WA2K Radio is now on the air

dj, love your ramblin and gamblin song by Bob.Thanks for continuing the theme, Canada.

And speaking of Canada. hamburger we most certainly enjoyed both versions, and although I do NOT have mal de mer, that rocking reminds me of my bed.

I shall say goodnight with affection.

and always....

From Letty with love.

Our Day Will Come
Ruby & The Romantics

Our day will come
And we'll have everything
We'll share the joy
Falling in love can bring

No one can tell me
That I'm too young to know (young to know)
I love you so (love you so)
And you love me

Our day will come
If we just wait a while
No tears for us
Think love and wear a smile

Our dreams have magic
Because we'll always stay
In love this way
Our day will come.
(Our day will come; our day will come)


Our dreams have magic
Because we'll always stay
In love this way
Our day will come
Our day will come

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors. It looks as though it will be a gray day today, but often things change quickly in Florida as we all know.

Hey, Texas. I know that song, and I think it is because our tenor sax man used to sing it in the shower. Just joking around, of course.

Well, I know that our Raggedy likes this song, so for her:

Smoky Mountain Rain - Ronnie Milsap

I thumbed my way from LA back to Knoxville
I found those bright lights aint where I belonged
From a phone booth in the rain I called to tell her
I've had a change of dreams, I'm comin' home
But tears filled my eyes when I found out she was gone

CHORUS:
Smoky Mountain rain, it keeps on fallin'
I keep on callin' her name
Smoky mountain rain, I'll keep on searchin'
Can't go on hurtin' this way
She's somewhere in the Smoky Mountain rain

I waved a diesel down outside a cafe
He said he was goin' as far as Gatlinburg
I climbed up in the cab all wet and cold and lonely
I wiped my eyes and told him about her
To find her can you make these big wheels burn?

I can't blame her for lettin' go
A woman needs someone warm to hold
I feel the rain runnin' down my face
I'll find her no matter what it takes

CHORUS

Heard it just on the radio again - a nice song for a beaautiful late summer day:

Gianna Nannini - Latin Lover


Sangue caldo profumo da sballo
medaglioni sotto la t-shirt
Marlon Brando questioni di tango
mette in vendita il suo sex-apple
ogni notte cambia faccia cambi stile
cambi cambi cambi cambi cambi parole
latin lover latin lover
sigarette fumate di fretta gli occhi frugano dei decoltè
vedi Ornella muta muta che si cuce la bocca per te
mentre tu stai cambiando macchina cambiando motore
latin lover latin lover
latin lover latin lover
stai con le tue foto stai
con i tuoi trucchi stai
sull'orlo della notte
stai coi tuoi disegni stai
con le tue storie storte
sull'orlo della notte
bella bimba bella bimba non restare così sola al sole
latin lover latin lover
bere forte mischiare le carte per vedere quello che non c'è
fai l'amore allo specchio di notte col suo negligè
ogni volta cambi stile cambi dieta cambi cambi emozione
latin lover latin lover
Jenny è fuori di testa stasera
non capisce perchè sei così
beve birra non parla di guerra vuole il feeling subito
mentre tu non hai voglia non hai voglia non hai voglia
più di questa canzone
latin lover latin lover latin lover latin lover
stai con le tue foto stai con i tuoi trucchi stai
sull'orlo della notte stai coi tuoi disegni stai
con le tue storie storte
sull'orlo della notte
bella bimba bella bimba non restare così sola al sole
latin lover latin lover
stai con le tue foto stai
con i tuoi trucchi stai
sull'orlo della notte
stai coi tuoi disegni stai
con le tue storie storte
sull'orlo della notte
bella bimba bella bimba non restare così sola al sole

Good morning WA2K. Thank you for the lovely Ronnie Milsap song, Letty.

Today's birthday picture gallery:

The brother (only 23 when he died) of one of Letty's favorites and a favorite of my hometown:



and

Good to see you back, Walter. I always called soccer George our Latin lover.<smile>

Hmmm. I did understand some of your lyrics, Germany. Let's see, Marlon Brando and Last Tango in Paris. Wow! I have forgotten that movie.

Ah, Raggedy. River Phoenix. What a sad story. Most of us know "Singing in the Reyn", er, make that in the "rain" Thanks again, PA, for your marvelous trio.

Time for a station break so that your PD can eat.

This is cyber space, WA2K radio.

You won't believe what I found, listeners.

First, the Phoenix family moved to Gainsville, Florida, and that is where River became interested in music. Here is a song that he wrote and played on guitar:

I never thought I could see
Such blue
As the ice I fell into

I never thought I could feel
Such blue
As the chill now embracing you

Most of us know where to go
When we need someone

I'm a fool
Too out of reach
I believe no one

This is not the way
I want to see your face
And this change could be
The death of you and me

Cause I opened the door
To such blue
Living flesh
Our blood shows through

If I could draw
A conclusion here
I'd say...
That the end draws near

Most of us
Have somewhere safe
To escape from the cold
We exhausted any trust
To think we can hold

And I'll never know
The ghost that wears your clothes
You must not know how close
To the edge I go

This is not the way
I want to see your face
Your desperate eyes reach to me
As blue as blue could be

Our sentence ends
With a blue period
Our sentence ends
With a blue period

signing off at 8:38 am , signing back on at 9:08 am ,
that was a short stationbreak and a quick breakfast .
takes us that long just to make coffee !
hope you have a longer lunchbreak , letty !
hbg

Hey, hamburger. How long does it take to eat sausage, biscuits, (not the Brit kind) and an egg? As Bud used to say, "My you are a fast little eater."

Eat Street
Lyrics by People Under the Stairs

I might call your spot pumpin' if you got crushed ice
In a styrofoam cup with the refill rights
So homie no time to chill we got places to try
I gotta find some grilled onions and a large side of fries

had some fried tomatoes - fresh from the garden - with our scrambled eggs this morning - hmmm .
unfortunately we've had a long dry spell in eastern ontario and the tomatoes are not the best this year - but they taste good .
hbg

Well, Canada. Mrs. hbg, does take care of thee. <smile> Want to ask about lunch?

Moody Blues
» Lunch Break Peak Hour

I see it all through my window it seems
Never failing like millions of bees
All that is wrong
No time will be won
All they need to do-o-o-o
What can be done?

Peak hour, peak hour, peak hour

Minds are subject to what should be done
Problem solved, time cannot be won
One hour a day
One hour at night
Sees crowds of people
All meant for flight

Peak hour, peak hour, peak hour

It makes me want to run out and tell them
They've got time
Take a step back out
And look in at their debt
And their time

Minds are subject to what should be done
Problem solved, time cannot be won
One hour a day
One hour at night
Sees crowds of people
All meant for flight

Peak hour, peak hour, peak hour

Gene Kelly
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Gene Kelly
Born August 23, 1912
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Died February 2, 1996
Beverly Hills, California, USA

Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 - February 2, 1996), better known as Gene Kelly, was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was an American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer, and choreographer. Kelly was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likable characters that he played on screen.

Upbringing

Gene was the third son of James Kelly, a phonograph salesman, and Harriet Curran, who were both children of Irish Catholic immigrants. He graduated from Peabody High School and attended the University of Pittsburgh, where he joined the Phi Kappa Theta fraternity and he got a degree in Economics. Early in his Broadway career, he appeared in Cole Porter's Leave It To Me as an Eskimo who supports Mary Martin while she sings "My Heart Belongs to Daddy." In 1940 he was given the leading role in Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey, which brought him to national attention. During this period he also choreographed several hit plays, including the 1941 production of Best Foot Forward.

Film career

Singin' in the Rain (1952)Kelly's first motion picture was For Me and My Gal (1942) with Judy Garland. He went on to make a number of classic musicals, including An American in Paris (1951) and Singin' in the Rain (1952).

His most notable moments on film include:

Dancing with a group of French schoolchildren to "I Got Rhythm" in An American in Paris.
The climactic ballet/finale of An American in Paris.
Singing and dancing in the rain in a much-parodied scene from the film Singin' in the Rain; a scene he filmed while sick with a 103-degree (39.4 °C) fever.
Dancing with a squeaky floorboard and a newspaper in Summer Stock.
Dancing on roller skates in It's Always Fair Weather.
Dancing with Jerry Mouse in Anchors Aweigh.
Dancing with his own reflection in Cover Girl
He was the first American to choreograph and stage a ballet in the Paris Opera.

Kelly was awarded a special Academy Award "in appreciation of his versatility as an actor, singer, director and dancer, and specifically for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film" in 1951 and reawarded in 1984's Academy Awards due to a fire which burned down his home in the previous year.

Kelly was awarded the Légion d'honneur by the French government in 1960. He also received the Life Achievement Award from American Film Institute in 1985. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts, from President Clinton in 1994, but was too ill to accept it in person.

Kelly died on February 2, 1996, in Beverly Hills, California, after suffering two strokes, at the age of 83.

Kelly married three times:

Betsy Blair (1940-1957) (one child, Kerry)
Jeanne Coyne (1960-1973) (two children, Bridget and Tim)
Patricia Ward (1990-1996)

Trivia

The Gene Kelly Awards, given annually to high school musicals in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, are named in his honor.

In 2005, the widow of Gene gave permission to Volkswagen as part of their Volkswagen Golf GTi promotion, to use Gene Kelly's likeness. However, despite Mrs. Kelly's urging, the German auto maker refused to show the commercial in the U.S.. The television clip featured a partly CGI version of Kelly breakdancing to a new version of "Singin' in the Rain", remixed by Mint Royale. The tagline was, "The original, updated."

In 1993, pop singer Madonna met with Gene Kelly who convinced her to include an homage to Marlene Dietrich in her Girlie Show Tour, which turned out to be her cabaret version of "Like a Virgin."

He was voted the 42nd Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.

He's one of the many movie stars mentioned in Madonna's song "Vogue".

Paula Abdul stars opposite an animated cat in her "Opposites Attract" video, and did so as to mirror Gene Kelly with Jerry the Mouse in Anchors Aweigh (film). Gene Kelly, her childhood idol, noticed, and wanted to meet her. They met for tea every week until he died.

Ray Bradbury's novel "Something Wicked This Way Comes" was dedicated to him.

In 1994, the Three Tenors honored him singing "Singin' in the Rain" in front of him during a concert at the LA Dodgers Stadium. A frail-looking Gene Kelly was helped to his feet for a brief salute to stand up for the ovation.

Quotations

"If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando."
"Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat."
"In the 1930s, when I started, Martha Graham was the only dancer doing anything modern, but she did it all to classical music. I couldn't see myself doing Swan Lake every night, and I wanted to develop a truly American style. The only dancer in the movies at that time with any success was Fred Astaire, but he did very small, elegant steps in a top hat, white tie, and tails."
"I [was] twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. But if I put on a white tails and tux like Astaire, I still looked like a truck driver... I looked better in a sweatshirt and loafers anyway. It wasn't elegant, but it was me."
"I didn't want to be a dancer... I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally."
"The way I look at a musical, you are commenting on the human condition no matter what you do. A musical may be light and frivolous, but by its very nature, it makes some kind of social comment."
"At 14, I discovered girls. At that time, dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship. Only later did I discover that you dance joy. You dance love. You dance dreams."
"I wasn't very nice to Debbie. It's a wonder she still speaks to me."--On his behavior towards Debbie Reynolds on the set of Singin' in the Rain.

Vera Miles
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Vera Miles (born August 23, 1929) is an American actress.

She was born Vera Ralston in Boise City, Oklahoma, and grew up in Pratt and in Wichita, Kansas where she graduated from Wichita North High School. She was crowned Miss Kansas in 1948.

Her career as a beauty queen earned her a minor part in Two Tickets to Broadway (1951). She posed for cheesecake photos and married her leading man from Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955), Gordon Scott, whom she later divorced. John Ford cast her as Jeffrey Hunter's spirited love interest in The Searchers (1956), and her career subsequently took a dramatic turn upward. A year later, she played Henry Fonda's beleaguered wife in Alfred Hitchcock's The Wrong Man (1957).

Pregnancy cost her the lead in Vertigo, but Hitchcock did cast her as Janet Leigh's sister Lila Crane in Psycho (1960), in which her character discovers the truth about Norman Bates' mother. Following another stint for Ford in 1962's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, she got her first parts at the Disney studio, in A Tiger Walks (1964), Those Calloways (1965), and Follow Me, Boys! (1966). She continued to play roles for Disney into the 1970s. She did television series work for a time, then in 1983 reprised her most famous role in Psycho II, with her character vociferously protesting the proposed parole of Norman Bates (played, as in the original, by Anthony Perkins).

Barbara Eden
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Barbara Eden, circa 1970
Born
Tucson, Arizona

Barbara Eden was born Barbara Jean Moorhead in Tucson, Arizona, although by the age of 3 she would become Barbara Jean Huffman due to her mother's subsequent marriage to Connor Huffman. Her date of birth has usually been given as August 23, 1934, although some sources cite 1930. [citation needed]

She is an American film and television actress and singer; and is best known for her starring role in the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. She was also known as Barbara Huffman, following her mother's re-marriage, by which she has a younger half-sister. She graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco in 1949. [citation needed] Barbara's name change was at the behest of her manager who thought the name Huffman would not sell in Hollywood. Barbara told him she was fine with that, but insisted that her first name remain due to the fact that she could not answer to anything else.

Eden made memorable featured appearances on popular television shows such as I Love Lucy, Perry Mason, Bachelor Father, and Gunsmoke. Eden made her film debut in Back from Eternity (1956), and the following year she starred in the television series How to Marry a Millionaire, playing the role Marilyn Monroe had played in the film version. Eden had a notable part in Flaming Star (1960), an Elvis Presley movie. The following year, she played in a supporting role as Lt. Cathy Connors in Irwin Allen's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, one of many successful science fiction outings by "The Master of Disaster". [citation needed] She played supporting roles in films over the next few years, including a notable, if odd, movie, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, with Tony Randall, before being signed to play her most famous and widely-recognized role, the character of Jeannie in the television sitcom I Dream of Jeannie, 1965-1970, opposite Larry Hagman. The show proved to be a huge success, running from 1965 until 1970, and during this time Eden was nominated twice for Golden Globe Awards.

Eden's first husband, actor Michael Ansara, made guest appearances on Jeannie as "The Blue Djinn". They had one son together, actor Matthew Ansara, who died on 2001-06-25 after a heroin overdose. Michael Ansara and Barbara Eden divorced in 1974. She was married to her second husband, Chicago Sun-Times news journalist Charles Donald Fegert, from 1977-09-03 until their divorce in 1983. She married her third and current husband, Los Angeles real estate developer Jon Eicholtz, on 1991-01-05.

She continued to appear regularly on television and starred in the feature film Harper Valley PTA based on the popular country song. This led to a namesake television eries in 1981.

In 1991, Barbara had a recurring role in five episodes of the final season of Dallas, playing the character Lee Ann de la Vega, reuniting her with her I Dream of Jeannie co-star Larry Hagman. In her final episode, the character says her maiden name was "Lee Ann Nelson", which was a production gag as Nelson was the surname of Hagman's character, and Eden's character's married name in I Dream of Jeannie.

She also made appearances in the last few seasons of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch as the evil family matriarch, Aunt Irma.

Barbara Eden has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to television at 2003 Hollywood Boulevard.

Shelley Long
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Shelley Lee Long (born August 23, 1949 in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is an American actress. Long was active on her high school speech team, and she won the National Championship in Original Oratory, coached by Mr. Bob Story. Long delivered an oration dealing with the need for sex education in high school. After graduating from South Side High School in Fort Wayne, she studied drama at Northwestern University, but left before graduating to pursue a career in acting and modeling. In Chicago she joined The Second City comedy troupe. Then, in 1975, she began writing, producing, and co-hosting the television program Sorting It Out. The local NBC broadcast went on to win three Emmy Awards for Best Entertainment Show.

Her first notable role came in 1980 with A Small Circle of Friends, opposite Brad Davis and Karen Allen. The film about social unrest at Harvard University during the 1960s was a critical success. In 1981, she played Tala in the Ringo Starr vehicle Caveman, opposite Dennis Quaid. She was also featured in the Henry Winkler comedy Night Shift, about life working the night shift at a city morgue. She starred with Tom Cruise in the 1983 comedy film Losin' It. In 1979, while pursuing her acting career, Long met securities broker Bruce Tyson, whom she married in October of 1981. She gave birth to her only child, her daughter Juliana (from whom Tyson is the father), on March 27, 1985.

Long's break came when she was cast as vain barmaid Diane Chambers in Cheers. The show was slow to capture an audience, but it eventually became one of the most popular shows on television. She was nominated for an Emmy four years in a row and for three Golden Globes for the NBC sitcom, winning one Emmy and two Golden Globes. The series was also nominated for five Emmys and Golden Globes for Best Comedy series, winning 2 Emmys, during her five year tenure on the show. Thereafter, she became a sought-after comedic talent.

In 1984 Long starred in the dramedy Irreconcilable Differences. Long was nominated for a Best Leading Actress Golden Globe for her performance. Long then appeared in a string of comedies. These included The Money Pit, starring a young Tom Hanks, the crime caper Outrageous Fortune featuring Bette Midler and Peter Coyote, and the universally panned Hello Again, in which Long played a woman brought back to life a year after death.

Amid much controversy, Long abandoned her trademark Diane Chambers role and the Cheers series after the season wrapped in mid-1987, at the height of the series' popularity. Her first post-Cheers project was Troop Beverly Hills, where she played a housewife who starts a "Wilderness Girl" troop as a distraction from her divorce proceedings. Despite poor reviews, the film was moderately successful. Though Long saw critical and box office success during the 1980s, her career fell off the radar throughout the 1990s. She took several roles in unsuccessful films, including Don't Tell Her It's Me and Frozen Assets, which were box office disasters. In 1993 she returned to Cheers for its last episode. Long followed with a series of poorly received television films. In 1993 she starred in the short-lived sitcom Good Advice with Treat Williams and Teri Garr, but the project proved unsuccessful and was canceled after two seasons.

In 1995 she appeared in the campy big-screen remake The Brady Bunch Movie, which was a surprise hit and which breathed new life into her career as a comedienne. The following year, she reprised her role as Carol Brady in A Very Brady Sequel, which saw more modest success. She followed this with a series of unsuccessful television ventures, including the television remake of Freaky Friday and the family sitcom Kelly Kelly, which aired for just a few episodes on the WB. More recently, Shelley took a supporting role in the Richard Gere vehicle, Dr. T and the Women and returned for the critically lambasted third Brady installment, The Brady Bunch in the White House. In 1995, she reappeared as Diane Chambers in an episode of Frasier. In the early and mid 2000's Long guest starred on several sitcoms. These shows included the late John Ritter's 8 Simple Rules (where she played fellow Cheers vet John Ratzenberger's wife)and Anthony Clark's Yes, Dear

In 2004, after over 20 years of marriage, Bruce Tyson filed for divorce. Long was prescribed both pain pills and an analgesic patch to help deal with a back injury. On November 16, 2004, Long overdosed on prescription pain-killers and was admitted to UCLA Hospital for treatment, in what was an apparent suicide attempt.[1] As of 2006 Long continues to work as an actress.

River Phoenix
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

River Jude Phoenix (August 23, 1970 - October 31, 1993) was an Academy Award-nominated American film actor. He was listed on John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 38 as one of twelve "Promising new actors of 1986." He received high praise for his acting talents by such critics as Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel. However, his promising career was cut short when he died of a drug overdose at age 23.

Biography

His father, John Lee Bottom, is of Irish and Spanish descent, while his mother, Arlyn Sharon Dunetz, was born in the Bronx to Margaret and Meyer Dunetz, Orthodox Jewish [1][2] emigrants from Hungary and Russia. The two joined the Children of God cult in the late 1960s and became missionaries, traveling throughout South America. Upon returning to the United States they adopted the surname "Phoenix." River Phoenix was born River Jude Bottom in Metolius, Oregon, five miles south of Madras, Oregon, and grew up in poverty. Contrary to popular belief, he was not born in a log cabin. He and his sister often had to busk to make money for the family.

He and his family were all vegetarians. He believed that eating animals was wrong, though it was his younger brother, Joaquin, who, at the age of four, persuaded the family not to eat meat any longer. The family were on a ship from Venezuela to Florida at the time, and Joaquin had seen fishermen killing fish by banging their heads against the bulkheads. The family eventually became vegans. River's opinions on the issue were so strong that when his actress girlfriend, Martha Plimpton, ordered soft-shell crab at a restaurant, he reportedly began weeping out of disappointment. When he played the role of Gideon in the TV version of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, his mother insisted on him using a rope for a belt; he steadfastly refused to wear leather.

Phoenix was one of five siblings who pursued careers in show business, encouraged by their parents. He had significant juvenile roles in Stand By Me, The Mosquito Coast where he plays Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren's son, A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (this film deviated considerably from the original director's cut, which is now available under the title "Aren't You Even Gonna Kiss Me Goodbye?"), and Little Nikita, and was nominated in 1988, at the age of 17, for an Oscar for best supporting actor for his role in Running on Empty. He also portrayed a teenage Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. River met Keanu Reeves while Reeves was filming on River's brother's set and later went on to star opposite Reeves in Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho for which he won the Best Actor Award from the Venice Film Festival. His friendship with both Reeves and Van Sant continued beyond the movie. At the press screening of My Own Private Idaho at the New York Film Festival, River accurately predicted that a large number of gay-themed films were "on the horizon."

River was also a friend of John Frusciante (guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers) and appeared on his second solo album Smile From the Streets You Hold on the song "Height Down." He had a band called Aleka's Attic before he died which also included his sister Rain and, later, Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Sasa Raphael, both on bass guitar.

Phoenix disliked being seen as just a sex symbol and usually refused to smile for photographs.

Phoenix professed to believe in a healthy lifestyle that included Veganism and Holistic medicine - but obviously did not extend to abstaining from hard drugs.

Phoenix died at age 23 from a drug overdose of heroin and cocaine (speedball) outside the Viper Room, a Hollywood night club partly owned by actor Johnny Depp. The autopsy also revealed traces of cough syrup, crystal meth and cannabis in his blood. Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Michael Balzary, also known as Flea, was present at the time, as was River's younger brother Joaquín. He was rushed to the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center but any attempts to resuscitate him were to no avail. He was pronounced dead at 1:45 AM. At the time of his death, Phoenix was acting in the starring role of the movie Dark Blood, which was never completed. He was also due to start filming on Interview With the Vampire as the interviewer, Daniel Molloy. Christian Slater eventually took on his role, donating his fee for the film to charity in honour of Phoenix. Phoenix was cremated in Gainesville, Florida a few days later, and the ashes were spread at the family's ranch near Micanopy, a few miles south of Gainesville.

Phoenix has four siblings, one brother and three sisters. Joaquín, his only brother who is also an actor; Rain, his first sister who is the lead singer in a band called the Papercranes and an actress; Summer, his second sister who is also an actress and Liberty, his third sister, who quit acting when she was still a child.

Tributes and references in music

Versus released an LP in 1994 titled _The Stars are Insane_. Track 4 is titled "River" and includes the following lines: "Last time I saw River, He was lying face down, he fell down face down. So please believe him when he says Ten bucks won't last you a very long way."
Brazilian singer and songwriter Milton Nascimento wrote and recorded a song dedicated to him, "River Phoenix" (released in 1989, during the actor's lifetime)
In 1995, Australian alternative rock band TISM released a song named "(He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River," the main refrain of the chorus being "I'm on the drug, I'm on the drug, I'm on the drug that killed River Phoenix." One verse contains the rhyming couplets: 'I saw his body thrashing round, I saw his pulse rate going down, I saw him in convulsive throes, I said "I'll have one of those"'. The song came in at #2 in the Triple J Hottest 100 for that year, although it reputedly enraged members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Natalie Merchant penned and recorded the song "River" for her 1993 CD "Tigerlilly". Young and strong Hollywood son/in the early morning light/this star fell down/on Sunset Boulevard
Subject of the Rufus Wainwright song "Matinee Idol".
R.E.M. dedicated their album Monster to him.
The pop punk band Fenix*TX was originally called Riverfenix, but the name was changed - at the behest of the Phoenix family - before the band became widely popular.
Give It Away by the Red Hot Chili Peppers indirectly mentions the actor: "There's a river born to be a giver/ will keep you warm won't make you shiver/ his heart is never gonna wither,"
"Transcending" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers was written entirely about Phoenix.
British band Manic Street Preachers mentions River in their song "Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart" (from the album "The Holy Bible", 1994) in the following line:"...I'm thinking right now of Hollywood tragedy; big mac; smack; Phoenix.R; please smile y'all..."
Grant Lee Buffalo's song 'Halloween' is a homage to River Phoenix: "You're only 23, River/ And you're restless as the sea, River/ But but ya had a hold on me, oh River". And the chorus: "You were like my own James Byron Dean/ Private Idaho was my East of Eden/ Hit me like a stone when I heard you passed on Halloween"
Post-industrial rocker Chris Connelly titled a song "The Early Nighters (for River Phoenix)" on his 1994 album, Shipwreck.
While not a tribute per se, Japanese video game character designer and director, Tetsuya Nomura, has gone on record as saying that the design of Final Fantasy VIII's protagonist, Squall Leonhart, was based on River Phoenix.
Belinda Carlisle wrote and sang the hit single 'California', which began and ended with the words, 'I remember I was in the tanning salon/ When I heard that River Phoenix had gone.'
During two performances on November the 13th and 15th 1993, Kurt Cobain of Nirvana dedicated the song "Jesus Don't Want Me For a Sunbeam" to River. Cobain also dedicated the same song to Phoenix (among other celebrities who died young) during Nirvana's very last American shows in Seattle in January 1994. Tragically Kurt Cobain would suffer a somewhat similar fate in April 1994. [1] [2]
Brooklyn band Nada Surf wrote a song entitled "River Phoenix" on their special demo album 'North 6th Street' (1999); the song specifically references Phoenix's role in the Gus Van Sant film My Own Private Idaho
Queercore band Pansy Division references "River Phoenix wearing speedos" in their song "Smells Like Queer Spirit"
Dana Lyons, a Washington state folk musician, has recorded a tribute entitled "Song for River Phoenix (If I Had Known)."
John Frusciante wrote and dedicated the song "Smile from the streets you hold" to River Phoenix. The second part of the song was added after River's tragic death.

Thinking Deeper Thoughts!

* Money doesn't bring you happiness, but it enables you to look for
it in more places.

* Your conscience may not keep you from doing wrong, but it sure
keeps you from enjoying it.

* Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the
waist change places.

* Misers aren't much fun to live with, but they make great ancestors.



* Be careful what rut you choose. You may be in it the rest of your
life!

* The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same
size bucket.

* Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish
they were.

* A closed mouth gathers no feet.


* When you finally see the handwriting on the wall, you can bet
you're in a public restroom!

* Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.

* The real reason you can't take it with you is that it goes before
you do.

* Junk is something you throw away three weeks before you need it.

* A man (or woman) who can smile when things go wrong has found
someone to blame it on.

* A modern pioneer is a woman who can get through a rainy Saturday
with a television on the blink.

* The world is full of willing people: some willing to work and some
willing to let them!

Thanks, BioBob for the great background of the notables. I was particularly impressed with River Phoenix's life, since I always liked the kid. At the time that he lay dying outside the Viper Club, the Paparazzi was clicking away and taking pictures. Isn't it odd, listeners, what mixed values some folks have? Would not eat animals, but ended his life with chemicals.

I believe that one movie he starred in was called The Body, but I will have to check on that.

Incidentally, we liked your "Deeper Thoughts." Your brief axioms always give us a smile.

Good afternoon all. It was a dark and stormy night, but I could still see…

The Whole Of The Moon
Waterboys Lyrics

I pictured a rainbow
You held in your hands
I had flashes
But you saw then plan
I wondered out in the world for years
While you just stayed in your room
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon!
The whole of the moon!

You were there at the turnstiles
With the wind at your heels
You stretched for the stars
And you know how it feels
To reach too high
Too far
Too soon
You saw the whole of the moon!

I was grounded
While you filled the skies
I was dumbfounded by truths
You cut through lies
I saw the rain-dirty valley
You saw brigadoon
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon!

I spoke about wings
You just flew
I wondered, I guessed, and I tried
You just knew
I sighed
But you swooned
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon!
The whole of the moon!

With a torch in your pocket
And the wind at your heels
You climbed on the ladder
And you know how it feels
To reach too high
Too far
Too soon
You saw the whole of the moon!
The whole of the moon!

Unicorns and cannonballs,
Palaces and piers,
Trumpets, towers, and tenemets,
Wide oceans full of tears,
Flag, rags, ferry boats,
Scimitars and scarves,
Every precious dream and vision
Underneath the stars

You climbed on the ladder
With the wind in your sails
You came like a comet
Blazing your trail
Too high
Too far
Too soon
You saw the whole of the moon!

Try, I love that song, buddy. It is the perfect replica of the creative vs the scientific. Occasionally, we find both in one mind and that is when society produces a genius.

Well, I just found out that Stand by Me was the name of the movie with River Phoenix, but was taken from Stephen King's story, The Body. So, why not play the song, folks:


Artist: John Lennon
Song: Stand By Me

When the night has come
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we see
No I won't be afraid
No I won't be afraid
Just as long as you stand, stand by me

And darling, darling stand by me
Oh, now, now, stand by me
Stand by me, stand by me

If the sky that we look upon
Should tumble and fall
And the mountain should crumble to the sea
I won't cry, I won't cry
No I won't shed a tear
Just as long as you stand, stand by me

And darling, darling stand by me
Oh, stand by me
Stand by me, stand by me, stand by me

Whenever you're in trouble won't you stand by me
Oh, now, now, stand by me
Oh, stand by me, stand by me, stand by me

Darling, darling stand by me
Stand by me
Oh stand by me, stand by me, stand by me