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here is one of jerry reed's songs that i like to play REAL LOUD !
i can almost 'smell' it !
(from : 60 years of country music")
hbg

Artist/Band: Reed Jerry
Lyrics for Song: When You're Hot, You're Hot
Lyrics for Album: Jerry Reed

Well me and Homer Jones and Big John Talley
Had a big crap game goin' back in the alley
And I kept rollin' them sevens, winnin' all them pots
My luck was so good I could do no wrong
I jest kept on rollin' and controllin' them bones
And finally they jest threw up their hands and said
"When you hot, you hot"
I said "Yeah?"

When you're hot, you're hot
And when you're not, you're not
Put all the money in and let's roll 'em again
When you're hot, you're hot
(La la la la la la la) (La la la la la)
(La la la la la la la, when you're hot, you're hot)

Well, now every time I rolled them dice I'd win
And I was just gettin' ready to roll 'em again
When I heard somethin' behind me
I turned around and there was a big old cop
He said "Hello, boys" and then he gave us a grin 'n' said
"Look like I'm gonna hafta haul you all in
And keep all that money for evidence"
I said, "Well, son when you hot, you hot"
He said "Yeah"

When you're hot, you're hot
And when you're not, you're not
You can 'splain it all down at City Hall
I say, yeah, when you're hot, you're hot
You're hot
(La la la la la la la) (La la la la la)
(La la la la la la la, when you're hot, you're hot)

Well, when he took us inta court I couldn't believe my eyes
The judge was a fishin' buddy that I recognized
I said "Hey, judge, old buddy, old pal"
"I'll pay ya that hundred I owe ya if you'll get me outta this spot"
So he gave my friends a little fine to pay
He turned around and grinned at me and said
"Ninety days, Jerry, when you hot, you hot"
'N' I said "Thanks a lot"

When you're hot, you're hot
And when you're not, you're not
He let my friends go free and throwed the book at me
He said "Well, when you're hot, you're hot"

I said, "Well I'll tell ya one thing judge, old buddy, old pal
If you wasn't wearin' that black robe I'd take out in back of this courthouse
And I'd try a little bit of your honor on
You understand that, you hillbilly?
Who gonna collect my welfare?"
(When you're hot, you're hot)
"Pay for my Cadillac?
Whadda you mean 'contempt of court'?"
(When you're hot, you're hot)
"Judge"

here is another fine song from that old lp-set , sung by
the 'son of the pioneers'.
hbg

Artist/Band: Sons Of The Pioneers
Lyrics for Song: Cool Water
Lyrics for Album: Rca Country Legends

All day I face the barren waste without the taste of water,
Cool water.
Old Dan and I with throats burned dry and souls that cry for water,
Cool water.

The night are cool and I'm a fool each stars a pool of water,
Cool water.
But with the dawn I'll wake and yawn and carry on to water,
Cool water.

(Chorus)
Keep a movin' Dan, don't you listen to him Dan, he's a devil not a man
and he spreads the burnin' sand with water.
Dan can't you see that big green tree where the waters runnin' free
and it's waiting there for me and you.
Water, cool water.

The shadows sway and seem to say tonight we pray for water,
Cool water.
And way up there He'll hear our prayer and show us where there's water,
Cool Water.

Dan's feet are sore he's yearning for just one thing more than water,
Cool water.
Like me, I guess, he'd like to rest where there's no quest for water,
Cool water.

My word, hamburger. I know that song, but all I remembered was the title. What a winner, Canada.

So, folks. I went on a search and found Amos Moses:

Song title Jerry Reed
Artist Amos Moses

Yeah here comes Amos
Now Amos Moses was a Cajun
He lived by himself in the swamp
He hunted alligator for a living
He'd just knock them in the head with a stump
The Louisiana law gonna get you Amos
It ain't legal hunting alligator down in the swamp boy

Now everyone blamed his old man
For making him mean as a snake
When Amos Moses was a boy
His daddy would use him for alligator bait
Tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp
Alligator man in the Louisiana bayou
About forty-five minutes south of Tippitoe Louisiana
Lived a man called Dr. Mills South and his pretty wife Hannah
They raised up a son who could eat his weight in groceries
Named him after a man of the cloth
Called him Amos Moses

Now the folks around south Louisiana
Said Amos was a hell of a man
He could trap the biggest meanest alligator
And he'd just use one hand
That's all he got left cause an alligator bit it
Left arm gone clear up to the elbow

Well the sheriff caught wind that Amos was up in the swamp
Trading alligator skins
So he snuck in the swamp gonna get the boy
But he never came out
Well I wonder where the Louisiana sheriff went to
Well you can sure get lost in the Louisiana bayou
About forty-five minutes south of Tippitoe Louisiana
Lived a cat named Dr. Mills South and his pretty wife Hannah
They raised up a son who could eat his weight in groceries
Named him after a man of the cloth
Called him Amos Moses

I know son
Make it count son
About forty-five minutes south of Tippitoe Louisiana...

letty : i very much enjoy cajun music , but we only get it from NPR from across the border occasionally . it seems to have been forgotten in canada - even though the "cajuns" were originally "acadians" - mostly from nova scotia and new brunswick .
"Laissez les bon temps rouler (Let the good times roll)! "
hbg
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LE TWO-STEP DE MARKSVILLE

by Bruce Daigrepont
(Bayou Pon Pon, ASCAP)
from Stir up the Roux on Rounder Records (#6016)

LE TWO-STEP DE MARKSVILLE


La roue des wagons cher a Marc Eliche
A casse longtemps passe.
Il a reste, cher, il a trouve
La belle ville de cher Marksville.

On est tous cousins,cher, on est tous cousines,
On est tous voisins, on est tous voisines.
Le bons Cadjin, cher, les bonnes Cadjines,
La vie est belle, dans les Avoyelles.

On est tous cousins,cher, on est tous cousines,
On est tous voisins, on est tous voisines.
Le bons Cadjin, cher, les bonnes Cadjines,
La vie est belle, dans les Avoyelles.

La roue des wagons cher a Marc Eliche
A casse longtemps passe.
Il a reste, cher, il a trouve
La belle ville de cher Marksville.
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THE MARKSVILLE TWO STEP


The wagon wheel of Marc Eliche
Broke a long time ago
He stayed, he found
The beautiful city of Marksville.

We're all cousins (men), we're all cousins (women)
We're all neighbors (men), we're all neighbors (women)
The good Cajun (men), the good Cajun (women)
Life is beautiful, in Avoyelles

We're all cousins (men), we're all cousins (women)
We're all neighbors (men), we're all neighbors (women)
The good Cajun (men), the good Cajun (women)
Life is beautiful, in Avoyelles

The wagon wheel of Marc Eliche
Broke a long time ago
He stayed, he found
The beautiful city of Marksville.

My goodness, hamburger. Of course you love cajun music. Didn't they originally come from Grand Pre? Love that song with it's translation, buddy.

I looked at your "Cool Water" and got thirsty. <smile> Often, a mirage and fata morgana are the same.



My mom love this one, folks, but who is the Element of Crime?

Element Of Crime

Tumbling Tumbleweed

See them tumbling down
Pledging their love to the ground
Lonely but free I'll be found
Drifting along with the tumbling tumble weed
Cares of the past are behind
Nowhere to go but I'll find
Just were the trail will wind
Drifting along with the tumbling tumble weed
I know when night has gone
That a new world's born at dawn
I'll keep rolling along
Deep in my heart is a song
Here on the range I belong
Drifting along with the tumbling tumble weed
I know when night has gone
That a new world's born at dawn
I'll keep rolling along
Deep in my heart is a song
Here on the range I belong
Drifting along with the tumbling tumble weed

story of the cajuns :

Cajuns
Cajuns are the descendants of exiles from the French colony of ACADIA (present-day Nova Scotia and adjacent areas) who left their homeland in 1755 and found refuge in southern Louisiana a decade later. By 1790 about 4,000 Acadians occupied the wetlands along Bayou Lafourche and Bayou Teche; they later settled the Louisiana prairies. In the fertile bayous they fished, trapped the fur-bearing animals, gathered moss, and raised sugarcane, cotton, and corn; on the prairies they established cattle ranches and planted rice. Their traditional domestic architecture consisted of daubed or half-timbered houses with gable roofs, mud chimneys, and outside stairways leading to attics. The landholdings were often surrounded by the characteristic pieux, a rail-and-post fence.

The French-speaking, Roman Catholic Cajuns, today estimated to number about 500,000, maintain many cultural and occupational traditions of their ancestors. Their speech is an archaic form of French into which are incorporated words taken from English, German, Spanish, and various Indian languages. With the decline of the muskrat in the wetlands, the nutria, an import from Argentina, became the Cajun trapper's staple. Oystering and shrimping are increasingly important industries. Recently, the exploratory drilling for oil in the wetlands and adjacent offshore areas has provided the Cajuns with another source of employment.
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the sad story is that the acadians did not leave of their own free will .
their farms and posessions were seized , and they were put on boats that took them down the atlantic coast , and dropping off many of them in what became louisiana .
they sure did not forget their music and their humour though .
we met some acadian families in prince-edward island/canada .
their ancestors hid in the woods when the 'red-coats' were looking for them . they are truly hospitable and joyful people .
hbg

hbg, I know all about that, dear. One of my favorite narrative poems is by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow who wrote "Evangeline". He explained quite poetically, the result of that forced removal of a wonderful people.

"...This is the forest primeval...."

Well, folks, we learn and share a lot of information on our small cyber radio.

letty :
thanks for your declaration of "canada night" !
a true 'canajun' is going to try and woo all listeners of this station .
hbg



"stompin tom's - gumboot cloggeroo"

Oh we sailed away at the break of day to pull traps in oilskin trousers-
On the "Susie Jack" but tonite we're back wit a tousand pounds a lobsters-
Oh Shanty town we're gonna tear ya down we got the money comin out a me stockins
Tonite I'm due to bushwack Sue-and take'er to the gumboot clogeroo
And We'll do a little gumboot cloggin-do a little gumboot cloggin-do a little gumboot cloggin-

There's fishin brews and a Cold Hog stew and a boeee-owl of Clam Chowder-
Just see me reach for dat Newfie Screech when they diddle up the fiddle jig louder-
Hear the French girls sing and da geetars ring and the squeeze box squeetity squawkin-
Me and my Sue gonna Whoop de do take er to da Gumboot Clogeroo
And we'll do a little gumboot cloggin-do a little gumboot cloggin

There's Boots Benard and the rock richard's and the girls from way down Crackidee!
How many Blue Noser's and Herring Chokers we just don't know exactly-
Pack em all in tight and we'll dance all night get the old barn floor just a rockin
Buy a ring dang do for PEI Sue & take 'er to the gumboot Clogeroo
And we'll do a little gumboot cloggin-do a little gumboot cloggin...

Oh We sailed away at the break of day to pull traps in oilskin trousers
On the Susie Jack , but tonight Were back wit a tousand pounds o' lobsters-
Oh shanty town we're gonna tear ya down We got the money comin outa me stockins
Tonite I'm due to bushwack Sue and take er to the gumboot cloggeroo
And We'll do a little gumboot cloggin-

There's fishin brew and a coldhog stew and a boweeeol o clam chowder...
Just see me reach for that Newfie Screech and we'll diddle up the fiddle jig louder-
Hear the French girls sing and the guitars ring and the squeezebox squeetity squackin
Me and my sue gonna whoop de do-take er to a gumboot cloggeroo
Gonna do a little gumboot cloggin-do a little gumboot Cloggin -repeat, end

can't be canada night without some gordon lightfoot

Did She Mention My Name
Gordon Lightfoot

It's so nice to meet an old friend and pass the time of day
And talk about the home town a million miles away
Is the ice still on the river, are the old folks still the same
And by the way, did she mention my name
Did she mention my name just in passing
And when the morning came, do you remember if she dropped a name or two
Is the home team still on fire, do they still win all the games
And by the way, did she mention my name

Is the landlord still a loser, do his signs hang in the hall
Are the young girls still as pretty in the city in the fall
Does the laughter on their faces still put the sun to shame
And by the way, did she mention my name

Did she mention my name just in passing
And when the talk ran high, did the look in her eye seem far away
Is the old roof still leaking when the late snow turns to rain
And by the way, did she mention my name

Did she mention my name just in passing
And looking at the rain, do you remember if she dropped a name or two
Won't you say hello from someone, they'll be no need to explain
And by the way, did she mention my name

Love it! dj and hamburger. Detano had a great list of songs and I recall full well the rather bawdy lyrics to "It's a Long Way to Tipperary", but instead, I think that I will play a little Danny Kaye who did them all:

For my goodnight song:

Lullabye in Ragtime

Won't you play the music so the cradle can rock
To a lullabye in ragtime
Sleepy hands are creeping to the end of the clock
Play a lullabye in ragtime
You can tell the sandman is on his way
By the way that they play
As still as the trill of a thrush
In a twilight hush
So you can hear
The rythym of the river on the side of the boat
As you sail away to dreamland
High above the moon you hear a silvery note
As the sand man takes your hand
So rock-a-bye my baby
Don't you cry my baby
Sleepy time is nigh
So won't you rock me to a ragtime lullabye



Goodnight, time to call it a day
Sleep tight, dream your troubles away
Goodnight, in spite of any sorrow
There's a brand new day on it's way tomorrow
Someday, all your dreams will come true
Someway, for me and you
So close your eyes and dream of it my darling
Till then goodnight, goodnight, sleep tight

From Letty with love

a fun song from canadian folk singer bob snider

A Normal Day/Arch Support Blues

Well I'm standing outside of a rock and roll bar
trying to make money on my old guitar
trying to get goin' but I ain't gettin' far
singing the blues away.

Thinking of the one that I had a lotta fun with
some time ago.
God knows when I'm gonna find another friend
in all of this ebb and flow.

O! The friendly bartender's on a double shift.
I'm in the middle of a one man riff.
If singing the blues is some kind of gift
next time I'd rather have a toaster.

I'm sittin' on the lawn, talkin' to a blonde,
trying to figure out all the double entendre.
Trying to listen to someone trying to sing a song
about the crazy world that we live in.

And the party is a goin' on all over the place.
Even the trees are dropping leaves in my case.
And the goings on a goin' on in front of my face
are making me wonder why.

And I went to a party where I met the mayor.
He's a nice old feller now and he don't care.
And I heard there might be lobster there
but I hadda make do with the chip dip.

Back on the corner tending store
I play a little longer and I make a little more.
The girls all smile but this drunk old bore
is the only one to stick around and listen.

But Linda and Catherine come along soon.
They gimmee a hand when I give 'em a tune
and then they turn around and tie a helium balloon
to the handle of my guitar case.

But the tree won't leave and the dog won't bark
and the moon won't shine, it would ruin the dark
and the squirrels are lookin' for a place to park
and the taxi cabs are picking up nuts.

Well I'm asittin' on a pier, drinking a beer,
(which you better not get caught doin' here).
Ain't it funny how the bottle can take the veneer
right offa your average joe.

Dancin' in the rain while a friend of mine is playin'
a Scottish reel. And there's a fella tossin' watermelon
up from his boat and it's loaded with Tequila

So we ended up the evening on a drunken note.
Every vessel in the harbour's got a brand new coat.
The seagulls cry and fish all float
and everybody else goes home.

Sven Nykvist
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Sven Vilhem Nykvist (3 December 1922 - 20 September 2006) was a Swedish cinematographer. He worked on over 120 films, but is known especially for his work with director Ingmar Bergman. He won Academy Awards for his work on two Bergman films, Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop) in 1973 and Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander) in 1983.

His work is generally noted for its naturalism and simplicity. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest cinematographers of all time.


Biography

Nykvist was born in Moheda, Kronobergs län, Sweden. His parents were Lutheran missionaries who spent most of their lives in the Belgian Congo, so Nykvist was raised by relatives in Sweden and saw his parents rarely. His father was a keen amateur photographer of African wildlife, which may have sparked Nykvist's interest in the visual arts.

A keen sportsman in his youth, his first cinematic effort was to film himself taking a high jump so as to improve his technique. After a year at the Municipal School for Photographers in Stockholm, he entered the Swedish film industry at the age of 19.

In 1941, he became an assistant cameraman at Sandrews studio, working on The Poor Millionaire. He moved to Italy in 1943 to work at the Cinecittà, returning to Sweden two years later. In 1945, aged 23, he became a fully-fledged cinematographer, which his first solo credit on The Children from Frostmo Mountain.

He worked on many small Swedish films for the next few years, and spent some time with his parents in Africa filming wildlife, footage which was later released as a documentary entitled In the Footsteps of the Witch Doctor (also known as Under the Southern Cross).

Back in Sweden, he began to work with the legendary director Ingmar Bergman in 1953 on Sawdust and Tinsel (released in the US as The Naked Night). He was one of three cinematographers to work on that movie, the others being Gunnar Fischer and Hilding Bladh.

Nykvist would eventually become Bergman's full-time cinematographer and push the director's work in a new direction, away from the theatrical look of his earlier films. He worked as sole cameraman on Bergman's Oscar-winning films The Virgin Spring in 1959 and Through a Glass Darkly in 1960. He revolutionised the way we see close ups in Bergman's Persona in 1966.

After working with other Swedish directors, including Alf Sjöberg on The Judge (1960) and Mai Zetterling on Loving Couples (1964), and then worked in the US and elsewhere, on Richard Fleischer's The Last Run (1971), Louis Malle's Black Moon (1975) and Pretty Baby (1978), Roman Polanski's The Tenant (1976), Jan Troell's Hurricane (1979), Bob Rafelson's version of The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), Agnes of God (1985); Woody Allen's Another Woman (1988) and Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), Richard Attenborough's Chaplin (1992), Nora Ephron's Sleepless in Seattle (1993), and Lasse Hallström's What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993).

Nykvist won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for two of his movies, Cries and Whispers (1973), and Fanny and Alexander (1982), both of which were Bergman films. He was also nominated for a Cinematograhy Oscar for The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), and in the category of Best Foreign Language Film for The Ox (1991), in which he directed Max von Sydow and Liv Ullman.

He won a special prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his work on The Sacrifice (1986), the last film of the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. He was the first European cinematographer to join the American Society of Cinematographers, and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the ASC in 1996.

He wrote three books, including Curtain Call in 1999.

His wife, Ulrika, died in 1982. Nykvist's career was brought to a sudden end in 1998 when he was diagnosed with aphasia, and he died in 2006, aged 83.

He is survived by his son, Carl-Gustaf Nykvist, who directed his first film, Woman on the Roof, in 1989 and directed a documentary about his father, Light Keeps Me Company, 1999.

Andy Williams
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Howard Andrew Williams (born December 3, 1927 in Wall Lake, Iowa), known as Andy Williams, is an American pop singer.

He first performed in a children's choir at the local Presbyterian church. Williams and his three older brothers Bob, Dick, and Don, formed a quartet, the Williams Brothers, in the late 1930s, and they performed on radio in the Midwest, first at WHO in Des Moines, Iowa, and later at WLS in Chicago and WLW in Cincinnati. Williams graduated from Western Hills High School in Cincinnati. They appeared with Bing Crosby on the hit record "Swinging on a Star" (1944). This led to a nightclub act with entertainer Kay Thompson from 1947 to 1951.

Williams's solo career began in 1952 after his brothers left the act. He recorded six sides for RCA Victor's label "X," but none of them were popular hits. After landing a spot as a regular on Steve Allen's Tonight Show in 1955, he was signed to a recording contract with Cadence Records, a small label in New York run by conductor Archie Bleyer. His third single, "Canadian Sunset" (1956) hit the Top Ten, and was soon followed his only Billboard #1 hit, "Butterfly" (a cover of a Charlie Gracie record on which Williams imitated Elvis Presley). More hits followed, including "The Hawaiian Wedding Song," "Are You Sincere," "The Village of St. Bernadette," and "Lonely Street," before Williams moved to Columbia Records in 1961, having moved from New York to Los Angeles. In terms of chart popularity, the Cadence era was Williams's peak although songs he introduced on Columbia became much bigger standards. Two top ten hits from the Cadence era, "Butterfly" and "I Like Your Kind of Love" were apparently believed to not suit Williams's later style; they were not included on a Columbia reissue of his Cadence greatest hits in the 1960s. Williams ultimately became the owner of his own Cadence master tapes, and licensed them to various labels (including Varese in the U.S.) during the late 1990s.

During the 1960s, Williams became one of the most popular vocalists in the country and was signed to what was at that time the biggest recording contract in history. He was primarily an album artist, and at one time he had earned more gold albums than any solo performer except Frank Sinatra, Johnny Mathis and Elvis Presley. By 1973 he had earned as many as 17 gold album awards. Among his hit albums from this period were Moon River, Days of Wine and Roses (number one for 16 weeks in mid-1963), The Andy Williams Christmas Album, Dear Heart, The Shadow of Your Smile, Love, Andy, Get Together with Andy Williams, and Love Story. In these recordings Williams displays an incredible vocal technique along with an uncanny ability to make each song his very own, often rivaling or surpassing the version by the original artist. These attributes, along with his natural affinity for the music of the 1960s and early 1970s, combined to make him one of the premier easy listening singers of that era.

Williams forged an indirect collaborative relationship with Henry Mancini, although they never recorded together. Williams was asked to sing Mancini and Johnny Mercer's song "Moon River" at the 1962 Oscar Awards (where it won), and it quickly became Williams's theme song. (interestingly, "Moon River" was never a chart hit by Andy). The next year Williams sang "Days of Wine and Roses" which was written by Mancini and Mercer (this song also won). Two years later, he sang Mancini's "Dear Heart" at the 1965 awards and "The Sweetheart Tree" (also written with Mercer) at the 1966 awards.

Williams also competed in the teenage-oriented singles market as well and had several charting hits including "Can't Get Used to Losing You," "Happy Heart," and "Where Do I Begin", the theme song from the 1970 blockbuster film, Love Story. Building on his experience with Allen and some short-term variety shows in the 1950s, he became the star of his own weekly television variety show in 1962. This series, The Andy Williams Show, won three Emmy Awards for outstanding variety program. Among his series regulars were the Osmond Brothers. He gave up the variety show in 1971 while it was still popular and retrenched to three specials per year. His Christmas specials, which appeared regularly until 1974 and intermittently from 1982 into the 1990s, were among the most popular of the genre. Williams has recorded eight Christmas albums over the years. He hosted the Grammy Awards for three consecutive years in the 1970s. He returned to television to do a syndicated half-hour series in 1976-77.

In the early 1990s, Williams gave up most of his touring schedule in order to open his own theatre in Branson, Missouri, the Andy Williams Moon River Theater. He continues to do 8-12 shows a week from September to December and occasionally makes tours of Europe earlier in the year.

His 1967 recording of "Music to Watch Girls By" was a surprise UK hit in 1999, when it reached number 9 after featuring in an advert (beating the original peak of number 33 in 1967). In 2002 he took part in a new duet of "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" with British actress and singer Denise van Outen. Nearly everything Williams ever recorded has now been made available on CD through a series of compilations from 1997 to 2004.

Williams met Claudine Longet when he pulled over to aid her on a Las Vegas road. She was a dancer at the time at the Folies Bergere. They married on Christmas Day, 1961, and had three children, Noelle, Christian, and Robert. They separated in 1969 and finally divorced 6 years later. In 1976 Longet was charged with fatally shooting her boyfriend, skier Vladimir "Spider" Sabich and Williams supported her. He married a second time in May 1991 to the former Debbie Haas. They make their homes at Branson, Missouri and La Quinta, California. Williams's homes have been featured in Architectural Digest, and he is a noted collector of modern art. Williams is an avid golfer. He hosted a major golf tournament in San Diego for many years, which was known as the Andy Williams San Diego Open during that time.

Williams's birthplace is a tourist attraction open most of the year.



Trivia

The Simpsons Nelson Muntz is an Andy Williams fan. In the episode Bart on the Road, he forces the gang to make a detour to Branson so he can see his idol. The bully is reduced to tears as Williams performs an encore of "Moon River".
His nephews, Andy and David Williams, were minor teen idols in the 1970's.
Andy appeared on an episode of "What's My Line", a 1950's panel game show, as a mystery guest. He stumped the panel of his identity by concealing his voice. The panel thought he was a female.
Both Williams and Petula Clark recorded "Happy Heart" at the same time, just prior to his guest appearance on her second NBC-TV special. Unaware she, too, was releasing the song as a single, he asked to perform it on the show, and she graciously acquiesced. The exposure ultimately led to his having the bigger hit with the tune.
The song "Happy Heart" is played during the final scene, and throughout the end credits, of the Danny Boyle film "Shallow Grave"

Jaye P. Morgan
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Jaye P. Morgan (born Mary Margaret Morgan, December 3, 1931) is a retired popular American singer and game show panelist.

Morgan was born in Mancos, Colorado, but her family moved to California by the time she was in high school. In the late 1940s, at Verdugo Hills High School in Tujunga, Los Angeles, California, she served as class treasurer (and got the nickname "Jaye P." after the banker J. P. Morgan) and sang at school assemblies, accompanied by her brother on guitar.

In 1951, a year after graduation from Verdugo Hills, she made a recording of the song "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries" which made it to the Top Ten. Soon after, she received an RCA Victor recording contract and she had five hits in one year, including "That's All I Want from You," her biggest hit, which reached #3 on the charts. Other notable hits included "The Longest Walk" and "Pepper Hot Baby".

From 1954 to 1955, she was a vocalist on the television show "Stop the Music." In 1956 she had her own television show, named for her. She did a number of other variety shows as well.

After a period in the 1960s when she did very little in the entertainment field, confining herself to a small number of night club appearances, she returned to the public eye in the 1970s, mainly as an actress.

She played herself on a 1973 episode (The Songwriter) of the sitcom The Odd Couple (TV series).

Morgan also guest starred on The Muppet Show (episode 218) in which she and Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem sang "That Old Black Magic".

It was during the 1970s when she gained a new generation of fans as a foul-mouthed but entertaining regular panelist on the game/variety show The Gong Show in the late 1970s, and in the 1980 "behind-the-scenes" movie version of The Gong Show.

It has been widely reported that Jaye P. Morgan was fired during the The Gong Show's last season for ripping her top off (with no bra underneath) while "Gene Gene The Dancing Machine" was onstage. The firing came down from NBC network programming officials and not from either Chuck Barris or the show's other producers, and according to most reports this came at the demand of the network's Standards and Practices department; the "censors" were reportedly having to censor Morgan's comments and gestures as much as ten times per episode, and as the show progressed the obscenties increased in severity and duration to the point that it would actually interfere with the flow of the show. Morgan as of the time of this entry refuses to discuss the firing other than to acknowledge it happened.

The film clip of her exposing herself was saved, and later used in The Gong Show Movie.

Daryl Hannah
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Daryl Christine Hannah (born December 3, 1962) is an American film actress. After making her screen debut in 1978, Hannah starred in a number of Hollywood films throughout the 1980s. She has recently had several notable roles, including that of Elle Driver in Kill Bill, after a hiatus from major roles during the 1990s.


Biography

Early life

Hannah was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Donald and Susan Hannah. Her parents divorced shortly after her birth and her mother remarried Jerrold Wexler, a businessman and brother of Haskell Wexler, a noted cinematographer. Hannah, a vegetarian since age eleven, grew up with siblings Don and Page Hannah, who also became actors, as well as half sister Tanya Wexler. She attended school at Francis Parker in Chicago.

Hannah became interested in movies at a young age, due to insomnia. She was very shy and was diagnosed as 'borderline autistic'.[1] Hannah attended the private Francis W. Parker School (where she played on the boys' soccer team) and the University of Southern California.


Career

As Pris in Blade RunnerHannah made her film debut in 1978, making a brief appearance in Brian De Palma's horror film The Fury. She subsequently appeared in several early 1980s films, the most notable role of which is probably as the replicant, Pris, in Ridley Scott's 1982 film, Blade Runner. Hannah was cast as a mermaid in Ron Howard's 1984 fantasy, Splash, which was a major financial success, grossing over $62 million[2] and establishing Hannah as a notable film actress.

Hannah's roles in the remainder of the 1980s ranged from successful major roles in Steel Magnolias and the Academy Award-winning Wall Street, to the 1986 film version of The Clan of the Cave Bear, Hannah also played the title role in Fred Schepisi's 1987 film Roxanne, a modern retelling of Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, a performance which was described as "sweet" and "gentle" by film critic Roger Ebert.[3] She was also in the classic "The Pope Of Greenwich Village" with co-stars Micky Rourke and Eric Roberts.

In the 1990s, Hannah's roles included starring as a giantess in the television movie Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1993), which she also co-produced. She also appeared as the daughter of Jack Lemmon's character in both of the Grumpy Old Men films. In 1995, Hannah was chosen by Empire magazine as #96 of the "100 Sexiest Stars in film history". That same year, Hannah anticipated (by a decade) her Kill Bill role when she appeared as homicidal sociopath Leann Netherwood in The Tie That Binds.


Of Hannah's most recent roles, the best-known may be that of the one-eyed assassin Elle Driver in Kill Bill Volume 1 and Kill Bill Volume 2, directed by Quentin Tarantino. Her performance in these films, as well as her appearances in other recent films, including "Northfork", Casa de los Babys and Silver City, have been described by some critics as a cinematic comeback[4] for Hannah, who had not appeared in many mainstream films in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Hannah wrote, directed and produced a short film, "The Last Supper" wich won an award at the Berlin Film Festival. She directed, produced and was the cinematographer for the documentary "Strip Notes". The documentary, which aired on Channel 4 London and HBO, was about the research she did for her role in the Micheal Radford film "Dancing At The Blue Iguana"

Awards include:

Best Short - The Berlin Film Festival, 1994
Best Fight - MTV Movie Awards "Kill Bill Vol.2", 2005
Best Supporting Actress - Saturn Award "Kill Bill Vol.2" 2004
Best Actress - Saturn Award "Splash". 1984
Influencer Of The Year Award - National Biodiesel Board, 2004
Ongoing Commitment Award - Enviornmental Media Award, 2004
Enviornmental Activism - Water Quality Awards, 2006
Enviornmental Preservation -Artivist Awards, 2006
Hannah and actress Hilary Shepard co-created a boardgame called "Liebrary".[5] Hannah previewed the game on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in December 2005.


Personal life

Hannah, a keen environmentalist, has her own weekly video blog, on sustainable solutions. She often is the sound, camera person and on-screen host for the vlog[6] . Her home runs on solar power and is built with green materials. She also drives a car that runs on biodiesel.[7]

Hannah has never married, but she had long-term relationships with John F. Kennedy, Jr. and singer Jackson Browne, and was romantically linked with actor Val Kilmer. She is the sister-in-law of well-known music producer Lou Adler, who is married to Hannah's sister, Page.

On June 13, 2006, Hannah was arrested - along with Joan Baez and Julia Butterfly Hill - for her involvement with over 40 farmers and their supporters, confronting authorities trying to bulldoze the nation's largest urban farm in South Central Los Angeles. She chained herself to a walnut tree at the South Central Farm in south-central Los Angeles for three weeks in order to protest the farmers' eviction by the property's new owner. The farm had been established in the wake of the 1992 LA riots to allow people in the city to grow food for themselves. However, the land's new owner sought to evict the farmers and develop the land. She was interviewed via cell phone shortly before she was arrested, along with forty four other protesters, and said that she and the others are doing the "morally right thing". [1]

Hannah was featured in a CNET article listing the "top 10 geek girls" where it was mentioned she was extremely shy during her youth and was even diagnosed as being "borderline autistic". In addition to 'Liebrary' she also created the boardgame 'Love It or Hate It'. [8]

Daryl Hannah cares about the problem of sexual slavery and is traveling around the world to make a documentary about the problem. According to America's Most Wanted, Hannah also works in Cambodia to free children used a sex slaves.

Julianne Moore
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Julie Anne Smith (born December 3, 1960), better known as Julianne Moore, is an American actress. Noted for her portrayal of sensible female figures, the red-haired actress has been nominated for four Academy Awards.

Biography

Early life

Moore was born to Peter Moore Smith, a military judge and army colonel, and Anne, a psychiatrist and social worker who emigrated from Dunoon, Scotland; she has a younger sister, Valerie, and brother, Peter Moore Smith, Jr. (born 1965). Her exact birthplace is not confirmed, and is sometimes stated as Fayetteville, North Carolina or Boston, Massachusetts. Growing up as an "army brat", she lived in twenty-three places across the United States and Germany. Moore attended Frankfurt American High School in Frankfurt, Germany, graduating in 1979. She received her Bachelor's degree at the School of Fine Arts in Boston University.


Career

Moore moved to New York City in 1983, working as a waitress before being cast in the dual roles of Frannie and Sabrina Hughes on the soap opera As the World Turns, for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award; she played the roles from 1985 to 1988.

Moore began starring in feature films in the early 1990s, mostly appearing in supporting roles in films like The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Benny and Joon with Johnny Depp, and The Fugitive. Her part in 1993's Short Cuts gained her critical acclaim and recognition, and she was cast in several high-profile Hollywood films, including 1995's romantic comedy Nine Months, and 1997's summer blockbuster The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Her role in the well-reviewed independent film, Safe, also attracted critical attention.

During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Moore appeared in a series of films that received Oscar recognition, including her roles in Boogie Nights ("Best Supporting Actress" nomination), The End of the Affair ("Best Actress" nomination) and her two 2002 films, Far From Heaven ("Best Actress" nomination) and The Hours ("Best Supporting Actress" nomination). During this period, she also appeared in the commercial successes Hannibal (controversially replacing Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling) and The Forgotten, and in Paul Thomas Anderson's follow-up to Boogie Nights, Magnolia.

Her film, Freedomland, opened in February 2006 to mixed reviews.[1]

Her latest film Trust the Man is directed by her husband, Bart Freundlich and also features her son Caleb.

Moore is rumored to be reprising her role as Ian Malcolm's girlfriend, Dr. Sarah Harding in the film Jurassic Park IV which is set for release in summer 2008


Private life

Moore has been married three times: to Sundar Chakravarthy from November 21, 1983 to October 12, 1985, to John Gould Rubin from May 3, 1986 to August 25, 1995 and, since August 2003, to director Bart Freundlich. The couple, who have been together since 1996, have two children: a son, Caleb Freundlich (born December 4, 1997), and a daughter, Liv Helen Freundlich (born April 11, 2002). She is a noted pro-choice activist and during the last U.S. election donated money to John Kerry's presidential campaign.

Brendan Fraser
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Birth name Brendan James Fraser
Born December 3, 1968 (age 37)
Indianapolis, Indiana United States

Brendan James Fraser (born December 3, 1968 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a Canadian-American actor.




Biography

Brendan Fraser is the son of a foreign service officer for the Canadian Government Office of Tourism and moved often as a child. He lived in Detroit, Seattle, Ottawa, Netherlands and Switzerland. Fraser attended his first professional theatrical performance in London's West End. He began acting at Toronto's Upper Canada College and later received his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Seattle's Cornish College of the Arts. He originally planned on attending graduate school in Texas but stopped in Hollywood on his way south and decided to stay in Los Angeles and work in movies. His first film role was in Dogfight (1991), and he has since garnered over 30 film credits. In the early years of his film career, Fraser played alongside Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Chris O'Donnell in School Ties (1992) and Viggo Mortensen and Ashley Judd in Philip Ridley's The Passion of Darkly Noon. His breakout role was in the title role in 1997's George of the Jungle. He has also made guest appearances on the television shows Scrubs, King of the Hill, and The Simpsons.

Fraser married Afton Smith on September 27, 1998, and has three sons, Griffin Arthur, Holden Fletcher, and Leland Francis. He holds dual Canadian-U.S. citizenship and speaks fluent French. Fraser is also an accomplished amateur photographer.

In March 2006, it was announced that he would be granted a star on Canada's Walk of Fame, the first American-born actor to receive the honor, though as of 2006, he does not have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.


Trivia

Stands 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) tall.
Fixated with the number "42", he has worn it as his jersey number in all his sports-related films.
His surname is properly pronounced "Fray-zer", though some pronounce it "Frasier" (as in Kelsey Grammer's television character). The correct pronunciation of his surname is a running gag in Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star in which he has a cameo.