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You know, edgar, I really like Jimmy Buffett, although some people may not.

Here is a unique song by Jimmy.



JIMMY BUFFETT lyrics - "He Went To Paris"


He went to Paris looking for answers
To questions that bothered him so
He was impressive, young and aggressive
Saving the world on his own.
But the warm Summer breezes
The French wines and cheeses
Put his ambition at bay
And Summers and Winters
Scattered like splinters
And four or five years slipped away.

Then he went to England, played the piano
And married an actress named Kim
They had a good life, she was a good wife
Bore him a young son named Jim.
And all of the answers and all of the questions
He locked in his attic one day
'Cause he liked the quiet clean country living
And twenty more years slipped away.

Well the war took his baby, the bombs killed his lady
And left him with only on eye
His body was battered, his world was shattered
And all he could do was just cry.
While the tears were falling, he was recalling
The answers he never found
So he hopped on a freighter, skidded the ocean
And left England without a sound.

Now he lives in the islands, fishes the pilin's
And drinks his green label each day
He's writing his memoirs and losing his hearing
But he don't care what most people say.
Through eighty-six years of perpetual motion
If he likes you he'll smile then he'll say
Jimmy, some of it's magic, some of it's tragic
But I had a good life all the way.

And he went to Paris looking for answers
To questions that bother him so.

I had hoped that your presence, Texas, would signal the returen of the Europeans, but it seems, folks, that Jimmy didn't go to Greece or Germany.

We've got European listeners?

but, of course, edgar; however, they seem rather scarce lately. Do me a favor, if you will and edit that to read "return." Tried to do it myself, but it didn't work.

On a thread as long running as this, it is natural for listeners to get distracted on occasion, but I feel most will continue to stop by here.

Gypsy


Written by stevie nicks.

So Im back, to the velvet underground
Back to the floor, that I love
To a room with some lace and paper flowers
Back to the gypsy that I was
To the gypsy... that I was

And it all comes down to you
Well, you know that it does
Well, lightning strikes, maybe once, maybe twice
Ah, and it lights up the night
And you see your gypsy
You see your gypsy

To the gypsy that remains faces freedom with a little fear
I have no fear, I have only love
And if I was a child
And the child was enough
Enough for me to love
Enough to love

She is dancing away from me now
She was just a wish
She was just a wish
And a memory is all that is left for you now
You see your gypsy
You see your gypsy

Lightning strikes, maybe once, maybe twice
And it all comes down to you

And it all comes down to you

Lightning strikes, maybe once, maybe twice
And it all comes down to you

I still see your bright eyes, bright eyes
And it all comes down to you
I still see your bright eyes, bright eyes
And it all comes down to you

I still see your bright eyes, bright eyes
(she was just a wish)
(she was just a wish)
And it all comes down to you

Lightning strikes, maybe once, maybe twice
And it all comes down to you

Well, listeners. We have had gypsies, and vagabonds and travelers, so how about a Hobo song:

There was a time
When lonely men would wander
Thru this land
Rolling aimlessly along
So many times
I've heard of their sad story
Written in the words
Of dead men's songs.

Down through the years
Many men have yearned
For freedom.

Some found it
Only on the open road
So many tears of blood
Have fell around us
'cause you can't always do what you are told.

Please tell me where
Have all the hobos gone to
I see no fire burning down
By the rusty railroad track
Could it be that time
Has gone and left them
Tied up in life's eternal traveling sack.

Last Sunday night
I wrote a letter
To my loved one
I signed my name
And knew I'd stayed away
Too long
There was a time
When my heart was free to wander
And I remember as I sing
This hobo song.

By John Prine

the word is out





WICKED MESSENGER
(Bob Dylan)

There was a wicked messenger
from Eli he did come,
With a mind that multiplied
the smallest matter
When questioned who had sent for him
he answered with a thumb.
For his tongue it could not speak, but only flatter

He stayed behind the assembly hall,
it was there that he made his bed,
Often times he could be seen returning.
Until one day he just appeared
with a note in his hand which read,
"The soles of my feet, I swear they're burning".

The leaves began to fallin'
And the seas began to part,
And the people that confronted him were many
And he was told these last few words,
Which opened up his heart,
"If ye cannot bring good news, then don't bring any"

Welcome back, Brit. You and your guitar have been missed.

Here's an answer from Three Dog Night:

Eli's comin' (Eli's a-comin')
Well you better hide your heart, your loving heart
Eli's a-comin' and the cards say... a broken heart

Eli's comin', hide your heart, girl
Eli's comin', hide your heart, girl
Girl, Eli's a-comin', you better hide
Girl, Eli's a-comin', you better hide
Girl, Eli's a-comin', you better hide
Girl, Eli's comin', hide your heart, girl (hide it)
You better, better hide your heart
Eli's comin', better walk

Walk but you'll never get away
No, you'll never get away from the burnin' a-heartache
I walked to Apollo by the bay
Everywhere I go though, Eli's a-comin' (she walked but she never got away)
Eli's a-comin' (she walked but she never got away)
Eli's a-comin' and he's comin' to git ya (she walked but... she walked
but...)
Get down on your knees (she walked but she never got away)

Eli's comin' (hide it, hide it, hide it)
Girl, Eli's a-comin', you better hide
Girl, Eli's a-comin', you better hide
Girl, Eli's a-comin', you better hide
Girl, Eli's comin', hide your heart, girl (hide it)
You better, better hide your heart
Eli's comin', better walk

Walk but you'll never get away
No, you'll never get away from the burnin' a-heartache
I walked to Apollo by the bay
Everywhere I go though, Eli's a-comin' (she walked but she'll never get
away)
Eli's a-comin' (she walked but she'll never get away)
Eli's a-comin' and he's comin' to git ya (she walked but... she walked
but...)
Get down on your knees (she walked but she'll never get away)
Get down on your knees

No-no, no-no
Lord, I said no-no, no-no, no-no

(hide it) She can
(hide it) hide it
(hide it) You better
(hide it) Somebody
(hide it) You got t'
(hide it) Oh, my
(hide it) Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

Good news to go to bed by, folks. Our Dutchy is fine, just a broken computer.

My power is restored so I feel languid, and here is my goodnight song:

The Rain Lady

Soft in the darkness the Rain Lady comes,
Twirling her hair with the tips of her thumbs-
Hair that is sweet as a summertime dream,
Studded with raindrops that sparkle and gleam,
Hair that is gray as the mists of the sea,
Whirling and swirling and tumbling free-

Shush, shush, don't make a sound-
Rest while the rain comes down.


Soft in the darkness the Rain Lady stands,
Shaking her hair with her gentle white hands,
Chipmunks and rabbits and ferrets and moles,
Tiny wet field mice run into their holes,
Sheep on the hillside and lambs on the plain,
Little wool blotters that soak up the rain-

Shush, shush, don't make a sound-
Rest while the rain comes down.

Soft in the darkness the Rain Lady sings,
Voice that is cool as the winds of the spring.
Rain in the leaves makes a whispering sound,
Light as the silk of the Rain Lady's gown.
Rain on the roof makes a patter like drums.
Soft in the darkness the Rain Lady comes-

Shush, shush, don't make a sound-
Rest while the rain comes down.

From Letty with love

Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight)
Benny Goodman

I was talkin' to the whippoorwill
He says you got a corny trill
Bob White, whatcha gonna swing tonight
I was talkin to the mocking bird
He says you are the worst he's heard
Bob White, whatcha gonna swing tonight

Even the owl-tells me you're foul
Singin those lullaby notes
Don't be a bring down
If you can swing down
Gimme those high notes

There's a lotta talk about you, Bob
and they're sayin you're "off the cob"
Fake it, Mister B
Take it, follow me, Bob white
We're gonna break it up tonight

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

edgar, I think this answers your Bob White song, Texas:

Thomas Merton:

O SWEET IRRATIONAL WORSHIP

Wind and the bobwhite
And the afternoon sun.

By ceasing to question the sun
I have become light,

Bird and wind.

My leaves sing.

I am earth, earth

All these lighted things
Grow from my heart.

A tall, spare pine
Stands like the initial of my first
Name when I had one.

When I had a spirit,
When I was on fire
When this vallley was
Made out of fresh air
You spoke my name
In naming Your silence:
O sweet, irrational worship!

I am earth, earth

My heart's love
Bursts with hay and flowers.
I am a lake of blue air
In which my appointed place
Field and valley
Stand reflected.

I am earth, earth.

Out of my grass heart
Rises the bobwhite.

Out of my nameless weeds
His foolish worship.

Wow! Love that poem, folks

Gogi Grant
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Born September 20, 1924, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Gogi Grant (born Myrtle Audrey Arinsberg, September 20, 1924) was an American popular singer.



Life and career

She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the age of twelve she moved to Los Angeles, California. In California she won a teenage singing contest and appeared on television talent shows. In 1952 she began to record, using first the name "Audrey Brown" and later "Audrey Grant". She was given the name "Gogi" by Dave Kapp, the head of Artists and Repertory at RCA Records, who liked to patronize a restaurant called "Gogi's LaRue."

In 1955 she signed with a small record company, Era Records, and had her first top ten hit with "Suddenly There's a Valley." The next year, she had an even bigger hit (reaching Billboard magazine's number one spot) with "The Wayward Wind" and she was voted most popular female vocalist by Billboard magazine.

In 1957 she supplied the vocals for Ann Blyth in the movie portrayal of Helen Morgan's life. The soundtrack occasioned her return to RCA (the soundtrack album climbed to #25 in the Billboard album chart), where she also had a minor hit the following year with "Strange Are the Ways of Love".

Although she made albums and appeared on television into the 1960s, her popularity declined and she retired from singing in 1967, nevertheless an album of her's was released in England some twenty years later.

Sophia Loren
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sophia Loren (born September 20, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning actress (film and stage) widely considered to be the most famous Italian actress.

Biography

Early life and career

Sophia Loren was born Sofia Villani Scicolone in Rome, Italy, the illegitimate daughter of married engineer Riccardo Scicolone and aspiring actress and piano teacher, Romilda Villani. Loren grew up impoverished in wartime Pozzuoli, near Naples.

At age 16, Loren began her film career with bit parts in mostly minor Italian films. In 1951, Loren and her mother worked as extras in Quo Vadis, which was filmed in Rome and provided Loren with an early brush with Hollywood. She also appeared as Aida in Aida (1953), in which the singing of Loren's role was dubbed by opera star Renata Tebaldi.

Loren worked as a model in the weekly illustrated romantic stories, called fotoromanzi under the name, Sofia Villani or Sofia Lazzaro. She also took part in regional beauty contests, where she won several prizes. Loren was discovered by her future husband, the much older film producer Carlo Ponti, and they married on September 17, 1957, three days before her 23rd birthday. Their first marriage had to be annulled to keep Ponti from being charged with bigamy, and they remarried on April 9, 1966. They would have two sons together, Carlo Ponti, Jr., and Edoardo Ponti.

Under Ponti's management, Sofia Scicolone changed her name to Sophia Loren and appeared in film roles that emphasized her voluptuous physique, even appearing topless in the films Two Nights with Cleopatra and It's Him, Yes! Yes! Loren's acting career took off upon meeting Vittorio De Sica and Marcello Mastroianni in 1954.

By the late 1950s, Loren's star began to rise in Hollywood, with films such as 1957's Boy on a Dolphin and The Pride and the Passion in which she co-starred with Frank Sinatra and Cary Grant. Loren became romantically attracted to Grant for a time.

International fame

Loren in De Sica's Two Women, 1960Loren became an international film star with a five-picture contract with Paramount Studios. Among her films at this time: Desire Under the Elms with Anthony Perkins, based upon the Eugene O'Neill play; Houseboat, a romantic comedy co-starring Cary Grant; and George Cukor's Heller in Pink Tights in which she appeared with blonde hair for the first time. Loren demonstrated considerable dramatic skills and gained respect as a dramatic and comedy actress, especially in Italian projects where she more freely expressed herself, although she gained profiency in the English language.

In 1960, her acclaimed performance in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women, earned many awards including the Cannes, Venice and Berlin Film Festivals' best performance prizes. Her performance was also awarded an Academy Award for Best Actress, the first major Academy Award for a non-English language performance.

Belying the typical portrayal of the beautiful actress as vacuous and emptyheaded, Loren was known for her sharp wit and insight. One of her most frequently-quoted sayings is her quip on her diet, "Everything you see, I owe to spaghetti."


Sophia Loren in Arabesque, 1966.During the 1960s Loren was one of the most popular actresses in the world, and continued to make films in both the U.S. and Europe, acting with the leading male stars. In 1964, her career came full circle when she received $1 million to act in The Fall of the Roman Empire.

Among her best-known films of this period are The Millionairess (1960) with Peter Sellers. Peter Ustinov's Lady L (1965) with Paul Newman, and Charlie Chaplin's final film, A Countess from Hong Kong (1967) with Marlon Brando, She also recorded a best-selling album of comedic songs with Sellers and reportedly had to fend off his romantic advances. It was partly due to Sellers' infactuation with Loren that he split with his fist wife Anne Howe.

After becoming a mother of two sons her career slowed down and Loren moved into her 40s and 50s with roles in films including the last De Sica movie, The Voyage, with Richard Burton and Ettore Scola's A Special Day with Mastroianni.

In 1980, she portrayed herself, as well as her mother, in a made-for-television biopic adaptation of her autobiography. Actresses, Ritza Brown and Chiara Ferrari played Loren at younger ages. She made headlines in 1982 when she served an 18-day prison sentence in Italy on tax evasion charges, a fact that didn't damage her career or popularity.





Sophia Loren's book coverIn her 60s, Loren became selective in choosing her films and ventured into various areas of business including cook books, eyewear, jewellery and perfume. She also made well-received appearances in Robert Altman's Ready to Wear and the 1995 comedy Grumpier Old Men playing a femme fatale opposite Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon.

In 1991, Loren received an honorary Academy Award for her contribution to world cinema and was declared "one of the world cinema's treasures".

Current activity

She made a brief cameo appearance in the controversial Madonna music video "American Life" in 2003.

Loren is expected to appear in the 2007 Pirelli Calendar at the age of 72, although she has denied rumors that she will appear nude. [1]

Miscellania

Received an Oscar for Best Actress for the 1960 film Two Women. She became the first Oscar winner to win for playing a character that speaks predominantly in a foreign language.
Often appeared in films with friend Marcello Mastroianni, who died in 1996 from pancreatic cancer.
Her childhood nickname: Toothpick (due to wartime hunger)
Other notable film roles were: Jimena (Charlton Heston's love interest) in El Cid; Lucilla in The Fall of the Roman Empire with Alec Guinness; and Aldonza/Dulcinea in Man of La Mancha with Peter O'Toole.
Was given the honour of carrying the Olympic flag during the Torino opening ceremonies in 2006.
Her sister, Anna Maria Scicolone, was formerly married to Romano Mussolini, a son of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
The Archbishop of Genoa once said that although the Vatican opposed human cloning, "an exception might be made in the case of Sophia Loren".[2]

Joyce Brothers
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Joyce Brothers, PhD (maiden name Joyce Diane Bauer, born September 20, 1928) is one of the leading family psychologists and advice columnists, publishing a daily syndicated newspaper column since 1960. She gained fame in 1955 by winning The $64,000 Question game show, on which she appeared as an expert in the subject area of boxing.

Dr. Brothers had a monthly column in Good Housekeeping magazine for almost four decades, was the host of her own television program, has published several best-selling books, and continues to appear on television, radio, and in film both as an expert in psychology and in comedic cameo appearances, including Mama's Family, The Nanny, Married... with Children, The Simpsons, All That, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien. She also appeared as an occasional celebrity guest on game shows such as Match Game, the 1968 revival of What's My Line? and Hollywood Squares.

She earned her PhD in psychology from Columbia University after completing her undergraduate work at Cornell University.

THIS IS THE BEST LAWYER STORY OF THE YEAR, DECADE AND PROBABLY THE CENTURY.


A Charlotte, North Carolina, lawyer purchased a box of very rare and
expensive cigars and then insured them against fire, among other things.

Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of these great cigars
and without yet having made even his first premium payment on the policy, the
lawyer filed claim against the insurance company.

In his claim, the lawyer stated the cigars were lost "in a series of small
fires." The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason that
the man had consumed the cigars in the normal fashion.
The lawyer sued and WON!
In delivering the ruling, the judge agr eed with the insurance company that
the claim was frivolous. The judge stated never-the-less, that the lawyer held a
policy from the company in which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable
and also guaranteed that it would insure them against fire, without defining
what is considered to be "unacceptable fire" and was obligated to pay the claim.
Rather than endure lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurance company
accepted the ruling and paid $15,000 to the lawyer for his loss of the cigars
lost in the "fires".

NOW FOR THE BEST PART!

After the lawyer cashed the check, the insurance company had him arrested
on 24 counts of ARSON!!! With his own insurance claim and testimony from the
previous case being used against him, the lawyer was convicted of intentionally
burning his insured property and was sentenced to 24 months in jail and a
$24,000 fine.
This is a true story and was the First Place winner in the recent Criminal
Lawyers Award Contest.

ONLY IN AMERICA!

No wonder third world countries think we're nuts?

Great bio's today, Bob. I declare, I learned several new things as I am certain all of our listeners have. Ah, but hawkman, I hate to tell you this, but your great story about the cigar man is an urban legend.

I know that Gogi Grant did this song, but was amazed, once again, that it has been done by several recording artists:

Wayward Wind

In the lonely shack by the railroad track
I spent my younger days
And I guess the sound of the outward bound
Made me a slave to my wanderin' ways.

And the wayward wind is a restless wind
A restless wind that yearns to wander
And I was born the next of kin
The next of kin to the wayward wind.

Oh, I met him down in the border town
He vowed we'd never part
Though he tried his best to settle down
Now I'm all alone with a broken heart.

And the wayward wind is a restless wind
A restless wind that yearns to wander
And I was born the next of kin
The next of kin to the wayward wind.

And the wayward wind is a restless wind
A restless wind that yearns to wander
And I was born the next of kin
The next of kin to the wayward wind.

The next of kin to the wayward wind.

Will wait for our Raggedy to not only show us pictures, but enlighten us with her endless knowledge of celebs. Still surprised that Alexander Dumas wrote Camille and that Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the short story, "The Body Snatcher."

Good morning WA2K.

I was surprised that Gogi Grant dubbed Ann Blyth's voice in The Helen Morgan story. (Can't Help Lovin' That Man; Don't Ever Leave Me; Why Was I Born, and Morgan's most famous song "Bill" (Show Boat).



I just watched part of "Two Women", (for which Sophia got the Oscar) and was amazed at Sophia Loren's performance. Tragic book and movie, but Sophia was superb.

I just love Sophia's expression on this one. (Lunch with Jayne Mansfield)

Well, there's our Raggedy, folks, with pictures and info about the celebs. Hee Hee, love that picture of Sophia as well. Thanks, PA. Did you realize that Sophia also did Aida? What a talented woman.

Gogi, and Dr. Bro. are the other two.

Here's Bill, listeners:

(verse omitted)

Along came Bill
An ordinary guy,
Hasn't got a thing that I can brag about.
But just to be,
Upon his knee,
So comfy and cozy,
Means everything to me.
Oh, I can't explain,
It's really not his brain
That makes me thrill.
I love him, because he's I don't know,
Because he's just my Bill.

Aaah, but did you see her in Aida? Oh, she looked gorgeous, but her voice wasn't properly synched with Renata Tebaldi and that didn't look good.