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Ah, hamburger. Love those sea ghosts songs, Canada. Yes, we'll sing with you:

Graveyard of the Atlantic
North Carolina Outer Banks is well know for a very dangerous stretch of ocean known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic. This is an apt title given that over 600 ships have sunk off of this coastline. Absolute attention is required when passing through Cape Hatteras waters. Diamond Shoals extends fourteen miles out into the Atlantic and is comprised of shifting sand bars lurking shallowly under the waters off of Cape Hatteras. The strong currents and hidden shoals can pound a ship to pieces in minutes. The nonexistence of natural landmarks along this low lying flat coastline meant that ships had to draw dangerously close to shore to get a bearing.


Soul of a Sailor
(From the album "BE AS YOU ARE: SONGS FROM AN OLD BLUE CHAIR")

He walked in with a salty sway
Lookin' like Blackbeard in his day
A brother in arms just like me
I was born a son of the sea
I can't be still, I can't be tied
The only time I feel alive is

When the wind fills my sail
Riding on a lifelong swell
Let my heart take me where it wants to go
That's the soul of a sailor, the soul of a sailor

He slid a stool and a beer to me
Said, you know, we're both a dying breed
Here's to love lost and newfound friends
And living out life in the boat we're in
I can't be still, I can't be tied
The only time I feel alive is

When the wind fills my sail
Riding on a lifelong swell
Let my heart take me where it wants to go
That's the soul of a sailor, the soul of a sailor

Let my heart take me where it wants to go
That's the soul of a sailor, the soul of a sailor

Love Is Here And Now You're Gone
Diana Ross and The Supremes

[Written by Brian Holland
Lamont Dozier and Edward Holland Jr]

Love is here and
Oh, my darling, now you're gone
Love is here and
Oh, my darling, now, now you're gone

You persuaded me to love you
And I did
But instead of tenderness
I found heartache instead
Into your arms I felt
So unaware of the loneliness
That was waiting there

You close the door to your heart
And you turned the key
Locked your love away from me

Love is here and
Oh, my darling, now you're gone

You made me love you
And oh, my darling, now you're gone
You said loving you
Would make life beautiful
With each passing day
But as soon as love
Came into my heart
You turned and you walked
Just walked away

You stripped me of my dreams
You gave me faith
Then took my hope
Look at me now

Look at me
See what loving you has done to me
Look at my face
See how cryin' has left it's trace

After you made me all your own
Then you left me all alone
You made your words sound so sweet
Knowing that your love I couldn't keep

My heart cries out for your touch
But you're not there
And the lonely cry fades in the air

Love is here and
Oh, my darling, now you're gone
Love is here and
Oh, my darling, now you're gone

You made me love you
Oh, my darling
Now you're gone
You made me love you
Oh, my darling
Now you're gone

Lydia, oh Lydia, say, have you met Lydia?
Lydia the tattooed lady
She has eyes that folks adore so
And a torso even more so
Lydia, oh Lydia, that encyclo-pidia

Oh Lydia, the queen of tattoo
On her back is the Battle of Waterloo
Beside it the Wreck of the Hesperus, too
And proudly above waves the red, white and blue

You can learn a lot from Lydia
(la la la, la la la)
(la la la, la la la)

When her robe is unfurled, she will show you the world
If you step up and tell her where
For a dime you can see Kankakee or Paree
Or Washington crossing the Delaware

(la la la, la la la)
(la la la, la la la)

Ah Lydia, oh Lydia, say, have you met Lydia?
Oh Lydia the tattooed lady
When her muscles start relaxin'
Up the hill comes Andrew Jackson
Lydia, oh Lydia, that encyclo-pidia
Oh Lydia, the queen of them all

For two bits she will do a mazurka in jazz
With a view of Niagara that nobody has
And on a clear day, you can see Alcatraz

You can learn a lot from Lydia

(la la la, la la la)
(la la la, la la la)


Come along and see Buffalo Bill with his lasso
Just a little classic by Mendel Picasso
Here is Captain Spaulding exploring the Amazon
Here's Godiva but with her pajamas on


(la la la, la la la)
(la la la, la la la)


Here is Grover Whelan unveilin' the Tri-lon
Over on the west coast we have Treasure Isle-on
Here's Nijinski a-doin' the rumba
Here's her social security numbah


Ah Lydia, oh Lydia, that encyclo-pidia
Oh Lydia, the champ of them all
She once swept an admiral clear off his feet
The ships on her hips made his heart skip a beat
And now the old boy's in command of the fleet
For he went and married Lydia

I said Lydia
He said Lydia
They said Lydia
We said Lydia
La-la!

Son Of A Son Of A Sailor
Jimmy Buffett

As the son of a son of a sailor
I went out on the sea for adventure
Expanding the view of the captain and crew
Like a man just released from indenture

As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man
I have chalked up many a mile
Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks
And I learned much from both of their styles

Chorus:
Son of a son, son of a son
Son of a son of a sailor
Son of a gun, load the last ton
One step ahead of the jailer

Now away in the near future
Southeast of disorder
You can shake the hand of the mango man
As he greets you at the border

And the lady she hails from Trinidad
Island of the spices
Salt for your meat, and cinnamon sweet
And the rum is for all your good vices

Haul the sheet in as we ride on the wind
That our forefathers harnessed before us
Hear the bells ring as the tight rigging sings
It's a son of a gun of a chorus

Where it all ends I can't fathom my friends
If I knew I might toss out my anchor
So I cruise along always searchin' for songs
Not a lawyer a thief or a banker

But a son of a son, son of a son
Son of a son of a sailor
Son of a gun, load the last ton
One step ahead of the jailer

I'm just a son of a son, son of a son
Son of a son of a sailor
The sea's in my veins, my tradition remains
I'm just glad I don't live in a trailer

Love it, everybody.

Thanks, dj, and dys, and edgar, and me.

There's no business like show business
Like no business I know
Everything about it is appealing
Everything the traffic will allow
Nowhere could you get that happy feeling
When you are stealing that extra bow

There's no people like show people
They smile when they're low
Even with a turkey that you know will fold
You may be stranded out in the cold
Still you wouldn't change it for a sack of gold
Let's go on with the show

The costumes, the scenery, the makeup, the props
The audience that lifts you when you're down
The headaches, the heartaches, the backaches, the flops
The sheriff that escorts you out of town
The opening when your heart beats like a drum
The closing when the customers won't come

There's no business like show business
Like no business I know
You get word the show has started
That your favorite uncle died at dawn
Top of that your pa and ma have parted
You're broken hearted but you go on

There's no people like show people
They never ever run out of dough
Yesterday they told you you would not go far
That night you opened and there you are
Next day on your dressing room they hung a star
Let's go on with the show

seems we really are into "sailors' songs" tonight !



so here is another one :

THE SAILOR-SONG
------Toy-Box

So if we all come together, we know what to do
We all come together just to sing we love you
And if we all come together, we know what to do
We all come together just for you

Racing all around the seven seas
Chasing all the girls and making robberies
Causing panic everywhere they go
Party-hardy on Titanic

Sailing, sailing, jumping off the railing
Drinking, drinking, 'till the ship is sinking
Gambling, stealing, lots of sex-appealing
Come, let us sing the sailor-song

...(see above)

Sailorman, you really turn me on
Now the guys are gone, come let us get it on
Girls like me are pretty hard to find
So if you go, I'll kick your heine

...(see above)
...(see above)

Now, let's fight
Ha, that's not a knife, this is a knife

...(see above)
...(see above)

I'm king of the world
Wow, this was great
Yeah baby, you can sail my ship

So if we all come together, we know what to do
We all come together just for you

Celluloid Heroes
The Kinks

Everybody's a dreamer and everybody's a star,
And everybody's in movies, it doesn't matter who you are.
There are stars in every city,
In every house and on every street,
And if you walk down Hollywood Boulevard
Their names are written in concrete!

Don't step on Greta Garbo as you walk down the Boulevard,
She looks so weak and fragile that's why she tried to be so hard
But they turned her into a princess
And they sat her on a throne,
But she turned her back on stardom,
Because she wanted to be alone.

You can see all the stars as you walk down Hollywood Boulevard,
Some that you recognise, some that you've hardly even heard of,
People who worked and suffered and struggled for fame,
Some who succeeded and some who suffered in vain.
Rudolph Valentino, looks very much alive,
And he looks up ladies' dresses as they sadly pass him by.
Avoid stepping on Bela Lugosi
'Cos he's liable to turn and bite,
But stand close by Bette Davis
Because hers was such a lonely life.
If you covered him with garbage,
George Sanders would still have style,
And if you stamped on Mickey Rooney
He would still turn round and smile,
But please don't tread on dearest Marilyn
'Cos she's not very tough,
She should have been made of iron or steel,
But she was only made of flesh and blood.

You can see all the stars as you walk down Hollywood Boulevard,
Some that you recognise, some that you've hardly even heard of.
People who worked and suffered and struggled for fame,
Some who succeeded and some who suffered in vain.

Everybody's a dreamer and everybody's a star
And everybody's in show biz, it doesn't matter who you are.

And those who are successful,
Be always on your guard,
Success walks hand in hand with failure
Along Hollywood Boulevard.

I wish my life was a non-stop Hollywood movie show,
A fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes,
Because celluloid heroes never feel any pain
And celluloid heroes never really die.

You can see all the stars as you walk along Hollywood Boulevard,
Some that you recognise, some that you've hardly even heard of,
People who worked and suffered and struggled for fame,
Some who succeeded and some who suffered in vain.

Oh celluloid heroes never feel any pain
Oh celluloid heroes never really die.

I wish my life was a non-stop Hollywood movie show,
A fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes,
Because celluloid heroes never feel any pain
And celluloid heroes never really die.

True Fine Mama (Richard Penniman)

Oh, true fine mama, she's really on the ball,
Yes, true fine mama, she's really on the ball,
She hears my every plea, comes to my beckon call.

Oh, come back baby, don't leave me here,
Woo, come back baby, don't leave me here,
You know that I love you, don't dissappear.

Yes, true fine mama, don't go away,
Yes, true fine mama, don't go away,
You know that I love you, every night and day.

Well, singin'
Honey, honey, honey, honey, honey,
Honey, honey, honey, honey, honey,
Honey, honey, honey, honey,
Honey, honey, honey, honey,
Honey, honey, honey, honey,
Honey, honey, honey

Hey Hey Hey
Little Richard

Going back to Birmingham
Way down in Alabam
Going back to Birmingham
Way down in Alabam
See my old Aunt Mary and a girl I met there

Hey hey hey
Hey baby
Hey now
Yes tell me baby
What's gettin wrong with you

Well by
By by baby bye
Well so long
Bye bye baby I'm gone

Well I'm hollerin and screamin
Baby please come home
Hollerin and screamin
Don't leave me all alone
Well I'm hollerin and screamin
Baby please come home

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

What a wonderful time we had here last evening on our little radio. Once again, thank you all for the music.

An announcement from our CEO. It looks as though we won't be seeing anything new on our forum until the end of summer.

Well, lots of stuff to do today, but I think that I am seeing my way out of the paper work.

Now for some coffee.

A coach with two horses

Music: Gregorios Bithikotsis
Lyrics: Costas Virvos
Singer: Gregorios Bithikotsis

A beautiful coach with two horses,
That is what I want you to bring me when I'll close my eyes.
So I can promenade one time as a rider,
This world, the full of wrongs and absorbs.

CHORUS
I want the one horse to be white,
Like the dreams I was making as a child.
I want the other horse to be black,
Like my bitter and miserable life.

I want to hit my heartless riding-crop,
Like the unbearable slaps of my destiny.
The sound is going to be like a complaint.
Like a sad bouzouki solo.

CHORUS


I am an eagle without wings

Music: Manos Chatzidakes
Lyrics: Eutichia Papagiannopoulou
Singer: Gregorios Bithikotsis

I used to have wings like the eagle,
And I was flying very high,
But a beloved hand, an adorable hand,
Cut my wings, not to fly high.

CHORUS
I am an eagle without wings, without love and without joy.
Without love and without joy, I am an eagle without wings.

This adorable hand,
In life, I will continue loving it.
I don't care what it have done to me, I forgive it for everything.
Even with crushed wings, I will continue loving it.

CHORUS

There's our Grecian friend, folks. Ellinas, what captivating songs, dear; a coach, two horses, and an eagle. Wonderful metaphors and so very fragile and true.

I was thinking of all the epithets in the Odyssey. The dawn was always "rosy fingered", right? Well, not here this morning. It's a bit grey.

A morning poem by Mary Oliver:

Morning Poem

Every morning
the world
is created.
Under the orange

sticks of the sun
the heaped
ashes of the night
turn into leaves again

and fasten themselves to the high branches ---
and the ponds appear
like black cloth
on which are painted islands

of summer lilies.
If it is your nature
to be happy
you will swim away along the soft trails

for hours, your imagination
alighting everywhere.
And if your spirit
carries within it

the thorn
that is heavier than lead ---
if it's all you can do
to keep on trudging ---

there is still
somewhere deep within you
a beast shouting that the earth
is exactly what it wanted ---

each pond with its blazing lilies
is a prayer heard and answered
lavishly,
every morning,

whether or not
you have ever dared to be happy,
whether or not
you have ever dared to pray.

Yes, rosy fingered is an exact translation .

Unfortuately this season because of the Greek summer sleepless night I wake up at 12 o clock in the noon, and usually don't see it .

I understand, dear. Well, Here's a song to your sleepless nights in Greece.

Sebastian/Boone
Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck gettin' dirt-'n'-gritty
Bend down, isn't it a pity
Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city
All around people lookin' half dead
Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match-head

But at night it's a different world
Go out and find a girl
Come on, come on and dance all night
Just bide the heat, it'll be all right
And babe, don't you know it's a pity
The days can't be like the nights
In the summer in the city, in the summer in the city

Cool town, evening in the city
Dressed so fine and looking so pretty
Cool cat, looking for a kitty
Gonna look in every corner of the city
'Til I'm wheezing like a bus stop
Runnin' upstairs, gonna meet you on the roof top

Good morning rock fans, you better keep your distance because I may have the…

Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu

AEROSMITH lyrics -

I wanna jump but I'm afraid I'll fall
I wanna holler but the jones' too small
Young man really got the hold to it too
I got the Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu

Want some lovin', baby, that ain't all
I wanna kiss her but the girl's too tall
Young man really got a hold on it too
I got the Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu

I wanna scream, I want you all to know
I would be runnin' but my feets are too slow
Young man really got a hold on it too
I got the Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu

Baby callin' me now hurry home
I know she's leavin' 'cause I'm takin' too long
Young man really got a hold on it too
I got the rockin' pneumonia and Joe Perry too, oh

Want some lovin', baby' that ain't all
I wanna kiss her but the girl's too tall
Young man really got a hold on it too
I got the Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu

I wanna scream, I wanna scream
Young man really got a hold on it too
I got the Rockin' Pneumonia, what's the matter with you?

Well, dear TRY. I am not getting within ten feet of you and that flu. <smile>

Isn't it amazing, listeners? We can put a man on the moon and have no idea how to cure the common cold. I think that rhino virus and Slim Whitman, eventually killed the Martian invaders.

Ah, can't play today because....


Oh Playmate, Come Out and Play With Me

Written By: Unknown
Copyright Unknown

Say, say, oh playmate,
Come out and play with me
And bring your dollies three
Climb up my apple tree

Shout down my rain barrel
Slide down my cellar door
And we'll be jolly friends
Forever more more more more more

Say, say, oh playmate
I cannot play with you
My dolly's got the flu
Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo

Ain't got no rain barrel
Ain't got no cellar door
But we'll be jolly friends
Forever more more more more more

Noteworthy occasions.

Shewolfn is going to have a birthday, and London remembers the bombings of one year ago.

George Cukor
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

George Dewey Cukor (July 7, 1899 - January 24, 1983) was an American film director.


Life and career

Cukor was born in New York City to Hungarian Jewish immigrants, Victor F. and Helen (Gross) Cukor. (His name means sugar in Hungarian.) As a teenager, he was infatuated with theater and often cut classes to attend afternoon matinees. Following his graduation from De Witt Clinton High School in 1916, he spent a year with the Students Army Training Corps. He then obtained a job as an assistant stage manager for a Chicago theater company. After gaining three years of experience, he formed his own stock company in Rochester, New York in 1920, and worked there for seven years. He then returned to Broadway where he worked with such formidable actresses as Ethel Barrymore and Jeanne Eagels.

When Hollywood began to recruit New York theater talent for sound films, Cukor answered their call and moved there in 1929. His first job was as a dialog director at Paramount Pictures for the film River of Romance (1929), followed by All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). He then co-directed three films before making his solo debut directing Tallulah Bankhead in Tarnished Lady (1931). Cukor left Paramount after a legal dispute resulting from his dismissal from an earlier film (One Hour With You) and went to work with David O. Selznick at RKO Studios.

Cukor's career flourished at RKO where he directed a string of impressive films including What Price Hollywood? (1932), A Bill of Divorcement (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Little Women (1933), David Copperfield (1935), Romeo and Juliet (1936), and Camille (1937).

By this time, Cukor had established a reputation as a director who could coax great performances from actresses and he became known as a "woman's director," a title which he resented. One of Cukor's first ingenues was actress Katharine Hepburn, whose looks and personality left RKO officials at a loss as to how to use her. Cukor ended up directing her in her most successful films and they became close friends off the set.

Cukor was hired to direct Gone with the Wind by David O. Selznick in 1937 and he spent one year with pre-production duties as well as spending long hours coaching Vivien Leigh and Olivia de Havilland, the film's stars. Cukor was soon fired from the film, but continued to coach Leigh and De Havilland off the set.

Following the Gone with the Wind debacle, Cukor directed The Women (1939), a popular film notable for its all female cast and The Philadelphia Story (1940) starring Katharine Hepburn. He also directed another of his favorite actresses, Greta Garbo, in Two Faced Woman (1941) before she retired from the screen.

The 1940s was a decade of hits and misses for Cukor. He was off track with Two Faced Woman as well as Her Cardboard Lover (1942) starring Norma Shearer. However, he did achieve more success with films such as A Woman's Face (1941) with Joan Crawford, Gaslight (1944) with Ingrid Bergman and Adam's Rib (1949) with Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.

Cukor's reputation as an actor's director continued as he helped several actors win Academy Awards. James Stewart won a Best Actor Oscar for The Philadelphia Story, Ronald Colman won a Best Actor Oscar for A Double Life (1947) and Judy Holliday won for Best Actress in 1950 for Born Yesterday. In 1954, Cukor made his first film in color, A Star Is Born which featured an impressive come-back performance by Judy Garland. A decade later, Cukor won an Academy Award himself, for Best Director, for My Fair Lady (1964), for which Rex Harrison won a Best Actor Oscar too.

He continued to work into his 80s and directed his last film, Rich and Famous, in 1981.

Cukor was well known in his personal life as a man having a good time. During the heyday of Hollywood, his celebrated home was the site of weekly Sunday parties and his guests knew that they would always find interesting company, good food, and a beautiful atmosphere when they visited. Cukor's friends were of paramount importance to him and he kept his home filled with their photographs. Regular attendees at his soirees included Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. , Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Richard Cromwell, Noel Coward, Cole Porter, James Whale, Edith Head, and Norma Shearer, especially after the death of her first husband, Irving Thalberg.

During his Hollywood years, he and Cole Porter competed within the Hollywood gay elite, earning them the title: "the rival Queens of Hollywood."

George Cukor died 1983 at the age of 83. He was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

Yul Brynner
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yul Brynner (July 7, 1915 - October 10, 1985) was an Academy Award-winning Hollywood and Broadway Russian-born actor who held French citizenship. He appeared in many movies and stage productions in the United States. He is best known for his portrayal of the Siamese king in the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical The King and I as well as Ramesses II in The Ten Commandments.

Biography

He was born Yul Borisovich Brynner (Russian: Юл Бори́сович Бри́ннер) in Vladivostok, Russia. His mother, Marousia Blagоvidova, was the daughter of a Russian doctor of Jewish heritage (who had converted to Christianity) and his father, Boris Bryner, was an engineer and inventor of Swiss and Mongolian ancestry. He was named Yul after his paternal grandfather, Jules Bryner.

Brynner's early life was exotic, but he made it out to be even more exotic than it actually was, for example, claiming that he was born Taidje Khan of part-Japanese parentage on the Russian island of Sakhalin. A biography published by his son Rock Brynner in 1989 clarified these issues.

After Boris Bryner abandoned his family, his mother took Yul and his sister, Vera Bryner, to Harbin, China, where they attended a school run by the YMCA, and in 1934 she took them to Paris, France. Early in his career he was photographed nude by George Platt Lynes.

Brynner's best-known role was that of King Mongkut of Siam which he played 4626 times in both the stage and film versions of the musical The King and I, for which he won an Academy Award as Best Actor. He is one of only seven people who have won both a Tony Award and an Academy Award (Oscar) for the same role.


He was also noted for his deep, rich voice and his trademarked shaved head.He made an immediate impact upon first starring in films in 1956, appearing not only in The King and I that year, but also in major roles in The Ten Commandments and Anastasia. He later starred in such films as Solomon and Sheba (1959), The Magnificent Seven (1960), and Westworld (1973).

Brynner died on October 10, 1985 (the same day as Orson Welles) in New York City at the age of 70. The cause of death was lung cancer brought on by smoking. In January 1985, nine months before his death, he gave an interview on Good Morning America, expressing his desire to make an anti-smoking commercial. A clip from that interview was made into just such a commercial by the American Cancer Society, and released after his death, which he opens by looking straight into the camera and intoning, "I'm dead."

Yul Brynner is interred in the cemetery at the Saint-Michel-de-Bois-Aubry monastery in Luze, near Poitiers, Vienne, France.

He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6162 Hollywood Blvd, and his childhood home is now a museum in Vladivostok.

Family life

Yul Brynner was married four times, of which the first three ended in divorce. He had three birth-children and adopted two others.

His first wife, Virginia Gilmore (1944-1960), was an actress. They had one child, Yul Brynner II (b. December 23, 1946), nicknamed when he was six "Rock" by his father in honor of boxer Rocky Graziano, who won the middleweight title in 1947. Rock is a historian, novelist and university history lecturer [1].
Lark Brynner (b. 1958) was born out of wedlock and raised by her mother.
His second wife, Doris Kleiner (1960 - 1967), was a Chilean model, whom he married on the set during shooting of The Magnificent Seven in 1960.[2] They had one child Victoria Brynner (b. November 1962).
His third wife, Jacqueline de Croisset (1971 - 1981), was a French socialite. She was the widow of Philippe de Croisset, a publishing executive. Yul and Jacqueline adopted two Vietnamese children: Mia (1974), and Melody (1975).
His fourth wife, Kathy Lee, was an Asian dancer in The King and I shows.[3] They married in 1983.

Trivia

Towards the end of his life he contracted trichinosis and subsequently sued Trader Vic's restaurant in the Plaza Hotel in New York City for serving him undercooked pork, from which, allegedly, he caught the disease.
He had an affair with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1950s and appeared on the Cafe Istanbul radio program.
Brynner loved taking photographs. His daughter Victoria put together a book of his photographs of family, friends, and fellow actors, as well as those he took while serving as a UN special consultant on refugees. The book is titled Yul Brynner: Photographer (ISBN 0810931443)
He published two books in his lifetime. Bring forth the children: A journey to the forgotten people of Europe and the Middle East in 1960 and The Yul Brynner Cookbook: Food Fit for the King and You (ISBN 0812828828) in 1983.
He is referenced in a Toy Dolls song entitled "Yul Brynner is a Skinhead". The lyrics, contrary to the title, humorously point out that Brynner can't be a skinhead since he's not wearing Dr. Martens boots and doesn't have any tattoos.
Brynner's appearance in Westworld is noted in former Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus' song "Jo Jo's Jacket." The song appears on Malkmus' first solo album, Self Titled.
Yul is referenced in "Stormtrooper", a song by Ooberman released as a secret track on their debut album The Magic Treehouse.
He is also referenced in Murray Head's song, "One Night in Bangkok" (1984).
One of the main characters in the 1993 Disney movie Cool Runnings goes by the name Yul Brynner.
Brynner's height was 5'10".
Made "Top 10 stars of the year", twice. 1957, 1958.
To prevent being overshadowed by Charlton Heston's physical presence Brynner began to intensely lift weights for The Ten Commandments (1956).

Doc Severinsen
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Carl Hilding "Doc" Severinsen (born July 7, 1927 in Arlington, Oregon) is an American pop and jazz trumpeter, best known for leading the Tonight Show Band in the Johnny Carson era.

In the 1940s and 1950s Severinsen was a member of the Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, and Benny Goodman bands. Beginning in 1949, he worked for the National Broadcasting Company, eventually becoming leader of the NBC Orchestra in 1967.

Severinsen would sometimes substitute for Ed McMahon as announcer and sidekick. Although adept at comic interplay, Severinsen took his role as band leader on The Tonight Show seriously and campaigned for the band to get featured slots in the show. For years, the NBC Orchestra was the most visible jazz big band in America. Severinsen continued as band leader until Carson's retirement in 1992.

In the 1960s, Severinsen also recorded with the Clarke/Boland Big Band and the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis band. Severinsen was also the second trumpeter whose recording of the fanfare "Abblasen", composed by Gottfried Reiche, has been used as the theme for the CBS News program Sunday Morning.

Although he has worked with jazz artists, most of his own recordings as a leader have consisted mainly of pop music. Several recent recordings feature him playing classical trumpet repertoire. He is the principal pops conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Phoenix Symphony, and since 2001 Distinguished Visiting Professor of Music and Katherine K. Herberger Heritage Chair for Visiting Artists at Arizona State University School of Music.