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Great story, hbg. I understand that animals with their eyes on the front are very intelligent. I do know that cats are sacred in Egypt and that they are quite independent. Isn't that fantastic that Gus brought along a friend? (For one brief moment, I thought you meant our German Walter)

Poem of the day:


St. Jerome's Cat

St. Jerome in his study kept a great big cat,
it's always in his pictures, with its feet upon the mat.
Did he give it milk to drink, in a little dish?
When it came to Friday's, did he give it fish?
If I lost my little cat, I'd be sad without it;
I should ask St. Jerome what to do about it.

I should ask St. Jerome, just because of that,
for he's the only saint I know who kept a kitty cat.

Anonymous

my friend walter (the local one) was also a sailor in the german navy , just like our german walter .
the local walter served in the german navy during WW II .
for rememberance day , the families were asked to bring in a picture for any of the veterans in the home . so his wife brought in his picture from WW II , which was on display with the pictures of all the other veterans .
the veterans - no matter what side they were on in that terrible war - seem to have no trouble getting along with each other .
hbg

Well, Here's one for all you sailors, hamburger:

Long Drag Chanty
Around Cape Horn we've got to go,
To me way, hay, o-hio!
Around Cape Horn to Calleao
A long time ago!

'Round Cape Horn where the stiff winds blow,
To me way, hay, o-hio!
'Round Cape Horn where there's sleet and snow.
A long time ago!

I wish to God I'd never been born
To me way, hay, o-hio!
To drag my carcass around Cape Horn.
A long time ago!

A bit tired, so I shall be back later, listeners:

This is cyberspace, WA2K radio.

Good morning, WA2K folks.

I was amazed at how many references to "cats" there are our language. I suppose, folks, that since we ended last evening with a sea song we ought to discuss "cat-o-nine tails", but I rather like this one:

"There wanst was two cats of Kilkenny
Each thought there was one cat too many
So they fought and they fit
And they scratched and they bit
'Til instead of two cats there weren't any."



It is wonderful what a little R&R can do for the human spirit, no?

One expression that I could not find was the old superstition that a cat could suck the breath from a human, thus causing him to die.

Jo Stafford
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia




Birth name Jo Elizabeth Stafford
Born November 12, 1917, Coalinga, California, United States

Jo Stafford (born Jo Elizabeth Stafford, November 12, 1917, in Coalinga, California) is an American pop singer whose career spanned the late 1930s through the early 1960s. Stafford is greatly admired for the purity of her voice and is considered one of the most versatile vocalists of the era. She is also considered a pioneer of modern musical parody, having won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album in 1961 (with husband Paul Weston) for their album Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris.


Early years

Stafford was born to Grover Cleveland Stafford and Anna York Stafford, a distant cousin of Sergeant Alvin York. Originally, she wanted to become an opera singer and studied voice as a child. However, because of the economic Great Depression, she abandoned that idea and joined her sisters Christine and Pauline in a popular vocal group, "The Stafford Sisters," which performed on Los Angeles radio station KHJ.


The Pied Pipers

When her sisters married, the group broke up and Stafford joined a new vocal group, The Pied Pipers. This group consisted of eight members: John Huddleston (who was Stafford's husband at the time), Hal Hooper, Chuck Lowry, Bud Hervey, George Tait, Woody Newbury, and Dick Whittinghill, besides Stafford. The group became very popular, working on local radio and movie soundtracks, and caught the attention of two of Tommy Dorsey's arrangers, Axel Stordahl and Paul Weston.

In 1938, Weston persuaded Dorsey to sign The Pied Pipers for his radio show, and they went to New York for a broadcast date. Dorsey liked them enough to sign them for ten weeks, but after the second broadcast the sponsor heard them and disliked them, firing the group. They stayed in New York for three months, but landed only a single job that paid them just $3.60 each, though they did record four sides for RCA Victor Records.

Half the members of the Pied Pipers returned to Los Angeles, but they had a difficult time trying to make a living until they got an offer from Dorsey to join his big band in 1939. This led to success for the whole group, but especially for Stafford, who was also featured in solo performances. The group also backed Frank Sinatra in some of his early recordings.

In 1942, the group had an argument with Dorsey and left, but in 1943 it became one of the first groups signed to Johnny Mercer's new label, Capitol Records. Capitol's music director was the same Paul Weston who had been instrumental in introducing Stafford to Dorsey. Weston and Stafford married in 1952. They went on to have two children, Tim and Amy.


Solo career

In 1944, Stafford left the Pied Pipers to go solo. Her tenure with the USO, in which she gave countless performances for soldiers stationed overseas, acquired her the nickname "GI Jo."

Beginning in 1944, she hosted the Tuesday and Thursday broadcasts of an NBC musical variety radio program - the Chesterfield Supper Club.

In 1948 Stafford and Gordon MacRae had a million-seller with their version of "Say Something Sweet to Your Sweetheart" and in 1949 repeated their success with "My Happiness".

In 1950, she left Capitol for Columbia Records, returning to Capitol in 1961. At Columbia, she was the first recording artist to sell twenty-five million records.

In the 1950s, she had a string of popular hits with Frankie Laine, six of which charted; their duet of Hank Williams' "Hey Good Lookin'" making the top ten in 1951. It was also at this time that Stafford scored her best known hits with huge records like "Jambalaya," "Shrimp Boats," "Make Love To Me," and "You Belong To Me". The last song was Stafford's all-time biggest hit, topping the charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom (the first song by a female singer to top the UK chart).


Comedy career

Stafford briefly experimented with comedy under the name Cinderella G. Stump, with Red Ingle and the Natural Seven. True success in the comedy genre, though, would come about almost accidentally.

Throughout the 1950s, Stafford and Paul Weston would entertain guests at parties by putting on a skit in which they assumed the identities Jonathan and Darlene Edwards, a bad lounge act. Stafford, as Darlene, would sing off-key in a high pitched voice; Weston, as Jonathan, played an untuned piano off key and with bizarre rhythms.

Finding that she had time left over following a 1957 recording session, Stafford, as a gag, recorded a track as Darlene Edwards. Those who heard bootlegs of the recording responded positively, and later that year, Stafford and Weston recorded an entire album of songs as Jonathan and Darlene, entitled Jo Stafford and Paul Weston Present: The Original Piano Artistry of Jonathan Edwards, Vocals by Darlene Edwards.

As a publicity stunt, Stafford and Weston claimed that the Edwardses were a New Jersey lounge act that they had discovered, and denied any personal connection; much time would pass before people realized (and Stafford and Weston admitted) that they were in fact the Edwardses.

The album was a commercial and critical success. The couple continued releasing Jonathan and Darlene albums, with their 1961 album, Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris winning that year's Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album (they "tied" with Bob Hope, as the Grammys decided, in a rare move, to issue two comedy awards that year. Hope was given an award for "Spoken Word Comedy.") It was the only major award that Stafford ever won.

The couple continued to release Jonathan and Darlene albums for several years, and in 1977 released a final, one-off single, a cover of The Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive" backed with "I Am Woman." The same year also saw a brief resurgence in the popularity of Jonathan and Darlene albums, when their cover of "Carioca" was featured as the opening and closing theme to The Kentucky Fried Movie.

Today, the Jonathan and Darlene albums are seen as an important step in musical comedy, and some see them as the predecessors to parody comedians such as "Weird Al" Yankovic.


Retirement

In 1966, Stafford went into semi-retirement, retiring completely from the music business in 1975. Except for the 1977 Jonathan and Darlene Edwards version of "Stayin' Alive," Stafford wouldn't perform again until 1990, at a ceremony honoring Frank Sinatra.

Stafford won a breach-of-contract lawsuit against her former record label in the early 1990s, which won her the rights to all of her old recordings, including the Jonathan and Darlene recordings. Following the lawsuit, Stafford, along with son Tim, reactivated the Corinthian Record label which began life as a religious label the deeply religious Paul Weston had started. With Paul Weston's help, she compiled a pair of Best of Jonathan and Darlene albums, which were released in 1993. In 1996, Paul Weston died of natural causes. As of 2005, Stafford continues to operate Corinthian Records.

Kim Hunter
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


im Hunter (November 12, 1922 - September 11, 2002) was an Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress.


Early life

Hunter was born Janet Cole in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Donald Cole and Grace Lind. She attended Miami Beach High School.


Career

Hunter performed in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), playing the role of Stella Kowalski. She appeared in the 1951 film, for which she won both the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture.

She was blacklisted from film and television during the Hollywood communism paranoia created by McCarthyism.


Her other major film roles include David Niven's fiancee in the classic film A Matter of Life and Death (1945), and Zira the chimpanzee scientist in the first three of the Planet of the Apes series. She also appeared in several soap operas, most notably as Nola Madison on The Edge of Night, for which she received a Daytime Emmy Nomination in 1980 as Best Actress.

For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Kim Hunter has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1617 Vine Street and a second star at 1715 Vine Street.


Death

Kim Hunter died due to cardiac arrest in New York City, aged 79.

Old Mister Johnson had troubles of his own
He had a yellow cat which wouldn't leave its home;
He tried and he tried to give the cat away,
He gave it to a man goin' far, far away.

But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea

The man around the corner swore he'd kill the cat on sight,
He loaded up his shotgun with nails and dynamite;
He waited and he waited for the cat to come around,
Ninety seven pieces of the man is all they found.

But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea

He gave it to a little boy with a dollar note,
Told him for to take it up the river in a boat;
They tied a rope around its neck, it must have weighed a pound
Now they drag the river for a little boy that's drowned.

But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea

He gave it to a man going up in a balloon,
He told him for to take it to the man in the moon;
The balloon came down about ninety miles away,
Where he is now, well I dare not say.

But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea

He gave it to a man going way out West,
Told him for to take it to the one he loved the best;
First the train hit the curve, then it jumped the rail,
Not a soul was left behind to tell the gruesome tale.

But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea

The cat it had some company one night out in the yard,
Someone threw a boot-jack, and they threw it mighty hard;
It caught the cat behind the ear, she thought it rather slight,
When along came a brick-bat and knocked the cat out of sight

But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea

Away across the ocean they did send the cat at last,
Vessel only out a day and making water fast;
People all began to pray, the boat began to toss,
A great big gust of wind came by and every soul was lost.

But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea

On a telegraph wire, sparrows sitting in a bunch,
The cat was feeling hungry, thought she'd like 'em for a lunch;
Climbing softly up the pole, and when she reached the top,
Put her foot upon the electric wire, which tied her in a knot.

But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea

The cat was a possessor of a family of its own,
With seven little kittens till there came a cyclone;
Blew the houses all apart and tossed the cat around,
The air was full of kittens, and not a one was ever found.

But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea

The atom bomb fell just the other day,
The H-Bomb fell in the very same way;
Russia went, England went, and then the U.S.A.
The human race was finished without a chance to pray.

But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea

Well, folks. I think a cat must have stolen the hawkman's tongue, but I am certain that he will get it back in working order soon.<smile>

Thanks, dys, for that info about our feline friends. Rather surprised to learn that cats don't necessarily like milk. I conjectured the "breath" thing might have come from ancient Egypt as many believed the Egyptian cat was the impetus behind battles that were won, and thus had mystic powers.

edgar, I love that song, buddy. Thanks for playing it.

Here's a cute one, listeners, complete with art work.

I call My house Catmandu
All the cats on the roof really like the view.
How I got so many, I just don't know
We started with two but they seemed to grow.
There's tabbies and calicos and even Siamese
They just roam around and do as they please.
One thing is for sure about my house
You wouldn't live here
If'n you was a MOUSE

Musn't forget Gyp.

(Darin/Wolfe)

Where those bayou's wind
And them gators swim
Sometime late last night
When the moon was dim
Someone left this life
Much against his will
And while Gyp the Cat was alibi-in'
You know his clothes were dryin'


Down on Bourbon Street
Where the tourists roam
Some big financier
Travelin' far from home
Lost his fancy watch
And his wallet too
But while to his story
Gyp was stickin'
His new watch kept tickin'


There's a blown out safe
Down in City Hall
Standin' open wide
Up against the wall
And though Gyp the Cat
Has got a lot of dough
Is the money his?
Or plot or blunder?
Gyp says "go and wonder"


There's a fishing fleet
Anchored in the bay
Everybody knows
Shrimps and oysters pay
But when Gyp the Cat
Was refused his share
Somehow nets got cut
And the take was way off
Til Gyp got his payoff


The legend goes
That they buried him
But nobody knows
That he had a twin
And at the services
Everybody cried
'septin' one peculiar smilin' mourner
Pickin' pockets off in a corner
While they set his brother in the ground
Get the feeling Gyp is still around

Good morning. For all the listeners from OZ…


Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again
Cher lyrics

Here comes that rainy day feeling again
And soon my tears they will be falling like rain
It always seems to be a Monday
Left over memories of Sunday
Always spent with you before the clouds appear
And took away my sunshine
Here comes that rainy day feeling again
And I'll be dreaming of you baby in vain
Your face is always on my mind girl
I hope that soon you're gonna find girl
Your way back to me
Cause if you say you'll stay, the rainy days would go away
Misty morning eyes I'm trying to disguise the way I feel
But I just can't hide it
People seem to know
The loneliness will show
I'm thinking of my pride but breaking up inside girl...whoaaa
Here comes that rainy day feeling again
And soon my tears they will be falling like rain
It always seems to be a Monday
Left over memories of Sunday
Always spent with you before the clouds appear
And took away my sunshine
here comes that rainy day feeling again
here comes that rainy day feeling again
here comes that rainy day feeling again
here comes that rainy day feeling again

Hey, edgar, loved your Gyp the Cat; sorta like a cat burglar, right?

Well, folks, I think our Try just ended our feline favorites with a Cher song. Thanks, buddy.

Tried my best to fine the parody on Staying Alive by Jo Stafford when she was Darlene Edwards, but with no luck, I am sorry to say.

Well, here's a lovely song by Jo:

I feel the autumn breeze,
It steals 'cross my pillow
As soft as a will-o'-the-wisp,
And in its song there is sadness
Because there's no you,
The lonely autumn trees,
How softly they're sighing,
For summer is dying,
They know that in my heart
There's no gladness
Because there's no you,

The park that we walked in,
The garden we talked in,
How lonesome they seem in the fall,
The stormy clouds hover,
And falling leaves cover
Our favorite nook in the wall,

In spring we'll meet again,
We'll kiss and recapture
The summertime rapture we knew,
And from that day,
Never more will I say there's no you

And here's Jo



and Stellaaaaaaaa aka Mrs. Ape of the Planet.

Oh, my gorsh, Raggedy. A Streetcar Named Desire. I didn't remember that it was she who played opposite Brando. Thanks for the pictorial reminder, PA.

Of course, folks, I would not recall her in that gorilla get up.

From cats to Apes:

Nirvana
Very Ape

I am buried up to my neck in
Contradictionary lies
I take pride as the king of illiterature
I'm very ape and very nice

If you ever need anything please don't hesitate
to ask someone else first
I'm too busy acting like I'm not naive.
I've seen it all I was here first

Out of the ground
Into the sky
Out of the sky
Into the fire.

OK America.....you're FAR too mellow for a Sunday!

While you're all cooking a big lunch, or wondering how to work off those excess pounds if you have already scoffed, why not try jigging about to this..........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOVajiocC4Q

(you'll have to get Francis to translate this for you - quite scandalous!)

L.E. Welcome back, honey. Just glad to see that you are still up and crackin'. I have heard just enough of that head banger music to reach for the aspirin, Brit. Love it!

Shall we all sing along?

Wham
bang
mon chat "Splash" gite sur mon lit a bouffe
Sa langue en buvant trop mon whysky
Quand a moi peu dormi
vide
brime
J'ai du dormir dans la goutiere
Oil j'ai un flash
ouh
ouh
ouh.
En 4 couleurs
allez op
un matin
Une louloute est v'nue chez moi
Poupee de cellophane
cheveux chinois

Sparadrap
une gueule de bois
A bu ma biere dans un grand verre en caoutchouc
(Ouh
ouh
ouh) comme un indien dans son igloo

Ca plane pour moi
ca plane pour moi

Moi
moi
moi
moi
ca plane pour moi
(Ouh
ouh
ouh) ca plane pour moi

Allez hop
la mama
quel panard
quelle vibration
De s'envoyer sur le paillasson
lime
ruine
vide
comble
You are the king of the divan
qu'elle me dit en passant
(Ouh
Ouh
Quh) I'm the king of the di - van

Ca plane p6ur mai
ca glane gour moi
. . .

Allez hop
t'occupes
t'inquietes
touches pas ma planete
It's not today que le ciel me tombera sur la tete
Et que la colle me manquera
(Ouh
Ouh
Ouh) ca plane pour moi

Ca plane pour moi
ca plane pour moi
. . .

Allez hop
ma nana s'est tiree
s'est barree
Enfin c'est marre
a tout casse
l'evier
le bar
Me laissant seul comme un grand connard
(Ouh
Ouh
Ouh) le pied dans le plat

Ca plane pour moi
ca plane pour moi

Perfectly clear, non?

Hey. Letty found a translation:

Wham! Bam! my cat Splash
lies on my bed with his tongue puffed out
by drinking all my whisky.
As for me, not enough sleep, drained, persecuted,
I had to sleep in the gutter
where I had a flash
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
in four colours

Allez-oop! One morning
a darling came to my home,
a cellophane puppet with Chinese hair,
a plaster, a hangover,
drank my beer in a large rubber glass
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
like an Indian in his igloo

This life's for me, this life's for me
This life's for me me me me me
This life's for me
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
This life's for me

Allez-oop! The chick*, what a gas!
what a vibration!
to be sent on the door mat
filed, ruined, drained, filled
You are the King of the divan!
she says to me in passing
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
I am the King of the divan

This life's for me, this life's for me
This life's for me me me me me
This life's for me
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
This life's for me

Allez-oop! Don't mind, don't worry
Don't affect me
It's not today
that the sky will fall on my head
or that I will run out of alcohol
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
This life's for me

Allez-oop! my chick has gone away,
flew away, finally had enough, to break
the sink, the bar, leaving me alone
like a large jerk
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
I've put my foot in it

This life's for me, this life's for me
This life's for me me me me me
This life's for me
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
This life's for me
This life's for me, this life's for me
This life's for me me me me me.

I think, folks, we should stick with the French.

Yup! I agree, stick the French and…

Cotton Eye Joe
Rednex Lyrics


If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from where did you go
Where did you come from Cotton-Eye Joe

If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from where did you go
Where did you come from Cotton-Eye Joe

If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from where did you go
Where did you come from Cotton-Eye Joe

If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from where did you go
Where did you come from Cotton-Eye Joe

If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from where did you go
Where did you come from Cotton-Eye Joe

If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from where did you go
Where did you come from Cotton-Eye Joe

hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey
hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey

He brought disaster wherever he went
The hearts of the girls was to hell broken sent
They all ran away so nobody would know
and left only men cause of Cotton-Eye Joe

If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from where did you go
where did you come from Cotton-eye joe

If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from where did you go
Where did you come from Cotton-Eye Joe

He brought disaster wherever he went
The hearts of the girls was to hell broken sent
They all ran away so nobody would know
and left only men cause of Cotton-Eye Joe

hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey
hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey

If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from where did you go
Where did you come from Cotton-Eye Joe

If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from where did you go
Where did you come from Cotton-Eye Joe

hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey
hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey

hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey
hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey

hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey
hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey

If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from where did you go
Where did you come from Cotton-Eye Joe

If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from where did you go
Where did you come from Cotton-Eye Joe

hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey
hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey

hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey
hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey,hey

If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from where did you go
Where did you come from Cotton-Eye Joe

dys wrote :
"Put more simply, unless the cat has been taught to like milk, it generally won't seek out that substance on its own"

i guess i'm somewhat like a cat ... given a choice , i won't touch milk ... but drinking water ? can that be healthy ? :wink:
hbg

What do you know about cotton, Try.

Leadbelly and others do:

Cotton Fields Back Home

When I was a pretty little baby
My mama would rock me in my craddle
In them old cotton fields back home.

Now, when them old fields get rotten
You can't pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields back home.

It was down in Louisiana
Just about a mile from Texarkana
In them old cotton fields back home.