WA2K Radio is now on the air

Before TV, there was radio, hbg. <smile>

Jet

Take a look
At what I took
A leaf out of everybody's book
We see what you can't see
I'm caught in a trap of my own
Like everybody I know

This won't be played on your radio tonight
This won't be played on your radio tonight
This won't be played on your radio tonight

Do you all know
Of the emperor's clothes
Walking down an empty road
We see what you can't see
That's not how I wanna be
Anyhow, everytime, the same dream

This won't be played on your radio tonight
This won't be played on your radio tonight
This won't be played on your radio tonight

This won't be played on your radio Show
This won't be played on your radio tonight (oh no)

Na na na na na na na na na na na na na

Hey, Jet,This just got played on WA2K radio.

I have a pressing question, how come Americans have dropped the 'u' from 'humour', 'colour' etc... and not 'armour', when it ends with the same sound?

Gorsh, annifa, I don't know, dear. I have always loved your OED, however, and this is one of my favorite quotes:

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
- Peter Ustinov

Goodnight:

(Angola, Namibia) [before sleeping] Nangala po nawa

Lacadon (Chiapas Mexico)[night before sleep] Ki' wenen tech
Lacadon (Chiapas Mexico)[night before sleep] Ki' wenen tech ki'i ba wilil
Ladin (Trentino-Alto Adige Italy) Bona nuet
Ladino (Israel, Turkey) Buenas noches
Lakhota (United States, Canada) Hanhepi waste
Latvian (Latvia) Ar labu nakti
Lingala (Africa) Butu elama
Lithuanian (Lithuania) Labanaktis
Lithuanian (Lithuania) Labanakt
Livonian (Latvia) Jõvvõ iedõ
Luganda (South Uganda) [when leaving] Sula bulungi
Lunyoro (Uganda) Oraare kurungi

From Letty with love and a smile

I don't recall who sang this first time I heard it- -probably Slim Harpo- -but this is the Elvis Presley version:


Scratch My Back

(Giant - Baum - Kaye)


One good turn deserves another
Be my love, I'll be your lover
It's all part of nature's laws
If you'll scratch my back then I'll scratch yours.

If you'll scratch my back then I'll scratch your back
Like two peas in a pack,
let's get rid of our itch together, Hmm

Joy they say is in the giving
Come on give, make life worth living
Your welfare is my concern
Do a favour for me, I'll do one in return

If you'll scratch my back then I'll scratch your back
Like two peas in a pack,
let's get rid of our itch together, Hmm

Scratch me now a little lower
What a feeling do it slower
That's it, Hmm you're getting hot
Well I gotta admit, you just hit the spot

If you'll scratch my back then I'll scratch your back
Like two peas in a pack,
let's get rid of our itch together, Hmm

If you'll scratch my back then I'll scratch your back

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

Hmmm, well, edgar, that was one suggestive melody that you played last evening, buddy. Thanks, Texas. Rather nice to awaken to that song. <smile>

How about some folk music to begin the day:


Quite Early Morning

Don't you know it's darkest before the dawn
And it's this thought keeps me moving on
If we could heed these early warnings
The time is now quite early morning
If we could heed these early warnings
The time is now quite early morning

Some say that humankind won't long endure
But what makes them do doggone sure?
I know that you who hear my singing
Could make those freedom bells go ringing (2x)

And so we keep on while we live
Until we have no, no more to give
And when these fingers can strum no longer
Hand the old banjo to young ones stronger (2x)

So though it's darkest before the dawn
These thoughts keep us moving on
Through all this world of joy and sorrow
We still can have singing tomorrows (2x)

Jelly Roll Morton
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton (October 20, 1890 - July 10, 1941) was an American virtuoso pianist, a bandleader, and a composer who some call the first true composer of jazz music.

Morton was a colorful character who liked to generate publicity for himself by bragging. His business card referred to him as the "Originator of Jazz".

Birth

Ferdinand Joseph Lamothe was born into a Creole community in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of downtown New Orleans, Louisiana in October, 1890. His parents were Edward J. Lamothe and Louise Monette (written as Lemott and Monett on his baptismal certificate). Eulaley Haco (Eulalie Hécaud) was the godparent. Eulalie helped him to be christened the name Ferdinand. Ferdinand's parents were in a common-law marriage and not legally married. No birth certificate has been found to date. He took the name "Morton" by Anglicizing the name of his step-father, Mouton.

New Orleans

He was, along with Tony Jackson, one of the best regarded pianists in the Storyville District early in the 20th century. At the age of 14 he began working as a piano player in a house of prostitution. While working there, he was living with his religous church-going great-grandmother and had her convinced that he worked in a barrel factory. One day his great-grandmother saw him wearing a very expensive finely tailored suit. When she found out how he was able to afford it, he was kicked out of her house. Tony Jackson was the main influence on his music; according to Morton, Jackson was the only pianist better than him. Among other occupations, Morton was at one time a pimp. He was also an accomplished guitar player.

Touring

After leaving New Orleans, Morton traveled widely in North America, spending several years in California before moving to Chicago in 1923, where he released the first of his commercial recordings, both as a piano soloist and with various jazz bands.

Victor Company

In 1926, Morton succeeded in getting a contract to make recordings for the US's largest and most prestigious company, Victor. This gave him a chance to bring a well rehearsed band to play his arrangements in Victor's Chicago recording studios. These recordings by Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers are regarded as classics of 1920s jazz. The Red Hot Peppers featured such other New Orleans jazz luminaries as Kid Ory, Omer Simeon, Barney Bigard, Johnny Dodds, and Baby Dodds. Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers were one of the first acts booked on tours by MCA.

New York City

Morton moved to New York City in 1928, where he continued to record for Victor. His piano solos and trio recordings are well regarded, but his band recordings suffer in comparison with the Chicago sides where Morton could draw on many great New Orleans musicians for sidemen. In New York, Morton had trouble finding musicians who wanted to play his style of jazz. With the Great Depression and the near collapse of the phonograph record industry, Morton's recording contract was not renewed by Victor for 1931. Morton continued playing less prosperously in New York, briefly had a radio show in 1934, then was reduced to touring in the band of a traveling burlesque act. He wound up in Washington D.C., where folklorist Alan Lomax first heard Morton playing solo piano in a dive in an African American neighborhood. (Morton was also the master of ceremonies, manager, and bartender of the place he played.)

The Library of Congress interviews

In May 1938, Alan Lomax began recording interviews with Morton for the Library of Congress. The sessions, originally intended as a short interview with musical examples for use by music researchers in the Library of Congress, soon expanded to record more than eight hours of Morton talking and playing piano, in addition to longer interviews which Lomax took notes on but did not record. Despite the low fidelity of these non-commercial recordings, their musical and historical importance attracted jazz fans, and portions have repeatedly been issued commercially. These interviews helped assure Morton's place in jazz history.

Lomax was very interested in Morton's Storyville days and some of the off-color songs played in Storyville. Morton was reluctant to recount and record these, but eventually obliged Lomax. Morton's "Jelly Roll" nickname is a sexual reference and many of his lyrics from his Storyville days were vulgar. Some of the Library of Congress recordings were unreleased until near the end of the 20th century due to their nature.

Morton was aware that having been born in 1890, he was slightly too young to make a good case for himself as the actual inventor of jazz, and so presented himself as five years older. Research has shown that Morton placed the dates of some early incidents of his life (and probably the dates when he first composed his early tunes) a few years too early, and his statement that Buddy Bolden played ragtime but not jazz is contradicted by other New Orleans contemporaries. Most of the rest of Morton's reminiscences, however, have proved to be reliable.

These interviews, released in various forms over the years, were released on an eight-CD boxed set in 2005, The Complete Library of Congress Recordings. This collection won two Grammy Awards.

Later years

During the period when he was recording his interviews, Morton was seriously injured by knife wounds when a fight broke out at the Washington, D.C. establishment where he was playing. There was a whites only hospital close enough to heal him but he had to be transported to a further and poorer hospital because of his African American skin color. When he was in the hospital the doctors left ice on his wounds for several hours before attending to his eventually fatal injury. His recovery from his wounds was incomplete, and thereafter he was often ill and easily became short of breath. Morton made a new series of commercial recordings in New York, several recounting tunes from his early years that he had been talking about in his Library of Congress Interviews.

Death

He then moved to Los Angeles, California with a series of manuscripts of new tunes and arrangements, planning to form a new band and restart his career. However, he fell seriously ill shortly after his arrival and died on July 10, 1941, aged 50, after an eleven-day stay in Los Angeles County General Hospital.

Compositions

Morton wrote dozens of songs, including "Wolverine Blues", "The Pearls", "Mama Nita", "Froggie More", "Black Bottom Stomp", "London Blues", "Sweet Substitute", "Creepy Feeling", "Good Old New York", "Sidewalk Blues", "Tank Town Bump", "Kansas City Stop", "Freakish", "Shake It", "Doctor Jazz Stomp," "Burnin' The Iceberg", "Ganjam", "Pacific Rag", "My Home Is In A Southern Town", "Turtle Twist", "Why?", "New Orleans Bump", "Fickle Fay Creep", "Cracker Man", "Stratford Hunch", "Shreveport Stomp", "Milneberg Joys", "Red Hot Pepper", "Jungle Blues", "Mint Julep", "Pontchartrain", "Pep", "Someday Sweetheart", "The Finger Buster", "The Crave", and "Grandpa's Spells".

Several of Morton's compositions were musical tributes to himself, including "Whinin' Boy", "The Original Jelly-Roll Blues" and "Mister Jelly Lord". In the Big Band era, his "King Porter Stomp" which Morton had written decades earlier, was a big hit for Fletcher Henderson and Benny Goodman, and became a standard covered by most other swing bands of that time. Morton also claimed to have written some tunes that were copyrighted by others, including "Alabama Bound" and "Tiger Rag".

Legacy

Two Broadway shows have featured his music, Jelly Roll and Jelly's Last Jam. The first draws heavily on Morton's own words and stories from the Library of Congress interviews. The latter show has created considerable controversy with its very fictionalized and unsympathetic portrayal of Morton, and the creator has been sued by Morton's family.

Artists influenced

Van Morrison frequently name-checks Jelly Roll in his songs (examples include "And It Stoned Me", "On Hyndford Street" and "The Healing Game"). However, whilst the artist is indubitably an influence on Morrison, unpicking the references in lyrics is complicated by the fact that a "jelly roll" was in Morrison's youth, popular Belfast slang for a sexual encounter... and also an item of food.

Notes on birthday

His death certificate for California lists his birthdate as "September 20, 1889" and lists his mother's maiden name as "Monette".

Arlene Francis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Arlene Francis (born Arline Francis Kazanjian October 20, 1907 - May 31, 2001) was an American actress of Armenian descent. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she is probably best known for her long-standing role as a panelist on the television game show "What's My Line?"

Career

Arlene Francis had a broad and varied career as an entertainer. She was an accomplished actress with 25 Broadway plays to her credit, from La Gringa in 1928 to Don't Call Back in 1975. She also performed in many local theatre and off-Broadway plays.


Arlene was also a well known New York radio personality, having hosted several radio shows until her diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in the 1980s.

She is perhaps best known as a panelist on the long-running game show "What's My Line?," which aired on CBS from 1950 to 1967 and was later revived as a syndicated show. She joined the show on its second episode in 1950 and remained until the end of the syndicated version of the program in 1975. She was the only member of the original show to appear in the syndicated version. She brought a mixture of warmth, poise, sophistication, theater glamor, and humor, including well-timed puns (usually to better response than those of fellow panelist Bennett Cerf). She offered affectionate words to celebrity guests she knew and/or respected, and genuine curiosity about the more interesting and unique guests' occupations. The show's announcer typically introduced her as "the delightful star of stage and television."

She also appeared on many other game shows, including "Match Game," "Password" and other programs produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman. The cable network GSN currently airs "What's My Line?" in the early morning, as well as episodes of other game shows in which she appears.


Arlene Francis in 1962Arlene was a pioneer for women on television. She hosted the "Home" show for NBC in the early 1950s, a morning show on topics of interest to women, she later hosted "Talent Patrol" in the mid 1950s. Arlene was one of the first women to host a non musical or dramatic program.

Arlene also acted in several films in her career, including "One Two Three" (1961), which co-starred James Cagney and the television version of the play "Laura" (1968), which she had played on stage several times. Her film debut was as a prostitute in "Murders in the Rue Morgue" in 1932; her final film was "Fedora" in 1978.

Arlene wrote an autobiography in 1978 entitled "Arlene Francis: A Memoir." She also wrote "That Certain Something: The Magic of Charm" in 1960 and an entertaining book/cookbook, "No Time for Cooking", in 1961.

She died on May 31, 2001 in San Francisco, California at the age of 93 after a long bout with Alzheimer's disease and cancer.

Trivia

It was on the NBC "Home" Show in 1956 that Arlene Francis first introduced the now legendary Eames Lounge Chair and its matching ottoman (its official title is the Eames Lounge (671) and Ottoman (672)) to the American public.
In 1960 a dumbbell being used to prop open a window in her Manhattan apartment slipped and fell eight stories onto a Detroit tourist who was in New York celebrating his 60th birthday, killing him.[1]
According to Francis's obituary in the L.A. Times (June 2, 2001), in 1963 she was driving on a rain-swept highway, when she collided with another car, killing the other driver. She suffered a concussion and a fractured shoulder.[1] During her recuperation, Francis missed several weeks of "What's My Line?" broadcasts. Upon her return, she gamely wore outfits sporting cloaks and large scarves to camoflage her arm which appeared to be in a sling.
Arlene Francis in the early 1970'sIn 1988 on New York's Lexington Avenue, a thief snatched the heart-shaped necklace that was given by her husband on their first wedding anniversary and often worn on "What's My Line?", spawning many imitations.[1] Afterward, according to Andy Rooney in his book "Common Nonsense," a New York City taxi driver commissioned Tiffany to make a replacement locket from their original design sketches and presented it to Miss Francis.

Personal life

Arlene was married twice, first to Neil Agnew from 1935 to 1945. According to the L.A. Times obituary of Francis (6/02/01), that marriage ended in divorce.

Her second marriage was to actor/producer Martin Gabel from 1946 until his death on May 22, 1986, of a heart attack. Her marriage to Martin Gabel produced a son, Peter Gabel, born January 28, 1947, who is currently a law professor at the New College of California in San Francisco, California.

Peter was at his mother's side when she died at age 93 in San Francisco, California.

Jerry Orbach
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birth name: Jerome Bernard Orbach
Date of birth: October 20, 1935
Birth location: New York City, New York, USA
Date of death: December 28, 2004

Jerome Bernard Orbach (October 20, 1935 - December 28, 2004) was an American actor best known for his starring role as wisecracking New York Police Department Detective Lennie Briscoe in the Law & Order television series and for his musical theater roles.

Biography

Orbach was born in the Bronx, a borough of New York City, to Emily Olexy (a Polish American Roman Catholic) and Leon Orbach, a German Jew of Sephardic descent. He was raised as a Roman Catholic.

While he was still a child, his family moved to Mount Vernon, New York; Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, Pennsylvania; Springfield, Massachusetts; and Waukegan, Illinois. He studied drama at the University of Illinois and Northwestern University, then went to New York, where he studied with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio.

Orbach was an accomplished Broadway and off-Broadway actor. His first major role was that of El Gallo in the original cast of the decades-running hit The Fantasticks. He also starred in Carnival!, the musical version of the movie Lili. He also starred in a revival of Guys and Dolls (Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Musical), Promises, Promises (Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical), the original productions of Chicago (Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical) and 42nd Street, and a revival of The Cradle Will Rock.

In the 1980s, he shifted to film work, including prominent roles as Jennifer Grey's father in Dirty Dancing, a cold-blooded killer in the Woody Allen drama Crimes and Misdemeanors, and the voice of the candelabra Lumière in Disney's animated musical Beauty and the Beast (a character he would reprise in every video sequel, as well as the House of Mouse tv series), and of Sa'luk in its 1996 video, Aladdin and the King of Thieves.

He starred in the short-lived 1987 crime drama The Law and Harry McGraw (playing a role that he originated and later reprised as a regular guest star on Murder, She Wrote for several years), which foresaw his best-known role of all, that of Detective Lennie Briscoe in the series Law & Order (1992-2004). (He had previously appeared in a guest role as defense attorney Frank Lehrman in the season two episode "The Wages of Love".) Orbach also voice acted the character for the video game spin-offs of the series. Orbach was signed to continue in the role on Law & Order: Trial by Jury. He appeared in only the first two episodes of the series, which aired in March 2005, after his death. The fifth episode of the series, "Baby Boom", was dedicated to his memory.

In early December 2004, it was announced that Orbach had been receiving treatment for prostate cancer since Spring 2004; he died at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York on December 28. His agent, Robert Malcolm, announced at the time of his death that Orbach's prostate cancer had been diagnosed more than ten years before. The day after his death, the marquees on Broadway were dimmed in mourning, one of the highest honors of the American theatre world.

Orbach was married in 1958 to Marta Curro, with whom he had two sons, Anthony Nicholas and Christopher Benjamin; they divorced in 1975. In 1979, he married Broadway dancer Elaine Cancilla, whom he met while starring in Chicago. In addition to his sons and both wives, Orbach was survived by his mother.

He was named a "Living Landmark", along with fellow castmate Sam Waterston, by the New York Landmarks Conservancy in 2002. He quipped that the honor meant "that they can't tear me down".

Orbach lived in a high-rise off Eighth Avenue in Clinton and was a fixture in that Manhattan neighborhood's restaurants and shops. His glossy publicity photo hangs in Ms. Buffy's French Cleaners, and he was a regular at some of the unpretentious Italian restaurants nearby.

On February 5, 2005, he was posthumously awarded a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series.

Subject: A Scandahoovian tale





All of his life Ole had heard stories of an amazing family tradition

It seems that his father, grandfather and great-grandfather had
all been able to walk on water on their 21st birthday.

On that day, they'd walk across the lake to the boat club for their first legal drink.

So when Ole's 21st birthday came around, he and his pal Sven took a boat out to the middle of the lake. Ole stepped out of the boat and, "kerchunk" down he went nearly drowned! Sven just managed to pull him to safety.

Furious and confused, Ole went to see his grandmother.

"Grandma, it's my 21st birthday, so why can't I walk across the lake like
my father, his father, and his father before him?"

Granny looked into Ole's eyes and said, "Because your father, grandfather and great grandfather were born in January, you were born in July

My word, hawkman, I must confess that I had to think through your ice joke a couple of times before getting the punch line. Love it, Boston.

I really liked the movie, Ed Wood, incidentally. As usual, Johnny Depp was excellent in his portrayal as was Martin Landau's interp of Bela.

Will wait for our Raggedy to appear with developmental photo's before commenting further, buddy.

Tried to locate Jelly Roll's Muddy Water Blues, listeners, but could not, so this will have to be an apt substitute


McKinley Morganfield a.k.a. Muddy Waters
recording of 1977
from
Hard Again (Blue Sky ZK-34449, Columbia 34449)

Yes, I'm goin' down in Florida,
where the sun shines damn near every day
Well, well I'm goin' down in Florida,
where the sun shines damn near every day
Yeah, I'll take my woman out on the beach fellas 'n,
and sit down on the sand and play
Yeah, well I think I'll go down in Gainesville,
just to see an old friend of mine
Well, I believe I'll cut down in Gainesville,
oh, just to see an' old buddy of mine
Well, you know if we're not too busy,
I believe that I'm gonna drop over in Uberry sometime
(spoken:
Let's go back to Florida
Let's go back down to Florida,
where the sun shines)
Yeah, I believe I'm gonna leave tomorrow,
well, I'm gonna be on my way
Yes, I'm gonna have a plenty of time,
well, I don't wanna make myself late
Well, you know I believe I'll go back down in Gainesville,
and this time I'm goin' to stay
Let's rise, let's rise
Yeah, deep down in Florida,
well, well that's the place I long to be
Well, oh deep down in Florida,
well that's the place I long to be
Well, oh let me take my baby out in the backyard in the, backyard people,
and sit down under the old orange tree

Good morning WA2K.

I loved Bob's joke --- the second time around. I wonder what that's telling us, Letty.

Whenever "Ed Wood" is mentioned I have to laugh remembering the scene where Lugosi (Landau) can't keep the rubber octopus' arms around him during the shooting of one of Wood's low-budget films.

And today's photo gallery:

Well there's that speckled pup right behind the hawk. Thanks for those photo's cause I only recognize Jerry and Arlene and Bela. What does that tell us, Raggedy?

Seriously, folks. I am glad that our Raggedy showed us a picture of Jelly Roll because he is one with whom I am not familia, nor is Viggo, so I went searching for one of his paintings:


JLNobody would love this one.

Now for the second time around. <smile>

Writers: Cahn/van Heusen

Love is lovelier, the second time around
Just as wonderful, with both feet on the ground
It's that second time you hear your love song sung
Makes you think perhaps that love, like youth, is wasted on the young
Love's more comfortable the second time you fall
Like a friendly home the second time you call
Who can say, what brought us to this miracle we've found
There are those who'd bet
Love comes but once - and yet
I'm oh so glad we met
The second time around

"Hidalgo" with Viggo was a hit in 2004. True story, Hollywood style.

Held yearly for centuries, the Ocean of Fire--a 3,000 mile survival race across the Arabian desert--was a challenge restricted to the finest Arabian horses ever bred, the purest and noblest lines, owned by the greatest royal families. In 1890, a wealthy sheik invited an American, Frank T. Hopkins, and his horse to enter the race for the first time. During the course of his career, Hopkins was a cowboy and dispatch rider for the U.S. cavalry--and had once been billed as the greatest rider the West had ever known. The Sheik (played by Omar Sharif) puts his claim to the test, pitting the American cowboy and his mustang, Hidalgo, against the world's greatest Arabian horses and Bedouin riders--some of whom are determined to prevent a foreigner from finishing the race. For Frank, the Ocean of Fire becomes not only a matter of pride and honor, but a race for his very survival as he and his horse attempt the impossible.


Trivia: Viggo purchased the horse who played the title character (T.J.) after this film was completed.The final horse scene was filmed in Browning, Montana. 550 different horses were used in that scene. The horses all came from different owners, so to tell them apart, their hooves were branded.


Viggo's in the "Lord of the Rings" movies.

Frank T Hopkins

WOW! Thanks for that info, Aggie. Lightwizard won't like this, but I don't think I have seen one of the Tolkien movies, nor read the trilogy either.

Anyway, here's Hildalgo:

You Got it All - Arnee Hidalgo

I, I was the game he would play
He brought the clouds you my day
Then like ray of light
You cam my way one night
Just one look and I knew
You would make everything to clear
Make all the clouds to disappear
Don't you know, don't you know

You got it all to over him
You got me to over him
Honey it's true
There's just you
You must have been heaven sent
Hearing me call you went
Out on limb
And you're all that he's not
Just look what I got
It causes you got all
Over him

In, don't let him worry you so
Once I met you I let go
Oh you can surely see
You're so much lives you me
Just one look and I knew
You would make everything to clear
Make all the clouds to disappear
You're to better than all the rest
Who of the I love the best
Don't you know, don't you know

You got it all to over him
You got me to over him
Honey it's true
There's just you
You must have been heaven sent
Hearing me call you went
Out on limb
And you're all that he's not
Just look what I got
It causes you got all
All to over him
(You got it all to over him, You got me to over him)
Honey it's true there's just you
You must have been heaven sent
Hearing me call you went
Out on limb
And you're all that he's not
Just look what I got
It causes you got all
All to over him

That's Frank T., dys. Amazing, cowboy. Thanks.

Now I must apologize for those lyrics, as they were translated from Portuguese to English. I think something got lost there. <smile>