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My goodness, listeners, I missed Tico and Johnny and Hank. Love it, buddy.

Here's one back atcha, Kansas:

Movin' On - Hank Snow

That big eight-wheeler rollin' down the track
Means your true-lovin' daddy ain't comin' back
'Cause I'm movin' on, I'll soon be gone
You were flyin' too high, for my little old sky
So I'm movin' on

That big loud whistle as it blew and blew
Said hello to the southland, we're comin' to you
When we're movin' on, oh hear my song
You had the laugh on me, so I've set you free
And I'm movin' on

Mister fireman won't you please listen to me
'Cause I got a pretty mama in Tennessee
Keep movin' me on, keep rollin' on
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll
And keep movin' me on

Mister Engineer, take that throttle in hand
This rattler's the fastest in the southern land
To keep movin' me on, keep rollin' on
You gonna ease my mind, put me there on time
And keep rollin' on

I've told you baby, from time to time
But you just wouldn't listen or pay me no mind
Now I'm movin' on, I'm rollin' on
You've broken your vow, and it's all over now
So I'm movin' on

You've switched your engine now I ain't got time
For a triflin' woman on my main line
Cause I'm movin on, you done your daddy wrong
I warned you twice, now you can settle the price
'Cause I'm movin on

But someday baby when you've had your play
You're gonna want your daddy but your daddy will say
Keep movin' on, you stayed away too long
I'm through with you, too bad you're blue
Keep movin' on

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors. Let's begin the day with a poem.

Equinox
By Yoon Ha Lee
14 March 2005

The word itself

acknowledges the tilted

balance, the

fundamental

inequality. The shapes

that move at night

outweigh the day's

clean lines and

angles; the figments

feasting on our

dreams surface

when the sun's arc

hangs suspended,

waiting, dividing

the hours into

two mismatched

halves.

Hope our hawkman makes it here today.

Anthony Newley
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George Anthony Newley (born on September 24, 1931 in the London Borough of Hackney; died on April 14, 1999) was an English actor, singer and songwriter.

Career

A graduate of the Italia Conti Academy stage school, his first major film role was as Dick Bultitude in Peter Ustinov's Vice Versa 1948 followed by the Artful Dodger in David Lean's 1948 rendition of Oliver Twist, the classic Charles Dickens tome.

Music

Newley had a successful pop music career, with two number one hits in 1960: "Why?" and "Do You Mind?" He won the 1963 Grammy Award for Song of the Year for "What Kind of Fool Am I", but he was also well-known for "Gonna Build a Mountain" and comic novelty songs such as his version of "Strawberry Fair". He wrote songs that others made hits including "Goldfinger" (the title song of the James Bond movie), and "Feeling Good", which became a hit for Nina Simone. With Leslie Bricusse, he wrote the musical Stop the World - I Want to Get Off in which he also performed, earning a nomination for a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. His other musicals included The Roar of the Greasepaint?-the Smell of the Crowd (1965) and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), based on the children's book by Roald Dahl. The play was released in a film version in 1971 (see[1]).

Newley's vocal style has been recognised as a major influence on that of David Bowie. In recognition of his creative skills and body of work, Newley was elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1989 (see[2]).

Acting

The shortlived 1960 ATV series The Strange World of Gurney Slade in which Newley starred, continues to have a cult following due to its postmodern premise that the Newley character is trapped inside a television programme. Apart from a repeat of one episode on Channel 4 in 1992, it has not been seen in the UK in recent years. The show's theme tune by Max Harris (composer) may be better-known today than the series itself. The piano figure prominent in the recording was lifted (unacknowledged) from Mose Allison's song "Parchment Farm".

His last feature role in the cast of EastEnders was to be a regular role, but Newley had to withdraw after a few months when his health began to fail.

Personal life

He was married to Ann Lynn from 1956 to 1963, but the marriage ended in divorce. He then was married to the actress Joan Collins from 1963 to 1971. The couple had two children, Tara Newley and Sacha Newley. His third wife was former air hostess Dareth Rich, and they also had two children, Christopher and Shelby.

His last feature role in the cast of EastEnders was to be a regular role. But Newley had to withdraw after a few months when his health began to fail. He died on 14 April 1999, in Jensen Beach, Florida from renal cancer at the age of 67. He was survived by his children and also his mother Grace, then in her mid-90s.

Jim Henson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born September 24, 1936
Greenville, Mississippi, USA
Died May 16, 1990
New York City, New York, USA

James Maury Henson (September 24, 1936 - May 16, 1990) was the most widely known American puppeteer in modern American television history. He was also a filmmaker, television producer, and the founder of The Jim Henson Company, the Jim Henson Foundation, and Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

He was the creator of The Muppets and the leading force behind their long creative run. Henson brought an engaging cast of characters, innovative ideas, and a sense of timing and humor to millions of people. He is also widely acknowledged for the ongoing vision of faith, friendship, magic, and love which was infused in nearly all of his work.

Early work

Born in Greenville, Mississippi in 1936, Henson moved with his family to Hyattsville, Maryland, near Washington, D.C., in the late 1940s. In 1954, while attending Northwestern High School, he began working for WTOP-TV creating puppets for a Saturday morning children's show. The next year he created Sam and Friends, a five-minute puppet show for WRC-TV, while attending the University of Maryland, College Park. Sam and Friends were already recognizable Muppets, and the show included a primitive version of what would become Henson's signature character, Kermit the Frog. Already he was experimenting with the techniques that would change the way puppetry was used on television, notably using the frame defined by the camera shot to allow the puppeteer to work from off-camera.

1960s

The success of Sam and Friends led to a series of guest appearances on network talk and variety shows. (To this day, Muppets appear as "guests" on shows such as The Tonight Show and Hollywood Squares, with particularly memorable appearances by Kermit and Miss Piggy on 60 Minutes and Cookie Monster on Martha Stewart Living.) Henson himself appeared as a guest on many shows, including The Ed Sullivan Show. The greatly increased exposure led to hundreds of commercial appearances (mostly for Wilkins Coffee) by Henson characters through the 1960s.

Being puppets, they have been able to get away with a greater level of slapstick violence than might be acceptable with human actors. A good example is one of the early coffee ads. A Muppet is poised behind a cannon seen in profile. Another Muppet is in front of the barrel end of the cannon. The first Muppet says, "How do you feel about Wilkins Coffee?" The second Muppet responds gruffly, "Never heard of it!" The first Muppet fires the cannon and blows the second Muppet away... then turns the cannon directly toward the viewer and ends the ad with, "Now, how do you feel about Wilkins Coffee?"

In 1963, Henson and his wife Jane, also a puppeteer, moved to New York City, where the newly formed Muppets, Inc. would reside for some time. Henson devised Rowlf, a piano-playing anthropomorphic dog, the first Muppet to make a regular appearance on a network show, The Jimmy Dean Show. At that time Henson's long-time partner Frank Oz also came on board with the new company.

From 1964 to 1968, Henson began exploring film-making and produced a series of experimental films. His nine-minute experimental film Time Piece was nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for an Academy Award for Live Action Short Film in 1966. The NBC TV movie The Cube from 1969 is another experimental film that Jim Henson had produced.

In 1968, Joan Ganz Cooney and the team at the Children's Television Workshop began work on Sesame Street, a visionary children's program for public television. Part of the show was set aside for a series of funny, colorful puppet characters living on the titular street. These included Oscar the Grouch, Bert and Ernie, Cookie Monster, and Big Bird. Kermit was also included as a roving Television News Reporter. Around this time, a frill was added around Kermit's neck to make him more frog-like. The collar was also used to cover the joint where the neck met the body of the Muppet. At first the puppetry was separated from the realistic segments on the street, but after a poor test screening in Philadelphia, the show was revamped to integrate the two and place much greater emphasis on Henson's work.

1970s

Henson, Oz, and his team targeted an adult audience with a series of sketches on Saturday Night Live, set mostly in the Land of Gorch. Eleven sketches aired between October 1975 and January 1976, with four additional appearances in March, April, May, and September. The SNL writers never got comfortable writing for the characters.

The failure of the Muppets on SNL might have been a blessing in disguise. Starting in 1976, The Muppet Show was occupying Henson's attention in the UK. The show featured Kermit as host, and a variety of other memorable characters including Miss Piggy, Gonzo the Great, and Fozzie Bear. A vaudeville-style variety show aimed at a family audience, the show was a sensation in the United Kingdom and soon elsewhere in the world.

Henson directed a small series of TV movie specials, Tales From Muppetland, which were hosted by Kermit the Frog. The series included Hey, Cinderella!, The Frog Prince, and The Muppet Musicians of Bremen. These specials were comedic tellings of classic fairy-tale stories.

In addition to his own works of puppetry, Henson also aided others in their work. A great example occurred in 1979 when he was called to the set of The Empire Strikes Back to aid the famous Frank Oz and Stuart Freeborn. Oz, head puppeteer, and Freeborn, makeup supervisor for the film, were the masterminds behind the great Jedi Master Yoda. With Henson's help, these three were able to fully bring this creature to life. The pioneering work done by Oz and Henson in this film produced many significant aspects of modern puppetry.

Contributions to film

The Muppet Show ended after five seasons, but the characters have appeared in a long series of movies, beginning with 1979's The Muppet Movie. One song from that musical film, "The Rainbow Connection," sung by Kermit, was nominated for an Oscar. The Muppet characters have also appeared in a large number of made-for-TV-movies and television specials.

Henson was also responsible for two non-Muppet Show-related movies, 1982's high fantasy The Dark Crystal and the 1986 Labyrinth, that latter which was co-produced by George Lucas. To provide a visual style distinct from the Muppets, the puppets in these two movies were based on conceptual artwork by Brian Froud.

Henson also continued creating children's programs?- Fraggle Rock and the animated Muppet Babies?-and new prime-time ventures such as the folk tale and mythology oriented show, The Storyteller. The Jim Henson company continues to produce new series and specials.

In 1982, Henson founded the Jim Henson Foundation to promote and develop the art of puppetry in the United States.

Henson also founded Jim Henson's Creature Shop to build creatures for a large number of other films and series (most recently the science fiction production Farscape and the film adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and is considered one of the most advanced and well respected creators of film creatures.

Death

Jim Henson died of pneumonia caused by severe Streptococcus "A" bacteria[1] at the age of 53 on May 16, 1990.

At the funeral many people were moved to see Kermit sitting on the coffin with a sign saying 'I lost my voice.' On the DVD commentary for the movie Love Actually, director/writer Richard Curtis describes another episode at Henson's funeral:

At the end of (the funeral)... Frank Oz was talking and he suddenly lifted up Kermit's puppet and started to sing this song called One Voice. [Frank Oz was actually performing Fozzie Bear and the final song the puppeteers sang was Just One Person.] And it turned out that all the guys in the memorial service had brought their puppets with them, and they lifted them up, and when you turned around and looked backwards there were fifty puppets all singing. And Big Bird walked down the aisle of Saint Paul's Cathedral [the service was actually held at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine] and they all came forward and just this massive chorus of puppets all singing...It was an extraordinary thing...

A memorial service for him aired on PBS and drew millions of viewers and dozens of celebrities in reverence for his life and work. As per Henson's wishes, no one in attendance wore black, and a Dixieland jazz band finished the service by performing "When The Saints Go Marching In." In what was probably one of the most touching moments of the service, the Muppet character Big Bird (performed by Caroll Spinney) walked out onto the stage and sang a quavering rendition of Kermit the Frog's signature song, "Bein' Green."[2]

The Jim Henson Company, Jim Henson Foundation, and Jim Henson's Creature Shop have continued on after his death. His son Brian and daughter Lisa are currently the co-chairs and co-CEOs of the Company; his daughter Cheryl is the president of the Foundation. Steve Whitmire, a veteran member of the Muppet puppeteering crew, has assumed the roles of the two most famous characters played by Jim Henson himself, Kermit the Frog and Ernie.

On February 17, 2004, it was announced that the Muppets (excluding the Sesame Street characters, which are separately owned by Sesame Workshop) and Bear in the Big Blue House properties had been sold by Henson's heirs to The Walt Disney Company. The Jim Henson Company retains Creature Shop, as well as the rest of its film and television library including Fraggle Rock, Farscape, The Dark Crystal, and Labyrinth.

Tributes

Statue of Jim Henson and Kermit the Frog, on display outside of Adele H. Stamp Student Union in College Park, Maryland.Henson is tributed both as himself and as Kermit the Frog, on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The only other person to receive this honor is Mel Blanc, the voice actor of Bugs Bunny.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze was dedicated to him.
On September 24, 2003, University of Maryland, College Park honored alumnus Jim Henson with a life-sized statue of him conversing with Kermit the Frog in front of the Adele Stamp Student Union building on the College Park campus.[3]
In 2006, the University of Maryland, College Park introduced 50 statues of their school mascot, Testudo the Terrapin, with various designs chosen by different sponsoring groups. Among them was Kertle, a statue designed to look like Kermit the Frog, by artist Elizabeth Baldwin.
A TV special was produced, The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson, in which the Muppets paid tribute to Henson. The special featured interviews with Steven Spielberg and others.

Pop culture references

Tom Smith's Henson tribute song, "A Boy and His Frog",[4] won the Pegasus Award for Best Filk Song in 1991.
Stephen Lynch has produced a song titled "Jim Henson's Dead."
J. G. Thirlwell (under the Foetus In Excelsis Corruptus alias) has performed a reworked version of Elton John's Rocket Man titled "Puppet Dude," with the lyrics altered to refer to Jim Henson. This can be found on the Male live album.
Jim Henson is found tied up in an episode of Saturday Night Live's TV Funhouse. Mickey Mouse then screams, "He wouldn't sell!" referring to the Walt Disney Company's many attempts to purchase the Muppets.

Bubba, a furniture dealer from Princeton, West Virginia,
decided to expand the line of furniture in His store,
so he decided to go to Paris to see what he could find
in good furrin' stuff.
After arriving in Paris, he met with some manufacturers
and selected a line that he thought would sell very well
back home in West Virginia.
To celebrate the new acquisition, he decided to visit a
small Bistro and have a glass of that French wine that
he had heard so much about.
As he sat enjoying his wine, he noticed that the small
place was quite crowded, and that the other chair at
his table was the only vacant seat in the house.
Before long, a very beautiful young Parisian girl came
to his table, asked him something in French (which he
did not understand), and motioned toward the chair.
He gestured for her to sit down.
He tried to speak to her in English, but she did not
speak his language so, after a couple of minutes of
trying to communicat e with her, he took a napkin and
drew a picture of a wine glass and showed it to her.
She nodded, and he ordered a glass of wine for her.
After sitting together at the table for a while, he
took another napkin, and drew a picture of a plate
with food on it, and she nodded.
They left the Bistro and found a quiet cafe that
featured a small group playing romantic music. They
ordered dinner, after which he took another napkin
and drew a picture of a couple dancing.
She nodded, and they got up to dance.
They danced until the cafe closed and the band was packing up.
Back at their table, the young lady took a napkin
and drew a picture of a four-poster bed.
And, to this day, Bubba has no idea how she figured
out that he was in the furniture business.

Hey, BioBob. Welcome back and thanks for the hilarious Bubba funny. I actually know where Princeton, West Virginia is. Love it!

Enjoyed your background on the celebs, Boston. I had thought that Jim Henson died of AIDS.

We will wait for our Raggedy to appear before commenting further.

Good morning WA2K.

Here they are, Letty.

Well, there's our Raggedy, folks. Love the Jim Henson muppet people, PA. I am afraid that I don't recall Anthony Newley, but I do remember the song, "What Kind of Fool Am I."

Here's a song by the goblin king in "Labyrinth". I really liked David Bowie in that one, incidently.


I saw my baby, trying hard as babe could try
What could I do
My baby's fun had gone
And left my baby blue
Nobody knew

What kind of magic spell to use
Slime and snails
Or puppy dog's tails
Thunder or lightning
Then baby said
Dance magic, dance (dance magic, dance)
Dance magic, dance (dance magic, dance)
Put that baby spell on me
Jump magic, jump (jump magic, jump)
Jump magic, jump (jump magic, jump)
Put that magic jump on me
Slap that baby, make him free
Dance magic, dance (dance magic, dance)
Dance magic, dance (dance magic, dance)
Dance magic, dance (dance magic, dance)
Dance magic, dance (dance magic, dance)
Jump magic, jump (jump magic, jump)
Jump magic, jump (jump magic, jump)
Put that baby spell on me (ooh)

You remind me of the baby
What baby? the baby with the power
What power? power of voodoo
Who do? you do
Do what? remind me of the baby

Dance magic, dance, ooh ooh ooh
Dance magic, dance magic, ooh ooh ooh
Dance magic

What kind of magic spell to use
Slime and snails
Or puppy dog tails
Thunder or lightning
Something frightening

Dance magic, dance
Dance magic, dance
Put that baby spell on me
Jump magic, jump
Jump magic, jump
Put that magic jump on me
Slap that baby make him free
Dance magic, dance (dance magic, dance)
Dance magic, dance (dance magic, dance)
Dance magic, dance (dance magic, dance)
Dance magic, dance (dance magic, dance)
Jump magic, jump (jump magic, jump)
Jump magic, jump
Put that magic jump on me
Slap that baby
Dance magic, dance (dance magic, dance)
Dance magic, dance (dance magic, dance)
Dance magic
Slap that slap that baby make him free
Dance magic, dance (dance magic, dance)
Dance magic, dance (dance magic, dance)
Dance magic, dance (dance magic, dance)
Dance magic, dance (dance magic, dance)
Dance magic, dance (dance magic, dance)
Dance magic, dance (dance magic, dance)
Dance magic, dance (dance magic, dance)

Incidentally, listeners. I was thinking today about unsolved mysteries, and came across this unusual poem:

ARCHAEOLOGY
Brett Hursey


The first day she spends
alone at my house
I kiss her goodbye at the door,
climb into my car and think
about the Lost Colony --

the abandoned,
alone-on-your-birthday feeling
that always comes from loss ­--

the way Jamestown
lay like an unmated sock
in the Tidewater woods --
colonists trading woolen coats
for Croatan beads and buckskins,

or abducted by aliens
eager to learn the secrets
of cross-stitch and butter-churns ­--

the same aliens
who probably observe
with wonder the way
she systematically sorts through
all my possessions --
bravely spelunks under the kitchen sink,
and carefully catalogs the contents
of my medicine cabinet.

Working her way up
to photo albums and unpacked boxes
in the back of my bedroom closet,

she boldly presses forth
into my wildest bachelor regions,
blazing a trail through
an un-ironed, khaki forest

until she finally stumbles upon
Virginia Dare and the rest of the colonists
huddling around a campfire
cobbled from old love letters
and baseball cards.

The Angel
Buffy Sainte-Marie

(by Ed Freeman)
Come now and now my love
and leave your dying desert to the rain
Give up your treasuered wounds
Let go the tempting memory of the pain
Give up the vows you've taken
And you will live
And you will learn to fly again
And you will fly

And you will live my love
and see the stars regain your starless nights
And you will find your sun
And know the magic meaning
of its light
All souls will be yours to cherish
Rising falling in their earthly flight
And you will fly

And I would love my love and he would seek a refuge
in my eyes
But no resource of love
Could keep him from the fire
Where loving dies
And I would reach out my hand
as he was falling
falling to his home on high
And he would fly

Give up your treasured wounds
Let go the tempting memory
of the pain
Give up the vows you've taken
And you will live
And you will learn to fly again
And you will fly

Well, folks, I do believe that our edgar is on a Buffy binge. <smile>. Love it, Texas.

Here's one from my old stomping grounds, folks:

Artist: Wayne Newton Lyrics
Song: Danke Schoen Lyrics

Danke Schoen, darling Danke Schoen.
Thank you for all the joy and pain.
Picture shows, second balcony, was the place we'd meet, second seat, go Dutch treat, you were sweet.

Danke Schoen, darling Danke Schoen.
Thank you for walks down lovers lane.
I can see, hearts carved on a tree, letters inter-twined, for all time, yours and mine, that was fine.

Danke Schoen, darling Danke Schoen.
Thank you for funny cards from Spain.
I recall, Central Park in fall, how you tore your dress, what a mess, I confess, that's not all.

Danke Schoen, darling Danke Schoen.
Thank you for seeing me again.
Though we go, on our seperate ways, still the memory stays, for always, my heart says, Danke Schoen.

Danke Schoen, Auf Wiedersehn, Danke Schoen.

There is madness to my method.

We're all a wee bit mad, edgar. Hmmmm. folks. edgar is an inspiration today:

DIANA KRALL Song Lyrics

You Call it Madness
(From the album "ALL FOR YOU")

I can't forget the night I met you
That's all I'm dreaming of
And now you call it madness
But I call it love

You made a promise, to be faithful
By all the stars up above
Now you call it madness
But I call it love

My heart is beating, it keeps repeating
For you constantly
You're all I'm needing, so I am pleading
Please come back to me

You made a plaything out of romance
And what were you thinking of
For now you call it madness
But I call it love

Good afternoon music lovers. It was…

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Joan Baez

Virgil Caine is my name and I drove on the Danville train
'til so much cavalry came and tore up the tracks again
In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive
I took the train to Richmond that fell
It was a time I remember, oh, so well

The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringin'
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singin'
They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na, .... "

Back with my wife in Tennessee
And one day she said to me,
"Virgil, Quick! Come see!
There goes Robert E. Lee."
Now I don't mind, I'm chopping wood
And I don't care if the money's no good
Just take what you need and leave the rest
But they should never have taken the very best

The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringin'
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singin'
They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na, ..... "

Like my father before me, I'm a working man
And like my brother before me, I took a rebel stand
Oh, he was just 18, proud and brave
But a yankee laid him in his grave
I swear by the blood below my feet
You can't raise a Cane back up when he's in defeat

The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringin'
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singin'
They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na, ..... "

Well, Try, save your confederate money, honey, cause the South's gonna rise again.



Southern Nights Just As Good Even When
Closed Your Eyes I Apologize
To Any One Who Can Truly Say
He Has Found A Better Way

Feel So Good Feel So Good It's Frightening
Wish I Could Stop This World From Fighting
La Da Da Da Da Da La Da Da Da Da Da
Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da

Mysteries Like This And Many Others
In The Trees Blow In The Night
In The Southern Skies

Southern Skies Have You Ever Noticed
Southern Skies It's Precious Beauty
Lies Just Beyond The Eye
It Goes Running Thru Your Soul Like The Stories Of Old

Old Man He And His Dog They Walk The Old Land
Every Flower Touched His Cold Hand
As He Slowly Walked By
Weeping Willows Would Cry For Joy

That's by Glen Campbell

My fav version of this is by Phil Harriss.

Are You From Dixie



Hello there stranger how do you do
there's something I'd like to say to you
You seem surprised I recognize
I'm no detective but I just surmise

You're from the place I'm longing to be
your smiling face seems to say to me
You're from my homeland my sunny homeland
tell me can it be?

Are you from Dixie I say from Dixie where the fields of cotton beckon to me
I'm glad to see you tell me I'll be you and the friend I'm longing to see
Are you from Alabama Tennessee or Caroline
Any place below the Mason Dixon Line
Are you from Dixie I say from Dixie 'cause I'm from Dixie too.

It was a way back in old '89
When first I crossed that Mason Dixon Line
Gee but again I long to return
To those good old folks I left behind

My home was way down in old Alabam'
On the plantation near Birmingham
and there's one thing certain I'm surely flirtin'
With those southbound trains

Great, edgar. Here's on by Aretha, but Al did it originally.

Rock-a-bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody Lyrics

Rock-a-bye your baby with a Dixie melody.
When you croon, croon a tune from the heart of Dixie.
Just hang my cradle, mammy mine,
Right on that Mason Dixon line,
And swing it from Virginia
To Tennessee with all the heart that's in ya.

Weep no more, my lady.
Sing the song for me.
Soft and low, just as though
You had me on your knee.

A million baby kisses I'd gonna deliver,
The minute that you sing that Swanee River.
Rock-a-bye your rock-a-bye baby with a Dixie melody.

Weep no more, my fair lady.
Why don't you sing the song for me.
Soft and low, just as though
You had me, had me on your knee.

A million baby kisses I said, said I'm gonna deliver,
The minute that you sing that Swanee River.
Rock-a-bye your rock-a-bye baby with a Dixie melody.

A million baby kisses I'm gonna deliver,
The minute that you sing that Swanee River.
Rock-a-bye your rock-a-bye baby with a Dixie melody.

I'm going to Orlando with my daughter. Please keep our little radio on the air.

From Letty with love til later.

Orlando. Say "Hi" to Mickey for me.

With You Honey
Buffy Sainte-Marie

It's about your pouty mouth
and the way you stand
It's about your steady eyes
and your steady hands
Hey you never miss a beat
do you Honey
Hey you're just so honey sweet
Yessir Honey

Hey they say you're kinda weird
with your baggy clothes
and your heavy hair hang down
Heaven only knows
Crystal ball and pointed hat
Magic signs and things like that
Yessir Honey

It's about your honesty
innocence of Satan
It's about your perfect love
and your perfect hatin'
Ahh Honey Honey long and tall
coming like a cannon ball
What a pleasure just to fall
with you Honey Honey

It's about your magic name
thrills chills and shivers
It's about your slanty eyes
and how you do deliver
Take me to your teepee town
Rock me Honey take me down
What a pleasure just to drown
with you Honey

William Faulkner
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born: September 25, 1897
New Albany, Mississippi, U.S.A.
Died: July 6, 1962
Byhalia, Mississippi, U.S.A.

William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 - July 6, 1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning novelist from Mississippi. He is regarded as one of America's most influential fiction writers.

Faulkner was known for using long, serpentine sentences and meticulously chosen diction, in stark contrast to the minimalist style of his longtime rival, Ernest Hemingway. Some consider Faulkner to be the only true American Modernist prose fiction writer of the 1930s, following in the experimental tradition of European writers such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust and Thomas Mann. His work is known for literary devices like stream of consciousness, multiple narrations or points of view, and narrative time shifts.

Life

Faulkner was born William Falkner (without a "u")[1] in New Albany, Mississippi, and raised in and heavily influenced by that state, as well as by the history and culture of the South. His great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, was an important figure in northern Mississippi who served as a colonel in the Confederate Army, founded a railroad, and gave his name to the town of Falkner in nearby Tippah County. Perhaps most importantly, he wrote several novels and other works, establishing a literary tradition in the family. More relevantly, Colonel Falkner served as the model for Colonel John Sartoris in his great-grandson's writing.

It is understandable that the younger Falkner was influenced by the history of his family and the region in which they lived. Mississippi marked his sense of humor, his sense of the tragic position of blacks and whites, his keen characterization of usual Southern characters and his timeless themes, one of them being that fiercely intelligent people dwelled behind the façades of good old boys and simpletons. After being snubbed by the United States Army because of his height, Faulkner first joined the Canadian and then the Royal Air Force, yet still did not see any of the World War I wartime action. The definitive reason for Faulkner's change in the spelling of his last name is still unknown. Some possibilities include adding an "u" to appear more British when entering the Royal Air Force, or so that his name would come across as more aristocratic. He may have also simply kept a misspelling that an early editor had made.

Although Faulkner is heavily identified with Mississippi, he was living in New Orleans in 1925 when he wrote his first novel, Soldiers' Pay, after being influenced by Sherwood Anderson into trying fiction. The small house at 624 Pirate's Alley, just around the corner from St. Louis Cathedral, is now the premises of Faulkner House Books, and also serves as the headquarters of the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society.

On writing, Faulkner remarked, "Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him," in an interview with The Paris Review in 1956.

Works

Faulkner's most celebrated novels include The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Light in August (1932), The Unvanquished (1938), and Absalom, Absalom! (1936). Faulkner was a prolific writer of short stories: his first short story collection, These 13 (1932), includes many of his most acclaimed (and most frequently anthologized) stories, including "A Rose for Emily," "Barn Burning," "Red Leaves," "That Evening Sun," and "Dry September." In 1931 in an effort to make money, Faulkner crafted Sanctuary, a sensationalist "pulp fiction"-styled novel. Andre Malraux characterised "Sanctuary" as "intrusion of Greek tragedy in the pulp fiction". Its themes of evil and corruption (bearing Southern Gothic tones) resonate to this day. A sequel to the book, Requiem for a Nun, is the only play that he published. It includes an introduction that is actually one sentence spanning more than a page. He received a Pulitzer Prize for A Fable, and won National Book Awards for his Collected Stories (1951) and A Fable (1955).

Faulkner was also an acclaimed writer of mysteries, publishing a collection of crime fiction, Knight's Gambit, that featured Gavin Stevens (who also appeared in Light in August, Go Down, Moses, The Town, Intruder in the Dust, and the short story Hog Pawn), an attorney, wise to the ways of folk living in Yoknapatawpha County. He set many of his short stories and novels in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on?-and nearly identical to in terms of geography?-Lafayette County, of which his hometown of Oxford, Mississippi, is the county seat; Yoknapatawpha was his very own "postage stamp" and it is considered to be one of the most monumental fictional creations in the history of literature. His former home in Oxford, Rowan Oak, is operated as a museum by the University of Mississippi. Faulkner wrote two volumes of poetry -- The Marble Faun (1924) and A Green Bough (1933), neither of which was well received.

Later years

In the later years, Faulkner moved to Hollywood to be a screenwriter (producing scripts for Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep and Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not, both directed by Howard Hawks). Faulkner started an affair with Hawks' secretary, Meta Carpenter. Faulkner was rather famous for drinking as well, and throughout his life was known to be an alcoholic.

An apocryphal story regarding Faulkner in his Hollywood period, found him with a case of writer's block at the studio. He told Hawks he was having a hard time concentrating, and would like to write at home. Hawks was agreeable and Faulkner left. Several days passed with no word from the writer. Hawks telephoned Faulkner's hotel and found that Faulkner had checked out several days earlier. It seems Faulkner had been quite literal, and had returned home to Mississippi to finish the screenplay.

According to rumor, Faulkner's alcoholism was particularly drastic after a major accomplishment, when he would go on prolonged binges. Normally during his bouts with drinking he would stay in bed and have various family members bring him his drinks and keep him company. An interesting anecdote describes Faulkner after his winning of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949, where he drank heavily in anticipation of his departure for Stockholm. His nephew brought him a drink and began to talk about his triumphs in a recent football game, which took place on the same day Faulkner was told he had to sail for the prize ceremony. Despite his inebriation, Faulkner put two and two together, realized that a family member had intentionally lied to him about the true date of his Nobel Prize reception in order to ensure his sobriety at the event, and then resumed drinking steadily until the actual date. It is said that his speech was not noted for its greatness until the next day when it appeared in writing, because Mr. Faulkner stood too far from the microphone, mumbled, and spoke with his usual deep Southern drawl, making it almost impossible for those in attendance to hear or understand him. Recordings of the Nobel Prize speech?-which appear on "Faulkner Reads" with sections from As I Lay Dying, The Old Man, and A Fable?-were recorded in a studio after the actual event. In it he remarked, "I decline to accept the end of man [...] Man will not only endure, but prevail...." Both events were fully in character. Faulkner donated his Nobel winnings "to establish a fund to support and encourage new fiction writers," eventually resulting in the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

The text of the Nobel Prize speech is also available on the website of the Nobel Foundation [1], together with a partial audio recording. It is not specified whether this recording is live or if it was later made in a studio, but reverberation, echo, and ambient noises, along with hesitations and mispronunciations, plus minor differences of style with the published text seem to indicate it is indeed live.

An unverified story has it that before Faulkner's death in 1962, the author John Steinbeck called him to ask for advice regarding his own Nobel Prize acceptance speech. The two great American authors were not known to be great admirers, but Faulkner is said to have told Steinbeck that he had no advice to offer as he was too drunk to remember it.

Faulkner served as Writer-in-Residence at the University of Virginia from 1957 until his death in 1962 of a heart attack.