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take the advice given at the end of this sailor's song

"Get married instead and spend all night in bed

And go to sea no more"


and live happily ever after .
hbg


Go To Sea No More
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When first I landed in Frisco Bay

I went upon a stray

Me money alas, I spent it fast

Got drunk as drunk could be

And when that me money was all gone

'Twas then I wanted more

But a man must be blind to make up his mind

To go to sea once more


I spent the night with Angeline

Too drunk to roll in bed

Me watch was new and me money too

In the morning with them she fled

And as I walked the streets about

The whores they all did roar

There goes Jack Strapp the poor sailor lad,

He must go to sea once more


And as I walked the streets about

I met with the Rapper Brown

I am him for to take me on

And he looked at me with a frown

He said last time you was paid off

With me you got no score

But I'll give you a chance and I'll take your advance

And I'll send you to sea once more.

He shipped me on board of a whaling ship

All for the Arctic Seas

Where cold winds blow through the frost and snow

And your make your own blood freeze

But worst to bear I had no hard-weather gear

For I'd spent all me money on shore

'Twas then that I wished that I was dead

And could go to sea no more


So come all ye bold seafaring men

Who listen to me song

When you come of them long trips

I'll have you not go wrong

Take my advice drink no rum

And don't go sleeping with them whores

Get married instead and spend all night in bed

And go to sea no more

Let X=X/It Tango
Laurie Anderson

I met this guy, and he looked like might have been a hat check clerk at an ice rink.
Which, in fact, he turned out to be.
And I said: Oh boy. Right again.
Let X=X.
You know, it could be you.
It's a sky-blue sky.
Satellites are out tonight.
Let X=X.
You know, I could write a book.
And this book would be think enough to stun an ox.
Cause I can see the future and it's a place - about 70 miles east of here. Where it's lighter.
Linger on over here.
Got the time?
Let X=X.
I got this postcard.
And it read, it said:
Dear Amigo
Dear Partner.
Listen, uh
I just want to say thanks.
So...thanks.
Thanks for all the presents.
Thanks for introducing me to the Chief.
Thanks for putting on the feedbag.
Thanks for going all out.
Thanks for showing me your Swiss Army knife. and uh
Thanks for letting me autograph your cast.
Hug and kisses.
XXXXOOOO.
Oh yeah,
P.S.
I
feel
feel like
I am
in a burning building
and I gotta go.
Cause I
I feel
feel like
I am
in a burning building
and I gotta go.

She said:
It looks.
Don't you think it looks a lot like rain?
He said:
Isn't it.
Isn't it just.
Isn't it just like a woman?
She said:
It's hard.
It's just hard.
It's just kind of hard to say.
He said:
Isn't it.
Isn't it just.
Isn't it just like a woman?
She said:
It goes.
That's the way it goes.
It goes that way.
He said:
Isn't it.
Isn't it just like a woman?
She said: It takes.
It takes one.
It takes on to.
It takes one to know one.
He said:
Isn't it just like a woman?
She said:
She said it.
She said it to no.
She said it to no one.
Isn't it.
Isn't it just?
Isn't it just like a woman?
Your eyes.
It's a day's work to look in to them.
Your eyes.
It's a day's work just to look in to them.

Well, there's our hamburger with another sea shanty. Love it, TO. and when I get some things done in our "needs fixin'" department, I be back with a response from another sea. <smile>

Short station break:

This is cyber space. WA2K radio.

First, listeners, this is for our hamburger:

Song Of The Sea



By Rainer Maria Rilke



(Capri, Piccola Marina)

Timeless sea breezes,
sea-wind of the night:
you come for no one;
if someone should wake,
he must be prepared
how to survive you.

Timeless sea breezes,
that for aeons have
blown ancient rocks,
you are purest space
coming from afar...

Oh, how a fruit-bearing
fig tree feels your coming
high up in the moonlight.

Now, for our dj. and no, honey, it won't be "go forth and multiply". <smile>



Song: Nothing From Nothing Lyrics

Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'
You gotta have somethin'
If you wanna be with me
Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'
You gotta have somethin'
If you wanna be with me

I'm not tryin' to be your hero
'Cause that zero is too cold for me, Brrr
I'm not tryin' to be your highness
'Cause that minus is too low to see, yeah

Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'
And I'm not stuffin'
Believe you me
Don't you remember I told ya
I'm a soldier in the war on poverty, yeah
Yes, I am

instrumental break

Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'
You gotta have somethin'
If you wanna be with me
Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'
You gotta have somethin'
If you wanna be with me

You gotta have somethin'
If you wanna be with me
You gotta bring me somethin' girl
If you wanna be with me

letty : here is a song for you :wink:
have the alligators started their winter hibernation yet ?
hbg

THE ALLIGATOR SONG

The alligator is my friend
He can be your friend too
I'd rather have him as my friend,
then wear him as a shoe (point to shoe)

(chorus)
Aligator
Aligator (louder and longer)
Aligator (even louder and longer)
Can be your friend, Can be your friend, Can be your friend too.

The alligator is my friend
He has a scaly pelt
I'd rather have him as my friend
Than wear him as a belt (point to belt)

chorus

The alligator is my friend
He has a long nose
I'd rather have him as my friend
than bite off all my toes (jump around)

chorus

The alligator is my friend
He likes to kiss and flirt
I'd rather have him as my friend
Than wear him on my shirt (point to shirt)

THE ALLIGATOR SONG
(repeat after me song)

The alligator is my friend
He can be your friend too
I'd rather have him as my friend,
then wear him as a shoe (point to shoe)

(chorus)
Aligator
Aligator (louder and longer)
Aligator (even louder and longer)
Can be your friend, Can be your friend, Can be your friend too.

The alligator is my friend
He has a scaly pelt
I'd rather have him as my friend
Than wear him as a belt (point to belt)

chorus

The alligator is my friend
He has a long nose
I'd rather have him as my friend
than bite off all my toes (jump around)

chorus

The alligator is my friend
He likes to kiss and flirt
I'd rather have him as my friend
Than wear him on my shirt (point to shirt)

hamburger, I love it, Canada. I haven't seen my Anatole in quite some time. It is so dry here, buddy.

My daughter will love that child's song, because we made up lyrics and melodies all the time and for every occasion.

I must eat, so I shall be back later with a crocodile song.

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
How Doth the Little Crocodile

"I'll try and say 'How doth the little -- '" and she crossed her hands on her lap, as if she were saying lessons, and began to repeat it, but her voice sounded hoarse and strange, and the words did not come the same as they used to do: --

"How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!

How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws!"

"I'm sure those are not the right words," said poor Alice, and her eyes filled with tears again ...

Well, listeners, I must say goodnight and perhaps Sir Elton will rock me to sleep with this one:


I remember when rock was young
Me and Suzie had so much fun
holding hands and skimming stones
Had an old gold Chevy and a place of my own
But the biggest kick I ever got
was doing a thing called the Crocodile Rock
While the other kids were Rocking Round the Clock
we were hopping and bopping to the Crocodile Rock

Well Crocodile Rocking is something shocking
when your feet just can't keep still
I never knew me a better time and I guess I never will
Oh Lawdy mama those Friday nights
when Suzie wore her dresses tight
and the Crocodile Rocking was out of sight

But the years went by and the rock just died
Suzie went and left us for some foreign guy
Long nights crying by the record machine
dreaming of my Chevy and my old blue jeans
But they'll never kill the thrills we've got
burning up to the Crocodile Rock
Learning fast as the weeks went past
we really thought the Crocodile Rock would last.

Goodnight, my friends.

From Letty with love

Close your eyes, close the door,
You don't have to worry any more.
I'll be your baby tonight.

Shut the light, shut the shade,
You don't have to be afraid.
I'll be your baby tonight.

Well, that mockingbird's gonna sail away,
We're gonna forget it.
That big, fat moon is gonna shine like a spoon,
But we're gonna let it,
You won't regret it.

Kick your shoes off, do not fear,
Bring that bottle over here.
I'll be your baby tonight.


B Dylan

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

dj, I missed Alice last evening, but thanks, Canada. I still have both those books around here somewhere.

Hey, edgar. That Dylan song was quite soothing, Texas. It must have worked, because after the telephone quit waking me up, I slept quite soundly.

A special tribute and "thank you" to the webmasters who fixed our pendulum problems.

Well, we will have to reset our clocks on halloween, I think, so.....



Chicago - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?

As I was walking down the street one day
A man came up to me and asked me what the time was that was
on my watch, yeah
And I said
Does anybody really know what time it is
I don't
Does anybody really care
care
If so I can't imagine why
about time
We've all got time enough to cry
Oh no, no
And I was walking down the street one day
A pretty lady looked at me and said her diamond watch had
stopped cold dead
And I said
Does anybody really know what time it is
I don't
Does anybody really care
care
If so I can't imagine why
about time
We've all got time enough to cry
Oh no, no
And I was walking down the street one day
Being pushed and shoved by people trying to beat the clock,
oh, so I just don't know,
I just don't know
And I said, yes I said
Background Vocal:
People runnin' everywhere
Don't know the way to go
Don't know where I am
Can't see past the next step
Don't have to think past the last mile
Have no time to look around
Just run around, run around and think why
Does anybody really know what time it is
I don't
Does anybody really care
care
If so I can't imagine why
about time
We've all got time enough to die
Oh no, no.

Strange meter to that one.

Jerome Robbins
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jerome Robbins (October 11, 1918-July 29, 1998) was an American choreographer whose work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater. Among the numerous stage productions he worked on were On The Town, High Button Shoes, The King And I, The Pajama Game, Bells Are Ringing, West Side Story, Gypsy and Fiddler on the Roof.

On screen, Robbins recreated his stage dances for The King and I (1956) and shared the Best Director Oscar with Robert Wise for the film version of West Side Story (1961). That same year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored him with a special award for his choreographic achievements on film. By the end of his life in 1998, he would be awarded 5 Tony Awards, 2 Academy Awards, a Kennedy Center Honor, the National Medal of the Arts, the French Legion of Honor, three Honorary Doctorates, and an Honorary Membership in the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

Robbins was born "Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz" on October 11, 1918, exactly one month before the end of World War I, in the Jewish Maternity Hospital in the heart of Manhattan's Lower East side - a neighborhood populated by many immigrants. The Rabinowitz family lived in a large apartment house at 51 East 97th at the northeast corner of Madison Avenue. His parents, Lena and Harry Rabinowitz, favored a Jewish hospital because it provided kosher food and Yiddish-speaking doctors. "Jerry" to loved ones, his middle name reflected his parent's patriotic enthusiasm for the current president. Rabinowitz translates to "the son of a rabbi" - a name Robbins never liked, as it marked him as the son of an immigrant.

In the early 1920s, the Rabinowitz family moved to Weehawken, New Jersey. 10 years prior, Fred and Adele Astaire had lived there briefly as children only a block away from one of Robbins' boyhood homes. His father and uncle opened "Comfort Corset Company," and this was a unique venture, especially in the family, which had many show business connections including vaudeville performers and theater owners. Robbins, however, was headed away from business and into the arts.

He began college studying Chemistry at New York University (NYU), but dropped out after a year for financical reasons, as well as to pursue dance. He studied at the New Dance League, learning ballet with Ella Daganova, Antony Tudor and Eugene Loring, modern dance at the New Dance League, Spanish dancing with the famed Helen Veola, folk dance with Yeichi Nimura, and dance composition with Bessie Schoenberg.

By 1939, he was dancing in the chorus of such Broadway shows as Great Lady, The Straw Hat Revue and Keep of the Grass, which George Balanchine choreographed. Robbins was also dancing and choreographing at Camp Tamiment in the Poconos of Pennsylvania. Here he choreographed many dramatic pieces with controversial ideas about race wars, lynching, and war. But in 1940, he turned his back (albeit temporarily) on the theater and joined the Ballet Theatre (later known as the American Ballet Theatre). From 1941 through 1944, Robbins was a soloist with the company, gaining notice for his Hermes in Helen of Troy, the Moor in Petrouchka and Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet.

At the same time, Broadway dance was changing. Agnes de Mille had brought not just ballet to Oklahoma!, but had made dance an integral part of the drama of the musical piece. Challenged, Robbins choreographed and performed in Fancy Free, a ballet about sailors at liberty, at the Metropolitan Opera as part of the Ballet Theatre season in 1944. Oliver Smith, set designer and collaborator on Fancy Free, knew Leonard Bernstein and eventually Robbins and Bernstein met to work on the music. This would be the first of several collaborative efforts. Fancy Free was a great success.

Later that year, he conceived and choreographed On the Town (1944), a musical partly inspired by Fancy Free, which effectively launched his Broadway career. Once again Bernstein wrote the music and Smith designed the sets. The book and lyrics were by a team that Robbins would work with again, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. His next musical was Billion Dollar Baby (1945). Two years later, he received plaudits for his hilarious Keystone Kops ballet in High Button Shoes.

During this period, Robbins continued to create dances for the Ballet Theatre, alternating between the two for the better part of the next two decades. Barely a year went by without a new Robbins ballet and a new musical choreographed by Robbins. With George Balanchine he choreographed Jones Beach at the City Center Theater in 1950, and directed and choreographed Irving Berlin's Call Me Madam, starring Ethel Merman.

In 1951, Robbins created the now-celebrated dance sequences in Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King & I (including the children's ballet, The Small House of Uncle Thomas and the celebrated Shall We Dance? waltz between the two leads). That same year, he created The Cage for the New York City Ballet, with which he was now associated. He also did uncredited show doctoring on the musicals A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (1951), Wish You Were Here (1952) and Wonderful Town (1953).

Robbins collaborated with George Abbott on The Pajama Game (1954), which launched the career of Shirley MacLaine, worked on the 1955 Mary Martin vehicle, Peter Pan (recreated for the small screen in 1955, 1956 and 1960) and directed and co-choreographed (with Bob Fosse) Bells Are Ringing (1956), starring Judy Holliday. In 1957, he conceived, choreographed and directed a show that some feel is his crowning achievement: West Side Story.

West Side Story is a modern-day (for 1957) version of Romeo And Juliet, set in Hell's Kitchen. The musical marked the first collaboration between Robbins and Stephen Sondheim, who wrote the lyrics. The two, along with book writer Arthur Laurents and composer Leonard Bernstein, worked well together, only disagreeing on minor issues such as whether the lead character Maria should die. To help the young cast grow into their roles, Robbins did not allow those playing members of opposite gangs (Jets and Sharks) to mix during the rehearsal process. The original Broadway production featured Carol Lawrence as Maria, Larry Kert as Tony and Chita Rivera as Anita. Although it opened to good reviews, it was overshadowed by Meredith Willson's The Music Man at that year's Tony Awards. West Side Story did, however, earn Robbins his second Tony Award for choreography, and is now hailed as a groundbreaking classic.

The streak of hits continued with Gypsy (1959), starring Ethel Merman. Robbins re-teamed with Sondheim and Laurents, and the music was by Jule Styne. The musical is based--loosely--on the life of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee.

In 1962, Robbins tried his hand at a straight play, directing Arthur Kopit's unconventional Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad. The production ran over a year off-Broadway and was transferred to Broadway for a short run in 1963,

Robbins was still highly sought after as a show doctor. He took over the direction of two troubled productions during this period and helped turn them into smashes. In 1962, he saved A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (1962), a musical farce starring Zero Mostel, Jack Gilford, David Burns and John Carradine. The production, with book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart, and songs by Stephen Sondheim, was not working. Robbins staged an entirely new opening number which explained to the audience what was to follow, and the show played beautifully from then on. In 1964 he took on a floundering Funny Girl and devised a show that ran 1348 performances. The musical helped turn lead Barbra Streisand into a superstar.

That same year, Robbins won matching Tony Awards for his direction and choreography in Fiddler on the Roof (1964). The show starred Zero Mostel as Tevye and ran for 3242 performances, setting the record (since surpassed) for longest-running Broadway musical. The plot, about Jews living in Russia near the beginning of the 20th century, is based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. The subject matter allowed Robbins to return to his religious roots.

Never deserting the ballet, he continued to choreograph and stage productions for both the Joffrey Ballet and the New York City Ballet into the 1970s.

Robbins became ballet master of the New York City Ballet in 1972 and worked almost exclusively in classical dance throughout the next decade, pausing only to stage revivals of West Side Story (1980) and Fiddler on the Roof (198). In 1981, his Chamber Dance Company toured the People's Republic of China.

The 1980s saw an increased presence on TV as NBC aired Live From Studio 8H: An Evening of Jerome Robbins' Ballets with Members of the New York City Ballets and a retrospective of Robbins' choreography aired on PBS in a 1986 installment of Dance in America. The latter led to his creating the anthology show Jerome Robbins' Broadway in 1989 which recreated the most successful production numbers from his 50-plus year career. Starring Jason Alexander as the narrator, the show included stagings of cut numbers like Irving Berlin's Mr. Monotony and well-known ones like the "Tradition" number from Fiddler on the Roof. For his efforts, he earned a fifth Tony Award.

While Robbins' career seemed to be a charmed one, it was not without a period of difficulty. In the early 1950s, he was called to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), suspected of communist sympathies. Robbins named names along with Sterling Hayden, Burl Ives, Elia Kazan and Lela Rogers (Ginger's mother). Because he cooperated with HUAC, Robbins' career did not suffer and he was not blacklisted.

He died of a stroke at his home in New York City at the age of 79.

Dottie West
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Birth name Dorothy Marie Marsh
Born October 11, 1932
Origin McMinnville, Tennessee
Died September 4, 1991

Dottie West or Dorothy Marie Marsh (October 11, 1932 - September 4, 1991) was a country music singer and a pop singer, widely hailed as one of its greatest pioneers and controversial stars.

Early Life and Rise to Fame

Born in McMinnville, Tennessee, Dottie West was one of country music's most popular female vocalists for more than three decades. She began her career in local venues in Cleveland, Ohio in the mid 1950s. She and her husband, steel guitarist Bill West, moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1959 and she began recording and making personal appearances with a number of major stars including Patsy Cline, who became her closest friend. It was not until 1963, however, that West's career took off when she signed to RCA Records. She made the top ten twice in 1964, a duet with Jim Reeves titled "Love is No Excuse" and a solo "Here Comes My Baby" which won her a Grammy award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. West would eventually earned 16 Grammy nominations including further Best Female Country Vocal nominations in 1965, 1967, 1968, 1973, and 1974. Dottie was the first woman in Country Music history to ever win a Grammy Award.

West was also an accomplished songwriter, penning almost 100 songs including several of her own hits as well as "Is This Me", one of Jim Reeves' final hits during his lifetime. She earned three BMI awards for her songs.

West remained with RCA through 1975, chalking up such hits as "Let Me Off at the Corner" (1965), "Would You Hold It Against Me" (1966), "Paper Mansions" (1967), "Country Girl" (1968), "Careless Hands" (1969), "If It's All Right with You" (1970), "Country Sunshine" (1973), and "Last Time I Saw Him" (also a pop and R&B hit for Diana Ross) (1974). "Country Sunshine" became her theme song and was used in a popular Coca-Cola commercial; the song won the 1973 Clio Award as the year's best advertising song.

During the late 1960s, West recorded a series of duets with singer-songwriter Don Gibson. Their two biggest hits were "Rings of Gold" (1969) and "There's a Story Goin' 'Round" (1970).







The United Artists years

She moved to the United Artists Records label in 1976, where she changed musical directions. She exchanged her signature Nashville sound for a decidely MOR, pop-influenced sound.

After a series of modest hits with her new musical direction, her pairing with Kenny Rogers helped shoot West to new levels of superstardom. Starting in 1978, she and Rogers amassed five hit singles and two top 10 albums, as well as multiple awards including the Country Music Association's Duet of the Year award.

West's solo work finally caught on by late 1979, reaching the top 10 for the first time in five years in December with "You Pick Me Up (And Put Me Down)." The follow-up release - 1980's "A Lesson in Leavin'" - was even more successful; the song was her first solo No. 1 hit and was successfully covered nearly two decades later by Jo Dee Messina.

She reached No. 1 again in 1981 with "Are You Happy Baby" (1981).

In 1981, age 48, Dottie West reached the peak of her career with two No. 1s - her solo "Are You Happy Baby" and another duet with Rogers in "What Are We Doin' in Love." The latter song was also their biggest pop hit, reaching the top 15 of the Billboard magazine Hot 100 chart. Her duet relationship with Rogers came to an end after he switched labels, moving from Libery/United to RCA (the label West herself had enjoyed her first major hits with).

Around this same time, West updated her image, trading in her conservative gingham checked dresses for a "sexier" look that included skintight spandex jumpsuits. West was ahead of her time proving that women could have sex xappeal. This act was taken on later by another Country/Pop superstar Shania Twain. At this time she went from being known as "Little Miss Fireball" to "Lady Airbrush" virtually overnight. She became overly excessive during this time with her wardrobe, designed by famed Hollywood fashion king Bob Mackie, and bought a Nashville mansion that included over five bedrooms, a ballroom with a stage and a bowling alley. Her electric bill was in the excess of thousands a month reportedly.


West's daughter, Shelly West, also became a country music star during this period (her first hit was "Jose Cuervo" about the morning after drinking too much tequila), and a number one hit duet with singer David Frizzel "You're The Reason God Made Oklahoma" but Shelly has not recorded since the mid-1980s [1].

Decline, Scandal & Death

Dottie West's recording career started a downward spiral with the release of 1982's "Full Circle", produced by her one-time protege Larry Gatlin which was poorly received. Her last record, "We Know Better Now", was released in 1985.

Mounting debts forced the singer to file for bankruptcy in 1990. But citing a survivor-like attitude, West vowed to fight her way back to the top which she might well have accomplished had she not been in a car accident in Nashville, Tennessee, which claimed her life the following week. She is buried in her hometown beside her mother.

Later that year, Family Feud did a week of shows as a tribute to her.

Trivia

West was portrayed by actress Michele Lee in the hit TV Movie titled Big Dreams and Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story.
West appeared as a guest in a Season 3 episode of The Dukes of Hazzard - "By-line, Daisy Duke."
Dottie West was very good friends with Country/Pop superstar Patsy Cline, whom West credits for inspiration.
Dottie West was one of the pioonering women of Country's move into Pop music.
West was ranked #23 in CMT 40 Greatest Women in Country Music in 2002.

Daryl Hall
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Daryl Hall (born Daryl Franklin Hohl on October 11, 1946, Pottstown, Pennsylvania) is half of the music duo Hall & Oates.

His mother played songs by Frank Sinatra to him as a child, and he later became a fan of Motown and other R&B/soul music. He took piano lessons as a child, but he did not like them. He would skip the lessons and rode his bicycle across the bridge from his grandfather's farm over to the heart of the black "Chicken Hill" ghetto, where he could just listen and absorb the music.

In the 1960s, he attended Temple University, but did not graduate, preferring instead to spend his time singing on the street corners. At that time, Daryl Hohl (as he was called then) sang backup for different bands. He eventually changed his last name to Hall. Daryl Hall idolized the Temptations and began to perform session work. He first met John Oates at a band competition. After John transferred to a different school, Daryl joined the band Gulliver, which released one eponymous album in 1969 before being dropped from their label. Hall & Oates was formed in 1972, when John returned to Philadelphia.

Solo projects

Cover of Daryl's first solo album, Sacred SongsIn 1977, RCA first attempted to push Daryl Hall to the front with his first solo effort, Sacred Songs, produced by Robert Fripp. RCA was concerned about the uncommercial nature of the album, however, and it was not released until 1980, after Hall and Fripp passed out demos to radio stations, forcing the issue. The album was reminiscent of experimenters such as David Bowie and Brian Eno.

Hall & Oates went on a break after the 1985 tour. Hall was influenced to go to England and meet with Dave Stewart. The resulting solo album Hall released was Three Hearts In The Happy Ending Machine. It included a #5 hit "Dreamtime" and a Top 40 hit with "Foolish Pride." It also contained perhaps a hint of Hall's future solo projects, with the song "Someone Like You." Despite Stewart's co-production and guest background vocals from Joni Mitchell and Bob Geldof, RCA considered this album a commercial disappointment. It should be noted, however, that RCA did not promote this album at the level of the Hall & Oates' previous albums, which upset Hall for years afterward. This was also the last album in the RCA deal with Hall & Oates.


In 1993, Daryl Hall released his third solo album on Epic, called Soul Alone. Distinct from the "Hall & Oates sound," this album features a more soulful and jazzy feel. However, Epic failed to find a marketing niche for Hall's new sound. Despite one single being released, ("Philly Mood"), the album was not a commercial success. That same year he released a duet with Dusty Springfield which charted in the UK.

On the occasion of the 1994 FIFA World Cup in United States, Daryl Hall sung the official anthem of the event with a gospel group called Sound of Blackness ''Gloryland [1] Daryl Hall has also released a fourth solo album called Can't Stop Dreaming and fifth Live In Philadelphia compilation. He is also featured on Kenny G's " At Last...The Duets Album" doing a collaboration with the saxophonist of James Ingram's "Baby, Come To Me".

In July 2005 Hall was diagnosed with Lyme Disease causing him to cancel a majority of Hall & Oates' summer tour. Hall has reported that he is feeling better and he continues to tour with John Oates. Hall is also working on a Christmas album with John Oates due out in fall 2006..

Joan Cusack
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birth name: Joan Cusack
Date of birth: October 11, 1962
Birth location: New York City, United States

Joan Cusack (born October 11, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress and comedian.

Cusack was born in New York City to Irish American Catholic parents Nancy and Richard Cusack, an actor and director; her brother is actor John Cusack, and her sister is actress Ann Cusack. She grew up in Evanston, Illinois, where she studied drama at the Piven Theater Workshop. She attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She had her first major film role in 1980's My Bodyguard, at the age of 18.

Cusack was a cast member of Saturday Night Live for one season in 1985. Her other television work includes a short-lived series What About Joan (2001) and It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002). She received Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nominations for her role as Melanie Griffith's blue-collar best friend in Working Girl (1988) and as the jilted bride of a man who realizes that he is gay in In & Out (1997).

To date, she and her brother John have appeared in eight movies together: Class (1983), Grandview, U.S.A. (1984), Sixteen Candles (1984), Broadcast News (1987), Say Anything (1989), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Cradle Will Rock (1999), and High Fidelity (2000).

Cusack married Richard Burke in 1993, and they have two sons, Dylan and Miles. She has been the speaker for many of the U.S. Cellular commercials.

The first day of school our professor
introduced himself and challenged us to
get to know someone we didn't already know. I
stood up to look around when a gentle hand
touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a
wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me
with a smile that lit up her entire being.



She said, "Hi handsome. My name is Rose.
I'm eighty - seven years old. Can I give you a hug?"

I laughed and enthusiastically responded,
"Of course you may!" and she gave me a giant squeeze.

"Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?" I asked.

She jokingly replied, "I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married,
have a couple of children, and then retire and travel."

"No seriously," I asked. I was curious what may have motivated
her to be taking on this challenge at her age.

"I always dreamed of having a college education
and now I'm getting one!" she told me.

After class we walked to the student union building and shared
a chocolate milkshake. We became instant friends.

Every day for the next three months we would leave class together and
talk nonstop. I was always mesmerized listening to this "time machine"
as she shared her wisdom and experience with me.

Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and
she easily made friends wherever she went.

She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed
upon her from the other students. She was living it up.

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football
banquet. I'll never forget what she taught us. She was introduced
and stepped up to the podium.

As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her three
by five cards on the floor. Frustrated and a little embarrassed she
leaned into the microphone and simply said "I'm sorry I'm so jittery.
I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me! I'll never get
my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know."

As we laughed she cleared her throat and began: "We do not stop
playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing.
There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy,
and achieving success.

"You have to laugh and find humor every day."

"You've got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die.
We have so many people walking around who are dead
and don't even know it!"

"There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up.
If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and
don't do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. If I
am eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never do
anything I will turn eighty-eight. Anybody can grow older. That
doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by
always finding the opportunity in change."

"Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what
we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who
fear death are those with regrets."

She concluded her speech by courageously singing "The Rose."

She challenged each of us to study the lyrics
and live them out in our daily lives.

At the years end Rose finished the college degree
she had begun all those years ago.

One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep.

Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute
to the wonderful woman who taught by example that it's never
too late to be all you can possibly be.

What a beautiful story, Bob. It made me choke up a bit. May the Roses of the world always be with us. Thanks, once more, for all your delightful bio's, honey. They are both art and knowledge, hawkman.

When our Raggedy arrives with her photo's, we will comment further, but until then, this song fits all quite nicely.

Zero Mostel

Is this the little girl I carried?
Is this the little boy at play?
I don't remember growing older.
When did they?
When did she get to be a beauty?
When did he grow to be this tall?
Wasn't it yesterday when they were small?

Sunrise, sunset.
Sunrise, sunset.
Swiftly flow the days.
Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers,
Blossoming even as we gaze.
Sunrise, sunset.
Sunrise, sunset.
Swiftly fly the years.
One season following another,
Laden with happiness and tears.

What words of wisdom can I give them?
How can I help to ease their way?
Now, they must learn from one another,
Day by day.
They look so natural together,
Just like two newlyweds should be.
Is there a canopy in store for me?

Sunrise, sunset.
Sunrise, sunset.
Swiftly flow the days.
Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers,
Blossoming even as we gaze.
Sunrise, sunset.
Sunrise, sunset.
Swiftly fly the years.
One season following another,
Laden with happiness and tears

Good morning WA2K.

Lovely story, Bob.

And today's celebrities:

There's our Raggedy, and with a lovely collection of Celeb's. My goodness, not one of those faces is familiar, I'm afraid, but I do know of
Hall and Oates. Thanks once again, PA for your wonderful photo's.

Breaking News:

North Korea threatens war over sanctions, By HANS GREIMEL, Associated Press Writer
24 minutes ago

SEOUL, South Korea -North Korea stoked regional tensions Wednesday, threatening more nuclear tests and saying additional sanctions imposed on it would be considered an act of war, as nervous neighbors raced to bolster defenses and punish Pyongyang.


South Korea said it was making sure its troops were prepared for atomic warfare, and Japan imposed new economic sanctions to hit the economic lifeline of the communist nation's 1 million-member military, the world's fifth-largest.

The rest of the story:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061011/ap_on_re_as/koreas_nuclear

Poem for the day:

War Is Kind

by Stephen Crane (1899)


Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind,
Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky
And the affrighted steed ran on alone,
Do not weep.
War is kind.

Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment,
Little souls who thirst for fight,
These men were born to drill and die.
The unexplained glory flies above them.
Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom--
A field where a thousand corpses lie.

Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.
Because your father tumbles in the yellow trenches,
Raged at his breast, gulped and died,
Do not weep.
War is kind.

Swift blazing flag of the regiment,
Eagle with crest of red and gold,
These men were born to drill and die.
Point for them the virtue of slaughter,
Make plain to them the excellence of killing
And a field where a thousand corpses lie.

Mother whose heart hung humble as a button
On the bright splendid shroud of your son,
Do not weep.
War is kind.

Wake up; wake up everybody. We have an October return. Our C.I. is back:

For him:

Artist: October Project
Song: Return To Me

you rise like a wave in the ocean
and you fall gently back to the sea
now I want to know how we hold you
return to me
return to me

you shine like the moon over water
and you darken the sky when you leave
now we want to know how to keep you
return to me
return to me
turn to me
return to me

everything we tell you has been spoken
and everything we say was said before
but everything we feel is for the first time
and everything we feel we feel for you

We are here calling the wind
We are here calling your name
We are here calling you back
return to me
return to me

I know what it means to be lonely
and I know what it means to be free
now we want to know how to love you
return to me
return to me

We are here calling the wind
We are here calling your name
We are here calling you back
return to me
return to me

was listening to the wings album, back to the egg, recently, better than most critics gave it credit for in my opinion

some songs from the disc

Arrow Through Me
Paul McCartney

Ooh, baby, you couldn't have done a worse thing to me
If you'da taken an arrow and run it right through me. ooh.

Ooh baby, a bird in the hand is worth two flyin'
But when it came to love, I'd knew you'd be lyin'.

It could have been a finer thing,
Would have been a major attraction
With no other thing: offering a note of distraction.
come on, get up, get under way, bring your love.

Ooh baby, you wouldn't have found a more down hero
If you'da started at nothing and counted to ze-e-ro.
oo-oo-oo.

Ooh baby, you couldn't have done a worse thing to me
If you'da taken an arrow and run it right through me.

It could have been a finer thing
Would have been amajor attraction
If no other thing than offering a no love distraction
Come on, get up, get under way, bring your love.

Ooh baby, you wouldn't have found a more down hero
If you'da started at nothing and counted to ze-e-ro.
oo-oo-oo.


Old Siam Sir
Paul McCartney

In a village in Old Siam, sir, there's a lady who's lost her way.
In an effort to find a man, sir, she found herself in the old UK.
She waited 'round in Walthamstowe, she skated 'round in Scarborough.
She waited 'round in Walthamstowe, she skated 'round in Scarborough.
In a village in old east end, sir, she mea fellow who made her real.
Took her rushes to show, this man, sir,
He met her dad at the wedding meal.

In a letter from Old Siam, sir, came an awful tale of woe.
She decided the only answer was to get off a pile of dough.
She waited 'round in Walthamstowe, she skated 'round in Scarborough.
She waited 'round in Walthamstowe, she skated 'round in Scarborough.
When a relative told her man, sir, he directed her not to stay.
In a village in Old Siam, sir, there's a lady who'se lost her way.

In a village in Old Siam, sir, there's a lady who'se lost her way.
In an effort to find a man, sir, she found herself in the old UK.
She waited 'round in Walthamstowe, she skated 'round in Scarborough.
She waited 'round in Walthamstowe, she skated 'round in Scarborough.

+ repeat first two lines of last verse, then repeat until fade:


Winter Rose/Love Awake
Paul McCartney

All through the summer I have followed you around
Bringing a rose for the winter that's coming
Now the snow is on the ground.
Winter rose. Winter rose.
Shine your light in the air.
Winter rose. Winter rose.
Skine your light everywhere.
Love awake. Toll the bell.
Tell the world how glad you are.
Love awake to the day
When we can make our love awake.

Lord knows we need it any time we can get it.
But if we forget it every now and then.
But if you don't feel it, later on you'll regret it.
And if we let it we could set it free, you and me.

Love awake. Tone the bell.
Tell the world how glad you are.
Love awake to the day
When we can make our love awake.

Snowfalls in the winter,
Spring brings the rain.
But it's never to long before the summer comes again.
It always comes again!