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Thank you Letty - I had a le ball...

Ah, dear Sarah. Then this is for you from some Frenchman. <smile>



Artist: Sarah
Song: Deep down


Never mind what you hear
My heart is beating just for you
So let the stories be told
And let me whisper in your ear

You never need to be afraid my love
There is no me without us

Deep down in my heart
I feel whole in your eyes
And through them I see the truth

Deep down in my heart
Wish you love for life and
I wanna spend mine with you

If I write a book on love
Every word will be your name
Oh and when we're alone
It just gets better every day

I never need to be afraid my love
With you I always feel safe as one

Deep down in my heart
I feel whole in your eyes
And through them I see the truth

Deep down in my heart
Wish you for love for life and
I wanna spend mine with you

Just want to wrap my soul
Around your world
And make you smile when all else fails
And when it's hard to believe in this life
Baby dream your dreams and trust in me

You never need to be afraid my love
There is no me without us

That was a phone in request.

Renaissance Fair
The Byrds

I think that maybe I´m dreaming
I smell cinnamon and spices
I hear music everywhere
All around kaleidoscope of color

I think that maybe I´m dreaming
Maids pass gracefully in laughter
Wine coloured flowers in their hair
Last call from lands I´ve never been to

I think that maybe I´m dreaming
Some flash on a soda of prism
Bright jewels on the ladies flashing
Eyes catch on a shiny prism

Hear ye the crying of the vendors
Fruit for sale wax candles for to burn
Fires flare soon it will be night fall
I think that maybe I´m dreaming

Lovely lyrics, Try. I especially tune in to the lines:

I think that maybe I'm dreaming
Some flash on a soda of prism
Bright jewels on the ladies flashing
Eyes catch on a shiny prism.

Somehow, listeners, I am thinking tonight about rainbows evanescing amid the storm:
Red and yellow and blue and green,
Purple and orange and pink,
I can sing a rainbow,
Sing a rainbow,
Sing a rainbow too!

Listen to your heart,
Listen to your heart,
And sing everything you feel,
I can sing a rainbow,
Sing a rainbow,
Sing a rainbow too

I was thinking…

Wouldn't It Be Nice
Beach Boys Lyrics

Wouldn't it be nice if we were older
Then we wouldn't have to wait so long
And wouldn't it be nice to live together
In the kind of world where we belong

You know it's gonna make it that much better
When we can say goodnight and stay together

Wouldn't it be nice if we could wake up
In the morning when the day is new
And after having spent the day together
Hold each other close the whole night through

Happy times together we've been spending
I wish that every kiss was never ending
Wouldn't it be nice

Maybe if we think and wish and hope and pray
It might come true
Baby then there wouldn't be a single thing we couldn't do
We could be married
And then we'd be happy
Wouldn't it be nice

You know it seems the more we talk about it
It only makes it worse to live without it
But let's talk about it
Wouldn't it be nice

Good night baby
Sleep tight baby

Good night baby
Sleep tight baby

Well, Try, we have discussed this before, but The Beach Boys learned from The Four Freshmen, dear.

This song was originally theirs, but done by those boys.<smile> I have never heard their version, but the Freshmen did it all a capella.


There's a story told of a very gentle boy
And the girl who wore his ring
Through the wintry snow
The world they knew was warm
For their hearts were full of spring

As the days grew old
And the nights passed into time
And the weeks and years took wing
Gentle boy, tender girl
Their love remained still young
For their hearts were full of spring

Then one day they died
And their graves were side by side
On a hill where robins sing
And they say violets
Grow there the whole year round
For their hearts were full of spring.

What a wonderful memory for me.

Good evening to yall. I don't hang out on this thread; I know nothing about music and song lyrics.
And I am probably in Letty's doghouse for not responding to her email of, um, quite awhile ago.

A public service announcement here on WA2K: I play on-line scrabble and have run into a lady from, I believe, Western Canada who uses the screen name "charmae" and she would benefit a lot from joining A2K. She has a lot of time on her hands. She. despite some extra help from jespah, is having a problem. I am an idiot and therefore can't help her. She claims she is signed in as a member but doesn't know what to do next. I have told her that this is the first site she should visit in order to meet some gentle folks.
I do have her e-mail address and she has authorized me to give it to someeone else here who could help. Thank you.
Back to the muaic.

Welcome back, RJB. No, you are not in the dog house, Virginia.I was just wondering about the "why" of it all.

What a kind thing for you to do, dear. Well, you tell Charmae that here is a song especially her, and as synchronicity would have it, it is by The Freshman:

Perhaps we can make her Charmaine just for tonight.<smile>


(Waiting just for you, Charmaine)

I wonder why you keep me waiting
Charmaine (My Charmaine)
Cries in vain (Cries in vain)
I wonder when bluebirds are mating
Will you come back again
And I wonder if I keep on praying
Will our dreams be the same (Be the same)
I wonder if ever you think of me too
I'm waiting, my Charmaine, for you

I wonder why you keep me waiting
Charmaine (My Charmaine)
My Charmaine (My Charmaine)
I wonder when bluebirds are mating
Will you come back again
And I wonder if I keep on praying
Will our dreams be the same (Be the same)
I wonder if ever you think of me too
I'm waiting, my Charmaine, for you
Just for you
I'm waiting, my Charmaine, for you
(Just for you)

hi letty !
last night mrs h and i had a great evening listening to "cuban jazz" .
...JANE BUNNETT... (one of canada's greatest jazz artists) , gave a performance in a nearby town - about half-an-hour from here .
she brought along four young cuban musicians and it didn't take us long to clap our hands , shout , and wiggle our hips .
jane bunnett is not only a great musician - she plays sax and flute - but also has started some great music programs in cuba .
she and her team have started to record some of the old cuban music that has never captured before - there's a great dvd of that . she also visits schools and colleges in cuba to bring instruments to the students , so they'll be able to continue the great tradition of cuban music . finally , she brings young (and old !) cuban musicians to canada for some wonderful performances .
the young cuban piano player she brought along yesterday recently won the 'grand prix' at the montreal international jazz festival - i'm sure , you can imagine we were tretaed to some great jazz !
yours in jazz !


hbg

Fabulous, hamburger. What a great looking gal and what a wonderful experience it must have been for you and the Mrs.

Cuban jazz? Love it, Canada.

Well, listeners, Letty must say goodnight. Let's hope that John of Virginia will provide us with the Canadian lady's e-mail address and we will go from there.

Blowing you all a kiss.

From Letty with love

Good morning, radio fans, I was just wondering what happened to…


Roxanne
Artist: Sting & Police Lyrics

Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
Those days are over
You don't have to sell your body to the night
Roxanne, you don't have to wear that dress tonight
Walk the streets for money
You don't care if it's wrong or if it's right

Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
Put on the red light, put on the red light
Put on the red light, put on the red light
Put on the red light, oh

I loved you since I knew ya
I wouldn't talk down to ya
I have to tell you just how I feel
I won't share you with another boy
I know my mind is made up
So put away your make up
Told you once I won't tell you again it's a bad way

Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
You don't have to put on the red light
Put on the red light, put on the red light

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

There's our Try searching for Roxanne. Well, buddy, if the lyrics to your song indicate her profession, then I can see why Sting and the Police may be looking for her. <smile> Thanks for the song.

Letty feels a little pale this morning as sleep was evasive for me, so let's play a whiter shade of pale, folks:

Artist: Procol Harum Lyrics
Song: A Whiter Shade Of Pale Lyrics

We skipped the light fandango
Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick
But the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
As the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
The waiter brought a tray

And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face, at first just ghostly,
Turned a whiter shade of pale
She said: "There is no reason
And the truth is plain to see."
But I wandered through my playing cards
And would not let her be
One of sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast
And although my eyes were open
They might have just as well've been closed

Good afternoon WA2K.

Picture gallery for today's birthday celebrities:

Happy 82nd to Fess Parker, 78th to Ann Blyth; 70th to Robert Culp; 75th to Edyie Gorme; 48th to Angela Bassett; 48th to Madonna and 46th to Timothy Hutton.

Hey, Raggedy. Had a critical error problem, PA, but once again we appreciate your pictures of the celebs.

We will wait for our hawkman to finish his bio's before continuing

Fess Parker
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fess Elisha Parker Jr. (born August 16, 1924) is an American film and television actor. He was born in Fort Worth, Texas. Parker is best known for his role playing frontiersmen Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone as well as starting a fad of wearing coonskin caps. He served as a radioman in the Marine Corps at the end of World War II after being rejected as an aviator for being too tall (He is six feet, five inches).

After being discharged, he was stabbed in the neck by a drunken driver during a post-collision argument. Parker required many months of rehabilitation, but he was unable afterwards to participate in collegiate sports as much as he wanted.

At the University of Texas he was initiated into the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity in 1948. Parker graduated from the University in 1950 with a history degree. He studied at the University of Southern California, earning a graduate degree in drama. He began his show business career in the play, Mister Roberts, in 1951 and was subsequently hired by the Walt Disney Studios in 1954 to play historic figure Crockett. He also made guest appearances on television programs and composed and sang music.

He married Marcella Rinehart in 1960, and the couple has two children, Ashley and Eli. From 1964-1970 he starred in the NBC TV series, Daniel Boone. Fess Parker retired from the film industry in the early 1970s, after the end of the television series about Boone.

Parker currently owns and operates a family winery, Fess Parker Winery and Vineyard, near Santa Barbara, California along with two hotels, the Fess Parker Doubletree Resort (part owner, operated by the Hilton Hotels Corporation) in Santa Barbara and the Fess Parker Wine Country Inn and Spa in nearby Los Olivos.

Ann Blyth
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ann Marie Blyth (born August 16, 1928) is an Oscar-nominated American actress and singer, most often cast in Hollywood musicals, but who also succeeded in the dramatic roles she was given.

Early life

Blyth was born in Mount Kisco, New York to parents who divorced shortly after her birth. She was raised a devout churchgoing Roman Catholic by her mother.

Career

Blyth began her acting career initially as "Anne Blyth", changing the spelling of her name back to the original (Ann) at the beginning of her film career. Her first acting role was on Broadway in Watch on the Rhine (from 1941 until 1942). She was signed to a contract with Universal Studios, and made her film debut in Chip Off the Old Block (1944). In musical films such as Babes on Swing Street and Bowery to Broadway (both 1944), she played the part of the sweet, and demure teenager. Her next film, on loan to Warner Brothers cast her against type, as Veda Pierce, the scheming, ungrateful daughter of Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce (1945). Her dramatic portrayal won her outstanding reviews, and she received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Blyth injured her back after this film, and was not able to capitalize on its success completely although she was still able to make a few films. She played the part of Regina Hubbard in Another Part of the Forest (a 1948 prequel to The Little Foxes), and achieved success playing a mermaid in Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948). Her other films include : Our Very Own (with Farley Granger, 1950), The Great Caruso (1951), One Minute to Zero (with Robert Mitchum, 1952), Rose Marie (1954), The Student Prince (1954), Kismet (1955), The Buster Keaton Story (1957) and The Helen Morgan Story.

Blyth raised eyebrows in 1954 at the Academy Awards show when she sang Doris Day's song Secret Love from Calamity Jane while seven months pregnant.

From the 1960s she worked in musical theater, summer stock and television. She also became the spokesperson for Hostess Cupcakes. Her most recent television appearances have been in episodes of Quincy (1983) and Murder, She Wrote (1985).

Blyth has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to motion pictures, at 6733 Hollywood Boulevard. She was featured in a comic book story with Superman in Action Comics No. 130, March 1949: "Superman and the Mermaid!".

Private life

Blyth with costar Farley Granger - Our Very Own (1950)Blyth married Dr. James McNulty, brother of Dennis Day, in 1953. The couple has five children and remain together after 52 years of marriage.

Robert Culp
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Robert Culp (born August 16, 1930 in Oakland, California), and a 1947 graduate of Berkeley High School, is an American actor, best known for his work on television.

Culp came to national attention with his first role on film as the lead in the 1957 western television series Trackdown; Steve McQueen's western TV show Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958-1961) was a spin-off of Culp's first series. Culp remains most famous for his role on the espionage series I Spy, opposite Bill Cosby, but in fact, he had had a film career after Trackdown and prior to that 1965 program, most notably in PT 109 and as Wild Bill Hickok in The Raiders (1963). He went on to star in the movie Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969; probably the height of his career).

He played the murderer in three Columbo television movies, portraying several different characters. In 1971, he, Peter Falk, Robert Wagner, and Darren McGavin all stepped in to take turns with Anthony Franciosa's rotation of The Name of the Game after Franciosa was fired, rotating the lead of the lavish 90-minute show about the magazine business with Gene Barry and Robert Stack. His next starring stint on television was as FBI agent Bill Maxwell in The Greatest American Hero (1981).

When Larry Hagman entered into contract negotiations over his character of J. R. Ewing in Dallas, Culp was ready to step into the role with an explanation that his face had been rebuilt following an accident. Culp also played the U.S. President in Alan J. Pakula's The Pelican Brief (1991). One of his most recent roles was a recurring part on Everybody Loves Raymond as Warren, Ray's father-in-law. Altogether, Culp has made dozens of appearances in TV shows and movies, with 86 roles to his credit between 1957 and 2005. One of his most memorable films roles was as Thomas Luther Price in Hannie Caulder. Culp lent his voice to the digital character Doctor Breen, the prime antagonist in the 2004 computer game Half-Life 2.

From 1967 to 1970, he was married to Eurasian actress France Nuyen.

Eydie Gormé
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Eydie Gormé (August 16, 1931) is a bilingual (English and Spanish) American singer who, with her husband Steve Lawrence, is credited heavily with helping to keep the classic American pop repertoire alive and well.

The couple's striking union of broad ballads and breezy swing has combined with the endurance of their marriage and their comic facility to make them American institutions---even though neither of the couple, as separate performers or together, has put a single into the American Top 40 since 1963.

Early years

Gormé was born Edith Gormezano in Bronx, New York, and raised by her immigrant Sephardic Jewish parents. She graduated from William Howard Taft high school in 1946 (legendary film director Stanley Kubrick attended the school at the same time), and worked for the United Nations as a translator, using her fluency in the Spanish language.

She also hired out as a singer, working in the big bands of former Glenn Miller singer Tex Beneke as well as the lesser-known Tommy Tucker, before going on her own in 1952.

Tonight Show Start

She caught both her big break and her life partner when she and singer Steve Lawrence were booked to the original The Tonight Show, then hosted by Steve Allen. When they sang together, the legend goes, the industry buzzed about them from the morning after forward; indeed, Steve & Eydie (as they are usually referenced) became two of the only legitimate music stars to break out from 1950s television. (Rick Nelson, who strutted his stuff on his parents' hit situation comedy, The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, was the other.)

Marriage

The couple were married in Las Vegas on December 29, 1957. They had two sons, one of whom predeceased them. They became famous on stage for their banter, which usually involved tart yet affectionate and sometimes bawdy references to their married life, which remains a feature of their stage style even now. (A typical exchange: Lawrence---"Baby, you're the only thing I've invested in that's doubled." Gorme---"Now you have to figure out how to make me split.")

Solo/Duo

Gorme enjoyed a few hit singles on her own, none selling bigger than 1963's "Blame It On The Bossa Nova," which was also her final foray into the Top 40 pop charts. Still, she won a Grammy Award for Best Female Vocal Performance in 1967, for her version of "If He Walked Into My Life", from the stage musical Mame. Like her husband, Gorme has appeared on numerous television shows over the years.

Since the 1970s, the couple has focused strictly on the American pop repertoire, recording several albums themed around individual American pop composers. As the 21st Century arrived, the normally indefatigable couple announced their plans to cut back on their touring, launching a "One More For The Road" tour in 2002.

Parenthood

Gorme and Lawrence had two sons, David -- who is a composer, and Michael, who died at age 23 in 1986.