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» Ground Hog

Off to the woods for to catch a groundhog.
Oh, groundhog.
Run here Sally with a ten foot pole, (repeat)
To twist that whistle-pig out of his hole.
Oh, groundhog.
Here comes Sal with a snicker and a grin, (repeat)
Groundhog gravy all over her chin.
Oh, groundhog.
Look at them fellers, they're a-goin' wild, (repeat)
Eat that hog before he's cooked or biled.
Oh, groundhog.
I dug down but I didn't dig deep, (repeat)
There laid a whistle-pig fast asleep.
Oh, groundhog.
Now the meat's in the cupboard and the butter's in the churn, (repeat)
If that ain't groundhog I'll be derned.
Oh, groundhog.
Well you eat the meat and save the hide, (repeat)
Make the best shoestring ever was tied.
Oh, groundhog.
Look at them fellers, they're about to fall, (repeat)
Eat till their britches won't button at all.
Oh, groundhog.
Little piece of cornbread a-layin' on the shelf, (repeat)
If you want any more, you can sing it yerself.
Oh, groundhog.

Raymond Massey
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Raymond Hart Massey (August 30, 1896 - July 29, 1983) was a Canadian actor. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he was the son of Chester D. Massey, the wealthy owner of the Massey-Ferguson Tractor Company. He attended Appleby College[1] in Oakville, Ontario, Upper Canada College, and graduated from university at University of Toronto and Balliol College, Oxford.

At the outbreak of World War I he joined the Canadian Army, serving with the artillery in the Western Front. Later returned to Canada suffering shell-shock and was engaged as an army instructor for USA officers in Yale and in 1918 he was sent to serve at Siberia. His first stage appearance was in Siberia, where he entertained the American troops who were on occupation duty. Severely wounded in action in France, he was sent home where he eventually worked in the family business, selling farm implements. However, drawn to the theater, in 1922 he appeared on the London stage. His first movie role was High Treason in 1927, and he played Sherlock Holmes in The Speckled Band in the following year. In 1936 he starred in H. G. Wells' Things to Come.

Early in Massey's career, the late President Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926), heard Massey perform and was struck by the close similarity of Massey's speaking voice to that of his father.[citation needed]

Despite being Canadian, Massey became famous for his quintessential American roles, as Abraham Lincoln in 1940's Abe Lincoln in Illinois (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor), in 1940's Santa Fe Trail, in which he played abolitionist John Brown, and as Lincoln again in 1962's How the West Was Won. He only played a Canadian on screen once, in Forty-Ninth Parallel (1941).

He rejoined the Canadian Army during World War II, though he would eventually be released from service and return to acting work. Following the war, he became an American citizen. Massey became well-known on television in the 1950s and 1960s, especially in his role as Doctor Gillespie in the series Dr. Kildare. He also dabbled in politics, appearing in a 1964 television advertisement in support of conservative Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.

By his wife, noted London and Broadway stage actress Adrianne Allen (born February 7, 1907, died September 14, 1993), he had two children who followed him into acting: Anna Massey CBE, and the late Daniel Massey. His brother was the late Vincent Massey, the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada.

He died of pneumonia on July 29, 1983 (the same day as his The Prisoner of Zenda and A Matter of Life and Death co-star David Niven) in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 86, and is buried in New Haven, Connecticut.

Massey has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for movies at 1719 Vine Street and one for television at 6708 Hollywood Blvd.

Shirley Booth
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Shirley Booth (August 30, 1898 - October 16, 1992) was an acclaimed Oscar, Tony, and Emmy-winning American actress, whose acclaim on stage and in films was probably eclipsed by her late-life popularity as the television version of popular comic strip housekeeper Hazel.

She was born Marjory Ford in New York, New York, the daughter of Albert James Ford and Virginia Martha Wright. Her sister was Jean Valentine Ford (born 1914).

Booth began her career on the stage as a teenager, acting in stock company productions, and was briefly known as Thelma Booth Ford. Her Broadway debut was in the play Hell's Bells opposite Humphrey Bogart on January 26, 1925. During the 1930s and 1940s, she achieved popularity in dramas, comedies and musicals. She acted with Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story (1939) and with Ralph Bellamy in Tomorrow the World (1943).

Booth also starred on the popular radio series Duffy's Tavern, portraying the lighthearted, man-crazy daughter of the unseen tavern owner on CBS radio from 1941 to 1942 and on NBC-Blue Radio from 1942 to 1943; her then-husband, Ed Gardner, created and wrote the show as well as playing its lead character, Archie, the manager of the tavern. Later the same decade, Booth auditioned for but didn't win the title role of Our Miss Brooks, the role that made Eve Arden a star in 1948. "All (Booth) could see," remembered producer Harry Ackerman, who wanted Booth for the role originally, "was the downside of the underpaid teacher. She couldn't make any fun of it."

She received her first Tony Award, for Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic), for her performance as Grace Woods in Goodbye, My Fancy (1948). Her second Tony was for Best Actress in a Play, which she received for her widely acclaimed performance of the tortured wife, Lola Delaney, in the poignant drama Come Back, Little Sheba (1950). Her leading man, Sidney Blackmer, received the Tony for Best Actor in a Play for his performance as her husband, Doc.

Booth's enormous success in Come Back, Little Sheba was immediately followed by A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1951), in which she played the feisty but lovable Aunt Cissy. She then went to Hollywood and recreated her stage role in the motion picture version of Come Back, Little Sheba (1952), with Burt Lancaster playing Doc. After that movie, her first, was completed, she returned to New York and played Leona Samish in The Time of the Cuckoo (1952) on Broadway.

In 1953, she received the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance as Lola Delaney in the successful movie, Come Back, Little Sheba, becoming the first actress ever to win both a Tony and an Oscar for the same role. She also received her third Tony, which was her second in the Best Actress in a Play category, for her performance in The Time of the Cuckoo.

Booth's major stardom was a long time coming; she was 54 when she made her first movie although she had successfully deleted a decade off her age, with her publicity stating 1907 as the year of her birth, which was widely believed as such until her death notice confirmed that she was born nearly a decade earlier. Widely admired within the industry, she was acclaimed by everyone as one of the best actresses of the 1950s in movies and theatre.

She spent the next few years commuting between New York and Southern California. On Broadway, she scored personal successes in the musical By the Beautiful Sea (1954) and the comedy The Desk Set (1955). Although Booth had become well known to moviegoers during this period, the movie versions of both Cuckoo, which was re-titled for the movie Summertime, and Desk Set went to Katharine Hepburn.

After Come Back, Little Sheba, Booth made only four other movies, as herself in the all-star novelty Main Street to Broadway (1953), playing Mrs. Vivien Leslie in the romance/drama About Mrs. Leslie (1954), playing Dolly Gallagher Levi in Thornton Wilder's romance/comedy The Matchmaker (1958), which is the movie version of the nonmusical play that Hello, Dolly! was later based on, and playing Alma Duval in the drama Hot Spell (1958).

In 1957, she won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work on the stage in Chicago. She returned to the Broadway stage in 1959, starring as the long-suffering title character in the Marc Blitzstein musical Juno, an adaptation of Sean O'Casey's 1924 classic play, Juno and the Paycock.

In 1961, she began starring in the long-running TV sitcom Hazel, based on Ted Key's popular comic strip about a sassy, wisecracking and domineering, yet lovable housemaid, Hazel Burke. It reunited her with producer Harry Ackerman, and she won two Emmys, in 1962 and 1963, and new stardom with a younger audience. She told the Associated Press in 1963, "I liked playing Hazel the first time I read one of the scripts, and I could see all the possibilities of the character-the comedy would take care of itself. My job was to give her heart. Hazel never bores me. Besides, she's my insurance policy."

Booth was a distinguished and versatile performer, equally at home acting in theatre, radio, and on the big and small screen. She had a long and prestigious list of stage credits and made numerous appearances in TV movies and programs. She also did voice work for the animated special The Year Without a Santa Claus, playing Mrs. Santa. Her last Broadway appearance was in a revival of Noel Coward's play, Hay Fever (1970).

Booth and Gardner were married in 1929 and divorced in 1942, but they remained close enough friends for many years. She married a second time in 1943, to William Baker, who died in 1951. She had no children from either marriage. She died after a brief illness at age 94 at her home in North Chatham, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod; actress Julie Harris lived nearby and would visit her. She is interred in Mount Hebron Cemetery, in Montclair, New Jersey.

Shirley Booth has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6840 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood.

Joan Blondell
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Rose Joan Blondell, known as Joan Blondell, (August 30, 1906 - December 25, 1979) was an Oscar-nominated American actress. Considered a sexy, wisecracking, blonde she was a pre-Hays Code staple of Warner Brothers and appeared in more than 100 movies and television productions.

Early life

Born to a vaudeville family in New York City, her father, known as Eddie Joan Blondell, Jr. (né Blustein), was a vaudeville comedian and one of the original Katzenjammer Kids. Her younger sister, Gloria, also an actress, was married to film producer Albert R. Broccoli and bears a strong resemblance to her older sister Joan.

Joan had seen much of the world by the time the family settled in Dallas, Texas when she was a teenager. (She also had a brother, the namesake of her father and grandfather.) Under the name Rosebud Blondell she won the 1926 Miss Dallas pageant and came in 4th for the Miss America pageant in September of that year in Atlantic City, N.J. She did some work as a fashion model and was noticed by a Hollywood agent in 1930 while performing on Broadway after returning to New York City to become an actress.

She was asked to change her name to Inez "Something", but later dropped the "Rosebud", by which she went during her childhood and and cemented "Joan Blondell" for a 49-year professional career. She appeared with fellow newcomer James Cagney on Broadway in Penny Arcade and was one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1931.

Career

Placed under contract by Warner Brothers Studios, making her film debut in 1930, she soon moved to Hollywood. During the 1930s she would embody the Depression era gold-digger, and with her huge blue eyes, blonde hair and wise cracking personality, became a crowd favourite. She appeared in more Warner Brothers films than any other actress, and referred to herself as "Warner's workhorse". The popularity of her films made a great contribution to the studio's profitability.

Blondell was paired with James Cagney in such films as The Public Enemy (1931), and was one half of the gold-digging duo (with Glenda Farrell) in nine films. During the Great Depression, Blondell was one of the highest paid individuals in the United States. Her stirring rendition of "Remember My Forgotten Man" in the Busby Berkeley production of Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), in which she co-starred with Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers, became an anthem for the frustrations of the unemployed and President Herbert Hoover's failed economic policies.

By the end of the decade she had made nearly 50 films, despite having left Warners in 1939. Continuing to work regularly for the rest of her life, Blondell was well received in her later films, and received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination for her role in The Blue Veil (1951). She also appeared in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), Desk Set (1957) and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (motion picture) (1957). She was widely seen in two films released not long before her death, Grease (1978) and the remake of The Champ (1979) with Jon Voight and Rick Schroder. In addition, John Cassavetes cast her as a cynical, aging playwright in his 1978 film Opening Night. She also starred in ABC-TV's Here Come the Brides, about life in the 19th century Pacific Northwest.

Blondell has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 6309 Hollywood Boulevard.

Private life

Blondell was married first in 1932 to cinematographer George Barnes (1892 - 1953)they had one child, Norman S. Powell, who became an accomplished producer, director, and television executive. They divorced in 1936. Her second husband, to whom she was married on September 19, 1936, was the actor, director, and singer Dick Powell; they had a daughter, Ellen Powell, who became a studio hair stylist. Blondell and Powell were divorced on July 14, 1944. She married her third husband in 1947, the producer Mike Todd, from whom she was divorced in 1950. Her marriage to Todd was an emotional and financial disaster. She once accused him of holding her outside a hotel window by her ankles. He was also a heavy spender who lost hundreds of thousands of dollars gambling (high-stakes bridge was one of his weaknesses). He went through a controversial bankruptcy during their marriage. While continuing to live the high-life on a huge estate in New York's Westchester County, the irresponsible Todd ran through Blondell's savings and eventually dumped her for the much younger Elizabeth Taylor.

She died of leukemia in Santa Monica, California at the age of 73 with her children and her sister at her bedside. She was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

Fred MacMurray
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Born August 30, 1908
Kankakee, Illinois, USA
Died November 5, 1991
Santa Monica, California, USA

Fred MacMurray (August 30, 1908 - November 5, 1991) was a Hollywood actor who appeared in over one hundred movies, during a career that lasted from the 1930s to the 1970s.

MacMurray's most famous role was that of the slightly stammering Steve Douglas, the widowed patriarch on the CBSTV series, My Three Sons. My Three Sons ran from 1960 until 1972.

MacMurray was often typecast as a lovable, friendly fellow, and he capitalized on this by starring in a number of live-action comedies for Walt Disney during the later part of his career, with his biggest hits being The Shaggy Dog and The Absent-Minded Professor.

MacMurray's early film work is largely overlooked by many film historians and critics, but in his heyday, he worked with some of Hollywood's greatest talents including director Preston Sturges and actors Marlene Dietrich, Carole Lombard, Barbara Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert. Early in his acting career, he also appeared on Broadway in Three's a Crowd in 1930, and in the original production of Roberta (on which the movie was based) in 1933 with Sydney Greenstreet and Bob Hope.

Born in Kankakee, Illinois to Maleta Martin and Frederick MacMurray, his mother and the newborn accompanied his father, a concert violinist, around the country before finally settling in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin at the age of five. During his childhood in Beaver Dam he earned the nickname "Bud". While attending Beaver Dam High School, he became one of the most popular teenagers in town, and was known for his athleticism. MacMurray received 12 varsity letters in three years of high school. He was considered one of the best fullbacks and punters in the State of Wisconsin, and earned a full scholarship to attend Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

In college, MacMurray participated in numerous local bands, playing the saxophone. After one semester at Carroll, he left for Chicago to look for professional gigs.

In spite of his "nice guy" image, MacMurray often stated that the best film roles he ever played were two in which he was cast against type by Billy Wilder. He played the role of Walter Neff, an insurance salesman who plots with a wealthy heiress to murder her husband, in the film noir classic Double Indemnity (1944). In 1960, he played a slimy, two-timing corporate executive in Wilder's Oscar-winning comedy The Apartment, with Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon.

A shrewd investor, MacMurray was one of the wealthiest people in Hollywood, as well as one of the most politically conservative.

He was also the most frugal. Studio co-workers could not help noticing that even as a successful actor, MacMurray would usually bring a brown bag lunch to work, often containing a hardboiled egg. According to MacMurray's co-star on My Three Sons, William Demarest, MacMurray continued to bring dyed Easter eggs for lunch several months after Easter.

He was married twice. He married his first wife, Lillian Lamont, on June 20, 1936, and they adopted two children. Lamont died on June 22, 1953. He married actress June Haver in 1954, and they also adopted two children.

MacMurray died of pneumonia at the age of 83 in Santa Monica, California. He had long suffered from leukemia and sepsis syndrome. He was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. He was survived by his wife, June Haver (who died in 2005), and by his four children.

During the 1940s, the Fawcett Comics superhero character, Captain Marvel was modeled in some ways after MacMurray. (MacMurray had played a caped superhero in a dream sequence in the film No Time for Love.) The same image was later used in the creation of the 1990s character The Gentleman, from Astro City.

MacMurray was named the first Disney Legend in 1987.

Peggy Lipton
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Peggy Lipton, also known as Peggy Lipton Jones, is an American actress and socialite. She is best known for her portrayal of hip, young, detective Julie Barnes in the late 1960s early 1970s television show The Mod Squad and conflicted waitress Norma Jennings from the 1990s television drama Twin Peaks.

Lipton was born in New York City on August 30, 1947 to Rita and Harold Lipton. Her American father had Russian Jewish heritage. Her Irish-born mother was also Jewish. Lipton was raised on Long Island with her brothers Robert Lipton, also an actor, and Kenneth. In 1962, she signed with the Ford Model Agency and enjoyed a successful career. In 1964 her family moved to Los Angeles and Lipton signed a contract with Universal Pictures the same year. She made her debut on The John Forsythe Show in 1965.

Lipton's star rose on The Mod Squad in 1968 and the show was a runaway hit until 1973. Her performance on the show earned her 4 Golden Globe nominations during her tenure. In 1971, Lipton won a Golden Globe award in the category of 'Best TV Actress in a Drama'. Lipton also enjoyed some success as a singer and songwriter with three of her singles landing on the Billboard Charts: Stoney End (1968), Lu (1970) and Wear Your Love Like Heaven (1970). The fresh-faced flower child quickly became a pop culture icon among the youth of her generation. However, the young star was far more interested in settling down and starting a family than maintaining her celebrity status. In 1974 Lipton married music mogul Quincy Jones and began a self-imposed hiatus from acting in order to devote herself to their growing family. The couple have two daughters: Kidada Jones, a fashion stylist, and the actress, Rashida Jones. During the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s Peggy Lipton and Quincy Jones were regarded as one of Hollywood's major "powercouples". Spiritually curious, Lipton explored several religions including scientology and hinduism. Her ever-increasing focus on her faith and her husband's demanding career eventually created distance in the marriage. They were amicably divorced in 1990 and remain close friends. In 2001, she collaborated with Jones on his book, Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones.

After her divorce, Lipton returned to acting and joined the cast of David Lynch's groundbreaking television series Twin Peaks. Lipton also had a reccurring role on the TV show Popular. She continues to appear in a number of films and television shows. Lipton's commitment to healthy living and fitness has been consistent. She appeared as an assistant instructor in one of Jane Fonda's legendary workout videos. Her phenomenal bone structure has also afforded Lipton continued success as a fashion model and she continues to appear in beauty magazine editorials. In 2002 she was voted TV Guide's 5th 'Sexiest Star of All Time'.

In 2003 she appeared on stage opposite her youngest daughter Rashida Jones in the play Pitching to the Star, directed by her brother Robert Lipton.

In 2004, Lipton was diagnosed with colon cancer. She has undergone treatment and appears to be in remission.

In 2005, she published her memoir Breathing Out, in which she revealed she had a tryst with Paul McCartney before finding fame on 'The Mod Squad.

Throughout the years Lipton has supported a number of charities, among them Break The Cycle. Today, she remains a passionate and engaged philanthropist.

Cameron Diaz
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Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972) is an American actress and former fashion model.

Biography

Early life

Her Cuban-American [1] father Emilio Diaz worked as a foreman for an oil company, and her mother Billie Early (whose ancestry includes English, German, and Native American) worked as an exporting agent.

Cameron attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School.

Career

At age 16, she began her career as a fashion model. Diaz signed with top modeling agency, Elite Model Management. After graduating high school, she went to work in Japan and met video director Carlo de la Torre. On her return to America, she moved in with him. For the next few years, her modeling took her around the world, working for contracts with major companies.

At the age of 21, Diaz auditioned for Jim Carrey's The Mask. To her own surprise, and with no previous acting experience, [citation needed] she was cast as the female lead. Immediately after getting the part, she signed up for acting lessons.

Over the next three years, she won roles in low-budget, independent films, such as The Last Supper, Feeling Minnesota, and She's The One.

She then regained mainstream success with My Best Friend's Wedding and There's Something About Mary, and won critical acclaim for Being John Malkovich, which earned her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globes, the BAFTA Awards and the SAG Awards.

Diaz has also starred in the hit adaptation of Charlie's Angels and its sequel, and she voiced a lead character in Shrek and its sequel, for which she earned $10 million. In 2001, she won nominations for Best Supporting Actress at the Golden Globes, the SAG Awards and the AFI Awards for Vanilla Sky. For Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, she became the second actress (after Julia Roberts) to earn $20 million for a role; the film underperformed at the box office.

Future work for Diaz include roles in Nancy Meyers' The Holiday in 2006 and Shrek 3 in 2007.

First, I got angina pectoris and then arteriosclerosis. Just
as I was recovering from these, I got tuberculosis, double
pneumonia and phthisis. Then they gave me hypodermics.

Appendicitis was followed by tonsillectomy. These gave way to
aphasia and hypertrophic cirrhosis.

I completely lost my memory for a while. I know I had diabetes and
acute ingestion, besides gastritis, rheumatism, lumbago and neuritis.

I don't know how I pulled through it.

It was the hardest spelling test I've ever had.

And today's picture gallery:

Well, folks, we know our hawkman is through with his bio's when he enters a spelling bee. No wonder they give multiple choice on the Medcats.

I think I will choose a poem in honor of poor Mary. What a tragic life.

Oh, come to me in dreams, my love!
...I will not ask a dearer bliss;
Come with the starry beams, my love,
...And press mine eyelids with thy kiss.

'Twas thus, as ancient fables tell,
...Love visited a Grecian maid,
Till she disturbed the sacred spell,
...And woke to find her hopes betrayed.

But gentle sleep shall veil my sight,
...And Psyche's lamp shall darkling be,
When, in the visions of the night,
...Thou dost renew thy vows to me.

Then come to me in dreams, my love,
...I will not ask a dearer bliss;
Come with the starry beams, my love,
...And press mine eyelids with thy kiss.

.....Stanzas by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851

Oops, missed our Raggedy's picture gallery. Thanks again, PA. Today is quintet day, listeners.

We know them all because Bob has already clued us in. What a beauty Cameron is. Well, time for a station break:

This is cyber space, WA2K radio.

S. a. X.


Break out, jump
Night line to chicago
Break out, go
Night shift in tobago

Break out, shout
Shakedown from chicago
Break out, jump
One, two, three, four

Put the rhythm in my bones
Listen to my saxophone

Break out, jump
Night line to chicago
Break out, go
Night shift in tobago

Break out, shout
Shakedown from chicago
Break out, jump
One, two, three, four

Put the rhythm in my bones
Listen to my saxophone

Ah, Try. That reminds me of my friend Earl who had a license plate that read. "Good Sax." Love that song, buddy.

Here's one for our edgar and also done by Barb Jungr who interpreted a lot of Dylan songs.

Bob Dylan
» Every Grain Of Sand

In the time of my confession, in the hour of my deepest need
When the pool of tears beneath my feet flood every newborn seed
There's a dying voice within me reaching out somewhere
Toiling in the danger and in the morals of despair.

Don't have the inclination to look back on any mistake
Like Cain, I now behold this chain of events that I must break
In the fury of the moment I can see the master's hand
In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand.

Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear
Like criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheer
The sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way
To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay.

I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame
And every time I pass that way I always hear my name
Then onward in my journey I come to understand
That every hair is numbered like every grain of sand.

I have gone from rags to riches in the sorrow of the night
In the violence of a summer's dream, in the chill of a wintry light
In the bitter dance of loneliness fading into space
In the broken mirror of innocence on each forgotten face.

I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea
Sometimes I turn, there's someone there, other time it's only me
I am hanging in the balance of the reality of man
Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.

Well, folks. We miss our European friends, but once again, inspired by the travel thread, here is a very compressed but delight song, all done in a minor key:

Midnight in Moscow

(Soloviev-Sedoy)

Stillness in the grove, not a rustling sound
Softly shines the moon, clear and bright
Dear, if you could know
How I treasure so
This most beautiful Moscow night.

Dear, if you could know
How I treasure so
This most beautiful Moscow night.

anyone care for cole porter's songs ?
our local library has a great set of three cole porter cds .
i do like his laid back , almost lazy style ... he sure knew how to write about champagne and cocaine - i believe he had personal knowledge .
wasn't 'anything goes' also one of his songs ?
hbg
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Artist: Cole Porter
Song: I Get A Kick Out Of You


My story is much too sad to be told,
but practically everything
leaves me totally cold.
The only exception i know is the case,
when i'm out on a quiet spree,
fighting vainly the old enui
and i suddenly turn and see,
your fabulous face.

I get no kick from Champagne
Mere alchohol doesn't thrill me at all
so tell me why should it be true
that i get a kick
out of you

Some get a kick from cocain
i'm sure that if i took even one sniff
that would bore me terrificly too
yet i get a kick out of you

i get a kick every time i see you standing there before me
i get a kick though its clear to me you obviously don't
adore me

I get no kick in a plane
Flying too high
with some guy in the sky is my idea of nothing to do

Yet i get a kick
Out of you

"anything goes"

Hey, hamburger. Are you joking? I love that one. Incidentally, Canada. I looked up Eddie Fisher and found that he did a tribute to Al Jolson. To me, it is unusual that a Jewish man whose father wanted him to be a cantor would end up in black face. What a wonderful world we live in, no?

How about this Porter song of double entendre:

Artist: Ella Fitzgerald Lyrics
Song: Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love) Lyrics

Birds do it, bees do it
Even educated fleas do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love

In Spain, the best upper sets do it
Lithuanians and Letts do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love

The Dutch in old Amsterdam do it
Not to mention the Fins
Folks in Siam do it - think of Siamese twins

Some Argentines, without means, do it
People say in Boston even beans do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love

Romantic sponges, they say, do it
Oysters down in oyster bay do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love

Cold Cape Cod clams, 'gainst their wish, do it
Even lazy jellyfish, do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love

Electric eels I might add do it
Though it shocks em I know
Why ask if shad do it - Waiter bring me
"shad roe"

In shallow shoals English soles do it
Goldfish in the privacy of bowls do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love

That one must have been before the FCC.

Patches
Clarence Carter

I was born and raised down in Alabama
On a farm way back up in the woods
I was so ragged that folks used to call me Patches
Papa used to tease me about it
'Cause deep down inside he was hurt
'Cause he'd done all he could

My papa was a great old man
I can see him with a shovel in his hands, see
Education he never had
He did wonders when the times got bad
The little money from the crops he raised
Barely paid the bills we made

For, life had kick him down to the ground
When he tried to get up
Life would kick him back down
One day Papa called me to his dyin' bed
Put his hands on my shoulders
And in his tears he said

He said, Patches
I'm dependin' on you, son
To pull the family through
My son, it's all left up to you

Two days later Papa passed away, and
I became a man that day
So I told Mama I was gonna quit school, but
She said that was Daddy's strictest rule

So ev'ry mornin' 'fore I went to school
I fed the chickens and I chopped wood too
Sometimes I felt that I couldn't go on
I wanted to leave, just run away from home
But I would remember what my daddy said
With tears in his eyes on his dyin' bed

He said, Patches
I'm dependin' on you, son
I tried to do my best
It's up to you to do the rest

Then one day a strong rain came
And washed all the crops away
And at the age of 13 I thought
I was carryin' the weight of the
Whole world on my shoulders
And you know, Mama knew
What I was goin' through, 'cause

Ev'ry day I had to work the fields
'Cause that's the only way we got our meals
You see, I was the oldest of the family
And ev'rybody else depended on me
Ev'ry night I heard my Mama pray
Lord, give him the strength to face another day

So years have passed and all the kids are grown
The angels took Mama to a brand new home
Lord knows, people, I shedded tears
But my daddy's voice kept me through the years

Sing
Patches, I'm dependin' on you, son
To pull the family through
My son, it's all left up to you

Oh, I can still hear Papa's voice sayin'
Patches, I'm dependin' on you, son
I've tried to do my best
It's up to you to do the rest

I can still hear Papa, what he said
Patches ...

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors. Quiet and deliciously dark here in our little studio.

Ah, edgar. I recall "Patches". I suppose that many fathers have depended on many sons over the years, but isn't it odd that in the animal kingdon the men wear all the finery and the little plain females do all the work. <smile>

How about something classical this A.M.

(Tchaikovsky) Finch

No meditation break the spell
There's something in the air tonight
Swans circle with their heads aloft
The water ripples back the sight
The clouds drift in and the moon goes out
And the sky turns dark and the wind calls to me softly
Thunder rumbles and lighting blows, from the east and west
And rain stings my face and I'm all alone
The lake beckons me, welcomes me home
Please hold my hand I'm a sinner
Please hold my hand I'm a prophet
I'm drowning in this cruel paradise.

From Swan Lake.