WA2K Radio is now on the air

Well, my, my, folks, there's our Francis back with us. We've missed you, buddy.

Hey, Paris, that's a good song, and it suits our traveling man. <smile>

I know that BioBob will be relieved as well.

So, for you:

Welcome back, your dreams were your ticket out
Welcome back to that same old place that you laughed about
Well, the names have all changed since you hung around
But those dreams have remained and they've turned around


{Refrain}
Who'd have thought they'd lead ya (who'd have thought they'd lead ya)
Back here where we need ya (back here where we need ya)
Yeah, we tease him a lot 'cause we've got him on the spot
Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back
Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back

Welcome back, we always could spot a friend
Welcome back, and I smile when I think how you must have been
And I know what a scene you were learning in
Was there something that made you come back again

{Refrain}
And what could ever lead ya (what could ever lead ya)...

Yeah, we tease him a lot (welcome back, welcome back)
'Cause we've got him on the spot (welcome back, welcome back)
Yeah, we tease him a lot 'cause we've got him on the spot
Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back
Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back
Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back
Welcome back

Good Morning WA2K.

Remembering Natalie Wood on her birthday:

Well, there's our Raggedy. Hey, PA. You beat Bob today. <smile>

Great pictures of Natalie and thanks. Poor little girl. Guess we'll never know what happened to her, but I believe the last picture she made was filmed at the Outer Banks of N.C. not certain of that, however.

Thinking of our dj, folks. He's a bit "over" the weather. <smile>

So, for him:

Aztec Camera

Now love is a burning ring
At the bottom of our being
Done down and disconnected
It lies like a sleeping thing
Our task is to awaken
Our mission it is clear
With lips and arms and unity
We've overcome our fear

Chorus:
That day will come
When everybody is a number one
Until that day
Thy never will be done

Some boss lickin' guy
Who said he was your friend
Tried to put me down
But I'll still be around
And for the people who would try
Just to take it apart
Let me tell it from the start
For the second time

Chorus

If I was a poet
I think I'd throw a stone
In anger and confusion
I would not be alone

Get better quickly, dj.

Theda Bara
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Theda Bara was the stage name of Theodosia Burr Goodman (July 29, 1885 - 7 April 1955), a silent film actress. As her stage name is an anagram for "Arab Death" an urban legend claims that it was coined for that reason, but instead Theda is short for Theodosia, and Bara was the middle name of her maternal grandmother.

Bara was one of the most popular screen actresses of the time, and the cinema's first sex symbol. She was nicknamed "The Vamp", short for vampire, slang for a sexy predatory woman at the time. Bara, along with the French film actress Musidora, popularized the vamp persona in the early years of silent film and was soon imitated by rival actresses such as Nita Naldi and Pola Negri.

Birth

Theodosia Burr Goodman was born in 1885 in the Avondale section of Cincinnati, Ohio. Her father was Bernard Goodman (1853-?) a Polish born Jewish merchant. Her mother, Pauline DeCoppett (1861-1957), was born in Switzerland and was also Jewish. Her parents had married in 1882. Although Theda achieved fame as a raven-haired vamp, she was actually born blonde. Theda's brother and sister were Mark Goodman (1888-?) and Lori [originally Estie] Goodman (1897-?). In 1917 all of them changed their names to "Bara".

Education

She attended Walnut Hills High School in 1899-1903 and lived at 823 Hutchins Avenue. After attending the University of Cincinnati for two years, she worked in theater productions mainly but did explore other projects, moving to New York City in 1908.

Hollywood

Briefly known professionally as Theodosia de Coppett, Theda Bara made more than 40 feature films between 1914 and 1926 of which complete prints of only three still exist. Most of these were made for William Fox, starting with "A Fool There Was" in 1914 and ending with "The Lure of Ambition" in 1919.

Her films made Fox a successful studio. She made her Broadway debut in "The Devil" (1908), and her film debut was a bit part in "The Stain" (1914), directed by Frank Powell for Pathé Frères. A large portion of her films are now lost, to the regret of later generations of fans.

She regularly attended parties at the home of powerful actress Alla Nazimova, and was rumored to have been involved with Nazimova romantically, but that has not been confirmed beyond a doubt. She also mingled with other powerful personalities of the day, such as Eva Le Gallienne, Anne Morgan, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. [1]

At her height, Bara was making $4,000.00 per week for her film roles. Between 1915 and 1919, she was promoted so heavily that when the studios dropped off their support, her career was never able to fully recover. She struggled with several notable roles until 1926, when she retired from film all together. [2]

Sex symbol

Theda Bara as CleopatraBara was the first sex symbol of that era, and in a number of her films appeared in risqué transparent costumes that left little to the imagination. [3] Such outfits were banned from Hollywood films after the Hays Code went into effect a few years later, which may have been a factor in declining interest in her films, which could no longer be commercially shown in the United States.

Bara was photographed in several sittings in scant, sexually provocative clothing. [4] [5] [6] It was popular at that time to promote an actress as mysterious and elusive, with an exotic background. The studios promoted Bara with a massive campaign, billing her an Italian/Arabian princess. They claimed she had been born in the Sahara Desert under the shadow of the sphinx, and that her name spelled backwards meant "Death" in Arabic. They called her the "Serpent of the Nile". [7]

At the height of her fame, her vamp image was notorious enough be referred to in various popular songs of the day. A line in "Red-Hot Hannah" said "I know things that Theda Bara's just startin' to learn - make my dresses from asbestos, I'm liable to burn...." "Rebecca Came Back From Mecca" contains the lyrics "She's as bold as Theda Bara; Theda's bare but Becky's bare-er".

Marriage and Retirement

She married British-born American film director Charles Brabin (1883-1957), in 1921, and her career ground to a virtual standstill, finally ending in 1926 with the Hal Roach comedy 'Madame Mystery'. A successful but much maligned appearance on Broadway in The Blue Flame came in the following year.

Though she subsequently expressed interest in returning to the stage or screen, her husband did not consider it proper for his wife to have a career, and so she spent the remainder of her life as a hostess in Hollywood and New York, in comfort and relative wealth. [8]

Death

She died of stomach cancer in 1955 in Los Angeles, California and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. She died under the name "Theda Bara Brabin" and her death certificate incorrectly listed her birthday as "July 22, 1892".

Legacy

Theda Bara has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in 1994, she was honored with her image on a United States postage stamp designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. In June 1996 two biographies appeared, Ron Genini's "Theda Bara: A Biography" (McFarland) and Eve Golden's "Vamp" (Emprise). In October 2005 TimeLine Films of Culver City premiered a film biography, "Theda Bara: The Woman With the Hungry Eyes".

The Welsh band The Hot Puppies named a track after Theda Bara on their July 2006 debut album, Under the Crooked Moon.

Diana Rigg
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dame Diana Rigg, DBE (born 20 July 1938), born Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, is an English actress.

Early life

Rigg was born in the South Yorkshire town of Doncaster[1], to Beryl Helliwell and Louis Rigg, a newspaperman who had been born in Yorkshire. She lived in India between the ages of two and eight[1] and then went to school at the Moravian school in Fulneck near Pudsey in Leeds.

Career

Rigg is particularly known for her role in the British 1960s television series The Avengers, where she played the sexy secret agent Emma Peel. Her career in film, television and the theatre has been wide-ranging, including roles in the Royal Shakespeare Company between 1959 and 1964. Her professional debut was in The Caucasian Chalk Circle in 1955.

Rigg tried out for the role of Emma Peel on a whim, without ever having seen the programme. Although she was hugely successful in the role, she did not like the lack of privacy that television brought. She also didn't like the way that she was treated by ABC Television (Associated British Corporation); after a dozen episodes she discovered that she was being paid less than the cameraman. For the second series she held out for a rise in pay (from 90 to 180 pounds a week), but there was still no question of her staying for a third year. Patrick Macnee, her co-star in the series, noted that Rigg had later told him that she considered him and her driver to be her only friends on the set. [1]

After leaving The Avengers she appeared as the title character in the telemovie The Marquise, which was based on a play by Noel Coward.

She also returned to the stage, including playing two Tom Stoppard leads, Ruth Carson in Night and Day and Dorothy Moore in Jumpers. A nude scene with Keith Michell in Abelard and Heloise led to a notorious description of her as 'built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses', by the acerbic Serbian-American critic John Simon. In 1986, she took a leading role in the West End production of Stephen Sondheim's musical Follies.

On the big screen she became a Bond girl in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), playing Tracy Bond, James Bond's only wife. The experience was not a happy one, due to a personality clash with Bond actor George Lazenby. She has often spoken candidly, but amusingly, about the clashes they had on set, and Lazenby himself is now philosophical about this period of his life. Her other films include The Assassination Bureau (1969), The Hospital (1971), Theatre of Blood (in which she plays Vincent Price's daughter) (1973), and A Little Night Music (1977). In the 1980s, after reading stinging reviews of a stage performance she had given, Rigg was inspired to compile the worst theatrical reviews she could find into a tongue-in-cheek (and best-selling) compilation, entitled No Turn Unstoned. In 1989, she played Helena 'Nell' Vesey in Mother Love for the BBC. This potrayal of an obsessive mother who was prepared to do anything to keep control of her son - even resorting to murder - was absolutely superb and justifiably Diana won the BAFTA best actress 1989 award for.

In the 1990s she had triumphs with roles at the Almeida Theatre in Islington (North London), including Medea in 1993, Mother Courage in 1995 and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1996. On television she has appeared as "Mrs. Danvers" in Rebecca and as the amateur detective "Mrs. Bradley". In this series, first aired in 2000, she played Gladys Mitchell's detective, Dame Beatrice Adela Le Strange Bradley, an eccentric old woman who worked for Scotland Yard as a pathologist. Sadly, despite good central performances - particularly from Dame Diana herself, who would - to great comic effect - address the camera directly (sample dialogue, delivered direct to camera: "There are three golden rules to bringing up children...sadly no-one knows what they are...) the series was not a critical success and did not return for a second series.

From 1989 until 2003 she hosted the PBS television series Mystery!, taking over from Vincent Price, her co-star from Theatre of Blood. Her TV career in America has been varied, most famously she starred in her own comedy series Diana which was sadly not a success.

Dame Diana has continued to perform on stage in London. The latest play being a drama entitled "Honour" which had a limited, but successful run in 2006.

Although she does not consider herself a singer, her performances in A Little Night Music, Follies, and other stage musicals have been well received by audiences and critics alike. She performed a wonderful song and dance routine in the Agatha Christie film, Evil Under The Sun, and made a (very) memorable appearance with Morecambe and Wise in 1976, in which she played Nel Gwynne in a musical pastiche, joining Eric and Ernie to sing How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Loved You When You Know I've Been A Liar All My Life.

She is set to appear on the second series of Ricky Gervais's hit comedy Extras.

Private life

She lived with Philip Saville for some time, but would not marry him (he was married already). She did marry Menachem Gueffen, an Israeli painter, which lasted from 1973 to 1976, and Archibald Stirling, a theatrical producer, former officer in the Scots Guards and a member of one of Scotland's grandest families, which lasted from 1982 to 1990. By Stirling she has a daughter, the actress Rachael Stirling, who was born in 1977.

Diana Rigg was created a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1988 and raised to Dame Commander (DBE) in 1994.

Patrick Macnee, her co-star in The Avengers, described working with Diana Rigg in a July 2006 documentary on BBC 4 as "Just like an angel coming down from heaven."

Natalie Wood
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born: July 20, 1938
San Francisco, California, USA
Died: November 29, 1981
Catalina Island, California, USA
Occupation: Actress
Spouse: Robert Wagner

Natalie Wood (July 20, 1938 - November 29, 1981) was an American film actress.


Child and adult actorWood was born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko in San Francisco, California to Russian Orthodox immigrants, Nikolai and Maria Zakharenko. Her parents changed their surname to the less cumbersome Gurdin, and by the age of 4 she was billed as Natasha Gurdin. As a child actor, her mother tightly managed and controlled the young girl's career and personal life from her start in films at the age of five. She starred in multiple films as a child including Miracle on 34th Street in 1947. Her father is described by Wood biographers as a passive alcoholic who went along with his wife's demands.


Natalie Wood and James Dean in a screenshot from Rebel Without a Cause.At the age of 16 Natalie celebrated her release from child-star status by winning the role of Judy in Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause, co-starring James Dean, Sal Mineo, and Dennis Hopper, and, as most biographers claim, by sleeping with Ray and Hopper. Indeed, she was one of the relative few who made a successful transition to adult stardom. By the time she was 28, she was already a three-time Oscar nominee, with nominations for Rebel Without a Cause, Splendor in the Grass and Love With the Proper Stranger.

Another of her widely noted films was the Leonard Bernstein musical West Side Story, in which she played Maria. Wood was initially signed to do her own singing but in the end she was dubbed by professional singer Marni Nixon, which is said to have disappointed her. Nonetheless she enjoyed worldwide celebrity, comparable to that of Elizabeth Taylor. As a restless on-screen companion of James Dean and an off-screen date of Elvis Presley, she was much admired and envied by the young girls of the day. One of her judgements of Elvis was, "He can sing but he can't do much else."

Drowning at Catalina Island

Wood's two marriages to actor Robert Wagner were publicized and stormy, but they were reconciled at the time of her death. In 1981, at the age of forty-three, Wood drowned while their yacht The Splendor was anchored at Catalina Island. An investigation by Los Angeles coroner Thomas Noguchi resulted in an official verdict of accidental drowning, although speculation about the circumstances continued. Wood was on board the yacht with Wagner and actor Christopher Walken. There were reports Wagner and Walken had a loud argument and Wood apparently tried to either leave the yacht or to secure a dinghy that was banging against the hull when she accidentally slipped and fell overboard. A woman on shore said she heard cries for help from the water that night, along with voices replying "we're coming." Wagner, Walken and the pilot of the Splendor said they heard nothing. Noguchi revealed that Wood was legally intoxicated when she died and there were marks and bruises on her body, which could have been received as a result of her fall.

At the time of her death Wood was filming Brainstorm and preparing to make her stage debut in a Los Angeles production of Anastasia, opposite Dame Wendy Hiller.

She is buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. She was survived by her husband Robert Wagner and daughters Katie Wagner (from Wagner's previous marriage to Marion Marshall), Natasha Gregson Wagner (from her marriage to Richard Gregson), and Courtney Wagner, as well as her sister Lana Wood, and her mother.

Trivia

When she was nine she had an accident on a movie set which left a slight but permanent bone protrusion on her left wrist. For the rest of her life, on camera or in public, she wore a bracelet to cover it.
Among the men she frequently dated were singer Elvis Presley and actors Raymond Burr, Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty, Nick Adams, Tab Hunter and Scott Marlowe.
According to Mary F. Pols, Wood went on studio-arranged dates throughout her early years as a starlet, often with closeted gay actors. Tab Hunter said he was a frequent companion of Natalie Wood at the request of Warner Brothers, which had both stars under contract. They would attend parties to promote films like The Burning Hills even though he was gay - not publicly at the time - and she was still in her teens. Wood biographer and Hollywood screenwriter Gavin Lambert also confirms that Wood had studio-arranged dates with homo- or bisexual actors, the first of which was with Nick Adams.
According to Lambert and his reviewer David Ehrenstein, Wood later even did her part for gay history by supporting homosexual playwright Mart Crowley in a manner that made it possible for him to write his play, The Boys in the Band.
Concerning a possible relationship between Wood and young homosexual actor Raymond Burr, Wood biographer Suzanne Finstad cites Dennis Hopper as saying, "I just can't wrap my mind around that one. But you know, I saw them together. They were definitely a couple. Who knows what was going on there." However, no romantic relationship has ever been proved between Burr and Wood.
Contrary to popular notions, Gavin Lambert wrote that Wood's casting in Rebel Without a Cause did not lead to a romance with co-star James Dean: "Like many people, she was fascinated by his charm. He had this magnetic quality on the screen and in life... They got on very well, they liked each other a lot." He added that both Dean and Rebel director Nicholas Ray (with whom Wood reportedly had an affair) helped renew her passion for acting after a diet of lackluster movies like Chicken Every Sunday, Dear Brat and Father Was a Fullback.
Wood is reported to have had a lifelong fear of dark water and drowning. During the filming of This Property is Condemned, she was so scared of performing a skinny-dipping scene that co-star Robert Redford held her feet underwater to help steady her while shooting it.
Along with Tatum O'Neal, Haley Joel Osment, Elizabeth Taylor, Anna Paquin, Dean Stockwell, Ben Affleck and Jodie Foster she is one of only eight former child actors to have been nominated for an Oscar.

Kim Carnes
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kim Carnes (born July 20, 1945 in Los Angeles, California) is an American singer-songwriter. She is noted for her distinctive, raspy voice which she attributes to many hours spent singing in smoky bars and clubs.

Carnes was a member of New Christy Minstrels from 1966 until 1970. Kenny Rogers was also a member, and during this time Carnes met and married Dave Ellingson, with whom she would write most of her songs. For a short while in the early 1970s, she and Ellingson formed the folk duo Kim and Dave, which was not successful. She began releasing albums during the early 1970s. Her self-titled album in 1975 contained her first hit, "You're A Part Of Me," a duet with Gene Cotton (and a cover of a minor hit for Canadian singer Susan Jacks earlier that year) that went to #36 on the charts. This album was followed in 1976 with Sailin'. One track, "Love Comes From Unexpected Places," won best song at the 1977 American Song Festival and gained some additional notice after it was recorded by Barbra Streisand on her 1977 album Streisand Superman.

In 1980 a duet with Kenny Rogers titled "Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer" became a major hit on the country and western charts and also became a pop hit. Her cover version of the Smokey Robinson & The Miracles song "More Love" became her first solo hit single in 1980 when it reached the U.S. Top 10.

In 1981 she recorded the Jackie DeShannon and Donna Weiss song "Bette Davis Eyes". As the first single released from the album Mistaken Identity, it spent 9 weeks at number one on the US singles charts and became a worldwide hit. The single went on to become the #1 bestseller for the year and won Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Record of the Year. It is second only to Olivia Newton-John's "Physical" (released later in 1981 and late enough to be the number one single of 1982), which spent 10 weeks at number one, as the biggest hit of the entire decade of the 1980s.

It is ironic that Carnes' best known and most popular song "Bette Davis Eyes" written in 1974 was originally rejected by Carnes. It was only after a new instrumental arrangement was done by Bill Cuomo that Carnes agreed to record it and it became a huge hit. Bette Davis admitted to being a fan of the song and approached Carnes and the songwriters to thank them. Davis wrote to Carnes after the song was released and stated that she was very pleased with the song as it made her seem very up to date with her grandson. She had Carnes sing the song live for her at a tribute held just before her death.

Carnes continued to record and released several albums into the 1990s. These releases failed to reach the level of success of "Bette Davis Eyes", but by this time she was a highly respected songwriter, and collaborated with such artists as Barbra Streisand. Carnes has written three number one country songs: "The Heart Won't Lie", a hit duet for Reba McEntire and Vince Gill, "Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer", a huge hit duet she performed with Kenny Rogers, and "Make No Mistake She's Mine", a duet performed by Kenny Rogers and Ronnie Milsap. The latter song was originally "Make No Mistake, He's Mine," a No. 51 Pop hit in 1984 for Carnes and Streisand featured on Streisand's album Emotion. Also in 1984, Carnes sang on the No. 1 Adult Contemporary hit "What About Me?" with Rogers and James Ingram.

Co-writing with others, Carnes has had songs covered by such country stars as Deana Carter, Kevin Sharp, Sawyer Brown, Suzy Bogguss, Pam Tillis and Tanya Tucker. She wrote "You Don't Love Me Anymore," a hit song on Tim McGraw's album A Place In The Sun.

In 2004, she re-appeared with a self-released album Chasin' Wild Trains.

In August 2005, her 1981 single "Draw Of The Cards" hit #1 on the internet radio request site FreezeFrameRadio.com.

She currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee.


Performed by "Kim Carnes"
©Donna Weiss/ Jackie DeShannon
Published by Plain and Simple Music (ASCAP)/Donna Weiss Music (BMI)
Album: "Mistaken Identity" - 1981


Her hair is Harlow gold,
Her lips sweet surprise
Her hands are never cold
She's got Bette Davis eyes
She'll turn her music on
You won't have to think twice
pure as New York snow

She got Bette Davis eyes
And she'll tease you
She'll unease you
All the better just to please you
She's precocious
And she knows just what it
Takes to make a pro blush
She got Greta Garbo Stand off sighs,

she's got Bette Davis eyes
She'll let you take her home
It whets her appetite
She'll lay you on her throne
She got Bette Davis eyes
She'll take a tumble on you
Roll you like you were dice
Until you come out blue
She's got Bette Davis eyes

She'll expose you
Off your feet with the crumbs she throws you
She's ferocious
And she knows just what it Takes to make a pro blush

All the boys Think she's a spy,
she's got Bette Davis eyes

And she'll tease you
She'll unease you
All the better just to please you
She's precocious
And she knows just what it Takes to make a pro blush
All the boys Think she's a spy,
she's got Bette Davis eyes

WOMAN'S PERFECT BREAKFAST

She's sitting at the table with her gourmet coffee.
Her son is on the cover of the Wheaties box.
Her daughter is on the cover of Business Week.
Her boyfriend is on the cover of Playgirl.
And her husband is on the back of the milk carton.

Well, hawkman is finished. Great little story, Boston. I tried to find Hot Puppies, but could only listen to a little of Drowning Nymph because something happened to our studio MMP.

I recall, now, that Natalie did Brainstorm. Thanks for reminding us of the celebs, Bob.

Since I could not find Drowning Nymph, this poem can be their substitute:

SEA~SHELL HEART



Her heart ached

In drowning shadows

Murmurous waters



Love's sweet bluebell taste

Infused her

Beneath sunken dreams



Falling… drowning…

Into the bottomless ocean

Never to part



From her sea~shell heart

must have a photo of Dame Diana as Mrs. Peel

Ah, Mr. Turtle. How nice. She is a lovely lady, no?

Well, M.D., the best we can do is play a song by another Diana:

Diana Krall
» My Love Is

My love, my love is a mountainside so firm-
So firm it can calm the tide
My love for you is a mountainside
It stands so firm it can calm the tide
That's why my love, my love is
A mountainside

My love, my love is an ocean's roar
So strong, so strong that I can't let you go
My love for you is an ocean's roar
It's grown so strong that I can't let you go
That's why my love, my love is
An ocean's roar

My love is longer than forever
And endless as the march of time
'Till ninety-nine years after never
In my heart you'll still be mine
Because my love
My love is a deep blue sea
So deep, so deep that I'll never be free
My love for you is a deep blue sea
It's grown so strong that I'll never be free
That's why my love, my love is
A deep blue sea

Good morning, and a timely warning.


Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground
Artist/Band: Nelson Willie

If you had not have fallen
Then I would not have found you
Angel flying too close to the ground
And I patched up your broken wing
And hung around a while
Tried to keep your spirits up
While you were feelin' down
I knew someday that you would fly away
For love's the greatest healer to be found
So leave me if you need to
I will still remember
Angel flying too close to the ground
Fly on, fly on past the speed of sound
I'd rather see you up
Than see you down
Leave me if you need to
I will still remember
Angel flying too close to the ground

Ah, Try. What a lovely song, buddy. Somehow, your fallen angels reminded me of this cowboy song:


[C] Angels -- come to paint the desert [A-] nightly
When the moon is gleaming [F] brightly [F-]
Along the [F]Santa [G7] Fe [C] Trail
Stardust - scattered all along the [A-] highway
On a rainbow colored [F] skyway [F-]
Along the [F] Santa [G7] Fe [C] Trail

Be - [F] side you - I'm riding [F-] every hill and dale
While shadows [C] hide you - just like a [D7] pretty purple veil
[G7] Thereby hangs a tail.

I've [C] found you - and the mountains that sur- [A-] round you
Are the walls I built a - [F] round you [F-]
Along the [F] Santa [G7] Fe [C] Trail

Be - [F] side you - I'm riding [F-] every hill and dale
While shadows [C] hide you - just like a [D7] pretty purple veil
[G7] Thereby hangs a tail.

I've [C] found you - and the mountains that sur- [A-] round you
Are the walls I built a - [F] round you [F-]
Along the [F] Santa [G7] Fe [C] Trail

Hey! That's in the key of C major. Maybe I can play that one. <smile>

I just can't explain why…


WE FLY SO CLOSE
PHIL COLLINS Lyrics


My harbour lights are fading fast
soon they'll disappear
alone I sit in darkness
hoping someone might come near
though I wait, though I try
no one ever comes
and the feelings that I have flood over me
the river starts to run

We fly so close
we fly so close
sometimes we fly too close

Every place you run to, everywhere you turn
there are places that you know you should not go
but some bridges just won't burn
all my life, though I try
I cannot change the past
and the ghosts that come back to haunt you
make you realise that

We fly so close
we fly so close
sometimes we fly too close
we fly too close

My heart is racing much faster now
life passes before my eyes
something's I see, they make me smile
something's they make me cry
so I look, so I try to find
a lesson I can learn
the passing of time hasn't changed my mind
and the ghosts I know return

You know we fly so close
we fly so close
sometimes we fly too close
we fly too close

We fly so close, you and I sometimes
sometimes we fly so close
we'll never know how many times
we fly so close
we fly so close

Well, Try, the lights on the ocean and flying so close make me think of the harbor and things that will float:

BRUCE HORNSBY Song Lyrics

Harbor Lights
(From the album "HARBOR LIGHTS")

B. R. Hornsby

Close your eyes and slip away
To the dream of your fancy
Close your eyes and float downstream
To where the marsh grass dances
Take you down where the air is thick
Try to make you shake and shiver
Make you see there will be no tricks
There will be no tricks tonight
There will be some tricks tonight

We could go down to the harbor lights
Lay out on the sand on the shore
Let me take you down to the docks at night
Whatever you do I'll do more

Take some hours and waste them away
Let your mind flow freely
Take some time and forget about time
You may find a little feeling
I can see you shining with sweat
Like to make you shake and shiver
We could feel the air so wet
We could feel it all tonight
We could feel it all tonight

We could go down to the harbor lights
Lay out on the sand on the shore
Let me take you down to the docks at night
Whatever you do I'll do more

Take you down where the air is thick
Like to make you shake and shiver
What I'll show you've probably seen
Why not come on again
Why not come see it again

We could go down to the harbor lights
Lay out on the sand on the shore
Let me take you down to the docks at night
Whatever you do I'll do more

It is indeed another…

Lovely Day Lyrics
Artist: Luther Vandross


When I wake up in the morning, love
And the sunlight hurts my eyes
And something strange without a warning, love
Bears heavy on my mind

Then I look at you
And the world is all right with me
Just one look at you
And I know it's gonna be…
A lovely day
lovely day, lovely day, lovely day
When the day that lies ahead of me
Seems impossible to face
When somebody else instead of me
Always seems to know the way

It's gonna be a lovely day (it's gonna be)
It's gonna be today
It's gonna be a lovely day
Today I love the world

It's gonna be today
A lovely day today
It's gonna be today
A lovely day today

Well, Try, you are the eternal optimist this evening, and I'm trying to be but then I read this bit of news from the world of anthropology.

Snake-spotting may have helped us evolve -study 1 hour, 18 minutes ago



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Snakes may make people jump for a good reason -- human close-up vision may have evolved specifically to spot the reptiles, researchers reported on Thursday.


Humans, monkeys and other primates have good color vision, large brains, and use their vision to guide reaching and grasping.

But while some scientists believe these characteristics evolved together as early primates used their hands and eyes to pick fruit and other foods, Lynne Isbell, a professor of anthropology at the University of California Davis, believes they may have evolved to help primates evade snakes.

"A snake is the only predator you really need to see close up. If it's a long way away it's not dangerous," said Isbell, who has published her theory in the Journal of Human Evolution.

Neurological studies show the structure of the brain's visual system seems to be well connected to brain structures involved in vigilance, fear and learning, she said.

That's news?

We need to do a Monty Python song.

but instead, listeners, I think the Belle of Amherst says it better:

A Narrow Fellow In The Grass by Emily Dickinson.

A narrow fellow in the grass
Occasionally rides;
You may have met him, did you not,
His notice sudden is.

The grass divides as with a comb,
A spotted shaft is seen;
And then it closes at your feet
And opens further on.

He likes a boggy acre,
A floor too cool for corn.
Yet when a child, and barefoot,
I more than once, at morn,

Have passed, I thought, a whip-lash
Unbraiding in the sun,
When, stooping to secure it,
It wrinkled, and was gone.

Several of nature's people
I know, and they know me;
I feel for them a transport
Of cordiality;

But never met this fellow,
Attended or alone,
Without a tighter breathing,
And zero at the bone.

here'ssssss ssssssort of a ssssssnake ssssssong

Talk about a reefer of five feet long
Not too fat and not too strong
You get high, but not for long
If you'se a viper

Now I'm the king of everything
Got to get high for to sing
Light that tee and we will see
If you'se a viper

When coke gets dry you know you're high
Everything is hip and dandy
Truck on down to the candy store
Bust your chops on some peppermint candy

Now you know that you been sent
Don't give a damn if you can't pay the rent
The sky is high and so am I
If you'se a viper

When coke gets dry you know you're high
Everything is hip and dandy
Truck on down to the candy store
Bust your chops on some peppermint candy
Now you know everything
Got to get high for to sing
Light that tee and we will see
If you'se a viper

My word, Mr. Turtle. How many euphemisms have they had for narcotics I do wonder? Loved the Viper song, m.d., and then there are the multiple names for grass, narrow or not.

Here's one that swings:

{Refrain}
One toke over the line, sweet Jesus, one toke over the line
Sittin' downtown in a railway station, one toke over the line
Waitin' for the train that goes home, sweet Mary
Hoping that the train is on time
Sittin' downtown in a railway station, one toke over the line



Who do you love, I hope it's me
I've been changing, as you can plainly see
I felt the joy and I learned about the pain that my mama said
If I should choose to make it part of me
Would surely strike me dead, and now I'm



{Refrain}

I sail away, a country mile
And now I'm returning, and showing off my smile
I met all the girls and I loved myself a few, and to my surprise
Like everything else that I've been through
They opened up my eyes, and now I'm

{Refrain}