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Ah, folks. It was so nice to see our Walter back on our wee radio station. We always miss our European friends. Wonder where Ellinas is?

Ok, here's the bit about Mencken I wanted to cite:

Cellar door is a combination of words in the English language once characterized by J. R. R. Tolkien to have an especially beautiful sound. In his 1955 essay "English and Welsh", commenting on his affection towards the Welsh language, Tolkien wrote:

"Most English-speaking people...will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and from its spelling). More beautiful than, say, sky, and far more beautiful than beautiful. Well then, in Welsh for me cellar doors are extraordinarily frequent, and moving to the higher dimension, the words in which there is pleasure in the contemplation of the association of form and sense are abundant."
Tolkien's discourse is the most likely origin of this concept and the only documented one.

I had always thought that Mencken originiated that, folks. It really doesn't matter, as I have often observed, it was the sound of a word or phrase that makes it so appealing.

Since I don't want to make things get too long, I shall be back later with a song for Ellpus and his Vienna sausages.

So, listeners, our Lord can walk his dog in the park, reeking of garlic, and he will NOT be attacked. <smile>

Here's for you, Brit:


by Rolling Stones

Baby, back
Dressed in black
Silver buttons all down her back
High hose, tippy toes
She broke the needle and she can sew

Walking the dog
I'm just a walking the dog
If you don't know how to do it
I'll show you how to walk the dog
C'mon now c'mon

I asked her mother for fifteen cents
I see you ever jumped the fence
I jumped so high, touched the skies
Didn't get back 'til a quarter to five

Walking the dog
I'm just a walking the dog
If you don't know how to do it
I'll show you how to walk the dog
C'mon c'mon now

Tell me mary, what's your twelve
How does your garden grow
What with silver bells and cockle shells
And pretty maids all in a row

Walking the dog
I'm just a walking the dog
If you don't know how to do it
I'll show you how to walk the dog
C'mon now c'mon

Baby, back
Dressed in black
Silver buttons all down her back
High hose, tippy toes
She broke the needle and she can sew

Walking the dog
I'm just a walking the dog
If you don't know how to do it
I'll show you how to walk the dog
C'mon now c'mon

Yeah just a walking
Uh just a walking
Uh just a walking
Now, if you don't know how to do it
I'll show you how to walk the dog
C'mon now c'mon
If you don't know how to do it
I'll show you how to walk the dog
C'mon now
If you don't know how to do it
I'll show you how to walk the dog

City of Cities
Words and Music by Judy Collins, David Buskin, Dwight Batteau, Jr.

Living here for years and years
Riding out the stormy weather
We're waiting for the day to come
That gets us back together

In the city of cities
You may think you're alone
Then you turn a corner
And there's a new wind blowing
There's a dream we'd forgotten
That we've known all along
Where the street and the avenue meet
The heart beats strong

Looking out for number one
Looking past each others eyes
Has made us blind for far too long
Now the sun is bound to rise

In the city of cities
You may think you're alone
Then you turn a corner
And there's a new wind blowing
There's a dream we'd forgotten
That we've known all along
Where the street and the avenue meet
The heart beats strong

A message of hope
A message of peace
A message of helping each other
Is all the message we need

In the city of cities
You may think you're alone
Then you turn a corner
And there's a new wind blowing
There's a dream we'd forgotten
That we've known all along
Where the street and the avenue meet
The heart beats strong

Where the street and the avenue meet
The heart beats strong
In the city of cities

Wonderful song, edgar. I especially like the stanza:

Looking out for number one
Looking past each others eyes
Has made us blind for far too long
Now the sun is bound to rise.

From Ron Brown, listeners, a light look.

Oh, I've got five senses
Showing me the way.
I've got those five senses
Helping me each day.

Put your hands together. Can you feel the touch?
Oh, that skin I love to feel so much.
With all those nerves running down your spine,
You're always feeling fine.

Now, open your eyes so big and wide
Like two big cameras sitting on both sides.
And everything you see is upside down,
But your brain turns it around.

Oh, I've got five senses
Showing me the way.
I've got those five senses
Helping me each day.

Now stick out your tongue, it might be fun.
Oh, my, it's full of bumps!
When I put something right in my mouth,
It makes my taste buds jump!

Now take a sniff, a little whiff
Uh, oh, I think I'm sunk,
'Cause sitting right there underneath my chair
Is a big old smelly skunk!

Oh, I've got five senses
Showing me the way.
I've got those five senses
Helping me each day.

Now open your ears, let's really hear.
Where does that sound come from?
Bouncing around and vibrating
In the middle of your ear drum!

Oh, I've got five senses
Showing me the way.
I've got those five senses
Helping me each day.

Red Rain

red rain is coming down
red rain
red rain is pouring down
pouring down all over me

I am standing up at the water's edge in my dream
I cannot make a single sound as you scream
it can't be that cold, the ground is still warm to touch
yeah, we touch
this place is so quiet, sensing that storm

red rain is coming down
red rain
red rain is pouring down
pouring down all over me

well I've seen them buried in a sheltered place in this town
they tell you that this rain can sting, and look down
there is no blood around see no sign of pain
hay ay ay no pain
seeing no red at all, see no rain

red rain is coming down
red rain
red rain is pouring down
pouring down all over me

red rain-
putting the pressure on much harder now
to return again and again
just let the red rain splash you
let the rain fall on your skin
I come to you defenses down
with the trust of a child

red rain is coming down
red rain
red rain is pouring down
pouring down all over me
and I can't watch any more
no more denial
it's so hard to lay down in all of this
red rain is coming down
red rain is pouring down
red rain is coming down all over me
I see it
red rain is coming down
red rain is pouring down
red rain is coming down all over me
I'm bathing in it
red rain coming down
red rain is coming down
red rain is coming down all over me
I'm begging you
red rain coming down
red rain coming down
red rain coming down
red rain coming down
over me in the red red sea
over me
over me
red rain



Peter Gabriel

it's night in Volcano Village, HI. yw & the Mrs. were supposed to be hiking by flashlight down to where the lava meets the ocean, but alas our rentacar developed an overheating problem, so we had a rendezvous with a nice man in a tow truck instead, bringing us the same model car--which shall be nameless--in a different color, knock on wood. a misadventure, but it did allow me to scribble this, and play a somewhat apropos tune by Nat King Cole.

A buzzard took the monkey for a ride in the air
The monkey thought that everything was on the square
The buzzard tried to throw the monkey off his back
But the monkey grabbed his neck and said-- Now listen, Jack

Straighten up and fly right
Straighten up and fly right
Straighten up and fly right
Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top.
Ain't no use in divin'
What's the use in jivin'
Straighten up and fly right
Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top.

The buzzard told the monkey "You're chokin' me
Release your hold and I'll set you free
The monkey looked the buzzard right dead in the eye and said
Your story's touching but it sounds like a lie

Straighten up and fly right
Straighten up and do right
Straighten up and fly right
Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top.

[Instrumental interlude]

Straighten up and fly right
Straighten up and do right
Straighten up and fly right
Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top.

It's a long long way down to Reno Nevada
It's a long long way to your home
And the change in your pocket it's beginning to crumble
And you reap just about what you sow
You can walk down the street
Pass your face in a window
You can go on foolin' around
You can work night and day take a chance on promotion
You can fall through a hole in the ground

Well there ain't no game like the game that you're playing
When you've got a little something to lose
And there ain't no time like the time that you're wasting
And you waste just about what you choose
There's a man at the table and you know he's been able
To return all the odds that you lay
And you can't feed your hunger
And you ain't getting younger
And your tongue it's got nothing to say

It's a long long way down to Reno Nevada
It's a long long way to your home
And the ground underneath you it's beginning to crumble
And the sky up above you has grown
There's a time to be grievin' and a time to be screamin'
And a time just to scroll on the wall
And you ain't got the double
And it ain't worth the trouble
You're feeling you're going nowhere at all

Good morning, WA2K radio fans and contributors.

Hey, Rex. Nice to see you back again, and thanks for the RexRedRain song. Very effective, Maine.

Ah, a report from the Turtles. Hey, m.d. Wouldn't you know it? Things like that always happen on vacation. I guess it's expected when one rents a rent-a-wreck. Love that King Cole trio number. That was his pure jazz period, according to my husband.

And, folks, there's our resident cowboy. Interesting song, dys, but has that lonesome sound. Did you have your tea today?<smile>

Well, let's begin OUR day with a dedication to Dutchy:

THE DUTCHMAN

The dutchman's not the kind of man
To keep his thumb jammed in the dam that holds his dreams in
But that's a secret only Margaret knows
When Amsterdam is golden
In the morning Margaret brings him breakfast, she believes him
He thinks the tulips bloom beneath the snow
He's mad as he can be, but Margaret only sees that sometimes
Sometimes she sees her unborn children in his eyes

Chorus:
Let us go to the banks of the ocean
Where the walls rise above the Zider Zee
Long ago, I used to be a young man
And dear Margaret remembers that for me

The dutchman still wears wooden shoes
His cap and coat are patched with love that Margaret sewed in
Sometimes he thinks he's still in Rotterdam
He watches tugboats down canals
And calls out to them when he thinks he knows the captain
'Till Margaret comes to take him home again
Through unforgiving streets that trip him though she holds his arm
Sometimes he thinks that he's alone and calls her name

The windmills swirl the winter in
As she winds his muffler tighter, they sit in the kitchen
And the tea with whiskey keeps away the dew
He sees her for a moment
Calls her name, she makes his bed up, humming some old love song
She learned it when the tune was very new
He hums a line or two, they hum together in the night
The dutchman falls asleep and Margaret blows the candle out.

Michael Smith.

What a quaint folk song, folks.

Good afternoon WA2K.

A few BD entertainment celebs for the gallery

Well, there's our Raggedy, listeners. What a delightful trio of celebs, PA. Thanks again, gal, for the depiction.

Claudette, Dick, and Mel. Do Tell!

I was almost certain that Mel Torme did this one, but once again, everyone seems to record lovely songs. Anyone remember Night Court?


There are those who can leave love or take it
Love to them is just what they make it
I wish that I were the same
But love is my fav'rite game

I fall in love too easily
I fall in love too fast
I fall in love too terribly hard
For love to ever last

My heart should be well-schooled
'Cause I've been burned in the past
And still I fall in love too easily
I fall in love too fast

Claudette Colbert
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Claudette Colbert (September 13, 1903 - July 30, 1996) was an Academy Award-winning French-American actress for It Happened One Night.


Personal life

Born Lily Claudette Chauchoin in Paris, France, around 1905 her family emigrated to the United States and settled in New York City. She began acting in high school and a few years later in 1923 appeared on the Broadway stage in a bit part. Hooked, she gave up on her plans to be a fashion designer to instead pursue a career in acting. She made her first motion picture appearance in 1927, in For the Love of Mike, a silent film shot on location in Paramount Studios in New York, New York facilities. However, talking films were taking over and two years later, Colbert appeared in her first talking film, The Hole in the Wall, co-starring another newcomer, Edward G. Robinson .

Colbert was bisexual and her romantic partners included actresses Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo. She married twice, first to Norman Foster (from 1928-1935 divorced) and then to Dr. Joel Pressman (1935 - his death 1968). She did not have children.

Career

With her heart-shaped face, lively wide eyes, and aristocratic manner, Colbert transcended type, making her equally convincing in diverse roles. Her versatility led to major parts in top motion pictures and made her one of the biggest box-office stars of her time.

Colbert was a stickler for perfection regarding the way she appeared on screen. She believed that her face was difficult to light and photograph, and was obsessed with not showing her "bad" side, the right, to the camera. Scenes showing Colbert's face from the right show she was equally lovely from that side, but such shots are hard to find.

In 1934 she won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role opposite Clark Gable in the Frank Capra film, It Happened One Night. Colbert epitomized witty sophistication when she starred in Preston Sturges' classic screwball comedy, The Palm Beach Story, opposite Joel McCrea.

From 1936 to 1944, she starred in numerous programs of Cecil B. DeMille's Lux Radio Theater, which was one of the most popular dramatic radio shows at the time. In 1952, she returned to work in her native France where she stayed until 1955.

After making two more Hollywood films, she went back to Broadway in 1958 doing "The Marriage Go-Round" with Charles Boyer, earning a 1959 Tony Award nomination for her work. Also for her Chicago theatre work, in 1980 she won the Sarah Siddons Award. In 1984 she appeared with Rex Harrison in Frederick Lonsdale's "Aren't We All" at the Haymarket Theatre, London, and also the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Broadway, presented by Douglas Urbanski. Ms. Colbert's last film was Parrish in 1961. She acted in numerous Broadway plays for the next twenty years. In 1987, she did a television mini-series titled The Two Mrs. Grenvilles and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Mini-series or a Special. In 1988, she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for TV.

During her long and successful career, Claudette Colbert played in sixty-five films. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, she was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6812 Hollywood Blvd.

When she retired from motion pictures, she moved to Palm Springs where she operated a store for a time before moving to Barbados. The idea of Barbados came to her following a visit to Noel Coward's house in Jamaica, where she fell in love with the Carribean. After doing plenty of research, she settled on Barbados and moved there inthe early 60's where she named her magical home "Bellrive." It was here that she became hostess to the worlds powerful and famous until her death and an invitation to her home was a sought after commodity. Ronald Reagan stayed with her there while president, and other famous guests included Lillian Helman, Kirk Douglas, Jack Benny, Rex Harrison, Slim Keith, and many more. She had a small guest house built (where the Reagans stayed) for the honeymoon of Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow.

Colbert died at her home in Barbados, following series of small strokes during the last two years of her life at the age of 92, and she was interred there in the Parish of St. Peter Cemetery along with her mother and husband. A requiem mass was held at St. Vincent Ferrer church in New York later.

Dick Haymes
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dick Haymes (September 13, 1918 - March 29, 1980) was one of the most popular American male vocalists of the 1930s-40s.

He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His mother, Marguerite Haymes, was a well-known vocal coach and instructor. He became the vocalist in a number of big bands, worked in Hollywood on radio and in many films throughout the forties and fifties.

He was infamous briefly for having relinquished his United States citizenship to avoid serving in World War II.

He was married six times and had six children. His most famous marriages were to film actresses Joanne Dru and Rita Hayworth.

He died in Los Angeles from lung cancer, aged 61.

Scott Brady
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Scott Brady (September 13, 1924 - April 16, 1985) was an American film actor.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, he was the younger brother to a fellow actor, Lawrence Tierney, Brady began his film career after taking drama classes after World War II (where he was a Navy boxing champ). The actor specialized in tough-guy roles in films like He Walked by Night and Johnny Guitar. He appeared regularly on the 1970s cop show, Police Story. His last film role was in the 1984 movie Gremlins. He is often confused with his brother, Tierney, whom he resembles. Brady was a lumberjack early in life before taking up acting.

Brady died from emphysema at the age of 60.

Mel Tormé
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13, 1925 - June 5, 1999) was an American jazz singer with a light, high-tenor voice. He is considered by many to be one of the great male singers in the history of jazz. Tormé also wrote a number of jazz standards and wrote many of the arrangements for the songs he sang.

Early years

Tormé was born in Chicago to immigrant Russian Jewish parents. A child prodigy, he began singing publicly at the age of four, acting by age nine, and playing drums in Chicago's Shakespeare Elementary School drum and bugle corps by the time he was a teenager. His first published song, "Lament to Love," was recorded by Harry James when Tormé was only 15.

As a songwriter

Tormé went on to publish some 250 songs, mostly in collaboration with Bob Wells. Their best known effort is "The Christmas Song", recorded by Nat King Cole in 1945, which has become a holiday favorite -- "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire" -- ever since. Tormé frequently commented that the song took less than an hour to write and was not one of his personal favorites.

Early career

In 1943, Tormé and Frank Sinatra appeared in their first film together, "Higher and Higher." His high tenor, smooth vocal style led to his publicist coining the name, "The Velvet Fog," to describe his smooth style, a name Tormé hated.

1944 saw Tormé form his own vocal group, the Mel-Tones, which included Les Baxter and Ginny O'Connor. The Mel-Tones had several hits, both on their own as well as paired with Artie Shaw's band. Cole Porter's song, "What is This Thing Called Love?" was their biggest hit. The Mel-Tones were among the first of the jazz-influenced vocal groups, setting the direction later followed by The Hi-Los, The Four Freshmen and Manhattan Transfer.

In 1947, Tormé went solo, recording a number of romantic hits, including the 1949 number one "Careless Hands". He also came to pioneer cool jazz.

During the 1950s, as rock & roll music increased in popularity, which he termed 'three chord manure' Tormé was forced to abandon the commercial path and turned more and more to jazz. "Mountain Greenery" became a minor hit for Tormé in 1956. Critics say his art reached its first creative peak on a series of albums arranged by Marty Paich, one of the leading figures in West coast jazz of that period.

1962 saw Tormé score a surprise hit with "Comin' Home, Baby," arranged by Claus Ogerman, an R&B-influenced number. Quincy Jones and Kai Winding both had hits with instrumental covers of the same tune. Tormé's performance led Ethel Waters, a great jazz and gospel singer, to say that Torme "is the only white man who sings with the soul of a black man."

In 1963-1964 he was an occasional guest on The Judy Garland Show (appearing twice as a featured guest) and frequently worked as both a writer and musical arranger for it. He later wrote a book chronicling his experiences while on the show, "The Other Side of the Rainbow."

Tormé, was still playing the drums as an adult, and was friends with drummer Buddy Rich, (September 30, 1917 - April 2, 1987) who he later wrote a book about called "Traps-The Drum Wonder-The Life of Buddy Rich". Tormé also owned and played a drumset that renowned drummer Gene Krupa, (January 15, 1909 - October 16, 1973) had used for many years.

Later years

With the resurgence of vocal jazz in the 1970s, Tormé entered another artistically fertile period. In fact, some believe that his voice improved with age.

During the last twenty years of his career he recorded frequently in a variety of settings, for Concord Records, the best known of which were a series of concerts with pianist George Shearing; his big band work with Rob McConnell and his Boss Brass orchestra (see Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass) and a reunion with Marty Paich, which resulted in a live recording in Tokyo (In Concert Tokyo) and a studio album (Reunion). In the 1980s John Colianni served as Tormé's featured pianist.

In addition to producing a steady stream of albums, Torme performed globally up to two hundred live dates annually, and appeared regularly on television, including nine guest appearances (as himself) on the Night Court sitcom where he was the idol of the main character played by Harry Anderson. In the mid-90s he gained new popularity among Generation Xers for his appearances in a series of Mountain Dew commercials and on an episode of the sitcom Seinfeld, in which he dedicates a song to Michael Richards' character, Kramer; as well as a recording of Straighten up and Fly Right with his son, alternative/adult contemporary/jazz singer Steve March Torme.

In August 8, 1996, a debilitating stroke abruptly ended his 65-year singing career. In February 1999, Tormé was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

He died in Los Angeles, California at the age of 73 on June 5, 1999. In eulogy, John Andrews wrote [1]

Tormé's style shared much with that of his idol, Ella Fitzgerald. Both were firmly rooted in the foundation of the swing era, but both seemed able to incorporate bebop innovations to keep their performances sounding fresh and contemporary. Like Sinatra, they sang with perfect diction and brought out the emotional content of the lyrics through subtle alterations of phrasing and harmony. Ballads were characterized by paraphrasing of the original melody which always seemed tasteful, appropriate and respectful to the vision of the songwriter. Unlike Sinatra, both Fitzgerald and Tormé were likely to cut loose during a swinging up-tempo number with several scat choruses, using their voices without words to improvise a solo like a brass or reed instrument.

Jacqueline Bisset
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jacqueline Bisset (13 September 1944) is a British actress, born Winifred Jacqueline Fraser-Bisset in Weybridge, Surrey, England to Max Fraser- Bisset, a General Practitioner of Scottish descent, and the former Arlette Alexander, a French-born attorney.

Early life and career

Her mother taught her to speak French fluently and she was educated at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in London, leading many to believe erroneously that she was born in France. When Bisset was a teenager, her mother was diagnosed with disseminating sclerosis. After her parents divorced, she moved in to help her mother. She had taken ballet lessons as a young child, and now began taking acting lessons, and fashion modelling to pay for them.

In 1967, Bisset was cast in the critically acclaimed movie Two for the Road. Next, she participated in the James Bond spoof Casino Royale (1967), as Miss Goodthighs.

In 1968, Mia Farrow dropped out of a movie named The Detective (1968), and the role went to Bisset. She was cast opposite Steve McQueen in Bullitt in 1968.

In 1973, she appeared in François Truffaut's Day for Night, where she earned the respect of European critics and moviegoers as a serious actress. In 1977, Bisset made great strides towards becoming a better known entertainer in America with her movie The Deep (1977), co-starring Robert Shaw, where her appearance swimming underwater wearing only a T-shirt helped make the film a box off ice smash, leading the producer Jon Peters to say, "That T-shirt made me a rich man"[1], and led many to credit her with popularizing the wet T-shirt contest. At the time, Newsweek magazine declared her to be "the most beautiful film actress of all time." Her wet T-shirt scene also made an adolescent Rosie O'Donnell realize that she was a lesbian.[1] [2]

At home on two continents

By 1978 she was a household name. She earned her first Golden Globe nomination for the comedy Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?. Soon thereafter, she played in the movies Rich and Famous (1981) with Candice Bergen, and Under The Volcano with Albert Finney (1984), for which she earned her a second Golden Globe award nomination.

In 1996, she was nominated for a César Award, France's version of the Oscars, for her role in La Cérémonie.

During her career, Bisset has worked with such well-respected directors as Truffaut, John Huston, George Cukor and Roman Polański. Several of her movies are French or Italian productions.

Television

Bisset has also appeared in many made-for-TV movies, especially during the past ten years, some of which have been quite successful. One of her later TV movies, released in 2003, was America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story, in which she portrayed Jacqueline Kennedy.

Personal

Though she has been romantically linked with many actors, Bisset has never married. Bisset is the godmother to actress Angelina Jolie. She acted with Jolie in the film Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005); however, the scenes never made the final cut.

Thoughts from an industry veteran

Unlike many actresses of her generation who have had difficulty finding work after the age of 40, Bisset made a seamless transition from leading lady to character actor. She remains very much in demand both in Hollywood and Europe. She told a Bermuda newspaper in 2004[2]:

"This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young and they go to the cinema to see the sort of romance or adventure that appeals to them. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.
"But one musn't be too greedy. One wants to be stimulated by the work as long as there is something to give. I think you have to be as flexible as possible. Perhaps you don't get handed the big American productions, but, quite honestly, who would want to be in a lot of them?
"Many of them are just puerile teenage filler, and they're not fascinating to be in. To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give, and the camera just sort of brushes past you, and doesn't get what you have to give.
"Most actresses I know are frustrated, but you have to adapt to the reality. I go and find a small part in something I find interesting, or find an independent film."

Well, thank goodness, folks. Our hawkman is back with bio's. Although he may not have ended his presentation, (don't see no jokes) I, for one, continue to be fascinated at the little know facts about the stars. Bob tells us things that we know, but didn't know that we knew. <smile>

I had no idea that Garbo and Colbert had a thing going. I recall the movie, The Deep, with Jacqueline Bisset, because there was a moray eel in it. I remember trivial things.

I think, folks, that I shall wait a bit longer to see if our Bob will come up with a funny or two.

Well, it's midnight here, Letty, and there I was, just about to go to bed...when BOOOOM!

A massive thunderstorm has started, and is now directly overhead. Lightning flashes every five seconds or so, and torrential rain.

I don't think there's much chance of sleep for a while, so I thought I'd post an appropriate song............



Why Does It Always Rain On Me - Travis.


I cant sleep tonight
Everybody saying everythings alright
Still I cant close my eyes
Im seeing a tunnel at the end of all these lights
Sunny days
Where have you gone?
I get the strangest feeling you belong....

Why does it always rain on me?
Is it because I lied when I was seventeen?
Why does it always rain on me?
Even when the sun is shining
I cant avoid the lightning

I cant stand myself
Im being held up by invisible men
Still life on a shelf when
I got my mind on something else
Sunny days
Where have you gone?
I get the strangest feeling you belong....

Why does it always rain on me?
Is it because I lied when I was seventeen?
Why does it always rain on me?
Even when the sun is shining
I cant avoid the lightning

Oh, where did the blue skies go?
And why is it raining so?
Its so cold

I cant sleep tonight
Everybody saying everythings alright
Still I cant close my eyes
Im seeing a tunnel at the end of all these lights
Sunny days
Where have you gone?
I get the strangest feeling you belong...

Why does it always rain on me?
Is it because I lied when I was seventeen?
Why does it always rain on me?
Even when the sun is shining
I cant avoid the lightning

Oh, where did the blue skies go?
And why is it raining so?
Its so cold
Why does it always rain on me?
Why does it always rain...


(the cat has now taken up refuge on top of the fridge freezer)

I hope you get a better night's sleep than me............

Ellpus, how great to see you back even though it took thunder to do so. Great song, Brit, and it really is better than chitterlings. <smile>

Well, I couldn't find the song that I was looking for, but Dick Haymes did this one, and it matches L.E.'s in a calmer way.

Together
Helen Forrest and Dick Haymes
Music and Lyrics by Ray Henderson, Lew Brown-and B.G. DeSilva
Featured in a 1944 war movie Since You Went Away


We strolled the lane together,
Laughed at the rain together,
Sang love's refrain together,
And we both pretend
It will never end.
One day we cried together,
Cast love aside together,
You're gone from me,
But in my memory,
We always will be together.



That's for you and your ladyship.