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Never Been To Spain
Three Dog Night Lyrics

Well I never been to Spain
But I kinda like the music
Say the ladies are insane there
And they sure know how to use it
They don't abuse it
Never gonna lose it
I can't refuse it, umm

Well I never been to England
But I kinda like the Beatles
Well I headed out for Las Vegas
Only made it out to Needles
Can you feel it
Must be real it
Feels so good
Woah it feels so good

Well I never been to heaven
But I've been to Oklahoma
Woah they tell me I was born there
But I really don't remember
In Oklahoma, not Arizona
What does it matter
What does it matter

Woah I never been to Spain
But I kinda like the music
Say the ladies are insane there
And they sure know how to use it
They don't abuse it
Never gonna lose it
I can't refuse it, woah

Well I never been to heaven
But I've been to Oklahoma
Well they tell me I was born there
But I really don't remember
In Oklahoma, not Arizona
What does it matter
What does it matter.

Well, there's our riddle man. Welcome back, Try. We,of course, love those three dogs, day or night. <smile> Have you ever been to Virginia?

I'm playing this one, folks, because I want to correct a mistake that I noticed on a test:


Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Writer, lead vocal: Paul McCartney


Desmond has a barrow in the market place
Molly is the singer in a band
Desmond says to Molly-girl I like your face
And Molly says this as she takes him by the hand.
Obladi oblada life goes on bra
Lala how the life goes on
Obladi Oblada life goes on bra
Lala how the life goes on.

Desmond takes a trolly to the jewellers store
Buys a twenty carat golden ring
Takes it back to Molly waiting at the door
And as he gives it to her she begins to sing.

In a couple of years they have built
A home sweet home
With a couple of kids running in the yard
Of Desmond and Molly Jones.

Happy ever after in the market place
Molly lets the children lend a hand
Desmond stays at home and does his pretty face
And in the evening she's a singer with the band.

And if you want some fun-take Obladi blada.

It's just that…

Neither One Of Us
(Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye)
Gladys Knight & The Pips

It's sad to think we're not gonna make it
And it's gotten to the point where we just can't fake it
But for some ungodly reason we just won't let it die
I guess neither one of us wants to be the first to say goodbye.

I keep wondering what I'll do without you
And I guess you must be wondering that same thing too
So we go on together living a lie
Because neither one of us wants to be the first to say goodbye.

Everytime I find the nerve to say I'm leaving
Old melodies get in the way
Lord knows it's only me that I'm deceiving
When it comes to saying goodbye that's a world I just can't say.

There can be no way this can have a happy ending
So we just go on hurting and pretending
And convincing ourselves to give it just one more try
Because neither one of us wants to be the first to say
Farwell my love, goodbye.

Goodbye is better than nothing, Try.

Who are you tonight, listeners?


They call her the lady of the night
She's a woman of the world
and easy-living girl with love for sale
that's what they call her the lady of the night
no one seems to know her name
and even less about the place from where she came
Every evening when the night is close at hand
you'll find the lady on the rue d'Avignon
In a half lit hotel doorway the lady advertises warmly
It's just a job but she'll do the best she can
Don't try to change this lady of the night
She's a lot like you and me
and less than what she seems to be
(She is the lady of the night)
and easy-living girl
She's a woman of the world
with lots of loving for sale
lady lady of the night
Round here they call her the lady of the night
In a perfumed hotel room
shadows dance upon the wall and fade at dawn
She's no beginner this lady of the night
Never try that funny stuff
'cause lady can be tough
be warned!
(She is the lady of the night)
She's a lot like you and me
and never just what she seems
no one seems to know her name
or the place from where she came.

Reminds me of "Love for Sale."

She probably came from…

My World
Bee Gees

Don't shed a tear for me
No, it's not your style
If you're not here by me
Then it's not worthwhile.

My world is our world
And this world is your world
And your world is my world
And my world is your world
Is mine.

I've been crying, I'm lonely
What do I do to have you to stay
I've needed you to cry on
I've written to you nearly every day.

My world is our world
And this world is your world
And your world is my world
And my world is your world
Is mine.

Don't shed a tear for me
That's not your style
If you're not here by me
It's not worthwhile.

My world is our world
And this world is your world
And your world is my world
And my world is your world
Is mine.

I've been crying, I'm lonely
What do I do to have you to stay
I've needed you to cry on
I've written to you nearly every day.

My world is our world
And this world is your world
And your world is my world
And my world is your world

Incidentally, that last song was by Donna Summers.

Well, Try. Seems as though it's just the two of us again.<smile> So it must be the world, I guess.

FOREIGNER Song Lyrics

Two Different Worlds
(From the album "AGENT PROVOCATEUR")

I know this girl, she's always on my mind
She lives in her world and I live in mine
I should forget about her and I've tried
Lord knows I've tried
But I want to know her, and here's the other side

I've got someone waiting for me every night
She's the only one I've ever loved
And it's been that way for the longest time
She's the one that makes my world go right
And it tears me in two because I know where I'll be tonight

I think she knows it
I think she knows

Two different worlds, two different worlds
One that belongs to me, one could be wrong for me
Two different worlds, two different worlds
Oh, two different worlds

Is she that different or is it the thrill of someone new
Strung out on her, I need her love
I need it bad, and I know, I know it's true
I'm the one that lies awake alone
I know, she's the one that makes me stray from home

And I know it
Yeah, I know it

Two different worlds, two different worlds
One that I may regret, one that I can't forget
Two different worlds, two different worlds
Oh, always two different worlds

No, I can't explain this emptiness
No, I know I can't go on like this
Two different worlds, two different worlds

Two different worlds
I live in two different worlds
One that I may regret, one that I won't forget
Two different worlds
But I can't live in both, I know
One world I must let go

I am dedicating this to a 26 year old co-worker, who died last Thursday. She was our assistant manager, and I had come to look on her as my fourth daughter. Don't know the cause of death.


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TURN AROUND by Belafonte, Alan Greene, Malvina Reynolds

Where are you going my little one little one
Where are you going my baby my own
Turn around and you're two
Turn around and you're four
Turn around and you're a young girl
Going out of the door

Turn around
Turn around
Turn around and you're a young girl
Going out of the door

Where are you going my little one little one
Little durndel and petticoats
Where have you gone
Turn around and you're tiny
Turn around and you're grown
Turn around and you're a young wife
With babes of your own

Turn around
Turn around
And you're a young wife
With babes of your own

Where are you going my little one little one
Where are you going my baby my own

Oh, edgar. I feel inadequate to respond. Just let us know when you know, Texas. That is a wonderful song, and one that I have come to appreciate, buddy.

My goodnight song and also a dedication to your co-worker:


SUNRISE SUNSET Lyrics

Is this the little girl I carried?
Is this the little boy at play?
I don't remember growing older,
When did they?

When did she get to be a beauty?
When did he grow to be so tall?
Wasn't it yesterday when they were small?

Sunrise sunset, sunrise, sunset,
Swiftly flow the days,
Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers,
Blossoming even as they gaze...

Sunrise sunset, sunrise, sunset!
Swiftly fly the years,
One season following another,
Laden with happiness and tears...

One season following another,
Laden with happiness and tears.

From Letty with love and empathy

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors. Today is lovely with no threat of impending disaster as yet.

Thanks to Calamity Jane, I found a new vocalist. Wasn't able to hear her as my equipment isn't sufficient to tune in. Keep in mind, that this girl is ELEVEN YEARS OLD.

For big Jane and little Jane:

Bianca Ryan
(by Jennifer Holliday)

And I am telling you
I'm not going.
You're the best man I'll ever know.
There's no way I can ever go,
No, no, no, no way,
No, no, no, no way I'm livin' without you.
I'm not livin' without you.
I don't want to be free.
I'm stayin',
I'm stayin',
And you, and you, you're gonna love me.
Ooh, you're gonna love me.

And I am telling you
I'm not going,
Even though the rough times are showing.
There's just no way,
There's no way.
We're part of the same place.
We're part of the same time.
We both share the same blood.
We both have the same mind.
And time and time we have so much to share,

No, no, no,
No, no, no,
I'm not wakin' up tomorrow mornin'
And findin' that there's nobody there.
Darling, there's no way,
No, no, no, no way I'm livin' without you.
I'm not livin' without you.
You see, there's just no way,
There's no way.

Tear down the mountains,
Yell, scream and shout.
You can say what you want,
I'm not walkin' out.
Stop all the rivers,
Push, strike, and kill.
I'm not gonna leave you,
There's no way I will.

And I am telling you
I'm not going.
You're the best man I'll ever know.
There's no way I can ever, ever go,
No, no, no, no way,
No, no, no, no way I'm livin' without you.
Oh, I'm not livin' without you,
I'm not livin' without you.
I don't wanna be free.
I'm stayin',
I'm stayin',
And you, and you,
You're gonna love me.
Oh, hey, you're gonna love me,
Yes, ah, ooh, ooh, love me,
Ooh, ooh, ooh, love me,
Love me,
Love me,
Love me,
Love me.
You're gonna love me

Quite a mature motif for someone so young.

Good day WA2K.

Today's birthday celebrities - Isabel Sanford; George Montgomery; Rebecca DeMornay's 44th; and Ingrid Bergman

Well, thank goodness, listeners. There's our Raggedy with a delightful montage of celeb's. Thanks, PA.

I think Ingrid may have been in a movie with Boyer, but I'll have to check on that one. Hope our hawkman will be along later. He is our info guy.

For our Raggedy. Remember this, honey?

Pat Benatar-Wuthering Heights

Out on the wiley, windy moors, we'd roll and fall in green
You had a temper like my jealousy, too hot, too gready
How could you leave me, when I needed to possess you
I hated you, I loved you too
Bad dreams in the night
You told me I was going to lose the fight
Leave behind my

Wuthering, Wuthering, Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy, I've come home
I'm - so cold, let me in your window
Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy, I've come home
I'm - so cold, let me in your window


Ooh, it gets dark, it gets lonely
On the other side from you
I pine a lot, I find the lot falls through without you
I'm coming back love, cruel Heathcliff
My one dream, my only master

Too long I roam in the night
I'm coming back to his side to put it right
I'm coming home to

Wuthering, Wuthering, Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy, I've come home
I'm - so cold, let me in your window
Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy, I've come home
I'm - so cold, let me in your window

Ooh, let me have it, let me grab your soul away
Ooh, let me have it, let me grab your soul away
You know it's me, Cathy

Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy, I've come home
I'm - so cold, let me in your window
Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy, I've come home
I'm - so cold, let me in your window
Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy, I've come home
So cold

I've never heard that Pat Benatar number, Letty, but I like the lyrics.

Angela Lansbury made her screen debut in, and Ingrid got an Oscar for, Gaslight with Charles Boyer. Boyer was a mean cuss in that one.

Ingrid Bergman
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Born 29 August 1915
Stockholm, Sweden
Died 29 August 1982
London, England, UK

Ingrid Bergman August 1915 - 29 August 1982) was a three-time Academy Award-winning Swedish actress.

Early career

Bergman was born on 29 August 1915, in Stockholm, Sweden. When she was three years old, her mother died. Her father passed away when she was thirteen. She was afterwards raised by relatives.


Ingrid Bergman studied at the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm. Her first film role was a small part in 1935's Munkbrogreven (English title, The Count of the Old Town), although it is believed that she had previously been an extra in the 1932 film Landskamp).

After a dozen films in Sweden and one in Germany (including En kvinnas ansikte which would later be remade as A Woman's Face with Joan Crawford), Bergman was signed by Hollywood producer David O. Selznick to star in the English language remake of her 1936 Swedish language film, Intermezzo (1939). It was an enormous success and Bergman became a star, described as "Sweden's illustrious gift to Hollywood".

Hollywood career

After completing one last film in Sweden and appearing in three moderately successful films in the United States, Bergman joined Humphrey Bogart in the 1942 classic film Casablanca, which remains her most recognizable role.

That same year, she received her first Academy Award nomination: Best Actress in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943). The following year she won the Best Actress award for Gaslight (1944). She received a third consecutive nomination for Best Actress with her performance as a nun in The Bells of St. Mary's (1945). She would receive another Best Actress nomination for Joan of Arc (1948), a film produced by Howard Hughes which Bergman had championed since her arrival in Hollywood.

She also starred in the Alfred Hitchcock films Spellbound (1945), Notorious (1946), and Under Capricorn (1949).


Between motion pictures, Bergman also appeared in several stage plays, including a version of the ([1]) Joan of Arc story.

Relationship with Rossellini

In 1949, Bergman met Italian director Roberto Rossellini. She fell in love with him while performing in his film Stromboli (1950). Bergman left her husband, Dr. Aron Petter Lindström and their daughter, Pia Lindström, for Rossellini.

They married on 24 May 1950, and had three children, a son named Roberto Ingmar Rossellini, and twin daughters, Isabella Rossellini, who is a famous actress and model, and Isotta Ingrid Rossellini. The affair caused a scandal; Bergman, who was pregnant at the time of the marriage, was branded as "Hollywood's apostle of degradation" and forced to leave the States. Over the next few years, she appeared in several Italian films for Rossellini, including Giovanna d'Arco al rogo (1954), a remake of Joan of Arc. The Rossellini-Bergman marriage ended in divorce on 7 November 1957.

Back in the United States, anger over her private life continued unabated, with Ed Sullivan at one point infamously polling his TV show audience as to whether she should be forgiven.

Return to Hollywood

With her starring role in 1956's Anastasia, Bergman made her post-scandal triumphant return to Hollywood and won the Best Actress Oscar for a second time. She would continue to alternate between performances in American and European films for the rest of her career and also made occasional appearances in television dramas such as a 1959 production of The Turn of the Screw for Startime for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress.

Bergman received her third Academy Award (and first for Best Supporting Actress) for her performance in Murder on the Orient Express (1975), but she publicly declared at the Academy Awards telecast that year that the award rightfully belonged to Italian actress Valentina Cortese.

In 1978, she played in Ingmar Bergman's Höstsonaten (Autumn Sonata) for which she received her seventh Academy Award nomination and made her final performance on the big screen. Bergman plays a celebrity pianist who returns to Sweden to visit her neglected daughter, played by Liv Ullman. The film was shot in Norway. It is considered by many to be among Ingrid's best performances.

Bergman was honored posthumously with her second Emmy Award for Best Actress in 1982 for the television mini-series A Woman Called Golda, about the late Israeli prime minister Golda Meir. It was her final acting role. One of her co-stars in this mini-series was Leonard Nimoy.

Autobiography

In 1980, Bergman's autobiography, titled simply My Story, was published (with the help of Alan Burgess). Through the book she attempted to reach out to her fans and proceeded to tell the tale of her childhood, stories about the making of the various movies she appeared in, her all too few stage roles, her marriages and subsequent divorces, people who stood by her, the Rossellini scandal, life as a celebrity, etc. Apart from her narrative, there is some transitional input from Alan Burgess.

Death

Bergman died in 1982 in London, England following a long battle with breast cancer on her 67th birthday. Her body was cremated in Sweden and her ashes scattered with a part kept to be interred in the Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm. She was honored posthumously by Ingmar Bergman.

Legacy

For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Ingrid Bergman has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6759 Hollywood Blvd. She contines to be a cultural icon, most notably for her role in Casablanca, but also for her career as a whole, and for her innocent beauty. She is considered by many to be one of the foremost actresses of the 20th Century.

Skills

Bergman could speak Swedish, German, French, English and Italian fluently, which caused fellow actor John Gielgud to say "She speaks five languages, and can't act in any of them."[citation needed]

George Montgomery
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

George Montgomery (August 29, 1916 - December 12, 2000) was an American painter, sculptor, furniture craftsman, and stuntman who is best known as an actor in western style film and television.


Born George Montgomery Letz to Ukrainian immigrant parents in Brady, Montana, he was the youngest of fifteen children. He was raised on a large ranch where as a part of daily life he learned to ride horses and work cattle. Letz studied at the University of Montana but because he was more interested in a career in film, he left after a year to go to Hollywood. At Republic Pictures, his cowboy skills got him stunt work and a small acting part in the 1935 western film, The Singing Vagabond. He followed this with several more bit parts and additional stunt work using his own name George Letz in mostly low-budget films. He was frequently cast in western films starring their number one box office draw, the singing cowboy, Gene Autry. Elevated to more important secondary roles, in 1938 George Letz appeared as one of the five rangers in The Lone Ranger. He remained with Republic Pictures until 1940 when he signed with 20th Century Fox who dropped the Letz from his name, billing him as George Montgomery.

At 20th Century Fox, Montgomery appeared in more westerns including with Cesar Romero in The Cisco Kid and the Lady in 1940 and the starring role with jazz musician Glenn Miller in the 1942 musical Orchestra Wives that marked the non-credited debut of an aspiring actress named Dale Evans. The following year, Montgomery starred opposite Betty Grable in the Walter Lang directed film, Coney Island. However, World War II interrupted his film career when he joined the United States Army Air Corps in 1943. On December 5th of that year he married Dinah Shore with whom he would have two children during a marriage that lasted until 1962. In 1963, Montgomery's private life made media headlines when his housekeeper was charged with a failed attempt to kill him. Allegedly suffering from a fanatical attraction to her employer, the deranged woman planned to shoot Montgomery then take her own life.

As a boy, George Montgomery had developed excellent craftsmanship with wood and as an adult pastime he began building furniture; first for himself and then for a few friends. His skill was such that his hobby became a full-fledged cabinetmaking business, employing as many as twenty craftsmen and expanding into prop making for Columbia Pictures during the 1940s. For his set design work on the 1941 film, Ladies in Retirement, he was a co-nominee for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction.

Montgomery oversaw the furniture making business for more than forty years and expanded his interest to house design that saw him involved with the building of eleven homes for friends and family. His artistic instincts also included learning how to sculpt in bronze. Self-taught, he sculpted upwards of fifty bronze busts including those of John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Gene Autry, Randolph Scott, and future U.S. president, Ronald Reagan. His sculpture of ex-wife Dinah Shore and their children is at the Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California home to the LPGA Dinah Shore Golf Tournament.

Through to the early 1970s, Montgomery acted regularly in films and made guest appearances on a number of television shows, including the popular western drama, Bonanza. For two seasons in 1958 and 1959 he also starred in his own television series, Cimarron City. After a career that included more than eighty feature films, Montgomery retired in 1972, making only two more minor appearances in film until his death at his home in Rancho Mirage, California in 2000.

After cremation, Montgomery's ashes were divided and interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery (Cathedral City) near Palm Springs, California near his home and at the Highland Cemetery in Great Falls, Montana near his birthplace.

For his contribution to the television industry, George Montgomery has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6301 Hollywood Blvd

That's it, Raggedy. All I can recall is that Boyer was the bad guy. Sister again?

I knew you would like the lyrics. Sorry that the web misspelled "greedy"

Isabel Sanford
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Isabel Sanford (August 29, 1917 - July 9, 2004) was an American actress most famous for her role as Louise "Weezie" Jefferson on the CBS television sitcoms All in the Family (1971-1975) and The Jeffersons (1975-1985).

She was the first African-American actress to win a Lead Actress Emmy (she won an award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1981), and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Sanford, after a period of working in the theatre during the early 1960s, made her film debut in the 1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, playing the critically acclaimed role of the maid Tillie Binks. She caught the attention of major Hollywood players, including Norman Lear, who cast Sanford in the role of Louise Jefferson. Sanford and her TV husband, Sherman Hemsley, were very popular as the Jeffersons, but were mostly typecast by the roles. After the series was cancelled in 1985 Sanford was mostly limited to guest TV appearances and cameo appearances in movies, appearing in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Dream On, Roseanne, Living Single, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, In the House and The Steve Harvey Show, as well as the extremely short-lived 1992 CBS Hearts Are Wild (similar to Love Boat). She also did voice acting for The Simpsons in her final television appearance before her death, as well as advertisements for Denny's and Old Navy.

Sanford died on July 9, 2004 of natural causes at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles at the age of 86.

Dinah Washington
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Dinah Washington (August 29, 1924 - December 14, 1963) an American blues, jazz, and gospel singer. Because of her strong voice and emotional singing, she is known as the "Queen of the Blues".

Biography

Washington was born Ruth Jones in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; her family moved to Chicago while she was still a child. As she was growing up in Chicago, she played piano and directed her church choir. Later, she studied in Walter Dyett's renowned music program at DuSable High School. For a while, she split her time between performing in clubs as Dinah Washington while singing and playing piano in Salle Martin's gospel choir as Ruth Jones.

Her penetrating voice, excellent timing, and crystal-clear enunciation added her own distinctive style to every piece she undertook. While making extraordinary recordings in jazz, blues, R&B and light pop contexts, Washington refused to record gospel music despite her obvious talent in singing it. She believed it wrong to mix the secular and spiritual, and once she had entered the non-religious music world professionally, she refused to include gospel in her repertoire.

Washington began performing in 1942 and soon joined Lionel Hampton's band. There is some dispute about the origin of her name. Some sources say the manager of the Garrick Stage Bar gave her the name Dinah Washington; others say it was Hampton who selected it.

In 1943, she began recording for Keynote Records and released "Evil Gal Blues", her first hit. By 1955, she had released numerous hit songs on the R&B charts, including "Baby, Get Lost", "Trouble in Mind", "You Don't Know What Love Is" (arranged by Quincy Jones), and a cover of "Cold, Cold Heart" by Hank Williams. In 1958 she made a well-received appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival.

With "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes" 1959, Washington won a Grammy Award for Best Rhythm and Blues Performance; the song was her biggest hit, reaching #8 on the Billboard Hot 100. The commercially driven album of the same name, with its heavily reliance on strings and non-vocal choruses, was slammed by jazz and blues critics as being far too commercial, not keeping with her blues roots. Despite this, the album was a huge success and Washington continued to favor more commercial, pop-oriented songs rather than traditional blues and jazz songs. Along with a string of other hits, she followed this with "September In The Rain", which reached number 35 in the UK in November 1961 and #23 in the US. In 1960, she also had two top 10 hit duets with Brook Benton: "Baby (You've Got What It Takes)" and "A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around and Fall In Love)". She also dealt in torch songs; her rendition of The Platters' "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" was well-regarded.

What set Dinah Washington apart from her contemporaries was her extraordinary diction and phrasing. To this day, there hasn't been an equal, although many have tried to recreate the Dinah Washington experience. Her voice can still invoke a chill in many a modern listener.

She was married seven times, and divorced six times while having several lovers, including Quincy Jones, her young arranger. She was known to be imperious and demanding in real life, but audiences loved her. In London she once declared, "...there is only one heaven, one earth and one queen...Queen Elizabeth is an impostor", but the crowd loved it.

During her marriage to football player Dick "Night Train" Lane, she died from an accidental overdose of diet pills and alcohol at the age of 39 in 1963. She is interred in the Burr Oak Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois.

Elliott Gould
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Elliott Gould (born Elliott Goldstein on August 29, 1938) is an American actor.

Gould was born in Brooklyn, New York to Lucille and Bernie Goldstein, Eastern European Jewish immigrants. He graduated from the Professional Children's School, and was one of the most prominent American film actors in the early 1970s, best known for playing Trapper John in Robert Altman's satirical 1970 film MASH. Time magazine placed him on one of its covers in 1970, when he was at the brief height of his long career, calling him a "star for an uptight age".

Other notable film roles include Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, A Bridge Too Far, Capricorn One, and The Lady Vanishes. Gould joined such distinguished company as Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum when he played the detective Philip Marlowe in Altman's 1973 film The Long Goodbye. He hosted Saturday Night Live six times, his final time being the first episode of the now-disastrous Jean Doumanian season (season 6) in November of 1980, where he was shocked to find that the original cast and producer had left and a new cast and producer had taken their place. He has never hosted after that, but has appeared in a season 16 (1990-1991) episode hosted by Tom Hanks where Hanks is welcomed into the Five-Timers club, a society for celebrities who have hosted SNL five times or more. Also in 1980, Gould filmed two movies for Disney studios, The Last Flight of Noah's Ark and The Devil and Max Devlin, in which he co-starred with Bill Cosby.

His career slowed down after a series of critical and commercial flops in the mid to late 1970s, but he has remained steadily employed in supporting and character roles in television and movies, including a recurring guest role on Friends as Jack Geller, the father of Monica and Ross Geller. He appeared in an episode of the popular television series Touched by an Angel where he played a concentration camp survivor. Gould received critical praise for his role as an aging mobster in Warren Beatty's 1991 film Bugsy. In addition, he appeared in American History X as the boyfriend of Edward Norton's character's mother. He also co-starred in the popular "caper" film Ocean's Eleven (2001) and its sequel Ocean's Twelve (2004), and soon Ocean's Thirteen (2007).