with Roger Corman on several low-budgeted, tongue-in-cheek, and very popular films. It was his appearance in the TV version of Casino Royale, as well as his quip at the funeral of Bela Lugosi (see below) that caused Ronnie Corbett to quip in the spoof-film version of Casino Royale that S.P.E.C.T.R.E included among its agents not only Le chiffre, but 'Peter Lorre and Bela Lugosi'.

Overweight and at times addicted to morphine, Lorre's later years were not always happy ones. When he died in 1964 of a stroke he was only 59. Lorre's body was cremated and his ashes interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood.

Lorre has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6619 Hollywood Boulevard.

Lorre enjoyed pulling pranks and, with Humphrey Bogart, once rolled an enormous safe out of Chasen's restaurant and left it standing in the middle of Beverly Boulevard.

According to Vincent Price, when he and Peter Lorre went to view Bela Lugosi's body during Bela's funeral, Lorre, upon seeing Lugosi dressed in his famous Dracula cape, quipped, "Do you think we should drive a stake through his heart just in case?"

He was married three times: Celia Lovsky (1934 - 13 March 1945) (divorced); Kaaren Verne (25 May 1945 - 1950) (divorced) and Annemarie Brenning (21 July 1953 - 23 March 1964) (his death). Annemarie bore his only child, a daughter, Catharine, in 1953.

His daughter, Catharine Lorre, was once almost abducted by The Hillside Stranglers. She was stopped by the Stranglers, Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, imitating policemen. When they found out she was Lorre's daughter, they let her go. She didn't realize that they were killers until after they were caught.

Lorre is the subject of songs by several bands, notably The World/Inferno Friendship Society.

Lorre was a character in the novel Thank You For Smoking. He appears as Nick Naylor's kidnapper.

Emulating Lorre

The practice of emulating Peter Lorre's unforgettable voice, look, and mannerisms is quite notable throughout television and cinema, dating from impersonations in various cartoons such as Looney Tunes and characters such as Ren from Ren and Stimpy, Morocco Mole from Secret Squirrel, Mr. Gruesome from The Flintstones, Staring Herring from Beany and Cecil, Marlon Fraggle from Fraggle Rock, Dr. N. Gin from the Crash Bandicoot series, Beavis from "Beavis and Butt-head" and the hanging lamp from The Brave Little Toaster even the character of Cosmos in Generation One Transformers animated series, was based on Lorre's mannerisms. The script for Godspell includes a line which is suggested as being done in the style of Peter Lorre. Even today, films show his distinct characteristics in characters, such as the maggot in Corpse Bride.

Jay Silverheels
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Jay Silverheels (June 26, 1912 - March 5, 1980) was a Canadian Mohawk Indian actor.

He was born Harold J. Smith on the Six Nations Indian Reserve, in Brantford, Ontario, Canada.

Silverheels died in Woodland Hills, California and was cremated. His ashes were returned home and scattered in Canada. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6538 Hollywood Boulevard.

Best known for his many appearances as the Lone Ranger's friend Tonto, Jay Silverheels starred in other films such as:

Broken Arrow - (1950) with Jimmy Stewart
War Arrow - (1953) with Maureen O'Hara, Jeff Chandler and Noah Beery, Jr.,
Walk the Proud Land - (1956) with Audie Murphy and Anne Bancroft
Alias Jesse James (1959)
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958)
Indian Paint (1964) with Johnny Crawford
In 1993, Silverheels was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Eleanor Parker
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Eleanor Parker is an American film and television actress. She was born on June 26, 1922, in Cedarville, Ohio, and was signed by Warner Brothers in 1941, at the age of 19. She debuted that year in the film They Died With Their Boots On.

By 1946 she had starred in Between Two Worlds, Hollywood Canteen, Pride of the Marines and Of Human Bondage. In 1950 she received the first of three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for Caged, in which she played a prison inmate. She was also nominated in 1951 for her performance as Kirk Douglas's wife in "Detective Story", and again in 1955 for her portrayal of opera singer Marjorie Lawrence in the film bio, "Interrupted Melody". In 1956, Parker was billed above the title alongside Clark Gable for the Raoul Walsh-directed western comedy The King and Four Queens.

She broke the champagne bottle on the nose of the inaugural train-set for the California Zephyr in San Francisco, California on March 19, 1949.

Her most famous screen role was as "Baroness Elsa Schraeder" in The Sound Of Music (1965).

Parker was famous in Hollywood during the Golden Era, but she is less remembered now despite numerous movies and Oscar nominations. In 1969-70 she starred in the television series Bracken's World and several made-for-television movies. She has also starred in a number of theatrical productions, including the musical Applause.

She is the mother of actor Paul Clemens, as well as 3 other children by another marriage. She is a convert to Judaism.

Academy Award Nominations
1955 - Interrupted Melody
1951 - Detective Story
1950 - Caged

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6340 Hollywood Blvd.

Chris O'Donnell
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Chris O'Donnell on the cover of US magazineChris O'Donnell (born on June 26, 1970) is an American actor.

Early life and career

He was born the youngest of seven kids (he has four sisters and two brothers) in Winnetka, Illinois. He was raised Catholic and attended Catholic schools up to and including college.

At the age of thirteen to the age of sixteen, he began modeling and playing in commercials to try to get recognition for his talents in acting. Not too long after the young actor was discovered in a McDonald's commercial, In which he served Michael Jordan. At the age of seventeen O'Donnell was ready to quit the acting and modeling career until he was offered to audition for a part in the movie Men Don't Leave. O'Donnell didn't really want to try for the role but his mother bribed him into going to the audition by telling him she would buy him a car if he landed the part. O'Donnell received the part and the car.

O'Donnell wasn't originally going to go to college for acting, he actually wanted to go for a banking degree, but those plans quickly changed because of the rapidly arising movies and TV series. Chris finally graduated from Boston College with a Bachelor of Arts in marketing. O'Donnell also went to law school at UCLA.

He has starred in many successful movies such as Scent of a Woman (1992) and Fried Green Tomatoes (1991). In 1995, O'Donnell beat out Leonardo DiCaprio and landed one of his biggest roles ever, Batman Forever in which he played Batman's accomplice, Robin. O'Donnell was later featured in the sequel, Batman & Robin (1997) but this film wasn't as successful as any earlier Batman movie.

Chris O'Donnell
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Chris O'Donnell (born on June 26, 1970) is an American actor.

Early life and career

He was born the youngest of seven kids (he has four sisters and two brothers) in Winnetka, Illinois. He was raised Catholic and attended Catholic schools up to and including college.

At the age of thirteen to the age of sixteen, he began modeling and playing in commercials to try to get recognition for his talents in acting. Not too long after the young actor was discovered in a McDonald's commercial, In which he served Michael Jordan. At the age of seventeen O'Donnell was ready to quit the acting and modeling career until he was offered to audition for a part in the movie Men Don't Leave. O'Donnell didn't really want to try for the role but his mother bribed him into going to the audition by telling him she would buy him a car if he landed the part. O'Donnell received the part and the car.

O'Donnell wasn't originally going to go to college for acting, he actually wanted to go for a banking degree, but those plans quickly changed because of the rapidly arising movies and TV series. Chris finally graduated from Boston College with a Bachelor of Arts in marketing. O'Donnell also went to law school at UCLA.

He has starred in many successful movies such as Scent of a Woman (1992) and Fried Green Tomatoes (1991). In 1995, O'Donnell beat out Leonardo DiCaprio and landed one of his biggest roles ever, Batman Forever in which he played Batman's accomplice, Robin. O'Donnell was later featured in the sequel, Batman & Robin (1997) but this film wasn't as successful as any earlier Batman movie.

There was a fire one night at a convent and several retired nuns who
lived on the fourth floor were trapped by the fire. They were praying
for the Lord to show them a way out of the fire when one of the
sisters screamed, "We need to take off our robes, tie them together
and climb down to safety. " Later as they were recounting the event
to reporters, they were asked if they were afraid of the crude rope
breaking. "Oh, no," they said. "You see, old habits are hard to break."

sometimes you just have to wait...and wait...

I need love, love
To ease my mind
I need to find, find someone to call mine
But mama said

You can't hurry love
No, you just have to wait
She said love don't come easy
It's a game of give and take

You can't hurry love
No, you just have to wait
You got to trust, give it time
No matter how long it takes

But how many heartaches
Must I stand before I find a love
To let me live again
Right now the only thing
That keeps me hangin' on
When I feel my strength, yeah
It's almost gone
I remember mama said:

You can't hurry love
No, you just have to wait
She said love don't come easy
It's a game of give and take

How long must I wait
How much more can I take
Before loneliness will cause my heart
Heart to break?

No I can't bear to live my life alone
I grow impatient for a love to call my own
But when I feel that I, I can't go on
These precious words keeps me hangin' on
I remember mama said:

You can't hurry love
No, you just have to wait
She said love don't come easy
It's a game of give and take

You can't hurry love
No, you just have to wait
She said trust, give it time
No matter how long it takes

No, love, love, don't come easy
But I keep on waiting
Anticipating for that soft voice
To talk to me at night
For some tender arms
To hold me tight
I keep waiting
I keep on waiting
But it ain't easy
It ain't easy
But mama said:

You can't hurry love
No, you just have to wait
She said to trust, give it time
No matter how long it takes

You can't hurry love
No, you just have to wait
She said love don't come easy
It's a game of give and take

Well Yit my friend it sure isn't crowded today. Do you suppose everyone went on a bender and we weren't invited. Nah! Our Letty would never do that. I can't wait to see the spurious reasons they give for their abscence

Well, folks, I tried twice to address our audience, and both times I got a critical error. Should I be concerned?

Let's try one more time, Mr. Turtle and Mr. Hawk.


Leonard Cohen Lyrics - One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong Lyrics

I lit a thin green candle
to make you jealous of me
but the room just filled with mosquitos
they heard that my body was free
then I took the dus from a long sleepless night
and I put it in your little shoe
then I confess that I tortured the dress
that you wore for the world to see through.

I showed my heart to the doctor
He said I'd just have to quit
Then he wrote himself a perscription
and your name was mentioned in it
then he locked himself in a library shelf
with the details of our honeymoon
and I hear from the nurse that he's gotten much worse
and his practice is all in a ruin.

I heard of a saint who had loved you
so I studied all night in his school
He taught us the duty of lovers
was to tarnish the golden rule
And just when I was sure that his teachings were pure
he drowned himself in a pool
His body is gone but back here on the lawn
his spirit continues to drool.

An eskimo showed me a movie
he'd recently taken of you
the poor man could hardly stop shivering
his lips and his fingers were blue
I suppose that he froze when the wind took your clothes
and I guess he just never got warm
But you stand there so nice in your blizzard of ice
O please let me come into the storm


As Nick says; Once-Twice-Thrice?

Bob, maybe the hamsters have turned on the members, who are now scurrying for cover. hush, i think i hear a vast chittering & scuffling, i'm out of here!

Maybe I should give them some more jokes. Remember Donald O'Connor in Singing in the Rain said make them laugh.

Singin' in the Rain (1952)



"Make 'em Laugh"

music by Nacio Herb Brown; lyrics by Arthur Freed

Make 'em laugh. Make 'em laugh.
Don't you know everyone wants to laugh.
My dad said, "Be an actor, my son,
But be a comical one."
They'll be standin' in lines
For those old honky tonk monkeyshines.
Or you could study Shakespeare and be quite elite,
And you charm the critics and have nothin' to eat.
Just slip on a banana peel, the world's at your feet.
Make 'em laugh. Make 'em laugh. Make 'em laugh.

Make 'em... Make 'em laugh.
Don't you know everyone wants to laugh?
My grandpa said, "Go out and tell 'em a joke,
But give it plenty of hoke."
Make 'em roar. Make 'em scream.
Take a fall, butt a wall, split a seam.
You start off by pretending you're a dancer with grace.
You wiggle 'till they're gigglin' all over the place.
And then you get a great big custard pie in the face.
Make 'em laugh. Make 'em laugh. Make 'em laugh.

Make 'em laugh. Make 'em laugh.
Don't you... all the...
My dad...
They'll be standin' in lines
For those old honky tonk monkeyshines.
...
Make 'em laugh. Make 'em laugh.
Make 'em laugh.

Make 'em laugh. Make 'em laugh. Make 'em laugh.

a certain cat, now transgendered as MsOlga, might be able to keep em in line:

He's amazing, he's remarkable
He is fearless, unbelievable
He is superdooper and extraordinary
He's the kind of guy that keeps you feeling merry
Who?

Felix the cat
The wonderful, wonderful cat
Whenever he gets in a fix
He reaches into his bag of tricks

Felix the cat
The wonderful, wonderful cat
You'll laugh so much your sides will ache
Your heart will go pit-a-pat
Watching Felix the wonderful cat

Hey, y'all. Look around and above.

We now have Donald but no duck and a cat with no luck, but the hawk and the turtle still sing.

Once again, folks, here's proof that old habits are hard to break.

Someone play The William Tell Overture:

Robin



and Peter

Well, listeners, our Raggedy cannot get in at all, so your PD had to be a rather poor substitute.

Hurry back to us, PA.

I am posting two songs of Xilouris, a famous Cretan singer of the 70s who died of brain cancer after the period of his flourish. In the first sad song, the composer is reffering to Xilouris, as his decease was known before his death. The second song is some kind of ode to Crete, the homeland of both the singer and composer.


Music: Stavros Xarhakos
Lyrics: Nikos Gatsos
Singer: Nikos Xilouris

The God pointed

The God pointed a brave lad at Sfakia.
And his father who was in Hades heard a gunshot.
"King of my generation, please, don't come down the stairs.
Drink the water of immortality, so you can win against time."

The God pointed a brave lad of Sfakia.
And his mother who was in Hades cut a notch.
"King of my heart, with the Sun in your hair,
please, don't enter the notch. Life is sweeter."

*Sfakia: Town in the South of Crete, famous for its brave men.
*Hades: The Underworld, where dead people go.



Crete, my beautiful island

Music & Lyrics: Giannis Markopoulos
Singer: Nikos Xilouris

Crete, my beautiful island, the real key of Heaven,
You that you are always wild, come out to greet you!

CHORUS
You are holding a continent on your right, another one on your left.
You are playing the vrontolyre* for them, and they are both dancing.

When I see you I stand and I lower my body.
Then I enjoy your buzz, and I am melting from your voices!

CHORUS

When fog falls to your mountains, your wild animals are coming out.
And when it flashes and it thunders, you drop a rainbow.

CHORUS

Vrontolyre: Cretan musical instrument, kind of lyre.