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EDGAR!!!

That song is very special to me. It marks my first appearance in a stage production. I was in 1st grade, and our Brownie troop performed a full-scale record pantomime to that. Costumes, props and everything. I wore a leopard print sarong and had a bone in my hair. I was goin' for a sort of Wilma Flintstone look.

Okay, go ahead and laugh.

"Somewhere" - Barbra Streisand

Someday, somewhere
We'll find a new way of living
Will find a way of forgiving
Somewhere...

There's a place for us
Somewhere, a place for us
Peace and quiet and open air
Wait for us
Somewhere

There's a time for us
Someday there'll be time for us
Time together and time to spare
Time to learn, time to care

Someday, somewhere
We'll find a new way of living
Will find there's a way of forgiving
Somewhere... somewhere... somewhere...

There's a place for us
A time and a place for us
Hold my hand and we're half way there
Just hold my hand and I'll take you there
Somehow...
Someday...
Somewhere...

"The Edge Of Forever" Richard Marx (Duet with Chely Wright)

No one can decide
When lightning will strike
And everything falls into place
But lately it seems
When you're in my dreams
I find that I don't want to wake

I wanna slowly
Unlock the mystery
I wanna make love
I wanna make history

With you
I see a lifetime with you
And if one thing is true
It's that God knew someday I'd be standing

On the edge of forever with you

I'm ready to fall
To give you my all
'Cause you're everything I'll ever want
It's amazing to me
How far we can see
Our horizon goes on and on

I wanna slowly
Unlock the mystery
I wanna make love
I wanna make history

With you
I see a lifetime with you
And if one thing is true
It's that God knew someday I'd be standing

On the edge of forever with you

And when I'm shivering
Your body will be my blanket
And when I'm drifting, Baby
You'll be my anchor

With you
I see a lifetime with you
And if one thing is true
It's that God knew someday I'd be standing

On the edge of forever with you

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors. Glad to see Eva back with us sharing a memory of her stage debut. I can picture it all. Little Eva in her leopard sarong, doing her best Marcel Marceau imitation to the sound of boomerangs. Ok, so I am going to laugh.

Welcome back, butterfly. Like your first song by Babs. I guess there is a place for us somewhere, perhaps on the edge of forever.<smile>

Well, I need to get fully awake before I play a morning song but to go with our coffee let's have a word for the day:

Orthographic.

Woderful, eva. I love that song, as I do most songs of silliness.

here's a song that alludes to orthography :wink:

You went to school to learn girl
Things you never, never knew before
Like "I" before "E" except after "C"
And why 2 plus 2 makes 4
Now, now, now
I'm gonna teach you
Teach you, teach you
All about love girl
All about love
Sit yourself down, take a seat
All you gotta do is repeat after me

A B C
It's easy as, 1 2 3
As simple as, do re mi
A B C, 1 2 3
Baby, you and me girl
A B C
It's easy as, 1 2 3
As simple as, do re mi
A B C, 1 2 3
Baby, you and me girl

Come on and love me just a little bit
Come on and love me just a little bit
I'm gonna teach you how to sing it out
Come on, come on, come on
Let me tell you what it's all about
Reading, writing, arithmatic
Are the branches of the learning tree
But without the roots of love everyday girl
Your education ain't complete
Tea-Tea-Teacher's gonna show you
(She's gonna show you)
How to get an "A" (na-na-na-naaaaaa)
How to spell "me", "you", add the two
Listen to me, baby
That's all you got to do

Oh, A B C
It's easy as, 1 2 3
As simple as, do re mi
A B C, 1 2 3
Baby, you and me girl
A B C it's easy,
It's like counting up to 3
Sing a simple melody
That's how easy love can be
That's how easy love can be
Sing a simple melody
1 2 3 baby
You and me

Sit down girl,
I think I love ya'
No, get up girl
Show me what you can do
Shake it, shake it baby, come on now
Shake it, shake it baby, oooh, oooh
Shake it, shake it baby, yeah
1 2 3 baby, oooh oooh
A B C baby, ah, ah
Do re mi baby, wow
That's how easy love can be
A B C it's easy
It's like counting up to 3
Sing a simple melody
That's how easy love can be
I'm gonna teach you
How to sing it out
Come-a, come-a, come-a
Let me show you what's it's all about
A B C it's easy
It's like counting up to 3
Sing a simple melody
That's how easy love can be

I'm gonna teach you
How to sing it out
Sing it out, sing it out
Sing it, sing it
A B C it's easy
It's like counting up to 3
Sing a simple melody
That's how easy love can be

Big smile for our Mr. Turtle, listeners. Wasn't that ABC by young Michael?

edgar's comment about silly songs made me recall Stan Freberg's marvelous satire on pandering for votes by politicians.

It goes something like:

Take an Indian to lunch this week,
Show him we're a regular bunch this week.

Let's show him we're as liberal as can be.
Let him know he's almost as good as we

Make a feathered friend feel fed this week
Overlook the fact he's red this week.

Let him share our Quaker Oats,
'cause he's useful when he votes
Take an Indian to lunch.

Hey, Turtle. Had to look that word up.

Singed by Natasha Theodoridou & Paschalis Terzis

I don't want this kind of friends

I read it in your eyes,
I saw it in your frozen glance.

You want us to divorce,
I would give everything to make this a lie.

Your eyes told me,
What your lips wanted to tell me.
You eyes told me,
that you want us to stay two friends from now on.

CHORUS
I don't want this kind of friends.
I don't want friends who make me hurt deeply.
I don't want! I don't want this kind of friends.
I don't want friends who want seeing me being in pain.

I read it in your eyes,
What you are now hiding in you soul.

You want us to divorce,
I wish you knew how much your silence hurts me.

CHORUS

Well, folks, there's our Grecian friend telling us in song what friends are not. Thanks, Greece. and in answer, one by the Eagles:


Artist: Eagles Lyrics
Song: Lyin' Eyes Lyrics

City girls just seem to find out early
How to open doors with just a smile
A rich old man
And she won't have to worry
She'll dress up all in lace and go in style

Late at night a big old house gets lonely
I guess ev'ry form of refuge has its price
And it breaks her heart to think her love is
Only given to a man with hands as cold as ice

So she tells him she must go out for the evening
To comfort an old friend who's feelin' down
But he knows where she's goin' as she's leavin'
She is headed for the cheatin' side of town

You can't hide your lyin' eyes
And your smile is a thin disguise
I thought by now you'd realize
There ain't no way to hide your lyin eyes

On the other side of town a boy is waiting
with fiery eyes and dreams no one could steal
She drives on through the nice anticipating
'Cause he makes her feel the way she used to feel

She rushes to his arms,
They fall together
She whispers that it's only for awhile
She swears that soon she'll be comin' back forever
She pulls away and leaves him with a smile

You can't hide your lyin' eyes
And your smile is a thin disguise
I thought by now you'd realize
There ain't no way to hide you lyin' eyes

She gets up and pours herself a strong one
And stares out at the stars up in the sky
Another night, it's gonna be a long one
She draws the shade and hangs her head to cry

She wonders how it ever got this crazy
She thinks about a boy she knew in school
Did she get tired or did she just get lazy?
She's so far gone she feels just like a fool

My, oh my, you sure know how to arrange things
You set it up so well, so carefully
Ain't it funny how your new life didn't change things
You're still the same old girl you used to be

You can't hide your lyin eyes
And your smile is a thin disguise
I thought by now you'd realize
There ain't no way to hide your lyin' eyes
There ain't no way to hide your lyin' eyes.

Well, here's our joke for the day, folks:




Upper Management at Work


A large company, feeling it was time for a shakeup, hired a new CEO.
This new boss was determined to rid the company of all slackers.
On a tour of the facilities, the CEO noticed a guy leaning on a wall.
The room was full of workers and he wanted to let them know that he
meant business!

The new CEO walked up to the guy leaning against the wall and asked,
"How much money do you make a week?"

A little surprised, the young fellow looked at him and replied,
"I make $300 a week. Why?"

The CEO then handed the guy $1,200 in cash and screamed,
"Here's four weeks' pay, now GET OUT and don't come back."
Feeling pretty good about himself, the CEO looked around the room and
asked, "Does anyone want to tell me what that goof-off did here?"

From across the room came a voice,

"He's the pizza delivery guy from Domino's."

Sent via mail by Lightwizard. Love it!

Good morning listners.


Song: Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Artist: Kelly Clarkson Lyrics
(With Will Young) Lyrics


Will:
Listen Baby,
Ain't no mountain high
Ain't no valley low,
Ain't no river wide enough baby,

Kelly:
If you need me call me,
No matter where you are, no matter how far

Will:
Don't worry baby.

Kelly:
I'll be there in a hurry
You don't have to worry

Both:
'Cause baby there
Ain't no mountain high enough
Ain't no valley low enough,
Ain't no river wide enough
To keep me from getting to you babe

Will:
Remember the day
when I set you free
I told you could always, always count on me.

Kelly:
From that day on
I made a vow
I'll be there when you want me
someday, somehow

Both:
'Cause baby there
Ain't no mountain high enough
Ain't no valley low enough
Ain't no river wide enough
To keep me from getting to you babe

Will:
oooo darling

Kelly:
No Wind, no rain
no winters cold
can stop me now

Will:
Don't stop me baby

Kelly:
Cause you are my goal
oooo baby

Will (While Kelly is singing):
when you are in trouble
I'll be there on the double
just send for me

(lots of chorus and random words)

Both:
'Cause baby there
Ain't no mountain high enough
Ain't no valley low enough,
Ain't no river wide enough
To keep me from getting to you babe

Ain't no mountain high enough!



Where did the Pizza guy go?

Hey, Try. He's around here somewhere. Love that song, buddy.

Aha! found the pizza man. <smile>

Dean Martin - That's Amore Lyrics

In Napoli where love is king
When boy meets girl here's what they say

When the moon hits you eye like a big pizza pie
That's amore
When the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine
That's amore
Bells will ring ting-a-ling-a-ling, ting-a-ling-a-ling
And you'll sing "Vita bella"
Hearts will play tippy-tippy-tay, tippy-tippy-tay
Like a gay tarantella

When the stars make you drool just like a pasta fazool
That's amore
When you dance down the street with a cloud at your feet
You're in love
When you walk down in a dream but you know you're not
Dreaming signore
Scuzza me, but you see, back in old Napoli
That's amore

(When the moon hits you eye like a big pizza pie
That's amore
When the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine
That's amore
Bells will ring ting-a-ling-a-ling, ting-a-ling-a-ling
And you'll sing "Vita bella"
Hearts will play tippy-tippy-tay, tippy-tippy-tay
Like a gay tarantella

When the stars make you drool just like a pasta fazool)
That's amore
(When you dance down the street with a cloud at your feet
You're in love
When you walk down in a dream but you know you're not
Dreaming signore
Scuzza me, but you see, back in old Napoli)
That's amore
Lucky fella

When the stars make you drool just like a pasta fazool)
That's amore
(When you dance down the street with a cloud at your feet
You're in love
When you walk down in a dream but you know you're not
Dreaming signore
Scuzza me, but you see, back in old Napoli)
That's amore, (amore)
That's amore.

Well, we allowed Caruso to sing in French; why not let Dean sing in American.

Incidentally, isn't a tarantella a dance they did when bitten by a tarantula?

Max Fleischer
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Max Fleischer (July 19, 1883 - September 11, 1972) was an important Austrian-American pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon. He brought such characters as Betty Boop, Koko the Clown, Popeye, and Superman to the movie screen, and was responsible for a number of technological innovations.

Born to a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria, Fleischer was the second oldest of six children. His family immigrated to the USA in 1887 and settled in New York City.

Fleischer had the idea of using frames of a live action film as the basis for drawing animation, his patent for the rotoscope was granted in 1917, although Max and Dave Fleischer made their first cartoon using the device in 1915. Extensive use of this technique was made in Fleischer's Out of the Inkwell series, one of the highlights being a boxing match between the cartoon Koko the Clown and a live kitten.

Fleischer was also responsible for "follow the bouncing ball" sing-along cartoons.

In 1919 he established Fleischer Studios for producing animated cartoons and short subjects. At one point all of his siblings (as well as his son Richard Fleischer) worked there. Other studio employees included Lillian Friedman, first woman in America to become an animator; Frank Sherman; Jack Kirby, later of Marvel Comics

Fleischer produced the first sound animated cartoons in May 1924 using the Lee DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process (years before Steamboat Willie, which The Walt Disney Company says is the first Mickey Mouse cartoon with sound but makes no effort to imply as the first sound cartoon ever).

In 1925, he made a feature-length film about Charles Darwin's theory of evolution combining animation and live action.

Several of Fleischer's cartoons had soundtracks by (and often live or rotoscoped footage of) some of the leading jazz performers of the time, perhaps most notably Cab Calloway.

In the late 1930s, Fleischer Studios moved from New York to Miami, Florida. On May 24, 1941, Paramount Pictures, taking advantage of a significant debt owed to them by Fleischer Studios, took over the studio and renamed it Famous Studios. Fleischer and his brother ran the company for another year before resigning. He later tried unsuccessfully to sue Paramount and get money back from the company for selling his cartoons to television, often cutting them heavily to fit particular time-slot requirements.

He later took a job of producing and directing the Handy Corporation's rare cartoon shorts, one of which was Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Fleischer left Handy in 1954 and went to Bray Studios (which he had worked for in 1916).

In his late years, Fleischer was poor and ended up living at the Motion Picture Country House, where he died from congestive heart failure in 1972. Ironically, he died eleven days after signing a contract with King Features to reintroduce Betty Boop to the world, a deal which would have made him millions.

A. J. Cronin
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Archibald Joseph Cronin (July 19, 1896-January 9, 1981) was a Scottish novelist who is remembered chiefly as the author of The Citadel and The Keys of the Kingdom, both of which were made into Oscar-nominated films. The Dr. Finlay character originated in Cronin's 1935 short story, "Country Doctor," which led to further stories that were collected in The Adventures of a Black Bag. These provided the basis for the long-running BBC television and radio series entitled Dr. Finlay's Casebook.

Born in Cardross, Dunbartonshire (now in Argyll and Bute), Scotland, Cronin was the only child of a Protestant mother, Jessie Montgomerie Cronin, and a Catholic father, Patrick Cronin, and would later write of young men from similarly mixed backgrounds. He was a precocious student at Dumbarton Academy and won many writing competitions. Due to his exceptional abilities, he was awarded a scholarship to study medicine at the University of Glasgow. It was there that he met his future wife, Agnes Mary Gibson, who was also a medical student. He graduated with honours from medical school in 1919 and went on to earn additional degrees, including his MRCP.

Cronin trained as a doctor in various hospitals before serving as a Royal Navy surgeon during World War I, like the medical hero of his novel Shannon's Way. After the war he set up a practice in a mining area of South Wales, and in 1924, he was appointed Medical Inspector of Mines. He drew on his experiences researching the deleterious effects of the mining industry on the workers' health for his later novels The Citadel, set in Wales, and The Stars Look Down, set in northeastern England. He subsequently moved to London and had a thriving practice on Harley Street. While on holiday in the Scottish Highlands, Cronin wrote his first novel, Hatter's Castle, which was a great success. It tells the story of a family brought to ruin by the megalomania and ruthlessness of its patriarch.

Many of Cronin's books were bestsellers that were translated into numerous languages. His strengths included his narrative skill and his powers of acute observation and graphic description. Some of his novels and stories draw on his medical career, dramatically mixing realism, romance, and social criticism. The Citadel is said to have contributed to the establishment of the National Health Service in Great Britain by exposing the injustice and incompetence of medical practice at the time.

In the late 1930s Cronin moved to the United States with his wife and three sons, eventually settling in New Canaan, Connecticut. He ultimately returned to Europe, residing in Lucerne and Montreux, Switzerland for the last twenty-five years of his life and continuing to write into his eighties. He died on January 9, 1981, in Montreux.

Vikki Carr
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Vikki Carr (born July 19, 1941 in El Paso, Texas as Florencia Bisenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona) is an American singer who has sung in a variety of music genres, including jazz, pop and country, but has enjoyed her greatest success singing in Spanish

Her first hit was He's a Rebel, which in 1962 reached No. 5 in Australia and No. 115 in the U.S.A.

In 1966 she toured Vietnam with actor/comedian Danny Kaye. The following year her album It Must Be Him was nominated for three Grammy Awards. The title track from that album reached No. 3 on the music charts in the U.S.A. in 1967. Altogether she had three songs which made the U.S. top 40 in the late '60s, the other two being The Lesson in 1968 and With Pen in Hand in 1969. Around this time, Dean Martin called her "the best girl singer in the business." Vikki had ten singles which made the U.S. pop charts and thirteen albums which made the U.S. pop album charts.

In 1968, she taped six Vikki Carr specials for London Weekend TV. In 1970, she was named "Woman of the Year" by the Los Angeles Times. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1981. Carr also achieved the rare feat of singing for five presidents during her career: Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and Bill Clinton. When she appeared at the White House for the Fords, she asked President Ford, "What Mexican dish do you like?" His response: "I like you." After that Betty Ford reportedly barred Carr from performing at the White House during Ford's tenure.

In the 1980s and 1990s she had enormous success in the Latin music world, winning Grammy Awards for Best Mexican-American Recording in 1985 for the album Simplemente Mujer; for Latin Pop Album in 1992 for the disc Cosas del Amor; and for Best Mexican-American Recording in 1995 for Recuerdo a Javier Solis. She also received Grammy nominations for the discs Brindo a La Vida, Al Bolero, A Ti (1993) and Emociones (1996). Her numerous Spanish-language hit singles include Total, Disculpame, Dejame, Hay Otro en Tu Lugar, Esos Hombres, Mala Suerte and Cosas del Amor. The latter song spent more than two months at No. 1 on the U.S. Latin charts in 1991, her biggest Spanish-language U.S. hit. Her Spanish-language albums have been certified gold and platinum in the United States, Mexico, Chile, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Colombia and Ecuador.

In recent years, she taped a PBS TV special, Vikki Carr: Memories, Memorias (1999}, in which she performed popular bilingual tunes from the 1940s and 1950s. Her guests were Pepe Aguilar, Arturo Sandoval and Jack Jones. In 2001, she released a bilingual holiday album, The Vikki Carr Christmas Album..

In 2002, she appeared to great acclaim in a Los Angeles production of the Stephen Sondheim musical Follies, which also featured Hal Linden, Patty Duke and Harry Groener.

Respected as both an artist and a humanitarian, she devotes time to many charities including the United Way, the American Lung Association, the Muscular Dystrophy Association and St. Jude's Hospital. For 22 years she held benefit concerts to support Holy Cross High School in San Antonio, Texas. In 1971, she established the Vikki Carr Scholarship Foundation, dedicated to offering college scholarships to Hispanic students in California and Texas. To date, the Foundation has awarded more than 280 scholarships totaling over a quarter of a million dollars.



Written by Gene Pitney



See the way he walks down the street
Watch the way he shuffles his feet
My, he holds his head up high
When he goes walking by
He's my guy

When he holds my hand I'm so proud
'Cause he's not just one of the crowd
My baby, oh he's the one
To try the things they've never done
Just because of that they say

He's a rebel and he'll never ever be any good
He's a rebel and he'll never ever be understood
And just because he doesn't do what everybody else does
That's no reason why I can't give him all my love
He is always good to me, always treats me tenderly
'Cause he's not a rebel, no no no
He's not a rebel, no no no, to me

If they don't like him that way,
They won't like me after today
I'll be standing right by his side, when they say

He's a rebel and he'll never ever be any good
He's a rebel 'cause he never ever does what he should
And just because he doesn't do what everybody else does
That's no reason why we can't share a love
He is always good to me, good to him I'll try to be
'Cause he's not a rebel, no no no
He's not a rebel, no no no, to me
(He's not a rebel, no no no
He's not a rebel, no no no
He's not a rebel, no no no
He's not a rebel, no no no)

A Woman's Poem

He didn't like the casserole
And he didn't like my cake.
My biscuits were too hard...
Not like his mother used to make.

I didn't perk the coffee right
He didn't like the stew,
I didn't mend his socks
The way his mother used to do.

I pondered for an answer
I was looking for a clue.
Then I turned around and smacked him...
Like his Mother used to do.

Aaah. The Pizza Pie song. Muzak used to pipe an orchestrated version of that into the elevators and the banks. I really detested "That's Amore"--- until I saw "Moonstruck".

I like your poem, Bobsmythhawk.


Woman of the day:

Well, there's our hawkman, folks. Loved the poem, Bob. I think we all know most of your celebs, but will wait for our Raggedy to remind us in photo, while I remember Vikki in song:

WITH PEN IN HAND
Vikki Carr

With pen in hand you sign your name
Today I find I'll be on that train
And you'll be free and i will be alone
So alone
If you think we can't find
The love we once knew
If you think I can't make
Everything up to you
Then I'll be gone
And you'll be on your own
You'll be on your own
Can you take good care of Jenny
Can you take her to school everyday
Can you teach her how to play
All the games that little girls play
Here what I say
Can you teach her how to roll up her hair
Can you make sure each night
That she says her prayers
Well if you can do these things
Then maybe she won't miss me
Maybe she won't miss me
And tonight as you lay
In that big lonely bed
And you look at that pillow
Where I laid my head
With your heart on fire
Will you have no desire
To kiss me
Or to hold me
And if you can forget
The good times that we had
If you don't think the good times
Outweigh the bad
Than go ahead and sign your name
And I'll be on my way
I'll be on my way
La da da da da da da da da
La da da da da da da da da
FADE

Incidentally, listeners. The tarantella is an Italian song and it does mean tarantula. Originally, it was designed to rid the body of poison if one had been bitten by that nasty spider. The sweat that a person produced while dancing cleansed the body of the spider's poison.

See here for further details:

http://www.sicilianculture.com/folklore/tarantella.htm

oops, Missed our Raggedy and Lizzie. Hey, PA. I'm not much of a fan of Amore either, but Try wanted a pizza.

Hmmmm. Trying to recall Moonstruck. Kevin Kline and Cher?

Since my fishing partner used to call me Betty Boop: