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Lucretia Mac Evil
Blood, Sweat & Tears Lyrics


Lucretia Mac Evil, little girl what's your game
Hard luck and troubles, bound to be your claim to fame, ha
Tail-shakin', home breakin' tuckin' through town
Each and every country mother's son hangin' round
Drive a young man insane
Evil that's your name... talk about it

Lucretia Mac Evil, that's the thing you're doin' fine
Back seat Delilah, that's your sixth big jug of wine, woman
I hear your mother was the talk of the sticks
Nothing that your daddy wouldn't do for kicks
Never done a thang worthwhile
Evil woman child

Devil got you Lucy under lock and key
Ain't about to set you free
Signed, sealed and witnessed on the day you were born
No use trying to fake him out
No use trying to make him out
Soon he'll be taking out his doom
What you going to do?

Lucy Mac Evil, honey where you been all night?
Your hair is messed up babe, and the clothes your wearing
Just don't fit you right, no
Daddy Jones' is paying your monthly rent
Tells his wife he can't imagine where the money went
Dressing you up in style
Evil woman child.

Oh Lucy, you just so damn bad!

Ah Lucy.

Ah, here she comes
Truckin'
Well Lucy, walkin' on main street lookin'
Lucy woah, think about it
Where you been girl?
Stop lyin, stop lyin', stop lyin', Lucy
Wooaah, tell the truth girl.

Ah, hamburger, that is such a wistful song, Canada. Before I comment on Lucretia McEvil by Try, here is another waiting song:

Ani DeFranko:

Your basic average super star
Is singing about justice
And peace
And love
And I am glaring at the radio,
Swearing
Saying that's just what I was afraid of
The system gives you just enough
To make you think that you see change
They will sing you right to sleep
And then they'll screw you just the same

But I will wait
Yes, I will wait for the truth
i will wait for the truth, yes i will wait for the truth

They think I make a big deal about nothing
But they still think I'm
Kinda cute
They joke about the status quo
To break the ice
Once the ice is broken
I hope they all fall through
'Cause this is no joke to me
They don't fool me
With their acts of sensitivity
They too shall pass
Just like everyone
Who's only here for my ass

And I can't wait
Oh I can't wait til they get their due

Baby I've only got a minute
Baby I have to go
A minute is all my life
Will ever allow
Let's grow old
And die together
Let's do it now
Because you'll do all the jobs
No one else will do
And you'll step aside

And you will let me come through
You have all my respect
I'll leave it here when I go
Maybe I never told you, baby
Maybe you don't know

But maybe if we wait
If we wait things will improve
Maybe we just wait
And things will improve
You know, they've got to improve

Your basic average superstar
Is singing about justice
And peace
And love
And I am glaring at the radio
Swearing
Saying that's just what I was afraid of
The system gives you just enough
To make you think that you see change
They'll sing you right to sleep
And then they'll screw you just the same

He says I know you have to go
You have gone before
We are fighting on two different fronts
Of the same war
But no matter what else
I will do
**i will wait, for you.

Well, Try, Lucretia Borgia was evil they tell me.

Here's one, folks, by Toni:

My Heart Lyrics
by Toni Braxton

Don't leave me in all this pain
Don't leave me out in the rain
Come back and bring back my smile
Come and take these tears away
I need your arms to hold me now
The nights are so unkind
Bring back those nights when I held you beside me

-Un-break my heart
Say you'll love me again
Un-do this hurt you caused
When you walked out the door
And walked outta my life
Un-cry these tears
I cried so many nights
Un-break my heart, my heart

Take back that sad word good-bye
Bring back the joy to my life
Don't leave me here with these tears
Come and kiss this pain away
I can't forget the day you left
Time is so unkind
And life is so cruel without you here beside me
(repeat 1)

Ohh, oh
Don't leave me in all this pain
Don't leave me out in the rain
Bring back the nights when I held you beside me


Un-break my
Un-break my heart, oh baby
Come back and say you love me
Un-break my heart
Sweet darlin'
Without you I just can't go on
Can't go on

Touch Me In The Morning
Diana Ross

[Written by Ron Miller and Michael Masser)

Touch me in the morning
Then just walk away
We don't have tomorrow
But we had yesterday
Hey, wasn't it me who said
That nothin' good's gonna last forever
And wasn't it me who said
Let's just be glad for the time together
Must've been hard to tell me
That you've given all you had to give
I can understand your feelin' that way
Ev'rybody's got their life to live

Well, I can say goodbye
In the cold morning light
But I can't watch love die
In the warmth of the night
If I've got to be strong
don't you know I need to have tonight
When you're gone, till you go
I need to lie here and
Think about the last time
You'll touch me in the morning
Then just close the door
Leave me as you found me
Empty like before

Hey, wasn't it yesterday
We used to laugh at the wind behind us
Didn't we run away and hope
That time wouldn't try to find us
Didn't we take each other
To a place where no one's ever been
Yeah I realy need you near me tonight
'Cause you'll never take me there again
Let me watch you go with the sun in my eyes

We've seen how love can grow
Now we'll see how it dies
If I've got to be strong
Don't you know I need to have tonight
When you're gone, till you go
I need to hold you until the tie
Your hands reach out and

Touch me in the morning
Then just walk away
We don't have tomorrow
But we had yesterday
We're blue and gold
and we could feel one another living
We walked with a dream to hold
And we could take what the world was giving
There's no tomorrow here
There's only love and the time to chase it
Yesterday's gone my love
There's only now and it's time to face it

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors. Very early here, but it's quiet and peaceful.

edgar, that is a nice song by Diana. I do wonder if she is well. It seems that she, too, had a run- in with the law.

To follow our Texan's theme:


For All We Know
The Carpenters

Love, look at the two of us
Strangers in many ways
We've got a lifetime to share
So much to say
And as we go
From day to day
I'll feel you close to me
But time alone will tell
Let's take a lifetime to say
"I knew you well"
For only time will tell us so
And love may grow
For all we know.

Love, look at the two of us
Strangers in many ways
Let's take a lifetime to say
"I knew you well"
For only time will tell us so
And love may grow
For all we know.

Ruby Keeler
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Born 25 August 1909
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Died 28 February 1993
Rancho Mirage, California, USA

Ruby Keeler, born Ethel Hilda Keeler, (August 25, 1909 - February 28, 1993), was an actress, singer, and dancer.

She was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1909 (although some sources, including ([[1]]) have indicated the year was 1910), of Irish Catholic extraction. She was the sister of minor actresses, Helen Keeler and Gertrude Keeler.

Three years later, her family packed up and moved to New York City. There were six children, so although Keeler was interested in taking dance lessons, the family simply could not afford to.

Keeler attended a parochial school on the East Side of New York City, and one period per week, a dance teacher would come and teach all styles of dance. The teacher saw potential in Keeler and spoke to her mother about Ruby taking lessons at her studio. Although her mother declined, apologizing for the lack of money, the teacher wanted to work with her so badly, that she asked her mother if she would bring her to a class lesson on Saturdays, and she agreed.

During the classes, a girl she danced with told her about auditions for chorus girls. The law said you had to be 16 years old, and although they were only 13, they decided to lie about their ages at the audition. It was a tap audition, and there were a lot of other talented girls there. The stage was covered, except for a wooden apron at the front. When it was Ruby's turn to dance, she asked Julian Mitchell, the dance director for the show, if she could dance on the wooden part so that her taps could be heard.

He did not answer, so she went ahead, walked right up to the front of the stage, and started the routine there. He said, "who said you could dance up there?" She replied, "I asked you!" and got a job in George M. Cohan's The Rise of Rosie O'Reilly in 1923, in which she made forty-five dollars a week to help her family.

During her days at Texas Guinan's nightclub, Keeler met legendary entertainer Al Jolson. The couple began dating and wed in 1928; she was 19 and he was 42. The marriage (during which they adopted a son) was a rocky one and the couple divorced in 1940. Keeler remarried in 1941 to John Homer Lowe, and they had four children; Lowe died of cancer in 1969.

In 1933, producer Darryl F. Zanuck cast Keeler in the Warner Bros. musical 42nd Street opposite Dick Powell and Bebe Daniels. The film was a huge success due to the innovative Busby Berkeley's lavish choreography. As a result of her performance in 42nd Street, Jack L. Warner gave Keeler a long-term contract and cast her in such hits as Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) and Dames (1934).

Not anxious to be a movie star, and happy in her second marriage, Keeler left show business in 1941, and went on to raise five children. In 1971, she came out of retirement to star in the hugely successful Broadway revival of No, No, Nanette, along with fellow Irish-Americans Helen Gallagher and the late Patsy Kelly. The production was directed by Keeler's 42nd Street director, Busby Berkeley.

Ruby Keeler was the first tap dancing star of motion pictures. She was a Buck dancer. Both the shoes and the style were different from regular tap dance. Instead of metal taps, the soles were wooden, and hard. Buck dancers stayed in relatively the same place on stage, and their concern was the rhythm coming from their feet, rather than how they looked on stage. They stayed on the balls of their feet most of time, which meant that their torsos moved very little, and the movements were isolated to below the waist. Because of this style of movement, the early Buck dancers often appeared less graceful in comparison with later tap dancers.

Ruby Keeler died of cancer in Rancho Mirage, California at the aged either 82 or 83, and was interred in the Holy Sepulcher Cemetery in Orange, California. She has a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6730 Hollywood Blvd.

Michael Rennie
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born 25 August 1909
Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
Died 10 June 1971
Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, UK

Michael Rennie (August 25, 1909 - June 10, 1971) was a British actor.

He was born Eric Alexander Rennie in the village of Idle, Bradford, Yorkshire, England. He had several other jobs before gaining employment as a stand-in in an Hitchcock film of 1936. Acting then became his profession but it was after many years touring in British repertory before he found success as a leading man in the cinema, his exceptional height (6' 4") and gaunt chiselled features standing him in good stead. In 1945 he played a major role in the original version of The Wicked Lady, starring Margaret Lockwood and James Mason. From that point on he was a star and shortly afterwards he moved to the USA where, in the early 1950s, he had significant roles in several major productions of the 20th Century Fox studio.

In 1959 Rennie became a familiar face on television taking the role of Harry Lime in The Third Man, a spin-off TV series from the film starring Orson Welles. During the 1960s he continued his TV career with guest appearances on such series as Route 66, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Perry Mason, Wagon Train, Lost in Space where he worked again with his "The Third Man" co-star Jonathan Harris, The Time Tunnel, Batman, The Invaders, and The F.B.I.

Both his marriages ended in divorce. His second marriage was to actress Maggie McGrath. Their son David Rennie, who is now a UK High Court judge on the Lewes, Sussex circuit, is rumoured to be the result of her illicit affair with another Hollywood actor. He also had a son, John Marshall, by his long time friend and mistress Renée Gilbert. Michael Rennie was also briefly engaged to the ex. wife of the Hollywood director, Otto Preminger.

He moved to Switzerland in the latter part of his life. However, it was during a 1971 visit to his mother at Harrogate Yorkshire, following the death of his brother, that he died, from emphysema.

John Rennie, the designer and builder of the original Waterloo Bridge, is presumed to have been his great great grandfather.

Van Johnson
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Van Johnson (born Charles Van Johnson on August 25, 1916, in Newport, Rhode Island) is an American film and television actor.

Johnson was born to parents Charles E. Johnson (who was born in Sweden) and Loretta, who was of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. His acting career began in earnest in 1936 in the Broadway revue New Faces of 1936.

In 1939 he landed a part in Rodgers and Hart's Too Many Girls in the role of a college boy (after being Gene Kelly's understudy in Pal Joey). RKO then signed him to a short-term contract to star in the film adaptation of the play which became Johnson's film debut. MGM picked up his contract from RKO soon after and cast him in several bit parts. In 1942, while en route to a preview screening for Keeper of the Flame, he was involved in a car crash that left him with a metal plate in his forehead. This left him exempt from service in World War II.

After this incident, MGM built up his image as the "all-American boy" by co-starring him in films with June Allyson and Esther Williams, among others. He also had his fair share of serious roles in films such as A Guy Named Joe and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.

When the studio system declined in the mid-1950's, Johnson's popularity did also due to his heavier-set appearance. He then left MGM for Columbia Pictures to co-star in The Caine Mutiny (1954) to much acclaim (His scar from the car crash is very visible in this film). Since 1960, his film career has been inconsistent.

Johnson has guest-starred on television shows such as Batman, Here's Lucy, and The Love Boat. Mr. Johnson also appeared in the 1970s ground breaking mini-series, "Rich Man, Poor Man,' with stars Peter Strauss and Nick Nolte.

In 1963, he underwent treatment for skin cancer.

In 1985, he enjoyed a sort-of comeback. He toured with the hit Broadway musical La Cage aux Folles and appeared in a supporting role in Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo.

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Van Johnson has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6600 Hollywood Blvd.

At the moment, he is enjoying a quiet life in retirement in New York. He is estranged from his daughter, Schuyler Johnson, from his marriage to the late Eve Lynn Abbott (who was formerly married to Keenan Wynn). She married Johnson on the day her divorce from Wynn was finalized, January 25, 1947. Their daughter was born a year later, and they divorced in 1968.

Eve Lynn Abbott Wynn Johnson died in 2004 at the age of 90. Her daughter, stated to the The Globe (tabloid) that her father, Van Johnson, was a cold and disinterested father for most of her life.

Mel Ferrer
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Mel Ferrer (born August 25, 1917 in Elberon, New Jersey) is an American actor, film director and film producer.

Born Melchior Gaston Ferrer into a prosperous family, his Cuban-born father a medical surgeon and his mother a prominent New York City socialite. He is the brother of noted cardiologist and educator, Dr. M. Irené Ferrer and noted surgeon, Dr. Jose M. Ferrer. Mel Ferrer was educated at private schools before attending Princeton University until his sophomore year, when he dropped out to devote more time to acting. At that time he also worked as an editor of a small Vermont newspaper and wrote a children's book, "Tito's Hats."

Ferrer began acting in summer stock as a teenager and at age twenty-one was appearing on the Broadway stage as a chorus dancer, making his debut there as an actor two years later. After a bout with polio, he entered the radio world as a DJ in Texas and Arkansas, developing into a producer-director of top-rated shows for NBC in New York. He returned to Broadway and then became involved in motion pictures, directing more than ten feature films and acting in more than eighty.

In 1945 he made a modest directing debut with The Girl of the Limberlost, a low-budget black-and-white film for Columbia. He returned to Broadway to star in Strange Fruit, based on the novel by Lillian Smith. He made his screen acting debut in Lost Boundaries (1949), and as an actor is best remembered for his role of the lame puppeteer in the musical Lili (1953) (starring Leslie Caron) and as Prince Andrei in War and Peace (1956) (co-starring with his then wife, Audrey Hepburn).

Ferrer pursued limited television, doing some directing for the series The Farmer's Daughter in (1963), but it best remembered for his role opposite Jane Wyman as Angela Channing's attorney and briefly, her husband, Phillip Erikson, in Falcon Crest from 1981-1984. (Erikson met his demise in the same plane crash that killed off Cliff Robertson).


Main title caption from Falcon Crest, in which Ferrer played Philip Erickson from 1981 to 1984.He has been married five times, most notably to actress Audrey Hepburn from 1954 to 1968, and with whom he had a son, Sean Ferrer, born in 1960. He and Hepburn had acquired a home in Switzerland and after their divorce he maintained a residence in Lausanne and often worked on films in Europe. He has been married five times to four women (remarrying his first wife, Frances Pilchard, after his divorce from Barbara Tripp), and has five children in total by three of the marriages.

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Mel Ferrer has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6268 Hollywood Blvd.

Leonard Bernstein
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Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 - October 14, 1990) was an American composer, pianist and conductor. He was the first conductor born in the United States of America to receive world-wide acclaim, and is known for both his conducting of the New York Philharmonic, including the acclaimed Young People's Concerts series, and his multiple compositions, including West Side Story, Candide and On The Town.


Biography

Childhood

Bernstein was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1918 to a Jewish family from Rovno, Ukraine. His grandmother insisted his first name be Louis, but his parents always called him Leonard, as they liked the name better. He had his name changed to Leonard officially when he was sixteen. His father, Sam Bernstein, was a businessman, and initially opposed Bernstein's interest in music. Despite this, the elder Bernstein frequently took him to orchestra concerts. One time, Bernstein heard a piano performance and was immediately captivated; he subsequently began learning the piano at a young age. As a child, Bernstein attended the Garrison and Boston Latin School. When his father heard about the piano lessons he refused to pay for them, so Bernstein taught young students himself and used that income to pay for his own piano lessons.

College

After graduation from Boston Latin School in 1935 Bernstein attended Harvard University, where he studied music with Walter Piston and was briefly associated with the Harvard Glee Club. After completing his studies at Harvard he enrolled in the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he received the only grade of "A" that Fritz Reiner ever awarded in his class on conducting. During his time at Curtis, Bernstein also studied piano with Isabella Vengerova and Heinrich Gebhard.

Family life

During his younger years in New York City, Bernstein enjoyed a promiscuous sexual life, mostly with young men (citation from Burton, Leonard Bernstein). After a long internal struggle and a turbulent on-and-off engagement, he married Felicia Montealegre Cohn on September 9, 1951, reportedly in order to increase his chances of obtaining the chief conducting position with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Dimitri Mitropoulos, music director of the New York Philharmonic at the time and one of Bernstein's mentors, advised him that marrying would help counter the gossip about his sexual life and appease the conservative BSO board.

Leonard and Felicia had three children, Jamie, Alexander, and Nina. During most of his married life, Bernstein tried to be as discreet as possible with his extramarital liaisons. But as he grew older, and as the Gay Liberation movement gained increasing momentum, Bernstein became more emboldened, eventually leaving Felicia to live with companion Tom Cothran. Felicia took up with actor Michael Wager. Some time after, Bernstein learned that his wife was diagnosed with lung cancer. His relationship with Cothran had deteriorated, so Bernstein moved back in with his wife and cared for her until she died. (citations from Burton, Leonard Bernstein). Some people, such as his son, Alexander, believe that he essentially blamed himself for her death, and disliked himself intensely after her passing. (citations from Lacy documentary, Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note). There is arguably a change in his conducting after Felicia's death--it could be argued it is more somber and heavy, more "wrung-out," with grossly elongated structures and, to some, greatly exaggerated emotions.

Legacy

He was highly regarded as a conductor, composer, pianist, and educator, and probably best known to the public as long-time music director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, for conducting concerts by many of the world's leading orchestras, and for writing the music for West Side Story. All told, he wrote three symphonies, two operas, five musicals, and numerous other pieces.


On November 13, 1943, having recently been appointed assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, he made his conducting debut when Bruno Walter was ill. He was an immediate success and became instantly famous since the concert was nationally broadcast. The soloist on that historic day was cellist Joseph Schuster, solo cellist of the New York Philharmonic, who played Richard Strauss's Don Quixote. Since Bernstein had never conducted the work before, Bruno Walter coached him on it prior to the concert. After World War II Bernstein's career on the international stage began to flourish. In 1949 he conducted the world première of the Turangalîla-Symphonie by Olivier Messiaen. Bernstein was named Music Director of the New York Philharmonic in 1958, a post he held until 1969. Beginning in the late 1950's, he became a well-known figure in the US through his series of fifty-three televised Young People's Concerts for CBS, which grew out of his Omnibus programs that CBS aired in the early 1950s. He became as famous for his educational work in those concerts as for his conducting. Some of his music lectures were released on records, with several of these albums winning Grammy awards. To this day, the "Young People's Concerts" series remains the longest running group of classical music programs ever shown on commercial television. They ran from 1958 to 1972. More than thirty years later, twenty-five of them were rebroadcast on the now-defunct cable channel Trio, and released on DVD. Unfortunately, the volumes in the set are not available individually; therefore the concerts are unusually expensive.

In 1947 he conducted in Tel Aviv for the first time, beginning a life-long association with Israel. In 1957, he conducted the inaugural concert of the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv; he subsequently made many recordings there. In 1967 he conducted a concert on Mt. Scopus to commemorate the reunification of Jerusalem.

Beginning in 1970, Bernstein conducted the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, with which he re-recorded many of the pieces that he had previously taped with the New York Philharmonic, including sets of the complete symphonies of Beethoven, Mahler, Brahms and Schumann. On PBS in the 1980's , he was the conductor and commentator for a special series on Beethoven's music, which featured the Vienna Philharmonic playing all nine Beethoven symphonies, several of his overtures, and the Missa Solemnis. Actor Maximilian Schell was also featured on the program, reading from Beethoven's letters.

On Christmas Day, December 25, 1989, Bernstein conducted Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 as part of a celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The concert was broadcast live in more than twenty countries to an estimated audience of 100 million people. For the occasion, Bernstein reworded Friedrich Schiller's text of the Ode to Joy, substituting the word "freedom" (Freiheit) for "joy" (Freude). "I'm sure that Beethoven would have given us his blessing", said Bernstein.

Bernstein was a highly-regarded conductor among many musicians, in particular the members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, of which he was a regular guest conductor. He was considered especially accomplished with the works of Gustav Mahler, Aaron Copland, Johannes Brahms, Dmitri Shostakovich, George Gershwin (especially the Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris), and of course with the performances of his own works. (Unfortunately, Bernstein never conducted performances of Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F, nor did he ever conduct Porgy and Bess.) He had a gift for rehearsing an entire Mahler symphony by acting out every phrase for the orchestra to convey the precise meaning, and of emitting a vocal manifestation of the effect required, with a subtly professional ear that missed nothing.

Leonard Bernstein died just five days after retiring. He conducted his final performance at Tanglewood on August 19, 1990, with the Boston Symphony playing Britten's "Four Sea Interludes" and Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. [1] A longtime heavy smoker, he had battled emphysema from his mid-20s; he suffered a coughing fit in the middle of the Beethoven performance which almost caused the concert to break down. On the day of his funeral procession through the streets of Manhattan, construction workers removed their hats and waved and yelled "Goodbye Lenny." Bernstein is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.

Leonard Bernstein was not related to film composer Elmer Bernstein

Anne Archer
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Anne Archer (born August 25, 1947) is an American movie and TV actress. She was born in Los Angeles, California. Her parents were actors (actress Marjorie Lord and actor John Archer).

Archer married William Davis in 1968, but they later divorced. In 1979, she married Terry Jastrow. Archer has two sons, one from each marriage. [1]

In 1991, Archer made the story of her abortion public, and has been an activist supporter of Planned Parenthood. [2]

Archer is a member [3] of the Church of Scientology.[4] In December 2005 she appeared at the gala opening event for Scientology's "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death" Museum. [5] The museum includes an exhibit with a videotaped display of Archer decrying psychiatric treatments. [6]

Archer's first major film role was opposite Jon Voight in the 1970 film The All-American Boy. She then worked off-Broadway during the early 1980s.

A breakthrough role for Archer was in the 1987 thriller Fatal Attraction, in which she played the wife of Michael Douglas' character. The film earned her an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress. In 1992, she played the wife of CIA Analyst Jack Ryan in Patriot Games opposite Harrison Ford.

A woman rubbed a bottle and out popped a genie. The amazed Woman asked if she got three wishes. The genie said, "Nope, sorry, three-wish genies are a storybook myth. I'm a one-wish genie. So... what'll it be?"

The woman did not hesitate. She said, "I want peace in the Middle East. See this map? I want these countries to stop fighting with each other and want all the Arabs to love the Jews and Americans and vice-versa. It will bring about world peace and harmony."

The genie looked at the map and exclaimed, "Lady, be reasonable. These countries have been at war for thousands of years. I'm out of shape after being in a bottle for five hundred years. I'm good but not THAT good! I don't think it can be done. Make another wish and please be reasonable."

The woman thought for a minute and said, "Well, I've never been able To find the right man. You know - one that's considerate and fun, likes to cook and help with the house cleaning, is great in bed, and
Gets along with my family, doesn't watch sports all the time, and is faithful. That is what I wish for...a good man."

The genie let out a sigh and said, "Let me see the damn map again."

A good man is hard to find, Bob. One always gets the other kind.

Love it, hawkman. Thanks for the great bio's, honey. Hope you and Nair had a wonderful Karaoke night.

Here's an obit that I think all people will understand; not just the jazz fans.

VENTURA, Calif. (AP) - Jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson, known for his soaring high notes and for his recording of "Gonna Fly Now," a hit version of the theme from the "Rocky" movies, has died. He was 78.

Ferguson, who lived in nearby Ojai, died Wednesday night at Community Memorial Hospital of kidney and liver failure due to an abdominal infection, friend and manager Steve Schankman said Thursday.

Ferguson's four daughters, Kim, Lisa, Corby and Wilder, and other family members were at his side when he died, he said.

"Someone just said, `Gabriel, move over to second trumpet,'" Schankman said from his St. Louis office. "He was the last of the greats. That era is closed. There is no Kenton, no Basie, no Ellington, and now, no Ferguson."

Back later, to acknowledge Bob's celebs after our Raggedy shows us their photo's.

While we await our Raggedy, folks, here's a tune that Miss Ruby did. (saw that one on AMC, Raggedy)


In the heart of little old New York,
You'll find a thoroughfare.
It's the part of little old New York
That runs into Times Square.
A crazy quilt that "Wall Street Jack" built,
If you've got a little time to spare,
I want to take you there.

Come and meet those dancing feet,
On the avenue I'm taking you to,
Forty-Second Street.
Hear the beat of dancing feet,
It's the song I love the melody of,
Forty-Second Street.

Little "nifties" from the Fifties,
Innocent and sweet;
Sexy ladies from the Eighties,
Who are indiscreet.

They're side by side, they're glorified
Where the underworld can meet the elite,
Forty-Second Street.

Hi. Just got back from nasty grocery shopping. Hot and humid today. It's good to be back at the studio.

You've got my feet tapping, Letty. Love that 42nd Street. Lots of interesting entertainment people today, but it's the Sir that caught my eye.

So, to Sir with Love:




and one for Ruby:

Well, there's our Raggedy. I like that song as well. It's all in a minor key, you know.<smile>

Thanks, PA for that great looking James Bond. <smile> He was excellent in "Finding Forrester", too.

It seems, folks, that Sean preferred "From Russia with Love" of all the Ian Fleming stories, so let's listen to that theme:

Artist: Matt Monro

From russia with love I fly to you
Much wiser since my goodbye to you
I've travelled the world to learn
I must return from russia with love

I've seen places, faces and smiled for a moment
But oh, you haunted me so
Still my tongue tied, young pride
Would not let my love for you show
In case you say no

To russia I flew but there and then
I suddenly knew you'd care again
My running around is through
I fly to you, from russia with love

Good afternoon. Will she, won't she…


Maggie May
Rod Stewart

Wake up Maggie I think I got somthing to say to you
It's late September and I really should be back at school
I know I keep you amused, but I feel I'm being used
Oh Maggie I couldn't have tried anymore.

You led me away from home
Just to save you from being alone
You stole my heart and that's what really hurts.

The morning sun when it's in your face really shows your age
But that don't worry me none, in my eyes your everything
I laughed at all of your jokes, my love you didn't need to coax
Oh Maggie I could have tried, anymore.

You led me away from home, just to save you from being alone
You stole my soul and that's a pain I can do without.

All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand
But you turned into a lover and mother what a lover you wore me out
All you did was wreck my bed, and in the morning kick me in the head
Oh Maggie I couldn't have tried, anymore.

You led me away from home, 'cause you didn't want to be alone
You stole my heart, I couldn't leave you if I tried.

I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school
Or steal my daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool
Or find myself a rock and roll band, that needs a helping hand
Oh Maggie I wish I'd never seen your face.

You made a first class fool out of me
But I was blind as a fool can be
You stole my heart, but I love you anyway

Maggie, I wish I'd, never seen your face
I'll get on back home, one of these days.

Well, folks. There's our Try asking if Maggie may. She may, buddy. You know I like that song with Rod's rather gravely voice. He has redone a lot of the oldies, too.

Been awhile since we did any poetry, so let's hear from another Maggie and May, shall we?

maggie & millie & molly & may
. . . e. e. cummings


maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,and

millie befriended a stranded star
who's rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea.

What a fantastic writer! I always saw myself as "Molly", 'cause it seems that I was forever being chased as a kid.

Well, there was…


Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard

Paul Simon Lyrics

The mama pajama rolled out of bed
And she ran to the police station
When the papa found out he began to shout
And he started the investigation
It's against the law
It was against the law
A what the mama saw
It was against the law.

The mama looked down and spit on the ground
Everytime my name gets mentioned
The papa said, "Oy, if I get that boy
I'm gonna stick him in the house of detention"

Well I'm on my way
I don't know where I'm going
I'm on my way
I'm takin' my time but I don't know where
Goodbye Rosie, the Queen of Corona
See me and Julio down by the schoolyard
See me and Julio down by the schoolyard

Woah, in a couple of days they come and take me away
But the press let the story leak
And when the radical priest come to get me released
We's all on the cover of Newsweek

And I'm on my way
I don't know where I'm going
I'm on my way
I'm takin' my time but I don't know where
Goodbye Rosie, the Queen of Corona
See me and Julio down by the schoolyard