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My goodness, Try. Love Stevie, and today you are a wonder.<smile>

I can think of many, many yesterday songs, but this one is lovely:


Today I may not have a thing at all
Except for just a dream or two
But I've got lots of plans for tomorrow
And all my tomorrows belong to you

Right now it may not seem like spring at all
We're drifting and the laughs are few
But I've got rainbows planned for tomorrow
And all my tomorrows belong to you

No one knows better than I
That luck keeps passing me by ... that's fate
But with you there at my side
I'll soon be turrning the tide ... just wait

As long as I've got arms that cling at all
It's you that I'll be clinging to
And all the dreams I dream, beg, or borrow
On some bright tomorrow they'll all come true

And all my bright tomorrows belong to you

Old Blue Eyes, of course.

greetings from canada !
so what is the song of the day in the good ol' U.S. of A. ?
is it :
...happy days are here again...

...who stole the kishka... or

...here we go again... ?

anyway , all the best to all the folks on the other side of the border !
hbg

Hey, hamburger. As a matter of fact, the problem with campaigns nowadays, is that there is NO victory song.

Here is Bab's version of two together:

Barbra Streisand


Sing, sing a song
Sing out loud
Sing out strong
Sing of good things, not bad
Sing of happy, not sad
Sing, sing a song
Make it simple to last your whole life long
Don't worry that it's not good enough
For anyone else to hear
Just sing, sing a song...


Happy days are here again
The skies above are clear again
So let's sing a song
Of cheer again
Happy days are here again (oh happy day!)
Altogether shout it now (oh happy day! )
There's no one
Who can doubt it now
So let's tell the world
About it now
Happy days are here again
Your cares and troubles are gone
There'll be no more from now on
>From now on...
Happy days (Forget your troubles)
Are here again (Come on get happy)
The skies above (You gotta chase all your cares away)
Are clear again (Shout Hallelujah)
So let's sing a song (Come on get happy)
Happy times ( Happy times)
Happy nights (Happy nights)
Happy days are here again
(Forget your troubles come on get happy)
Days are here again...

Thanks, borderman. <smile>

letty :
how about letting sammy davis jr. give everyone a "sweet song" , to make everyone feel good - no party affiliation required !
(except a willingness to party :wink: )
hbg

WHAT KIND OF FOOL AM I?
Sammy Davis, Jr.

What kind of fool am I
Who never fell in love
It seems that I'm the only one
that I have been thinking of

What kind of man is this?
An empty shell-
A lonely cell in which
an empty heart must dwell

What kind of lips are these
That lied with every kiss
That whispered empty words of love
that left me alone like this

Why can't I fall in love
Like any other man
And maybe then I'll know what kind of fool I am.

What kind of clown am I?
What do I know of life?
Why can't I cast away the mask of play
and live my life?

Why can't I fall in love
Till I don't give a damn
And maybe then I'll know what kind of fool I am

Ah, hamburger. I love that one as well, Canada. We are waiting for Virginia to see if the majority is broken in the senate.

But you are right, my friend:

The Last Song, by Sir Elton:

Yesterday you came to lift me up
As light as straw and brittle as a bird
Today I weigh less than a shadow on the wall
Just one more whisper of a voice unheard

Tomorrow leave the windows open
As fear grows please hold me in your arms
Won't you help me if you can to shake this anger
I need your gentle hands to keep me calm

`Cause I never thought I'd lose
I only thought I'd win
I never dreamed I'd feel
This fire beneath my skin
I can't believe you love me
I never thought you'd come
I guess I misjudged love
Between a father and his son

Things we never said come together
The hidden truth no longer haunting me
Tonight we touched on the things that were never spoken
That kind of understanding sets me free

`Cause I never thought I'd lose
I only thought I'd win
I never dreamed I'd feel
This fire beneath my skin
I can't believe you love me
I never thought you'd come
I guess I misjudged love
Between a father and his son

Good afternoon WA2K. Lots of nice music playing here today.

Birthday Greetings to: Patti Page (79); Alain Delon (71); Bonnie Raitt (57) and Alfre Woodard (53).

Hey, Raggedy. Hope our hawk flies in today.

Love those photo's, PA, and if things go well, perhaps I don't have to visit your pawn shop. (hmmm. seems there is an error on this segment, so please forgive all typos and lack of emoticons)

Editor, please change "don't" to "won't" <smile>

How about a silver lining song from bonnie Bonnie:

Artist/Band: Raitt Bonnie

Lyrics for Song: Silver Lining
Lyrics for Album: Silver Lining
Take this silver lining
Keep it in your own
Sweet head
And shine it when the night is
Burning red
Shine it in the twilight
Shine it on the cold, cold ground
Shine it till these walls
Come tumbling down

We were born with our eyes wide open
So alive with wild hope now
Can you tell me why
Time after time they drag you down
Down in the darkest deep
Fools and their madness all around
Know that the light don't sleep

Step into the silence
Take it in your own
Two hands
And sprinkle it like diamonds
All across these lands
Blaze it in the morning
Wear it like an iron skin
Only things worth living for are
Innocence and magic, amen

We were born with our eyes wide open
So alive with wild hope now
Can you tell me why
Time after time they drag you down
Down in the darkest deep
Fools and their madness all around
Know that the light don't sleep

Woah, wooah

We were born with our eyes wide open
So alive with wild hope now
Can you tell me why
Time after time they drag you down
Down in the talk so cheap
Fools and their madness all around
Know that the light don't sleep
Know that the light don't sleep

Time after time
They drag you down
Down in the darkness deep
Fools in their madness all around
Know that the light don't sleep
Know that the light don't sleep


Album Lyrics: Silver Lining [2002]

Raitt Bonnie
"Silver Lining"

Well, listeners, I do believe all is working properly.

A couple of announcements:

Today is Setanta's birthday, so we want to wish him a happy one.
Let's dedicate this song to him.

Second announcement:

I always thought his moniker was Santana.

America Lyrics by Santana

This is America
POD and Santana live in La Casa
Live and direct for you and yours
Yo America, America

Was it the way that she looked at me
She had caught my eye
She stole my heart she freed my mind
The way we loved it was magical
Truly wonderful
It was me and your so beautiful

And I know that you feel this too
Will our dreams come true
I believe in you
Show me the way to my better days
What's the price to pay
If I follow you

[Chorus:]
America, America
Will you come back to me baby please don't run away donґt let me go
America, America
Can you get back to me baby don't run away I need you so

I trust in you still you walk away
You just ran away
I thought our love would never change
The way you move had me hypnotized
Now I realize
I fell again for the same old lies

Plans you change the present rearranged
If we don't know the past the future we can not change
So I maintain, dealt my hands so I deal with it
Know what is truth myself
I stay real with it.

Sorry, Raggedy. I don't know Alain Delon, but I understand now that he is French.

My word, folks, I missed our hawkman who flew in but is NOT gone with the wind.

Read on, Boston.

Patti Page
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia





Birth name Clara Ann Fowler
Born November 8, 1927, Claremore, Oklahoma, United States

Patti Page (born Clara Ann Fowler on November 8, 1927 in Claremore, Oklahoma) is one of the best-known female singers in traditional pop music. She is unusual in that she came to traditional pop from country music, and some of her recordings are somewhat country flavored.

She is sometimes considered the first major crossover artist to popularize country music to the general public. Her records span from 1949 to 1981. She continues to sing and perform live all around the U.S.

She has frequently been known as The Singing Rage, Miss Patti Page.


Life and career

She was born into a large and poor farming family, whose mother and older sisters picked cotton. They went without electricity, so young Clara could not read after dark, as she related on TV many years later.

However, she became a featured singer on a 15-minute radio program on radio station KTUL, Tulsa, Oklahoma, at age 18. The program was sponsored by the 'Page Milk Company' and so young Clara Ann Fowler became songstress Patti Page.

In 1946, Jack Rael, a band manager, came to Tulsa to do a one-nighter. He turned on the radio, and heard the musical program with the 18-year-old featured vocalist. He liked what he heard, and asked her to join the Jimmy Joy band, which Rael managed. Eventually both left the band; and Rael became Patti's personal manager and leader of the backup orchestra for many of her recordings.

In 1948, she recorded a song called "Confess" which had a portion requiring one singer to answer another. (The other hit version involved a duet of Doris Day and Buddy Clark.)

Because of a low budget, a second singer could not be hired, so Jack Rael suggested that Patti sing the second part as well. The novelty of her doing two voices on one record probably contributed to the song becoming a Top 20 hit for her.

At the time, most record companies had a director of Artists and Repertory (the "A&R man") who tightly controlled all the choices of artist-song assignments, and Mercury Records' A&R man was Mitch Miller (who became famous later on as the A&R man who brought Columbia Records into a dominant position in pop music in the early 1950s).

After recording "Confess" Page (or Rael, or both) liked the multiple-voice idea so much, that she asked to do an entire song as a quartet. Miller was sceptical until Patti recorded a four-bar song demo in four different voices, and played the sample for Miller.

Reluctantly, he permitted it, and the song, "With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming", became another big hit for Page, her first to sell a million.

Although both Mary Ford and Jane Turzy became known for it, Page was the first singer to record multiple tracks on the same song ("Confess").

On some of the records, she was billed as "Vocal by Patti Page, Patti Page, and Patti Page," in at least one case ("With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming") being given quadruple billing.

As stated above, "Confess" became her first charted hit, in 1948 for Mercury Records, and reached #12 on the Billboard chart. Her first number one hit was "All My Love", based on Maurice Ravel's "Bolero", which was #1 for 5 weeks in 1950.

Her biggest hit was "The Tennessee Waltz", which was #1 for 13 weeks, coming a few months later in 1950. In 1963 she changed record companies, going to Columbia, but finally returned to Mercury in 1971.

While at Columbia, she scored her final Top 10 pop hit in 1965 with the title song from the Bette Davis film Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte. In 1973 she went back to the Columbia family, recording for Epic Records (a subsidiary).

In 1974 and 1975 she recorded a couple of records for Avco Records, then, after a hiatus of a few years, started in 1981 to record for Plantation Records, her last record label. Patti's last single to appear on any Billboard chart was the 1982 #80 Country single "My Man Friday", released on Plantation.

(She last appeared on the Pop chart in 1968 with her version of O.C. Smith's "Little Green Apples", and on the Adult Contemporary chart with "Give Him Love" in 1971.)

Afterwards, Patti made only the Country chart up to 1982, with her biggest hit during that time being "Hello, We're Lonely," a 1973 #14 duet with Tom T. Hall.

In the 1990s she started her own label, 'C. A. F. Records'. In 1998 she won a Grammy as "Best Traditional Pop Singer".

Many of her songs have a strong beat to them that prelude rock 'n' roll. These titles include "Mister and Mississippi", "Detour" and "Cross Over the Bridge".

In 1956 she married choreographer Charles O'Curran. They adopted two children, a daughter Kathleen, who suffers from serious drug problems, as Patti Page recounted on the O'Reilly Factor, and is incapable of taking care of her own children, leaving Patti to raise them; as well as a son, Daniel O'Curran.

Patti Page and Charles O'Curran divorced in 1972. In 1990 she was wed to Jerry Filiciotto, with whom she runs a maple syrup business in New Hampshire. Although they possess a home near San Diego, California.

Until recently, Patti was also host of a weekly Sunday program on the "Music of Your Life" radio network (now distributed to individual radio stations via satellite by Jones Radio Networks).

here's a memorable number by Ms. Patti Page. i wonder if raggedy likes it.

How much is that doggie in the window (arf, arf)
The one with the waggley tail
How much is that doggie in the window (arf, arf)
I do hope that doggie's for sale

I must take a trip to California
And leave my poor sweetheart alone
If he has a dog he won't be lonesome
And the doggie will have a good home

How much is that doggie in the window (arf, arf)
The one with the waggley tail
How much is that doggie in the window (arf, arf)
I do hope that doggie's for sale

I read in the papers there are robbers (roof, roof)
With flashlights that shine in the dark
My love needs a doggie to protect him
And scare them away with one bark

I don't want a bunny or a kitty
I don't want a parrot that talks
I don't want a bowl of little fishies
He can't take a goldfish for a walk

How much is that doggie in the window (arf, arf)
The one with the waggley tail
How much is that doggie in the window (arf, arf)
I do hope that doggie's for sale

Mr. Turtle, welcome back. Don't know what happened to our hawk, but I think he may have gotten stopped by a Boston cop <smile>

Hey, M.D. That's Phoenix's song.

Can you believe this, folks? Leonard Cohen did it, too.

Leonard Cohen - Tennessee Waltz (Live) Lyrics

I was dancing with my darlin'
to the Tennessee Waltz
When an old friend I happened to see
Introduced him to my loved one
and while they were waltzing
My friend stole my sweetheart from me.
I remember the night and the Tennessee Waltz
Now I know just how much I have lost
Yes I lost my little darlin'
The night they were playing
The beautiful Tennessee Waltz.

She comes dancing through the darkness
To the Tennessee Waltz
And I feel like I'm falling apart
And it's stronger than drink
And it's deeper than sorrow
This darkness she's left in my heart.

Well, Leonard altered the lyrics just a little.

another announcement, folks. Our panz is back with a new notebook computer and I just discovered what IT looks like.



If this stretches our studio monitor, I'll fix it later.

Where is our dj, incidentally?

Letty I enjoyed the Tennessee Waltz, and talking about waltzing may our meekly submit our unofficial Australian anthem?

Waltzing Matilda

Once a jolly swagman camped by a Billabong
Under the shade of a Coolabah tree
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled
"Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"

Down come a jumbuck to drink at the water hole
Up jumped a swagman and grabbed him in glee
And he sang as he stowed him away in his tucker bag
"You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me'".

Up rode the Squatter a riding his thoroughbred
Up rode the Trooper - one, two, three
"Where's that jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag?",
"You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me".

But the swagman he up and jumped in the water hole
Drowning himself by the Coolabah tree,
And his ghost may be heard as it sings in the Billabong,
"Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"

A.B. (Banjo) Paterson

Explanation of Australian slang in the song
Billabong A waterhole.
Billy A can or small kettle used to boil water for tea.
Coolabah tree A type of native tree in Australia
Jumbuck A sheep. There are 20 times as many sheep as there are people in Australia.
Squatter At one time, squatters claimed (seized) land for themselves in addition to land that they had been granted. Eventually through the continuous occupation of the land, their claims were legitimised in the eyes of the law.
Swagman Someone who lives on the open road. A hobo. The term came from the canvas bag that they would carry their bedroll and/or belongings in.
Trooper In Australia's early days, there was no police force. The colony was protected by and policed by soldiers and even when a police force was eventually formed, they were still referred to as 'troopers'.
Tucker bag A bag for storing food in the bush.

Dutchy, you dear Aussie. I think we all know that one, buddy. Wasn't there another about "Tie me Kangaroo down"?

I think this is it complete with parody:

Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport
Rolf Harris
Words and Music by Rolf Harris



SPOKEN: There's an old Australian stockman lying, dying. He gets himself up
onto one elbow and 'e turns to his mates, who are all gathered around and 'e says:


Watch me wallabies feed, mate
Watch me wallabies feed,
They're a dangerous breed, mate
So watch me wallabies feed
Altogether now!

CHORUS:
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down

Keep me cockatoo cool, Curl,
Keep me cockatoo cool
Ah, don't go acting the fool, Curl
Just keep me cockatoo cool
Altogether now!

(CHORUS)

'n' take me koala back, Jack
Take me koala back
He lives somewhere out on the track, Mac
So take me koala back
Altogether now!

(CHORUS)

Let me abos go loose, Lew
Let me abos go loose
They're of no further use, Lew
So let me abos go loose
Altogether now!

(CHORUS)

And mind me platypus duck, Bill
Mind me platypus duck
Ah, don't let 'im go running amok, Bill
Just mind me platypus duck
Altogether now!

(CHORUS)

Play your didgeridoo, Blue
Play your didgeridoo
Ah, like, keep playin' 'til I shoot thru, Blue
Play your didgeridoo
Altogether now!

(CHORUS)

Tan me hide when I'm dead, Fred
Tan me hide when I'm dead
So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde
And that's it hangin' on the shed!!
Altogether now!

Thank you Letty that brought back memories. Do you know, although into his seventies, Rolf Harris still performs!

ah, Dutchy. Frankly, honey, I didn't even know Rolf Harris did that one.

But now I do, Aussie:



Love it!

Besides music, did you know he is also a great painter?

Aportrait of Queen Elizabeth II he completed recently.